Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25366336-20160107225604/@comment-679780-20160108192809

In Game, yes Super Sonic suffers from three gameplay weaknesses:
 * Being crushed
 * Drowning
 * Being stuck in a deadly place until his rings deplete (A particular spike pit in Act 2 of Mystic Cave Zone for example)

Other than that it is simply a race against time for Super Sonic. He can collect more rings to sustain himself and when harmed will not loose rings, but pwoerful attacks will briefly stun him, being stunned means he slows down and waste time.

As for Super Sonic actually being defeated, one account would be at the start of Sonic Unleashed when Dr. Eggman successfully traps Super Sonic and syphons off the chaos energy from him.

As for red chaos energy, to be more specific I am on about the Chaos Emeralds on the planet Thoraxia. Like Mobius it has it's own chaos emeralds, but unlike Mobius they have red chaos emeralds while Mobius has green chaos emeralds. There were five other planets each with natually occuring chaos emeralds each of different colours. Eventually the Great Harmony happened when all Chaos Emeralds  in the universe (all the green chaos emeralds on Mobius and the other six planets which each had unique coloured chaos emeralds) all gathered into the Zone of Silence and all same coloured emeralds fused into one, thus only seven Chaos Emeralds as accurate to the games.

You can easily look up this stuff on SNN or the Archie Sonic wiki.