Whether it be the criminally underrated Sonic Underground or newer shows like
Sonic X and Sonic Boom, Sonic has been a television staple
for decades. This is exemplified with Netflix’s newest cartoon, Sonic Prime,
a new story in the Sonic canon. As always, Sonic brings plenty of characters to dissect,
and with new powers under his belt and some interesting tech, we wonder who’s the strongest.
I’m Kyle with WickedBinge and this is Sonic Prime: Weak to Powerful
So, a couple of caveats before we start, this show deals with the multiverse and
has plenty of unique characters because of it, so we’ll only be talking about named
characters. Secondly, we’ll be talking only about information from Sonic Prime,
no games, no comics and no other shows, just to keep things clean. Finally,
Spoiler Warning throughout the entire episode, go watch the show before you tackle this video.
With that out of the way we can speed to the real list,
from the weakest babies to the strongest men, these are The Weak to Powerful
Starting off our list is a group, specifically The Scavengers from the “Primal Universe”. This group,
consisting of Prim, Gnarly, Hangry, and Mangey, variants of Rouge, Knuckles, Big the Cat,
and Tails respectively. This group live in The Canopy, a village that spans amongst the
many trees of Green Hill. However, due to being seen as more ancient versions of the characters,
they are by far the weakest. They use archaic ancient weapons like stone spears and slingshots
that aren’t very useful against Sonic, or even threats of the time like Birdie and Thorn. They
don’t know how to spin dash and seem to be working with only natural abilities and premature weapons.
Ranking next on our list is Dr. Done-It from the New Yolk City Universe. Dr.
Done-It is a version of Dr. Eggman from New Yolk City and seems to be an elder
version of the good doctor. This means he mostly falls into the tropes of an old man,
as he is constantly getting things wrong and falling asleep in the middle of everything. The
reason he ranks above the Scavengers is simply because of his intelligence. He is capable of
building robots and mecha suits, although we never see the extent of these abilities. Now,
we don’t know enough about him to rank him higher simply because he does very little.
In a similar vein, Dr. Don’t ranks next on our list. Like Done-It, Don’t is a version of Dr.
Eggman in New Yolk City and another member of the Chaos Council. He seems to be a teenage version of
Dr. Eggman and as such, spends most of his time focusing on a videogame of some kind.
Don’t does rank higher than Done-It because while we don’t see any of his specific robots,
we do see that he is the most prominent tech guy on the crew. He is responsible for the firewall
and the controls of Rusty Rose that even Nine seems to have trouble getting through. Don’t
seems very smart but because he doesn’t seem to be a fighter, we can’t rank him higher.
Another member of the Chaos Council landing on our list is Dr. Babble. Babble like the other members
of the Chaos Council is a version of Dr. Eggman in New Yolk City, specifically being a baby.
Babble is shown to be intensely smart, capable of building and operating a powerful egg robot
that is able to catch and knock around Sonic. His egg robot has multiple unique forms that
are capable of catching and decimating sonic, such as a laser gun or giant rattle. However,
Babble seems to have the most rudimentary badniks on his side as all the robots in his sector seem
to be smaller and slower than the rest. He also falls short because of the fact that because
he is a baby he is prone to throwing tantrums randomly especially while losing to Sonic. Sure,
Babble seems highly malicious, but he is unable to truly act upon his desires due to his young age.
Still in New Yolk City for the moment, we have Rebel Rouge. Rebel is the New Yolk City version
of Rouge the Bat, where she leads the resistance against the Chaos Council. She is shown to be
relatively smart, capable of determining that Sonic could be helpful to their cause despite
being an unknown entity. She also shows off a multitiude of skills in her time on screen,
where she is shown capable of destroying robots with a single kick and is capable of
handling even stronger robots with relative ease. Her ability to fly with her wings and
sleep upside down without trouble cause her to be a mobile warrior that is hard to catch.
She is even shown to be relatively skilled in firearms created by the Chaos Council and is
only caught when absolutely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of robots that are sent after her.
Ranking slightly above his boss is Renegade Knux. Knux is the second in command of the resistance
and the New Yolk City version of Knuckles the Echidna. He is shown to be a powerhouse when
it comes to physical attacks, as his punches are capable of destroying the more powerful Eggforcers
in a singular blow. He seems to be smarter than his normal counterpart as he constantly seems to
be on the lookout for traps, despite the fact they don’t seem to happen often. He is shown
to be capable of gliding short distances after a running start, and one could argue that with
a bigger start he could fly even further. What really sets him above Rebel is his very quick
mastery of the spindash after being taught only once, which he used to take out multiple enemies
at once. It’s even shown that when angered he grows even more powerful, capable of destroying
the robots that had ambushed them despite falling short prior. Knux earns this spot
because he is capable of some of the best feats we see in the show, even though it’s not enough.
