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  • About The Q&A

    These are questions and answers that were submitted up until 2008. They could be freely submitted and a member of the staff would do their best to answer.

    Looking for Dr. FexusFan? His replies can be found here.

    Chao issue

    Um, okay. This is about Chao in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. One of my chao is getting pretty high up there, age wise, and I want to know that if he is reincarnated, or comes back after he dies, will he still have his stats? Or will I have to start from scratch? Thanks for the help.

    A reincarnated chao retains ten percent of its stats.

    ~ Crazy C Lea

    Comics

    Hey, I saw one of the questions on here was (something along the lines of),

    Why don’t you put whole comic books on this webpage?

    In the response you said it was illegal unless money was involved.
    My question then is…..
    A. Why then do you put scans of 1 or 2 comic pages per book?

    and

    B. Would it be legal for me to put a couple comic scans on my webpage?

    A) Because it’s legal. There’s a huge difference between a few pages and a whole issue, which is 22-27 pages (the specials had even more pages when printed).
    B) Yes.

    Copyright law isn’t difficult to research.

    –True Red

    One Quick Question of Concern

    I was wondering, does this site have the ability to let its viewers actually read the comics? All other sites i have been to only give cover scans. If this site allows the eading of the actual comics, please let me know how, and if i need to sign up any (cause i will)

    What you are referring to is illegal for any website other than Archie to do (unless there was some kind of money involved & this is a fan site, not a money making operation), so it will not be done here. –True Red

    chao gardens

    how do you get a chao garde in sonic heroes?i know there is one but idont know how to get it?(i saw only an adualt with it so im sure its hard)

    You’re mistaken; there is no Chao Garden in Sonic Heroes.

    ~ Crazy C Lea

    About Tails’s Relatives…

    Ok… question: did there happen to be any other info on Tails’s relatives besides in Archie ??? (That’s just about all I could find around here, & their profiles really just restate the whole thing) I’ve also noticed that there’s no profile for Rosemary Prower last time I checked, which is driving me NuTs.Just wanted to point that out. :D~Foshizzle~:D

    Considering the profile for Amadeus states more than what was covered in and anything mentioned in Merlin’s profile wasn’t covered in , the answer to your question is “yes.” Rosemary gets a profile whenever she gets one, same as any other character. –True Red

    Covers

    After shrinking some cover scans to discover that all of them would take up over 10 MB of space which is half of our limited amount could we just make a link to your cover gallery?

    Sure –True Red

    when!?!

    I have been waiting for Tails parents to come back and it seems like they’re never going to come! So I wanted to know do I have to wait much longer?

    There’s a rules page. Read up on #6 for the future. –True Red

    Contributing

    I would like to submit some info about Sonic 160. I would like to submit some info about Sonic 160, however I do not know how to. Can you give me info about how to submit things such as a review or a scan?

    We don’t accept scan submissions. We do our own. As for review submissions, that’s explained in the review area. If you’re bothered by the issue numbers given, those are not updated until the review section itself is. Those who submit reviews know that we will always accept reviews for issues that have been released within the past 6 months. –True Red

    Charmy the bee’s real age

    Hi, I’m Keshia and I am a huge fan of Sonic and all of his friends.My question for you is that in the Sonic dictionary on both of the definitions for Charmy the Bee,you said that the video game virsion of Charmy’s age is 16,but my brother got the Sonic Heroes video game and the guide said that Charmy’s really six years old!!!! Can you explane this to me?

    Outside of Japan, the game manual for Knuckles Chaotix originally gave Charmy’s age as sixteen. However, as has happened with other characters, upon being reinvented and redesigned, the age was changed. He is now six.

    ~Crazy C Lea

    what’s the difference?

    I was wondering what is the difference between times transformed and age. Most of my chaos are at least 2 or 3, but all of them in the times transformed catagory say 0. why is that? these questions regard to sonic adventure 2 battle for the gamescube.

    Age simply refers to the passage of time. Transormation refers to the reincarnation process in which a chao at about age five can revert through a coccoon to an egg and be rehatched, keeping a percentage of its previous stats and gaining a rank on its dominant type.

    ~ Crazy C Lea

    HQ Award

    I was just reading about your Sonic HQ and is it an actual trophy award?

    Nope, just an image. –True Red

    Cover scans

    could I use the cover scans of the Archie Sonic, Knuckles, Specials, and Super Specials for my own site?

    Sure, just say where you got them. –True Red

    Timelines

    Hey just wondering if you could put up some kind of timeline based on the Archie series, as continuity sometimes gets a bit hazy and I’m lost! You have dates on this site regarding when Sonic et al were born, but you don’t seem to have any info on important dates, such as when the great war started, when Sonic’s parents met etc etc.

    Also, since Sonic’s trip to space, which apparently lasted a year on the Mobius calandar, wouldn’t that make the birthday Sonic celebrates in issue 150-something his 18th (as he would have had his 17th in space)?? I be confused!
    Cheers!

