All-American Metal: The Saga of PSEUDO-SONIC!
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Mecha March Madness is FINALLY back for year 2. Kicking things off by looking at America's first attempt at a robotic replica of the blue blur: PSEUDO SONIC!
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I can totally see this as a unused Metal Sonic prototype laying around in a secret base Eggman has
Same
i cna see ian rewriting pseudo sonic as some sort of old toy like robot sonic eggman once built and compeltely forgot about in some old base
@@wolfofdiscord7092 You mean for the Idw comics and the reboot comics or back when he was still doing the pre reboot Comics cause pseudo Sonic was canonically dead from being killed off in a earlier issue by the time he took over pre reboot?
@@hattoripool1533 i mean in the modern idw cannon since so far it seems it doesnt exist there
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Fun fact! I actually have an animation cell of Psudo-Sonic from Adventures Of as well! My cell is of Psudo himself. I can confirm that he is just as unappealing to look at even in his purest form.
I don’t have any cells but I do have the little rubber Eggman figure you can see while he’s showing off his cell
Id legit buy that from you lol
I actually like pseudo
Tails's intelligence actually is canonically touched on in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, it's just that him being a very young child is generally emphasized. And just like in the games, it mostly manifests as his talent for machinery, which was downplayed in SatAM as that'd have infringed on Rotor Walrus's niche.
Plus, in that moment, he does understand that Sonic is someone he couldn't underestimate.
Apparently Tails would’ve been more of a team player in the cancelled seaosn 3 of SATAM
@@skibot9974thank you for robbing us of that Ken Pender, love ya! 😡
@@whitedarkness5508 that was on Disney buying ABC not Ken
13:08 Dude, as awful as the character designs for the Forty Fathom Freedom Fighters are, I absolutely loved the idea that there were other groups of Freedom Fighters with cool and unique animals included. The Downunda Freedom Fighters were slightly better, and then of course the Chaotix were the best example.
It's kinda funny that Tails defeated Pseudo-Sonic in the comics, considering he was _also_ the member of the FF that defeated Evil Sonic/Scourge the first time the heroes clashed with their counterparts. I suppose it tracks that the guy who spends the most time fighting alongside Sonic would be the best-equipped to defeat an evil version of him.
7:14 Haha wow! Attacking innocent old ladies. Does this make Pseudo-Sonic the evilest metallic Sonic?? (And thanks for the shout-out!)
That moment made me laugh like Dr Eggman
In my headcanon, Pseudo and Silver Sonic are the prototypes to the Metal and Mecha lines of robots. While Silver Sonic would find his place in the Stardust Speedway, Pseudo was killed off much like in Archie.
Metal vs Pseudo would make for an interesting fight if you build up Pseudo.
@Hooty HOOT HOOT True, but that’s Pseudo Sonic before Sonic became the powerhouse he is today. If Pseudo Sonic was made to be an exact copy of Sonic now, he’d have access to Sonic’s own haxes/abilities.
@@whaleping if we go that far, we have to give Metal his Neo form.
Which has EVERYONE’S hax.
@@tonyhakston536 Hm, Metal doesn’t have all of Sonic’s abilities. Sonic states he gets stronger by the second but robots can’t do that, in Sonic Forces. That, and Neo never stated he copied Team Rose and Team Chaotix.
@@whaleping well keep in mind that Psuedo is made for infiltration while Metal is made for confrontation. An upgraded Psuedo Sonic would most likely resemble a terminator with a morphic cloaking device and some built in drones. Sorta like a metal mimic, it can take on a variety of disguises, infiltrate, and then start playing mind games causing people and groups to fall apart, be under Eggman's thumb without realizing, or just go insane. Between the two Psuedo would most likely be the more devious and dangerous one.
I can easily see Eggman making a knockoff Sonic with a gigantic nose on purpose just to get revenge for all the 'walrus with two paintbrushes shoved up his nose' jokes
I love pseudo Sonic. He’s really unique compared to the other metal Sonics, with is personality being so close to sonic’s and not either a mindless husk or metal sonic. He’s not perfect, but he’s great.
