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New Megaopolis[1][2], also known as Megapolis[3][4], is a location that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It was a highly-advanced city of the Overland that was later converted into the capital city of the Eggman Empire by Dr. Eggman. During the Second Robotnik War, New Megaopolis also served as a giant factory for producing Badnik forces.
Despite its vast and technological nature, however, New Megaopolis was severely damaged by an attack from the fourth Enerjak, and was ultimately destroyed by the blast the Death Egg Mark 2 created when it launched from the center of the collapsing city. The area where New Megaopolis once stood is known as the New Megaopolis Wastes.[5]
Description[]
New Megaopolis is located northeast of Old Megaopolis - the remains of New York City after the Xorda attack thousands of years ago - and ends at a huge peninsula.[1]
History[]
Past[]
In the days before the Great War, New Megaopolis was constructed by the Overland northeast of the ruins of Old Megaopolis. Because of the scientific advancements developed in the city, New Megaopolis soon became one of the Overland's premier territories, and was often viewed as Mobius' research, artistic, and cultural capital, despite the actual capital of the Overland being the city of Mega Central.[6][2]
The explosion caused by Julian Kintobor's sabotage, from Sonic the Hedgehog #65.
The advancements made by the science teams within New Megaopolis prompted the Overland to commission an underground project from the city: The creation of an alternative energy source to the fossil fuels polluting the planet. Under the supervision of the geo-physician Nate Morgan, progress on the project continued for several days and nights, eventually resulting in the creation of an unstable Power Ring. However, Morgan's assistant Julian Kintobor secretly sabotaged the project, causing it to explode when Morgan tested it. The damage New Megaopolis suffered from the explosion resulted in the Overland exiling the framed Morgan from the city, while Julian took over the project.[3][7]
Great War and aftermath[]
As time passed, the materials required to maintain New Megaopolis' advanced infrastructure became a crisis for the resource-strained Overland. Said resource crisis encouraged the Overlord Charlemagne to consider plundering the Kingdom of Acorn, and ultimately became a leading factor to the Great War.[2]
During the early days of the Great War, New Megaopolis' Ministry of Conflict called upon every scientist in the city to design weapons of mass destruction. Julian responded to the call by developing the Ultimate Annihilator. However, Julian's intent to test the weapon on other Overlanders drew negative attention from authorities, and he was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Minister of Justice and his brother, Colin Kintobor. Julian refused to abide by the sentence, and subsequently escaped from New Megaopolis across the Badlands.[7][8][9]
Following the end of the Great War and the Overland's defeat, many of the citizens within the now-dilapidated New Megaopolis chose to resettle in the United Federation, while others joined Colin Kintobor and his family in their space expedition. The few remaining citizens struggled to maintain the city, and hid themselves when Julian Kintobor, now calling himself "Dr. Ivo Robotnik" after usurping the Kingdom of Acorn, invaded the area with his SWATbot legions. Despite avoiding Robotnik's initial search, several of the Overlanders would ultimately end up captured by the doctor regardless and used as test subjects in his experiments throughout the First Robotnik War.[9][2] After Robotnik's death, New Megaopolis eventually fell under command of Robotnik's successor, Dr. Eggman, during the early stages of the Second Robotnik War.[2]
Usage by Eggman[]
Following the destruction of Robotropolis, Eggman moved the operations of his empire to various cities under his command, ultimately settling on New Megalopolis as primary base. Soon after, however, the Xorda Attack on Mobius began, and the city was decimated by a sudden attack from a Xorda battleship, leaving much of it completely ruined.[10][2]
After the Xorda were defeated, Eggman took advantage of Sonic's apparent "death" to rebuild and expand New Megaopolis without threat from the hedgehog. The doctor modified much of the city to produce robots and weapons for his empire, while also putting significant effort into the creation of the Robo-Dyne Factory and Egg Grape Chamber areas. Most notably, Eggman began construction on the Death Egg Mark 2 at the heart of New Megaopolis, disguising it as a bunker dubbed "The Eggdome".[2][1]
Under Eggman's rule, the refurbished New Megaopolis became the most powerful city on Mobius[11], from which the doctor remotely controlled his robot forces, dispatching them to attack his enemies and conquer areas as needed. After Sonic returned from space alive, Eggman tried a variety of methods to kill him once and for all, such as deploying an Infiltrator modeled after Sonic's childhood friend Tommy Turtle to infiltrate Sonic's home and attack him in his sleep. However, the scheme was thwarted by Sonic's father Jules, and the Knothole Freedom Fighters traced the source of the robot back to the Robo-Dyne Factory, which they proceeded to infiltrate and destroy.[1]
Decimation by Enerjak[]
Enerjak blasting apart New Megaopolis, from Sonic the Hedgehog #183.
