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Doctor Ian Droid[3] is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. He is a giant, towering and powerful cyborg lifeform from outer space who created a large army of robots to do his bidding.
Concept and creation[]
Dr. Ian Droid was created by Ken Penders to be a disguise for Dr. Ivo Robotnik's return.[2] This plot point was to be revealed and featured in the upcoming "Mobius: 20 Years Later" series in the Knuckles the Echidna comic series. Hints of the storyline were seen in Knuckles the Echidna #25 (in Locke's dream) and Sonic Super Special #11 (in Sally's vision with the Source of All) and it would have revealed the possible future storyline in "Sonic: In Your Face!" as the true future of the story. That plan never came to fruition, as the other Archie Comics’ writers, editors, and a possible but unverified involvement from Sega during this time period, decided to not show the final true future of the characters until the end of the series itself.
In upcoming issues, the happy-ending, possible future was destroyed with the introduction of Robo-Robotnik’s arrival in the Prime Zone.[4]
Appearance[]
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History[]
Our future(?), his past[]
Droid and his army came to Mobius 20 years after the events of the series, and declared war on the restored Kingdom of Acorn, bombarding the restored Mobotropolis and Droid's troops besieging the Royal Palace. Sonic, now King, remained behind to face the enemy and allow Sally, now Queen, to take their two children, Sonia and Manik, and the retired King Maximillian, to escape in a transport pod for a far away location.[5] Sonic most likely escaped and rejoined his family at a later time. Meanwhile, Droid and his army attacked Echidnaopolis on Angel Island, raising most of the city to the ground, in the hopes of securing the Master Emerald. However, a now-battle hardened Knuckles summoned his inherited Chaos abilities and destroyed Droid and his army.
Parallel Paradigm[]
When the reader first meets Doctor Droid, in the present he is found blackmailing a mysterious mutant named Particle by kidnapping her sister. With her under his control, Droid forces Particle to steal the Master Emerald by using a machine to go to Sonic's universe at about the same time Sonic had just defeated Doctor Robotnik (STH: #50). After she ran into Sonic, the Freedom Fighters, and Knuckles, she succeeded in stealing the Master Emerald for Droid and brought it back to the Image Comics Zone's New York city. Sonic, Knuckles, and the Freedom Fighters give chase with aid from Image comics heroes Shadowhawk, Savage Dragon, Union, Velocity, and the Maxx. Droid introduces himself to Sonic and Knuckles and completely baffles them (and the reader) by saying that he knows them both quite well (apparently, this story was written with the intention of keeping his character around). After some fighting, more introductions, and Particle's switch to the heroes' side, Knuckles uses his Chaos powers shown to him by Locke the Echidna to stop Droid's mad plan to recreate reality his way. This results, surprisingly, in Droid's seemingly demise even though they had plans to keep him in the Mobius: 20 Years Later story arc.
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Trivia[]
- Interestingly, Ken Penders, Ian Droid's creator, introduced him in a crossover event where Ian's plan was to reshape reality to his own wishes using Chaos energy but Penders didn't have Dr. Droid's scheme succeed, planning to save him for later. Over a decade afterwards, Ken Penders and Karl Bollers' successor, Ian Flynn, by pure happenstance due to Ken Penders' lawsuits, redid the plot-line under the direction of editorial and committed to reshaping reality with Chaos energy on a much higher scale during Sonic & Mega Man: Worlds Collide.
References[]
- ↑ (comic book) "Parallel Paradigm". Archie Comics. October 1998. "Shadow Hawk II: What a bang-up! Now if someone can tell me what just happened! / Union: It appears our friend here hasn't much to say! / Savage Dragon: Like a puppet whose strings were cut!"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Doctor Ian Droid's identity. @KenPenders. Twitter (17 September 2022). Retrieved on 26 September 2022. "Ken Penders: When you accumulate 50 years of stuff, you're constantly having to move stuff around so it fits. Today, I discovered this among the files I was reorganizing. The word balloon was a clue of Robotnik hiding in the guise of Dr Droid until I decided to sever the connection."
- ↑ Sonic Super Special #7, Patent and Trademark section
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #75, “I Am The Eggman“
- ↑ (comic book) "Princess Sally: Ascension". Archie Comics. October 1999.