When Eggman ALMOST Beat Sonic during the Metal Virus | IDW Sonic History

[@P-P-Panda]

Really enjoyed this video!! Aaa it was so nice to listen to during work. 💖 you make learning about the comics so fun

[@FantasticSamtastic]

Awww I love this! Thank you so much, you absolutely made my day!

[@sharlockshacolmes9381]

"please don't, miss whisper" damn that comma is load bearing Cream

[@ACreatureCalledSilvah]

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[@springtrap9038]

lets all agree that, no matter how crazy it gets, IDW sonic comics can be full of surprises, even though archie is older, the metal virus, scrapnik island, and many more IDW sonic stories go nuts (like super mecha sonic)

[@apoole54]

I find it really sweet that egg man fuse himself as a father figure to metal sonic

[@FantasticSamtastic]

Same!

[@nekohallowking4762]

The fact he still sees metal as one of if not his greatest achievements is a testament to both his pride and metal’s capabilities

[@smoogieboogie1694]

It didn't seem like you're aware, so I thought I'd let you know. One of the annuals (I think 2020) was set during this arc and told a number of stories about the fallout of the metal virus that filled in some blanks. One is about how Jewel got infected, one is about how Vector and Espio retrieved zombot Charmy, one is set a bit before the Metal Virus where we see Starline's first hints of falling out with Eggman, and one is nearly completely without dialogue and focuses on Metal Sonic. But the main and longest story in the annual tells the story of how Big and Froggy became infected. And it's genuinely heartbreaking. You should check it out.

[@FantasticSamtastic]

Thanks! I'll have to look into that

[@agentomecha634]

The Metal Virus arc was what really got me invested into the IDW Comics. Everything from the art to the writing to the overall plot was great. Flynn even managed to make Zavok and the Deadly Six of all characters interesting. Obviously, the comic is not perfect and is heavily regulated by SEGA (especially compared to the late Archie Comics), but it still manages to tell great and compelling stories. And in my opinion, it only gets better from here. One of my favorite characters from this arc has to be Gemerl. It’s great to see him live on in the comics after Advance 3. His interactions with Cream are really great; whether it be protecting her or staying by her side until she was better.

[@FantasticSamtastic]

Same! This was one of my favourite Sonic comics of all time. The stakes actually feel high, there's pressure, Eggman gets betrayed and everyone is portrayed so epically

[@sonicmario64]

Cream actually was able to use the Spin Dash in "Sonic Advance 2", which is the game in which she made her debut in, and I also liked how her ears are able to stick out in her ball form just like in the exact same manner of Tails with his own two tails sticking out in his ball form.

[@saidi7975]

This Eggman is very similar to Flynn's pre reboot Archie Eggman. And that is how I love my Robotnik !

[@camerondalton1495]

A lot of the sonic characters call Sonic out for letting Eggman live, but do they attempt to follow through on trying to kill him after this arc?

[@FantasticSamtastic]

Easier to talk the talk than walk the walk

[@jjohnson2445]

​@@FantasticSamtastic I bet sonic ended up in the sol dimension aka blazes dimension

[@RandomDude1487]

A.K.A “Eggman steals ideas from hit video game Just Shapes and Beats, lives to regret it”

[@Autisticguywithacamera]

This was one of the darkest arcs, like a Sonic version of The Walking Dead. Those zombots were so freaky.

[@videogame_nerd]

My favorite part of this arc was the annual mini-story “reflections”, I love that this gives metal sonic more characterization than just eggman robot in the shape of sonic. The mini story seems to show that metal finally figures out that he will, and never will be, the real Sonic

[@FloobusGoobus26]

Sonic forces was the time sonic almost first lost to eggman. The metal virus on the other hand was the time sonic almost lost to the weakest sonic villains ever.

[@CyberweaverVT]

Giga Zavok should have been the final boss of Lost World

[@brandonloe6232]

I wonder if the Deadly Six could have been infected?

