Sonic the Hedgehog's Forgotten Powers Make Him the Ultimate Superhero
Aside from his incredible speed, Sonic the Hedgehog has a super form where he essentially goes Super Saiyan for a short period of time, upping his speed exponentially and making him almost invulnerable until he reverts back. Although useful, Archie Comics' discontinued Sonic the Hedgehog comic series use these now-forgotten powers to turn himself into the ultimate superhero.
In Sonic the Hedgehog #66 by Karl Bollers and Steven Butler, the Blue Blur absorbs an incalculable number of Power Rings that would transform him into Super Sonic if there were not so many of them. These additional rings allow him to instead transcend into a form that the he refers to as Ultra Sonic, a state where blue energy and black stars follow his every move. Ultra Sonic also performs some incredible feats at this time as he battles the evil wizard Ixis Naugus, who unfortunately also absorbs enough rings to transform. When Ixis fires twin jets of optical flame, Ultra Sonic counters by summoning a shield of ice water that douses the fiery attack. Ultra Sonic then blocks boiling liquid by lifting his hands up over his head, a motion that causes a wall of granite to rise from the ground in front of him.
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Not too long afterward in issue #71 by Bollers and Butler, Sonic attempts to divert a mysterious beam from hitting his home of Knothole Village by running at top speeds with a Super Emerald strapped to his back. In addition to later altering Sonic's appearance and overall design forever, Sonic's high speeds soon mix with the Super Emerald's energies, causing him to first transform into Super Sonic and then Ultra Sonic (where the stars are now colored instead of black) before the
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