Why Archie Sonic is the Best Sonic - Character Analysis

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Birthday Boys - 00:23
Basically, Sonic is Really Cool - 02:38
The Kindness of Sonic - 7:24
The Ego of Sonic - 8:47
The Impatience of Sonic - 14:09
“The Kid Worships Me” - 16:17
Living by My Own Feelings - 20:57
Sonic and Sally - 25:48
“That’s Right! It Explodes!” - 32:32
Sonic the “Good Guy” - 36:03
The Freedom Fighters are Done- 40:34
A New Sonic - 42:05
Best Part of the Video - 44:59

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Music Used
Cutscene: Trapped from Sonic Frontiers
Vandalize (Instrumental) from Sonic Frontiers
Wave Ocean (The Inlet) from Sonic 06
Sonic Appears from Sonic 06
Theme of Sonic the Hedgehog (E3 2006 Version) from Sonic 06
Cyberspace 3-2: Go Slap from Sonic Frontiers
Cutscene: Face-off from Sonic Frontiers
It Doesn't Matter (Acoustic Version)
Beyond the Speed Of from Sonic Runners
Theme of Dr. Eggman from Sonic Adventure
Live and Learn (Instrumental) from Sonic Adventure 2
Accordion Song from Sonic 06
Cutscene: Sealing from Sonic 06
Deeper (Death Chamber) from Sonic Adventure 2
Quartz Quadrant Present (JP/EU) from Sonic CD
Blacksmith from Sonic and the Black Knight
Gallery from Sonic Generations
Fighting Onward - Space Port from Sonic Forces
Go Quickly! from Sonic Runners
Fly Away from Sonic Runners
End of Summer from Sonic Runners
Final Boss (Death Egg Robot Phase 3) from Sonic Forces
Dr. Eggman Appears from Sonic 06
Event: Eggman's Plot from Sonic 06
Theme of Dr. Eggman from Sonic 06
Cutscene: Inextinguishable Doubt from Sonic Frontiers
We Can (Theme of Team Sonic) from Sonic Heroes
I'm with you from Sonic Frontiers

[alfredade]

I’ve finally found my people and I’m about to cry

[patrickbuckley]

Dude literally turned the "you could end up like me" around on the bad guy.

I love that.

[adamshadow]

"He's way past cool." Fucking bars. No cap, all facts. He cooked, we ate. No crumbs left. Amazing.

[plasticlance]

Archie Sonic is him, plain and simple

[DarthFhenix]

The emphasis Sonic puts in his family make me think he's really the Fast and Furious.

[MagnusOrkzyd]

Eggman's plan in this comic cannot be understated in it's brilliance. When he finally stopped worrying about Sonic so much, he got the closest he had ever been to finally achieving victory.

[thomashutchings]

"Are you him? ARE YOU HIM?"

Archie Sonic "I'm him"

[jessiebell]

Sonic doesn't make threats.

He makes _promises._

[kingbash]

Archie may have it's little quirks, but their version of Sonic remains one of my favorites. He has all the typical behavior you'd expect from the blue blur, but he also has some shockingly potent emotional scenes you wouldn't get elsewhere. Like seeing Sonic get so genuinely irritated at Eggman that he broke his own speed limit in the Egg Grape arc will forever stick in my mind as one the rawest moments in the franchise.

[BrazilianDreemurr]

This Sonic is the type to say "Nah, I'd win" and automatically be correct anyways.

[daltooinewestwood]

Eggmans elation at finally managing to kill one of Sonics friends (Antoine) is even more disturbing and evil when you remember that Eggman has already killed Tommy the turtle at this point in the timeline. Meaning that Eggman cares so little about the lives of the mobians, that he didn’t even REMEMBER having already killed one of sonics friends

[spinceiling]

Whenever I say that Sonic is my favourite character of all time, I know it's mainly because of this interpretation. Thanks for reminding me why I was so obsessed with these comics. Great video

[HeroesRiseUp]

While I don’t exactly agree on Archie Sonic being the best Sonic, I have to say you’ve opened eyes to appreciating Archie Sonic in a new way. Wonderful analysis!! :D

[thatboi_nugget]

“You better hope you can run faster than me” that’s a cold ass line

[Nathana]

“If anyone *_isn’t_* okay, then you better hope you can run faster than me” is such a cold line😭

[kiramedifoundfaker]

i really like this Sonic because he's an imperfect teen a lot of the time. He has emotional outbursts, he can be a total dork, he gets sad, empathetic, he cries, in a way that "evergreen" Sonic doesn't usually. I really love his relationship with Sally because it felt like they were helping each other through the worst the world (and themselves) had to dish out. One thing I always loved about the "americanon" is it's focus on smaller character moments, it's part of why post reboot Archie wasn't appealing to me, sure it was the freedom fighters, but they weren't fighting for their freedom.

[CalebRazzleberry]

There needs to be more Archie Sonic content online, because this video blew everything I’ve ever seen about it out of the water. No stupid fixations on “sOniC hAs tOo manY friendS” or knuckle’s family line or the romantically obsessive tabloid plot era. You wrote this to purely be fixated on the tragic, comedic, Shakespearean literature that is Archie Sonic. And every second of this video had be grinning from ear to ear. Thank you for this, and I mean it.

[Alabaster-White]

I get the argument that "sonic isn't supposed to cry because thats not his character" in the videogames, but I just really enjoy that for a character that lives in the moment is shown as vulnerable when he is faced with situations that he can't outrun or has to work with others and realizes how bad he can mess up. IT actually makes me want to see him turn everything around himself or with help from his friends and be heroic. I also just really enjoy the Freedom fighters and all the archie sonic characters giving a complex tree of character relationships beyond just the "teams" that the games tend to keep. I'm also Glad IDW has been exploring sonics interactions with more character though he still feels too close to his modern videogame counterpart.

[sth]

The fact that Sonally had all these adorable moments and the fact that there’s no slowing sonic but the fact that he WANTS to for Sally and him to run side by side makes me support the ship even more and if they bring her back in IDW, and they get right back to having those adorable moments, im gonna shed tears

[GlicheGaming]

So glad the hard work Ian Flynn and the other crew put into fleshing out these characters is being recognized in such a way. I’ve always thought it was so damn impressive how complex and interesting these characters could be.