Sonic's WORST Girlfriend - Fiona Fox

This month I received...

I did not expect to talk about Fiona Fox for this long, but here we are. Archie Sonic has done mysterious things to my mind.

TIME STAMPS:
00:00:00 - Introduction: Who was Fiona Fox?
00:03:59 - How Fiona Fox Became an Unexpected Fave

Music list (in order):
Bright Sound (Dry Lagoon) from Sonic Adventure 2
I'm a Spy (Security Hall) from Sonic Adventure 2
Wehrmut by Godmode
Cyber Space 2-5: Deja vu from Sonic Frontiers
Cyber Space 4-5: Arrow of Time
Theme of Fiona Fox by me

[Lowart]

Hey there, folks! Hope you enjoy the video. Apologies for the wait on this one, but I've been spending time working on more non-YouTube work recently. Either way, I'm definitely going to keep talking about Archie Sonic (and other stuff), even if my output has been slower.

[cassiapeian]

I think Fiona is so tied to Scourge because to her he is genuine. Genuinely an asshole, but as a result very predictable and thereby safer than waiting for the good guys to eventually "betray" her for not being 100% good.

[kingbash]

Every Sonic.EXE story that begins with Tails getting brutally tortured and/or murdered wishes they can destroy him as badly as Fiona did.

[tridek]

I dunno. Say what you will about his various love interests, but I still think Sonic's worst relationship is with his writers, lol.

[e.sanghvi]

Video Title- "Sonic's WORST Girlfriend"

Video Contents- A spirited and compelling defense of a character I've only ever seen get dunked into the trash-can so hard the air-friction caused her fur to ignite.

[katerinaaar]

Ian Flynn did reveal that eventually, he wanted Fiona to realise her dependency on Scourge and their unhealthy relationship. This would lead her to betray Scourge and take over the Destructix.

Considering that Anti-Silver had been in the works around the time the comic was forced to reboot, with only concepts about him still shuffling around that all we know was that his name would have been Sterling — I have a feeling that Scourge getting betrayed by his girlfriend would have led him to encounter Anti-Shadow and Anti-Silver, sort of forming his own trio of villains.

It's speculation at best but it would have been SO COOL!

Even though I do like Scourge and Fiona as a couple. Ah well. That's what fan fics are for X3

[bf]

I love that Fiona consistently makes bad choices not because she doesn't know they're bad—instead, she projects her perception that do‑gooders are moral hypocrites onto anyone who tries to tell her she's making bad choices and then doubles down out of spite.

[AkuTenshiiZero]

There's something strangely logical about someone with trust issues gravitating towards someone like Scourge. If you know for certain that you can't trust someone, then that becomes a sort of twisted form of trust.

[nickammann]

it really feels like Fiona and Scourge's relationship ends up being the exact mirror of what Sonic has with Amy. She gets acknowledged and helps out scourge a lot but he still sidelines her while not completely killing the tension of "will they?" Its like the same kind of cat and mouse situation but toxic, which is appropriate for Scourge

[couchalmark]

When you describe it like that, Fiona's accidental ending feels a lot like the ending of The Sopranos, where it's not necessarily that Tony died, but that Tony's going to spend every day of the rest of his life with that tension hanging over him and will never know peace.

[Alabaster-White]

I do like the idea of "The girl saved herself and she turned out worse for it." Kinda funny in todays context in a meta sense flipping the whole empowerment thing on it's head, but I feel like it really emphasizes why some people that need help shouldn't be left behind. It's been a minute since I read that arc though so I will need to re-read to see how much of it was source or Ian recontextualizing.

[wanderer]

A fun little detail I noticed while watching this video about Fiona's outfit after she joins Scourge is that while her clothes change to be more edgy/tuff/aggressive she still retains her cutesy yellow bow in her hair. It makes for a fun anachronism and also possible has some implications about her character.

[danielzogbi]

Talking about the reboot always makes me sad. It's just so much more final and complete than any other reboot. Those characters aren't just gone or dead. They've been so thoroughly erased that they can't even be mentioned or even be memories to others in their own universe or the wider Sonic universe. True, uncompromised oblivion.

[MAJR]

Archie's take on Silver DEFINITELY needs a video, practically salvaged his whole character.

Dr. Finitevus and Mina would be good as well.

[luigibigbro]

Man. Poor little Tails he always suffers so much, from being bullied almost his whole life. To the Fiona Situation, Then his whole arc in Frontiers about Self-Doubt. Dont even get me started on the EXE Games.
Edit: I just remembered about Cosmo’s death (WHICH BY THE WAY WAS CAUSED BY TAILS) and Tails’ uselessness from Colors to Forces. GIVE OUR YELLOW BOY MORE RESPECT.

[samuelrodriguez]

Actually, Fiona wasn't left behind they almost saved her but Robotnik got away with her because Mighty started tearing up the place once Ray disappeared into a pocket-zone. Fiona was just looking for someone to blame.

[TheSFMWonderer]

You can’t help but feel bad for Fiona. Yes, she ended up being a terrible person, but that’s only because Robotnik, not Eggman, the original Robotnik, left her trapped, and Sonic and co never found her, leaving her to believe they abandoned her, and causing her to the dark side, maybe if they had found her, she would’ve been her old self.

[takeshikujo]

You know, if it wasn’t for the mandate Sega has on Shadow, I can totally see him rebutting Fiona’s “You can’t count on anybody” with:

“That’s just what weak people say to give themselves a reason to keep running.”

I would pay cold hard cash to see that and Fiona’s reaction to it! 💵 💸💰💴

[mainmanstan]

One of the greatest moments in all of archie sonic for me was when Sally walkes straight up to Fiona and GUT CHECKS HER.

[bwells]

Everything around Scourge, including Fiona, feels like an encapsulation of Ian Flynn’s writing.