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This thread is in response to this blog outlining alleged abilities granted to Sonic after he collected a billion power rings. I've already made quite a long comment on the blog itself, but I thought I would make a thread to more thoroughly go over my points.
I'll briefly go over the few points that I feel I did a thorough enough job refuting in my original comment before moving on to my big point of contention with this topic.
Sonic's aura negated Finitevus' hex allowing him to use the Master Emerald
Scourge uses the emerald without Finitevus' knowing with no issue. Locke was simply wrong in his assumption that others were blocked from its power.
Sonic's aura negated Finitevus' hex on Knuckles
This is simply just not true. Locke sacrifices himself to break the hex. Sonic does claim to be "making progress" in, as he puts it, "beating the evil out of Knuckles" but he is not the cause of Knuckles' return.
Also, worth noting is that, as far as I'm aware, Sonic is only mentioned having an evil negating/positive influencing aura in reference to his super form. This seems to imply that this positive influence is a byproduct of him absorbing positive energy from the emeralds, something specifically mentioned in the fight against Perfect Chaos that issue 184 references.
While not mentioned on the original blog, I've also seen people credit the ring aura for bringing Sonic back after being erased by the Ultimate Annihilator in issue 50. This, however, is not what happened. The Annihilator was altered to only effect Eggma, Sonic was not in any danger. The Annihilator overloading is the reason Sonic and all of Mobius disappeared before returning a moment later. (with some other unimportant side effects) Sonic's ring aura had nothing to do with this.
Now for the big one.
Then there's the idea that the aura works to warp reality to ensure Sonic's victory. This idea comes from a theory proposed by Eggman after being defeated by Sonic in issue 200 and is seemingly supported by this statement from Mammoth Mogul.
However, as it turns out, Mogul is incorrect about the cause of his defeat. Unbeknown to him, the Ancient Walkers cursed him to fail meaning Sonic's alleged fate manipulation is not what allowed him to win, or as I put it before, "it's not that reality changed to have Sonic win, it changed to have Mogul lose".
Now I haven't been all caught up with the comics after the first Genesis Wave, but for the sake of this argument, I read all of Eggman's scenes from issue 210 when he proposes the idea through 240 a bit after the Genesis event and all of Eggman and Wily's dialogue in Worlds Collide.
In my original comment I made the assumption that Eggman uses the idea of reality warping in Sonic's favor as a coping mechanism, and after reading more of the comic, I still stand by this. We literally see him start to go mad again before calming himself dow by reminding himself that "the chaos is the constant" in issue 230.
The idea that he's lost not due to his own folly but due to cosmic intervention is what allows him to come back from insanity; he then obsesses over this idea with it being the sole driving force behind his plans until Sally is robotisized. Once this happens his priorities shift from trying to circumvent the "constant chaos" surrounding Sonic to using Sally to discourage the Freedom Fighters as a whole, and even succeeds to a degree. Even when Sonic thwarts an attack on Furville in issue 236 and on the Wolf Pack and Felidae in issue 238 he doesn't blame cosmic interference, because his priorities have shifted.
It's also worth noting that Snively, while not as smart as Eggman, is still a genius in his own right and shows no confidence in Eggman's plan or ideas regarding Sonic's "constant chaos" this could be seen as Snivley's general distaste for his uncle as he continues to berate his obsessive behavior after Sally's robotization, but he grants no merit to the theory.
To further substantiate that he used this theory merely to cope, when collaborating with Dr. Wily he doesn't mention the idea of Sonic embodying chaos to himself or Wily; he never informs Wily of this theory despite their joined venture to defeat Sonic. He even goes so far as to say he thinks Mega Man might defeat Sonic in Sonic Universe 52. If he truly believed in this idea instead of it being a way to previously keep him sane, it would only make sense for him to factor it into their plan.
Even going beyond the idea of him using this idea to stay sane, his theory has a few holes.
His original explanation of the theory in issue 210 and his dialogue after losing a chaos emerald in issue 231 implies that he believes having more chaos energy is the basis for having reality work towards one's favor. This is fundamentally untrue as many characters with more chaos energy than Sonic have been defeated and in some cases such as the Ancient Walkers or Knuckles even died.
Sonic himself has also been defeated before. Most notably in issue 175 when he loses to Eggman directly. Scourge had also previously beaten him in combat in issues 161 and 165. According to Silver, he, along with the rest of the Freedom Fighters are defeated by a traitor at some point. Heck even in issue 39, a story that specifically references his aura, he's able to be knocked out and robotisized. Depending on how you interpret the end of Worlds Collide one could also say he "failed" since the multiverse was improperly restored.
Overall, the only aspect of Sonic's ring aura I agree with is that it protects his humanity (mobianity?) from being corrupted and when given more power can restore his humanity if lost. (or whatever, it unrobotisized him, you know what I mean)
Thank you for reading.
