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Metal Sonic
First Appearance: Sonic CD

Legit, Metal Sonic is probably the best idea for a villain that they could have come up with for this franchise. Problem is, he never really seems to hit his potential.

Appearance-wise, he's perfect. They did an outstanding job making a robot version of Sonic look incredibly menacing. It's really good stuff and I wish they did this more often. His transformations... sometimes work too.

So alright, we begin where he's just a basic Sonic robot and he races Sonic and loses. Which... I mean, that's pretty cool. But I always felt there should have been more to that. But it really is a pretty iconic scene to race him.

Then we get to Knuckles' Chaotix for his next major appearance which is uh not tremendous. By far the coolest thing about this game is if you don't do anything for a full minute, Metal Sonic will appear out of nowhere to fuck your day up. Outside of that... his boss fight is so bad. He goes in the machine that selects your character and then sends dumb weapon gimmicks at the heroes. And then you just hit the device and eventually he's defeated. It's insanely lame. And then he does a transformation into a giant red Metal Sonic and it's... you know, fine I guess. It's pretty cool. He has a lot more lasers and such. But overall it's kind of a dud IMO.

He disappears for the most part until we get to Sonic Heroes where he plays a much bigger part. He is able to look identical to Dr. Eggman and assumes him for the entirety of the game (i dunno either) where he steals all the biodata from the heroes in the game and uses Froggy and Chocola the Chao to get the power and info from Chaos? And he does all of this because he has such a god damn obsession with beating Sonic. He just hates Sonic so much because he was programmed to defeat him and he never can. He needs to defeat Sonic, and he'll do whatever he can to do it. And then he feels that Dr. Eggman is holding him back from doing just that, and that's why he takes him over.

I think this is actually a really cool way to go with the character--at least the obsession with beating Sonic part. During the last bits of Sonic Heroes, I love the way that he seems so obsessed and how much he expresses he absolutely must fulfill his destiny to beat Sonic. It makes a lot of sense and I think this cold hatred and desire to defeat Sonic is a great thing and should be used more.

Buuuut I think that the Neo Metal Sonic appearance makes him look like a dork as wizard. He gets a metal robe and a cape like what? And his Metal Madness/Metal Overlord don't light my world on fire. He's just, uh... oddly giant and loses his lower half. I dunno. I think they could have done better with these transofrmations even if they look completely epic and fine in the heat of the fight in the game.

From there, he doesn't have too many distinct appearances. They use him a lot in Sonic 4-2, and I think they do a fine job with him in that one. And Sonic Generations and Sonic Forces gives him a lot of love. But he never really gets to show his personality still, which I think is a shame.

Let Metal Sonic talk about how much he hates Sonic and needs to defeat him and I think he is much more interesting. Just don't go too crazy with him like in Sonic Heroes and get him to be too ambitious. He's perfectly fine as a lackey who just feels compelled to beat Eggman. And for the love of god don't make him a giant mutant robot thing again.

Rank: B

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