With that said, several points:
1. Read this before posting in case someone already asked your question.
2. Now for the moment, I've been focusing on gathering the questions. If there's any redundancies, then don't post in thread, but PM me to point out the repeated question.
Edit: 3. Didn't think about this until Ethan made his post, but as with the second one, if I left anything off from someone's list, then for further reminders, PM me.
Edit: 4. I will delete some of the contents if I notice redundancy (i.e. What happened to character F or S).
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therealfalconpawnch7
Will this include what was written on that slip of Paper Mogul gave Silver? Because that's been buzzing in my mind whenever I think of Silver lately.
NiTROACTiVE
1. Since we're getting Hershey's role, does that mean she was the female black cat legionnaire in SU #37 and that she'll meet Sonic, Tails and Amy in STH #237 and tell them what happened to her? Or was she brainwashed and legionized?
2. Will Geoffrey and Hershey have a tearful reunion when the time comes?
I must ask this however. Did you have plans to develop Hershey's character more? I'm asking this because some people felt that she had a weak character, and there are people who said you developed other characters into better ones. I don't know if the answer would spoil the surprise or not, but if it would then I understand.
squeakyboots13
1. Will Silver have ever met Mogul while he was in the present? And what would Silver's role in the comic become after the traitor thing settled?
2. Was the Blue Emerald Eggman went after in issue 223 always intended to be used for the Genesis Wave, or was there another purpose for it before that? Where would have the Emerald turned up had Worlds Collide not happened?
3. What "plans" did Scourge at the end of his Universe arc? (Feel free to ignore this question if it can still be a thing in the comic.)
4. Would the Team Freedom and Team Fighters dynamic stay permanent even after Sally, Antoine, and Bunnie came back?
Captain Harlock
1- What were the plans for Merlin you were wanting to do for a long time?
2- Naugus. Why was he going ugly even BEFORE Genesis? Actually you'll probably answer this already but eh.
ShadowBat20
This is so awesome. Ian, you rock! Any chance we could get info on the Brotherhood of Guardians and Moritori Rex in the Twilight Cage? Or your plans for the Nocturnus?
The Shadow Emperor
1. The Brotherhood--really interested about your plans for them, especially with Spectre.
2. Was there any intended followup to Charmy and Saffron's search for the remaining bees?
3. Did you have any different plans for the Black Arms before the reboot, i.e. following up on their war with the Xorda?
4. Not sure if you have any current plans for these, so disregard if that's the case, but who/what are the Seven Ixis Masterworks and Mogul's other three Elites?
5. Did you have a concrete resolution in mind for the Dark Egg Legion? Were you planning on introducing any new chapters or Grandmasters?
6. Were there any concrete plans for the Nerb Freedom Fighters or were those exclusively gag characters for the Encyclopedia?
7. Were there any plans to introduce a new Enerjak, or even finish his plotline altogether?
8. What happened to the Iron King after #211?
9. What was Helmut von Stryker planning?
10. What exactly happened to Lien-Da of Light Mobius after Shadow broke her armband? Or Shadow himself for that matter?
11. What were the Knights of Kronos?
12. What was the "other Khans" plot point introduced in SU #16?
13. Did you have an origin in mind for the Days of Fury?
14. Were there any plans to visit the Lethal Radioactive Zone? I'm really curious about that place.
15. How did you plan to address the fact that the Nocturnus and other prisoners didn't age in the Twilight Cage while the Legion did?
16. And on that note, was Argus going to play an eventual role?
17. What was planned with Eggman Nega and the Zone Cops?
18. Did you plan an expanding more on Vector's backstory with Barby, Bill and "Father?"
19. Did any named Albionites like Yanar survive the city's destruction?
20. What happened to Dimitri?
- in the Encyclopedia there was a throwaway line about there possibly being small cities or "old Earth" pockets of civilization still residing on Mobius. Were there any plans in the works for this, or for any of the little regions and cities on the map that are still unexplored like Dorcea, Gascarma, or the Land of a Million Lights?
- Did you ever figure out a role for Dulcy and the Dragon Tribe? Were you planning to develop the history of the Dragon Kingdom more, what with the dragons' origin story, ancient machines like the Iron Oni, and the "Lost Dynasty" mentioned in SU #14? And would anything have happened to Hope after Eggman told the U.F. Legion to "single her out"?
Captain Harlock
Any chance, btw, of a look at Lea's intended redesigns? While as you said you won't be showing manuscripts etc, her description of them being still very vague et al sounds like she can provide a simulation, instead, per se? "this is not the actual redesign, but me doing something similar from memory to give an idea of"?
SurrealBrain
- What were your plans for Dr. Finitevus after his (so far) last appearance?
- How would Antione have gotten out of his coma? How would he have reacted to Bunnie having gone missing? How would he have dealt with it?
- Also, it's more or less confirmed that Bunnie would have been in the D.E.L. How would that have gone?
- What would you have done with things like the Time Eater, the Wisps, Emerl, and any other game element that you hadn't integrated into the old continuity?
Adamis
- Will you reveal what was planned for the Chaotix saga in SU before Rob got replaced ?
- Did you have plans for the Chronicles characters (not only the Nocturnus, but characters like Nestor the Wise, the Pirates or even Argus) ?
- What was going to happen to Silver after the Mecha Sally arc ?
- Why did G.U.N. need the emeralds for ? (or is that plan still used in the current comic ?)
- Can you tell us what was going to happen to Antoine ? How would he come out of his coma, how would he get a new design (I suppose)...
- What about Bunnie ?
- Were there anything planned for Mina ?
- Speaking of her, you said you'd explain how she could have met Mogul despite him being unavailable at that time. Do you remember this ?
lalalei2001
Will you reveal Amy's intended backstory?
EDIT: And would the Iron Queen ever discover Snively was fake? I could see her doing battle with GUN and co.
Tigsie
1. I'm really interested in knowing the reactions of Beau and the Freedom Fighters towards Bunnie's legionization. Would her new parts have been pre-made with explosives already in them?
2. Did Regina really love Snively? Or do they both play off each other for benefits? Would she have rescued Snively or just been happy with her obedient Snively clone?
3. Did you have any plans for Rob being Mercia's king in hiding, or was that just to get him out of the picture temporarily?
4. What were Moritori and the Brotherhood's relationship like when they were banished to the Twilight Cage? They were kind of strapped down on the experiment table together...and Rex has experience being in the Cage. What would their reaction be towards learning Knuckles and Dimitri were working together? (Rex has some forgotten ability of being able to spy on Mobius Prime from the Cage, so I assume he would at least know what's going on.)
5. Did you have a grander plan for Frost Legion vs Flame Legion, or did you scrap them for Enerjak's story and Eggman's Legion Army?
6. If you can't show Saffron's redesign, could you describe what she would have looked like? Was anybody else going to get a make over?
Xeric
- Why did Fini need Scourge, Fiona and the Destructix on Anti-Mobius?
- Was their any plans to get back to Miles, Alicia, Boomer etc?
- What was going on with Merlin? You said Sega didnt want you to use the idea or something?
- Did Saffron play an important part in Endangered Speices? Any other plans for her and Charmy?
- Any plans for the Forty Fathom Freedom Fighters?
PM Questions posted by Xeric
- Were there any plans for Megan and Alexis?
- Were there any plans for the Forget-Me-Knots?
- Did you have any plans to bring back any of the older cast like you did with Larry, Harvey Who etc?
- Did you ever decide if Hope had been in touch with anyone from Mobotropolis? If so, who had she been in contact with?
- Did you have any plans for Rory, Snaggle, Sasha and/or Rosie?
- Although you didn't introduce the characters to the comic, did you ever come up who the missing parent's are for some of the future kids? Salma and Juanita's mother, Rutan's Father, Argyle's mother etc?
- Vector's secret origins in Downunda were teased, what did those involve?
- Anything involving the Downunda FF's?
BombombDom
Definitely the original Chaotix Quest (if it was going to be any different).
comic321
- Will a certain owl return? I'm sure you know who I'm talking about.
- Who was Argyle's Mother?
- Did you have any other plans for the Secret Freedom Fighters?
- So, were there any more plans for the Downunda & Crazy Kritter ffs? (sorry if this has already been asked).
akessel92
I just want to say I am happy you are doing this mr. Flynn. Any who I wonder if there was any plans on the rob o'hedge part of the chaotix quest arc. Also just to ask was Naugus going to mutate Geoffrey's body and make him Ixis Nauffrey like in that sonic villains best of sonic compilation?
ZonicZoneCop
Would the Zone Cops have seen a return?
SimonSays
- What was the plan for Shard after he got Ka-Boomed?
- Or any of the SFF for that matter?
- Oh, and here's another: How was Shard supposed to encounter Sonic for the first time again, before he ended up meeting Team Fighters in Endangered Species?
GentlemanX
-What plans did you have in mind for Geoffrey going forward, both in the short and long term?
-What other plans did you have for MxYL? Any details on Theta, the Anarchy Beryl Bomb, Tikaos? Other future stories? What direction were you hoping to take Rutan?
-What did you hope to do with the concept on Enerjak? You were expanding on his history, any more detail to that? Did you have any ideas on what you would have done with the villain going forward?
-What were your plans for the Neo Walkers outside of that Merlin story?
-Did you intend to do anything else with Mammoth Mogul outside of indirectly doing things to irk Sonic?
-Minor note, was Mighty and Ray's quest always going to be just the ending? Did you always intend for us to never see anything between when they left and when they found Matilda?
-What plans did you have for Dimitri since he was now working with Knuckles?
-Even before Endangered Species, 239-242 were obviously shuffled around quite a bit, including 241 focusing on Geoffrey and Naugus rather than the intended story "Blast from the Past". It falls into "the plans for 2012", but what all happened to these stories?
-What plans did you have for Team Freedom and Team Fighters? In particular, why were Heavy and Bomb chosen to join Team Freedom? Did you have something you wanted to do differently with them?
-Was the crossover with Mega Man always planned for around this time or not? Had the Pendering not happened, what would have been different? Particularly, how would the ending have been different?
streetsonic13
- The future aka Silver's future, any info on how much would've happened to make it happened, and also the information about the "Knights of Chronos"?
- If MXYL was continued, what would've happened to the crucial SEGASonic cast that Penders "seemingly" forgotten about: Amy, Rouge, Mighty and Charmy, in that timeline?
- Also for MXYL: the info on how Tikal and Chaos merged, the Elemental Wars, Theta?
- Were there plans of Chaos and Tikal coming back to the Prime Zone?
- Amy's past: were there any plans on finding out who her parents were by name?
- Going to Sonic CD territory, the plans of the Little Planet on Mobius?
- How long when Regina would have found out about Snively and did she had any plans to back-stab Eggman?
- The Dingos themselves and how they could've be involve in the future?
- Could Conquering Storm and her army become a future threat in general?
- Tails Doll, besides of becoming the "Cthulhu" before the crossover or something else?
- The Nocturnus, and the usage of anything from Chronicles?
