Sage

**Sage** is the deuteragonist of *Sonic Frontiers.*

She was built as a program but none other than Eggman himself in order to protect him from threats and to help him out in his evil schemes.

She starts off as nothing more than a naive AI who believes that Sonic's actions harm the environment rather than benefit it, but it is through the course of the game, with her keeping constant tabs on Sonic, that her whole mindset is put into question, and it is soon that she begins to envy Sonic and the friendships he has created, and seemingly yearns for a close bond with Eggman as well.

It is towards the end of the game, with her character arc seemingly complete (for now anyway), that she ultimately fulfills her purpose as Eggman's protector and sacrifices herself to save the universe from being consumed by the chaotic evil entity that is The End.

She is voiced Ryan Bartley in the English version of the game and Megumi Hayashibara in the Japanese version.

## What Makes Her Magnificent?

* She is a highly advanced and intelligent AI, managing to calculate outcomes within seconds and serving as Eggman's gateway into learning more about the Starfall Islands.
* She is a very intriguing and mysterious villain, with her overall obscurity leading Sonic and his friends, along with the player wanting to learn more about her.
* More than anything else, she wants to gain validation from her father figure Dr. Eggman, as well as understand the emotions and relationships of Sonic and his friends.
* She is incredibly tragic and sympathetic, with her becoming more and more desperate to learn how the emotions of physical beings work, to the point where she starts tearing up because she knows she'll never be able to feel the way humans do.
* She is loyal to Eggman, with all of her decisions and calculations being made to benefit and protect him.
* At the end of the game, she chooses to sacrifice herself to stop the End from destroying the universe and everything in it.
* While she starts off having no qualms with killing Sonic, she still gives him the chance to leave without a fight, and later on, she summons titans to fight Sonic out of pure curiosity to see how he was going to deal with the situation.
* She is able to manipulate data at her whim, with her using her powers to deliberately aggravate the titans in order to have them kill Sonic.
* In the Final Horizon DLC, she manages to calculate another way to defeat The End that would be more beneficial to everyone, with it involving her channeling all of the Cyber Space corruption back into Sonic and then having his friends gather the Chaos Emeralds, ultimately, this outcome proved to be the best one, as not only did she manage to survive this time around, but The End also managed to be defeated as well, with everything ultimately going how she wanted it to.

## What Makes Her a Baddie?

* Ultimately, she is extremely loyal to Eggman, working as his second-in-command within Sonic Frontiers and assisting him in his plans to take over the Starfall Islands, a loyalty which she never gives up. Even her most heroic acts such as sacrificing herself to stop The End from destroying all of existence are done so that Eggman still has a world to rule over.
* Throughout the game, Sage will implore incredibly lethal ways to try and get rid of Sonic, with her awakening and purposefully aggravating Titans in order to get rid of him. And even when she begins to respect him, she sticks the Knight onto him, once more putting him in mortal danger purely to see what he would do in order to escape his predicament.

## External Links

* Sage at the *Sonic* wiki
* Sage at the Villains wiki
* Sage at the Heroes wiki
* Sage at the Villainous Benchmark wiki
* Sage at the Inconsistently Admirable wiki