The Many Rivals of Sonic The Hedgehog

A Comprehensive Guide to Sonic's many Rivalries
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[@MorsImmortalix]

The songs at the end of the video are on this channel! forgot to mention it in the description

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK.

[@jamiegioca9448]

Surge: Has any of your friends not tried to waste you? Sonic: Look, once you get to know me, I’m very likable.

[@Clqmps]

i fucking love sonic

[@sneax3739]

Likewise 😮‍💨

[@eggynuts7735]

I love fucking Sonic

[@SussyMccranberry]

I LOVE KIDS

[@Morbius-Tension]

Growing up with this franchise is one of the best feelings

[@shariabd]

real

[@OrangeToadGamer]

Jet in a Sonic's Rivals battle when everyone around him starts to glow/charge up: 😨😱

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

GREAT VIDEO.

[@Morbius-Tension]

Sonics rivals are one of the best part of the series characters like Knuckles,Shadow, and Blaze are mostly known everywhere and talked about as their favorite characters

[@marshadowhero5807]

Mans rocking that entire opp list

[@MrREWITESONIC25]

0:57 it looks like knukle punch metal sonic 😂😂

[@aaronferguson3169]

I really really really wish the great old times continued majorly. Sorry if no one here knows, but I would ask the world if I could what happened. Sonic and his friends had such great stories with their rivals in 3D action, gameplay, cutscenes, and stuff. For example in my opinion, Jet, Wave, and Storm were interesting characters as racing rivals of Sonic and his friends. Oh come on, please, it has been so, so long.

[@drybonesmunchakoopas5143]

scourge is goated

[@Superjetski456]

Facts

[@luiiiiiiiiiiigi]

Super Mario Bros Z had the best Mecha Sonic

[@ashesGeek]

Honestly, out of all characters listed here Scourge, Swifty and also Jet are the only ones who can be called true Sonic rivals. Like, Scourge's whole life purpose is to prove he's the best version of Sonic until he realized he must be his own thing.

[@topleftcornr_anims9862]

I think Metal Sonic qualifies too

[@taecampus]

So for Sonic's rivals, we have: Metal Sonic - Robot Sonic Shadow - Dark Sonic Blaze - Alternate Sonic Jet - Air Sonic/Bird Sonic Silver - Future Sonic Scourge - Anti Sonic Surge - Clone Sonic/Anti Sonic again ..... & Knuckles 😂

[@LowQualitySpamtonDeltarune]

All Sonic Rivals are good in their own way (except Surge) but Metal Sonic is still the best, because he is literally an evil sonic, unlike Shadow, who are just from their appearance

[@LynxWind]

What is wrong with Surge? I don’t see any big issues with her character.

[@LowQualitySpamtonDeltarune]

@@LynxWind She doesn't feel like a Sonic Rival, she doesn't do anything that affects him and it feels like that Sonic is her Rival, rather his

[@unkownunkown2420]

Surge is still good as a character. Not only that but at one point surge was trying to rival sonic. That’s not the case anymore but a lot of Sonic’s rivals don’t really rival sonic anymore

[@Axxidous]

The funniest thing about the thumbnail is that all of those characters are essentially clones of Sonic. And they are all referred to as his rivals, even though they aren’t really rivals. but the one clone that actually is his rival, in fact it’s his entire character placement, is not in the thumbnail. Jet the Hawk. lol

[@nithinshakthithiruppathi4028]

Yea, Blaze, Knux and Shadow are Sonic clones. What a huge disservice to all of their characters to say that. Even Surge.