- And this one probably might not be answered either it might be released or not, since now it's under "Do not use": what was going to be story for ending Sonic Underground?
Julayla
-If there would have been a chance to explore Scourge's world Moebius somehow, would we have seen an Anti-Fiona and an Anti-Nack if you ever continued?
-Would Silver's future had changed when he found the traitor or would it have been one of those "You can't fight fate" scenarios with Silver?
-What are your words about exploring the rest of Blaze's world if you ever had the opportunity?
-What were the original plans for Rob O' the Hedge?
-Regarding Pink Nic the Weasel, what were your plans for her, if you were ever going to use her? Would she just only be a cameo before being killed off or something?
-And what of Nack's past, if ever explored? Would we see what he would have been (considering that I for some odd reason believe Nack & Nic were orphans and being adopted by rich people) before his bounty hunting career?
-If you ever got approved of using other Sonic continuities, would they have been redesigned and given different backgrounds to fit in the Sonic continuity?
-Okay, I have a new question to ask and this is just a thought. On the subject of the Sonic Underground Epilogue that you are probably never going to be able to work on, what were the fates of Robotnik, Sleet, and Dingo gonna be? Prison, death, or something else in mind?
-UPDATE: I finally came up with one final question in my mind: What were your original plans for Lien-da and her Dark Egg Legion echidna clan after the events of Endangered Species?
Gatorman
- What becomes of Augustus? I know he was injured defending his teammates, but was it serious?
- What, exactly, caused Barby and Bill to harbor a grudge against Vector? Who's the "old man" Vector and Barby mentioned?
Scruffy
- What were your original plans for Lien-Da before she got banished with the rest of the echidnas? Would she and her awesome new lightning-whip powers have eventually attempted a coup?
- Had you planned to adapt any games into the comic (into the actual canon storyline, rather than the ATAP stories)? Chaotix Quest seemed to hint pretty heavily at Sonic CD. Would we have seen any past games being used?
- These guys are probably still available for you to use in the comics, but did you have to shelve any plans for the Battlebird Armada and the Babylon Rogues?
- Would the Secret Freedom Fighters have continued working together as a unit after Naugus was usurped?
- Would we have seen Naugus get his hands on more Chaos Emeralds, as prophesised by Future Mogul?
- Would Future Mogul and Present Mogul and Ixis Mogul have had an epic battle royale across all of time? Possibly in a blue police box?
- Would Jules, Shard, and T-Pup have eventually combined to become some Megazord-like monstrosity of doom?
- Would Dubs have secretly replaced you with a robot of his own design, programmed to write Nerb story after Nerb story after Nerb story?
- Added 23/12: Were there any Sonic Universe arcs you'd planned that you had to drop? The ones we don't already know about, I mean.
Ogilvie
1. How the Sonic Underground wrapup would have gone. I was actually really interested to see what was planned prior to the Metal vs. Shard strip being switched with it.
2. Shard's fate, to echo the comments of a few others.
3. I understand that it looks like there was a taboo on calling Enerjak Knuckles directly despite all the hints, but would Silver have ever possibly been a little awkward around him, knowing what he was capable of if he ever went off the deep end?
4. Similarly, what would Silver's reaction be to finding the present day Mogul, if they ever met?
5. As memory serves, two of the emeralds Naugus had in his triple-emerald staff were in GUN's possession in the present day. Did he end up going to war with them or was he going to?
6. Would Scourge and Fiona have worked out, or would have one betrayed the other?
7. Similar to the above, would Scourge have ever been shown to have any redeeming traits at all? Despite being arrogant, violent and outright malicious at times, his encounter with Jules seems to show he can at least feel remorse. Was there any possibility for good in the heart of the monster, basically?
8. Like 6, how would Regina and Snively have worked out? While it does look like they genuinely cared for each other, would the temptations of power have possibly torn them apart?
9. Shard and Nicole looked like they were bonding as memory serves. How would that have developed?
Mobotropolis: Before you said that you had plans for the book all the way up through Sonic 300. Could you give us a rough timeline for the major plot points leading up to the 300 milestone? It's be a great starting point for the fans writing stories and whatnot.
TheEzekiel300
- Ian, what was the point of Sally seeing the "Hi SAL" written on the glass by Sonic? Does her seeing the "Hi SAL" a clue for it playing a significant role in the future issues of the Mecha Sally arc?
- Isn't the evil king Shadow from "Years Later" still technically running around loose? After Sonic and the new generation of freedom fighters defeated Chaos, we never got back to evil King Shadow. He himself wasn't defeated.
- What would Sonic have learned from losing his girlfriend twice out of all of this? First by dying and 2nd by Robotization ? How will Sonic, himself, develop out of all this?
- Will Mecha Sally be at least one of the toughest foes Sonic ever had to face? Was the final battle with Mecha Sally intense, exciting, and colossal?
- Ian, how could you be tired of Sonic being with Sally, when they weren't together for about 100 issues? Sally didn't even assist Sonic in all of his missions during the repairing of their relationship period. Scourge, Shadow, Mina, Ash, Knuckles and even Geoffrey assisted Sonic in battle.
- Ian, was anyone ever going to find out that Naugus was the one controlling everyone's feelings by blowing everyone's feeling out of proportion with his Chaos emerald?
Bull Nanook: The D.E.L., the Nerbs, Diesel, Beauregard, and all the other grandmasters. What plans were put into place for the sub-bosses Ian?
kimplix
What about Snivley? Will we get to see the lights of day for Robotnik's/Eggman's assistance again or will he just be trapped in that capsule for the rest of the comic history?
Ooga_Hooga
- Silvers plotline was one of my favourite in the comic, and I was hoping that he'd go looking for Mogul after he stopped the traitor and the reaction he would have had at finding his mentor is one of the bad guys.
-I'd love to see the original endangered species arc since It sounds like it was going to be a lot better,
-If you had any plans for the Nocturnus.
-What you would do with Nega if you could fully use him how you wanted.
4everscourgefan
1. where there plans to visit overseer O'knux and the orderix on demon Island ?
2. also how would they look like ?
3. What where the plans of Miles and Alicia?
back in 196 after when sonic defeated super Scourge they where talking about their real leader
4. me and my friend where looking at some old ask ian posts where you answerd as the characters and we saw this
Question #178 wrote:
To Miles: You told Tails how he has denied his magical heritage but so far we haven't seen anything from you on that end. Will we see you prove your abilities in the future? Only a fool plays his hand so early. How do you think we boosted the doctor's Globe Posts to reach across to the Mobian Star Posts? Do you think I've been merely playing the tag-along kid all this time? Let that sniveling pup prance around in his gaudy machines. When the time comes, I will show him the true elegance of a master magician.
where there plans for miles to use his magic?
5. where there plans for super scourge to appear again?
BlackHawkOmega
1- What were your original plans for Dimitri?
2- How were the redesigns of the FF's originally gonna go down? How would they have eventually gotten back together?
SorcerorLance
1. Mostly wondering what plans were made for Lien-Da what with her new abilities and how she would've been a threat from then on as a more efficient fighter.
2. of course the fate of Mecha Sally and her supposed role with Silver's future or what future Mogul had planned.
3. former King Max's initial plan for getting a Chaos Emerald in the first place, or if it was just simply a feeble old man's desperate attempt to regain power as king.
4. Geoffrey's motives for helping Naugus as well as the true story of what happened to Hershey
5. Naugus' plans for New Mobotropolis
6. the fate of Snively as well as Regina
7. Dimitri's role from then on in New Mobotropolis
8. the other threats that were mentioned in passing before the reveal of Tikhaos in the future
9. Where King Shadow disappeared to after the Tikhaos incident
10. If Knuckles had any closure with the echidna tribe
11. I suppose if possible, perhaps an ending to the entire story, if the X Years Later arcs are in any way canon as well as Silver's future
DabigRG
- What exactly was Tails plan in regards to Elias, Rosemary, and the Council?
- Back during Eggman Empire, which at one point was hinted to have its fallout last from 175 to 200, would any of the captured characters be affected in any significant way?
- Were there plans concerning Kodos and Arachnis in a similar veins to Kragok in StH205?
- Did you hatred for Nic ever let up enough to include her in a story, if she fit into it?
- Did you ever figure out how to bring back Downtown Ebony Hare?
- How did SEGA respond to Espio siding with the Iron Dimonion?
- Personal Question:Was it hard to push aside your plans and completed scripts when the Penderpocalypse began?
- And since you used the term "Ask Ian", who's your top/bottom 5 favorite comic-made characters?
- Was Bunnie's redesign always intended or was it just thrown in at last minute of "Chaotix Quest"'s development?
- How would have Echoes to the Past and Endangered Species been like if Remington was Enerjak?
- Is GaeNa dead or in the Twilight Cage?
- Were the ruins in Echoes of the Past Albionian, Tasmanian, or something else?
Mavrickindigo
- What were your plans for Rouge and Knuckles before she got put onto Team Dark?
- Were the Nocturnus ever going to show up?
- What did you have planned for expanding Amy's family stuff?
- Where did Thrash throw the echidnas? The Twilight Cage? The Sun?
- A lot of people seem to think Rosemary Prower was insane. Is this true?
- Any plans for Charlemagne or the 100 moons of Mobius?
- Were you planning on an Espio/Nicole romance? What was the deal with the two of them being so close?
- What was going to happen with the Eggman Nega plot?
009*
- How would Rosemary and the council's grudges with the FF and the royal family have been resolved?
- Okay, I know Ian wrote it out, but was there ever an explanation for why the Source of All manipulated Max to enable Robotnik, Naugus, and Kodos' actions? What was it trying to accomplish? Did it have something to do with the echidnas, one of the other villains, was it somehow corrupted, or something else?
- About the Battle Bird Armada:
- Was it ever going to be revealed that they brought down the force field back in their SU arc and not some failure on Nicole's part? Like the BBA captures Team Fighters on their return trip, see Sally, and get an explanation about the World Roboticizer, and the Battle Kuku gives them the remote or the blueprints to pay back the debt he owes to Sally?
Para
- Would Jules and Sonic have ever had an actual heart to heart chat? (I think the last time it was tried, Sonic ended up muttering about wishing Chuck was there because "he always knew what to do")
- Were the Zone Cops going to be destroyed by Eggman Nega, throwing the notion that anyone could govern the "multiverse" out the window? It sure seemed to be heading that way last we saw of them.
awkwardMEOW
This makes up for the reboot for me. This is ALL I could ask for. I definitely want to know what would have happened with Fiona, Scourge, Finitevus, the Brotherhood, Archimedes, and Rob O'The Hedge.... They were my favorite lost characters.
NicTheWeasel
1. As others have mentioned, the plans for Endangered Species, as well as pretty much any Echidna-related revelations.
2. Silver and Mogul, in the present and future. Where were things headed?
3. Snively and Regina.
4. The Naugus arc, the ongoing lives of the Secret Freedom Fighters, and any other related tidbits.
RadRed89
- What was the plan for Monkey Khan and the Dragon Kingdom, along with the tidbit Espio gave during the Journey to the East story about other Cyborgs like Khan?
