Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24165717-20141120174501/@comment-24672909-20150720221046

NyanWaffles123 wrote: NO, No, NO! It is shown, early in his story, that Mephiles was able to time travel with one chaos emerald. Since his ability to time travel was only a better projected version of Shadow's chaos control, which silver is able to use! Silver should be able to go way back, and sacrafice himself if he is so desperate. And as if observing a FESTIVAL for the god, were Elise says stuff about Iblis being "AN ETERNAL FLAME" isn't enough to convince a person to do more research and possibly question your motives of stopping the monster in the future, then there has to be something wrong. But i have to cut Silver some slack. While, 06 shows just how little sense he has, everyone one else acts like an idiot also. So, i'll give Silver a little slack because his stupidity was just a poor design choice. IN EVERY SINGLE MEDIUM HE HAS BEEN IN! he has access to informatiom! Why doesn't he use it?! He may not be stupid, but i refuse to call Silver one of the smartest characters in the franchise. He does not live up to the hype. Knuckles is miles smarter then Silver! At least he has so form of sense. Even though he makes almost the same mistakes and always forgets about his sole purpose of his life I don't know where to begin with this one...

a. Mephiles is half of Solaris, an entity that exists in the Past, Present and Future, meaning that Mephiles is near-level with a God. And besides, Mephiles has shown to travel through time freely without restrictions to the Chaos Emeralds. As shown multiple times, any time other characters needed to go to a different point in time, they either had Mephiles do it, or use a 2-person Chaos Control, since Shadow has stated that a space-time rift requires a lot of energy (ie 2 Chaos Emeralds.) Silver never had 2 in his possession until he comes back from 10 years into the past, meaning that Silver couldn't go to an earlier point in time to stop Iblis.

b. If you played Silver's story, he only just showed up while Sonic was running from Dr. Eggman's assault. If Silver had known that such information existed, he would've used it. Problem is that none of the residents in Soleanna knew who Sonic was until he showed up at the festival, nor did they know of his deeds prior to the events of the game. Saving a 17-year-old princess once doesn't really do much. I mean, Megaman X5 should be enough of an example to show that doing one deed doesn't really define who a person is. In Megaman X5, Zero goes Maverick, and commits untold murders, despite being previously established as an S-Class Maverick Hunter. With the Sonic series, it's the same thing; Sonic has done some outstanding deeds, but at some point, he might actually be the Iblis Trigger years from now.

c. It's only just occured to me, but by putting Silver in the same situation you described Knuckles to be in, you're contradicting your defense of Knuckles. If going by your logic, you stated that Knuckles was isolated from civilization, and trusts a man who's ship crash onto his island about a hedgehog he's never heard of coming to his island. Meanwhile, you're saying that Silver is stupid for being a similar situation. You say that Silver never questions Mephiles whether or not Sonic truly is the Iblis Trigger (Which he does later on), yet Knuckles never questioned Eggman as to what the ship he crashed in was used for, or how he knows about a specific hedgehog coming to the island to steal the Master Emerald? Not to mention why Knuckles never once interrogated the hedgehog in question? If following that same logic, Shadow must be stupid too, because rather than question the other Sonic characters on who he is, and his purpose, he (potentially) decides to listen Demon Goku, and (potentially) screw the Earth 100 times sideways. And, using that logic, Rouge must also be stupid, because in Sonic Rivals 2, Rouge said that she had been hired by someone. Not questioning who the person is, or what they plan to do with the Emeralds to begin with. Just going along with it. You see what I'm saying here? Silver being naive doesn't mean he's stupid; in fact, he has shown intelligence in the Sonic Rivals games, and the DS version of Sonic Colours.