That could also apply to Metal Sonic in CD
metal sonic had a kinda cool personality in heros
Yeah that’s why I separated metal Sonic from the rest of the group. He’s gotten so much personality over the years that I can’t really call him a mindless husk.
He looks like he’d be a mischievous little shit.
I find his design cute. Reminds me of a really chunky toy. I bet he has good old GM build quality.😂
One of these days Nick may finally do Archie speed reading and actually get to the story this month is named after… one of these days…
That'd be so long
You know there is this new dubbing channel that plans to dub the entirety of Archie Sonic Comics and they just released their first video on issue 1. The channel is called Void of Voices and the dub is very well voiced and edited so check it out and show it some some support. czcams.com/channels/Xya-F9bv3UApj9crWPT5jQ.html
Are we gonna warn him about Bunnie's line in Mecha Madness Part 1 or not?
@@ToaArcan That’s one of my favorite out of context lines in the whole comic lol
Stay tuned.
Pseudo-Sonic was a product of the early-mid 1990's, and was geared towards younger kids with it's goofy, non-threatening design. By definition, the Pseudo-Sonic from the comics was an ANDROID, while the version from the cartoon show was (in fact) a robot/mech. It all boils down to one being fully autonomous and sentient (like Metal Sonic), and the other requiring a pilot to operate it. That said, yes, Metal Sonic is, by definition, an ANDROID as well (though Metal Sonic is much more self-aware, has the ability to incorporate foreign machines/objects, and can "evolve" depending on the circumstances).
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I loved the goofiness of this robot as a kid. He was perfectly suited to the medium he was created for, and it was fun to see the Looney Tunes antics going off with him.
I kind of like the name Mr S. It sounds so mysterious, like a secret agent or a mob boss.
I kind of like his design. Feels suitably doofy and "prototype-ish" which especially started to make sense when Archie would retroactively establish him to be a prototype Metal Sonic (in a sense). Wouldn't mind seeing him come back in a future cartoon or comic where he's just a one-off badnik, as a tribute of sorts to AoStH, however with SEGA's hardcore mandates nowadays I doubt that'd ever happen. Fun to imagine though.
what you r stupid
Maybe it's nostalgia, but me too. I loved this episode when I was a kid, probably the only episode I like of that cartoon at this point.
Twitter and frontiers on the other hand references sonic media like mean bean machine and of course the greatest sonic character tangle the lemur
See? Someone mistaking HIM for Sonic would be more believable. He looks just like him... except robotic... and has sharp teeth... and a bit bulkier... but still, I love him all the same
Pseudo Sonic at least had one great moment in the cartoon when he pitted a little old lady against a bus. Guess who came out on top in that one?
I remember reading the OG Archie pre-reboot, and reading Pseudo Sonic, I didn't know about his later pre reboot and as well as animated appearances, but that's quite something new I learned. I also believe this to be quite an interesting bar to set and start off Mecha March Madness 2022.
I'll save you an afternoon rifling through your back-issues: The last Pseudo story was indeed Gallagher and Manak's last stint on the Sonic book proper, although they did revitalize a shelved story from the early days in Sonic Archives Volume 5.
That said, I actually quite enjoyed these backups when they first came out, I always enjoy when a long running series does a throwback story, and seeing these old school revivals was a fun change of pace from the narrative at the time!
being an aircraft enthusiast i just want to add, bombers dont usually have that art and not alot of jets do, one plane in the us that does is the A-10 thunderbolt II or warthog is what some pilots call it, just to inform you
Appreciate the info!
@@GameApologist no problem, keep up the good work :)
I think your just obsessed with planes
@@mnep5 maybe lol, I've been into planes ever since I played the ace combat series
@Hooty HOOT HOOT dont exactly have favs but yeah you can tell which one of them I really liked lol
This was my first Sonic comic and I remember it very fondly. Thank you for this.