[@beastmaster0934]

They made it seem like that was a possibility in a few scenes, like Zom-Om and Zeens getting surrounded by zombots.

[@diemandtheanimatronicwolf]

I've always craved a darker Sonic story. I grew up with the bleak hopelessness of SATam and the countless grim .EXE stories but I always wanted something official. The Metal Virus arc was so thrilling and dark, and I love it so much. I'd love to get my hands on these comics one day, but this video will do. Awesome work to you and your editor!

[@Xavierstudios-su1is]

This might be affective or not but the zombies regenerate with the silver goo, so that means the only way to stop them is only death. The zombies are liquid metal, so in order to kill them is by cold temperature to freeze them and just break them to pieces. But there might be a 30% chance that the zombie after being broken to pieces might regenerate from melting. And there is another chance after broken to pieces it might stay there and NOT regenerate and just become like a corrosive liquid that cannot be touched. Like the acid blood from alien

[@EpicGamerSkull]

0:41 the way she drew tangle though 😭

[@golem6494]

I love the sonic comic

[@FantasticSamtastic]

Same!

[@The_enderknight-]

Keep going you great mf

[@FantasticSamtastic]

Thanks so much!

[@zeehero7280]

Metal sonic in robot voice: "YES. YELL AT ME HARDER. DADDY." 🤣

[@yakiraarellano6297]

0:46 drawing by cream it so cute detail

[@brainstormsurge154]

I could imagine that a localized and stable version that turns only one organism and can't infect anything else would essentially be this version's robotization. As for Shadow getting infected, I'm kind of surprised they didn't try to play with that given that he has immortal alien DNA and whatnot. Like, why not mutate into a super robot zombie that starts to command other zombies and we get Emperor Robot Zombie Shadow or something.

[@goku3460]

So …. Why didn’t sonic and silver just go super with the master emerald? I refuse to believe they couldn’t

[@FantasticSamtastic]

it would be kinda busted if they could.

[@Vrabsher_-Supreme_Perhinther-]

​@@FantasticSamtasticIn Sonic 3 & Knuckles , when you play as Knuckles whose story is an epilogue to the main Sonic & Tails campaign , the final boss is Mecha Sonic who survived the fight against Sonic and in the second phase of the battle of Knuckles VS Mecha Sonic , Mecha Sonic uses the Master Emerald to go Super .

[@goku3460]

@@Vrabsher_-Supreme_Perhinther- i knew i remembered seeing it happen somewhere thank you

[@Vrabsher_-Supreme_Perhinther-]

@@goku3460 No problem .

[@DMlTREl]

From what i remember in this comic they didn't do it because of risk of angel island falling

[@Toughmaster245]

Silvers a buzzkill, the future is allways bad

[@Gerik75]

Can we just consider that Game!Eggman has for one time, almost succese at destroy the world with something HE creat, not by some mcguffins he found or some one-off entities he wanted to control? And that Sonic was few seconds away from total defeat? I just wanted to says that when Eggman can be scary and creat some dangerous things like the others things he created later in the comics just by himself make me wish we could see that version of Eggman in the games instead of just be a bumbling harmless baddy we had for over 10 years. I make to hear Mike Pollock be scary.

[@FantasticSamtastic]

I would give so much to hear Mike Pollock read some of Eggman's darker dialogue from the comics lol. The comics have always done such a good job at really illustrating that he's a force to be reckoned with

[@jjohnson2445]

​@@FantasticSamtastic vanilla is scary as a zombot

[@g.masterlordoftheg-force4770]

But Eggaman has won before. He won in the intro to Sonic Unleashed. Against Super Sonic no less.

[@squee-g1658]

@@g.masterlordoftheg-force4770 eggman technically won in riders

[@Statue_idk]

One sonar ping would prob fucking give every robot a brain hemmorage or melt their litteral brain😂 submarine solos😭

[@pedroortiz5202]

Wow