Up next on our list is Dr. Eggman from the Prime Universe. Eggman is Sonic’s main rival,
a notoriously smart supervillain that wants to rid the world of Sonic in the name of
progress. Eggman is very smart, and one of the smartest people in the Sonic universe,
and this is shown through the use of his Badniks and many Egg-based mech suits.
He is capable of building machines that can keep up with Sonic for the most part,
even if they’re relatively easy to destroy. Eggman is also the one who takes the Paradox Prism and if
it wasn’t for Sonic could probably use it to rewrite all of history. Eggman doesn’t have a
lot of screen time but his high intelligence allows him to skate pretty far on our list.
Next is Miles “Tails” Prower. Tails is the sidekick to Sonic and a good friend to the rest
of the cast because of this. He is actually quite young, hovering somewhere around the age of ten,
but despite this, he has a genius-level intellect and is capable of amazing things. He created the
Tornado, a plane capable of keeping up with Sonic and seems to be a master pilot. Tails’ unique
biology allows him to spin his two tails in tandem to allow him to fly at relatively high speeds. His
intelligence is enough to determine that Eggman’s trick before it’s been executed and he is even
one of the few capable of deducing Eggman’s plans. Tails is still young which means he has
a lot of growing to do, but if he is this smart already, who knows what his upper limits are.
Jumping to another new universe, we rank Knuckles The Dread and his Crew together. Knuckles the
Dread, as his name implies, is a pirate captain and an alternate version of Knuckles, where he
leads a ragtag pirate crew. His crew, consisting of Batten Rouge, Sails the Fox, Catfish and Black
Rose, are mostly leisurely pirates who don’t fight much. However, this is due to Knuckles’ orders,
as he is shown to absolutely hate fighting and refuses to do it unless absolutely necessary.
This leads to Knuckles being sort of cowardly, but once he gets past that he is a surprisingly
strong pirate captain who is capable of leading his crew to victory without much trouble. In fact,
the crew are surprisingly skilled swordsmen, capable of beating other pirates in a flash,
and Batten shows surprising accuracy with the cannon when it comes down to it. They are even
capable of handling Rusty Rose for the most part, despite her enhanced skills. The crew
aren’t particularly strong, but all together they can handle most threats sent at them.
Jumping back to New Yolk City, we have Dr. Deep. Dr. Deep is another member of the Chaos Council
and seems to be a young adult version of Eggman. He seems to be just as smart as the other Eggmen,
but his mechanical genius is used for more stripped down versions of
the Egg Mechs made by the others. He uses a mechanical exoskeleton as his
main source of fighting ability. This exoskeleton gives him enhanced speed,
strength and durability and also has a multitude of powerful tools at it’s disposal. It’s main form
of attack are two flaming buzzsaws that are shown to be hot enough to melt metal walls,
which means it’s running at over 2,000 degrees Farenheit. Deep however prefers to utilize his
own body and weaponry while in this suit and he was capable of catching a falling Sonic in Midair
with just his hands. He is also shown to be quite skilled with the two swords he keeps in his mech
suit and uses them in tandem with his flying abilities to cause all sorts of damage. Deep
is by far the most physically threatening Eggman, however, he’s not the strongest.
However, we need to head back to the Jungle first, because Thorn Rose ranks next on our list. Thorn
is the Jungle universe equivalent of Amy, however unlike Amy, she is much less caring.
She is capable of taming giant jungle birds and even before her powerup was capable of
launching people as large and heavy as Hangry hundreds of feet into the air. She is shown to
be quite skilled with a hammer and is even shown to be quite fast and stealthy. She even manages
to catch Sonic of all people off guard, showing that she can handle herself quite well. However,
what really sets her above the rest is the Paradox Prism Shard she finds with Sonic’s help.
Upon utilizing this shard she can now summon plant life with a single hit of her hammer,
and this goes as far as growing hundred of feet into the air. It even allows her
to extend the length of her hammer up to dozens of feet longer than before,
and she uses this to her advantage. Thorn is smart, stealthy and strong, but due to
her primal nature and most of her power coming from the Shard, we can’t rank her any higher.
