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What are some of your favorite obscure Sonic Characters?

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by AlliaTheEchidna, Feb 23, 2023.

  1. AlliaTheEchidna

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    Here are some of mine to start:

    Aurora: I really wish they would have expanded her story more than they have

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    Medal Knuckles: Kinda self explainatory

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    Bunnie D'Coolette: Another character I feel they could have done soooo much more with

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    Princess Sally Acorn: I love her personality and that she still has a strong moral compass despite being royalty
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    Shade the Echidna: Can we give my goth boy some more screentime please?

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    Doctor Zachary: He is a really fun villain and I am sad he has not been brought into any of the games or shows, if you do not know who he is please do yourself a favor and get into the Sonic the Hedgehog comics

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    Julie-Su: Another comic exclusive character, she is my profile photo actually, well a fan render concept of what she would look like in modern games anyways. She is a kick--- Chaotix member, she is also Knuckles' partner in crime.
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    Mina Mongoose: She is an adorable little pop star, and honestly I like her better with Sonic than Amy, she really needs to be brought into the games

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  2. Anyone who says Eclipse the Darkling is "too edgy" has not actually seen anything with him in it, and are solely looking at his visual design and out of context panels. Change my mind.

    And I'm admittedly a sucker for people who seem like villains initially but then shows they actually do care a lot about their family or something, which is probably the sole reason I cared at all about Dimitri before Flynn got a hold of Archie.

    I may only like Mammoth Mogul for his visual design, but I like him nonetheless.
     
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  3. Blue Spikeball

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    From the games I like Fang (such a fun character, it's a pity he was abandoned) and Mecha Sonic mk2 (best robot Sonic design). From the adaptations I guess I like Cosmo, Dr. Zachary, and (even though I'm not a big Archie fan) Mina and Dr. Finitevus (great reimagining of Zachary).
     
  4. saxman

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    I always liked Julie-Su. I wouldn't mind a character like her in the games.
     
  5. DefinitiveDubs

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    Most of the obscure characters I like are based on what I wish they were, rather than what they actually are.

    Like, I like Fang, but I like him because the idea of a bounty hunter in Sonic has a lot of potential. We have enough treasure hunters already, but I'd like it if Fang was a cartoonier and more Texan but still badass Boba Fett within the Sonic universe, not the incompetent pop gun-wielding hillbilly he is in canon.
     
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  6. From Archie and SatAM I was always fond of Rotor, Antoine, and especially Bunny. I'll ever bring a child into this world, but long ago it was decided that should I ever happen to change my mind then Antoine would factor into their full name.

    For actual game characters the Chaotix are collectively up there for me, with Espio being my immediate solo pick. Blaze ain't all that obscure, but it is about damn time she finds herself in something other than a spin-off. Fang is great, but Bark the Polar Bear gets my vote for the most obscure character that I'd love to see fleshed out in some future entry. Won't ever happen, but at least IDW has given him and Bean some love.
     
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    I like Fang, Bean, and Bark individually. I don't think they belong as a unit whose only justification for existence was "they were all in that one semi-obscure fighting game".
     
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    I'm not really into any obscure Archie character (I mean, I like Sally, but that's about it), but when it comes to the games I have this unexplained, completely baseless attachment to Marine.
     
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    Like the obscure music thread, this feels hard to flex any obscure knowledge and feels more like "which infrequently thought about thing do you like the most", but I guess I'll say what I think fits the best.
    I really, really like Manic. It's depressing that the thing people shit on Underground for, the robot baby thing, is part of the best thing about Underground, which is the tangible evolution of Manic as a character from a theif raised from childhood to compulsively steal everything he can to survive, to someone genuinely trying to make a difference in the world and make sure no kid has to live like that again. It's a genuine shame Underground didn't get to actually resolve that for him.
    (On the other end of the spectrum, Bartleby can go fuck himself, it's annoying him and Sonia's relationship wasn't absolved the second he started acting like Robotnik's third goon.)

    Shade the Echidna is also neat but suffers from her dialogue only ever being exposition about what the Nocturnus Clan was up to in the Twilight Cage. All we really know about her is that she's all buisness and willing to do anything for Nocturne but she draws the line at conquest of the entire world.
    Similar intrigue + criticism for Nestor the Wise, who was banished from Nocturne and lives hiding from the Kron, and suspiciously uses a near total copy of Super IX's model, swapping out the electro staff with a wood cane, and exists only to read off Precursor Tablets talking about a potential greater threat named Argus.
    I really wish we knew more about the ideas they had for Chronicles 2, but it's possible nobody really remembers that with how small that team really was.