- I'd like to know what the eventual plan for the Iron King would have been too.
- Oh, and Team Freedom. Where were things going with them? Would they have gotten more screen time, and what would they have been doing?
SacreBluCheese
The thing that I am most curious about is the whole Rabbot/D'Coolette family history that was starting to get developed. Maybe it's because I'm going to school to be an English and History teacher but I thought the parallels between the Southern Baronies and the Antebellum South were really fascinating especially when adding a bit of Romeo and Juliet in the mix. What was the end goal of introducing us to Beauregard and the hidden animosity between the Acorn Kingdom and the Baronies? How was this going to effect Antoine and Bunnie's relationship especially considering Antoine's coma and Bunnie running off to her Uncle?
Spectre the Hechidnat
1. Were you going to have Black Doom and the original Black Comet show up on Mobius before Sega kiboshed that plan for whatever reason?
2. Did you have in mind any ideas as to who was Uma's husband/the father of the Arachne?
3. Was Spectre's Legionization going to be revealed in-story at some point, possibly featuring a showdown between Moritori and himself?
And just a personal one:
4. Which character or group of characters is it hardest for you to see go with all the changes?
EDIT: Couple more questions.
5. Were we going to see more of Vector's backstory-perhaps an actual character attached to the alias "Father?"
6. Did you have any plans so far as Efrika FFs?
Antiyonder
Would there have been some ramifications to the Second Genesis Wave, albeit much minor compared to what we have now or would StH #252 be like Mega Man #28 in that it would take a few moments to show Sonic's world restored and then just continue on with the main storyline?
DubleDuce
- I always wondered why Sonic was immune to the hex Dr. Finitevus put on the Master Emerald back during the Enerjak arc. -Also, Eggman made a few mentions to Sonic being the "embodiment of chaos", so I was hoping for a little more elaboration as to where that was going if it indeed was building up to something.
- And lastly, what were the original plans for Merlin Prower that ended up having to be put on a shelf?
linebyline
- Just in case this wasn't already part of the "Endangered Species" stuff you're planning to release: How was Thrash's originally planned character arc different from the revised "Must get echidnas off-panel NOW" version?
- Geoffrey got in deep doo-doo for betraying the currently recognized monarch while pretending to serve him; only a royal pardon got him off the hook. then Elias went and did the exact same thing. Were there planned repercussions?
- For that matter, what kind of consequences would the other SFF have faced? Would it just have stayed secret forever?
- Did you have any plans for Councilor Isabella beyond getting Nicole back?
- You already said you plan to explain the fate of Mecha Sally, but after Engangered Species, did you have any plans to work the Krudzu into it (even if just a failed attempt)?
- Who let Dub get ahold of a wrench?
- What was Nicole originally building for Naugus, or is that already on your list?
- Folks have asked about Snively, Regina, and Fake Snively, but what about Brass and the Sigma Alphas?
TurboTailz
- Was Lien-da going to have a major part in the series to decide to give up on her goal to be the top and etc. Just want to know how her character would've been handled
- The same with Scourge, Fiona and Dr.Finitevus.
Bystander #3
Did Bunnie really get Legionized? Would she come back to the Freedom Fighters? Was she stuck with Baron Beauregard's Dark Egg Legion?
Tonberry2k
- What would have ultimately happened with Dimitri after he was taken back to Knothole?
- Would Present-Day Mogul have ever come out of retirement?
- Would Silver meet Present-Mogul?
- What would Silver's Future be now that he solved the "traitor" case?
- Were there any plans long-term with Julie-Su?
- How about Archimedes?
- It seemed like you were pushing toward Geoffrey's redemption at some point in the future. What would have actually happened?
- How were the Chaos Emeralds actually going to be used once they were all finally gathered?
- How would the redesigned Nerbs have come into play?
- Were the Forty Fathoms Freedom Fighters going to reappear?
- What happened to the Iron King?
- When would Regina have discovered Snively's fate? What would her reaction be?
- What would Robotnik have been doing with Snively in the mean time?
- Were the Brotherhood ever going to return?
- Were the Nocturnus going to appear?
- Would the core Freedom Fighter team have been played with any more?
- How was Bunnie's de-roboticization going to eventually play out?
- How about Antoine's injuries?
- How would Sally have been treated after her return from roboticization?
- What was the end-game with Thrash? He was just starting to be built up and made into something.
- How about Scourge and the Fearsome Foursome?
- Were the Suppression Squad going to make their return?
- How was the Shadow/Hope relationship going to play out?
- Would there have been any huge gains for Eggman that would have had huge impacts on the story?
- Any planned deaths?
- How would the Knuckles/Rouge/Julie love triangle have played out?
diamonddeath
1) There's still that scrapped storyline that you told us to ask about after a while, but when myself and others asked we never got an answer. Maybe this time you can tell us?
2) I would also like to know what was planned for Feist in terms of a backstory if anything.
3) Was Edmund in Silver's timeline actually a descendant of both Lara-Su and Argyle? And while we're on the subject of the future, what was planned, if anything, for Amy and any others in the future of Light Mobius, and what would have happened after Jani-Ca became Enerjak in Dark Mobius? Is there anything else about the future that you can still tell us? Oh, and who was Rutan's father? Finally, does Mobius Prime, Light Mobius, Dark Mobius, and Eggman/Nicole's future all lead into Silver's future somehow? If so, how would Eggman/Nicole's future lead into it? And kind of a strange question, but how exactly did the Dark Eyes and the rest of the Legion react quick enough to create those armbands... Or perhaps how did whoever made them react quick enough. Also, how did the Dark Legion split into different sections?
4) What did you have planned for Rob, Mari-An, and John with Little Planet, the Time Stones, and the guardian/owl? (I think that some of that can actually still be used, but I'm not sure, so I figured I'd ask)
5) What would have developed between Dimitri and Knuckes? It seemed as though some sort of relationship (such as father-type or mentor) was brewing.
6) Were there any plans for any of the other Freedom Fighter groups that we probably won't ever see again such as the Downunda Freedom Fighters? Would there have been any type of conclusions to any ongoing stories such as Duckbill Platypus leaving the Dark Egg Legion or perhaps remaining there? What was Vector's planned backstory with Barby Koala and any others?
7) Just what was that little creature-thing that Saffron was often seen carrying around?
Were you ever going to develop any further the first two Enerjaks? Could you elaborate on how any why he continued to manifest through the Chaos Force and through only Echidnas? If an Echidna like Knuckles were to turn Super, how is that different? This was something that always confused me. It seemed Enerjak would just appear at random. Did turning Super prevent his spirit from manifesting?
9) What was planned with Ixis Naugus' mutations, who were those other Ixian magicians such as Vale, what was their significance, and can you tell us anything else that you planned for the Ixian magics?
10) Was Mammoth Mogul going to have any other opportunities to attack?
11) Was Matilda ever going to return to Mighty?
12) How did King Sonic prevent the collapse of his future by traveling through time? I don't think this happened under your pen, though, but maybe you had ideas for it.
13) Were the Mephiles and Void in Zone Jail from the Prime Zone? If so, I thought Void and Lumina fused back together. Also, was the koala maid (I forgot her name) from Light Mobius, or a different one? Regardless, how did a character from the future appear in the No Zone?
14) Did you have any plans to use any characters as relationship partners? For example, were you ever planning to show more of Liza the Chameleon with Espio, Li-Moon with Tails, etc?
15) Since I have no idea how much of Moebius, if anything, can still be used, here are a slew of question that you may or may not be able to answer. Can you tell us all your plans for Moebius such as who some other counterparts would have been along with their names and origins? Who were the Orderix's members? Who was Shadow's counterpart? Was he also from a counterpart Black Arms? Was Jeffrey St. Croix an Ixis? Who was the anti Julie-Su, Cream, 6S, Nerbs, Bivalve, Naugus, Enerjak, etc? Anything you could tell us would be amazing!
16) Did you have any plans for that detective from Station Square?
17) What was the scrapped story you had in mind for Nate Morgan returning?
Garet
- In case it is no longer happening, how would you have tied up sonic underground in the original SU #50?
- How was Shard to be saved from the ending of the new SU #50?
- Would some of the things from return to angel island have come up, such as that whole Knuckles is the avatar stuff and the tapesty of super sonic vs robotnik/eggman (can't remember what it depicted exactly).
- Would there have been any stories focusing on tails & his parents? Though we had house of cards, we didn't really see that much of his home-life and adjusting to having his parents around again.
JonLemon
In Sonic Universe 16 Espio said that there are other guys like Monkey Khan and I believe you never picked on that. Will you... is that appropriate to ask? Will you give us more insight on that? And I remember that you said once, that depending on feedback on Iron Dominion arc, Monkey Khan will become semi-regular character. I loved Iron Dominion arc and I will be happy to know how readers reacted to arc, I imagine they liked it too, because then he started to appear more often.
Spinehog
-Did you have any plans for another XYL story, as King Shadow was never captured? ..Or were you just leaving writing room open?
-Could you flesh out your ideas for the "Many Khans" concept?
-If you had had the chance to finally mesh Sonic Chronicles into the main comic series, at what point would you have done so? Were there plans for a conflict between Shade and Julie-Su, or would Shade not have been portrayed as a love interest?
-What were Rouge's plans in the back up story for Knuckles in STH#186? Maybe I missed where this plot was resolved..
-Recently in SU we learned the fate of G.U.N.'s Hugo and his men. Did you intend on continuing there story any farther, or was legionization "the end" of their story.
QuantumEdge
-What would have happened with Mogul? Would he have started to become good, or would he remain the evil casino owner?
-What role would Rob'O the Hedge have played in Chaotic Quest? (OK, it is from SU, but I thought it was worth asking)
-Would Archimedes have appeared in Endangered Species?
Shonic coolhog
1) What where your plans for Mina? She seems to have been forgotten here and I loved the art that came with her concerts. I see 2 outcomes, Either following the path of Miley Cyrus and being corrupted by fame or turning into an unforgettable respected legend.
2) What about bivalve and the rest of the other underwater freedom fighters?
3) Would blaze have pursued Eggman Nega into the multiverse to stop his evil war with the zone cops? or would that have been left up to sonic?
4) Would Cream have undergone intense training turning her into a super freedom fighter so that she could rid the universe of the evil tails doll with the power of politeness?
5) Where there ever plans to use the Werehog?
6) Would Espio ever have become the Hokage? (sorry couldn't resist the Naruto reference :p)
The Swordsman
1. Did Eggman aqurie some kind of demonic artifact and place into Tails Doll? I know Tails Doll was a ascended meme but I wondering about the in universe explantion.
2. What did the United Federation and G.U.N think of King Naugus and the fact that their allies may become a new threat?
3. Would Tails and his mom ever work things out and why did she ever trust Naugus?
009*'s response
2. Did the other nations ever even learn about the change of guard?
3. This actually brings up another question I have about Rosemary: she went through on the day Tails was born (childbirth, Robotnik's coup, alien abduction, etc.) and had to deal with the culture shock and postpartum depression. How sane was she?