[@Axxidous]

@@nithinshakthithiruppathi4028 Bo it’s actually not a disservice at all. I mean Shadow’s whole schtick is that he’s a Sonic clone as is Metal Sonic’s. In different ways of course. Metal Sonic, in universe, is meant to be a robot copy of him. Shadow, in real life, is meant to be based on Sonic so that, in universe, they come off as alternate versions of each other even if by coincidence (or maybe not coincidence if the mural theory is true). Blaze is supposed to be Sonic’s equivalent from another dimension. And Knuckles is literally based on another spiked animal that roles into a ball, and when he runs in both classic and modern games he runs in the same pose as Sonic. He’s supposed to be the Sonic if Sonic were more strength-based. Even if you look at SegaSonic Arcade and see Mighty and Ray run alongside him, it’s just a red Sonic who’s strong and a yellow Sonic who can fly. So…. Tails-Sonic and Knuckles-Sonic. Even Amy was just the pink girl Sonic. She changed her hair and had her own personality but now, as much as I hate how generic they’ve decided to try and make her, her personality bio sounds like a description of Sonic. It’s not a disservice. It’s a theme. There’s meaning behind it. There’s a little bit of Sonic in everyone.

[@LynxWind]

@@Axxidous They are much more than Sonic clones. You are saying it isn’t a disservice to these characters, but really it kind of is. What you are saying is that all of these characters are clones of Sonic. If it’s gameplay your talking about, then yes a lot of them control the same, but then wouldn’t Jet, the character you are saying isn’t a clone of Sonic, be a clone? These characters aren’t something you can just say are clones of Sonic, as that can be said to be a disservice to them.

[@Axxidous]

@@LynxWind It’s obvious they are much more than Sonic clones. No one said they weren’t. And I’m saying it isn’t a disservice because it’s not since them being clones isn’t an insult of a lack of originality or individuality. It’s a conscious decision made with a theme in mind. I just described plain and clear how each of them are clones. There’s no denying it. I don’t understand what you mean by “if it’s gameplay you’re talking about” unless you skipped over what I already wrote. lol And I’m NOT saying Jet isn’t a clone of Sonic. Bruh look at their promo art in Riders 1. Jet is literally Sonic as a bird. They even did what they did with Evil Sonic aka Scourge in the comics and just swapped the body and eye color. The Babylon Rogues as a whole are clearly each inspired by Team Sonic but skewed. You’re actually providing a disservice to my original comment which said that all the characters in the thumbnail are Sonic Clones and considered rivals, but none of them are ACTUAL true rivals to Sonic except the one Sonic clone that’s not in the thumbnail: Jet. He is a Sonic clone who is not in the thumbnail and is the only one who is TRULY just a rival to Sonic. Everyone’s else is a friend, an enemy, ally. Frienemy, but they all have other unique dynamics to their relationship. But Jet’s relationship and dynamic with Sonic is literally 100% “RIVAL”. He’s the only one whose sole existence is to compete with Sonic for competition’s sake.

[@Tokyo_inVR]

Blaze is the best one for me

[@clasherinotheone5249]

So many rivals and Metal Sonic is still the best after all these years Also he is the only real rival besides Jet that sonic has

[@LynxWind]

Please look into Shadow, Knuckles, and Surge, as you aren’t exactly correct on the part that he only has 2 rivals.

[@clasherinotheone5249]

@@LynxWind knuckels and sonic are just friends these days Sonic and shadow literally don’t fight anymore really haha and shadow is also way more interesting as his own character and not the rival aspect Jet and Metal sonic still actively seek challenge against sonic

[@Superjetski456]

I beg to differ, the best rivals in the entire franchise is between shadow and blaze, if scourge was in the main series id argue he would also be one of the greatest

[@Superjetski456]

​@@LynxWindsurge is not even a threat to sonic as what he did to her in there first encounter was light work

[@LynxWind]

@@clasherinotheone5249 I more or less mean that their personalities and their motives clash a lot. Also, to be fair you aren’t wrong about Sonic and Knuckles, but they have fought so many times in the past that you kind of have to say that he is a rival to Sonic, or at least used to be. Not Sonic and Shadow is another story, as yes they don’t fight as much anymore, but it they have a disagreement, they are just as likely to fight it out as they would to just talk about it. Also, the idea that Shadow is more interesting as his own character, which I do agree with in games such as Sonic 06, doesn’t really mean anything in the case you are describing. The main thing to know about Shadow is that while he may look like Sonic in some ways, but is considered the Yang to Sonic’s Yin, as while they are both heroes, they both have their own styles to doing things. Not saying that’s all their is to Shadow’s character, as their is so much more to him than that, but that is what I mean by saying that he is still Sonic’s rival.

