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Shadow and Commander Tower's relationship is so funny. They tried to kill each other. One invited the other to meet their grandchild. They are coworkers. They are enemies. They relate to each other more than anyone. They don't talk. They have known each other since they were kids. They are a teenager and an old man. They have the same sister.

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Luigi and Shadow in the spotlight 🟢💥🌟

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metal/neo metal sonic ramble

never not thinking about how robots in idw have text like this

but neo metal sonic has the same text as all the organic characters

he also expresses clear emotion just like an organic person would, if not with a bit more robotic logic behind it [save when hes in a blind rage]

HE EVEN EVILLY LAUGHS AT ONE POINT

neo metal is proof that metal is VERY MUCH CAPABLE OF EMOTIONS LIKE ANY ORGANIC [if it wasnt already obvious when he's just metal] i think its sooo crazy that IDW shows metal is the most 'human' out of all the eggman robots yet he's arguably treated the worst, not even being able to Speak in his standard form.

ik sonic is just being his usual dick self here but he kinda has a point in a way. metal almost definitely WANTS to be able to talk and express himself. but he's reduced to his lesser, albeit still very powerful, form.

oh and don't even get me started...

it's so sad to me how even though he's still very capable of emotion, eggman has literally programmed out any hint of rebelliousness. like sure, it's most likely that even if eggman HADN'T programmed out metal's rebellious streak, he'd still be evil, but this leaves not even a CHANCE for redemption on metal's part.

which makes it even more ironic that sonic says this...

sonic fails to comprehend that metal literally CANNOT become a better person. eggman literally repeats what neo already told sonic, metal is programmed to kill and to be loyal to eggman. he has NO choice. hes been under eggmans control forever and when he rebelled he was beaten and reprogrammed to never be able to rebel again. metal has basically zero autonomy outside of eggman's orders [which is in great contrast to neo, who seems to be working FOR eggman's wishes, but still very much absorbed in his own power and emotions].

i don't really know what this whole ramble is about. i think while the comics seem to push the message that metal is going to be evil Forever, i also think it would be devastatingly tragic if he didn't get a redemption in the comics. y'all cant set up a horrifying depiction of abuse like this and tell me 'oh yeah and he stayed in that state forever'. i think if another fight happened at one point or another maybe they could TRY to figure out how to program OUT his anti rebellion streak? lol? even WITH that he did hesitate when sonic offered for him to be a good person again.

he literally hesitated when SONIC. IS THE ONE WHO OFFERED HIM A TRUCE. like he's literally programmed to believe sonic is his copy and he needs to kill him I don't think i can understate how insane it is that metal, despite all his programming and lack of automomy preventing it, for a split second, considered sonics offer.

thats all for tonight. metal sonic deserves the whole world. please reblog or comment your thoughts id love to talk more abt how hes characterized in the idw comics, might talk abt reflections next. bye !

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I'm ngl. I didn't actually like Amy Rose all that much until I started reading the IDW comics.

When I was younger, while I wasn't a very active Sonic fan, I was at least aware of most of the characters and what they were about. I'd played some random games like Sonic Heroes, Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, Sonic Unleashed, and Sonic Generations. And Amy, most of the time, was...... kinda shit?

She had like, two character traits. And they were "girl" and "crush on Sonic." Not a lot to get invested in, and as the most prominent female character in the franchise, it didn't exactly feel like a forward-thinking way to write a woman. She was mostly... an annoying side character. And I didn't really think much of her.

But then. Man. Those fucking comics.

By just the end of the first arc, Amy is put in charge of managing the resistance against Eggman. After being a minor supporting character in Forces, she's suddenly put in a leadership role... and she fucking excels. She's caring, committed, intelligent and powerful. She's a natural leader. She kicks butt! And even when things are calm, she's fun to watch. And she gets screentime! She plays at least a small part in almost every major arc of the comic, always making a difference, always part of the crew, always important and present. It rules.

Meanwhile she maintains her crush on Sonic, but rather than the rather annoying obsessive behaviour she used to display, it's much more casual. She's flirty and sassy about it, she teases him, she has fun with it. And Sonic reciprocates a bit! You get the feeling he actually *likes* her! I actually kinda started to ship it.

After being a character I basically gave no shits about in the past, reading the IDW comics made Amy shoot way up the rankings for me. She became one of my favorite characters in the franchise, top five at least. I love seeing her in anything.

I'm not really sure how Amy is handled in the games nowadays. I haven't played Frontiers yet. But IDW Amy? Man.

That's my girl right there.

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Oh yeah. Even beyond the sheer resilience given to her by the Metal Virus, Surge probably just... can't die at all?

Surge has taken mortal damage several times already, and just... got up? She's died on-screen at least twice, and it's implied she died a bunch more times while Starline was training her, but he wiped her memories of those incidents.

There's a chance she died here, too.

Sonic himself thought Surge was DEFINITELY dead after issue 50 and was genuinely surprised when she showed up again.

But the girl just... doesn't stay dead? She's not invincible, this isn't a Deadpool situation. She feels the damage, she gets wounded, she dies, but it's like she just reboots and repairs. Sonic is described as healing fast, but Surge is on another level. Death just doesn't seem to stick? It's more like Captain Jack from Doctor Who. She dies, and then she wakes up.

We don't know all the exact details of the tech Starline stuck inside her, but there must be something keeping her alive. Some gizmo that revives her when she takes mortal damage.