Edit: If my memory kicks in I'll add anything else I find relevant.
I'll briefly go over the few points that I feel I did a thorough enough job refuting in my original comment before moving on to my big point of contention with this topic.
Sonic's aura negated Finitevus' hex allowing him to use the Master Emerald
Scourge uses the emerald without Finitevus' knowing with no issue. Locke was simply wrong in his assumption that others were blocked from its power.
Sonic's aura negated Finitevus' hex on Knuckles
This is simply just not true. Locke sacrifices himself to break the hex. Sonic does claim to be "making progress" in, as he puts it, "beating the evil out of Knuckles" but he is not the cause of Knuckles' return.
Also, worth noting is that, as far as I'm aware, Sonic is only mentioned having an evil negating/positive influencing aura in reference to his super form. This seems to imply that this positive influence is a byproduct of him absorbing positive energy from the emeralds, something specifically mentioned in the fight against Perfect Chaos that issue 184 references.
While not mentioned on the original blog, I've also seen people credit the ring aura for bringing Sonic back after being erased by the Ultimate Annihilator in issue 50. This, however, is not what happened. The Annihilator was altered to only effect Eggma, Sonic was not in any danger. The Annihilator overloading is the reason Sonic and all of Mobius disappeared before returning a moment later. (with some other unimportant side effects) Sonic's ring aura had nothing to do with this.
Now for the big one.
Then there's the idea that the aura works to warp reality to ensure Sonic's victory. This idea comes from a theory proposed by Eggman after being defeated by Sonic in issue 200 and is seemingly supported by this statement from Mammoth Mogul.
However, as it turns out, Mogul is incorrect about the cause of his defeat. Unbeknown to him, the Ancient Walkers cursed him to fail meaning Sonic's alleged fate manipulation is not what allowed him to win, or as I put it before, "it's not that reality changed to have Sonic win, it changed to have Mogul lose".
Now I haven't been all caught up with the comics after the first Genesis Wave, but for the sake of this argument, I read all of Eggman's scenes from issue 210 when he proposes the idea through 240 a bit after the Genesis event and all of Eggman and Wily's dialogue in Worlds Collide.
In my original comment I made the assumption that Eggman uses the idea of reality warping in Sonic's favor as a coping mechanism, and after reading more of the comic, I still stand by this. We literally see him start to go mad again before calming himself dow by reminding himself that "the chaos is the constant" in issue 230.
The idea that he's lost not due to his own folly but due to cosmic intervention is what allows him to come back from insanity; he then obsesses over this idea with it being the sole driving force behind his plans until Sally is robotisized. Once this happens his priorities shift from trying to circumvent the "constant chaos" surrounding Sonic to using Sally to discourage the Freedom Fighters as a whole, and even succeeds to a degree. Even when Sonic thwarts an attack on Furville in issue 236 and on the Wolf Pack and Felidae in issue 238 he doesn't blame cosmic interference, because his priorities have shifted.
It's also worth noting that Snively, while not as smart as Eggman, is still a genius in his own right and shows no confidence in Eggman's plan or ideas regarding Sonic's "constant chaos" this could be seen as Snivley's general distaste for his uncle as he continues to berate his obsessive behavior after Sally's robotization, but he grants no merit to the theory.
To further substantiate that he used this theory merely to cope, when collaborating with Dr. Wily he doesn't mention the idea of Sonic embodying chaos to himself or Wily; he never informs Wily of this theory despite their joined venture to defeat Sonic. He even goes so far as to say he thinks Mega Man might defeat Sonic in Sonic Universe 52. If he truly believed in this idea instead of it being a way to previously keep him sane, it would only make sense for him to factor it into their plan.
Even going beyond the idea of him using this idea to stay sane, his theory has a few holes.
His original explanation of the theory in issue 210 and his dialogue after losing a chaos emerald in issue 231 implies that he believes having more chaos energy is the basis for having reality work towards one's favor. This is fundamentally untrue as many characters with more chaos energy than Sonic have been defeated and in some cases such as the Ancient Walkers or Knuckles even died.
Sonic himself has also been defeated before. Most notably in issue 175 when he loses to Eggman directly. Scourge had also previously beaten him in combat in issues 161 and 165. According to Silver, he, along with the rest of the Freedom Fighters are defeated by a traitor at some point. Heck even in issue 39, a story that specifically references his aura, he's able to be knocked out and robotisized. Depending on how you interpret the end of Worlds Collide one could also say he "failed" since the multiverse was improperly restored.
Overall, the only aspect of Sonic's ring aura I agree with is that it protects his humanity (mobianity?) from being corrupted and when given more power can restore his humanity if lost. (or whatever, it unrobotisized him, you know what I mean)
Thank you for reading.
Edit: If my memory kicks in I'll add anything else I find relevant.
