Scourge the Hedgehog
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Scourge the Hedgehog (originally known as Evil Sonic) is a recurring villain found only in the Archie Comics series. As the name suggests, he is an evil double of Sonic the Hedgehog, and thus is an anthropomorphic, humanoid hedgehog. Scourge originally wore a leather jacket, black-rimmed sunglasses, and black boots. In order to disguise himself as his heroic self, he simply had to remove this clothing and replace it with Sonic's trademark sneakers, though he showed some dislike for the running shoes.
Before draining energy from the Master Emerald, Scourge was a duplicate of Sonic, with blue fur and green eyes, but he later transformed so that this color scheme reversed, giving him green fur and blue eyes. Scourge now wears a jacket with flames on the shoulders, and sunglasses with red frames. He also gained two scars (from Locke punching him in anger) across his chest. The scars resemble a roman numeral for 2 ("II").
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Evil Sonic
Evil Sonic is from Anti-Mobius, a polar opposite of Mobius in an alternate universe, where good is evil and evil is good; he was the leader of a ragtag group of punks called the Anti-Freedom Fighters, who overthrew Evil King Max by sending him to the Zone of Silence. Their nemesis is Dr. Julian Kintobor, a kindly country doctor who has developed advanced technology to try and clean up the mess that the Anti-Freedom Fighters cause. Another of their enemies is Anti-Knuckles, a pacifistic counterpart of Knuckles the Echidna whom Scourge once tricked into going to Mobius Prime.
Evil Sonic crossed paths with the "real" Sonic several times, occasionally impersonating him to get Sonic in trouble. This was easy enough to accomplish, because the only physical differences between the two were their choice of attire. With a lack of any menacing opponents in Anti-Mobius, the Anti-Freedom Fighters get easily bored, and eventually take it out on their failure of a leader, ejecting Scourge from the group.
[edit] Custody and escape
Evil Sonic was recruited by Robo-Robotnik to help him with a scheme, namely to retrieve the pieces of his ultimate creation, the Giant Borg, but, due to the confusion of the various Robotniks, gave the machine to the Sonic Underground Robotnik. For his thanks, the SU Robotnik imprisoned him and prepared him for Roboticization, only to be saved by Sonia and Manic while Sonic, Zonic the Zone cop and the Sonic Underground Sonic defeated Robotnik and obliterated the Giant Borg for good.
Taken prisoner by Zonic, he has escaped at least twice; the first time he was taken down on Mobius by Antoine (who thought him to be the real Sonic in disguise as part of a plan to impress Antoine's father), on the second time he made his way back to Anti-Mobius. There he ran into Patch, who wanted a piece of him; Evil Sonic beat him and concocted a plan to punish both versions of Antoine D'Coolette, by switching their places. He later did the same thing with himself and Sonic, taking advantage of Sonic's status to take things easy and make moves on several women in Knothole Village, including Bunnie Rabbot, Amy Rose, and Fiona Fox. Sonic quickly found his way back and fought Evil Sonic in the Chaos Chamber, but the two were once again evenly matched. Knuckles' father Locke intervened, and used a spell to send Evil Sonic away. He then joined forces with Rouge the Bat, the two conspiring to steal the Master Emerald.
[edit] Transformation into Scourge
After an attempt to drain energy from the Master Emerald, Evil Sonic had a reaction which caused his body to change in color. Realizing that he no longer resembled Sonic, Scourge could no longer fool people so easily, thus he no longer bothered trying to. After demonstrating his new powers against Locke, (stopping short of killing him only when Rouge said she doesn't work with murderers), Scourge used the Master Emerald to enact Chaos Control, taking him and Rouge to Sonic. After a heated battle and being pursued by Shadow the Hedgehog, he and Rouge were teleported to a mysterious location by Dr. Finitevus, who convinced the pair to join forces with him, only for Rouge to later abandon Scourge and flee after sabotaging the Doctor's operation. Scourge reappeared alongside Sleuth Dogg, fighting Sonic until the pair were recalled by Finitevus. Their mission was to recover a Warp Ring stolen by Rouge to make her escape. Hoping to ransom the device from the Freedom Fighters, the pair kidnapped Miles "Tails" Prower and Fiona Fox. Before leaving, Scourge told Fiona, Sonic's then girlfriend, that he had wanted to see her again and how he loved how she played it like she and Sonic were for real. Some time afterwards, he joined the Destructix in attacking a group of Dingoes on Angel Island, convincing Locke that they had reformed. This enabled them to trick Locke into giving them custody of Angel Island and the Master Emerald in particular. With the gem in hand, Scourge and his allies supported Finitevus' master plan: to restore Dimitri to his status as Enerjak using the Chaos energy inside the Emerald. It's unclear how Scourge might feel about this, given that he covets the Emerald's power himself.
Not long after this, Scourge appeared in Knothole Village, revealing that he and Fiona had been involved secretly for some time. After a brief altercation with the Freedom Fighters-among them the disbelieving Tails-the two escaped through a Warp Ring, presumably to hook up with Scourge's associates on Angel Island. In doing so, they escaped being lured into a sting operation disguised as an auction of the Master Emerald, a trap that captured Fiona's former teammates Bark the Polar Bear and Bean the Dynamite, Mammoth Mogul, Ixis Naugus, and Nack the Weasel.
