Sonic Universe #76 (WU #1), Sonic Boom #8 (WU #2), Mega Man: Worlds Unite Battles #1, and Sonic #273 (WU #3) In Worlds Collide, it was Eggman and Wily threatening their respective worlds but this time they’re nothing more than unwilling accomplices to this event’s big bad! Sigma! Once he was a noble maverick hunter but now he’s an evil sentient virus aiming at harvesting the energy from entire planets! Can Sonic and Mega Man stop this? That’s a good question but here’s a better one: Can anyone stop Sonic and Mega Man from aiding Sigma?
Question: How would Sonic fare in Mega Man’s world? How would Mega Man fare in Sonic’s?
>>142506351 >Who tf is Axl? You know, he’s that guy with red hair, keeps asking if you have something memorized, shouts ‘TWO?!’ when he sees a pair of things
>>142506304 >Question: Sonic would kill most robot masters without hesitation, Mega would try his damndest to pull as many Gamma (SA1) situations as possible
>>142506304 >Question If Wily & Eggman actually don't let their bad habits get the better of them, both Rock & Sonic aren't going to well. Sonic fares better however.
>>142506395 This art aint exactly bad but im getting heacy referenced off the 3d models vibes ALso crazy they did this while in the middle of the crisis
>>142506371 I would hope Ian would write Sigma better than this if he actually got a Megaman X book. The very little we see of him in the one Megaman arc is great. It seemed like the Maverick Virus was going to corrupt his good intentions. He was also a mentor figure for X which would make all confrontations between those two heartbreaking. In WU there’s basically none of what he set up earlier. Sigma is a generic bad guy and X just wants to kill him.
>>142506435 >Guts Man and Concrete Man sure have been hanging out together a lot. Family bonding. They absolutely have friendly lifting competitions.
Also, it kinda pisses me off that this event features actual plot points for the main books. Getting an M.E shard, the lab being rebuilt. Insult to injury, really.
>>142506517 Oh, so that's where Wily went! And if you didn't know... everyone from Sonic's World remembers Worlds Collide but nobody from Mega Man's does.
>>142506567 Work, slaves! >>142506563 Because Mega Man's world was from the near future and restored perfectly. Sonic's was the present and not restored perfectly.
>>142506528 Eh, that's what he became in the games, to be fair. Just a generic bad guy, shoved into stories he has no business being in. Sucks, but it's accurate to the source material.
>>142506546 >spoiler That's stupid and makes no sense .
>>142506657 >>142506528 Yeah, after a while, Sigma just lost all pretense of having a noble goal. I kinda just sees him as basically an extension of the virus by then, and Wily's design to ruin light's work out of spite.
>>142506640 Already here's a thing that makes this crossover worse than the last one, symmetry. Eggman and Wily may be different levels of malice but in the end they're both the main villain's not one or the other. But here Sigma is THE big bad no if's and or but's about it.
>>142506567 >They're called "zeti". Beyond that I don't know and I don't care. Pft. That just kind of perfectly sums them up, huh? Sega, this is why your teachers tell you to define your terms.
>>142506612 That would actually be cool >NiGHTS: Do robots dream of electric sheep? >Rock: I fought Sheep Man. That counts? >Sonic: Less Existential Thinking and More Bad Guy Beating!
or...
>Bayonetta: Make it Stylish... >Dante:....Keep it Viewtiful.... >Viewtiful Joe: Straight to the Climax!
It might be me but the deadly six are like hella forced into this. Like is it because of the fact they're like the only other game villians that aren't eggman or dead? damn thats sad.
Unless I missed a comic, why is Sigma suddenly evil? I mean, I know he's evil since inception but wasn't he a good guy when they fought the Wily Walker?
>>142506799 We've skipped AAAAALLL the way to post X7, where by then Sigma has fully degenerated into basically a convenient face for the virus that just want to kill all humans.
