Metallix

**Metallix** (メタリックス *Metarikkusu*), or just **Metal** (メタル *Metaru*), is one of the main antagonists in *Mega Sonic Bros.: The Movie* and serves as the primary villain for the second part of the film. He is a robot created by Orangusnake in the image of the doctor's greatest adversary, Sonic The Hedgehog, with the purpose of defeating Sonic and destroying the Land of the Sky.

Besides sharing Sonic's appearance and abilities, Metallix is infused with Sonic's life data (personality and memories) to be as formidable in battle as the real Sonic, making the robot a near-perfect duplicate of the blue blur. This however created a mind link between Metallix and Sonic, allowing them to hear each other's thoughts. This also gave Metallix traits of the real Sonic's personality and habits, which eventually led to him sacrificing himself to save the lives of the Bowser and Old Man Owl.

## History

Metallix was created by Orangusnake as his greatest creation in Robotropolis. His purpose was to destroy the real Sonic and help him destroy the Land of the Sky. After Metallix's body was constructed, all Orangusnake needed was to complete Metallix's AI by infusing it with Sonic's life data to make it the ultimate fighting machine. However, he needed to download it straight from Sonic himself. Orangusnake therefore formulated a plan where he would trick Sonic into coming to Robotropolis in order to shut down the dangerous Robot Generator, which in fact served as the device that would download Sonic's life data into Metallix.

Orangusnake's plan eventually worked out perfectly and Metallix sprung to life once the download was complete, before facing the real Sonic. Metallix then briefly protected Orangusnake as Sonic charged at him, prompting Sonic to challenge Metallix to a battle in order to save Orangusnake's hostage, Princess Peach. Building up power, Metallix faced Sonic in a high speed battle, and proved himself to be more than a match for the real Sonic, overwhelming him in both strength and speed. Metallix's battle with Sonic eventually led to the outside of Robotropolis, where Metallix defeated Sonic by knocking him off a mountain and believed him to be dead.

Metallix subsequently followed Orangusnake's orders and headed to the capital of South Island to destroy any resistance. Along the way, due to the influence of Sonic's memories and thoughts, Metallix stopped by Sonic and Mega Man' home, where he met Old Man Owl and forced Sonic's favorite clothes on him, before continuing on.

Once on South Island, Metal began a destructive rampage throughout the city. By instructions from Orangusnake, Metallix then headed to a glacier which anchored the continents to the planet, and drilled a tunnel deep into this glacier, with the purpose of releasing a pocket of magma which would make the glacier melt and cause the continents to be hurled into the atmosphere.

After finishing its job, Metallix saw Sonic coming and launched an unsuccessful surprise attack. Face to face, Metallix announces (through beeps and buzzing) that there could not be two Sonics on this planet, and that one of them had to go. Sonic agreed, and he and Metallix faced each other in a long and intense battle between two opponents of equal might. As they continued to clash, it became apparent to both Metallix and Sonic that they could read each other's moves due to sharing the same thoughts, meaning neither of them could gain the upper hand. Their battle was temporarily interrupted by the untimely arrival of Orangusnake and Peach, as they crashed into the Orangusnake Mobile, but they soon after resumed their fight.

The battle between Metallix and Sonic grew increasingly fiercer as the two of them literally tore apart the icy wasteland in the wake of their fight, with Metallix hitting Sonic hard and vice versa, but they could still only fight to a stalemate. Eventually, however, Metallix gained the upper hand when Sonic grew exhausted from their prolonged battle. As Metallix held Sonic in a chokehold and prepared to finish him, Mega Man used his Navigator to overload Metallix’s system by assimilating Sonic's personality. While Metallix malfunctioned, Sonic took the opportunity to land a direct hit with his Spin Dash, knocking Metallix into the distance and inflicting major damage.

Metallix returned soon after to prevent Sonic, Amy and Megaman from saving the Bowser and Old Man Owl from a crash landing in the Bowser's personal ship. Sonic told Metallix to move aside, but Metallix ignored his pleas. After Orangusnake prevented Mega Man from overloading Metallix's system once again, Metallix resumed his fight with Sonic. As their fight continued however, Metallix's damage became increasingly more extensive, and Metallix found himself overwhelmed by Sonic and crashed into the windshield of the Doomship. As the ship was about to explode however, Sonic's personality overtook Metallix's programming and Metallix saved the Bowser and Old Man Owl.

After saving them, Metallix started to malfunction again, which caused him to be knocked into a lava pit by falling debris. Heavily damaged and nearly unable to move, Metallix saw Sonic trying to rescue him, and began crawling towards him. To Sonic's surprise, however, Metallix refused Sonic's rescue and announced to him that "*There is only one Sonic...*", as Metallix now realized that Sonic was the only one of them that could remain. Accepting his fate, Metallix allowed the rising lava to consume him and melt him down to slag.

## Powers and abilities

Metallix was an incredibly powerful robot, being able to create city-wide destruction alone and match Sonic perfectly in combat, although Metallix's superior stamina allowed it to ultimately best Sonic in both their confrontations. Orangusnake himself also proclaimed that Metallix was a far greater threat than the extremely powerful Mecha Orangusnake mech. Metallix possessed a powerful engine on its back that allowed it to fly and hover, as well as move at speeds matching and even surpassing Sonic's. It also had matching lightning-fast reflexes and acrobatic skills, easily keeping up with and reacting to both Sonic's high-speed movements and incoming obstacles.

Metallix was capable of forming a transparent energy shield around itself and those close to it. This shield provided Metallix enough protection to smash through solid surfaces without harm and burrow through the ground without slowing down.

Metallix had a superhuman level of strength, enough to knock Sonic unconscious with a single hit and break off an entire mountain top when clashing with Sonic. It also had immense durability and endurance: it could take several direct hits from Sonic with only limited harm, withstand an explosion, and even operate after taking heavy damage and having several limbs torn off.

## Trivia

* The second model (Metal Sonic v2.5) incarnation of the character Shard the Metal Sonic from the Archie Comics' *Mega Sonic Bros.* comic series was burned in lava similarly to how Hyper Metal Sonic was.
* The term Hyper doesn't mean "Speed", but actually "More", meaning that his name is actually "More Metal Sonic".