[@NotDynimiteDuck]

D-DID YOU JUST...FORGET...[CHAOS FROM THE HIT GAME SONIC ADVENTURE FOR THE FLOP CONSTOLE THE SEGA DREAMCAST AND FROM A PORT OF THE HIT GAME SONIC ADVENTURE GOING TO THE HIT CONSTOLE THE NINTENDO GAMECUBE AND CHANGING THE HIT NAME SONIC ADVENTURE TO THE HIT GAME SONIC ADVENTURE DX DIRECTORS CUT?]

[@MonkeManKam]

Erm what about Fang the sniper ☝️🤓

[@valtaoi9334]

Silver is form sonic the Hedgehog(2006)

[@dralx2042]

3:19 so we pretending '06 didn't exist? Bet

[@eggynuts7735]

Whats that supposed to be

[@toadboi8026]

Sonic is so coollllllllllllll

[@Superjetski456]

Blaze is the best sonic rival oat

[@user-mm6yz9cm2o]

Where are Emerl, Gemerl, Turbo (from Fleetway Comics), Shade?

[@oghcuteanimationhq5121]

You forgot Fleetway

[@NotDynimiteDuck]

does jhonny from sonic rush adventure count and also you forgot chaos 0 and mephiles cuz u skipped 06

[@shifturret]

Chaos and Mephiles are villains not rivals, but i did forget about johnny

[@NotDynimiteDuck]

@@shifturret ah ok

[@tracyanngaskin7198]

Scourge isnt canon!!! And also ova is technically archie so it isnt canon

[@shifturret]

Ova isn’t Archie it’s its own thing

[@ashesGeek]

"Scourge isn't canon". Who the fuck cares? Get out of here with this gatekeeping

[@mrmelonman2893]

Nigga nobody gives af and ova isnt archie

[@sugarsmile7852]

You forgot sonic the comic and if you want to a include rival then it's super sonic

[@shifturret]

Doesn’t count because 1. Super Sonic/Fleetway is just straight up evil and 2. Is in the same body as Sonic so they can’t rival each other

[@mrme.484]

King Sonic from the mirror zone?

[@tracyanngaskin7198]

Aos isnt canon satam and underground is not canon sonic x isnt canon

[@shifturret]

Never said anything about canon, just talking about Sonic media in general

[@ashesGeek]

​@shifturret Sonic fans are just always getting butthurt if someone mentions something that's not the games even if the point isn't talking about canon.

[@IsaiasBoyce]

Does Johnny from Sonic Rush Adventure count?

[@SAGEtheGOD01]

Scourge ain't canon, let alone relevant at all

[@shifturret]

At the beginning of the video i said rivals across all sonic media, meaning canon and non canon

[@Mark_theDemon]

So many fakers

[@seematahir5970]

Skipping 06 was really lame tbh, that's like the only Sonic game where Silver had an interesting story and character moments

[@shifturret]

That’s the joke

[@seematahir5970]

@@shifturret Why do yall gotta do my boy so dirty 💔

[@eggynuts7735]

​@@seematahir5970average sonic fan... most likely glazes sonic 2, sa 1 and 2, and frontiers like any fan

[@LynxWind]

It may have been a joke, but it sure as heck didn’t land, and it just felt like hating on the game just to hate on it. Plus, the Silver part of things were done really well, so I just feel like it didn’t make any sense on not putting it in. Also, you didn’t even mention his abilities.

[@shifturret]

Nah sonic 3 better