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Mephiles the Dark
First Appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

Mephiles is a cool idea sandbagged with a terrible origin in a terrible game.

He's like a crystal Shadow the Hedgehog looking guy with purple power tendrils coming off of him. He has no mouth too, which is weird as well.

So let's start with why Mephiles would be better if we made literally any kind of change. He was born when Solaris was split into two, where one was a giant lava monster thing and the other was darkness gas which was Mephiles. This is so stupid. Why isn't the plot just something less absurd like Mephiles being an evil badass guy wanting to find something to become super powerful instead of... everything with Sonic 2006. I don't need to rehash this over again.

But anyway, he's sealed in the Scepter of Darkness by a time traveling Shadow the Hedgehog. Eggman finds it eventually and it was shattered and he emerges and takes the form similar to Shadow and he can apparently send people into the past and does so to Shadow and Rouge. He wanted to find the Chaos Emeralds and make Princess Elise cry so that Iblis can be released (ugggggh) and then they could fuse into Solaris.

He went to the future, looking like the most evil MFer you've ever seen and was like "Yo Silver the Hedgehog you should trust me the blue hedgehog is totally evil and the reason your world is destroyed" and then he sends them back in time for some reason to go kill Sonic. Like he looks so evil that this is unbelievable. He can change forms! Take the form of a cutesy little rabbit girl or something.

Eventually he tries to convince Shadow to join him and convince him the world would never accept him, and it's probably the best he's utilized and he does it a hell of a lot better than Black Doom ever did. Shadow doesn't go with it, but eventually he manages to defeat Mephiles again.

Buuut he survives or escapes somehow and then MURDERS SONIC and then causes Elise to cry and releases Iblis and then Mephiles fuses with Solaris and fucks up the multiverse or something. All three hedgehogs then defeat him.

So all of the cool stuff with Mephiles, from his look, to his personality, to his powers are all awesome. Quality stuff. But he is trapped in this shitty game with it's dog shit story and he's just wasted here. I wish we had a Mephiles in a better game, because this doesn't do him justice. We're never going to see him outside of that mobile game though, which is unfortunate, but he's such a mess of a character it's hard to bring him back in without completely retconning most things about him.

Sorry Mephiles. You deserve better than Sonic 2006.

Rank: C

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