#sonic idw 56

[thefantastician]

issue 56 was awesome

[justatoast]

Tails & Kitsunami ✨🌊 

After reading Sonic IDW #56 I kept thinking about these two, so here’s a “What if” where they are budds!

[mintybagels]

not while you’re still alive

[thealpacaavenger]

About Sonic IDW #56 (Post electric shock syndrome)

(Info found at https://www.verywellhealth.com and https://electrocuted.com)

Dang. That’s the best I can sum up this group of panels. I decided to look into the effects of electric shocks to the body. I swear, the authors did their absolute best to ensure that the amount of pain Sonic would go through would be as insane as possible.

Let’s start with this set of panels.

You can probably assume that the amount of volts Surge is sending into that water is excessive. Now, when someone’s skin is wet, not only does this make the shock more painful, it also makes it more deadly.

Next, are these panels. You can see here that Surge has her hands around either Sonic’s neck, or his shoulders. Either way, both areas are quite close to the heart. Shocks to the heart are another way to make electrical shocks more deadly. Another thing that makes an electrical shock more lethal is prolonged exposure. Which Sonic gets a fair share of. In the comic’s time, I’d say this lasted about 20-40 seconds, which may not seem long, but that is a very long time to be exposed to such a heavy voltage.

For obvious reasons, this causes Sonic to scream in pain, as you can see in both when Sonic first falls into the water and in the action panels (In the first, I believe it’s Sonic’s fist, though I struggle to tell. In the second, it’s clearly Sonic’s eye, meant to display fear or pain. And most importantly in the third panel, you can see Sonic’s mouth open screaming in pain).

When Surge passes out, Sonic is left in shock (no pun intended). Though, I have reason to believe he may have been dead in that panel.

Now, let’s talk about all the things Sonic would’ve gone through after that event. -Severe burns, both inside and outside his body. -An inconsistent or dangerous heartbeat -Numbness and tingling sensation throughout the body -Possible seizures -Weakness -Chronic pain

The weakness is one thing that is shown. Sonic needs help from Tails in order to get up. I also feel as though the patched hatching throughout Sonic’s body could also be interpreted as external burns.

Now, not only are there immediate physical reactions to getting electrocuted, there are also mental effects. These mental effects are labeled as post-electric shock syndrome. The symptoms are quite similar in nature to depression and PTSD.

-behavioral changes -Increased difficulty with memory and attention -irritability -anger -insomnia -aggressive behavior -difficulty enjoying hobbies -difficulty engaging with other people and work

In this next panel, I obviously don’t think that the only reason Sonic is angry is because of PESS, but I do think it may have made it a little harder to contain that anger, and maybe magnified it.

Sonic went through hell this time around. I suppose he always does.

[sammym332]

wow! I love when he gets traumatized!

[lyrarizi]

The most top notch garbage game gave us some of the best canon fuel for angst

Sonic forces is literally enuf angst for us to last atleast 5 yrs but make it even more traumatizing by adding a metal virus that made sonic isolate himself physically and not sleep for a solid week atleast i think.

SEGA is putting a 15yr old boy who got pushed into the hero shtick from really young age through some of the most unbearable things that someone of that age shouldn't go through

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Some examples for angst for fanfic writers (because i'm nice and absolutely adore those kind of fics ❤️😏:

- yr own take on what could have happened in those 6 months death egg

- how sonic felt while the metal virus was a thing

- post sonic idw 56 (that shit was fucking traumatizing to read imagine if you had to go through that)

- post sonic Sa2

- a couple specials for the boom writers ❤️, how sonic is feeling while living in the village, post just a guy episode, how he feels abt his friends (who are honestly absolute trash sometimes) and why shadow and sonic their relation in that universe is so shitty and just a dumpster fire

- you could make a pretty angsty backstory if you want

- another forces idea is to rewrite it but much darker like they are actually going through a war for the world and ofcourse sonic his torture

- maybe unleashed like how it felt to be the werehog

- or just how sonic feels because we all know he is really good in pushing aside his feelings

If you wrote any of these ideas please message through the comments with the link to the fanfic in this post so i can read it ❤️

[natyantle]

I can’t stop myself from killing you...

