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Metal Sonic
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Name Metal Sonic
Category Sega CD
Game Sonic the Hedgehog CD
Section Enemies & Sub-Bosses
Submitted June 14, 2013
Uploaded By Paraemon
Size 42.46 KB (755x641)
Format PNG (image/png)
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@Snow-Thunder
Get funky,
be funky,
stay funky, yo, hustle hustle.
LapisLink Jul 29, 2025 2:25 AM
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@Bumper Top As far as I know, the SEGA CD had the same color limitations as the Genesis, so they are interchangeable in terms of color display limitations.
LapisLink Jul 25, 2025 12:14 PM
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@Bumper Top Murphmario's explanation is spot on. If you look here at the concept art, Metal Sonic's eyes were grey. Meaning both the concept art drawing of Metal Sonic and the sprites both have grey eyes. The same for the MC Sonic picture.

Probably someone at Sega suggested adding red to Metal Sonic's eyes to make him "evil". One of the animations and DA garden did have Metal Sonic's eyes being red meaning that it must have been a fairly late change and forgot to simply change the sprites. It was still fairly common back in 1993 where the game artwork and what appeared in the game itself didn't always match.
Yawackhary Jul 9, 2025 6:17 PM
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@Cascade Computer Services
Sonic CD released on the Sega CD, not the Genesis.
Also about Metal’s eye- we won’t really know why they made it grey. Metal shares the same palette as Sonic, and if you think about it, Metal also uses red for his shoes.
Bumper Top Jul 9, 2025 5:42 PM
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I have a pretty lame but maybe true theory about his eyes - the Genesis might have not been able to apply a palette with another set of colors to the head area. Pardon me if I'm brutally wrong, because I don't know it its' hardware limitations. I kind of doubt this theory, because the sprite of Metal from Sonic Triple Trouble (Game Gear, which was 8-bit, keep in mind the Genesis was 16/32-bit, but that doesn't really mean anything graphics-wise) has him with red eyes. Yes, the theory of them forgetting to change the color is also a good one.
LapisLink Apr 26, 2025 7:40 PM
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In the context of color theory, "hue" refers to the pure color, or the basic color on the color wheel, like red, yellow, or blue. It's the property of color that allows us to identify it as a specific color, such as red, green, or blue.
Its-A-Me_Austin Apr 7, 2025 11:33 PM
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Snow-Thunder Apr 7, 2025 10:50 PM
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Snow-Thunder Apr 7, 2025 10:47 PM
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Sonic, dead or alive is MINE
Snow-Thunder Apr 5, 2025 1:50 AM
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@funny words magic man
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MadeKillaSam Feb 8, 2025 5:36 AM
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Hue hue hue hue hue hue hue hue hue
funny words magic man Feb 8, 2025 5:32 AM
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Titanium Sonic
MadeKillaSam Jan 17, 2025 3:04 AM
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"Uh uh uh, You didn't say the magic word"
Goji54 Jun 5, 2024 3:56 AM
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I feel like the gray eyes are a thing from development that the devs forgot to change before release, as Metal has gray eyes in CD's concept art and to a lesser extent the ending cutscene.
Murphmario Feb 21, 2024 1:25 PM
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so annoying ingame
Maxgammer2014 Sep 8, 2023 11:46 PM
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Man these sprites look cool
ウォルター23博士 Jun 26, 2023 7:30 AM
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RIP flickies
ilovescratchcie Dec 22, 2022 7:42 AM
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The mandela effect kicked in when we all realized that Metal Sonic's sprites are edits of Sonic's.
Gaia May 18, 2021 10:44 PM
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Nope.
Doozy518 Dec 31, 2020 4:12 AM
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am I the only one who thinks this mfer is one of the best looking villain?
CardboardBox Nov 27, 2020 3:45 PM
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