The End

> *Mortal, you have served your purpose. **Now, face your End.***
> — The End, *Sonic Frontiers*
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**The End** (stylized as **THE END**) is the main antagonist of *Sonic Frontiers*. It is an unknown entity that once wandered the universe with the sole intent of annihilating all life within it.

In the past, The End laid waste to numerous civilizations and the worlds they inhabited, including that of the Ancients, whom it followed to the earth with the purpose of wiping them out. Due to this, it was also indirectly responsible for the Chaos Emeralds' arrival on earth, and by extension, many events related to or involving them throughout the series. However, it was captured and sealed in Cyber Space after a battle with the Ancients.

In the present, The End deceived Sonic into breaking the seal placed upon it by defeating the Titans during his journey to save his friends from Cyber Space. Once the seal was broken, The End attempted to destroy earth, but its physical form was defeated and destroyed by Super Sonic, with Sage.

## Appearance

The End's true appearance is completely unknown, as it seems to be able to take any form and mainly consists of pure reddish energy. What The End looks like varies from person to person, altering their perception to appear as a visual representation of what they believe death itself to look like. During its battle with Sonic and Sage, it appears on-screen as a barren cratered planet that glows faintly with a reddish aura; it is unclear if this is The End's "true form" or simply the form Sonic or the player sees. It speaks in a robotic voice and has the ability to change its voice as well, but mainly uses a female voice.

When Sonic defeats Supreme in *The Final Horizon*, The End makes use of a giant purple tendril with a giant nozzle-like structure attached to it, which it can use to assume other forms. When it hijacks Supreme, it significantly transforms the Titan by giving it multiple arms with clawed hands, hinting at another one of The End's incarnations.

## History

Little is known about The End's past, but tens of thousands of years ago, it traversed Sonic's universe as it destroyed countless stars and planets which consequently led many civilizations to their doom. Eventually it came upon the Ancients' planet and destroyed it, causing the Ancients to flee to earth. Eventually, The End found its way towards earth to destroy it. However, this time it was met by a resistance from the Ancients who fought it with their Titans. Despite their best efforts, The End was still able to overpower them, so in a desperate attempt to stop it from destroying the world, the Ancients bound The End with their Titans and sealed it in the Cyber Space to imprison it.

### *Sonic Frontiers: Comic Adaption*

In *Sonic Frontiers*, The End remained captured in Cyber Space for tens of thousands of years until Sonic the Hedgehog unexpectedly arrived at the Starfall Islands to investigate the disappearance of the Chaos Emeralds. It tricks Sonic into helping it as it guides him as a disembodied voice. As Sonic continues to save his friends from Cyber Cages one at a time, the cyber-energy he consumes starts to corrupt him, but in exchange, The End granted him a new technique each time.

The End's involvement in *The Final Horizon* remains the same as the base game up until Super Sonic defeats Supreme, releasing the seal on The End. After The End manifests in the real world through its "true" physical form, it hijacks the downed Supreme via an energy cable, corrupting it and causing it to assume a more feral stance while sprouting additional limbs and becoming extremely vicious and hostile. Super Sonic, Eggman, Sage, and Sonic's friends rally to stop The End, with Super Sonic harnessing cyber corruption energy to become Super Sonic 2, gaining the power needed to repel the corrupted Supreme and weaken The End. Once Supreme and The End are rendered vulnerable, Super Sonic 2 and Eggman team up to deal the final blow by shooting a corrupted Super Sonic from Supreme's hijacked gun, launching Super Sonic 2 into Supreme, vaporizing the Titan instantly and subsequently blasting through The End's physical form, causing it to self-destruct in a futile attempt to take Sonic out.

## Personality

The End is a malicious entity, with its only desire being to destroy and consume worlds. But unlike other deities in the series, The End is sentient and capable of manipulating others to fulfill its desires. When it speaks, however, it is brief, direct and cryptic, but never personal, merely referring to Sonic as "mortal", which may also hint a feeling of superiority.

It is very proud and self-assured, bragging how it destroyed "countless worlds" before Sonic and Sage stood against it. The End believed that the combined efforts of Super Sonic and the Titan Supreme wouldn't be able to defeat it, comparing them to the lengths that the Ancients went to when imprisoning it. Likewise, when it saw the foes Sonic fought in the past through his memories, it acknowledged they were mighty, but quickly diminished them by calling them "finite" while proclaiming itself to be "infinite".

In the Japanese localization, The End speaks with the pronoun "*waga*", an archaic term to refer to oneself. This characterizes it as both an ancient entity, but also a self-indulgent one. The End, likewise, is depicted less as an overtly malevolent entity, but more as a force of nature who sees its actions in delivering destruction to life as a facet of maintaining order, as it ponders about life and death in a philosophical manner. During the end of its monologue, it realizes that there is some meaning to life as Sonic and Sage struggle against The End - even if The End is still determined to destroy it.

## Powers & Abilities

The full power of The End is unknown, but it has shown to be extremely powerful, as it was capable of destroying entire planets with relative ease. It can fire laser beams, be it one concentrated laser beam that could destroy planets or multiple smaller laser beams which were comparable with Dark Gaia's power. The End can also shoot laser bullets in its moon incarnation. It could also take control of the things it is bound with such as robots and Titans.

The End is extremely durable as well, as it could withstand multiple shots aimed at it from the Ancients' weaponry which were on a similar firepower scale as the Eclipse Cannon. The pilots of the Titans also resorted to sealing it away as The End was too strong for them to destroy. Sage also believes that even Super Sonic wouldn’t be enough to stop it after it retreats into space, causing her to take control of Supreme and join Sonic in fighting it.

The End is able to read the minds of others, evidenced by when it read Sonic's mind and saw the other villains he has fought in the past. It also has the ability to directly speak to its captors while doing this, while at the same time only being audible to them. Knuckles points out how he was not aware of the voice when Sonic tells him about it, for example.

According to The End, it considers itself as infinite in comparison to the rest of the gods and machines that Sonic faced. It is implied that The End is capable of reincarnating and returning in different forms after being destroyed. The End has also shown that it can self destruct when defeated, the resulting explosion is likely strong enough to destroy planets as Sage sacrificed herself to stop it after seeing it about to explode.

In the "Final Horizon" update known as "Another Story", after Supreme was defeated by Super Sonic, The End was shown to be capable of interfacing with the Supreme Titan directly via an energy cable appendage. This also gives the Titan a major power boost, even allowing Supreme to unleash an attack that temporarily knocks Sonic out of his cyber corruption-infused Super Sonic state.

## Relationships

### Sonic the Hedgehog

Throughout the game, The End had relied on Sonic for its escape from Cyber Space, trusting that he would go save his friends from the Cyber Cages that Sage had set up on three of the five Starfall Islands. Despite this, it had an impersonal relationship with Sonic, merely seeing him as a pawn in its overall plan to get released from Cyber Space and destroy the universe. When Sonic gets corrupted from absorbing the cyber-energy from the Cyber Cages, it shows indifference to this, instead boasting about its plans.

During the final boss battle of the game, The End boasts to Sonic about how it is superior compared to every other enemy that he had fought prior, and how the hedgehog is unlikely to defeat it, seemingly viewing Sonic as nothing more than a minor inconvenience to its plan. When Sonic does eventually cause lasting damage onto it, The End does not take its defeat well, and blows itself up in an attempt to get rid of Sonic once and for all.

### Enemies

* Amy Rose
* Ancients
	+ Elder
	+ Crane
	+ Dragon
	+ Master King
	+ Snake
	+ Tiger
* Dr. Eggman
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Sage
* Sonic the Hedgehog