>>142506777 Ian is insistent on making them work as "serious" villains. The problem is they're the villains of those Trolls movies. You can't take them seriously.
>>142506831 Blame this event for cancelling the Mega Man book then. We all do. >>142506837 >morgana get jealous of Sonic for getting lucky with human women
>>142506839 I feel like I've seen that image of X a lot of times... >>142506823 The real tragedy is that it eats up almost the remaining issues of this series.
>>142506856 >The idea was this would sell so well that we would get an X comic greenlit. Was this something Archie said during the sale of this crossover ? Cause it sounds more like baiting bullshit.
>>142506816 Bless him, he tries, but yeah. The D6 already started out poorly defined, so there's nothing substantial to latch on to. Hell, even Antoine's le cowardly Frenchman shtick was something that could be used for character development. The D6 are just some fuckin' guys, and we still don't know dick about their species or world.
>>142506876 >no boom sonic, amy, tails, or knuckles joining sticks >it's these two And you will like them appearing and saying random stuff throughout the event!
>>142506858 >issue that has the context for important scenes is a tie-in that hasn't come out yet And you say Kaminski left Archie to go work for one of the big two? Truly shocking.
>>142506858 >We joked that the Maverick Hunters are better Zone Cops >Here they are actually trying to stop the Multiverse Bullshit Zonic was bad at his job.
>>142506856 >Too focused on setup instead of being interesting in its own right. That’s an issue I have with Frontier’s story too. Same thing with most of the reboot. Ian does that a lot.
>>142506998 Oh yeah, to make sure they can't tie it back to pre-reboot they make it so that Worlds Collide happens right after Generations. Pre boot is officially dead as dirt
>>142507034 That's one good thing about this event. It made Eggman and Wily friends again. >>142507019 >>142507020 That's right, he's gaslighting YOU the reader!
>>142507019 Please take your meds, your headcanon was always just that headcanon. After all who are you going to believe your lying mind or your own eyes>>142507017
>>142507061 Don't hate the Reboot, hate Ken for making it happen and hate Paul for giving us the false hope with the memory flashes just to wipe it away in a story hat made the books bleed money
>>142507069 BALLS DEEP >>142507039 It's been dead. It's just that all the photos and any other records have been destroyed and replaced with no pictures.
>>142507054 >That's one good thing about this event. It made Eggman and Wily friends again. The instant they start getting along again, they're perfectly in synch. One or both of them needs to just propose already.
One small thing that pisses me off about that crossover is that part later on where Bison goes to team up with the heroes and the one that reacts is Ryu while Chun doesn't say anything about WORKING WITH THE MAN THAT MURDERED HER FATHER
>>142507056 Reminder that the only Megaman timeline that doesn't have a bad end is the one where Dr Light decided to give up on making robots and started making computer programs.
>>142507103 Capcom still desperately tries to pretend that Ryu is the hero of Street Fighter. But let's be real, Chun-Li and Guile are the actual protagonists who are actively working to foil the villains.
>>142506987 He's not Broly DBZ. It's not about big number. He's a schemer who, when you corner him, either pulls out a cool sword or turns huge and starts shooting lasers. He's imposing and backs up his shit, but he's fun because he's not at the forefront.
>>142507169 >It's nice that the Freedom Fighters are allowed to show up this time. Agreed. I get why it was game characters only in Collide, but it's still lame that the FF had to take a time out from their own book.
>>142507226 And now for the special that half takes place in the first issue of this event and the second issue as well. You'll see. Skipping the half cover of this.
>>142507168 >>142507192 >Guile, Juri, Cammy or Chun-Li had nothing to do with Bison's final fall. I know Ryu is the poster boy but damn. Also Chun-Li is also more popular than Ryu.
>>142507229 You'll see by the end. Right now the writing is ok, but kinda weird. He isn't really in character at all right now aside from being in charge of things, but he's so simple that it's not terrible.
