Iron Queen

The Iron Queen, AKA Regina Ferrum or just "Iron Queen", is a character who appears in Sonic Runaways. She's a self-absorbed tyrant and ruler of the Iron Dominion. Still being relatively young, she is obsessed with her outward appearance and is not the most proficient leader yet.

## History

### Team-Up With Robotnik

Sometime between the events of Sonic Runaways: WANTED and Sonic Runaways: SHACKLED, the Iron Queen made a deal with Robotnik to combine their forces and use the airship known as the Cosmic Eternity to thrust the worlds of Little Planet and Erius into a future where they have already taken over the world completely.

### SHACKLED

In Sonic Runaways: SHACKLED, Iron Queen introduces herself by nailing Sonic's cloak to a palm tree in Palmtree Panic Zone with her spear. After this, she chases Sonic and Tails until Tails flies Sonic away. Later, Sonic and Tails find her in Collision Chaos Zone where she and Robotnik are zapping Hotarus to stop them from priming the Zone for Forestation. However, Iron Queen notes that it is "boring" and Robotnik even admits it is tedious. They seem to be getting nowhere even with the Hotarus they manage to kill. When Sonic and Tails attack their pods, they fly away, knowing it's a battle they can't win.

Later, Iron Queen and Robotnik are relaxing and monitoring their miner Badmechs as they mine for Time Stone in Quartz Quadrant. When Sonic and Tails start to destroy the Badmechs, Iron Queen and Robotnik attempt to fend them off. But they are yet again thwarted when Robotnik is knocked out of his pod, the Rob-O-Matic and Iron Queen's pod, the Dominator, is destroyed. When the plants of Little Planet begin to attack Sonic and Tails, Iron Queen and Robotnik make their escape on the Rob-O-Matic.

Shortly after this, Sonic and Tails run into Iron Queen, Lord Robotnik, and Metal Sonic in Stardust Speedway. Iron Queen and Robotnik propose a race between Sonic and Metal Sonic, which Sonic agrees to in order to save Amy of the Roses. When he fails to beat Metal Sonic to the finish line after an explosion propelling Metal Sonic forward, Iron Queen appears happy before sending Sonic and Tails to the distant past.

When Sonic, Tails and Amy all make it back to the present, they infiltrate Metallic Madness, Robotnik and Iron Queen's last remaining stronghold on Little Planet. Here, their most powerful machine yet is revealed. The Final Fever. However, the Final Fever is destroyed instantly by a collection of plants known as Verdure Vista. Iron Queen and Robotnik survive the explosion, but Robotnik is devoured by the mindless Verdure Vista right in front of Iron Queen. This sends Iron Queen into a confused meltdown where she can only scream in terror. Sonic saves her from being devoured as well, and fueled by revenge in the name of her fallen best friend, Robotnik, she helps destroy Verdure Vista. After this, she and the others escape Little Planet on an escape pod. She banishes them all from the Iron Dominion before they land back on Erius.

### RESTRAINED

In Sonic Runaways: RESTRAINED, Iron Queen is mentioned to have cut the chain to Little Planet, letting it return to its rightful place in the cosmos until the next year when it is destined to return. Later on, Sonic suggests that she could be the mad doctor trying to steal the Master Emerald in the prophesized Doomsday. The following day, Ata the Olm mentions that the Iron Queen is suspected by many people around Erius to have either murdered Robotnik on Little Planet or abandoned him there after she cut the chain to the planetoid.

### HEXED

In HEXED, Iron Queen makes a brief appearance where she breaks down on stream in response to the people blaming Robotnik for the recent shattering of Erius.