Awards
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To celebrate the end of The Ride™, anons voted on various categories. The results were released on June 10, 2022. The original post can be found here: desu, local.
Character awards
| Best twink (OC) | Total |
|---|---|
| Stripes the Raccoon - Heroes Come Back | 65 |
| Nax - Sonic Future AU | 52 |
| Buddy - Hangin’ Out | 47 |
| Gavin the Bat – Sea3on | 38 |
| Turbo - Sonic Second Chances | 36 |
No surprise here, it’s Stripes the Racoon! I wouldn’t mind buying him a coffee!
| Best twink (official) | Total |
|---|---|
| Silver - The Vulture | 58 |
| Infinite - Hangin’ Out | 50 |
| Sonic - Sonic Rift | 48 |
| Silver - Sonic Reborn | 38 |
| Tails - What binds us | 31 |
Despite being a delinquent and not technically a twink, Vulture!Silver’s won, making Stripes and Silver the official best twink couple!
| Best himbo | Total |
|---|---|
| Knuckles - Trick with the hat | 66 |
| Sonic - The Heart of a Monster | 59 |
| Silver - Eclipse | 55 |
| Kaze - Child’s Play/Teens Play | 44 |
I didn’t expect gay cowboy Knuckles to win best himbo, but I’m glad enough of you enjoyed the ~after dark~ storytime. Sorry THoaM!Sonic, maybe next time! Technically this Knuckles is bi, but you should check out the comic with Rouge to confirm!
| Best girl (OC) | Total |
|---|---|
| Jolt - Shadow and Jolt | 52 |
| Omelette - Eggman’s Player 2 | 51 |
| Sandy the caterkiller - Hangin’ Out | 34 |
| Lizzy - Adventures of Sonic/Mama Robotnik’s Daughter | 34 |
| Min - Alone Tales from the Emerald Coast | 32 |
| Sonia Rose - Sonic Next Dimension | 30 |
| Celeste - KissTheThunder | 18 |
Narrowly beating Omelette, it’s everyone’s favorite Shadow fangirl Jolt!
| Best girl (official) | Total |
|---|---|
| Amy - ArsworldS | 55 |
| Mama Robotnik - Adventures of Sonic/Mama Robotnik’s Daughter | 33 |
| Chasey the God of Destruction - Hangin’ Out | 31 |
| Pink Sally - Sally’s Inner Struggle | 28 |
| Sticks - Night of the Were-things | 28 |
| Hope Kintobor - Team Dark Supernova Odyssey | 23 |
| Shadow - Accidental Love/Chaos | 22 |
| Madonna - Various Chauvels comics | 21 |
With such a cute and comfy depiction of SonAmy, it’s no surprise ArsworldS!Amy won here.
| Best girl (psychotic) | Total |
|---|---|
| Tikal - Hangin’ Out | 71 |
| Nicole - Ghosts of the Future | 52 |
| Amy - The Other Side of Me | 43 |
| Amy - The Dark Doppels | 40 |
| Amy - Total Switch | 33 |
No surprise here either, it’s the erotically terrifying Hangin’ Out!Tikal!
| Hottest older Tails | Total |
|---|---|
| Brotherhood’s Twist | 49 |
| WWMH | 37 |
| Darkness Is Not All Black | 26 |
| Sonic the Hedgehog: Genesis | 22 |
| Flight lessons Miles | 21 |
| Accidental Love/Chaos | 20 |
| Sonic Rift updated design | 20 |
| Sonic Reborn | 19 |
| fotia-kouneli future AU | 18 |
Despite not having spider limbs or a dark compact with the Tails Doll, Brotherhood’s Twist!Tails has won here. I will concede he is pretty hot though.
| Best original villain | Total |
|---|---|
| Nax - Sonic Future AU | 40 |
| Rock-sama - Teaching of Fear | 39 |
| Zielo - The Murder of Me | 39 |
| Unnamed demon - Sonic and the Black Door | 36 |
| Ned - Night of the Were-Things | 23 |
| The .Exe virus - Darkness Is Not All Black | 22 |
| Bleak - Sonic the Hedgehog: Bleak circumstances | 21 |
Very close here, but it’s everyone’s favorite spider twink Nax!
| Best Out-Of-Character portrayal | Total |
|---|---|
| Tikal - Hangin’ Out | 49 |
| Mike the Metal Sonic - Hangin’ Out | 40 |
| King Max - Accidental Love/Chaos | 39 |
| Eggman - Chaos Diamonds 3 | 38 |
| Knuckles - Trick with the hat | 30 |
| Cream - nameless0404 comics | 26 |
| Sonic - AUB | 18 |
Tikal again, I love her so!