>>142507153 I wonder what happens if they both get laid, a beat timeline perhaps. And yeah, Light may not be evil but he's not exactly a good person with the whole signing his children up to be slave even when he knows they have years instead of decades to live and be willing be killed by the government. Such a bootlicker.
>>142507244 Aside from Zero and the double gear system, all of Wily's stuff is based off of other people's research. While literally every Eggman is a self made genius emperor.
>>142507264 But according to other posters this is in character for where he is currently. He even turns big in the end. It's divorced from how he was written in that short X arc but that was him from the beginning.
>>142507210 >last panel >"Goddamn, I am one sexy bitch!" I'm still bummed out that mainline Sticks never happened. I kinda liked the idea that she'd be Knuckle's little buddy. But I guess Sega go butthurt over the idea of Angel Island having anyone actually living on it.
>>142507239 Honestly, Battles make a case that the story could work if it was twice as long so they could have the level of writing the Battles books have, but then we're talking over 20 parts and I know no one wants that shit.
>>142507268 The Dr Wily has a wife and child timeline would be a lot of fun, maybe Megaman has to either fight a family of villains now, they are just very off kilter allies now with him having to face different baddies or who knows what else. Also yeah Light is a man with good intentions but sadly often makes mistakes with far reaching consequences
>>142507312 >But I guess Sega go butthurt over the idea of Angel Island having anyone actually living on it. There have been attempts way beyond that pitch by Ian and other writers. They simply don't want Sticks in.
>>142507312 >>142507329 Ian's pitch involved Sticks always living on Angel Island and thinking she was the guardian of it with Knuckles never knowing about it. It was stupid. All Ian had to do was just introduce as one of Amy's friends or just some girl from the wild.
>>142507297 To be fair, Zero is a sexy (figuratively and literally) piece of work, it actually is ironic that Wily's best result is when he's just doing his own thing instead of stealing other robots
>>142507342 Eggy didn't have to crip somebody else's research to cut it as a mad scientist evil genius. He was just inspired by his grandfather, it's not like he had to homo&erotically stalk and live in his shadow like Wily does to Light.
>>142507304 It's right in the same sense that Ken Penders got Robotnik right. Like, yes, the broad strokes are here, but the execution is completely off.
>>142507422 These Battle stories (at least the good ones) Are great because they actually have the characters be themselves and aren't bum rushing to get to the next plot beat or set piece
>>142507422 >>142507448 It's really funny knowing that despite how powerful X (with all his X1 upgrades) and Zero were, Vile in a small mech was still giving them a hell of a time
>>142507477 You're the faggot who thinks you're the only person able to crack the code. Even in Frontiers that just treat Sticks as just Amy's friend got removed in the Japanese version.
>>142507386 >>142507407 We talked about this before, but the Deadly Six really are just a shitty bootleg version of Regina. For one, she actually has the look of a technopath. And then of course there's the fact she's an actual character with a personality and backstory. When she took over as the main villain for a while, you bought it because she had legit presence and demonstrated proper villain cred. GOD I miss her.
>>142507514 Some people think we need an entire arc or game to explain Sticks showing up even though she's not a character with a strong plot or backstory. She doesn't have loads of shit with her like Shadow, Blaze, or Silver that needs to be explained to understand her.
>>142507548 I think it’s more people want that as to give her more presence and story plus a place in the universe since lack of backstory or plot is why no one really likes the Deadly Six
>>142507547 It's super weird. They have their own powers but share that tech control. Can't believe they havent eloborated them much for how long they've existed
>>142507547 No one took Regina seriously. Stop kidding yourself. Even when looking at the Deadly Shits, nobody says "Regina was a better villain" besides waifushitters.
>>142507643 I'm just saying this art has got graffiti street art all over it. Like you can slap the parental advisory sticker on it and it would fit like a glove
>>142507660 Ian admitted on his podcast that his pitch wasn't good and the simplest option it was accepted in the english version, not completely rejected on all scripts. So you're reallyjust spitting. Nothing else.
