Season 2 of Sonic Prime is finally upon us!
With the success of season 1, the audience has been hyped to see how
the many different characters will develop over the course of the story's continuation.
And how the morality of these characters… both heroic and dark… continues to evolve
I'm Kyle with WickedBinge, and this is Sonic Prime Season 2 Characters: Good to Evil.
RULES Before we begin, let's go over a couple things:
Focus will be primarily on this season, though season 1 references may still be used.
Each version of a character will be treated as their own character.
This is your official spoiler warning for BOTH seasons!
RANKING As usual, we'll be starting with our most
noble and heroic character and working our way down to the most evil. These characters are The
Good. Our Gold Medal will be presented to Sonic himself. He IS the main protagonist in this show,
after all. It's clear that he wants to fix the mess he made back at the beginning of the show.
Each time he goes to another world, he wants to help fix the situation there, which usually
involves keeping a prism shard out of the hands of the Chaos Council. He also is shown to be
willing to work with a lot of those people, which is especially apparent with Nine. Despite Shadow's
regular reluctance, Sonic lets him know that he for one trusts Nine, and he even lets him handle
the assembly of the Paradox Prism (even if their individual reasons for doing this turned out to
be different, but we'll get to that). He does show to not always think first before acting,
but if there's one thing he's made apparent: any problem he causes, he immediately wants to fix.
Our Silver Medal will be rewarded to another hedgehog in the show: Shadow.
We couldn't be happier that Shadow got more to do this season. He was hyped up for season 1,
but didn't get much screen time. In season 2, he DOES start off by fighting Sonic, but it's
because he thinks he should be hunting down the shards instead of Sonic. He quickly realizes he
needs to work with Sonic to do this, though, and he lets Sonic go back through the other worlds
without him. Despite being stuck in the void, he still helps out by slowing down the Chaos Council
when they are traveling through there. Near the end of the season, when he goes toe to toe with
the Chaos Council directly, he sends Sonic off to protect the Prism, leaving him to fight Dr. Deep
and Babble on his own. He still is often stranded, but he fights when able to. That being said,
Shadow will be receiving the Envy Medal. Shadow tries to take Sonic's tech so he can go after
the shards. When he still can't go through the world gateways, he sees that they only
let Sonic through, leading him to get frustrated with Sonic and the situation. He still does the
right thing, but not without any reluctance. Our Bronze Medal of good goes to the heroes of
New Yoke City: Renegade Knucks, Rebel Rouge, and Denizen 1998. These guys are constantly
putting themselves in dangerous situations for them, their city, and their fellow citizens'
freedom. Especially with Knucks and Rouge, they quickly adapt to the situation at hand,
and continue to press on when possible. Whenever they see a civilian in trouble,
they waste no time trying to rescue them. When Sonic is around, they are willing to go directly
towards the Chaos Council fortress. Even when Sonic offers to continue forward on without them,
they voluntarily continue to fight alongside him. Denizen (New Yoke's Big) doesn't appear as much as
the other two, but he still joins the fight when given the opportunity. Knucks and Rouge also get
a couple extra points for stopping Knuckles the Dread from attacking Sonic as he escapes.
Another hero that isn't afraid to step into battle is Thorn Rose. This is an improvement
for her from season 1. Here in season 2, she doesn't hesitate to jump into battle against
the Chaos Council to protect the jungle; even if it means she will stand alone.
This is what she spends most of the time doing, but she also helps Sonic go back through the
portal, making him promise he will come back at some point in the process. It definitely
helps that she treats her bird well on top of that, even if she had it swallow the prism
shard. Hopefully season 3 sees her working together more with her Boscage Maze friends.
A group that DOES stay together more is Knuckles the Dread's crew. This does NOT include Dread
himself, but we'll get to him later. Once again, this crew is loyal to their captain,
and are willing to follow his orders in most cases. Thankfully, this is almost always a good
thing. The only exception is when Dread convinces them that Sonic is a traitor, so they threaten to
fight Sonic. This quickly changes, however, as they pursue their fight with the Chaos
Council and try to get their prism shard back for their captain. This crew also has a new member:
Rusty Rose! She starts with declaring loyalty to the Chaos Council, but after they abandon her, she
joins the crew and fights right alongside them. She and Black Rose also get a special highlight.
It starts off with Black Rose asking Rusty if she is okay. Soon after, as it is pointed out by
Sonic, the two of them work really well together. Rusty and Black Rose could be a good example for
the other Boscage Maze variants. Thorn Rose had her own spot, so this consists of Mangey,
Gnarly, Prim, and Hangry. At no point are these guys bad, but they are much more hesitant to
join the fight. When Thorn Rose and Sonic ask them to help, they initially refuse;
this goes especially for Prim. They even go as far as considering giving the Chaos
Council the shard straightaway, thinking they will be left alone afterwards. Thankfully,
they do eventually come to their senses and fight for their jungle.
Let's just hope it stays that way. With our Good section wrapped up, we now
move into more neutral territory. This is the Grey Area. We only have one entry in this category,
though that may be fitting considering he usually wants to be alone: Nine. For most of this season,
we were thinking he would wind up on the Good list. He spends a lot of time helping Sonic
in some way and sabotaging the Chaos Council from within their fortress. It seemed like a done deal.
