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Published: 2019-01-04 08:11:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 2409; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 0
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Description I decided to draw Infinite, Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik's Dragon during the war in Sonic Forces, the video game that deserved to be greater.

I like this guy's design and I always enjoyed the concept of the character himself. He was a plundering thug with a whole squadron of his own kind (Jackals) and a fascination with barren, ravaged wastelands. Right from his earliest point of introduction, this guy is nuts, so he joins the Eggman Empire to see his ideal world take shape. When he loses his squadron and realizes his limits, he accepts help from the Phantom Ruby to surpass his peak and evolve into something beyond all mortals. It was a refreshing break from what we usually get for beastly-looking villains in Sonic the Hedgehog video games: gods, monsters and all-powerful robots of varying origins, shapes and sizes.

When it comes to his look, they went all out with this freaky creature of evil. He seems powerful and ghastly with that mask. It was on the right track.

However, Infinite fell short in the execution. His motivation for becoming the Phantom Ruby-powered superbeing felt rushed and embarrassingly shallow, his power and competence as a ne'er-do-well-turned-warmongering villain wasn't shown very well, we don't get to know what makes a ruined planet so enticing to him, and as the right-hand man to Doctor Robotnik, the guy who conquered all there is, he's never seen asserting his dominance enough to make his evil personality memorable or fun to watch.

If there's a Sonic villain who could use some reworking, it's this one. The pieces of an entertaining bad guy are present, but they didn't click together properly.

I put Neo Metal Sonic in the top-right corner expressing how he doesn't care much for Infinite. I mean, who was the awesome, secret backup weapon here?

I don't plan on putting Infinite in Sonic Synthesis.

So, how does this jackal person look? Tell me honestly.

Infinite is weak... and (c) Sonic Team and Sega
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DerekPayne2000 [2022-01-05 03:28:44 +0000 UTC]

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darkhaven97 [2019-01-10 18:53:48 +0000 UTC]

People are probably gonna come at me with pitchforks and torches for this but I think Infinite is better than that piece of sh*t known as Mephiles!
I'm sorry but I FU**ING HATE THAT GUY! Ok Infinite isn't perfect either but he at least had some more effort put into him. Mephiles murdering Sonic when he absolutely had no interaction with the guy and in the most cheapest way possible just made my p*ss boil! Metal deserved the honor of being the one to succeed in killing Sonic! Also why did he bother sending Silver to kill Sonic when he had the powers to do it all along? In fact why did he target Sonic anyway? He could've just killed Elise instead as Iblis would've been unleashed from her dead body as Tails found out from that old newspaper saying that Elise had died causing Iblis to be released. Either Mephiles is either stupid or he knew he could've done it the easy way but did the stupid complicated way for the shits and giggles!
Also Infinite has a interesting original design, Mephiles is just a lazy recolour of Shadow. Yes he took Shadow's shadow to why he looks like that but it's still a lazy concept. Even more as the game is supposed to be ''Sonic 06'' and about Sonic not f**king ''Shadow The Hedgehog 2'' with Shadow getting pestered by some evil guy once again. Oh and like we really needed another Shadow recolour along with all the damn Shadow Androids in SHTH's multiplayer. 

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Mixedfan8643 [2019-01-04 10:16:11 +0000 UTC]

Infinite's pretty spot-on here. Well drawn.  

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StacheHand In reply to Mixedfan8643 [2019-01-04 10:18:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, Scott.

I made sure the mask was just right.

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Mixedfan8643 In reply to StacheHand [2019-01-04 10:27:18 +0000 UTC]

Welcome.

The mask is the hardest part to draw. I'd say you got it right though.  

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