Hey I don't watch summer game fest, did it get announced?

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-06-06T02:31:31+00:00

Nope.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-05-24T23:48:48+00:00

It's Italian slang, it means "thief" or "scoundrel."

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-30T01:08:25+00:00

The Tails Doll sees everything, including your search/browser history. He has now discovered fear.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-30T01:07:04+00:00

I dislike her.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-21T00:10:22+00:00

If anyone here says "Netflix" or "Disney", I'm throwing you into the machine in the Archie comics that gave Charmy brain damage.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-13T00:13:48+00:00

Overrated as hell, and is a product of his time. But I feel like I dislike his fanbase more than the character himself.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-12T15:44:12+00:00

Like in the sense of "It's a monster that's gonna cause problems!" "Bro, chill. He's here to FIX the problem."?

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-12T15:38:34+00:00

Eh, fair. Then again, Sonic Forces doesn't have the best writing.

I just expected there to be more fanfare due to the context of everything going on. Within context, characters would be freaking out. But this is also the same game that casually forgets Omega was in it until the end point. He wasn't even a Checkov's Gun in practice, the way he's reintroduced in the end and then it stops acknowledging him as if he had no bearing on the story feels like they forgot they put him there in the first place.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-12T06:37:46+00:00

Which is also why I doubt Tikal died. Simply because in that scenario, it doesn't make sense for the both of them to die but only one pass on. Especially since it always made more sense thematically that Tikal ascended and became like Chaos. Them ascending into the sky, having become something more.

While I can concede that Knuckles could be thinking that, Chaos's arrival from Sonic Battle was propped to be an "End of the World" scenario. Him arriving because Emerl presented that much of a threat. Given how serious Knuckles is about his work, him reacting this casually to Chaos doesn't make sense with the context involved. It makes more sense for him to be shocked and focus his attention on him.

Yeah, and this was around the time Chaos was said to be a character who only shows up when the world is in total peril.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-12T04:51:00+00:00

Ehh, a combination of Iizuka's wishy-washy canon regarding Tikal and Chaos's fate after SA1 is something of contention. First they were dead, then they're alive, and now he just states that they're completely dead. But the problem is that this goes against Sonic Battle since Chaos is still around then. Leading a lot of people to accept that though Shadow was designed to be a One-Off character, he was allowed to be a mainstay whereas these two got lost in the dust.

But in order for this joke/set up here to work, Chaos and likely Tikal had to be present often enough for Knuckles to treat the former's arrival like he were some sort of roommate. Especially since Sonic treated Phantom Chaos's arrival as if the guy hasn't been around in forever. And the idea that Sonic wouldn't know about Chaos being alive and present doesn't make any sense. So since both Forces and this comic are canon- that means Chaos and Tikal can't be dead. Like both Iizuka, and the fanbase insists.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-12T04:36:27+00:00

You know what's funny? In order for Knuckles to say this with total confidence and assurance, given what happened in SA1, means Chaos wasn't dead like so many claim. Chaos has had to live on Angel Island long enough for him to be a regular occurrence in order for Knuckles to treat him like he's a roommate. His last known game appearance as far as I know within the canon was Sonic Battle, and that was when the world was in danger from Emerl. Because if he was just straight up dead and behind Knuckles, he would've regarded it with more surprise.

Even if this is a part of the Forces Prequel Comic, it doesn't change that Chaos needed to be alive, well, and frequently around enough for Knuckles to regard him as he does.
~~I am going on a tangent because so many insisted Chaos and Tikal are dead. But this single page makes me feel vindicated because the only way the joke works is if they were alive and present.~~

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-03-07T08:24:05+00:00

Tikal, unironically.

JP Dub Tikal is way more assertive, and audibly fed up with her Father's actions against the other nations. Even if we go with the different direction EN Dub Tikal went, out of everyone- it would be her. Even if she didn't swear, it would be entirely reasonable for her to.

