Season 1 of Sonic Prime had quite the successful performance. As a result, the hype behind season
2 gradually kept building, and now the wait has paid off! Many connections between characters were
established in season 1, so today, we will explore if those connections have gotten better or worse.
I'm Kyle with WickedBinge, and this is Sonic Prime Season 2 Relationships: Healthy to Toxic.
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 strongest relationships and working our way down to the most
toxic. These relationships are The Healthy. The honor of the healthiest relationship is awarded to
Sonic and his “normal” friends. This relationship is very brief in season 2, as they only interact
for a brief moment. While Nine is restoring the Paradox Prism, Green Hill is restored for just
a few seconds. During this time, Sonic sees them, and is more than excited as he runs towards them.
Unfortunately, this is short-lived. Before Sonic can get there, the effect is reversed,
and they are back to their looping dialogue. Sonic is obviously crushed by this. While this is all
over in the blink of an eye, the information they manage to get across here tells us just how strong
their bond is. We are sure this occurrence will be more permanent by the end of the story, and it is
bound to be a beautiful sight when it is. For our Silver Medal entry, we look at
the connection between two different versions of Amy: Black Rose and Rusty Rose. We will admit
that this is not a connection we saw coming. We thought that there wouldn't be much between
them at all beyond their look of confusion upon first seeing each other. Their first moments in
season 2 didn't help matters. Rusty Rose still was loyal to the Chaos Council at this point. However,
after the Council arrives in No Place, they see her there and they actually leave her behind.
Shocked by this abandonment, Rusty is quick to join up with Knuckles the Dread's pirate crew.
After spending some time together, Black Rose takes a moment to ask Rusty if she is okay. Rusty
is surprised by this, mentioning that no one has ever asked her that before. From this point on,
these two are often seen working or fighting together, which actually works pretty well.
Even Sonic stops for a moment to tell them how well they work with each other. Not an expected
relationship, but certainly a welcome one. A much more expected relationship that we
fully expected to work out is between Thorn Rose and Birdie. This relationship was already
established in season 1, as Birdie was Thorn's only friend for most of it. Even into season 2,
that relationship is as strong as ever. Traveling throughout the forest, fighting in every battle,
or defending the forest in any way, these two are almost always side-by-side. If Birdie gets
injured, Thorn rushes over to make sure she is okay. There are multiple times when Thorn calls
for Birdie by whistling, and Birdie always shows up moments later, ready to give Thorn a ride.
Regardless of who Thorn's allies or enemies are at any point, Birdie supports her every step of
the way. Birdie even goes as far to help as swallowing an entire shard of the prism just
to keep it away from the Chaos Council. She only spits it back out when Thorn tells her to so that
Sonic can grab it. Many owners could probably take some good notes from watching these two in action.
We will now go back to exploring more of Sonic's relationships, starting with one between Sonic and
Renegade Knucks & Rebel Rouge. This relationship is certainly not as strong as it could be, but
there is still certainly something special about it. Knucks and Rouge are in a situation similar to
that of Sonic Forces, where their home has been conquered by Eggman...or...EggMEN in this case,
and they must fight to claim it back. Things start out okay, but after Sonic vanished the
first time in Season 1, there's always been a slight uneasiness between them. Pretty much any
time Sonic returns, they show their frustration that he wasn't there fighting with them. However,
it usually gets patched up in some way before Sonic is off again. Even if it doesn't, they
all know that the Chaos Council is a much bigger problem to deal with right now. What also helps
is that, as they approach the Chaos Council's fortress, Sonic offers them a chance to back out
while he goes on ahead. However, they voluntarily choose almost immediately to stay with him and
continue fighting despite the dangers ahead. When Chaos Sonic appears and starts fighting,
they contribute greatly towards stopping him. Finally, after Dread arrives in New Yoke City in
hot pursuit of “his beauty”, he tries to stop Sonic from leaving with it. However, Knucks
and Rebel get in the way and face off with him themselves, allowing Sonic to get away. Hopefully,
in season 3, we will be able to see at least one more battle with them fighting together.
A surprisingly similar connection can be found in the likes of Sonic and Thorn Rose. This isn't
the most explored relationship out there, but it still deserves some attention. Thorn Rose is still
doing what she can to protect her jungle home. While her other friends are hesitant to join her,
Sonic jumps in to fight alongside her and Birdie. As more Eggforcers arrive to try and
grab their prism shard, they work together, along with the others as they show up, to destroy them
before they destroy the jungle. Thorn knows how valuable the shard is, so she has Birdie swallow
it before it gets into the wrong hands. Seeing Sonic as someone she can trust, she has Birdie
spit the shard back up for him so that he can take it with him through a portal. Before he does
go through, however, Thorn has him promise that he will return again. Sonic doesn't even hesitate
before he makes that promise, and Thorn helps him go through the portal while she stays behind.
The last Sonic connection in the Healthy category we will explore
is also the last one in this category in general, and will be between the two hedgehogs: Sonic and
Shadow. This relationship has had a MASSIVE improvement between season 1 and 2. Back in
our relationship video covering Sonic Prime's 1st season, we labeled their relationship as toxic.