Comic awards
| Abandoned comic that hurts the most | Total |
|---|---|
| The Vulture | 49 |
| Stressed Out | 32 |
| Sonic and the Black Door | 26 |
| Spring is Here | 25 |
| Sally’s Inner Struggle/Rise of the Queen | 24 |
| Sonic Eggs | 22 |
| Sunset Rebels | 20 |
| Let me out roaring | 15 |
| World of Shining Stars | 15 |
| Jemy AU | 6 |
No surprise here, it seems we all have a delinquent Silver-shaped hole in our hearts. Congratulations to The Vulture, may you someday see a continuation in some form.
| Best edgy comic | Total |
|---|---|
| Scourge: Eternal Blackout | 40 |
| The Murder of Me | 37 |
| Blue Prisoner/Blue Murderer | 36 |
| Darkness Is Not All Black | 35 |
| WWMH | 30 |
| Sonic and the Black Door | 23 |
| Stressed Out | 22 |
| Save Sonic | 14 |
This one was a surprise. While an excellent comic, I never considered Scourge: Eternal Blackout particularly edgy.
| Best wholesome comic | Total |
|---|---|
| Brotherhood’s Twist | 38 |
| ArsworldS comics | 37 |
| Spring is Here | 36 |
| Child’s Play/Teens Play | 22 |
| Heroes Come Back | 20 |
| Sonic Frenzy | 20 |
| Endangered species rewrite | 14 |
| First meeting | 13 |
| Metal virus rewrite | 11 |
| Breaking The Code | 7 |
| A Coded Game | 2 |
Taking home another award, it’s Brotherhood’s twist! I’m sure you all just voted for this one because older Tails is hot though.
| Best comic that went off the rails | Total |
|---|---|
| Hangin’ Out | 87 |
| Blue Prisoner/Blue Murderer | 81 |
Hangin’ Out bros, we just can’t stop winning! Of course going from a fairly standard romance story to Tikal throwing GUN trucks and Orbot basically ruling the world, how could it not win?
| Best shitpost comic (i.e. the comic itself is the joke) | Total |
|---|---|
| Tails Forces | 65 |
| The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 50 |
| Sonic Got Amy Pregnant | 37 |
| The end of Chris Thorndyke | 18 |
| Chili Dog Stand-off | 18 |
| Sonic’s Big Fat Adventure | 18 |
| molochtdl joke comics | 13 |
| Tails the douche | 13 |
| MST3K Sonic | 11 |
| Pickle Unleashed | 10 |
| Chaos Diamonds 3 | 6 |
| Best comedy | Total |
|---|---|
| Tails Forces | 52 |
| Sonic Can’t Find The Bathroom | 39 |
| Sonic Eggs | 38 |
| A special visit | 34 |
| Knuckles & the Beanstalk | 20 |
| A Coded Game | 16 |
| Sonic ‘06 Retold | 15 |
| Not enough rings | 14 |
Best shitpost/ Best comedy And proving there’s no groupings you anons won’t fuck with, Tails Forces has simultaneously won best shitpost and best comedy! Sonic can’t find the bathroom bros, we were robbed!
Content awards
And the third category, the content awards.
| Most WTF moment | Total |
|---|---|
| Max rapes Sonic - Accidental Love/Chaos | 48 |
| Eggman electrocutes a newborn - AUB | 39 |
| Everything in Blue Prisoner/Blue Murderer | 34 |
| Eggman’s spongebath - Sonic Retold | 30 |
| Blaze made Amy give birth to Silver and then tried to kidnap her babies - Shadow and Amy’s Family | 30 |
| Eggman typing / Tails turning into a weird demonic hedgehog OC and his IQ taking a nosedive - Chaos Diamonds 3 | 23 |
| Mobian OC x Snively - KissTheThunder | 17 |
| Shadow and Silver getting a baby - Sonic Got Amy Pregnant | 16 |
| Nicole and Espio got a kid - Lost Hero | 14 |
| Rouge talks Shadow into a coma - The Dark Doppels | 11 |
| Egg pingas/Silver fucks up - The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 10 |
| Coolest moment | Total |
|---|---|
| Artists of the comics heard about the Ride | 51 |
| Tails has spider limbs - WWMH | 38 |
| Tails saves the day - Tails Forces | 37 |
| KIM EN, METAL / Everything in Hangin’ Out | 32 |
| Silver vs Mogul - Heroes Come Back | 27 |
| Eggman’s recording - The Murder of Me | 23 |
| Hyper Sonic / Sonic and Super Sonic trying to stop Green Hills from getting nuked - STCO | 19 |
| Eggman asking Tails to join him, and Tails’ response - What binds us | 17 |
| Funniest moment | Total |
|---|---|
| The alternate ending of Tails Forces | 38 |
| Classic Sonic cucks Modern Sonic - It’s just shyness | 30 |
| Sally gets a lift out of the deleted zone - local, desu | 29 |
| Scourge as a dad by kitsutama - Parenthood | 27 |
| Eggman gives everything sentience - Sonic Eggs | 25 |
| Amy breaking down when Buddy outplays her and ruins her cool moment - Hangin’ Out | 25 |
| Blue Prisoner/Blue Murderer and its over the top edginess | 23 |
| >faker was a slur that hedgehogs used for tenrecs - local, desu | 19 |
| Running low on whipped cream - local, desu | 13 |
| Eggman’s childhood photos - A special visit | 12 |
| Sticks negotiates with TMNT - Turtle Power | 5 |