Wait, what do you mean that’s not what happend in the issue? 

[mbrine]

If I had a nickel for every time Tails tries to catch Sonic, gets headshot by a rock, then caught by Sonic, followed by Sonic slipping off of something, I'd have 2 nickels.

Which isn't a lot but it's pretty funny that it happened twice.

Anyways time to get Issue 68 wew

[komakomacora]

THIS NIGGA IS MAD AS HELL RIGHTFULLY SO LOOOKKKKKKK

IF HE EVER MAKE THAT FACW AT YOU YOURE DONE. YOURE FUCKING DONE, PERIOD.

[koreyeet]

i want him to have an arc where he rethinks his life choices

[cyan-tier]

I just caught up to the IDW comics and-

People keep posting this panel and how he nearly died-

But like-

the very next few panels of him finally gasping and breathing again, implying he wasn’t in that first one is what really got me-

[molinaskies]

(I promise this isn't a bot it's actually me Luescris 😭😭)

God every time you add info to what happened in #56 it hurts me worse every time I can NOT stop thinking about how awful that must've been for Sonic. He was clinically DEAD. He DIED. For like 30 seconds. Even with the seemingly horrified look on his face you could even tell. Usually in art when death is depicted there's no pupils and it looks all squiggly and all that. And that's exactly what Sonic's eyes looked like there

But also for the last Anon ask, the third panel is in fact Sonic's mouth, he's like actively yelling with pain there, but I bet it was drowned out with everything else that was happening and just-

Man man man it hurts and I'm still so flabbergasted it happened. My big question is that is Surge dead too?? Like she can regenerate so I have a feeling she'll be back but that'd exactly how it was framed in those panels, I genuinely can't tell if that was her passing out hhhfhhf

Yeah sorry this was long I just have so many thoughts about this issue dhajsgssg

Here’s the whole list, at this point:

- core analysis (sonic broke)

- sonic’s drowning (literally)

- relating to sonic’s pain

- what’s happening in those triangles? (My last ask)

Hey, Luescris! DW, I know it’s you. Hope you can get your tumblr fixed soon! Thanks for the ask (I like long ones lol)

Thank you for clarifying what we’re seeing!

Honestly, regarding your big question, I don’t think she’s dead. Not even a little bit. They writing would have let Kit react differently if she was. HOWEVER, I think the way she collapses is designed to make Sonic think, for even a second, that she’s dead. This is the moment, for me, that Sonic finally gets it. He sees the gravity of the situation and he’s fucked up about it.

That said, I personally don’t think Sonic’s “dead” in that panel. In shock (metaphorically and literally)? Yes, but not dead. There’s too much emotion in his face for him to be dead. Too much fear, too much terror.

(Plus idk if my heart can take it LOL).

Even still, I 100% see both sides. It’s really hard to say definitively, based on how it’s presented. I like your point of “30 seconds” because that’s supported by a literal page break. Sonic doesn’t react until the reader needs to physically flip the page, and that incorporates an artificial passing of time. The same thing happens when Sonic almost falls when trying to get himself, Tails, and the wisps away from ground zero.

Page 1

Page 2

The fact that Sonic doesn’t make complete contact with the metal shows that something is wrong, and the reader needs to flip the page to find out what. The same thing happens with Surge’s collapse and Sonic’s recovery.

All I know is that Sonic is a little fucking fried (emotionally… please forgive the pun LOL)

[head---ache]

I guess this is kind of a panel redraw???? Idk, this is glued in my brain

[kayzean]

Right so after THAT (linking to @rooftop--runner 's post) q&a from Ian Flynn, I felt inspired. (IDW Sonic spoilers? I guess?)

Dont repost to other socials thanks!

The scene that influenced me under the cut:

[papaiyatree]

thinking about what ian flynn said about issue 56....

[sammym332]

THERE WILL BE NO PEACE FOR ME... NOT WHILE YOU’RE STILL ALIVE