Metallix

This article is about the villain in the 2015 reboot. For the similar villain in the 2006 series, see here. For the saga named after the character, see here.

Metallix
Full Name:	Metal Sonic (Formerly) Metallix
Episode Information
Status:	Online
First Appearance:	Fierce Battle Between Fierce Rivals
Background Information
Species:	Upgraded Badnik (Metal Series)
Gender:	None (attributed as male)
Relatives:	Doctor Eggman (Creator)
Voice Actor:	Andrew Chandler Additional Voices: Jean-Édouard Miclot Ryan Drummond John Mondelli

“	You're doomed!	”
–Metallix, The New Threat

Metallix (pronounced "Meh-TAL-licks"), originally known as Metal Sonic, is a major antagonist in Super Mario Bros. Z, and the main antagonist of the Metallix Saga. He is an evil, ultra high-performance super-robot who seeks the Chaos Emeralds to complete his power.

Biography

Appearance

In his previous form, Metal Sonic was created in the image of Sonic the Hedgehog and was thus mostly built of blue metal to resemble Sonic’s blue spines. He had a yellow circular depression in his chest with a black center, mirroring the peach skin of Sonic's chest. His head had metal fins resembling Sonic's quills and a pair of triangular "ears." a muzzle, shoulder plates, upper arms, legs, and fingers made out of silvery metal. His palms were black, while the backs of his hands were square yellow plates. His forearms and lower legs were made of blue metal like his head and torso, and he had red feet with white stripes designed to resemble Sonic's shoes. He had optic sensors with black sclera and red irises.

In his new body, Metallix bears a resemblance to his previous form, but with more drastic changes, most directly resembling his 2006 iteration's unused final form of the same name. His quills are now sharper, curved up, and have silver tips, and his eyes have silver highlights surrounding them. Compared to his previous form’s sleeker frame, Metallix has a taller and sturdier build. He is more humanoid in his appearance, adorned with blue, silver, and red armor, and red orbs protruding from his gauntlets. Embedded in his chest is a red reactor core that houses an interior in which he can store Chaos Emeralds.

Personality

In his previous form, Metal Sonic was a cold and aggressive robot. His silence and usually emotionless demeanor gave him an air of mystery. Created by Dr. Eggman to act as his enforcer as well as act as direct competition to Sonic the Hedgehog, he developed a superiority complex due to his purpose and programming, believing himself superior to Sonic in every aspect and seeking to destroy Sonic whenever possible. However, Metal Sonic also carried the capability for rebellion and vengeance. He would often disobey Eggman's orders and set out to destroy Sonic himself to prove his superiority and get revenge for his repeated defeats. This disobedient streak would lead to the crucial moment of Metal Sonic absorbing his fellow robots to transform into Metallix.

After upgrading, Metallix's cold heart and ruthless nature are exacerbated to the point where he becomes a totally merciless killing machine. He shows no mercy to any creature he encounters and will take lives without a second thought to get what he wants. According to Sonic, Metallix bears a lust for power and destruction, shown by his desire to achieve ultimate power by collecting the Chaos Emeralds. In his pursuit, he is willing to destroy anyone and anything that gets in his way.

Metallix appears to enjoy a good fight, much like Sonic. His fighting style matches his brutal and sadistic nature, as he laughs coldly when preparing to beat Yoshi to a pulp and while choking the life out him at the end of their battle. Despite his sadism, it does not override his more pragmatic side. He could've easily wiped out the rest of Yoshi's friends, but instead chose to focus on collecting the Chaos Emeralds, implying that he values their power over his own sadistic whims. Amongst his wishes, Metallix ultimately seeks to defeat Sonic and prove his superiority to him, just as he did in his previous form.

History

Metallix Saga

Metallix arrives in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Metallix teleported from Sonic's World to the dimension of the Mushroom Kingdom. When he landed, he noticed a nearby Goomba holding the Blue Chaos Emerald. Metallix demanded the Goomba give him the Chaos Emerald. When the confused and terrified Goomba didn't know what he was talking about, Metallix destroyed him with a single blast.

Metallix later looked over the wilderness of the Mushroom Kingdom, observing his Chaos Emerald. After contemplating his next move, he took off into the distance.

