The Evil Super Sonic Story ▸ Fleetway's Most Famous Character 

Super Sonic in the games: "YAY, WE'RE SAVED!!" Super Sonic in the comic: "WE. ARE. FUCKED!!"

You can tell he's from a british Sonic comic because of his teeth

They actually hinted this form of Sonic in the new movie! I was confused when Knuckles said that the chaos emeralds would change their personality, I now know where!

Fleetway Super Sonic's story feels like a story of PTSD and accepting past trauma. Sonic lashed out at his friends and became so violent that he tried to separate himself from that side of him, which led to acceptance.

Fun Fact: Fleetway Super Sonic’s debut was just one week before Archie Comics adapted the Super Sonic we know. So that means Fleetway Super Sonic is the original Super Sonic!

I think turning Fleetway Super Sonic into Iblis was a genius move on the Webcomic writers' part. Not only does it help Silver fit neatly into the timeline with a legitimate hatred for Sonic, but it really does feel like the worst case scenario that could erupt from Super's existence.

Please do a Fleetway Amy, I don't know much about the fleetway comic but that Amy is grungy and 90's as hell. Her skirt even looks like Hey Arnold's shirt (that people thought was a kilt)

If you think about it, this is a fantastic interpretation of him and makes since in the world of Sonic. Chaos is Discord incarnate. So when Sonic uses them, he becomes an agent of Chaos itself. That prefix isn't there for show. Like you said here, when Super Sonic or Chaos is siphoned away from Chaos Radiation, they are way more tame. It would be cool if the games were to use this idea because of Sonic's overuse and lack of actual training with Chaos Energy. In the games he just kinda uses them off hand. It gives consequences to the common transformation.

I think some people just assume that Fleetway Sonic is the name of the Evil Super Sonic. I know I made that mistake when I first found out about him

"to see this formally evil character living a quite life" *Yoshikage Kira wants to know your location.*

I think Archie's evil Super Sonic was definitely a reference to StC's Super. One panel in particular feels like a pretty straight homage of that page where Super's laughing and turns back into Sonic. That Archie comic came out around the time Tekno (and Ebony) started making cameo appearances, so at least some of the writers and artists were aware of the Fleetway series.

Even though I agree with the Hulk comparison (StC writers were actually big Marvel fans,) this Super-Sonic may also be inspired by Dragon Ball. In the very first season, Goku is feared by his partners, once they figured out he can turn to a giant gorilla, and probably killed his grandfather by accident. They end up using his transformation against Pilaf (the greatest villain in the series,) in a way that also happens in Sonic the Comic. Big difference here, Goku was not aware of his alter-ego for a really long time.

I always liked this spin on things, as you could see Super Sonic in Sonic 2 going around at insane speeds, and the music if taken the wrong way is kinda menacing. It just makes sense to go with the old American backstory too! I just think it's neat that Super went from a saving grace to an unfixable issue

Fleetway Super Sonic is an interesting take on the character, who understandably has a large cult following to the point where many people think of him instead when ‘fleetway sonic’ is mentioned. The character is often associated with other evil Sonics, like the ‘majin’ Sonic from CD’s sound test, and fan horror character Sonic.exe. With the character’s newfound popularity, it’s great that videos like this exist to to inform newcomers

i guess people searched fleetway sonic so much after fnf sonic.exe v2 came out that this video got an algorithm boost

He really is the embodiment of "chaos". My revitalized interest in Fleetway was due to their appearance in an FnF mod. An odd little inclusion in a mod about Sonic Creepypasta's. -His & Tails dolls songs slap.-

Super Sonic's personality does actually change a bit in the games He calms down

Actually one of the most notable aspects of super Saiyan is that it typically makes you more aggressive. That's why you can't use the Spirit bomb while in super Saiyan because you need to have a calm mind and be pure of heart.

I always saw Fleetway Sonic and thought, ok what is happening to Sonic? I never saw him going crazy like that in games. And now I finally found out where he came from and why hes like this. Thx for this video :D

I hope you read this! I voice Fleetway Super Sonic! He has been an overwhelming joy to voice, and has made a big impact on my life 😁 I intend to continue giving him the voice that deserves to be heard, and so far I have been able to achieve that to a degree. My dream is to be his official VA by Sega, and I'll wait as long as it takes! I may be a woman but that will never stop me, or let people say otherwise voicing him.

This was such a great ark in the comics. Richard Elsons artwork really inspires the imagination !