However, the final moments of the season changed everything. When the Paradox Prism was almost all
put back together, Nine realized that Sonic didn't have the same goal as he did. Sonic wanted to
restore his world, while Nine wanted to create a new and perfect world. Once this became apparent,
Nine got mad at Sonic and took the shards away through another portal. Not only does this put
him in the Grey Area, but he also receives the Lust medal for this. It's not the kind
of lust you're probably thinking. This moment expresses his deep desire to create a new world,
which goes deep enough that he doesn't consider what anyone else might want or need. He just takes
the shards and leaves, ending the season. We're sure that the third and final season will show the
completed Paradox Prism again, so hopefully Sonic won't have to fight Nine to make that happen.
Finally, we've reached the dark side... These characters are The Bad and The Evil. Taking
our Bronze Medal is the dreaded pirate captain, Knuckles the Dread. We were desperately hoping
that, after pursuing the treasure and neglecting his crew on two separate occasions in the first
season, Dread would have bettered himself in season 2. Instead, he only got worse.
He did treat his crew like he normally would at first, but once again, once his mind was on “his
beauty”, that's all he could think about. He even takes it a couple steps further in this season.
First off, he sends Sonic off to go get the shard, then lies to his crew by telling them that Sonic
left them and has turned traitor, which they initially believe. Then, once he gets his hands
on “his beauty” again, it is HIM who abandons his own crew, claiming that “a captain needs to make
sacrifices' '. When in New Yoke, Dread flip flops between fighting with and against Sonic depending
on convenience with pursuing the shard. All of this awards him the Greed Medal, since he will
throw everyone and everything to the side just to get his hands on his treasure. There is one
more season left, so he can still redeem himself. But the regular Sonic isn't the only Sonic that
Dread fights. He also comes face-to-face with our Silver Medal of evil, Chaos Sonic. Basically,
this is Sonic Prime's version of Metal Sonic: a robotic doppelganger of Sonic designed to beat
him and never fail. Pretty much the entire time he is on screen, he is fighting Sonic and his allies,
physically and verbally assaulting them every step of the way. His primary target is Sonic,
but he doesn't hesitate to beat down anyone else that gets in his way.
At one point, he gets hit by a bus and is down temporarily. However,
once he gets back up, he IMMEDIATELY goes after Sonic again. Upon one of their close struggles,
Chaos Sonic tells the actual Sonic that, once he is done with him, he will go right into destroying
his friends. He does eventually get destroyed, but we wouldn't be surprised if the Chaos Council
tries to rebuild him with some enhancements. On that note, our Gold Medal once again is
received by that group: The Chaos Council. Was there ever any doubt? They are the main
antagonists of the series, and they are the ones responsible for most of the problems that happen
in this show. From taking over an entire city, to forcing others to work for them, to invading and
wrecking other worlds, these guys don't really have any positive qualities about them. They are
on a quest to obtain as many shards as possible to obtain control over all worlds. For most of
this season, they have Nine imprisoned and are forcing him to help them do that. Upon stopping
in No Place, they find Rusty Rose, but they choose to abandon her there. Upon facing more and more
defeats at the hands of the heroes, they reach for more and more desperate measures. This includes
creating more terror in New Yoke, aiming to expand their control across the world and beyond,
and building Chaos Sonic is right up there with everything else. Being the main evils of the show,
it's not likely they will redeem themselves at any point. Certain members of the Chaos
Council also will be receiving the remainder of the Sinner Medals. Starting off, the Council as
a whole receives the Gluttony Medal. They are not happy with just what they already have under their
control, they want to take control of the entire shatterverse. When it comes to individual medals,
Dr. Babble receives the Wrath Medal. While in the Boscage Maze, Babble gets knocked around once
again. Upon this happening, he goes into a, as Dr. Don't puts it, “full tantrum mode”. Letting his
anger get the better of him, he starts thrashing around and destroying anything in his way,
including his own army. Yes, he is just a baby, but he is still receiving the medal here. Dr.
Don't, on the other hand, is getting the Sloth Medal. I mean, it's practically in
his name. Dr. Don't is often among the lazier of the council, preferring to sit back and play
his games and whatnot. Then there's the battles in this season. Any other Chaos Council member
that fights actually is on the field, either in a mech or a suit, and doing some legit
combat themselves. Dr. Don't, however, fights remotely, keeping his distance and preferring
to fight from a safe place. Finally, we get to Mr. Dr. Eggman, who will be getting the Pride
Medal. This version of Eggman is the unofficially self-appointed leader of the council, which is
shown to bother the other members. He even gives some reasons as to why some of the others couldn't
be the leader, such as saying how Dr. Done-It is too old to do it. He constantly is taking charge,
sometimes even ordering the other members around or talking down to them. Additionally,
when he is talking to Nine alone, he tries to have Nine give him some valuable information that
would help them beat Sonic. In doing this, he insults the rest of the Chaos Council,
saying things like how they lack the imagination that Nine has that would help them win.