Sonic the Hedgehog's Heroic Legacy Was Ruined By Aliens
A race of aliens known as the Bern are guilty of ruining the heroic legacy of Sonic the Hedgehog more than Dr. Robotnik in the discontinued Archie Comics series. These extraterrestrials aren't even the Xorda who actually attacked the Blue Blur's planet of Mobius and thrust him into space. Ironically, the Bern are pretty much on Sonic's side, too.
Sonic's first meeting with the Bern initially seemed to work in his favor. In reality, it actually caused a devastating string of events that eventually led to the destruction of his home. After Sonic straight-up murdered Robotnik, the mad scientist was replaced with a robot before the two were abducted by aliens. During their imprisonment, the two enemies learn they must fight each other in a transformative battle that would decide their bodily composition, in issue #118 by writer Benny Lee, penciler Steven Butler, inker Jim Amash, colorist Jason Jensen and letterer Jeff Powell. At the start of the altercation, the aliens turn Blue Blur into Mecha Sonic and Robo-Robotnik into an organic lifeform. The contestants are then told that the winner will return to their normal body type while the loser will be forced to remain in their altered form. Of course, Sonic wins and reverts back to an organic hedgehog while Robo-Robotnik loses and remains an organic humanoid.
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However, the consequences of this odd event are more complex than the immediate implications of Sonic's victory. They would later drastically change the course of the series while continuing a long-forgotten plotline that once prevented the upcoming ramifications from transpiring sooner. Much earlier, the original Dr. Robotnik had learned the
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