Metallix later fires a set of missiles at Luigi and Yoshi, who are fighting Wario and Waluigi over the White Chaos Emerald, sending Wario Bros. blasting off and causing Yoshi to fall into deep into the Grassland's forest. Metallix arrives and demands the Chaos Emerald from him. Yoshi refuses to hand the Emerald over, earning Metallix's ire and prompting him to attack. Yoshi is punched and sent flying through several trees before crashing into the wall of a plateau. He gets up quick enough to watch Metallix trying to retrieve the Chaos Emerald. Using his tongue, Yoshi snatches the Emerald before Metallix does, and places it in his mouth. Metallix demands Yoshi to spit the Chaos Emerald out. Despite having his life threatened, Yoshi boldly swallows the Emerald and belches in Metallix's face. Amused, but unfazed, Metallix decides to simply kill Yoshi and take the Chaos Emerald from his 'mutilated carcass'. Yoshi then uses his Egg Roll and escapes as he is hounded by an onslaught of bullets from Metallix's arm-mounted mini gun. He barely manages to escape the line of Metallix's mini gun fire. However, Metallix fires four missiles from his missile launcher on his shoulder, with the missiles striking Yoshi in his Egg Roll. Metallix catches up to Yoshi before kicking him to the air and uses a combination of V. Maximum Overdrive Attack and Homing Attack techniques to send him crashing hard into the ground leaving Yoshi unconscious.

However, as Metallix approaches the seemingly defeated Yoshi, the White Chaos Emerald in his stomach suddenly begins to shine, causing the stomach to drastically agitate, while Yoshi wakes up and suddenly powers up due to involuntarily managing to tap into the energy of the Chaos Emerald; thus, transforming into Chaos Yoshi. With the power of the Chaos Emerald enhancing his strength and speed, allowing him to fly, while enveloping him in a golden aura, Yoshi manages to overwhelm Metallix by throwing explosive eggs at him. However, Metallix was only angered and annoyed by Yoshi's offense, and taps into the power of the Blue Chaos Emerald located in the reactor core in his chest. He uses the Chaos Energy to dominate and brutally assault Yoshi by far. Yoshi, who receives severe damage and a black eye in battle, manages to try to catch Metallix with his tongue to swallow him and turn him into a big Yoshi egg, with the egg ready to explode due to the Yoshi's Chaos form. Witnessing this, Yoshi throws the egg with the robot inside at a plateau, with the big egg making a massive energy blowout upon impact, seemingly destroying the evil robot.

Yoshi manages to survive from the explosion. Feeling no traces of Metallix's presence, the severely injured and exhausted dinosaur believed that he has emerged victorious from the fight, while trying to leave the battle zone full of rubble. But shortly afterwards, Yoshi hears a frightening sound from behind. And Metallix emerged from the rubble in a massive inferno. The demonic robot comes out of the ravaging fire with clear intentions to kill displaying in his piercing red eyes. Yoshi tries to escape in anguish and horror, but Metallix blocks his way. Yoshi tries to catch him with his tongue again, but the robot manages to catch his tongue and give Yoshi a prolonged brutal beating. Metallix throws Yoshi into a plateau by rapidly releasing his tongue, and savagely strikes Yoshi in his stomach by copying his Ground Pound, causing him to spit out the White Chaos Emerald while Metallix quickly catches it and teleports it into his reactor core for storage. To make the beatings even more brutal, Metallix proceeds to power up with both the Blue and White Chaos Emeralds via his Ultra Combo technique, and launch wild blows at the dinosaur, following by taking him high into the air and savagely throwing him with gigantic force to the plateau, destroying it and thus ending the battle.

Metallix comments how he has two of the seven Chaos Emeralds, and how close he is to having his completed power. He laments how it took him longer than anticipated to beat Yoshi and take the Emerald but dismisses it as a minor setback. Hearing a groan, Metallix turned to find the dinosaur still alive, crawling despite receiving life-threatening injuries. Metallix, who witnessed this, approaches and grabs Yoshi by the neck. Suddenly, Metallix decides to fatally punish Yoshi for his opposition and refusal of giving him the Chaos Emerald by strangling him to death. As Metallix sadistically enjoys Yoshi's slow and agonizing death, he suddenly releases him when he detects the approach of Sonic and Shadow accompanied by Mario and Luigi. Irate, Metallix decides to fight for a moment, but then changes his mind and searches the other Chaos Emeralds instead, and flies away to continue his search.

Powers and Abilities

In his previous form, Metal Sonic could rival Sonic in all aspects, matching him in terms of speed and strength.

In his new body, Metallix is more powerful than before. He possesses scanners that allow him to track down the Chaos Emeralds and he can project destructive energy blasts. In The New Threat, Metallix is shown to fly at supersonic speeds. According to Mark Haynes, Metallix possess the data of all of Sonic's friends, that he stole from Eggman's supercomputer, and can use all of their abilities as a result. This was first shown when he uses Sonic's Homing Attack on Yoshi. He can also copy one’s biodata, enabling him to acquire the data of those he fights.