And yeah, Surge is suicidal. This is NOT Starline - this is a hallucination. This is Surge's subconscious talking to her.

Between this, and moments like her refusing Sonic saving her life, encouraging Whisper to shoot her in the back of the head, and the way she keeps shorting herself out by using too much power, there's definitely an implication that she yearns for death, at least subconsciously.

Starline really messed her up.

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I don't think Robotnik ever saw Stone's affection as genuine. He's used to people only valuing him if he's useful. His own bosses call him a freak, yet they put up with him because of his "perfect operation record". He isn't even shocked when he learns the goverment erased him, he expected it and had a contingency plan ready.

He keeps calling Stone a sycophant and a barnacle, because why else would someone stay with him if not to gain something? Clearly, Stone is just a suck-up wanting to ride his coattails. And Ivo is fine with that! He gets his ego stroked and in return Stone gets a slice of the world-domination pie. Mutually beneficial!

This symbiotic relationship gives Ivo a sense of control and ensures that Stone won't abandon him like everyone else. It also keeps him detached: of course Stone waited months or him to return from space, that's his job. His admiration is inevitable, and meaningless.

Ivo develops a genuine, irrational attachment to Stone, one he's able to rationalize as just being transactional. Those emotional walls shield him from the fear of abandonment that comes with caring for another person.

Except...even after Robotnik becomes a liability, Stone stays. There's no benefit, no plans of ruling humanity, not even a paycheck. Yet despite everything, Ivo tries to keep the old boss/employee dynamic going. He can't fathom the idea that someone would stay for anything other than convenience.

Then Gerald shows up, and for the first time Ivo allows himself to put down those walls. As an orphan he had built up this idealized image of family that he thought he could never have. People will use you then toss you aside when convenient, but family? Family is different. Family will always be there for you and love you no matter what. Family won't abandon you.

And suddently Stone's grovelling is no longer necessary. Why would he need someone who just pretends to like him when he now has all the unconditional love he's always longed for? That's obviously why Stone got so jealous, it couldn't have been real concern, he was just afraid of losing his comfy position as the lapdog of humanity's new king. Between a sycophant and family, the choice felt obvious.

And, of course, Gerald turns out to be just like everyone else in Ivo's life: just another person trying to get something from him. The second he stopped being useful, he was tossed aside.

His image of family is once again shattered, but those emotional walls are already down. Now that Ivo experienced that betrayal he was so afraid of, now that he's about to die, he's finally able to be honest with himself.

Looking down on Earth, he realizes there had only ever been one person on that blue marble who actually cared. Someone who had always been there, even when there was nothing to gain. Stone had never abandoned him.

But he had abandoned Stone. He tossed him aside, just like Gerald did to him. Now that he's able to understand how Stone felt, this is his last chance to make things right.

In his final moments, with nothing to fear, Robotnik puts down his emotional walls and opens up as best as he can. Stone had done so much for him, asked for nothing in return, and now it was his turn to do the same. Ivo helped save the world, not for recognition or convenience, but simply out of love.

Stone had always been a sycophant to him, yes, but he had also been a friend. A sycofriend.

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This cover KILLS me.

She can see what they have. She can see it could work for her.

Surge fits in quite naturally with Sonic's motley crew in this issue. Their history is not really all that different from Shadow, Silver or Blaze. There's an immediate acknowledgement that she's pretty "standard" as far as Sonic's rivals go.

But the big difference is... her beef with Sonic isn't incidental or a misunderstanding. It's very personal. Starline conditioned her to hate him, but once she found out why she was created, that hate got a reason: Sonic caused her.

Far as Surge is concerned, her existence, her pain, is all HIS fault. He didn't stop Eggman, he didn't stop Starline, and because of his passivity, her life was ruined. It's very Batman and Jason Todd. Except she didn't sign up for any of it.

The irony is: Surge has VERY heroic tendencies! Time and again, we see that she likes being the good guy. She likes protecting the weak, she likes taking down villains! She loves the attention! These are the qualities of a hero!

And while she likes to act without thinking, we see her get reflective. She knows she can't be the hero people want. Her sense of what's "right" is perfectly intact.

If it hadn't been for Starline, Surge would have been just like Tangle or Lanolin: a strong-hearted civilian all set to become a hero in her own right. But because of Starline's interference, she's split between that heroic destiny and her hatred for the hedgehog.

After all she's done, and especially after the Clean Sweep arc, it would be hard for her go straight. People already didn't trust her in issue 67. That would not be improved by her having already pretended to go good once, and bailed.

In her heart, Surge wants to be a hero, but does the world still want her after all she's done because of her beef with Sonic? It feels like we're gearing up for a falling out between her and Kit, too.

I believe eventually there will be a good ending for Surge. But things are bound to get a lot worse before they get better.

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diversity loss! the platypus who kidnapped you, stole your bones, and brainwashed you with a pathological need to hunt sonic the hedgehog for sport is gay!

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The Vanilla page of all time

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There's definitely been more Sonic stuff in recent years that's shown him from an outside perspective, and consistently the conclusion seems to be "hey. this guy's kind of an asshole"

like. bro just doesn't care

sonic there are tears in her eyes you can't be acting like this

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I spent two hours on this stupid Paint doodle because the idea wouldn't leave my head:

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they can't keep getting away with this ............................

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"I won't let his fear poison me anymore."

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It's so funny to see someone point this out to him