I always had a fondness for the stubby design of Pseudo Sonic. It's honestly the only design that to me tends to pass as a fake Sonic, and it's the only double I remember that just... runs.
It's literally just a metal sonic. I dig it.
If you were to give it a cool redesign to be more “on-model” to Sonic but still look dodgy when compared to the real deal, you’d have a pretty sinister looking fake Sonic. Looks like Sonic but something’s off about him and when he does the trademark Sonic grin with the cold predatory optics/glass-eyes, it comes off as unsettling as well as threatening looking.
Yknow , Nick, I use to think I was the Sonic lore master until I stumbled upon this channel. Thank you for deepening my Sonic education.
You know, I actually like Pesudo Sonic. Yeah he's goofy and bizzare, but having him as almost the first Sonic Robot, he's really cool. If given a better design, he could be really interesting! Granted, like many Sonic Robots it would cramp Metal Sonic's style, but hey I think he could fit somewhere. Probably would have been well at home in Sonic Boom for example. XP
Metal has his own goals, Mecha sticks to his programming, but Pseudo... he's just a little stinker, and I kinda love it.
I remember seeing this guy near the back of the Sonic Universe Shadow Saga book where they described the different versions of Metal Sonic (or any robot of Sonic in general). Great video Nick!
I love how you deliver your lines. Def could not imagine learning obscure things about different robo baddies from anyone else. Thank you Nick
I honestly forgot about this character until you brought him up. It's kind of odd that he hasn't really shown up that much in the Archie Comics. I guess it's because when they created Scourge, he pretty much took all the attention from Pseudo Sonic. Awesome video as always Nick!
He could have functioned just like what they didn with tails doll. Where he mutates into a giant monster
@@theHedgex1I’d make Pseudo-Sonic be like a near-perfect replica of Sonic but has that off-ness about him that’s unsettling. Especially when he does the signature grin with those lifeless eyes which turns it from an expression of cool confidence to a threatening one since the corners of the mouth doesn’t reach the eyes and looks very off-putting.
Like those stories where a robot duplicate physically looks like the hero but they’re only shallow artificial approximation of the real thing.
Aw man I remember this episode in particular because my family caught me spending to much time looking up Sonic cartoons on the computer when I was little: the worst crime known to man.
I have a soft-spot for Pseudo Sonic since he was my first exposure to Sonic having a robotic double. I like to think that he's a Badnik variant of the standard "Metal-" series robots that can be mass-produced, similar to Prototype Silver Sonic. His doofy appearance could be ol' Egghead trying to spite Sonic like what he pulled with the Tails Doll.
I’d headcanon this fella as a clunky prototype to the eventual Mecha Sonic and Metal Sonic or Metallix series. The idea’s there but needs work and Silver/Mecha Sonic from 2 is the next one made after him. If we’re bringing in Grimer from Fleetway into this, he helped the good doctor conceive an improved Robo Sonic design for Mecha Sonic Mk II and then Metal Sonic with the latter having stomped Eggman for a while regarding how to make a power unit for it until ol’ Grimer solved the issue by creating a more compact unit that can fit in Metal’s much more streamlined bodyframe.
Pseudo-Sonic would be Eggman’s first or earliest attempt at making his own counter to Sonic and it shows while Mecha Sonic Mk I is created to be a Sonic that can go on the offensive including ranged weaponry like Mechagodzilla while Metal is made to mirror Sonic. Each type covering a niche for their creator.
"Putting the hog in hedgehog" showing Sonic as a cop. Absolutely incredible, 10/10
What does it mean?
@@luk_143 heheheha cop bad hohoho
@@luk_143 Hog is another word for pig, and cops are often called pigs.
lost my shit at that line
Never would of guessed that the one constant with Pseudo Sonic stories is Sonic running into flowers that make him swell up like a balloon.
You know, I like the idea of Pseudo being spring-loaded at most of his joints. It's something that seems to be unique to Pseudo among the line up of sonic robots. I think he's kinda neat.