Kevin160nitroncaron3
Questions on “Endangered Species”
- If both versions of the arc were to have happy endings, would the echidna school scene at the beginning of Part One would serve as a book end to the conclusion of that arc?
- Was the Sonic the Hedgehog version going to be a 5 or 6 issue arc due to many things happening?
- Was Shadow the Hedgehog going to appear in the arc?
- If so, would he fight Lien-Da and the Dark Legion?
- Was the Dark Legion’s paralyzing defensive grid planned to appear in Part One all along, reguardless of what was changed in the arc, and would it have been powered down by someone other than Tails or would it have been quickly destroyed?
- What other tricks would the Dark Legion have up their sleeves in the arc?
- Would the Dark Legion immediatley become the Dark Presence in aftermather of the arc?
- Was Remington going to be killed off in the arc?
Other Questions
- Were there plans to throw a pair of jeans on Julie-Su, Erma Ermine, Barby Koala, Liza the Chameleon and other female characters I can’t think of who were not fully dressed?
- If Hershey the Cat was going to appear in the continuity after her fate was explained in STH #233, was her role going to be secretley helping Team Fighters help rescue Lupe?
- Would Naugus remain in Geoffrey St. John’s body for the remainder of the Naugus plot and would his plans involve wiping out the Council of Acorn and restoring the old Acorn Monarchy?
- Were Beauregard Rabbot and Bill the Platypus planning to remove all the Dark Egg Legionnaires’ explosives?
- Would Knuckles have a huge role for removing the D.E.L. explosives?
- Would Sally be tried for treason for redirecting the World Roboticizer on herself?
- Was Knuckles going to get into another battle against Dr. Finitevus?
Dimzjak
- What happened to Jani-Ca-as-Enerjak after the conclusion of the Silver Saga?
- Did you have plans to confirm fan speculation of Finitevus as Rutan's father?
- Did Finitevus have a presence as a villain in the M30YL universe?
- Would Silver have met modern-day Mammoth Mogul in the past? If so what were the plans for this?
- How/why did Mammoth Mogul become a 'good guy' in Silver's future? How did Silver meet Mogul?
- Why was Edmund a "failed Guardian"? Were there plans to elaborate on Edmund's backstory?
- What would have been the conclusion to the Geoffrey/Naugus plot?
The Bored
-What would have been revealed as the cause of Silver's future? would it have been Iblis?
-What did you have planned for Sonic's parents?
-Would the likes of Dark Gaia, Mephelis or the Time Eater have appeared?
-What was planned for Shadow?
misspuar
- Was there any plans to explore more of Fiona's backstory (maybe something from when she, Bark, Bean, & Nic were a team?)
- Could the robot version of Fiona ever be recovered from underwater & repaired, or was the damage too excessive?
- What would have become of Team Freedom after the Mecha Sally arc concluded? Would Rotor still have a leadership position if/when Sally returned?
- After Naugus was defeated, he would have resumed the throne? Elias, Sally, or someone else? Would the monarchy even have continued?
- What would Isabella Mongoose be like as a Council member? Would she ever talk to Rosemary specifically about parenting (since Isabella was always so close to Mina, but the Prowers did not really connect to Tails, even after returning from space.)
- Would we ever have seen Rosie the nanny & Uncle Chuck on a date?
- When Antoine awoke from his coma, would he have a complete recovery? Would there be physical or mental handicaps he needed to overcome?
- Were there any plans for Larry & Shard to go on missions w/out the rest of the Secret FF's?
- Would Elias' team have remained friends if/when the group disbanded?
- Was Remington still dating KomiKo? (the dark furred echidna he dated in KtE, I think she was in the background a few times after that.)
- Would Harry the dingo ever shown up again? Would he leave Sandopolis since he never seemed to fit in w/ the Dingo Regime?
Spin
1) Was Sonic ever going to get a new love interest down the road? Or was it strictly Sonic/Sally with Sally/Khan on the side?
2) Tell us about the Orderix? We know they are the Anti-Chaotix. But what were their new names and how were they different from the originals?
3) A continuation of the last question, but broader. Where you planning to create new Anti characters? As vague as your ideas might have been, could you tell us as many ideas you had? Am especially curious about the likes of Anti-Shadow, Anti-Rouge, Anti-Fiona, Anti-Julie Su, Anti-Lien Da, Anti-Dark Legion, Anti-Cream, Anti-Mina, Anti-Nack, Anti-Bean, Anti-Bark, and many others.
4) It was stated I think in the Dark Mobius blog, unless it might've been in book or maybe the MxxYL zone. But there was mention at one time of Team Dark becoming a seven man team in an alternate future. Who was the team comprised of?
jm0364: I was kind of wondering, If you had any future plans for Anti Mobius that you weren't able to do, are they going to be included in Lost Hedgehog tales?
Daluna13
1. In your old plans would the Secret Freedom Fighters have stuck around when the whole mess with Sally was over?
2. Would you have ever gone back to the X-years later future if things had not gone the way they did?
3. Will we EVER see Shard again in the Main Comics again? ( I apologize if he has shown up, Money's been kinda tight so I haven't been able to read the Last few issues.
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SonicBlueRanger: Was the plan for Knuckles always to have Enerjak Reborn, Echos from the Past and Endangered Speies be kind of a loose Trilogy?
CiNozzo
- Was Shadowfall going to happened? If so, how will you have handled the fact that Shadow never met Black Doom?
- Any new confrontation between Snively and Hope? If he ever left his prison. What about the Iron Queen? What would she have done when she notices that the Snively with her is a robot.
- What happened during the Forgotten Wars ? Could we have seen more about the others Ixis masters ?
- Was the Ixis Resurgence going to happened even after the SFF arc ? What about the elemental wars? Etcetera.
- What would have been the final Status-quo of the Chaos Emeralds. Was Naugus going to attack the GUN to get the green and red emeralds?
- What where your original plans for the blue Chaos Emerald lost on the ocean ?
- What were the big plans of Scourge? And what about the plans of Miles and the others anti-FF.
- Any story planned on the Dragon Kingdom post-Iron Dominion? Especially with the Raiju clan?
- How did you originally planned the new designs of the FF? Was Bunnie going to her uncle to be legionized or was she going to legionize Antoine? How would he recovered from his wounds?
- What about the No-Zone after the war with Nega?
- What happened in the "Dark Mobius" after Lara-su tried to restore a core?
- One last, did you have an "Endgame" for the book?
The very last epic battle of Sonic & foes with an "happy ending"?
LBD_Nytetrayn
This has probably been brought up, but I want the full scoop on Silver's future. All of it.
- His relationship/history with Mammoth Mogul.
- Edmund's story (including why he has that name).
- What happened to turn Angel Island into Onyx Island.
- Was Mogul really a repentant good guy, or was his guidance of Silver just part of a larger scheme?
- How did they wind up with the Time Stones?
- What became of Little Planet as a result?
- How it would be the one future of so many different timelines.
- Any other fun details that flesh out this setting.
Meliden
How many fragments had Valdez rusted into at the time of the reality warp?
EthanEmerald
- Were there any plans for more games to receive full adaptations the old continuity? E.g. eventually tell the Sonic CD story, a loose adaptation to S3&K or Sonic Heroes, etc.?
- Back in the old continuity, what would have been plans for the next several Shadow and Knuckles arcs in Sonic Universe? I recall you wanted to do a Knuckles arc every year. What would have happened in those arcs? What would all the Knuckles stories be leading to?
- Also, what would the ultimate direction have been for the Great Desert (Sand Blast Freedom fighters and DEL), Downunda (its Freedom Fighters and DEL), and all the rest of the FF and DEL groups? How would their stories have wrapped up?
- Would Nicole, Jules and New Mobotropolis always have remained robotic? Or would Nicole and the city become "real" and Jules become deroboticized somehow?
- Looking at the new world map, what kinds of stories did you eventually want to tell about those places?
- What were plans for Mega Central?
Along the same lines, you left a lot of hints and open-ended questions in many of the encyclopedia articles -- could you revisit some of those for ideas on what to answer?
Tylinos
Were there any plans to look into the fate of Overlord Charlemagne?
The Shadow Sage
- Were there any plans to touch on Anti-Rob's brother? Or if Rob from Mobius Prime actually had a brother and who it was?
- Did you have lists of all FF groups that ever existed? If so, who were the members of now defunct groups such as the Dragon Kingdom FF and High Flying FF?
- Were there any plans for Sonic and co. to find any of the citizens of New Mobotropolis that were legionized during the Iron Dominion arc and save them?
- I know it was said that you had no intention of touching parody Zones, but were there any that if given the opportunity you would have liked to reach out to to give a resolute ending (other than the Sonic Underground Zone)?
- Were there family trees written out for all of the main characters? If so, would you be able to share them if possible?
- What were your original plans with Metal Sonic v3 to give him a personality? Like what would it's personality have been like and would it have survived for a long time?
DrakStarr
Have there been any possibility about the Roboticizer finally being used for good?
Simon Arty
1. You mentioned at one time you had plans for a Nate Morgan story, what was that all about? Was he going to come back or in a flashback story?
2. Was there any more we were going to learn about the Source of All?
3. Was there any stories planned for the Bem or the Xorda to be featured again?
4. Was Dulcy going to come back? Were there any plans for her and her colony?
TheFatPanda: Did you have any plans to use Super Silver? (though I guess it's still something that won't never happen)
Leone89
1. Did you have plans for the Chaos Emeralds remaining in the Special Zone? If so, who would've gotten their hands on them?
2. Was the Mecha Sally arc intended to be a massive adventure? i.e. travels around the world, leading to a final climactic battle with Sally and Eggman aboard the Death Egg a la a Sonic video game.
3. Major character deaths?
Tsurugi
How would the situation with the Sand Blasters and Uncle Beau's Egg Legion division have turned out in the end?
Would it have ended badly for both parties, would there have been a victory for either side or would it have ended in a begrudging truce?
DaddlerTheDalek
I'm interested to see that would have happened with Beauregard, Finitevus, Fiona & Shard.
Morgil
- I saw some small hints in the encyclopedia entries that seemed to link Rob o' the Hedge with the events of the game Sonic CD, particularity Little Planet and the Time Stones. Considering at the time we had recently gotten a remake of Sonic CD, along with references to it in Sonic 4 Ep2, i got the feeling that you were building to something, like a full blown adaptation or something, and that Rob would be heavily involved in it. Was i correct and were you indeed building to something with him and the game?
Astrobot7000
- What were your plans for the Neo Walkers?
- Did you have any plans for Heavy and Bomb (I always liked them, sue me)?
2tailed
Can't wait to hear your original plans for Knuckles and co. I've been wondering if anything was ever going to come of old King Max, wasting away. He and Alicia got a great moment refusing Naugus' request to use his body, but would he have ever had much happen with him afterwards?
grizzlayleslay
- Would the Universalamander have ever made a return?