Here's an interesting bit of trivia actually, that further strengthens the connection between (Fleetway) Super Sonic and the initial Super Saiyan. When Goku first transformed to Super Saiyan, his personality did shift to a bit more of a vicious and sadistic side. Goku essentially regressed back to the Kakarot that he was initially born to be, before he learned to control it.

I always thought fleetway was some sort of ""corrupted"" sonic. Because fleetway-to me- always sounded like a highway like in SA2

Imagine the storyline if Fleetway DIDN'T turn on Ebony. He would have become the best character, and he would still live his life normally.

The notable thing about Goku's Super form was that IT DID CHANGE HIS PERSONALITY. He wasn't fighting for fun anymore. He became cold, and menacing. This personality change eventually did wear off, but I'm still surprised that you were clueless about this huge aspect of it. having said that, it was Gohan who has more resemblance to Fleetway Super Sonic due to his anger issues when gaining a new form. But even that pales in comparison to the actual Super Sonic. His personality is so wildly different, that it does seem like they just wanted to do their own thing entirely.

Here's a couple more Fleetway videos if you fancy another: - Commander Brutus -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_DTETxmokVg.html - Doctor Zachary the Echidna -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AOSfpYgAsyU.html - Tails' Adventures in the Nameless Zone -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Km2J9br-Yk.html

Finally I know who Fleetway SS is, I love him

I had no idea these comics existed but the story of super sonic seems like a great one! I'm really glad you took the time to cover it. I think It's actually quite sad how it ended. He was good for years only to have to be forced to merge with sonic again. Feels bad, man.

I still think Fleetway is too far away from Sonic's original characteristics when it comes to Super Sonic. But the idea is still very interesting! To me, this Fleetway Super Sonic could be what Sonic would become if he wasn't all clear in his head and lost to anger. Imagine an even more broken Shadow. Dark Super Sonic from the Sonic X anime is probably the closest we get to Fleetway here.

Sonic could already survive in Space

5:30 Ah yes my favorite pokemon, *hulk*

The sonic fanbase will forever love evil Sonics

Hello I'm a casual fnf dude wanting to know about this Sick looking dude

Having looked at stuff related to Fleetway Sonic online, be it wikis or videos or fan stuff, I will say it is quite interesting. As for Fleetway Super Sonic being similar to The Hulk in regards to transformation, wow, I never noticed. Excellent video, mate. Take care. I’d love to see you make a video about Sally Acorn and Rally4Sally down the line, may you always be good.

powers gained from chaos manifesting like this makes WAY more sense.

Grew up with the Fleetway books and this version of Super Sonic. I didn't really enjoy the character after issue 100, truth be told. It felt like Kitching wrote himself into a corner and, instead of a proper showdown, we got a deus ex machina depowering. There were a good 20 issues or so of build up to a fight in issue 100 and it's just cast aside in favour of showing the gang overthrowing Robotnik.

This is incredible! the sonic comic makes me really want to read it. Thanks for the coverage on something I clearly overlooked.

Yes! Always support anyone talking about good old STC!!! Why not do an episode about Shortfuse or Captain Plunder? Or even better, Teckno?

Thank you for this revisiting of a classic character. If you haven’t already, Captain Plunder and his crew were always an interesting time.

Now that you mentioned sonic and dragon ball I never really thought about it but sonic counter part would be goku as the protagonist.Shadow as vegeta as the villain who becomes hero .Silver being the time traveler who would be trunks.

Ah excellent video.I was waiting for this since the sonic iceberg when they were talking about super sonic being it’s own entity

Now I WISH they continued into the Sonic Adventure 2 Battle storyline! Imagine how EVIL Shadow would look if they went down that path still! It would be amazing to see

It's surreal seeing these comics again, I got bought them at the time and remember how much I adored the supersonic art and the Sidewinder gang in particular (For some reason the one where's he's holding a cup of tea next to the fire really stuck with me). No wonder i remember the art is just incredible

Fleetway super sonic will forever be one of my favourite villains in the comics

S&K was the first appearance of the space and flight abilities. There are a couple of mentions, notably the first appearances of SSJ1 and SSJ2, as well as Legendary Super Saiyans like Broly or Kale (potentially due to the seemingly demonic elements of the Legendary forms) that imply that the SSJ forms may amplify emotions to the point of the wielder's decisions being affected.