This was because they spent most of their time fighting each other both physically and verbally,
and they didn't show any immediate signs of improvement. The season even ended with them
about to start fighting again when Shadow stops him in the void. The opening of season 2 certainly
didn't help. For most of the first episode, they are still fighting each other. At this point,
Shadow is trying to get Sonic's tech he got from Nine, thinking that it will help him traverse the
different worlds and grab the shards. We also pointed out that we expected them to learn
to start working together at some point, but it happened sooner than we thought. By the end of the
same episode, they mutually agree that the only way they will fix the problem is to work together.
Shadow is still reluctant about it, especially if it means he is still stuck in the void,
but he still does his part of the work when possible. They are also fighting side-by-side
by the end of the season to protect the Prism while Nine puts it back together,
so that is also a big plus. There are still some improvements that can be made, but considering
that they jumped from a toxic relationship up to a healthy one, we hold high hopes for them.
With our Healthy section wrapped up, we now move into more neutral territory. These relationships
Need Some Work. Our first entry brings us back to Thorn Rose as we explore the relationship between
her and the other Boscage Maze characters. This includes the likes of Mangey, Hangry, Gnarly,
and Prim. The connection within this group is certainly better than it was in season 1,
but they still don't have everything figured out yet. As the Chaos Council attacks, Thorn Rose
immediately wants to join the fight. However, the rest are heavily reluctant to join her,
thinking that giving the Council the shard is the better option. They do eventually come to help,
but if they had a stronger connection, perhaps they wouldn't have hesitated initially.
Now we return to No Place as we look at Sonic & Dread's Pirate Crew. This doesn't include
Dread himself, but we'll talk about him in a bit. For the most part, this connection
is a good one. They fight alongside each other, and they even had Sonic as their captain at one
point in season 1. That being said, when Dread lies to them to say Sonic has abandoned them,
things turn sour for a little while. By the end of the season, they are working together again,
but it doesn't seem like their bond is as strong as it could be yet. We'll hopefully
see what they can do with 8 more episodes. The last Sonic-specific entry we will look at
today is one of the most heart-breaking: Sonic and Nine. Given the bond they built in season 1, we
had high hopes for these two. At first, it looked like it was getting better. Nine spent a lot of
time helping Sonic from inside the Chaos Council fortress, staying in secret communication with him
throughout. It almost felt like nothing could separate them at this point. However, the last
moments of the season changed everything. With the Prism almost completely reassembled, Nine then
realizes that Sonic's goals are different from his. Surprised and angered by this, Nine basically
throws their connection out the window, takes the shards away, and disappears into a portal. We hope
season 3 brings these two back together somehow. If not, could Nine become a separate antagonist?
To close off the Neutral category, we will look at the relationship within The Chaos Council. All of
these guys are quite evil, but they surprisingly work pretty well together...most of the time.
As long as everything goes smoothly, they are very civil with each other and are able to put
strong plans together. However, the moment those plans start to fail for any reason,
they start pointing fingers and getting angry with each other, regardless of who is to blame.
Mr. Dr. Eggman even shows that he tried to appoint himself as the leader and gave reasons for why he
believed some of the others couldn't do it; much to their frustration. This is one relationship
that we hope doesn't improve, otherwise things could get even more dangerous for the heroes.
Finally, we've reached the much weaker connections... These are
the Toxic Relationships. Staying just out of the bottom three is the relationship between
Shadow and Nine. This one is more one-sided than anything, as there aren't too many direct
interactions between these two. Most of the toxicity comes from Shadow. Almost any time
Sonic expresses to Shadow that he has trust in Nine, Shadow expresses the opposite. While it
makes sense to a point since Shadow doesn't know him that well, Sonic was right about one thing:
he's gotta learn to trust people more. For our Bronze Medal of Toxicity,
we are giving it to Knuckles the Dread and his pirate crew. This includes the likes of
Rusty Rose and Sonic. After watching how season one's story ended for Dread, we were hoping that
he would learn from his mistakes, care more for his crew, and not be so obsessed with treasure.
Unfortunately, he went the other direction. Not only did he lie to them to turn them
against Sonic, but he completely abandons them, even going to another world, just to
go after his treasure. Poor Rusty just joined his crew, and that's how he treats her. You got
one more shot, Dread. Don't blow it in season 3. In our Silver Medal spot, it's the Chaos Council's
creation: Chaos Sonic and the heroes. Chaos Sonic was built for two things: defeat Sonic and never
fail. He spends almost all of his time fighting Sonic. When he isn't doing this, he is fighting
someone that is helping Sonic. Throughout their battle, Chaos Sonic is taunting him,
and even goes as far as to tell Sonic that he will destroy his friends after he is finished with him.
By the end, he does get destroyed, but we get the uneasy feeling that he isn't gone for good.
We have finally reached the most toxic relationship of all. There might be a
sense of deja vu here, but the Gold Medal is awarded to the relationship between The Chaos
Council and practically everyone else. The Chaos Council are the main antagonists of the show,
and they want the standard villain goal of controlling the world; or worlds at this point.
They are willing to do pretty much anything to reach that point. They capture and enslave Nine,
completely abandon Rusty Rose, create a robot doppelganger of Sonic to stop him and his allies,
and at least attempt to destroy anyone or anything that gets in their way.
Considering what they want to do and what they're willing to do to get there, we don't
see this particular relationship improving with any character they interact with ever.