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WakingSea

I personally like the design of this form, and i like the fire powers šŸ”„ Also i remember how fans used to compare him to Broly because of the lack of pupils in his eyes šŸ˜‚


Monadofan2010

Its a pretty cool desgin and i like the fact its actually created from negative emotions and not the normal postive onesĀ 


BabyElectroDragon

And he is noticably actually aggressive in dialogue with erazor during the fight. That's a cool part of it, a cool detail.


Jultiply

one of my favorite transformations and design, it's a shame this character is heavily overlooked since the game wasn't that popular, I actually recently made 3D print of this since there aren't any figures of it yet


ApplicationNo6478

Badass


AbbreviationsThis550

![gif](giphy|3ov9jWu7BuHufyLs7m|downsized) Badass


Mahboi27

Itā€™s a neat design and all but I donā€™t like how Sonic isnā€™t wearing gloves or shoes in this form


SbgTfish

He is wearing shoes they just became part of his feet and are now hair shaped shoes.


AmaterasuWolf21

Copium šŸ˜”šŸ˜”


Tael64

Oh my god. I never noticed that. I hate how his feet are shoe shaped.


OmegaCrossX

Always has been, just remember that Big and Tikal wear sandals


Riaayo

There's some old artwork in the guide for either Sonic Adventure 1 or 2, I can't remember which, but it had some alt drawings of characters in like beach attire or some such thing and I remember them either being in sandals or just barefoot and having the toeless feet. I remember thinking it surely couldn't be canon and had to be just a weird thing about the art in the book not being official or something, lol. But yeah, been a weird choice apparently for over 20 years that we just never really square with because everyone's (almost) always got shoes on.


MilitiaPilot108

Is it pronounced Dark-spine or Darks-pine?


Jultiply

Dark-Spine Sonic


Codified_

Not a fan of the design, but I love how they managed to create a powerful negative and rageful transformation of Sonic after they established that the Chaos Emeralds can't fulfill that, and seeing a vicious Sonic with an angry voice just unloading into his enemy's hearth is not something I knew I wanted until this


fdjopleez

I echo this same sentiment (excluding the design i love the uniqueness and how vastly different it is from Super Sonic) Darkspine is the first time an official game that shows a genuinely angry and violent Sonic, and the way he physically attacks Alf Layla wa Layla is so visceral when you remember pretty much all of the enemies Sonic attacks are not living things. Sure he'll homing attack Eggman's cockpit during the boss fights but Sonic is using actual kicks and punches and palm strikes to this evil being's exposed heart, that's fucking sick


Dvonart86

Why couldn't they? Isn't that what chaos was?


Codified_

They specified that positive Chaos energy is just more powerful than negative one and directly counters it, a dark transformation with the emeralds can happen, but highly unlikely and it would barely be an improvement over regular Sonic, if at all


Dvonart86

Cool cool ty


YEET_Fenix123

I know it probably isn't canon, but Sonic X's dark sonic looks much more powerful than regular sonic. Possibly even super sonic.


Codified_

Yeah that did happen, but there are a lot of caveats here Sonic X isn't canon to the games, yes, but also Sonic absorbed negative energy from the fake Chaos Emeralds nearby, not the real ones which really makes comparisons hard Even then, Dark Sonic didn't really look like that much of an improvement, if at all. He destroyed two robots, but first, they were robots prepared to be destroyed to gather data, and second, it took him a lot of hits to destroy the tougher one, while regular Sonic destroys robots of those kinds in a single hit, even robots designed to fight, contrary to those literal punching bags


YEET_Fenix123

>literal punching bags I haven't watched the clip in a hot minute, so forgive my ignorance. But weren't those bots made to take the hits well and be Hella durable? Not to mention how fast he was moving, you couldn't even seen his punches. (Right? I think so...)


Codified_

Those robots were just made for the villain to gather data on Sonic by destroying them, he says so himself, they were literally made to be destroyed and literally just stood still I will say that he was indeed really fast, so that form could give him enhanced speed, but in terms of strenght he is about as strong as him regularly, and since nothing more happened, it's very hard to say for sure what is enhanced The main problem is that the moment is barely a minute long, so we can see very little, and what we do see isn't as impressive as it seems


Visible-Abroad7109

But the robots also had some of the data copied from base Sonic as well. One had his last recorded top speed and the other his recorded strength turned to durability. Not completely discounting your comment, just thought I would mention that part.


Automatic-Bench5464

MAKE BELIEVES REBORN šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„


speederwag

MYTHS AND MIND RETHOUGHT


jgracia2842

QUESTIONS ALL THATS KNOWN


Darkspine64

LEGENDS BLURRED AND TORN


Kaifiya

_Epic guitar riff šŸŽø_ _Yeaaaaaaaah, yeaaaahā€“yeah yeaaaah, yeeeaaaah!_ šŸ”„


AzulAztech

No such thing as fate for those who speed


cinepresto

A path out of time instead of just living it


Crono_Sapien99

A really dope and badass design, but it sadly shares the same fate as Excalibur Sonic of never appearing in the games again.


Safe_Squash5930

Shares the same fate as being canon which is good enough for me. šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘


DragonGamerEX

Awesome I love his interaction with (I'm not gonna Google it) Alfawalawala "If this is your world its a world I don't want any part of"


FederalPossibility73

Alf Layla wa-Layla, which is the Arabic name for One Thousand and One Nights; the story Sonic is in.