The final version of Amy on our list ranks next, none other than Rusty Rose. Rusty
is the New Yolk City version of Amy and a partly roboticized version of her. She was programmed
by the Chaos Council to be an insurmountable threat and the head of security. Because of this,
not only is most of her body made out of metal that is hard to damage, but she also
has a multitude of mechanical enhancements. The main one we see are her extending limbs,
which can cause her to move long distances or harm enemies from afar utilizing her arms. She is shown
breaking other robots with a singular punch and can even deal pretty easily with crowds. Not to
mention that her arms also have claws that are shown to be surprisingly sharp for the most part.
Our final Eggman is next on our list, Mr. Dr. Eggman. Mister Doctor is the main version of
Eggman in New Yolk City, where he heads the Chaos Council. While it is unknown exactly
how he was able to, it is implied he is the one who managed to collect the other members
of the Council. He is still a super genius and one of the smartest people to ever live,
where he can handle an entire city with the help of his council and he rules with an iron
fist. He is assumed to be the one behind the majority of eggforceres and other robots that
populate the city, and most of them are capable of handling the likes of Rebel
and Knux. It’s also implied that he had a hand in if not the one behind Rusty’s programming,
meaning he can very easily program any roboticized citizen. He can even be physically imposing as
he is the one with the largest and probably strongest mech suit out of the council. This
model was capable of slapping Sonic out of the air in midair, hold open thick steel doors that are
trying to close and is even capable of shooting Nine’s plane out of the air. Mister Doctor
definitely deserves to be praised for his strength, but he’s not even in the top three.
Speaking of, grabbing our bronze medal of strength is Nine. Nine is the New Yolk City
version of Tails, where he was born in New Yolk City and didn’t have any friends to help when he
was bullied. He grew up hardened by the city and absolutely hates that he was bullied for
his extra tail. However, despite being hardened by the city, he is still a mechanical genius,
and might be the smartest person in New Yolk City. He created seven extra mechanical tails
that he uses in a multitude of ways, from mechanical spider legs he can use to climb
along walls and ceilings to hacking tools. However, their most powerful feature is as
a battle object as they alone are capable of dismembering and destroying Eggforcers
without Nine even needing to look up from his computer. Nine’s genius gets
to the point that once he gets his hands on the Paradox Crystal Shard he is capable of
creating a plane that can traverse the so-called shatterverse and even open portals while in it.
Snatching up the silver medal of power is none other than Shadow the Hedgehog. Shadow is Sonic’s
rival and a hedgehog like him, supposedly fighting with Sonic on multiple ocassions. Shadow uses a
pair of air shoes that allow Shadow to float on air and catch up to Sonic in most cases. He
utilizes this speed to catch Sonic off guard on occasion and when the two fight it seems
like Shadow may have the upper hand at times. He is strong enough to break apart large rocks by
running through them and even larger boulders by punching them. In fact, he can combine his speed
and strength to form tornadoes by running fast enough, which are capable of countering Sonic’s.
What sets him above the rest, besides being so close to Sonic in speed and strength is his
use of the Chaos Emeralds. He can utilize one of the seven Emeralds to utilize an ability known as
Chaos Control, which he can use in a multittude of ways. However, we only see him utilize the
emerald to teleport and subtly slow down time at one point.
Because, our gold medal of power easily goes to Sonic The Hedgehog. Sonic is the main protagonist
and we see more than enough of his skills to rank him so high. Sonic’s main draw is his
insane speed, where it is implied to be faster than the speed of sound as we assumedly hear a
sonic boom in the first episode. His upper limits are unknown, but we do know that when angry at
his friends being harmed he gets even stronger and faster. In fact he is fast enough to create
tornadoes, blast out massive EMP blasts that knock out the city’s power supply or at one point even
travel the Shatterverse without Nine’s help. Sonic is also shown to be quite clever as he is capable
of tricking and destroying most of Eggman’s stuff, and even tricking Dr. Babble. He even utilizes
the Spindash, a powerful move that is capable of destroying armies of robots at one time, and can
even teach it to others if he wants. Now, we could talk up his speed all day, such as him dodging
seemingly extremely fast lasers or moving so fast the world is slow, but we really need to talk
about his gear. After Nine creates the inhibitors that allow his shoes and gloves to attune to his
energy, they start ot change with each world he enters, giving him new abilities. These include
claws that can be used for climbing or fighting as seen in the Jungle World or the ability to hover
and float in the Pirate World. While we don’t know what Sonic’s upper limits are, we do know that he
is by far the strongest character introduced so far, but with two more seasons to go, who knows.
But let us know in the comment section if you agree with our ranking. And tell
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