>>142507593 It really is baffling that Sega keeps trying to force these assholes down our throats despite them being so poorly defined. Like they just expect us to fall in love with new characters who have nothing to them. I care more about Relic and Fixit, and they're just goofy side characters who exist to give Knuckles someone to talk to.
>>142507709 >Q:Clear this up for me, is Sega okay with Sticks being brought onto the comics but shoots it down because you're trying to introduce her as a brand new character? Some people seem to think your Angel Island pitch is the only thing blocking her and she would get in if she was just treated as Amy's random friend who was definitely always there. Sounds like a cope to me but hey, maybe I'm wrong. Ian: Yeah there's some key details missing in that rationalization. The whole thing with Sticks being on Angel Island was part of the pitch but that same pitch had Cream appearing as well and they were both rejected because Cream would have been "new" to the comic. That's the stipulation "new to the comic", which is like *sigh* but she's part of modern Sonic...but then again it was not really the thinking at the time. There have been other attempts to pitch Sticks by me and other writers and each one there's been a new excuse of why they don't particularly want her at this particular time. The Angel Island pitch has been done and gone and has not been used and is not relevant. It is not even a factor. I honestly kind of forgot we even approached that angle because it's just not under consideration. It's just that we can't do it right now because Sega says so and we'll see if that changes one day. Kyle: I'm just imagining Sticks running up to the gate "Let me in! LET ME IN!" [Laughter] Ian: I mean for pity's sake, I managed to wedge your name in there in Frontiers and it was taken out of the Japanese version.
>>142507716 I think the only people who'll end up liking them are the gen alpha 2010s babies that had them show up in their first Sonic game. Same reason why zoomers like 06 after all.
Personaly about the sticks thing. I just dont vibe with those two being super duper besties with that being case happened fuck all offscreen. Just out of nowhere really.
>>142507729 Just wait for the scrapnik island guy and his fanboys to come in and claim Sega would allow him to do Sticks and he'd write her better and that's it's all the fault of Ian and his pitches.
>>142507744 The kids these days don't -like- 06. They just don't have decades of its bad rep and mem hatred of the franchise blinding them to the few good ideas present in it. It's objectively a shit game, but it has some ingredients here and there.
>>142507798 Don't try to make it a fight because Danny8bit is a big fan of Ian's and is on good terms with him. Don't try to make them out to be enemies
>>142507819 I'm saying that as a zoomed who grew up with 06 and liked it, although people will always shit on 06 dut to it only having ambition and passion. Welp time to go back to classic and never dig your way out of green hill^inf.
>>142507851 >Sonic get's turned into a robot master and get's Sonic themed weapons >Mega man get's corrupted by Eggman and get's...still technically Sonic themed weapons
That's that lack of symmetry I was talking about
Reminder that dev on X-treme was told that if he didn't stop working on that game he would have months to live
>>142507873 I know he's just Shard in a different skin but I prefer this to him talking and acting like a regular robot. Emrel in the games would talk like Shard so should Gemrel
>>142507926 SKEET SKEET >>142507922 >Reminder that dev on X-treme was told that if he didn't stop working on that game he would have months to live Yeah that's the worst thing. He almost worked himself to death and the game never got to come out.
>>142507976 THE WORLD IS TEARING ITSELF APART AND WE HAVE TO RELY ON A TEAM THAT HAS SWORN LOYALTY TO THE MONARCHY?! THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO REALLY SAVE THIS WORLD... BLOW IT ALL UP!
>>142507971 No but since 06 happened off screen Super Sonic can move in stopped and/or non-existent time. Chaos control can also manipulate time but Sonic never uses it despite having the ability. Either way he isn't very proficient and would probably need an Emerald.