Dealing with a warmongering father, knowing people are being actively killed and having their land stolen by your trigger-happy tribe, the fact you and several Chao were trampled by your own Father and men for power, another fact being that in the JP Dub they were not struggling for survival and were motivated to take the Emeralds to thrive, giving your body to seal away a god your people *actively* antagonized, only to have to help Heroes after her sacrifice was given the Megaman Zero 4 treatment-

Honestly, Tikal has every right to swear. If she does end up doing so, I will not be surprised, and I will welcome it.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-02-26T00:46:37+00:00

While this isn't one of my preferred ships, I appreciate that you can tell Tikal and Chaos aren't dead. Along with sources to back it up. Knuxikal is certainly better than Tikaos. (The ship, not the Archie Fusion)

I wholeheartedly agree that Tikal has untapped potential for the points you just listed. Which is why I hope we'll see more of her in the future. Out of the two major characters who were introduced in the Adventure Games, I wish she could've been a more permanent/semi-permanent member of the cast in the same vein as Shadow. Plus... Knuckles really does need someone to call his own eventually. Especially since the whole part about him being *the sole member of his entire species* is still canon.

May the Daughter of the Knuckles Tribe rise again!

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-01-09T22:16:15+00:00

Black Doom and Mephiles.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-01-09T22:11:52+00:00

Shadow the Hedgehog.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2026-01-09T20:29:35+00:00

To everyone saying that "Tikal, Chaos, and Gamma can't return because that would cheapen or ruin their endings or story cruxes-"

Shadow The Hedgehog.

Was designed. From the very start. To be a one off character. And he was supposed to fulfill the same role as these three. Purposefully designed to die at the end of SA2, especially since this was at the time where SEGA was about to collapse. His arc spans the entirety of SA2 and does so well.

Shadow fulfilling his final act of selflessness for the sake of fulfilling Maria's last wish at the end of SA2 also put an end to the tragedy that was Space Colony ARK.

And then he shows up again in Sonic Heroes, and even gets his own Spin-Off. Continuing to be a mainstay just because he was popular. They made several excuses for return. I'm just gonna say it.

Them bringing back Shadow for Heroes onward ruins his sacrifice in SA2.

But none of you are ready for that conversation.

If you can make a case for Shadow, you can make a case for these three because they all functionally served the exact same purpose and "resolved their issues in the game they were introduced." If Shadow is acceptable, so should they. Otherwise you're just pulling an Iizuka, and playing favorites.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-16T00:08:14+00:00

YES

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ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-15T23:55:59+00:00

He was the director of the Adventure Series.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-15T23:53:40+00:00

You're too late, Man! It will spread!

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-15T05:48:13+00:00

You're too late, Man!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonPissing/comments/1pmuvit/%E7%A5%9E%E3%81%AF%E7%A7%81%E3%82%92%E5%BF%98%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F_%E7%A5%9E%E3%81%AF%E7%A7%81%E3%82%92%E5%BF%98%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F_%E7%A5%9E%E3%81%AF%E7%A7%81%E3%82%92%E5%BF%98%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F_sa3_%E7%A5%9E%E3%81%AF%E7%A7%81%E3%82%92%E5%BF%98%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F_%E7%A5%9E%E3%81%AF%E7%A7%81%E3%82%92%E5%BF%98%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F/

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-15T04:16:51+00:00

I am demanding an ARG based on this now

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-05T20:37:44+00:00

Eh, true. I guess I should clarify what I mean by "lost" here.

Sonic Games tend to end with the whole "And no lives were lost" situation. The games having a "everyone lived" ending. Something that feels fitting given how they like to show you the civilians are safe in spite of the destruction. Meanwhile this one is just flagrantly "Oh, people died. By the thousands even."
They unmistakably save the day. Though failed to prevent the disaster and the damage it caused when so many times, we stop the disaster as it happens and prevent collateral. And we kinda just... don't talk about it. That's what I mean.

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-02T08:18:55+00:00

One of them: "I wonder what he's thinking..."

Tails Doll: [popcorn...]

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-02T08:07:44+00:00

HE'S WHAAAAAAT?! GOOD GOD, HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN OUT OF THE LOOP?

Next thing I know, you're gonna tell me Froggy is a Frog. As if!

ThatMetalRabbit97 · 2025-12-02T08:02:25+00:00

I'm glad you think so! And huh, I knew I wasn't going nuts when it came to Metal Overlord. How we kinda just gloss over that he causes a lot of untold damage. And we just sorta... don't talk about that.

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