Tempted by the idea of harnessing the power of the fourth Enerjak (who was in reality Knuckles the Echidna), Eggman used his teleportation beam technology to capture the being in a group of modified Egg Grapes within New Megaopolis, slowly draining the echidna's Chaos energy. Despite initial energy readings showing promise, however, Enerjak soon overloaded the technology, and broke free, decimating most of New Megaopolis, 90 percent of Eggman's Badnik forces, and the entire Egg Fleet in an act of rage and revenge. After the attack, one of the only sections of the city left undamaged was the Eggdome.[12]
Republic of Acorn Attacks[]
The ruined state of New Megaopolis, from Sonic the Hedgehog #194.
With New Megaopolis heavily damaged by Enerjak's attack, the newly reorganized Republic of Acorn decided to launch an offensive in hopes of ending the Second Robotnik War. The Chaotix and Sonic were the first wave of this attack, struggling through the ruined city and battling the Dark Egg Legion, while Charmy, Ray, and Saffron rigged an Eggnet transmissions tower with explosives. Although Sonic was forced to leave to defend Freedom HQ from the Suppression Squad, the Chaotix succeeded in driving the legion out of the area, and detonated the explosives. With destruction of the New Megaopolis communications tower, Eggman was left unable to contact half of his forces on Northamer.[13][14]
As New Megaopolis continued to slowly collapse, both the Chaotix and the Freedom Fighters joined in a final push to end the war, invading the Eggdome and defeating Eggman, who was left gibbering in insanity by the sheer humiliation of his mounting losses.[15][16] Snively thus assumed control of the city and responsibility for his uncle as the heroes pulled out.[17]
Usage by the Iron Dominion[]
New Megaopolis was soon occupied and reinforced by soldiers from the Iron Dominion, Snively having formed an alliance with the Iron Queen during Eggman's descent into madness. The Iron King expressed no desires to remain in the city in its wrecked condition, but despite this marched forth with his troops to successfully defend it against an attack by Sonic and Monkey Khan.[18][19]
For some time, the ruined capital served as the dominion's base of operations during the Iron Dominion Takeover. From the Eggdome, they launched several campaigns against the local resistance until finally, they managed to invade New Mobotropolis en masse, abandoning the Eggdome and ruins in favor of the nanite infused city.[20]
Later use and destruction[]
Following the conclusion of the Iron Dominion Takeover, and Eggman's return to sanity, Eggman and Snively secretly escaped back to the Eggdome in the heat of the battle, retaking the empty bunker and hiding themselves with the Dark Egg Legion in its sealed off lower levels where they could remain undiscovered, even when Sonic and Tails made multiple searches of the accessible levels. Now in a position that allowed him to continue work without the prying eyes of the Knothole Freedom Fighters, Eggman finished converting the Eggdome from a bunker to the Death Egg Mark 2, and acquired the blue Chaos Emerald as a means of powering it. With his preparations complete, Eggman had the Death Egg Mark 2 blast off into the sky, the sheer force of its engines destroying what remained of New Megaopolis in its wake, and leaving behind a charred wasteland.[2][21]
Trivia[]
- Throughout its appearances, New Megaopolis has been named inconsistently, sometimes called "Megapolis", "New Megapolis", and "New Megopolis". However, since Ian Flynn's takeover as writer of the series, it had been spelled consistently as "New Megaopolis".
- Initially, it was unclear whether the city seen in Sonic the Hedgehog #65 (dubbed "Megapolis") was the same as New Megaopolis, first mentioned in Sonic the Hedgehog #116 under the spelling "New Megopolis". The cities were later indirectly confirmed to be one in the same by Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia.[note 1]
Notes[]
- ↑ In the "New Megaopolis" page of the book, it is briefly mentioned that following the Great War, some inhabitants of the city left on a space exploration effort. Since it was previously confirmed that only two Overlander ships had left to explore space at this time, and both were commanded by Colin Kintobor, the Minister of Justice in Megapolis, this indirectly confirms that "Megapolis" is simply another name for "New Megaopolis".
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sonic the Hedgehog #137, "Robo-Dyne Systems"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia, "New Megaopolis"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sonic the Hedgehog #65, "The Fellowship of the Rings"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia, "Nate Morgan"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia, "World Map"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #116, "Operation Off Switch!"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sonic the Hedgehog #72, "I, Robotnik!"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #50, "The Big Goodbye"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sonic Super Special #6, "For Whom the Bell Tolls!"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #124, "Sonic Adventure 2.5: Alpha"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #194, "Sleepless in New Megaopolis"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #183, "Desperate Times"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #189, "Bold New Moebius Part One: Unwelcome Guests"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #190, "Bold New Moebius Part Two: Duality"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #198, "Egg Phoenix Down"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #199, "Knocking on Eggman's Door"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #200, "Turnabout is Fair Play"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #201, "Change in Management"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #202, "A Lonely Girl's Story"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #208, "Iron Dominion Part One"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #224, "Chaos and the Crown Part Two: Total Authority"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia, "Dr. Robotnik"
External links[]
- New Megaopolis at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.