>>142507983 Developer Chris Senn was working around the clock for the game to meet it's increasing deadlines and became very sick so sick that his physician told him that if he continued he would have around 6 months to live
The game was canceled and the Saturn got Sonic 3d Blast leading to Senn making a recovery
>>142508011 Mainline Gemerl on the other hand talks like BEEP BOOP BOP BEEP lol. Seriously tho. after playing that terrible battle game. Regular Emerl did kinda was like Shard in attitude wise
>>142508058 I didn't even realize it was a nod. That's pretty good, yeah.
>>142508048 It's to the point I'm convinced the similarities can't be a coincidence. At least not after Shard's re-introduction. Same personality and color scheme? Come on.
>Battle terrible It's okay, gameplay wise. But yeah, the main appeal is the story, frankly.
>>142508142 I'll say it again. Gemerl is not exactly the same as Emerl. He's based off him but isn't him. No super learning power either. He had to be reprogrammed from his badnik ways
>>142508162 It's kinda hit-or-miss in retrospect because you've got some great highs in Emerl and Shadow but real lows in Knuckles and especially Amy in characterization
>>142508197 Only writing I truly liked was Eggman. Best character in the entire game easily. >real lows in Knuckles and especially Amy in characterization Thats where I feel he started to become retardded. Amy is actually atrocious there. I wish cream would shit on her more in the game from overworking her.
>>142507993 Emerl only talks like that because of Sonic’s influence. He incorporates the personality traits of every character at the end of a chapter into himself.
>>142508263 Said it earlier, the Battle books good stories make it seem like Worlds Unite could work if it was double the link or if every issue had double the pages
>>142508290 >Grimer: What does he have that we don't have?! >Starline: We're smarter than that hack!! >Wily:......Bass? Please show "Doctors" Grimer & Starline how efficient you are. >Bass: Not now, old man. Gotta teach Drago a lesson! >Bass throws Drago out of a window.
>>142508431 Just like with Light's wife in BN, we never see Wily's. All we know is that he shows up at the end of Team Colonel, says his son was fucked up and mind wipes him.
>Vs. Sonic: For all your speed, you can't outrun my devine power. >Vs. Sigma: You fancy yourself above humans but are all too mortal compared to me. >Vs. Eggman: Tell me, when you learn to NOT challenge godhood? >Vs. X: I see your limitless potential was just that, potential.
>>142508453 >Joe should be hired to do Zeti lore In the event that me and other anons are accused of stroking Joe's dick, that's what we've been saying for a while. >>142508571 That too. >>142508601 Honestly I'd be down for a Zeti art in IDW if its treated as canon and actually goes into their history. We just gotta see if IDW itself will last that long to begin with.
>>142508628 I like Zena and Zom getting along, gives Zena a bit of depth is she earnestly cares about the big guy as a friend. Also gives Zom somebody to talk to and be the brawn to help back up Zena's brain, or whatever she has.
>>142508508 >>142508550 Did Kaminski just dump all these characters on Ian and told him to make them fit somehow in the story? There were way too fucking many for this.
>>142508708 >most patient and soul cleansing women possible This, he got cream the rabbit as a wife. Also I need more sfw pictures of her, pls contribute.
An idea for PXZ dialogues >Ayame: So you can transform with gems too? >Sonic: Yeah, but I need seven instead of three >Falcon: Well, you don't have to grab them in the middle of a fight, so it balances out
>>142508628 More zeti babes would be nice and an explanation on their culture and of they are all as violent as the six or they’re outliers to a race of diverse morality and viewpoints
My favorite bit of depth for zavok is in brotherhoods twists where he refights and seethes at Sonic after watching his past adventures. being beaten when sonic isnt at full power and defeated stronger things
>>142508708 It' safe say that Wily had enough of the world and just wanted to run things his way >in this universe he still jilted by Light's work getting all the attention, strike one >unconfirmed, but DOES has a son in Regal with some random lady, who might have died, strike two >later gets a new best friend in Baryl's dad, who then gets called to war and fucking dies, thus making him Baryl's new guardian. That was strike three.
