Netflix's Sonic Prime

I'm reminded Metal and Mecha Knuckles is a thing.

So thats Metal Sonic, Metal/Mecha Knuckles, and now Rusty Rose.

At least 3 Sonic characters with some kind of robotic version. Well there's also the Shadow Androids but they don't have the unique robotic look of the former 3.

Edited by slimcoder on Feb 10th 2023 at 12:40:58 PM

In the Mega Man Sonic crossover there were the Roboticized Masters.

And of course, the infamous Tails Doll from Sonic R, assuming you count it as a robot despite its total lack of metal.

Did Mega Man get any power ups from them?

Yes. The Roboticized Masters also included the Chaotix and Rouge. Sonic and Mega Man were also turned into Roboticized Masters in Worlds Unite.

I would say I don't count it because it's not at the level of evil robotic counterpart in the way Metal and Rusty are

Though that's prolly me getting technical

I didn't know that Archie had the Roboticized Masters. It would be pretty interesting to see robotic versions of Sonic and his friends, besides Metal Sonic. Too bad they were introduced when Archie was going through that lawsuit...

Oh yeah, all Sonic's friends were turned into those Mega Man robots each with a special weapon for Mega Man to steal. There was Tails Man, Rose Woman, Knuckles Man, Shadow Man (even though there already was Shadow Man), Vector Man, Espio Man, Charmy Man, Silver Man, Blaze Woman, and Rouge Woman, Sequel had Sonic and Mega Man turned into Sonic Man and M'Egga Man, each with 8 weapons.

They actually made a joke out of this: Wiley and Eggman wanted to send Shadow Man after Sonic and Mega Man, and they were like Wait, My Shadow Man, or your Shadow Man? And then they just said lets do both!

Wily and Dr. Eggman being pals was the best part of that crossover.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Feb 11th 2023 at 11:22:42 AM

I would love to see them do a Mega Man and Sonic crossover in IDW, if IDW ever gets the rights to Mega Man.

It IS a pipe dream of mine that Flynn gets to write Mega Man again in some way thanks to IDW.

It's a shame IDW lost the rights to Transformers cause that crossover would be fun

Blur is basically Sonic as a Transformer

Yeah, we'll never see that Transformers crossover, will we?

So here's a theory I have about a potential Rouge variant.

Dread is a pirate, a seafaring thief. This is in direct contrast to Knuckles, who is basically a sole law enforcer for his island.

So what if we go full circle and have a Rouge variant who's a detective or police officer? Bonus points if she meets Dread.

Edited by windleopard on Feb 25th 2023 at 3:14:06 PM

Well first we need a Film Noir style universe starring Rouge.

Maybe Knuckles can be the jewel thief this time.

You're now imagining Knuckles wearing Rouge's tights and heart-shaped breastplate

OH NO

HE HOT

It would be interesting to see a Rouge counterpart who follows the law, rather than steal things like her main counterpart tends to do.

One of the animators of Sonic Prime posted up this tweet about wrapping up the first season.

Would a Sonic Prime game work? Visiting parallel universe in the form of shatter spaces is neat if not a bit cliche.

I'm envisioning something like Frontiers, where each "Island" is a different Shatterverse world.

I do wonder if SEGA will eventually make a Sonic Prime video game. They rarely make Sonic video games that are based off of TV shows, well except for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Sonic Spinball.

Probably not. If I understand the contract logic right, Sega would have to license or buy out the concepts introduced in Prime. They own Sonic and all related Sonic IP characters and stuff, but they only co-own the actual Prime series. It's produced in conjunction with Netflix who would have equal rights to the trademark.

No sense for the Sonic IP owner to pay a bunch of money to Netflix so they can make a Sonic game, when they could just make a different Sonic game.

Netflix would similarly have co-ownership of characters like Rusty Rose, Black Rose, or Thorn Rose even though Sega has sole ownership of Amy Rose. Trademark law is super weird.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 20th 2023 at 5:07:39 AM

Rusty Rose did make it into the mobile game so maybe Sega isn't entirely too unwilling to use those Prime characters.