As seen in The New Threat, Metallix is a profound expert in hand-to-hand combat. He makes use of his overwhelming power and speed to deliver strong kicks and powerful punches in an unrelenting fighting style. He is quick to make use of his speed and strength to crush his opponents into the ground or a wall. During his fight with Yoshi, despite his enemy being empowered by the White Chaos Emerald and gaining a slight advantage, Metallix was able to avoid and block his attacks before quickly turning the tide.

Much like his enemies, Sonic and Shadow, Metallix can harness the energy of the Chaos Emeralds to increase his power. He tapped into the Blue Chaos Emerald's energy during his fight with Yoshi.

Metallix's reactor with the Blue and White Chaos Emeralds.

Metallix can slot Chaos Emeralds into a reactor in his chest as a means of storage.

Metallix boasts a decent level of firepower, able to use an arm-mounted mini gun and a pair of missile launchers on his shoulders.

Transformations

Metal Sonic

Metallix's previous form.

Super Metallix

Metallix's super form, which is acquired with a total of four Chaos Emeralds. In this form, Metallix's body becomes golden.

Metallix Prime

Metallix Prime is Metallix's perfect form, serving as his final transformation. Not much is known about this form, aside from that it is acquired with all seven Chaos Emeralds.

Techniques

• Flight - Thanks to a rocket engine in Metallix's back, the robot is capable of flight.

Metallix using Chaos Control.

• Chaos Control - An ability that grants a wide variety of supernatural reality manipulation abilities through the power of the Chaos Emeralds, including space and time manipulation, time and dimensional travel, energy manipulation, and teleportation. Metallix used this technique to appear in the Mushroom Kingdom. Metallix's usage of this ability comes from Shadow.
• Energy Blast - Used to kill a Goomba in order to acquire a Chaos Emerald.

Metallix strikes Yoshi with Death Chaser.

• Mini Gun - An arm mounted mini gun Metallix has equipped for his right arm. Metallix used this to attack Yoshi while in Egg Roll.
• Homing Missiles - Two missile launchers equipped to the shoulders that can fire an array of homing missiles. Metallix first used this when Luigi, Yoshi, Wario, and Waluigi squabbled for the white Chaos Emerald, and again during his fight with Yoshi. This attack belongs to Sektor in the Mortal Kombat series.
• V. Maximum Overdrive - A chase attack. Metallix used it in combination with his Homing Attack to attack Yoshi from above. He later combined the move with Mach Rush. This is a signature attack of Metallix's previous form, Metal Sonic, and first appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
• Homing Attack - A technique belonging to Sonic. Metallix was first seen using this technique to attack Yoshi while in his Egg Roll.
• Mach Rush - A motion attack Metallix used against Yoshi in the air in combination with V. Maximum Overdrive. The attack first appeared in Warframe.
• Double Axe Handle - An attack where Metallix clasps his hands together and reels back before slamming his fists down onto an opponent. This attack may have been copied from Vector, who uses this attack in Sonic Heroes. It also seems to be influenced by the Double Axe Handle attack from Dragon Ball Z.
• Eraser Blow - Metallix charges energy into his hand and punches it into his opponent before blasting them away in an explosion. This attack was used against Yoshi during their battle. The attack first appeared in Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming.
• Gigantic Heave - An attack used by Broly (DBS) that first appeared in Dragon Ball Super: Broly and named in Dragon Ball FighterZ. Metallix grabs his opponent by their head and drags them opponent across a wall before tossing them.

Metallix unleashes his Ultra Combo on Yoshi.

• Death Chaser - An attack used by Cooler that first appeared in Dragon Ball Z: Cooler’s Revenge. Metallix charges down at the opponent and hook kicks them in the stomach deep into the ground.
• Spin Attack - A technique belonging to Sonic. Metallix curls into a ball and spins into an opponent. Metallix first used this attack against Yoshi while the latter's tongue was in his grasp.
• Redline - A technique Metallix activates before unleashing a charged attack or powering up. He uses this to burst free from a pile of rubble and on Yoshi before using his Ultra Combo. This ability first appeared in Warframe.
• Ultra Combo - A finishing combo move inspired by Killer Instinct (2013). Metallix beats his opponent with a frenzy of savage blows before he takes them high into the air and throws them into the ground. It is specifically based on the one used by Fulgore.

Super Metallix displaying his Supernova attack.