| RobotNEET’s origin story - local, desu | 5 |
| Best fight | Total |
|---|---|
| Buns vs Scourge - Scourge: Eternal Blackout | 54 |
| Tikal vs Metal Sonic - Hangin’ Out | 35 |
| The final Eggman fight - Hedgehogged | 32 |
| Amy VS Buddy - Hangin’ Out | 28 |
| Sonic vs Nega Wisp Armor in STCO | 27 |
| Zielo’s Soulless vs Triple S - The Murder of Me | 25 |
| Best written romantic relationship | Total |
|---|---|
| Various - ArsworldS comics | 46 |
| Himbo Sonic and his husband Shadow - The Heart of a Monster | 40 |
| Sonic x Amy - Boom!Baby | 40 |
| Sonic x Amy - It’s just shyness | 35 |
| Tower and Chris Chan - The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 23 |
| Tails x Amy - Spring is Here | 17 |
| Best art | Total |
|---|---|
| Vulture again baby | 44 |
| Ghosts of the Future | 34 |
| Brotherhood’s Twist | 20 |
| The Murder of Me | 19 |
| Child of the Green Hill | 18 |
| ArsworldS | 17 |
| Silver 1763 | 16 |
| Team Dark Supernova Odyssey | 16 |
| Through the Star Post | 12 |
| Sonic and the Black Door | 12 |
| Yanimae’s stuff | 11 |
| Kohane01 | 7 |
| Tanabata | 7 |
| Sonic Rift | 7 |
| Banelspringer | 5 |
| Sonic and Tails R | 4 |
| Best evil plan | Total |
|---|---|
| Eggman crushing everyone with the Sun - Tails Forces | 48 |
| Eggman using Saiyan DNA to power his evil super robot – Hedgehogged | 48 |
| Tails saves the world - The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 44 |
| Zielo eating the everything/being bored - The Murder of Me | 40 |
| Eggman shrinks Sonic - Mini Sonic | 31 |
| Best villain redemption | |
|---|---|
| Mike the Metal Sonic - Hangin’ Out | 51 |
| Metal becoming a good guy - Breaking The Code | 38 |
| Scourge’s sacrifice against the Second Devourer - Ghosts of the Future | 36 |
| Eggman not torturing babies and being Sonic’s wingman | 33 |
| Pirate Omni-Viewer turning into a beautiful lady so the Omni-Viewer doesn’t die a virgin - STCO | 18 |
| Super Sonic - Sonic the Continuation | 16 |
| Best original lore | Total |
|---|---|
| Ghosts of the Future | 42 |
| The Murder of Me | 41 |
| Blending Sonic 1,2&3 timelines together - Child of the Green Hill | 36 |
| Black Arms being eldritch demons - Blue Prisoner/Blue Murderer | 35 |
| Accidental Love/Chaos | 25 |
| Best Zone-Cop fuck up | Total |
|---|---|
| Murder of Me more like Murder of the entire multiverse with the Zone Cops doing nothing | 56 |
| Absolutely everything Zilver does/Nega is still out there - No Zone Archives | 37 |
| Light Mobius gets wiped out - Shock and Awe | 36 |
| The entire shitshow in Sonic Unbound | 36 |
| Crossover with Zuko and Boom Sonic - Sonic Adventure Soup | 33 |
| Nega is still out there… - No Zone Archives | 28 |
| Most touching moment | Total |
|---|---|
| Tower, Max, Locke and JJJ joining forces after Eggman went too far - AUB - local, desu | 36 |
| Gerald’s last message to Shadow - Team Dark Supernova Odyssey | 36 |
| Tails showing Cosmo their daughter - Darkness Is Not All Black | 31 |
| A shitpost got an unexpectedly sweet ending - Sonic Got Amy Pregnant | 26 |
| Shadow and Maria moments, Maria getting revived as a Mobian - Child’s Play/Teens Play | 25 |
| Mecha’s Suicide - The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 22 |
| Sonic and Tails have a touching bro moment - Brotherhood’s Twist | 18 |
| Everyone hugs Sonic - The Murder of Me | 16 |
| Sally is back - StH Online #249 | 14 |
| Sonic tries to save the Doc - Child of the Green Hill | 11 |
| Nicole recognizes Sally - Sally’s Inner Struggle | 10 |
| Best cover | Total |
|---|---|
| Scourge: Eternal Blackout 4 | 51 |
| Sonic Retold | 48 |
| Ghosts of the Future #9 | 37 |
| Two Werehogs One Night | 28 |
| Super Sonic The Comic Online #266 | 24 |
| Fallout: New Mobius | 22 |
| Best single page | Total |
|---|---|
| Enter Chaos - Child of the Green Hill | 50 |
| Sanctum the Hedgehog is free - Scourge: Eternal Blackout | 40 |
| Knuckles punches fake Shadow - Tails Forces | 39 |
| Unironically the one colored page by Matt in Chaos Diamonds 3 | 30 |
| Mecha and Beta explosion - The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 26 |
| Tails Forces Page 95 Fin | 23 |
| Tails doll encounter - Poker face | 12 |
Individual character awards
| Sonic | Total |
|---|---|
| Sonic Unbound | 30 |
| Classic Sonic from It’s just shyness | 29 |
| The Murder of Me | 29 |
| Sonic Frenzy | 29 |
| The Heart of a Monster | 26 |
| STCO | 19 |
| Sonic Rift | 17 |
| Chaos Diamonds 3 | 12 |
Being one of the most prolific Sonic fan creators, it’s no surprise one of Okida’s has taken home the award for best portrayal of Sonic.
