By the way we've already gone over Sage being very underpowered in IDW but did anyone else also feel that she also acted just a bit strange or out of character in issue #85 as well?
Don't get me wrong some moments with Sage did feel alright or great. Like her smugly telling Belle that she is technically Eggman's "stuff" or her commenting that she had Tails on file as being intelligent to sarcastically roast Sonic but aside from that she felt kind of off.
For example why was she so overtly terrified of Metal Sonic to the point of having an anxiety response? Sure she's practically defenseless now but in Sonic Frontiers whenever Sage was afraid or had something to be afraid of through the entire game she doubled down on being hyper-logical to the extreme. An example of that is when The End was getting out instead of externally panicking Sage immediately resorted to ruthless pragmatism in suggesting that she get Eggman to Cyber Space even if he's locked there forever. Genuinely it felt like Sage's version of an "oh crap" response in Frontiers was vastly different to how she behaved in IDW. Where in Frontiers a scared Sage would fall back on logic to an almost heartless degree in IDW she just unproductively panics until Belle resolves the situation. Oh and Sage brainstorms out loud while her and Belle are supposed to be hiding. Make of that what you will.
On that note the choices Sage made were also really strange. For example how did she not anticipate that Metal Sonic could find his way back into the cave? I don't think it takes a supergenius to worry about that possibility but for some reason Sage never even considered it and was caught off gaurd when Metal Sonic attacked her with her saying that no models predicted that. And if Sage is harmless now while Belle has only limited combat ability why didn't she call out that it's stupid of them to split up when Sonic is the only person who could truly fight against a threat (actually it was Belle who called out that splitting up is stupid)? I'm just saying that in Frontiers pointing out the obvious would be something she'd have done but Sage just doesn't in IDW and instead when Sonic splits off from the group she doesn't try to follow him and just thinks it's "fine" because she needs to take inventory of the stuff the mystery villain stole as if she can't do that later during a time when they have a clue who's lair they are in and have successfully retrieved Metal Sonic.
Additionally why did she drop her gaurd immediately when Metal Sonic "went down" after all she should know how dangerous Metal Sonic is but instead of treating the body like it's radioactive she gets caught off gaurd so badly that she gets kidnapped (and that's while Metal Sonic didn't even take any external damage either that would prevent him from functioning)?
Eh maybe it's just me
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