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It only manipulated Sonic to escape Cyber Space. By the time of the final boss the ruse was finished, it had escaped. Barring your assumption that it was just talking out if its ass to convince Sonic to give up (which is just a headcanon to be frank) we have no reason to assume the statements it made during the boss was simply it being manipulative.
Once the seals (or “the locks” as The End refers to them as) were broken The End proceeded to “tear down the walls between dimensions” and escaped back into the universe. So yeah the seals presumably stopped The End from using its powers, as it was able to tear through space and time and escape Cyber Space when nothing was barring it from doing so.
Super Super beat The End because he’s superior to the Titans to an unknown extent + had a Titan backing him up.
My point was, if it was willing to be manipulative then, why not now?
I can believe there was truth to it, about it being stronger than the foes it saw through Sonic's memories, given the Titan scaling.
That said, if it isn't the case already, I would say it's worthwhile to assume it was trying to make Sonic give up.
It opens the speech by telling Sonic he's served his purpose. It questions what he can accomplish, makes belittling comparison about Sonic ("One little golden mote".) & the foes he's fought, calling them finite to its own infinite, it tells him he'll be consumed. It questions why his courage never wavered on past occasions.
I've no issue with interpreting The End's speech as genuine, as opposed to a bluff founded on lies or misinformation about superiority; The scaling makes sense for its claims to be true.
But The End always spoke to Sonic with purpose, & IDK why it wouldn't speak with purpose here as well. So even if it matters only for behaviour notes, I'd ask, isn't it likely that the purpose of its speech was to make Sonic despair/give up/surrender?
I can believe there was truth to it, about it being stronger than the foes it saw through Sonic's memories, given the Titan scaling.
That said, if it isn't the case already, I would say it's worthwhile to assume it was trying to make Sonic give up.
It opens the speech by telling Sonic he's served his purpose. It questions what he can accomplish, makes belittling comparison about Sonic ("One little golden mote".) & the foes he's fought, calling them finite to its own infinite, it tells him he'll be consumed. It questions why his courage never wavered on past occasions.
I've no issue with interpreting The End's speech as genuine, as opposed to a bluff founded on lies or misinformation about superiority; The scaling makes sense for its claims to be true.
But The End always spoke to Sonic with purpose, & IDK why it wouldn't speak with purpose here as well. So even if it matters only for behaviour notes, I'd ask, isn't it likely that the purpose of its speech was to make Sonic despair/give up/surrender?