| Eggman | Total |
|---|---|
| The e-vay Boom comics | 38 |
| Sonic Genesis | 27 |
| Child of the Green Hill | 27 |
| Reformed Eggman - Chaos Diamonds 3 | 27 |
| Tails’ Marvelous Journey | 26 |
| Tails Forces | 26 |
| Total Switch | 15 |
| Hedgehogged | 14 |
With a comfy friendly rivalry with Sonic, Eggman from the e-vay Boom comics has won here. Again proving that the Boom continuity is the most comfy!
| Tails | Total |
|---|---|
| Brotherhood’s Twist | 49 |
| Tails Forces | 45 |
| The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 33 |
| WWMH | 33 |
| Sonic Genesis | 23 |
| STCO | 21 |
| Night of the Were-things | 14 |
| Sonic Rift | 12 |
You people have no taste, he doesn’t even have spider limbs, a dark compact with the Tails doll, or taken over the world! He is very hot though.
| Knuckles | Total |
|---|---|
| Trick with the hat | 50 |
| Tails Forces | 48 |
| Blue Prisoner/Blue Murderer | 47 |
| The Heart of a Monster | 28 |
| Sonic Unbound | 27 |
I’m glad to see you’re all as much a fan of KrazyELF’s gay cowboy Knuckles as I am.
| Amy | Total |
|---|---|
| Hangin’ Out | 59 |
| ArsworldS | 45 |
| Spring is Here | 34 |
| Sonic the Continuation | 32 |
| The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 30 |
It’s everyone’s favorite ping pong champion, Hangin’ Out!Amy!
| Metal Sonic | Total |
|---|---|
| Hangin’ Out | 67 |
| Selynnkino’s edgy Metal | 49 |
| Breaking The Code | 41 |
| Ghosts of the Future | 37 |
Looking great in legwarmers and Sonic’s shoes from the OVA, it’s Mike from Hangin’ Out!
| Shadow | Total |
|---|---|
| Ghosts of the Future | 50 |
| Hangin’ Out and his love of hotpockets | 45 |
| Tails Forces | 40 |
| The effeminate Shadow clone - Sonic Eggs | 38 |
| The Heart of a Monster | 35 |
| Metal virus rewrite | 29 |
It’s Splinter the Hedgehog!
| Omega | Total |
|---|---|
| all Omega’s are the best Omega | 94 |
| Sonic Blood Moon (because he’s pretty much the same as canon Omega) | 51 |
It’s unanimous, Omega’s a great addition to any comic.
| Silver | Total |
|---|---|
| The Vulture | 53 |
| Heroes Come Back | 32 |
| The Adventures of Silver the Hedgehog | 30 |
| Eclipse | 28 |
| Sonic Reborn | 27 |
| New Generation | 19 |
| The Start of our Universe | 18 |
Another win for our favorite delinquent!
| Blaze | Total |
|---|---|
| Ghosts of the Future | 57 |
| Silver the Hedgehog by ricahama | 45 |
| Blue Prisoner/Blue Murderer :^) | 38 |
| United Souls | 32 |
No surprise here, it’s GotF!Blaze and her beautiful feet fire!
| Eggman Nega | Total |
|---|---|
| No Zone Archives | 73 |
| The Tale of Two Sonics | 51 |
If only the Zone Cops had just done their jobs.
Thanks again to everyone who participated!
The end of The Ride™?
