Shard: The Metal Sonic Who Turned Good 

The neat thing is that Ken has absolutely _no_ rights to Shard. He was only involved in _one_ story featuring Metal Sonic as far as I'm aware (the Knuckles' Chaotix special). Everything else, from his debut in Issue 25 to his return in "Heart of the Hedgehog", to rebirth as Shard was other people's work, so if Sega really, _really_ wanted to push Metal in that way, they could. They won't, because it's more marketable for Metal to stay the way he is, but it's still nice to think of "what ifs", even if they're highly unlikely.

I love these touching Archie Sonic videos. And Shard won’t be forgotten. The top reason he was called Mecha Sonic in his final outings (and why he never returned) is, according to Ian Flynn, because SEGA mandated Archie to stop trashing Metal Sonic(s) & stick with one, no multiples. As for Gemerl in IDW, his characterization is based on notes from Sonic Team as, since he’s a robot, his personality is supposed to be robotic. Thank you again, Matt.

I like Shard since having different robots that defect from Eggman helps to show that even Ais can have a humanity in them if given enough time to learn from those that can teach them. Not to mention, it be a nice spin off of a good Sonic robot handling some things while Sonic is away or dealing with other villains while Sonic deals with Eggmans scheme that is in the for front.

Shard's story was something that expanded throughout the years in the comic, and we all had our own ideas of possible what if scenarios about a Metal Sonic who turned good. His final fight against Metal Sonic might've been one of the best stories in the modern Archie, due to them showing his inner conflicts, his attempt to finish the battle in a more heartfelt and pacific way, and the end result which ended up, in my opinion, with his death. In the end, he was able to become like Sonic. There are still more characters in this Archie universe that a lot of us want to learn about. Hope to see, in the future, the story of Finitevus

Shard is one of my favorite Sonic characters of all time. I always love it when we get inorganic characters that discover humanity and what it means to live (like Nicole and Sage) and Shard didn't dissapoint. I will always miss him.

This was a nice video that gave a good look again at Shard. I do like his journey from villain to hero and wanting to find acceptations and enjoy life like Sonic told him. I do hope one day Shard can appear in IDW ether as a character or a cameo. I can't wait to see what character lore you do next!!!

HELL YES MY FAVORITE ARCHIE SONIC CHARACTER

I am SO glad Shard is NOTHING like Metal Sonic. Shard is Kind, Humble, Generous, Brave, Heroic and Genuine. Glad he's officially on Sonic's side of the Freedom Fighters, to fight on the Side of Good and Justice, protecting everyone that are under the threats of Dr. Eggman and the Egg Bosses.

*HE'S BACK!!!* 💯

Lovable scrap

If I write a story around Shard, I would have Sir Charles repair his Power Gem with the Chaos Rings, seeing as they were Archie's replacement. I'm thinking Shard would return to his blue colors. And fellow scraped robot doppelgangers would act as his new troopers. Yes, this means Shard would have his own Metal Amy, Metal Tails, and Metal Knuckles.

23:43 Somewhat, if you want to count Captain Metal.

I like Shard as a good guy. 😀👍

Shard is my favorite Archie character, I miss him so much.

Great video, can't wait to see who you do next! 👏🥰

favorite archie comics character & best story in the archie comics as while not a fan of the early art/look in the chaotix adaptations like in his comeback he went out similar to the ova(wish outside of a brief cameo it got adapted/would get reintroduced to idw's version of little planet.) & after being rebuilt felt fully like the concept of metal sonic turning good/if he survived in the ova having sonic's playfulness and getting to somewhat make amends with sonic.(also being part of a cool team that actually used silver compared to being just there in the games.) understand why he died(from sega telling the comic writers to cut it out wrecking metal sonic that like what eventually happened to the older archie universe shard unfortunately had to go out with them being left dying after metal sonic at his most brutal.) but part of me wishes they reintroduced him into the games having metal sonic 3.0 be turned into him.(kinda consider gemrl more him having his emrl attitude when he took the sonic crew's personality.)

after getting to know Shard after watching this video, i really wish Sega kept him instead of tossing him away after the genesis wave and include him in more future installments like reboot and IDW, if Shard appeared in the Idw comics he would have been the best big brother/mentor figure to Belle and it would be interesting to see their interacting

Stopping kids from saying first

Question. In 2023 you said to honor the 10 year anniversary of “Sonic and Mega Man Worlds Collide”, you would make 1 big video reviewing the entire story. Where is that?

You might’ve forgotten about Ballade from Mega Man IV on the GameBoy. Ballade had a similar fate to Shard from Issues 86 and 87, when he sacrificed his own life to save Mega Man from the collapsing Wily Battle Station at the end of the game.

I miss shard. he so coool💯

Saw a new toy of him in thr store today. But unfortunately for him they also finally got in Mutants Mayhem Mondo Gecko so...

*He became good, and not just a one note villain?* Yep! Sega had to get rid of him 😂

I wish that Gemral sort of kept that Shard personality into the IDW comics. In my opinion the whole way he talks in IDW is sort bland and boring especially compare to other robots like Orbot and Cubebot or even Omega.