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Post-Super Genesis Wave timeline

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This exists primarily or exclusively within the Post-Super Genesis Wave continuity.
Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.
For the version of this location before the Super Genesis Wave, see Pre-Super Genesis Wave timeline.

You're not gonna remember this, But... to put it really simply, Eggman tried rewriting reality with something called the Genesis Wave. I tried to fix things, he got in my way, and our world was... changed.


— Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog #256

The post-Super Genesis Wave timeline is a universe that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It is the reality of Sonic's World after it was rewritten by the Super Genesis Wave.

It also refers to the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its various spin-offs following Archie Comics' attempts to invalidate Ken Penders' copyright claims on the characters he created while working for them.

Description[]

In-story, the post-Super Genesis Wave timeline is a timeline that was created from the result of the events of the comic crossover event Sonic & Mega Man: Worlds Collide. In said crossover event, Sonic the Hedgehog (in his Super Form) attempted to revert the damages done to his original timeline via Chaos Control but was thwarted by Dr. Eggman in an attempt to sabotage Sonic's restoration on his world. The result of Eggman's undermining created the Post-Super Genesis Wave timeline.

The post-Super Genesis Wave timeline is a mixture of adaptations from the video game series, Sonic the Hedgehog television series, and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, along with additional and original comic-exclusive stories as well as an exclusive spin-off, Sonic Boom series.

Development[]

Ken Penders was a former writer for the Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna comic series who, in the fall of 2010, claimed copyright on the characters and concepts he had created while working at Archie[1]. Archie Comics, in response, filed a lawsuit seeking to have those copyright claims invalidated.[2] The legal dispute continued until the tail-end of 2012 when Archie Comics fired its legal team and stopped disputing Penders's copyrights on his characters.[3] The result triggered a huge revision of the current Sonic and Sonic Universe comic stories, resulting in multiple changes to the then-current stories.

The lawsuit brought multiple changes to the long-term storylines, resulting in Ian Flynn's present plots and goals being canceled. The storyline Endangered Species (Sonic the Hedgehog #243-#246), for example, was abruptly altered to exclude any characters created by Ken Penders. Covers of Sonic the Hedgehog #244 and the following issue were subtlety changed to get rid of any Penders-characters (for example, the original cover featuring Julie-Su then the final cover without Julie-Su of Sonic the Hedgehog #244).

The comics did not suffer from the absent characters for too long, Penders' affect from the lawsuit began changing the comics starting with Sonic the Hedgehog #244 and Sonic Universe #46, shortly before the crossover event Sonic & Mega Man: Worlds Collide. Seeing as gaining Penders' characters back in the comic would be too troublesome, writer Ian Flynn "rebooted" the comic series at the finale of the crossover to a more video game-oriented timeline, erasing all of the characters not created by Sega, Ian Flynn or Tracy Yardley. Not only this, but storylines that were carried from the old timeline were either abruptly ended without a conclusion or brought back with the plotline fundamentally changed.

Ian Flynn has stated multiple times that he is certain that none of the original timeline characters created by Penders or any character related to any old timeline-concept that was created by Flynn will return.[4]

Past events[]

Due to the new timeline being heavily managed by Sega this timeline would take inspiration from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Please note that the said list is for games that are mentioned to have happened in this universe and some may be absent though it could have potentially still taken place.

Classic Era:[]

Modern Era:[]

Boom Era[]

Story arcs[]

Beginning in Sonic the Hedgehog #252 and Sonic Universe #55, the post-Super Genesis Wave timeline immediately kicked off in the Shattered World Crisis, which is to help establish the new timeline and introduce (as well as re-introducing) characters and locations exclusively created for this timeline.

Sonic the Hedgehog[]

Sonic Universe[]

  • Pirate Plunder Panic #55-#58
  • Dark Trilogy
  • Spark of Life #71-#74
  • The Silver Age #79-#82 (Takes place before "Worlds Unite")
  • Eggman's Dozen #83-#86
  • Shattered #87-#90
  • The Case of the Pirate Princess #91-#94 (Takes place after "Shattered World Crisis, Act Two")
  • Freedom Fighters #95-#97 (Canceled)

Sonic Boom[]

Mega Man[]

Worlds Unite[]

  • Across Time and Space #76
    • Maverick Hunters Versus Vile #1
    • Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Three of the Armored Deadly Six! #1
    • Mega Man vs Deadly 3 #1
  • Broken Heroes #8
    • Sonic Man vs The Robot Masters #1
  • Clash of the Corrupted #273
  • Death and Destruction #50
    • The Choice #50
    • Sticks vs Roll #1
  • Everybody in the Same Boat #77
  • Fire in the Sky #9
    • Knuckles vs. Break Man #1
  • Gears and Wills #274
  • Holes in Reality #51
  • Infinite Possibilities #78
  • Justice Across Worlds #10
  • Killing The Giant #275
  • Last Rights #52 (Xander Payne shoots Sigma of the past, causing the timeline to reset)

Trivia[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Tails mentions in Issue 252, that him and Sonic have not seen Silver since they rescued the Wisps. Silver only appears in the DS version on the game, this implies that the DS version takes place in this universe.

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