So... what IS Rouge up to?

[madhair60]

I studied the issue for a clue, and all I can see is

SPOILERS, I guess
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Her on a monitor in what LOOKS LIKE Pumpkin Hill, looking suspicious. Hmm.

[Sin]

I reacon that she is stealing a Chaos Emerald so Shadow can do Chaos Control once he wakes up. And Chaos Emeralds are always a good thing to have around.

[Admin Droid]

She's in a stasis panel?

Okay, I guess enough time has passed since the last issue that I can admit it:


(Spoilers, sorta):






Rouge is in Haunted Hill, as a few people picked up. Originally, the Knuckles run was scheduled to start an issue earlier (or the Sonic 2-parter an issue later) so now they don't quite coincide. That's why I dropped the Data Zone teaser in to explain Rouge's absence.




(/Sorta spoilers)

[madhair60]

Heh, to anyone who doesn't undersand Ed's "Stasis tube" coment, I originally put in my post that the person in the tube on the monitor to the left is Rouge... but it was tails. I was being a moron.

Mmm.... two Rouges...

[Tom]

Maybe it's her week off?

[Admin Droid]

Well, there was that sale at Debenhams. It's all starting to make sense now...

[AgentGrey]

Blue cross sale on back braces?

Seriously, most of the mobian lot have gravity defyingly large heads as it is.
That coupled with Rouges ...'assets' ...well...by rights she should fall on her face

[Ben2k9]

LOL! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! that was funny!!

[ChaosX3]

Maybe they have wanderbra's at Debenhams... *Sick Mental image...*

EEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I don't mean to be rude, but is Rouge a bit skimpy? Or not skimpy enough? *SHOT*

[LanDiSama]

She falls into one of those female game character stereotypes, Amy's the "obsessed with main character", Cream is "pointless small child" and Rouge is "skimpy girl". All makes perfect sense to me

[madhair60]

Rouge is a fox. Well, more accurately, she's a bat, but she's also a fox. What will Tails think?

[HyperKnux99]

madhair60 said:

Rouge is a fox. Well, more accurately, she's a bat, but she's also a fox. What will Tails think?

umm huh what...? fox? she's a bat and tail is like 10 in the games so he's wouldn'd get excited by her skimpiness

[madhair60]

...Oh dear.

[Robert Frazer]

In a desperate and belated endeavour to divert this topic to a more wholesome region, I shall reiterate my personal interpretation of Rogue's activities, that I earlier posted on the official issue discussion thread:

This plot-model involves evolving an affiliation between the Sonic and the Knuckles strips of this edition, as well as expanding the comic's gradual integration of the Sonic Adventure II storyline.

Doctor Zachary relates in this issue that Shadow is an artificial conception that was initially evolved "by the enemies of the echidna race". This is most obviously the aquatic Drakons, considering that they were responsible for the comprehensive and vindictive annihilation of the Echidna. As we have witnessed with the phenomenal destructive might and contaminating deviancy exuded by the Emeralds themselves, and the metamorphic and coherency-defying attributes of Chaos, all of the Drakon Empire's most potent armaments intrinsically harness the vast and potentially catastrophic energy of the Chaotic Plane. It thus is a reasonable consequence to judge that if Shadow is to acquire and exhibit the incalculable fury and power that we probably deem necessary for him to " destroy the world ", he must be infused with Chaos Energy, and the only (relatively) readily available source of that on Mobius are the seven Emeralds.

We thus wend our contorted narrative path to the Floating Island. Here, it is tempting to presume that Chaos was responsible for appropriating the Emeralds and abducting Porker, yet a slight period of contemplation exposes this proposal as absolutely ludicrous. We humans have established within our linguistic heritage the invective simile of "a fish out of water", and the analogy is soundly based. How can Chaos, a glorified piranha who is dependent upon the aid of a simpleton cat for motion, be capable of harming any being on dry terrain? Craven as he is, I believe that even Porker would discover it especially arduous to be at all intimidated by a being whose only capability at present is flailing about helplessly and snarling. We must also appreciate that someone 'interfered' with the arrnagement of the Emerald Chamber, and I doubt that Chaos has mastered the vagaries of quantam mechanics sufficiently to devise a method for him to exist in two places at once - and where would his hands sprout from?

The only other resident on the Floating Island at present is Ebony the Cat. Now, all of those who scrutinised my vitriol-saturated posts in the "Super Sonic" thread shall recall that I evaluate Ebony's character to that of an utterly despicable, appalling and wretched nature. However, as much as I would adore to be graced with a strip which grants her obtrusive nature some much-deserved vilification, I must reluctantly concede that there is little mostive for her thieving the Emeralds, at this juncture at least. To steal them now and thrust them into Sonic's presence, in her deluded ignorance, to transform him into her beloved Super Sonic is slightly impractical from the most euphemistic stance.

However, view That monitor screen depicting Rogue the Bat in the second page of The Syndicate - Part II. We witness spires adorned with pumpkins, which as we shall recall constituted the architecture for one of Sonic Adventure II's Emerald-Shard-Retrieval zones.
And we related earlier that Shadow must be dependent on Chaos Energy to exert his maximum potential…

I therefore judge that the identity of the thief is that of Rogue, who was dispatched on an operation by Dr. Zachary to acquire the Eerlads required for the fulfilment of Shadow’s ‘activation’.

[Mighty Fan]

*stares at rob with a blank expression on his face*

Wha?

[Tom]

And again, I ask... what's an Eerlad? ;D

[Robert Frazer]

If you insist, curious interloper, gather your cohorts before my seat and I shall regale you with a slight modicum of my inexhaustible, sage wisdom and lucid introspection into the rumour and myth-obscured past...

...when the potency of the fantastic Chaos Emeralds successfully enabled the Echidna and the Chaos-suffused Grand Antecedents to engage in a brutal consquest of Mobius, many of that race were siezed in a convulsion of paganism, collapsing before the emeralds and worshipping them as avatars of their gods to grant the race divine power. Cults of the Gems mushroomed throughout their entire race, and expanded until they threatened to overwhelm the Echidnas' formal official religion with their obsessive entrancement by those glimmering jewels.
However, when the Drakons eventually retaliated centuries later and eradicated all traces of the Echidnate Dominion over Mobius and drove the few survivors into exile and nigh-extinction, the spectres of a few of the senior priests of these Cults of the Gems endured beyond their mortal frames. Cheated of an eternal reign of absolute power, these ghosts were now seized by loathing of the Emeralds they had formerly worshipped as pagan gods and they degenerated to effective banshees, prowling the cosmos and wailing their paens of hatred of the Chaos Emeralds to the empty void.
Eventually, they encountered the curious and inscrutable astronomical phenomenon that we recognise as the Plot Hole. Tumbling into this channel, the phantoms were discharged into our realm and infused within the babbling chatter of the internet, where they believed that they could wreak the most disruption.
Such electrical poltergeists now derive their punitive pleasures from corrupting all references to the Chaos Ermengbaalds (can you perceive it? The infernal wretches did it again!) on the internet, their most popular method being garbling the phrase's spelling.

;D

[HyperKnux99]

dude lose the dictionary and write less I am way to lazy to read all of that.

[Tom]

Yeah... just write from the bottom of your full-sized aortic pump ;D

[Samface]

You spelt "seized" wrong. ;D

[Tom]

Not exactly...

[ChaosX3]

And the point of a Friends script about a cookie was...

[Vector]

ok so just WHAT has happened to her?

[Tom]

I guess she must have died off panel.

It happens sometimes with these comic things; not the writer's fault.

[madhair60]

If Rouge has been killed off, they have lost themselves a valuable reader.