- And in case it hasn't been mentioned in the previous pages, I"m curious to know if you had plans on revealing all the Ixis Master Works.
Will this include what was written on that slip of Paper Mogul gave Silver? Because that's been buzzing in my mind whenever I think of Silver lately.
NiTROACTiVE
1. Since we're getting Hershey's role, does that mean she was the female black cat legionnaire in SU #37 and that she'll meet Sonic, Tails and Amy in STH #237 and tell them what happened to her? Or was she brainwashed and legionized?
2. Will Geoffrey and Hershey have a tearful reunion when the time comes?
I must ask this however. Did you have plans to develop Hershey's character more? I'm asking this because some people felt that she had a weak character, and there are people who said you developed other characters into better ones. I don't know if the answer would spoil the surprise or not, but if it would then I understand.
squeakyboots13
1. Will Silver have ever met Mogul while he was in the present? And what would Silver's role in the comic become after the traitor thing settled?
2. Was the Blue Emerald Eggman went after in issue 223 always intended to be used for the Genesis Wave, or was there another purpose for it before that? Where would have the Emerald turned up had Worlds Collide not happened?
3. What "plans" did Scourge at the end of his Universe arc? (Feel free to ignore this question if it can still be a thing in the comic.)
4. Would the Team Freedom and Team Fighters dynamic stay permanent even after Sally, Antoine, and Bunnie came back?
Captain Harlock
1- What were the plans for Merlin you were wanting to do for a long time?
2- Naugus. Why was he going ugly even BEFORE Genesis? Actually you'll probably answer this already but eh.
ShadowBat20
This is so awesome. Ian, you rock! Any chance we could get info on the Brotherhood of Guardians and Moritori Rex in the Twilight Cage? Or your plans for the Nocturnus?
The Shadow Emperor
1. The Brotherhood--really interested about your plans for them, especially with Spectre.
2. Was there any intended followup to Charmy and Saffron's search for the remaining bees?
3. Did you have any different plans for the Black Arms before the reboot, i.e. following up on their war with the Xorda?
4. Not sure if you have any current plans for these, so disregard if that's the case, but who/what are the Seven Ixis Masterworks and Mogul's other three Elites?
5. Did you have a concrete resolution in mind for the Dark Egg Legion? Were you planning on introducing any new chapters or Grandmasters?
6. Were there any concrete plans for the Nerb Freedom Fighters or were those exclusively gag characters for the Encyclopedia?
7. Were there any plans to introduce a new Enerjak, or even finish his plotline altogether?
8. What happened to the Iron King after #211?
9. What was Helmut von Stryker planning?
10. What exactly happened to Lien-Da of Light Mobius after Shadow broke her armband? Or Shadow himself for that matter?
11. What were the Knights of Kronos?
12. What was the "other Khans" plot point introduced in SU #16?
13. Did you have an origin in mind for the Days of Fury?
14. Were there any plans to visit the Lethal Radioactive Zone? I'm really curious about that place.
15. How did you plan to address the fact that the Nocturnus and other prisoners didn't age in the Twilight Cage while the Legion did?
16. And on that note, was Argus going to play an eventual role?
17. What was planned with Eggman Nega and the Zone Cops?
18. Did you plan an expanding more on Vector's backstory with Barby, Bill and "Father?"
19. Did any named Albionites like Yanar survive the city's destruction?
20. What happened to Dimitri?
- in the Encyclopedia there was a throwaway line about there possibly being small cities or "old Earth" pockets of civilization still residing on Mobius. Were there any plans in the works for this, or for any of the little regions and cities on the map that are still unexplored like Dorcea, Gascarma, or the Land of a Million Lights?
- Did you ever figure out a role for Dulcy and the Dragon Tribe? Were you planning to develop the history of the Dragon Kingdom more, what with the dragons' origin story, ancient machines like the Iron Oni, and the "Lost Dynasty" mentioned in SU #14? And would anything have happened to Hope after Eggman told the U.F. Legion to "single her out"?
Captain Harlock
Any chance, btw, of a look at Lea's intended redesigns? While as you said you won't be showing manuscripts etc, her description of them being still very vague et al sounds like she can provide a simulation, instead, per se? "this is not the actual redesign, but me doing something similar from memory to give an idea of"?
SurrealBrain
- What were your plans for Dr. Finitevus after his (so far) last appearance?
- How would Antione have gotten out of his coma? How would he have reacted to Bunnie having gone missing? How would he have dealt with it?
- Also, it's more or less confirmed that Bunnie would have been in the D.E.L. How would that have gone?
- What would you have done with things like the Time Eater, the Wisps, Emerl, and any other game element that you hadn't integrated into the old continuity?
Adamis
- Will you reveal what was planned for the Chaotix saga in SU before Rob got replaced ?
- Did you have plans for the Chronicles characters (not only the Nocturnus, but characters like Nestor the Wise, the Pirates or even Argus) ?
- What was going to happen to Silver after the Mecha Sally arc ?
- Why did G.U.N. need the emeralds for ? (or is that plan still used in the current comic ?)
- Can you tell us what was going to happen to Antoine ? How would he come out of his coma, how would he get a new design (I suppose)...
- What about Bunnie ?
- Were there anything planned for Mina ?
- Speaking of her, you said you'd explain how she could have met Mogul despite him being unavailable at that time. Do you remember this ?
lalalei2001
Will you reveal Amy's intended backstory?
EDIT: And would the Iron Queen ever discover Snively was fake? I could see her doing battle with GUN and co.
Tigsie
1. I'm really interested in knowing the reactions of Beau and the Freedom Fighters towards Bunnie's legionization. Would her new parts have been pre-made with explosives already in them?
2. Did Regina really love Snively? Or do they both play off each other for benefits? Would she have rescued Snively or just been happy with her obedient Snively clone?
3. Did you have any plans for Rob being Mercia's king in hiding, or was that just to get him out of the picture temporarily?
4. What were Moritori and the Brotherhood's relationship like when they were banished to the Twilight Cage? They were kind of strapped down on the experiment table together...and Rex has experience being in the Cage. What would their reaction be towards learning Knuckles and Dimitri were working together? (Rex has some forgotten ability of being able to spy on Mobius Prime from the Cage, so I assume he would at least know what's going on.)
5. Did you have a grander plan for Frost Legion vs Flame Legion, or did you scrap them for Enerjak's story and Eggman's Legion Army?
6. If you can't show Saffron's redesign, could you describe what she would have looked like? Was anybody else going to get a make over?
Xeric
- Why did Fini need Scourge, Fiona and the Destructix on Anti-Mobius?
- Was their any plans to get back to Miles, Alicia, Boomer etc?
- What was going on with Merlin? You said Sega didnt want you to use the idea or something?
- Did Saffron play an important part in Endangered Speices? Any other plans for her and Charmy?
- Any plans for the Forty Fathom Freedom Fighters?
PM Questions posted by Xeric
- Were there any plans for Megan and Alexis?
- Were there any plans for the Forget-Me-Knots?
- Did you have any plans to bring back any of the older cast like you did with Larry, Harvey Who etc?
- Did you ever decide if Hope had been in touch with anyone from Mobotropolis? If so, who had she been in contact with?
- Did you have any plans for Rory, Snaggle, Sasha and/or Rosie?
- Although you didn't introduce the characters to the comic, did you ever come up who the missing parent's are for some of the future kids? Salma and Juanita's mother, Rutan's Father, Argyle's mother etc?
- Vector's secret origins in Downunda were teased, what did those involve?
- Anything involving the Downunda FF's?
BombombDom
Definitely the original Chaotix Quest (if it was going to be any different).
comic321
- Will a certain owl return? I'm sure you know who I'm talking about.
- Who was Argyle's Mother?
- Did you have any other plans for the Secret Freedom Fighters?
- So, were there any more plans for the Downunda & Crazy Kritter ffs? (sorry if this has already been asked).
akessel92
I just want to say I am happy you are doing this mr. Flynn. Any who I wonder if there was any plans on the rob o'hedge part of the chaotix quest arc. Also just to ask was Naugus going to mutate Geoffrey's body and make him Ixis Nauffrey like in that sonic villains best of sonic compilation?
ZonicZoneCop
Would the Zone Cops have seen a return?
SimonSays
- What was the plan for Shard after he got Ka-Boomed?
- Or any of the SFF for that matter?
- Oh, and here's another: How was Shard supposed to encounter Sonic for the first time again, before he ended up meeting Team Fighters in Endangered Species?
GentlemanX
-What plans did you have in mind for Geoffrey going forward, both in the short and long term?
-What other plans did you have for MxYL? Any details on Theta, the Anarchy Beryl Bomb, Tikaos? Other future stories? What direction were you hoping to take Rutan?
-What did you hope to do with the concept on Enerjak? You were expanding on his history, any more detail to that? Did you have any ideas on what you would have done with the villain going forward?
-What were your plans for the Neo Walkers outside of that Merlin story?
-Did you intend to do anything else with Mammoth Mogul outside of indirectly doing things to irk Sonic?
-Minor note, was Mighty and Ray's quest always going to be just the ending? Did you always intend for us to never see anything between when they left and when they found Matilda?
-What plans did you have for Dimitri since he was now working with Knuckles?
-Even before Endangered Species, 239-242 were obviously shuffled around quite a bit, including 241 focusing on Geoffrey and Naugus rather than the intended story "Blast from the Past". It falls into "the plans for 2012", but what all happened to these stories?
-What plans did you have for Team Freedom and Team Fighters? In particular, why were Heavy and Bomb chosen to join Team Freedom? Did you have something you wanted to do differently with them?
-Was the crossover with Mega Man always planned for around this time or not? Had the Pendering not happened, what would have been different? Particularly, how would the ending have been different?
streetsonic13
- The future aka Silver's future, any info on how much would've happened to make it happened, and also the information about the "Knights of Chronos"?
- If MXYL was continued, what would've happened to the crucial SEGASonic cast that Penders "seemingly" forgotten about: Amy, Rouge, Mighty and Charmy, in that timeline?
- Also for MXYL: the info on how Tikal and Chaos merged, the Elemental Wars, Theta?
- Were there plans of Chaos and Tikal coming back to the Prime Zone?
- Amy's past: were there any plans on finding out who her parents were by name?
- Going to Sonic CD territory, the plans of the Little Planet on Mobius?
- How long when Regina would have found out about Snively and did she had any plans to back-stab Eggman?
- The Dingos themselves and how they could've be involve in the future?
- Could Conquering Storm and her army become a future threat in general?
- Tails Doll, besides of becoming the "Cthulhu" before the crossover or something else?
- The Nocturnus, and the usage of anything from Chronicles?
- And this one probably might not be answered either it might be released or not, since now it's under "Do not use": what was going to be story for ending Sonic Underground?
Julayla
-If there would have been a chance to explore Scourge's world Moebius somehow, would we have seen an Anti-Fiona and an Anti-Nack if you ever continued?
