Archie Sonic does not manipulate or bend fate...let me explain
Not a rant, but a debunk of sorts. Archie Sonic is a character and comic series I’m very knowledgeable on. I've been reading it since childhood and have made/helped on blogs for some characters (Sally and Tails). So I know my stuff, and earlier was cooking up an Eggman mu that people seemed to dig, and it made me think on this so I had to write it all down.
Simply put, Archie Sonic does not manipulate or bend fate to his will, what actually happened requires context, Mammoth Mogul infamously decides to wait Sonic out, and let him die of old age, due to the fact that he’s lost in Sonic’s presence, he assumes that the fates convene to save Sonic.
However, Mogul is wrong. What he doesn’t know is that the previous Emerald he had, was cursed by The Ancient Walkers, this curse ensured that Moguls grander schemes of power and conquest would always fail, and Mogul never learns about this.
Mogul has beaten Sonic before and even in this same issue he proclaims this fate hax, he defeated him. What Mogul never realsies is that he was cursed to fail, Sonic hasn’t even been the one to always defeat Mogul, there's been Tails, Sir Conerey, and even Sally.
However, if he had known, he would have planned things out a lot differently, considering he doesn’t have said emerald anymore.
Finally there’s Eggman’s claim of Sonic’s Fate Hax.
There just one problem with using this
EGGMAN WAS INSANE WHEN HE SAID THIS! Not just a few issues ago, Eggman got his ass handed to him by Sonic again! After already having destroyed Knotehole, conquered most of the world, and losing the Egg Grapes. Eggman was so pissed off about losing to Sonic, he went mad!
Rather than admitting that Sonic was just him, Eggman’s way of reasoning himself outta insanity was just ....fate or Chaos must have something to do with it! It's so stupid that Snively laughs, its not to be taken seriously, heck, it's the only thing that keeps Eggman’s grasp on his sanity whenever he loses going forward, he needs to believe in Chaos Theory, rather than Sonic just being his superior.
Eggman simply can’t be trusted, more so there's a huge flaw in Eggman’s argument, “Who has been more exposed to Chaos Energy than Sonic?”
Knuckles was literally fried with that stuff since birth, Shadow was made with it (hell he can tap into THE ENTIRETY OF THE CHAOS FORCE IN BASE)
AND TAILS IS THE MOTHERFREAKING CHOSEN ONE, WHO COMBINED MILLIONS OF EMERALDS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE INTO SEVEN, AND BEAT MASTER MOGUL!
(I’m sorry you had to see this)
The same Mogul who did this:
Sonic is unironically not the top dawg of his verse, he’s up there, but not at the top, Knuckles, Shadow, and Tails have better argos for being the Embodiment of Chaos than Sonic, and no one theorizes about them having fate hax…cause it's dumb.
My biggest issue with it all is that I have a friend, loves Sonic, but won't give Archie a chance because of this Sonic never struggles and fate bends to him anyway so he never loses, something he got from the DB.
Archie Sonic was…is OP…..but he’s not unstoppable, he got his ass handed to him a lot, he did struggle with Eggman. His whole life he’s been a child soldier fighting for the home he once had, he’s seen friends come and go, worlds destroyed, friends killed, hell his girlfriend died, he saved her, just for her to get roboticized.
In his future, he finally got the happy ending that he craved, but because he got bored with being King and missing adventure he foolishly took on a quest that ended up screwing with time and erasing 25 years of his history, including his kids, essentially he got Shrek four’d but this time for keeps. He got his wife back, and his kids were eventually reborn but he lost much of his life, and learned not to take what he had for granted.
This fate bends to him nonsense, devalues his character and makes him less cool. When in fact he is cool, way past cool! He’s so badass that gods and emperors would rather admit he has fate on his side than accept the truth that he’s just him. Thx for reading.