    Specifically Archie post-Super Genesis Wave Mighty I find interesting. I say specifically because it's all I really know about Archie Mighty. A really good redesign paired with an interesting strong-but-defensive-pacifist dynamic makes me sad we'll never get to see that again.
    Eclipse and his Dark Arms are a pretty good answer. They helped expand on things we've never really gotten a good chance at seeing in a context that cares about those concepts in particular, even if it wasn't the "real" answer.
    I'll agree with that but I'll add that my vision is less comical and more of a potential rival for Shadow or something (D-Pad YouTube channel turned me on to that idea) - basically a Team Chaotix level "Modern" revamp of the character where maybe he has a cool unique space gun or something, and team ups with Bark or Bean are mainly for less serious affairs where they're basically just go-to muscle for him for some reason.

    Funny basically all my answers have to do with characters who've been cut short by external forces. What a waste.
     
  10. AlliaTheEchidna

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    Sega seems to love to randomly abandon characters and plot points at will sadly
     
  11. BlueSkiesAM2

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    I always feel like I'm half-having a stroke whenever I come across stuff from the Archie comics. The designs, plot points, etc., all give the impression of a fever dream. I mean I read the comics as a kid, but I guess it never made a big enough impression on me to stick with it as I got older.
     
  12. AlliaTheEchidna

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    The Archie comics are definately a free for all for writers, I am glad I read them though as they did have some good characters that stand out still to this day
     
  13. Rafa Stary

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    The Battle Kukku Empire ^^! Having other villains in the Classic Era hits different!
     
  14. LordOfSquad

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    No one's said Honey yet? Would love for her to show up in an official capacity for the first time if we're ever lucky enough to get another classic title.

    Bunnie and Rotor are really cool too, if any Archie characters were to make the jump to the games I think they'd fit in the best.
     
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    I don’t think Honey really counts considering she’s not really a character. She’s just cut content that the devs made as a jokey, visual homage to Fighting Vipers. I think she gets disproportionate attention from the fanbase actually all things considered. Although I wouldn’t mind her getting to be an official Sonic character, I’d prefer Sega to actually bring the real Honey and Fighting Vipers back (either in their own new game or as part of a new crossover with VF).
     
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  16. Rafa Stary

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    Hmmmm Chances for Honey reappearing are really below 0% IMO, I really think she was just meant to be a Fighters Megamix easter egg and that's it (is this the correct game? Can't remember correctly), I see she as something different from Bean The Dynamite, he was inspired by Dynamite Dux, but he was 100% made as a Sonic character.
    Honey is literally just the girl from Fighters Megamix but Sonicized, she even has the same name as the original IIRC, she doesn't look like a complete Sonic character, not for me. Archie is the one that made she a true Sonic character, but my mind is bad when the subject are the Archie comics.

    Yo Btw, more, I really think games like Sonic Shuffle deserve another chance, I really would like to see characters as Lumina, Ilumina and Void coming back, they really work as the NiGHTSs from the Sonic universe imo ^^
     
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    Fighting Vipers is Honey’s original title. Fighters Megamix is the VF x FV x extras crossover game.

    Quick edit: Void. Void has always held a weird fascination for me which I can’t explain too well. I guess he just looks cool and I like the name. I wish he and the rest of Shuffle were readapted into something better.
     
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    New messages aren't showing up anymore while I'm writing FSR, thanks! But I'm pretty sure she's also in Megamix

    Btw, one character that always comes to my mind since as a kid just due to how mysterious it is, is Mecha Sonic Mark 3, a.k.a the Mecha Soniczilla from SA1
    Yo I've seen many speculate that the Mecha Sonic that shows up in Sonic Pocket Adventure is supposedly Mark 3, under the sprite of Mecha Sonic Mark 1 from Sonic 2 Genesis, the arguments used by these people are the fact that he has Mark 1's sprite but his moveset is different (more similar to Mark 2 from s3&k), and the fact that when you defeat him, he's not destroyed, he just runs away, which could explain why he's inside a tube in Final Egg, for recovery.
    Makes sense for me, I wonder if he was meant to show up in Sonic 4 Episode 3
    The unused preview shows Mecha Mark 2, but what if...? Idk, if both he and Metal were in Final Egg, and Metal still returns to this day, so he still might be around (except if Ian Flynn already said what happened to him/he's fucking dead, but I have no idea lol XD)
     
  19. LordOfSquad

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    Honey being a joke character doesn't make me like her Sonicified design any less, but I too would love a Fighting Vipers revival
     
  20. BlueSkiesAM2

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    Yeah, she is. I assumed you meant her original title. Megamix released after Sonic the Fighters anyways so it’d be weird to say she’s from Megamix.