-Would Silver's future had changed when he found the traitor or would it have been one of those "You can't fight fate" scenarios with Silver?
-What are your words about exploring the rest of Blaze's world if you ever had the opportunity?
-What were the original plans for Rob O' the Hedge?
-Regarding Pink Nic the Weasel, what were your plans for her, if you were ever going to use her? Would she just only be a cameo before being killed off or something?
-And what of Nack's past, if ever explored? Would we see what he would have been (considering that I for some odd reason believe Nack & Nic were orphans and being adopted by rich people) before his bounty hunting career?
-If you ever got approved of using other Sonic continuities, would they have been redesigned and given different backgrounds to fit in the Sonic continuity?
-Okay, I have a new question to ask and this is just a thought. On the subject of the Sonic Underground Epilogue that you are probably never going to be able to work on, what were the fates of Robotnik, Sleet, and Dingo gonna be? Prison, death, or something else in mind?
-UPDATE: I finally came up with one final question in my mind: What were your original plans for Lien-da and her Dark Egg Legion echidna clan after the events of Endangered Species?
Gatorman
- What becomes of Augustus? I know he was injured defending his teammates, but was it serious?
- What, exactly, caused Barby and Bill to harbor a grudge against Vector? Who's the "old man" Vector and Barby mentioned?
Scruffy
- What were your original plans for Lien-Da before she got banished with the rest of the echidnas? Would she and her awesome new lightning-whip powers have eventually attempted a coup?
- Had you planned to adapt any games into the comic (into the actual canon storyline, rather than the ATAP stories)? Chaotix Quest seemed to hint pretty heavily at Sonic CD. Would we have seen any past games being used?
- These guys are probably still available for you to use in the comics, but did you have to shelve any plans for the Battlebird Armada and the Babylon Rogues?
- Would the Secret Freedom Fighters have continued working together as a unit after Naugus was usurped?
- Would we have seen Naugus get his hands on more Chaos Emeralds, as prophesised by Future Mogul?
- Would Future Mogul and Present Mogul and Ixis Mogul have had an epic battle royale across all of time? Possibly in a blue police box?
- Would Jules, Shard, and T-Pup have eventually combined to become some Megazord-like monstrosity of doom?
- Would Dubs have secretly replaced you with a robot of his own design, programmed to write Nerb story after Nerb story after Nerb story?
- Added 23/12: Were there any Sonic Universe arcs you'd planned that you had to drop? The ones we don't already know about, I mean.
Ogilvie
1. How the Sonic Underground wrapup would have gone. I was actually really interested to see what was planned prior to the Metal vs. Shard strip being switched with it.
2. Shard's fate, to echo the comments of a few others.
3. I understand that it looks like there was a taboo on calling Enerjak Knuckles directly despite all the hints, but would Silver have ever possibly been a little awkward around him, knowing what he was capable of if he ever went off the deep end?
4. Similarly, what would Silver's reaction be to finding the present day Mogul, if they ever met?
5. As memory serves, two of the emeralds Naugus had in his triple-emerald staff were in GUN's possession in the present day. Did he end up going to war with them or was he going to?
6. Would Scourge and Fiona have worked out, or would have one betrayed the other?
7. Similar to the above, would Scourge have ever been shown to have any redeeming traits at all? Despite being arrogant, violent and outright malicious at times, his encounter with Jules seems to show he can at least feel remorse. Was there any possibility for good in the heart of the monster, basically?
8. Like 6, how would Regina and Snively have worked out? While it does look like they genuinely cared for each other, would the temptations of power have possibly torn them apart?
9. Shard and Nicole looked like they were bonding as memory serves. How would that have developed?
Mobotropolis: Before you said that you had plans for the book all the way up through Sonic 300. Could you give us a rough timeline for the major plot points leading up to the 300 milestone? It's be a great starting point for the fans writing stories and whatnot.
TheEzekiel300
- Ian, what was the point of Sally seeing the "Hi SAL" written on the glass by Sonic? Does her seeing the "Hi SAL" a clue for it playing a significant role in the future issues of the Mecha Sally arc?
- Isn't the evil king Shadow from "Years Later" still technically running around loose? After Sonic and the new generation of freedom fighters defeated Chaos, we never got back to evil King Shadow. He himself wasn't defeated.
- What would Sonic have learned from losing his girlfriend twice out of all of this? First by dying and 2nd by Robotization ? How will Sonic, himself, develop out of all this?
- Will Mecha Sally be at least one of the toughest foes Sonic ever had to face? Was the final battle with Mecha Sally intense, exciting, and colossal?
- Ian, how could you be tired of Sonic being with Sally, when they weren't together for about 100 issues? Sally didn't even assist Sonic in all of his missions during the repairing of their relationship period. Scourge, Shadow, Mina, Ash, Knuckles and even Geoffrey assisted Sonic in battle.
- Ian, was anyone ever going to find out that Naugus was the one controlling everyone's feelings by blowing everyone's feeling out of proportion with his Chaos emerald?
Bull Nanook: The D.E.L., the Nerbs, Diesel, Beauregard, and all the other grandmasters. What plans were put into place for the sub-bosses Ian?
kimplix
What about Snivley? Will we get to see the lights of day for Robotnik's/Eggman's assistance again or will he just be trapped in that capsule for the rest of the comic history?
Ooga_Hooga
- Silvers plotline was one of my favourite in the comic, and I was hoping that he'd go looking for Mogul after he stopped the traitor and the reaction he would have had at finding his mentor is one of the bad guys.
-I'd love to see the original endangered species arc since It sounds like it was going to be a lot better,
-If you had any plans for the Nocturnus.
-What you would do with Nega if you could fully use him how you wanted.
4everscourgefan
1. where there plans to visit overseer O'knux and the orderix on demon Island ?
2. also how would they look like ?
3. What where the plans of Miles and Alicia?
back in 196 after when sonic defeated super Scourge they where talking about their real leader
4. me and my friend where looking at some old ask ian posts where you answerd as the characters and we saw this
Question #178 wrote:
To Miles: You told Tails how he has denied his magical heritage but so far we haven't seen anything from you on that end. Will we see you prove your abilities in the future? Only a fool plays his hand so early. How do you think we boosted the doctor's Globe Posts to reach across to the Mobian Star Posts? Do you think I've been merely playing the tag-along kid all this time? Let that sniveling pup prance around in his gaudy machines. When the time comes, I will show him the true elegance of a master magician.
where there plans for miles to use his magic?
5. where there plans for super scourge to appear again?
BlackHawkOmega
1- What were your original plans for Dimitri?
2- How were the redesigns of the FF's originally gonna go down? How would they have eventually gotten back together?
SorcerorLance
1. Mostly wondering what plans were made for Lien-Da what with her new abilities and how she would've been a threat from then on as a more efficient fighter.
2. of course the fate of Mecha Sally and her supposed role with Silver's future or what future Mogul had planned.
3. former King Max's initial plan for getting a Chaos Emerald in the first place, or if it was just simply a feeble old man's desperate attempt to regain power as king.
4. Geoffrey's motives for helping Naugus as well as the true story of what happened to Hershey
5. Naugus' plans for New Mobotropolis
6. the fate of Snively as well as Regina
7. Dimitri's role from then on in New Mobotropolis
8. the other threats that were mentioned in passing before the reveal of Tikhaos in the future
9. Where King Shadow disappeared to after the Tikhaos incident
10. If Knuckles had any closure with the echidna tribe
11. I suppose if possible, perhaps an ending to the entire story, if the X Years Later arcs are in any way canon as well as Silver's future
DabigRG
- What exactly was Tails plan in regards to Elias, Rosemary, and the Council?
- Back during Eggman Empire, which at one point was hinted to have its fallout last from 175 to 200, would any of the captured characters be affected in any significant way?
- Were there plans concerning Kodos and Arachnis in a similar veins to Kragok in StH205?
- Did you hatred for Nic ever let up enough to include her in a story, if she fit into it?
- Did you ever figure out how to bring back Downtown Ebony Hare?
- How did SEGA respond to Espio siding with the Iron Dimonion?
- Personal Question:Was it hard to push aside your plans and completed scripts when the Penderpocalypse began?
- And since you used the term "Ask Ian", who's your top/bottom 5 favorite comic-made characters?
- Was Bunnie's redesign always intended or was it just thrown in at last minute of "Chaotix Quest"'s development?
- How would have Echoes to the Past and Endangered Species been like if Remington was Enerjak?
- Is GaeNa dead or in the Twilight Cage?
- Were the ruins in Echoes of the Past Albionian, Tasmanian, or something else?
Mavrickindigo
- What were your plans for Rouge and Knuckles before she got put onto Team Dark?
- Were the Nocturnus ever going to show up?
- What did you have planned for expanding Amy's family stuff?
- Where did Thrash throw the echidnas? The Twilight Cage? The Sun?
- A lot of people seem to think Rosemary Prower was insane. Is this true?
- Any plans for Charlemagne or the 100 moons of Mobius?
- Were you planning on an Espio/Nicole romance? What was the deal with the two of them being so close?
- What was going to happen with the Eggman Nega plot?
009*
- How would Rosemary and the council's grudges with the FF and the royal family have been resolved?
- Okay, I know Ian wrote it out, but was there ever an explanation for why the Source of All manipulated Max to enable Robotnik, Naugus, and Kodos' actions? What was it trying to accomplish? Did it have something to do with the echidnas, one of the other villains, was it somehow corrupted, or something else?
- About the Battle Bird Armada:
- Was it ever going to be revealed that they brought down the force field back in their SU arc and not some failure on Nicole's part? Like the BBA captures Team Fighters on their return trip, see Sally, and get an explanation about the World Roboticizer, and the Battle Kuku gives them the remote or the blueprints to pay back the debt he owes to Sally?
Para
- Would Jules and Sonic have ever had an actual heart to heart chat? (I think the last time it was tried, Sonic ended up muttering about wishing Chuck was there because "he always knew what to do")
- Were the Zone Cops going to be destroyed by Eggman Nega, throwing the notion that anyone could govern the "multiverse" out the window? It sure seemed to be heading that way last we saw of them.
awkwardMEOW
This makes up for the reboot for me. This is ALL I could ask for. I definitely want to know what would have happened with Fiona, Scourge, Finitevus, the Brotherhood, Archimedes, and Rob O'The Hedge.... They were my favorite lost characters.
NicTheWeasel
1. As others have mentioned, the plans for Endangered Species, as well as pretty much any Echidna-related revelations.
2. Silver and Mogul, in the present and future. Where were things headed?
3. Snively and Regina.
4. The Naugus arc, the ongoing lives of the Secret Freedom Fighters, and any other related tidbits.
RadRed89
- What was the plan for Monkey Khan and the Dragon Kingdom, along with the tidbit Espio gave during the Journey to the East story about other Cyborgs like Khan?
- I'd like to know what the eventual plan for the Iron King would have been too.