>>142508766 >he could only use in the last third of the crossover and to go crazy. Fucking why ?! They paid an expensive license just to dump all those guys in a messy fight scene ? Might as well just sell a poster with them instead of wasting a comic story.
>>142508707 >>142508627 >>142508577 >Vs. Sigma: Your first mistake was being built, the 2nd was challenging ME!! >Vs. Eggman: Don't worry, your forces will thrive as my Dark Shadowloo Legion. >Vs. Sally: This is different. Usually, the heroines' father dies first! HAHAHAHAHA!!! >Vs. Sonic: Not so talkative anymore, are we? Good, hopefully you'll die as quickly as you run. >Vs. Zero: Impressive! I wonder how your spare parts will enhance my Psycho Drive. >Vs. X or Mega Man: The Everlasting Peace you fight for will be achieved. Under MY hand, of course.
>>142508894 >Vs. Conquering Storm: Congratulations, you've earned a place as head of my Dolls. >Vs. Battle Kukku: Finally, Someone who understands what it means to conquer with his own hands! A shame you have to die. >Vs. Vyse: You should've kept to the skies, like your foolish ideals. Now die in despair of reality. >Vs. Tyris Flare: This Death Adder sounds like my type of fellow! Don't worry, I'll send him to hell after you.
>>142508312 >>142506773 I have only played X1 and MM11, but I have been always eye'ing up to these two, moreso as a cute ship together. I know they are meant as merely bosses, but these cute bosses, Mavericks and whatnot have been my main number one motive behind looking over Megaman franchise. And my biggest regret is not saving cute Gutsman art off a particular artist, Yoink_0, whom deleted all his works. I would've saved it all, but I was lazy myself, damn.
Also if you could, do you mind posting more of them here and for the threads to come? I wanna save them!
>>142508755 I like how this pieces is implies they're outliers, a group started with just Zik and Zavok. Maybe the greater society saw them as a threat to general peace and managed to capture them (with some difficulty) and throw them onto the Lost Hex.
>>142509034 >And my biggest regret is not saving cute Gutsman art off a particular artist, Yoink_0, whom deleted all his works. Stuff like this is why I became a compulsive data hoarder, down to software and extensions Can't fuckin' trust bookmarks anymore
>>142509034 Yoink_0, you say? I think I have some of his stuff. I got a looooooooooot of stuff, though. Maybe I'll post catboxes for the more lewd things... Also, it's really nice to see you especially today.
>>142509091 This picture also highlights how diverse and interesting you can make their designs like the giant one mostly offscreen, the lil goober and the sweet momma she thicc by Zavok’s right foot
>>142508577 >Vs. Knux: Is this best those blessed by Chaos could muster? Maybe you should worship me. >Vs. Zavok: A pitiful effort by pitiful creatures. >Vs. Zero: Fitting that a great destroyer meets his end against the chosen of a new age. >Vs. Ryu(BoF): Tell me, Dragon Prince, if the Brood could challenge Gods, why do I stand unshaken?
>>142509096 Unfortunate. I have myself plenty art of Rotor you might never find elsewhere, example being pic related.
>>142509172 If you really have Yoink's material, please feel free to share it all ahead, here or the other imageboard! Through catbox or any other means as you desire. I wanna go ahead and save it myself. You're really kind, thank you! And I would say as much to you, thirsty-bud. You never cease to make me pleasant to see you as ever. :3
>>142508577 >>142509288 Before the thread dies, did Gill show up in SF6? I believe Bison is truly dead after the events of 5, so when (what) is their grand plan gonna happen?
>>142506304 >Question Sonic could not be trusted around all those human women. Mega Man wouldn't do well considering he can't kill or even harm Robotnik >>142506333 It's Axl, what a hunk!
>>142508639 Top Man's so cute! >>142509034 Wew! >spoiler Sorry to hear that. It really does suck when an artist deletes everything >>142509351 FYI, that's another kind anon Rotor-bro