POV: You played the Sonic.exe 2.0 mod and didn’t know who this character is. I already knew, but thought this would be fun to watch anyway.

I've read it like 8/10 months ago and while reading it I was so amazed and invested in the comic because it brings super sonic into a more dark tone :)

thanks for this helped in my own video on Sonic The Hedgehog, never knew there was this much more interesting take on Super sonic

This is the single time in the entirety of the Sonic franchise that they Chaos Emeralds had any association with actual chaos whatsoever

Fleetway Sonic seems a lot closer to Ultimate Universe Hulk than the jade giant we actually care about.

Loved reading the Running Wild storyline back when I was a teenager, Richard Elson's fantastic artwork really sells it.

Thank you for this video. I loved this comic arc and it was beautiful ☺️❤️🌎🙏

It suddenly makes sense for Super Sonic to be evil! The Chaos Emeralds aren’t named that for nothing

Super sonic in games: I save my friends from being killed Super sonic in comics: i kill my friends

11:51 Ooh, that page! I actually bought the original master of this at a Summer of Sonic convention, some years ago.

the two frames in The Final Horizon with crazy Super Sonic will fuel fan theories for years to come!

Id like to know more about Johnny Lightfoot, and the fall of STC :O

Hey guys guess why this video blew up Yea the same reason why Lost Silver and Hypno's lullaby

Absolutely awesome video man!!! As a fellow UK Sonic fan I too grew up with the Fleetway Sonic The Comic stories aswell, Super Sonic in particular has always been a very memorable character of the run! I would love to see you do videos for Shortfuse the Cybernik or Commander Brutus at some point! Keep up the awesome work man!!!

10 out of fucking 10 youre a beast of a youtuber thank you so much for putting in the effort man !!

I used to read this comic so much when I was growing up! You could cover the Metallix. I remember what they looked like but not really what their deal was?

Good stuff!

Rewatched this never gets old

This is the closest well get to a Canon sonic.exe

I recall reading some stuff from StC Online. Super Sonic was implied to be the one destroying Silver's future instead of Iblis (although that was still Silver's name for SS) and I believe Silver had come into conflict with Sonic by mistaking him for his counterpart (although I may be misrembering that). Hyper Sonic was also featured, being more like its original counterpart (as Sonic had absorbed a fountain of _pure_ Chaos energy and so wasn't corrupted by it). Although it is worth noting that Amy immediately disputed the name of Hyper Sonic due to him being, in her own words, "just Sonic!" To my knowledge however he's only appeared once so far, albeit in a significant role, destroying a bunch of Drakon ships (along with much of their tech being destroyed by a virus Robotnik had installed), reconnecting Miracle Planet and Mobius and towing Drak, home of the Drakons, back to its usual position and away from Mobius.

The Fleetway Super Sonic is an interesting character. I would like a video on Fleetway Amy next.

Honestly, in some ways, Super Sonic's personality feels almost like a drama-preserving handicap put on the form. Adaptations generally don't include the whole "Needs to consume a shit-ton of rings to function" thing as a trait of Super form... and to be fair, neither do the games when cutscenes are concerned. Even as early as Sonic 2, Sonic is able to transform after going through the totally-ringless Death Egg Zone, and later on in Sonic Advance, he spends about a week just flying around in space- Or maybe it just took him that long to get back from the moon? Even at 25000mph, that's a three-day trip. Either way, Super Sonic being a gas-guzzler doesn't appear to be canon in the games themselves, and definitely isn't in the cartoons and comics. With that in mind, it raises the question of "Why doesn't Sonic use his Super form... well, as much as anyone playing the classic-style games will on their playthrough?" The Doylist answer is, of course, "Because then there wouldn't be a story", but that doesn't mean we don't need a Watsonian, internal explanation. Lack of access to the Emeralds can be an answer, true, but adaptations tend to like it when Sonic can visit Knuckles any day of the week, and Knuckles spends basically all his time sitting in front of a giant Chaos Emerald that can also turn people Super. StC provides that. Sonic can't solve all of his problems by turning into an invincible golden god on the regular because said invincible golden god wants to murder his friends, and isn't even guaranteed to attack the villains first. It's not the _cleanest_ justification, and it does vastly inhibit the viability of the form even for situation that warrant its use, but it works. And it prevents people asking the question of "Seriously, the Master Emerald is right there, why don't you just turn into Super Sonic, blow the Death Egg of the sky, and have your girlfriend restored to flesh and blood by sunset?" Also, he's just the best version of a superpowered evil side for Sonic himself. Darkspine is cool but really difficult to work in (what with being fuelled by less than half of a set of macguffins that only exist in a book), and Dark Super is just... boring.

