Why Archie Sonic is the Best Sonic - Character Analysis

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

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

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

Archie Sonic is him, plain and simple

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Sonic doesn't make threats. He makes promises.

You can see Flynn's influence through the back half of the Archie comics, and he 's clearly trying to do something similar with IDW Sonic. The only problem is he's kind of hampered by the "canon" of the games and dealing with the outlines he's been given by SEGA. But he's still doing his best. He legitimately wants to help even his enemies, including Eggman and Metal Sonic. And during the end of the Mecha Virus arc, you get to see his frustration with Metal, wherein Metal had a chance to reform, but chose to go back to Eggman, but Sonic gets a bit of catharsis with Scrapnik Island. I guess the biggest flaw is that IDW has only been running for not even a quarter of the time Archie Sonic has, so they haven't gotten to build up that rich history and rapport with the readers that makes Archie Sonic so endearing. I'm hoping we get to see more of it in the future and that SEGA loosens the leash on Flynn, because he's far and away the best Sonic writer.

That arc with Silver after Antoine nearly bit the dust. Oh, man. I don't blame Sonic for acting this way. After all the crap the team just went through, this just showed his breaking point.

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

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.

You can really feel the passion behind this video, and overall the video flows extremely well. It also has a quality I can't name, it's inspirational, yes, but it's something greater than that, it radiates a feel good energy that's infectious. Even though I just finished it, I want to rewatch it. Major thumbs up. Keep doing what you love.