I don't really like pseudo-sonic but I love the chaos of adventures of sonic the hedgehog.
Aww, he's adorable! You hate this guy? How? He's so freaking cute. I love his freaking bulbous nose. And that cheeky shark grin. He knows what he is and he freaking loves it.
I think the keyword is "Pseudo". He's supposed to look off. So this isn't a bad design, this is a stellar design, it is exactly what it needs to be. It also reminds me of Sharkie the dog from Eek! The Cat.
He also looks way more like a Dadnik than Metal Sonic. Badniks are supposed to be cartoony and bulbous, at least the early ones.
Last year I called silver sonic a goblin but no this is the real goblin sonic. At least it can say it’s the only sonic robot to use a grenade… it’s a weird robot but I don’t hate it. It’s served it’s purpose well.
Pseudo Sonic was a favorite out of the robots, I actually kinda admired the design, it looks like it actually has durable parts inside the machine rather than magically moving metal skeleton like everyone's favorite mechanical doppelganger.
It would have been hilarious seeing him if he were to pop up in Metal Sonic's fight in mania, honestly it would be nice if there was a (non lego) game to include all the Mechanical Sonics including some of the more obscure ones like Pseudo...
I love Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog for it's out-there character design and limitless meme potential. But most importantly, I love that this show has ties to Mean Bean Machine (and therefore) ties to Puyo Puyo. I wish these franchises' characters interacted in a way that wasn't Sonic Runners.
I saw some cute fanart of him and Metal and I was like "THERES AN AMERICAN METAL?" it was a pleasant surprise, his episode was crazy.
A.O.S.T.H's Eggman/Robotnik is the most logical once you think of it. Instead of making an entirely new design he just straight up made Sonic. (With a big nose) So if he wanted to frame Sonic he could could so if he wanted to.
It also means he wouldn't have to worry about the robot itself betraying him.
the way nick just Segways to archie like a dad annoyed at his children in the car threatening to turn back had me laughing.
1:11 love how it's mickey's runaway brain look(pretty much the disney equivalent to archie werehog outside the beast & am now calling him pseudo lucky mouse.:3) if he just bluntly ate ALL the caffeine.
Actually, Pseudo-Sonic is going to be the main villan of Sonic Frontiers
How do you know? The game is already out and there was no sign of him.
@@SonicTheHedgehog-2023r/wooosh
As a person with bad taste (I really like Silver Sonic), I personally like Pseudo-Sonic. I think the chunky limbs, fat nose and whole generic-metalness of his design makes him really charming.
As someone who saw every single episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and overall enjoyed the experience for the Acidwash, hell nightmare it was. Even I forgot about this stupid thing until I saw the thumbnail.
Also, yes. Please do Rocket Metal Sonic. I love him.
I think that bootleg Mickey you showed at the begining is based on the Mickey from the 1995 short Runaway Brain.
Yep. I’m pretty sure it is, and if so your comment should be pinned
Man, this was a blast from the past. I had the original Pseudo-sonic issue as well as the anniversary issue where he shows back up. It was goofy but it was perfect for Archie because of how silly it was.
I’m glad that Mecha March Madness is still happening, and I hope we eventually get a video abut the E-100 series. They’re probably my favorite since they’re a nice mix of classic sonic badniks and the newer enemy grunts. The Archie comics, the IDW comics, and the games like Sonic Adventure or sonic battle/Sonic Advance really made them special and I’m glad they eventually led to the development of Omega and Emerl/Gemerl.
Thanks!
At first time I’m here within a minute of it coming out
Pseudo-Sonic is incredibly underrated imo, I've always liked his design considering it was the most accurate to sonic's design of aosth and the fact that it was actually piloted by someone. That being said i actually have an official piece of production art of Psuedo himself from Adventures.
We need a Episode on Rocket metal
I completely forgot about Pseudo Sonic!