Hope you cover Amy and Tails in both Fleetway and the games. 💖🧡

Who’s here because of FNF sonic.exe round two? Note: I already knew who fleetway was but I just wanna know who didint

Ya know? In the sonic 2 movie.. Knuckles hints that sonic is a different person in his super form...

I never looked into the actual story behind evil super sonic, but the drawing design stood out to me as a really good design.

love your vids

I guess that fleetway sonic may become more popular for having his own song on the mod for the rythym game called Friday night funkin called VS Sonic.exe for having his own song on the mod.

Thanks for the cool facts about Fleetway Sonic I understand now since I didn’t understand what was going on in the FNF mod for VS Sonic.exe

I would love a story where Fleetway Sonic appears during a battle with Eggman and starts a allout war against the rest of the Sonic cast battling not just all of Eggmans bots but also his regular forms friends which leads to a scene where Fleetway advances towards the beaten Eggman before Eggman uses his greatest creation Metal SOnic to attack Fleetway and then Knuckles knocks Super Sonic out

Haven't seen a lot of Fleetway, but from the little I have seen it always felt more down to earth when compared to the Archie comics.

Sonic and the gang should be glad that they didn't have to face hyper

Am I the only one who finds it strange this video makes a point about Super Sonic being suspiciously similar to The Incredible Hulk, but doesn't once mention that both are actually based on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

I never knew about Super Sonic going good for a while or refusing with Super Sonic well actually I really didn’t know anything about him except that he was evil so thank you for educating me about this character

Sonic characters from the games: you have freed us! Fleetway sonic: oh i wouldn’t say “freed”. More like “under new management”

I thought fleetway was kind of simular to broly in the Z movie

Well classic=Fleetway Sonic Modern=Dark Sonic

I read sonic the comics growing up and I remember there was this one story line where sonic and maybe some of the freedom fighters went to a parallel universe and the sonic there was an evil dictator. The way they toppled him was by making the evil sonic turn into super sonic, who was 'mellow yellow' and wanted to be a kind ruler instead, suggesting the super transformation has a reverse moral alignment to the original.

randomly found this in recommendation here just to read comments

The gap between Fleetway's best artwork and worst artwork was gigantic.

Social expirement time. This is the guy from Friday night funkin.

I feel like the second Sonic Movie hinted at this evil supersonic at the end with Knuckles warning them ''He is no longer the hedgehog you knew''.

There has to be a reason behind Sonic not losing control when turning into his super form. Maybe the ones who nourished Super Sonic could have changed his fate when they combined Super Sonic back with Sonic himself giving Sonic more control over his inner self.

In Sonic the movie 2 they mentioned Fleetway, but i don't wanna spoil.

as someone encountering Fleetway Sonic for the first time in the friday night funkin' vs. Sonic.exe mod (yeah, i'm that guy), this helped a lot. thanks!

I think it's really interesting how Sonic Movie 2 almost seems to reference it for a split second!

What's interesting is that originally, Super Sayian *was* an evil transformation that turned Goku cold and sadistic, so that was probably another inspiration.

Maybe we can get an evil Super Sonic in the upcoming Sonic Prime a la Fleetway. The show is about the multiverse so it’s possible.

Fleetway sonic is the whole reason i never got the chaos emeralds in the classic games on my 3ds. I was too scared to see super sonic kill tails in game or sonething, i cried reading the comics. I remember i couldn't finish reading it because i felt sick to my stomach, im pretty sure i threw it out -Fnf drama I can tell some of these are satire jokes, but it can be hard to tell. I advise you dont engange or respond to thede comments, it gives another reason for fnf to be dragged down.

StC was the Sonic canon of my childhood! Awesome characters like Shortfuse, Techno and Jonny Lightfoot would make great videos. Also did Turbo ever come back? I can only remember him in one story.

I loved the running wild fandub

*fnf flash backs* oh no

I already knew about psycho super sonic but this still got recommended to me after playing the FNF mod Edit: 2:23 That’s not entirely true. When Goku went super saiyan for the first time he was at a state of rage, even threatening to kill his own son. But the whole plot point of the transformation being unlocked by sheer rage was dropped pretty early.

Bro I was sleep to this and animated a whole saga thru this

Amazing