- Oh, and Team Freedom. Where were things going with them? Would they have gotten more screen time, and what would they have been doing?
SacreBluCheese
The thing that I am most curious about is the whole Rabbot/D'Coolette family history that was starting to get developed. Maybe it's because I'm going to school to be an English and History teacher but I thought the parallels between the Southern Baronies and the Antebellum South were really fascinating especially when adding a bit of Romeo and Juliet in the mix. What was the end goal of introducing us to Beauregard and the hidden animosity between the Acorn Kingdom and the Baronies? How was this going to effect Antoine and Bunnie's relationship especially considering Antoine's coma and Bunnie running off to her Uncle?
Spectre the Hechidnat
1. Were you going to have Black Doom and the original Black Comet show up on Mobius before Sega kiboshed that plan for whatever reason?
2. Did you have in mind any ideas as to who was Uma's husband/the father of the Arachne?
3. Was Spectre's Legionization going to be revealed in-story at some point, possibly featuring a showdown between Moritori and himself?
And just a personal one:
4. Which character or group of characters is it hardest for you to see go with all the changes?
EDIT: Couple more questions.
5. Were we going to see more of Vector's backstory-perhaps an actual character attached to the alias "Father?"
6. Did you have any plans so far as Efrika FFs?
Antiyonder
Would there have been some ramifications to the Second Genesis Wave, albeit much minor compared to what we have now or would StH #252 be like Mega Man #28 in that it would take a few moments to show Sonic's world restored and then just continue on with the main storyline?
DubleDuce
- I always wondered why Sonic was immune to the hex Dr. Finitevus put on the Master Emerald back during the Enerjak arc. -Also, Eggman made a few mentions to Sonic being the "embodiment of chaos", so I was hoping for a little more elaboration as to where that was going if it indeed was building up to something.
- And lastly, what were the original plans for Merlin Prower that ended up having to be put on a shelf?
linebyline
- Just in case this wasn't already part of the "Endangered Species" stuff you're planning to release: How was Thrash's originally planned character arc different from the revised "Must get echidnas off-panel NOW" version?
- Geoffrey got in deep doo-doo for betraying the currently recognized monarch while pretending to serve him; only a royal pardon got him off the hook. then Elias went and did the exact same thing. Were there planned repercussions?
- For that matter, what kind of consequences would the other SFF have faced? Would it just have stayed secret forever?
- Did you have any plans for Councilor Isabella beyond getting Nicole back?
- You already said you plan to explain the fate of Mecha Sally, but after Engangered Species, did you have any plans to work the Krudzu into it (even if just a failed attempt)?
- Who let Dub get ahold of a wrench?
- What was Nicole originally building for Naugus, or is that already on your list?
- Folks have asked about Snively, Regina, and Fake Snively, but what about Brass and the Sigma Alphas?
TurboTailz
- Was Lien-da going to have a major part in the series to decide to give up on her goal to be the top and etc. Just want to know how her character would've been handled
- The same with Scourge, Fiona and Dr.Finitevus.
Bystander #3
Did Bunnie really get Legionized? Would she come back to the Freedom Fighters? Was she stuck with Baron Beauregard's Dark Egg Legion?
Tonberry2k
- What would have ultimately happened with Dimitri after he was taken back to Knothole?
- Would Present-Day Mogul have ever come out of retirement?
- Would Silver meet Present-Mogul?
- What would Silver's Future be now that he solved the "traitor" case?
- Were there any plans long-term with Julie-Su?
- How about Archimedes?
- It seemed like you were pushing toward Geoffrey's redemption at some point in the future. What would have actually happened?
- How were the Chaos Emeralds actually going to be used once they were all finally gathered?
- How would the redesigned Nerbs have come into play?
- Were the Forty Fathoms Freedom Fighters going to reappear?
- What happened to the Iron King?
- When would Regina have discovered Snively's fate? What would her reaction be?
- What would Robotnik have been doing with Snively in the mean time?
- Were the Brotherhood ever going to return?
- Were the Nocturnus going to appear?
- Would the core Freedom Fighter team have been played with any more?
- How was Bunnie's de-roboticization going to eventually play out?
- How about Antoine's injuries?
- How would Sally have been treated after her return from roboticization?
- What was the end-game with Thrash? He was just starting to be built up and made into something.
- How about Scourge and the Fearsome Foursome?
- Were the Suppression Squad going to make their return?
- How was the Shadow/Hope relationship going to play out?
- Would there have been any huge gains for Eggman that would have had huge impacts on the story?
- Any planned deaths?
- How would the Knuckles/Rouge/Julie love triangle have played out?
diamonddeath
1) There's still that scrapped storyline that you told us to ask about after a while, but when myself and others asked we never got an answer. Maybe this time you can tell us?
2) I would also like to know what was planned for Feist in terms of a backstory if anything.
3) Was Edmund in Silver's timeline actually a descendant of both Lara-Su and Argyle? And while we're on the subject of the future, what was planned, if anything, for Amy and any others in the future of Light Mobius, and what would have happened after Jani-Ca became Enerjak in Dark Mobius? Is there anything else about the future that you can still tell us? Oh, and who was Rutan's father? Finally, does Mobius Prime, Light Mobius, Dark Mobius, and Eggman/Nicole's future all lead into Silver's future somehow? If so, how would Eggman/Nicole's future lead into it? And kind of a strange question, but how exactly did the Dark Eyes and the rest of the Legion react quick enough to create those armbands... Or perhaps how did whoever made them react quick enough. Also, how did the Dark Legion split into different sections?
4) What did you have planned for Rob, Mari-An, and John with Little Planet, the Time Stones, and the guardian/owl? (I think that some of that can actually still be used, but I'm not sure, so I figured I'd ask)
5) What would have developed between Dimitri and Knuckes? It seemed as though some sort of relationship (such as father-type or mentor) was brewing.
6) Were there any plans for any of the other Freedom Fighter groups that we probably won't ever see again such as the Downunda Freedom Fighters? Would there have been any type of conclusions to any ongoing stories such as Duckbill Platypus leaving the Dark Egg Legion or perhaps remaining there? What was Vector's planned backstory with Barby Koala and any others?
7) Just what was that little creature-thing that Saffron was often seen carrying around?
Were you ever going to develop any further the first two Enerjaks? Could you elaborate on how any why he continued to manifest through the Chaos Force and through only Echidnas? If an Echidna like Knuckles were to turn Super, how is that different? This was something that always confused me. It seemed Enerjak would just appear at random. Did turning Super prevent his spirit from manifesting?9) What was planned with Ixis Naugus' mutations, who were those other Ixian magicians such as Vale, what was their significance, and can you tell us anything else that you planned for the Ixian magics?
10) Was Mammoth Mogul going to have any other opportunities to attack?
11) Was Matilda ever going to return to Mighty?
12) How did King Sonic prevent the collapse of his future by traveling through time? I don't think this happened under your pen, though, but maybe you had ideas for it.
13) Were the Mephiles and Void in Zone Jail from the Prime Zone? If so, I thought Void and Lumina fused back together. Also, was the koala maid (I forgot her name) from Light Mobius, or a different one? Regardless, how did a character from the future appear in the No Zone?
14) Did you have any plans to use any characters as relationship partners? For example, were you ever planning to show more of Liza the Chameleon with Espio, Li-Moon with Tails, etc?
15) Since I have no idea how much of Moebius, if anything, can still be used, here are a slew of question that you may or may not be able to answer. Can you tell us all your plans for Moebius such as who some other counterparts would have been along with their names and origins? Who were the Orderix's members? Who was Shadow's counterpart? Was he also from a counterpart Black Arms? Was Jeffrey St. Croix an Ixis? Who was the anti Julie-Su, Cream, 6S, Nerbs, Bivalve, Naugus, Enerjak, etc? Anything you could tell us would be amazing!
16) Did you have any plans for that detective from Station Square?
17) What was the scrapped story you had in mind for Nate Morgan returning?
Garet
- In case it is no longer happening, how would you have tied up sonic underground in the original SU #50?
- How was Shard to be saved from the ending of the new SU #50?
- Would some of the things from return to angel island have come up, such as that whole Knuckles is the avatar stuff and the tapesty of super sonic vs robotnik/eggman (can't remember what it depicted exactly).
- Would there have been any stories focusing on tails & his parents? Though we had house of cards, we didn't really see that much of his home-life and adjusting to having his parents around again.
JonLemon
In Sonic Universe 16 Espio said that there are other guys like Monkey Khan and I believe you never picked on that. Will you... is that appropriate to ask? Will you give us more insight on that? And I remember that you said once, that depending on feedback on Iron Dominion arc, Monkey Khan will become semi-regular character. I loved Iron Dominion arc and I will be happy to know how readers reacted to arc, I imagine they liked it too, because then he started to appear more often.
Spinehog
-Did you have any plans for another XYL story, as King Shadow was never captured? ..Or were you just leaving writing room open?
-Could you flesh out your ideas for the "Many Khans" concept?
-If you had had the chance to finally mesh Sonic Chronicles into the main comic series, at what point would you have done so? Were there plans for a conflict between Shade and Julie-Su, or would Shade not have been portrayed as a love interest?
-What were Rouge's plans in the back up story for Knuckles in STH#186? Maybe I missed where this plot was resolved..
-Recently in SU we learned the fate of G.U.N.'s Hugo and his men. Did you intend on continuing there story any farther, or was legionization "the end" of their story.
QuantumEdge
-What would have happened with Mogul? Would he have started to become good, or would he remain the evil casino owner?
-What role would Rob'O the Hedge have played in Chaotic Quest? (OK, it is from SU, but I thought it was worth asking)
-Would Archimedes have appeared in Endangered Species?
Shonic coolhog
1) What where your plans for Mina? She seems to have been forgotten here and I loved the art that came with her concerts. I see 2 outcomes, Either following the path of Miley Cyrus and being corrupted by fame or turning into an unforgettable respected legend.
2) What about bivalve and the rest of the other underwater freedom fighters?
3) Would blaze have pursued Eggman Nega into the multiverse to stop his evil war with the zone cops? or would that have been left up to sonic?
4) Would Cream have undergone intense training turning her into a super freedom fighter so that she could rid the universe of the evil tails doll with the power of politeness?
5) Where there ever plans to use the Werehog?
6) Would Espio ever have become the Hokage? (sorry couldn't resist the Naruto reference :p)
The Swordsman
1. Did Eggman aqurie some kind of demonic artifact and place into Tails Doll? I know Tails Doll was a ascended meme but I wondering about the in universe explantion.
2. What did the United Federation and G.U.N think of King Naugus and the fact that their allies may become a new threat?
3. Would Tails and his mom ever work things out and why did she ever trust Naugus?
009*'s response
2. Did the other nations ever even learn about the change of guard?
3. This actually brings up another question I have about Rosemary: she went through on the day Tails was born (childbirth, Robotnik's coup, alien abduction, etc.) and had to deal with the culture shock and postpartum depression. How sane was she?
