Sonic the Hedgehog has had a few different versions of the years.
Which is the most powerful?
Granted, a lot of the time these other villains are being commanded, controlled, or otherwise subjugatedbyDr.
Eggman but, semantics.
Enjoy perusing the new, improved rogues' gallery!
It involved numerous corporate heads butting, as well as a sprinkling of botched translation jobs.
We love his wisecracking attitude,see?
Infinite’s motivations are pretty shallow.
Yes, that looks like a homing shot.
No, it’s not clear when you oughta switch to 2D and back.
Dear God, why does the timer say15 minutes?
!It’s not fixed in Sonic X Shadow Generations, either.
All the same, you’ll remember this beast long after your controller has been hurled.
Each Zeti personifies a well-worn trope.
Zavok, the Bowser-esque leader.
Zomom, the overeater.
Zor, the goth.
And Zeena, the… erm, girl.
This one-dimensionality is redeemed with some fun designs and an absolute banger of a boss theme.
Word of advice, though, SEGA: stop trying to make Zavok a recurring antagonist.
Naturally, the situation soon spirals into something decidedly more complicated.
Their surrogate father-daughter relationship is the best bit of writing the series has seen in years.
Black Doom descends on the day of the Black Comet’s passing, which occurs once every 50 years.
Well, lending some of his DNA to the creation of Shadow, of course.
Talk about your twists.
In the end, Shadow renounces his past and turns Super to send Black Doom and his cronies packing.
Black Doom and company make a most unexpected return in 2024’s Shadow Generations campaign.
Exhibit A: Mephiles the Dark.
But that just wouldn’t be as fun, would it?
Even after devouring their home planet whole, it kept up the chase across the cosmos.
And we haven’t even mentioned its dialogue during the final fight:
I cannot be denied.
You strike this incarnation with all your might.
You are not brave.
You are not victorious.
No matter what form I take…The End comes for you all!
Luckily, he more than backs this up with some iconic design and neat battles.
In the modern day, Eggman’s feeding him Chaos Emeralds in hopes of using him as a weapon.
It goes as well as you’d expect.
What’s especially cool about Chaos is how you see him evolve.
She’s the tutorial character, essentially, which makes her turn all the more shocking.
She means to delete all of reality and rewrite the legend in her own twisted image.