    It would take a lot of fan screaming for me to even think about doing a continuity outline as specific as what you’re asking for for a few reasons. Some of the things you mention, such as when the Great War started, have never been given dates. Things that have been given dates, such as a few birthdates, are mostly all posted. There might be a couple missing so I won’t say “all” of them are posted. The other reason is that Archie slightly overwrites established continuity–which can make it difficult to stick with their continuity completely.

    As for Sonic’s birthday, Archie has decided to be deliberately vague. There are a lot of rumors/theories abound and because Archie has basically stated that they don’t plan on aging the characters (particularly right now), don’t expect them to proclaim that Sonic is 18 or older especially since they do take into account that Sonic is supposed to be a teenager due to his age of 15 in the video games (and Sonic X).

    –True Red

    aniversary

    hey sonic im ur no.1 fan but if they celabrate ur aniversary shodent u be married to get aniverys?

    The term “anniversary” refers to anything that happens annually (like one’s birthday) and is not a marriage-exclusive term.

    ~ Crazy C Lea

    Okay, something is wrong here

    Hi, I’m a Knuckles fan, and I was wondering something. In the the video games, Knuckles claims he is the last of his kind and has no family. But in the Archie comics, he has a family and a whole bunch of relatives. What’s going on?

    There’s nothing wrong. Read the answer to this. You should be able to figure out how the answer to that question relates to the one you’ve just asked. –True Red

    Is Tails…

    Okay, I know that Tails is a boy (I’ve known him for a quite long time) but I heard he was girl. Was he a girl at one time in his life, or was he always a boy?

    Originally Tails was a girl, this has overall been proven and accepted fact by most people. What changed however was when Sonic 2 was being produced Sega of America basically said that the game needed to have a male Tails because of ethics back then and they did not want a female girl running after Sonic. So Tails was made a guy and later on they introduced Amy to run after Sonic.

    ~Ron Prower (yeah I finally decided to do one XD)

    Shadow’s Past

    Grr.. I am really confused about Shadow’s past. Did he die in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle? Is he an android in Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog? And is he the so called “ultimate life form” or is that the bio-lizard thing?

    1. No, Eggman saved him via his robots.
    2. No, though some things try to lead him to believe that he is.
    3. It’s Shadow. The Biolizard is obviously not the true ULF as it’s called a prototype several times.

    ~ Crazy C Lea

    Sonic the Comic full run

    Hey, just wondering if you knew what issue Sonic the Comic ended at. I’ve been working on getting them all, and I own issues in the 130’s and 160’s, but your archive only goes up to 124. Any idea how many issues there actually are? Thanks a bunch.

    The cover archive is a bit more complete. The series stopped having original stories with #184 and officially ended with #223. –True Red

    What just happened to Tiara?

    I recently went to a site that said that Tiara was a brown maynx. Is this official info, or is it fan-made?

    As noted on the news page here, there’s plenty of information being revealed concerning the canned Sonic X-Treme. That includes information on Tiara. Quoting from the topic on Tiara:

    Tiara is a Manx kitten. Originally, she was slated to be a bandicoot (look out Crash!)… but in comparing the real animals, my pick is the Manx, mang!

    Read that topic (and the message board) for more stuff as it’s not necessary to ask here to get it second hand. –True Red

    Sonic’s name

    Okay, I heard that sonic has another name, that is olgilvee (Or something to that effect) isn’t his real name Sonic? what’s going on?

    It depends on the version of Sonic. Each Sonic universe is different. In the Archie comics (for the series from 1993 that is still being published; not the Sonic X that just started), Ken Penders revealed years ago on his message board that he gave Sonic the name Olgilvie Maurice Hedgehog in response to comments on Knuckles’ name and in reference to the story he wrote back in Sonic The Hedgehog #53. That is currently Sonic’s official name for Archie and ONLY Archie. Other versions of Sonic, either have his real name as Sonic or haven’t touched the issue. –True Red

    Knuckles in Sonic Heroes

    Someone told me that in Sonic Heroes, Knuckles says a bad word when he punches. Is this true?

    No. People just mistake what is essentially an onomatope (like a battle cry) for something else.

    ~ Crazy C Lea

    She did too!!!!!

    I am responding to the answer that Mina+Knux got, saying that Mina did die. She died in Archie Sonic Comic issue .

    Obviously you don’t have the issue. is the issue in which Mina was shot. But just like in the real world, being shot doesn’t mean you will die. She was shown talking to Sonic & Sally in the hospital in Knothole on the very next page, which was not scanned but is discussed in the review for the issue on this site. Mina never died in the comic, but if the only thing you see are the scans posted on this site (or people discussing them) then you could come to that incorrect conclusion. The scans posted for any issue rarely tell the whole story, especially for the ones I have posted (such as Sonic ). –True Red