#neo metal sonic idw

[odiabonecessario]

Metal Sonic is my personal comfort character

combine it with the fact that my edits are usually influenced by my current moods and boom, you get a somewhat angry Metal Sonic icon

[candiezmanzion]

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 !

[momokaliq]

tqm Neo metal sonic

[latapadraws]

some metal studies from IDW

[auroblaze]

B-b-b-back to fill pages with sonics of various kinds 💫

[rapidhighway]

kind of... reconstructed a panel from idw that shows angel island so it's whole and not covered up. it's so hard to get a hold of any clear images of angel island and they all look different so here's one more reference

[sockoandchips]

“Let me show you just what I'm made of now…”

[omnxnom]

who is this diva

I love this guy hehe hope u likeeeee~

[uselesstaroth]

I can't find the post and I'm really upset about it so I'm gonna make my own post.

Anyway

In Sonic IDW, robots have speech bubbles like this

Gemerl, Omega, Orbot Cubot, they're like this

However

Neo Metal Sonic talks with normal speech bubbles, as if he's an organic being.

That's very significant, it shows how advanced he is compared to even Omega or Gemerl.

However.

There's one other robot that talks with regular speech bubbles.

Unlike every other robot, but just like the extremely powerful, partially biological, shapeshifting, main villain of an entire arc, Neo Metal Sonic

Belle the Tinkerer has regular speech bubbles.

I find that extremely meaningful.

Edit: found the post!

[doomedyurii]

drew neo metal sonic for my brothers birthday :]

[sonicreferencephotos]

Super Neo Metal Sonic; IDW Sonic comics

[odiabonecessario]

Yeah, I do love Metal Sonic and I'm obsessed with him which means I do lots of edits of my special boi

[candiezmanzion]

if i post normal things about metal sonic can i also post that i think he's cute. is that normal. is that allowed.

[maplethedarkshine]

I love idw comics but I gotta complain

Sonic just acts stupid this whole arc, but SPECIALLY regarding Metal

Brother Metal is quite literally lobotomized he does NOT have a choice and Sonic KNOWS THIS why dows he pretend otherwise???

METAL LITERALLY told him so to his face the previous arc, why did he forgot? Is he stupid?

Also also he CHOSE to let him go and “respect his decision”, but then goes and DOESN’T respect it when its one that he doesn’t like (again, not like it was a real choice on the first place, but IF it was, Sonic already knew that this would happen and was ok with it????)

Also, no, they DID NOT give him freedom, they literally had him there and instead of reprogramming him to stop being loyal to Eggman they just let him go. Why the hell are they acting surprised when the machine programed to follow Eggman… follows Eggman???? As programmed???? Idw is incredibly unfair to Metal, that man is a slave and the narrative blames him for it

More given the fact that Mr.tinker was in the same situation (Turning back to evil ways by something out of their choice) yet Sonic condones Mr.thinker and berates Metal for the exact same situation???? Sonic what is your moral compass on this arc I do not get you

This isn’t freedom, this is the illusion of freedom, they’re giving him an offering he really can’t take as much as he’d want to. They did absolute jackshit to help him, he lacks the agency to help himself then blame him for it

Honestly Shadow and Espio were right, the metal virus was Sonic’s fault, but not for letting Mr.Tinker live. His sin was’t his compassion toward him, his sin was expecting Metal to overwrite the coding that makes him a slave

Honestly I could make a whole rant about how much I hate Sonic’s writing in early idw but I won’t because they had gotten better and thank god he’s no longer like that

[egyrm]

Current situation of my playing cards; I have drawn enough characters for one set. The minimum of Top Trumps is 30 cards. I must be at my 33rd card rn and will be continuing. This is like an addiction.

[momokaliq]

So romantic