• Choke Hold - A move Metallix used on Yoshi in an attempt to kill him. Metallix picked up Yoshi by the throat and squeezed his throat in a bid to asphyxiate him.
• Chaos Beam - A charged energy beam fired from the chest. Inspired by Fulgore's Devastation Beam.
• Supernova - An attack inspired by Cooler's own Supernova in Dragon Ball Z: Cooler’s Revenge. Metallix raises his hand and gathers his energy in the form of a giant yellow orange, sun-like energy sphere. Once it is ready, Metallix launches the attack against the target causing a nuclear explosion upon impact.

Relationships

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog is Metal Sonic's organic template and archenemy. When he was Metal Sonic, he was Sonic's real rival. Being created by Dr. Eggman for the sole purpose of destroying Sonic, Metal Sonic always fought him to near-death but would still be defeated in the end. The numerous defeats made Metal Sonic all the more determined to defeat Sonic, going as far as to disobey Eggman's orders and upgrade his own body several times. In time, the once suggested command festered into hatred, and Metal Sonic sought to defeat Sonic on his own whim and at any cost. The hate would fuel his decision to merge with the older Sonic robots to gain his current form.

Shadow the Hedgehog

Shadow and Metallix are nothing short of mortal enemies due to the latter killing Shadow's only two friends, Rouge and E-123 Omega.

Doctor Eggman

Coming soon

Yoshi

Metallix looked down on Yoshi from their first meeting, which he referred to him as an "insect." When Yoshi belched at him, he laughed it off before deciding to kill him. When Yoshi proved his worth and managed to fight back, Metallix began to despise him. When the fight ended, he referred to the dinosaur as a "maggot" before he went out of his way to try ending Yoshi's life as slowly and painfully as possible.

Battles

4	Contenders	Episode	Location	Items	Winner
	Metallix VS Yoshi	The New Threat	Grass Land	Blue Chaos Emerald	Metallix

Trivia

• Metal Sonic made his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
  • The Metallix version of the character, whom he is named after, made his debut in Sonic the Comic Issue 22.
• Metallix shares characteristics with notable Dragon Ball villains such as Cell, Cooler, and Broly (specifically the Z-incarnation of the latter), especially in terms of mannerisms, motivations, and attacks.
  • Metallix is notably analogous to Cell in the overall story.
  • Metallix shares Cooler's voice, specifically his Final Form and Meta-Cooler voices from Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3.
    • His fight with Yoshi in The New Threat has him utilizing the the Death Chaser, one of Cooler's moves in Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge. He also share's Cooler's ruthless personality.
  • Much like Cell, Metal Sonic absorbs other creations preceding him to increase his power.
    • Metallix also shares Cell's motivation for obtaining his Perfect form.
  • During his fight with Yoshi, Metallix uses Broly's Eraser Blow to send Yoshi flying similar to how Broly did the same to Goku in Dragon Ball Super: Broly. He also shares Broly's enjoyment of other's suffering from the Broly Saga continuity.
• According to Haynes, Metallix is pronounced "Metallics" but with the "cs" replaced with an x.
• Metallix's name is taken from the character from Sonic the Comic, which is also an adaptation of both Mecha Sonic and Metal Sonic.
• Originally, Metallix's final form was going to be called "Neo Metallix," a reference to Neo Metal Sonic, Haynes ultimately settled on "Prime."
  • The "Prime" in "Metallix Prime", Metallix's final form, is a reference to Warframe.
• Metallix has a special-themed dialogue box, which features a volume icon.
  • This volume icon increases or decreases depending on whether Metallix is shouting or not.
  • The border of the box also gains a "crackling energy" effect when Metallix is angry.
• Metallix's sprites are heavily edited from Bass from the video game Mega Man 8. His Chaos Emerald reactor is also a heavily edited Hyper Eggrobo sprite from Sonic Advance 3.
• Metallix's visor presents his field of view exclusively in red and black, overlaid with white HUD elements. This is seemingly inspired by the first-person view of the T-800 from the Terminator franchise.
• Metallix was originally planned to be the ultimate form of Mecha Sonic in the 2006 series after he had absorbed all seven Chaos Emeralds but was ultimately dropped in favor of Metallix replacing Mecha Sonic in the reboot, with Metallix's final form planned to take on an all-new appearance.
• Metallix has a unique visual effect when using a critical hit, as opposed to using the Marvel vs. Capcom flashing effect that other combatant's critical hits use. These are based on Gauss' Redline from Warframe.
• Metallix shares the mechanical sound effects of Fulgore Mark III from Killer Instinct (2013).

Gallery

Main article: Gallery:Metallix

External Links

• Metal Sonic and Metallix at Sonic Wiki Zone
• Metal Sonic and Metallix at Sonic Retro