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[[File:Sonic_the_Hedgehog_125_3041.jpg|frame|Sonic the Hedgehog #125, featuring [[Loads and Loads of Characters|a portion]] of the cast.]]

 

The US comic book based on the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' video game franchise, published monthly by [[Archie Comics]]. Not to be confused with the UK's ''[[Sonic the Comic]]''.

 

 

The backgrounds between the two were very similar at first: Dr. Robotnik had taken over the Kingdom of Acorn and had turned everyone into robots. He was opposed by the Freedom Fighters, a band of, well, freedom fighters that operated out of their secret base of Knothole. Sally Acorn was the leader while Sonic the Hedgehog was their main fighter. But almost immediately, the comic series started to make its own characters and plots, so even though there were "background" similarities between characters, their personalities and nearly every event made them wholly incongruent, despite some tie-in issues. (The cartoon was originally darker than the comic in tone, but under Ian Flynn's pen the comic approaches the general tone of season 2.)

** Snively doesn't think of himself as bald. Having about three hairs doesn't really count as a "full head of hair", but he's vain and deluded enough to think it does.

** ''Six'' hairs. That he's attached tracking devices (?!) to...

** Bunnie Rabbot D'Coolette after being deroboticized by Ixis Naugus.

* [[The Baroness]]: Lien-Da. She even has a [[Whip It Good|whip]]!

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Sonic Universe 17. Bunnie and Antoine setting up a tent. (Bonus for being their honeymoon.)

** In issue 8, Bunnie says she's the "sax cymbal" of the team. [[Sarcasm Mode|Gee, I wonder what that could refer to...]]

** He was a pretty interesting way to explain the creation of the Special Zone and the formation of the seven Chaos Emeralds, though.

* [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]: Snively plays hockey with Sonic in issue #33.

* [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]: Partially subverted in the comic itself; played straight with the Kingdom of Acorn.

* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Freedom Fighters, though it's temporarily subverted at different points in the series. This later comes back to bite the main characters in the tail when three of the disenfranchised former members of the Substitute Freedom Fighters become leaders in the government.

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Bunnie to Naugus in #173.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Dr. Finitevus believes that the world is hopelessly corrupt and must be "cleansed with emerald fire." He is utterly convinced of the righteousness of his position and quite willing to lay down his own life to achieve his aims.

** One particular example is M, Robotnik's android "daughter." She's a sunglasses wearing android [[Made of Iron]], who eventually gets her outer shell blown off to reveal a skeletal-looking body underneath. [[The Terminator|Now what does this remind you of?]] To add to it, there's the fact that she looks like a female version of Arnold.

** A supplemental piece of art for an earlier comic was also a [[Homage]] to Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''.

** [http://archiesonic.wikia.com/wiki/File:0archie_sugar_queen.JPG Think again,] [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Sugar-Queen!]]

** In issue #225, Eggman says, "[[The A-Team|I love it when a plan comes together!]]"

 

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