I think I remember Ian or someone saying this story was sitting in the archives waiting to be printed when he arrived. So after Archie changed the staff, they decided to print the leftover stories from the old guard.
You know my one take-away from this?
I should go and play Klonoa again, man I miss that series...
I love this sonic bot way more than I should
Clunky relatively low-fi design but it seems to work as a direct sonic translation.
I like this.
Sometimes the best kind of bootlegs are the ones that come from (kind of) official media. Who needs Harry Potter Obama when you have pseudo-Sonic?
Okay, I'll take Harry Potter Obama any day. Great content as always, Nick
Tails using static shock to kill the robot actually a pretty interesting idea. Maybe they should do more with that idea in feuture
I love how Nick has brought up the SATAM cheetah like 5 or 6 times. Really building up to that video. Never in my life did I think I’d watch, let alone want to watch a video on the one-off SATAM cheetah😂😂. Only Nick could make me that excited for something so insignificant
Pseudo Sonic is strange as hell but I still like it for some reason
I have never heard of this guy, but this was a really interesting story! Thanks for sharing it, Nick!
Nice to get the first Mecha march madness video and whole 2/3 through March. Still happy to see you talking about pseudo sonic, I always like his design for some reason.
Psudo-sonic is the guy who gets bullied at the Sonic Robot Club for bringing non-salted potato chips
Pseudo just orders whatever the robot equivalent to drinking milk at a bar is as Sonic 3's Mecha just slowly turns over to him in utter, expressionless disgust
As usual, I am laughing like a maniac at your jokes, as well as really enjoying all of the new information in here. Your animated facial expressions really put the cap on it. And the last-minute stinger killed me.
ITS FINALLY HERE!!!
this is a pleasant day to see you upload. It's my birthday today, and this is a pretty good birthday present
LOVED THIS SERIES! Great to see this back.
5:56
Sonic as a cop also happened in an arcade game called “Waku Waku Sonic patrol car”
Oh man, hearing that AoStH music after so many years is super nostalgic!
Seeing Nick talk about AOSTH is one of my dreams come true
Sonic: Who are you?
Pseudo sonic: I'm you but weaker.
My phone started this in my pocket and I have been waiting for this series to come back
Why is Antoine guarding... a SECRET entrance?!
I wonder what Nick’s opinions on creepypasta Tails Doll are?
EDIT: I’m a sucker for the guy, he’s why I love the canon Tails Doll in the first place
Fanon: eldritch nightmare abomination who hungers for human souls.
Game canon: Robotnik ran out of stuff to throw at Sonic and this is a last-ditch attempt to trick him.
Comic canon: extremely dangerous nanobot-manipulating infiltration drone.
@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 I love how it’s just like “I’m out of ideas, here’s a doll”
NGL, I kinda love this horrible design because it's just so hilarious and meme-able. He looks a naughty kid trying to look tough and intimidating. He also has a bit of an ugly-cute thing going.
I can just see a meme with a caption like "when you tell the babysitter your mom lets you have 2 donuts when she really only lets you have 1" and then just Pseudo-Sonic with his he-he-he face.
_Never_ heard of him, but man. He's kinda cute because of his overall roundness
Kinda the opposite of almost every other Sonic robot, also. Kudos for the silent p bit, you did it very well
Pseudo Sonic: *exists*
This Guy: “Is a Silent P even legal?”
thank you for continue this series
That video was great, I never even knew Psuedo-Sonic was a thing haha
Keep up the great work, I am loving your content!
Two suggestions if you delve into the world of Fleetway's Sonic the Comic: Cyborg-Tails (or whatever he was called) from issue 2, or my squirrel mecha boy, Shortfuse the Cybernik!
(Okay, yeah, Brotherhood of Metallix ought to come before both of those, but I'm assuming those boys are on the list already)
Fun fact extra life sonic from fleetway was in comic where he framed sonic for crimes that he didn’t commit and think scrouge did it to with anti freedom fighters so which came first?
Pseudo Sonic appeared a couple months before extra life.
