Dark Gaia (Archie)

Dark Gaia is a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series and its spin-off comics published by Archie Comics. It is a malevolent deity residing beneath the surface of Mobius which instigates corruption and the supposed destruction of the world. It supposedly has a connection to event where Mobius shatters every ten thousandth year, the most recent being the Shattered World Crisis.

Trivia

 * Dark Gaia was first mentioned in the Archie Comics in Sonic the Hedgehog #197, though it did not make an appearance and was only referred to as "it". It was first in Sonic the Hedgehog #259 that Dark Gaia appeared in the Archie Comics as an illustration from the Gaia Manuscripts.