[edit] Personality
Since he was originally an alternate version of Sonic, Evil Sonic possessed many of Sonic's traits, only darkened and at times completely reversed. While Sonic enjoys the company of his friends, Scourge has none, seeing others as pawns who can help him prove that he's the best. He is also completely sadistic.
When it comes to fighting, Scourge cares only about humiliating his opponents and demonstrating his own ability. He doesn't hesitate to injure his enemies, and would kill them given the choice. However, his arrogance, amplified from Sonic's usual cockiness, makes it easier to thwart him. Though he and Sonic have nothing but animosity for each other, they do occasionally find themselves working together, such as when the pair and Shadow battled the sub-boss Croctobot.
Scourge thought he figured out why Sonic didn't like him: all Sonic needed was one bad day, and he'd be just like him. Sonic stated the exact opposite, saying that all Scourge needed was some good qualities and he'd be just like Sonic. This gave Scourge a brief moment of self-doubt before Sonic got knocked down by Fiona.
[edit] Flirtations
Where Sonic is polite and respectful towards women (most of the time), Evil Sonic/Scourge is the complete opposite. He likes females simply for their physical appeal, the opposite of Sonic's somewhat gentlemanly disposition, and doesn't care much what happens to them so long as he gets what he wants. Unfortunately for Scourge, Anti-Mobius was too hard a world for such behavior. Anti-Sally broke up with him after he suffered multiple defeats, while Anti-Bunnie actually joined the Anti-Freedom Fighters out of vengeance, having been dating Scourge only to discover that he was also dating several other women at the same time, among them Penelope Platypus.
Evil found things easier during his brief switch of positions with Sonic Prime. On Mobius Prime, he once again had multiple relationships at the same time, using his identical appearance with Sonic to gain favor with women. Unfortunately, he found easy prey in the form of Sonic's crushing fangirl Amy Rose and the emotionally distraught Bunnie Rabbot, who was still upset over her apparent breakup with Antoine-caused by Evil Sonic-and thought that she could make Antoine jealous enough to take her back by kissing "Sonic." Scourge also appears to have begun a relationship with Fiona Fox, and it appears she knew he was an imposter.
Unlearned lessons repeated themselves, and Sonic's return prompted Scourge's exposure, forcing him to flee. His actions while impersonating Sonic left something of a mixup between his heroic counterpart and the women he flirted with, though Sonic appears to have resolved this. Forced to flee, Evil Sonic was quickly drawn by Rouge the Bat, who not only had similar designs on the Master Emerald to his own, but who was also physically appealing to him. Rouge also appears to have flirted with him, though likely only to gain his help. Whatever relationship might have been between them was reduced to strictly business after he transformed into Scourge and she broke up their partnership.
Fiona later revealed that she loved Scourge all along rather than Sonic. It's rather unlike Scourge to actually like someone, but it seems he is interested in Fiona for more than just to mess with Sonic. He has stated that unlike the girls from his home zone who are "dark from the get-go", Fiona chooses to be evil and Scourge thinks that is "hot". As a result, their relationship could end up being permanent.
[edit] Abilities
Due to his status as one of Sonic's otherworldly counterparts before draining the Master Emerald, Evil commanded all of Sonic's strength.
Sonic's speed is also available to Scourge, who also commands a variety of other powers due to absorbing energy from the Master Emerald. Rather like Shadow, he is capable of performing Chaos Control, but requires a Chaos Emerald to do so. Like Sonic, he can also undergo a Super Transformation to become Super Scourge, though he has not yet utilized this ability. In this form, he presumably posseses abilities identical to those of Super Sonic.
[edit] Alternate Selves
Scourge's main other self is of course Sonic Prime, but he also shares various other counterparts with the blue hero. This includes his recurring opponent Zonic, a police officer from the No Zone who was placed in charge of Evil Sonic on two occasions, only for him to escape. Evil Sonic's escapades also brought him into contact with Sonic Underground Sonic. Another of Scourge's counterparts is based on Vance Astro from the Guardians of the Galaxy comic series. Still another is Cyborg Sonic, a cyborg version of the blue Hedgehog from a dimension where Robotnik half-Roboticized the Freedom Fighters, only for them to nearly defeat him. Together with Sonic Prime, Cyborg Sonic gathered a large army of various alternate Sonics to battle the Robotnik of his dimension and his Giant Borg battlesuit. Presumably, Scourge was not a part of this gathering.
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| Comic/TV Show | Heroes: Sonic · Tails · Sally · Bunnie · Rotor · Antoine · NICOLE · Dulcy · Freedom Fighters (Minor) · King Acorn · House of Acorn · Wolf Pack · Knuckles · Amy Rose · Chaotix · Athair · Locke · Julie-Su · Secret Service · Brotherhood of Guardians · Elias · Mina · Shadow · Rouge · Lara-Su · Minor comic characters Villains: Robotnik · Snively · Ixis Naugus · Scourge · Anti-Freedom Fighters · Fiona · Destructix · Dimitri/Enerjak · Mammoth Mogul · Dark Legion · Lien-Da · A.D.A.M. · Finitevus · Minor comic villains |
| Sonic the Comic | Freedom Fighters · Shortfuse the Cybernik · Captain Plunder · Commander Brutus · Drakon Empire · Sonic the Comic characters |
| Sonic X | Chris Thorndyke · Cosmo · Metarex · Sonic X characters |
| Underground | Sonic · Sonia · Manic · Queen Aleena · Knuckles · Underground characters |
| AoStH | Scratch and Grounder · Coconuts |