One of my favorite channels
Here's the thing with Pseudosonic. He might not be the best-looking Sonic bot, but he's the closest in appearance and capabilities to the real blue blur. Which also makes him more effective at infiltration than at actually fighting against Sonic, you really need to be able to go beyond Sonic's capabilities to have a chance to beat him.
The time has come to test your metal.
That "Pseudo Mickey Mouse Knock Off" is actually brain-swapped Mickey from the '95 short "Runaway Brain" -- While likely a knock off toy, its based on a real character, and possibly based on a limited run or cancelled toy meant to reference that short (which may have run in theaters in the '90's before hitting the Disney channel).
Glad to see people still remember this weird robot sonic :)
Oh hey, this is random but...literally just a day or so ago before you posted this video I posted a video where I made a custom of Sash Lilac, and mentioned how Freedom Planet was made in a "pseudo Sonic style" and felt the need to disambiguate with this character. It doesn't mean anything but I find it funny that I mentioned Pseudo Sonic right before you made a full on video about him.
Tiny animals are not power source for badniks. In Sonic the Hedgehog CD badniks were powered by flower seeds. But Flicky and other small creatures are DRIVERS of badniks in other games.
Unlike Eggman, Robotnik started already with Artificial Intelligence. But AI of his robots ended up being extremely dumb, so for Pseudo Sonic he decided to make it be controlled by something that at least has brains.
Gold as always 😁
welcome back, finally, to march mammal madness
i want him to come back just as a slapstick gag
he is pathetic
but he is persistent
it might take him another 10 years
but he will be back
and only last 10 minutes
this actually reminds me, nick, have you seen the modern version of pseudo sonic drawn by Ben Bates? his version of the character looks fantastic, i think you would like it!
I liked Pseudo Sonic! He was as if someone made a fully functional Sonic Gundam suit, or even the BGY-11 aka The Big Guy from Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.
"The only reason I can think of to put that monstrous honker on his face is maybe potentially referencing the nose art of bomber jets?..."
Die hard aviation buffs: *A N G E R Y*
56th I love this channel, he inspired me to created my one sonic video, I'll make more but thank you for inspiring me!
this video made me love pseudo
Woah! I feel like I was one of the last people left on earth who remembered pseudo-sonic, lol
NGL the Klonoa joke caught me off guard. >_>
It's hilarious to just be listening to Sonic Mania's Stardust Speedway Boss theme casually, only to pause it to watch a Game Apologist video that plays the same thing at the start. XD
It's a true bop. :D
Pseudo-Sonic is a weird one. He's literally got the same exactly body and design of Sonic, but all metal, bulky, and a weird face with a big nose and sharp teeth to remind you he's an evil doppelganger robot.
I mean, he DOES resemble a slightly altered version of the classic Sonic design on the box art of the first few games with the circle head and shark-fin quills and such.
Also, 1:08 that "Pseudo Mickey" is basically a Mickey from a cartoon short where he turns into a monster (I forgot how or what the short's called), but it seems like someone bootlegged it as merch.
To me, Pseudo-Sonic, with a few touch-ups, would be perfect way to frame the real Sonic for crimes and horrible actions, much more fitting than people thinking Shadow was Sonic in Sonic Adventure 2, in my opinion. But, you would be able to tell something was off, like "Faker Sonic/EXE" a fanmade Sonic.exe that imitates Sonic, but pretty unsettling in it's first form.
He's like a Bizzaro Superman. He's MEANT to be weird and somewhat the opposite of Sonic.
He's not my favorite, but an interesting Sonic Robot nonetheless.
P.S. I love that little joke you snuck at the end of the video. That's a classic. 🤣
I was missing his issue of archie comics so i ended up buying it via ebay last year... lord it was not cheap but god he has that "so ugly its charming" kinda feel xD
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Pseudo sonic ruins a random dude’s privacy
I like Adam Bryce Thomas' version which fused Pseudo Sonic & Metal Sonic's designs.