Kevin160nitroncaron3
Questions on “Endangered Species”
- If both versions of the arc were to have happy endings, would the echidna school scene at the beginning of Part One would serve as a book end to the conclusion of that arc?
- Was the Sonic the Hedgehog version going to be a 5 or 6 issue arc due to many things happening?
- Was Shadow the Hedgehog going to appear in the arc?
- If so, would he fight Lien-Da and the Dark Legion?
- Was the Dark Legion’s paralyzing defensive grid planned to appear in Part One all along, reguardless of what was changed in the arc, and would it have been powered down by someone other than Tails or would it have been quickly destroyed?
- What other tricks would the Dark Legion have up their sleeves in the arc?
- Would the Dark Legion immediatley become the Dark Presence in aftermather of the arc?
- Was Remington going to be killed off in the arc?
Other Questions
- Were there plans to throw a pair of jeans on Julie-Su, Erma Ermine, Barby Koala, Liza the Chameleon and other female characters I can’t think of who were not fully dressed?
- If Hershey the Cat was going to appear in the continuity after her fate was explained in STH #233, was her role going to be secretley helping Team Fighters help rescue Lupe?
- Would Naugus remain in Geoffrey St. John’s body for the remainder of the Naugus plot and would his plans involve wiping out the Council of Acorn and restoring the old Acorn Monarchy?
- Were Beauregard Rabbot and Bill the Platypus planning to remove all the Dark Egg Legionnaires’ explosives?
- Would Knuckles have a huge role for removing the D.E.L. explosives?
- Would Sally be tried for treason for redirecting the World Roboticizer on herself?
- Was Knuckles going to get into another battle against Dr. Finitevus?
Dimzjak
- What happened to Jani-Ca-as-Enerjak after the conclusion of the Silver Saga?
- Did you have plans to confirm fan speculation of Finitevus as Rutan's father?
- Did Finitevus have a presence as a villain in the M30YL universe?
- Would Silver have met modern-day Mammoth Mogul in the past? If so what were the plans for this?
- How/why did Mammoth Mogul become a 'good guy' in Silver's future? How did Silver meet Mogul?
- Why was Edmund a "failed Guardian"? Were there plans to elaborate on Edmund's backstory?
- What would have been the conclusion to the Geoffrey/Naugus plot?
The Bored
-What would have been revealed as the cause of Silver's future? would it have been Iblis?
-What did you have planned for Sonic's parents?
-Would the likes of Dark Gaia, Mephelis or the Time Eater have appeared?
-What was planned for Shadow?
misspuar
- Was there any plans to explore more of Fiona's backstory (maybe something from when she, Bark, Bean, & Nic were a team?)
- Could the robot version of Fiona ever be recovered from underwater & repaired, or was the damage too excessive?
- What would have become of Team Freedom after the Mecha Sally arc concluded? Would Rotor still have a leadership position if/when Sally returned?
- After Naugus was defeated, he would have resumed the throne? Elias, Sally, or someone else? Would the monarchy even have continued?
- What would Isabella Mongoose be like as a Council member? Would she ever talk to Rosemary specifically about parenting (since Isabella was always so close to Mina, but the Prowers did not really connect to Tails, even after returning from space.)
- Would we ever have seen Rosie the nanny & Uncle Chuck on a date?
- When Antoine awoke from his coma, would he have a complete recovery? Would there be physical or mental handicaps he needed to overcome?
- Were there any plans for Larry & Shard to go on missions w/out the rest of the Secret FF's?
- Would Elias' team have remained friends if/when the group disbanded?
- Was Remington still dating KomiKo? (the dark furred echidna he dated in KtE, I think she was in the background a few times after that.)
- Would Harry the dingo ever shown up again? Would he leave Sandopolis since he never seemed to fit in w/ the Dingo Regime?
Spin
1) Was Sonic ever going to get a new love interest down the road? Or was it strictly Sonic/Sally with Sally/Khan on the side?
2) Tell us about the Orderix? We know they are the Anti-Chaotix. But what were their new names and how were they different from the originals?
3) A continuation of the last question, but broader. Where you planning to create new Anti characters? As vague as your ideas might have been, could you tell us as many ideas you had? Am especially curious about the likes of Anti-Shadow, Anti-Rouge, Anti-Fiona, Anti-Julie Su, Anti-Lien Da, Anti-Dark Legion, Anti-Cream, Anti-Mina, Anti-Nack, Anti-Bean, Anti-Bark, and many others.
4) It was stated I think in the Dark Mobius blog, unless it might've been in book or maybe the MxxYL zone. But there was mention at one time of Team Dark becoming a seven man team in an alternate future. Who was the team comprised of?
jm0364: I was kind of wondering, If you had any future plans for Anti Mobius that you weren't able to do, are they going to be included in Lost Hedgehog tales?
Daluna13
1. In your old plans would the Secret Freedom Fighters have stuck around when the whole mess with Sally was over?
2. Would you have ever gone back to the X-years later future if things had not gone the way they did?
3. Will we EVER see Shard again in the Main Comics again? ( I apologize if he has shown up, Money's been kinda tight so I haven't been able to read the Last few issues.
)SonicBlueRanger: Was the plan for Knuckles always to have Enerjak Reborn, Echos from the Past and Endangered Speies be kind of a loose Trilogy?
CiNozzo
- Was Shadowfall going to happened? If so, how will you have handled the fact that Shadow never met Black Doom?
- Any new confrontation between Snively and Hope? If he ever left his prison. What about the Iron Queen? What would she have done when she notices that the Snively with her is a robot.
- What happened during the Forgotten Wars ? Could we have seen more about the others Ixis masters ?
- Was the Ixis Resurgence going to happened even after the SFF arc ? What about the elemental wars? Etcetera.
- What would have been the final Status-quo of the Chaos Emeralds. Was Naugus going to attack the GUN to get the green and red emeralds?
- What where your original plans for the blue Chaos Emerald lost on the ocean ?
- What were the big plans of Scourge? And what about the plans of Miles and the others anti-FF.
- Any story planned on the Dragon Kingdom post-Iron Dominion? Especially with the Raiju clan?
- How did you originally planned the new designs of the FF? Was Bunnie going to her uncle to be legionized or was she going to legionize Antoine? How would he recovered from his wounds?
- What about the No-Zone after the war with Nega?
- What happened in the "Dark Mobius" after Lara-su tried to restore a core?
- One last, did you have an "Endgame" for the book?
The very last epic battle of Sonic & foes with an "happy ending"?
LBD_Nytetrayn
This has probably been brought up, but I want the full scoop on Silver's future. All of it.
- His relationship/history with Mammoth Mogul.
- Edmund's story (including why he has that name).
- What happened to turn Angel Island into Onyx Island.
- Was Mogul really a repentant good guy, or was his guidance of Silver just part of a larger scheme?
- How did they wind up with the Time Stones?
- What became of Little Planet as a result?
- How it would be the one future of so many different timelines.
- Any other fun details that flesh out this setting.
Meliden
How many fragments had Valdez rusted into at the time of the reality warp?
EthanEmerald
- Were there any plans for more games to receive full adaptations the old continuity? E.g. eventually tell the Sonic CD story, a loose adaptation to S3&K or Sonic Heroes, etc.?
- Back in the old continuity, what would have been plans for the next several Shadow and Knuckles arcs in Sonic Universe? I recall you wanted to do a Knuckles arc every year. What would have happened in those arcs? What would all the Knuckles stories be leading to?
- Also, what would the ultimate direction have been for the Great Desert (Sand Blast Freedom fighters and DEL), Downunda (its Freedom Fighters and DEL), and all the rest of the FF and DEL groups? How would their stories have wrapped up?
- Would Nicole, Jules and New Mobotropolis always have remained robotic? Or would Nicole and the city become "real" and Jules become deroboticized somehow?
- Looking at the new world map, what kinds of stories did you eventually want to tell about those places?
- What were plans for Mega Central?
Along the same lines, you left a lot of hints and open-ended questions in many of the encyclopedia articles -- could you revisit some of those for ideas on what to answer?
Tylinos
Were there any plans to look into the fate of Overlord Charlemagne?
The Shadow Sage
- Were there any plans to touch on Anti-Rob's brother? Or if Rob from Mobius Prime actually had a brother and who it was?
- Did you have lists of all FF groups that ever existed? If so, who were the members of now defunct groups such as the Dragon Kingdom FF and High Flying FF?
- Were there any plans for Sonic and co. to find any of the citizens of New Mobotropolis that were legionized during the Iron Dominion arc and save them?
- I know it was said that you had no intention of touching parody Zones, but were there any that if given the opportunity you would have liked to reach out to to give a resolute ending (other than the Sonic Underground Zone)?
- Were there family trees written out for all of the main characters? If so, would you be able to share them if possible?
- What were your original plans with Metal Sonic v3 to give him a personality? Like what would it's personality have been like and would it have survived for a long time?
DrakStarr
Have there been any possibility about the Roboticizer finally being used for good?
Simon Arty
1. You mentioned at one time you had plans for a Nate Morgan story, what was that all about? Was he going to come back or in a flashback story?
2. Was there any more we were going to learn about the Source of All?
3. Was there any stories planned for the Bem or the Xorda to be featured again?
4. Was Dulcy going to come back? Were there any plans for her and her colony?
TheFatPanda: Did you have any plans to use Super Silver? (though I guess it's still something that won't never happen)
Leone89
1. Did you have plans for the Chaos Emeralds remaining in the Special Zone? If so, who would've gotten their hands on them?
2. Was the Mecha Sally arc intended to be a massive adventure? i.e. travels around the world, leading to a final climactic battle with Sally and Eggman aboard the Death Egg a la a Sonic video game.
3. Major character deaths?
Tsurugi
How would the situation with the Sand Blasters and Uncle Beau's Egg Legion division have turned out in the end?
Would it have ended badly for both parties, would there have been a victory for either side or would it have ended in a begrudging truce?
DaddlerTheDalek
I'm interested to see that would have happened with Beauregard, Finitevus, Fiona & Shard.
Morgil
- I saw some small hints in the encyclopedia entries that seemed to link Rob o' the Hedge with the events of the game Sonic CD, particularity Little Planet and the Time Stones. Considering at the time we had recently gotten a remake of Sonic CD, along with references to it in Sonic 4 Ep2, i got the feeling that you were building to something, like a full blown adaptation or something, and that Rob would be heavily involved in it. Was i correct and were you indeed building to something with him and the game?
Astrobot7000
- What were your plans for the Neo Walkers?
- Did you have any plans for Heavy and Bomb (I always liked them, sue me)?
2tailed
Can't wait to hear your original plans for Knuckles and co. I've been wondering if anything was ever going to come of old King Max, wasting away. He and Alicia got a great moment refusing Naugus' request to use his body, but would he have ever had much happen with him afterwards?
grizzlayleslay
- Would the Universalamander have ever made a return?
- And in case it hasn't been mentioned in the previous pages, I"m curious to know if you had plans on revealing all the Ixis Master Works.
Thanks either way!