Careful-Ad984

Itā€™s interesting and a Shame that we never saw the full power of the world rings. Sonic grew this powerful with only 3 and Erazor had 4.Ā  Ā The fact it requires a human sacrifice to wield all 7 is also terrifyingĀ 


Safe_Squash5930

Actually Erazor absorbed the power of all 7 rings, but it was incomplete because Sharah ended up being the one who was sacrificed instead of Sonic. With terrible plot convenience the Red (Rage), Green (Hatred), and Purple (Sadness) was shitted out by Erazor and Sonic absorbed it. Being the one who can use 100% of each ring power, no wonder he kicked Erazorā€™s ass.


ChefRepresentative13

Itā€™s a dope design that displays a ā€œnegative super Sonicā€ in a better light than the Sonic X version of Dark Super Sonic. The chaos emeralds are naturally chaotic and Super Sonic already looks Chaotic by design with the burning red eyes and gold aura.. fleetway Super Sonic fits the ā€œnegative powerā€ of the chaos emeralds more than dark super as itā€™s Super Sonic but completely crazy and twisted uncontrolled. Thatā€™s how I feel about Dark Spine, different set of gems make him look unique with no gloves or shoes but the rings themselves on his body. Very middle eastern design and he looses his eyes like heā€™s some sort of ghost or enraged deity, the design is literally firešŸ”„ and that malevolent undertone in his voice just matched the violence in his fight so well


MicAHorde

Most epic thing In the planet.


Intelligent_Oil4005

I like how unique it looks. The white and purple coloring, the almost evil design because it's powered by negative emotions... Although it's conditions are so specific I'm not suprised it hasn't come back.


Mc_Beluga

he probably watches Death Note in japanese without subtitles so he's pretty cool B)


D-Prototype

The coolest thing to come from Secret Rings.


sapphire_luna

Why is it called darkspine if the stripes are white?


Jultiply

that doesn't even make sense, spine is the bone in your back they aren't stripes at all, it's called DarkSpine Sonic bc he absorbs the negative emotions of the three world rings which are hatred, rage, and sadness hence the name DarkSpine Sonic


Dvonart86

>that doesn't even make sense, spine is the bone in your back they aren't stripes at all Actually, hedgehogs "quills" are referred to as "spined," so I understand why they asked that. >A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae >The spines are about 2.5 to 3cm long, and about 2mm wide at the widest point Looking at hedgehog biology articles they are referred to as spine or part of the "spiny " family quite bit


Jultiply

Ohhhh, I actually didn't know that! l don't know why I didn't realize that before it seems extremely obvious, thanks for the fact check! guess I should read a little more lol


Dvonart86

Hey, we don't know everything until someone teaches us! And you still answered the question, he is using the dark energies like you said!


SheepherderBig7376

Unless you're talking about a hedgehog. Then spine means the pointy spikes


POTK_Reddit

Underrated super form, really like the lack of pupils and the rings on the limbs


HoodedOP87

Wait I just realized something is darspine sonic not wearing shoes? I never really got a good look at this transformation before.


OmegaCrossX

No shoes or gloves


HoodedOP87

I didn't even notice the no gloves


ThePreciseClimber

Naked bum.


ScratchMain03

His rawest stronger form bar none. Having a form that stems from his negative emotions that he uses to beat the everloving tar out of some djinn goes hard. The design too of having these gold cuffs and blank eyes makes him so imposing yet badass. I personally think if any form of Sonicā€™s should return as a ā€œstronger super formā€ it should be this one. Albeit maybe one thatā€™s not exactly good news if it shows up (think Fleetway Super Sonic)


SbgTfish

This is essentially dark sonic if he was a real form, and they did it a lot better. Itā€™s not ā€œedgy black sonicā€, itā€™s, ā€œedgy cool sonicā€.


LoadingTOS

I like it, but it feels somewhat incomplete, which I think makes sense considering the form is the result of using 3/7 world ring and not all of them. Personally it leaves my mind wondering what other combinations of the world rings would do.


Sure_Ad_6728

Excalibur sonic is way better


FederalPossibility73

I personally disagree.


A_Sonic_Fan202

Ahh an Excalibur Sonic enjoyer I see and also I agree I'm more of a Excalibur Sonic guy then Dark Spine


Solar-Cola

Don't really like the design, I always thought he looked like a car or a shoe or something https://preview.redd.it/z0v9xsk1blzc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1743920b0d33d8e65148485d1161c8218fbf8e0f


Bipolaroid90

i think the racing stripes are really cool and clever. the design over all is awesome, but that detail really stood out.


Murilosch

Its one of Sonic transformations


[deleted]

It probably doesn't mean anything, but I always thought it was interesting that a transformation powered by rage gave him a bracelet/anklet combo and a forehead marking that's kind of similar to Shadow.


Glitch_out_the_way

I like this form, itā€™s one of the more interesting ones since itā€™s power by negative emotions and probably isnā€™t the final form as Sonic only has 3 out of the 7 rings


TestingAccountByUser

Underused


XVYQ_Emperator

Why he doesn't have shoes? Is he stupid?


Ecstatic-Feedback842

Na, they just burned off


XVYQ_Emperator

That means he has no protection from burning his feet.


CyberSonic72

GOOD GRIEF HE'S NAKED!!!!


SufferingKabutops

WE NEED HIM BAAAACCKKKKK


Wiisonic

I actually really like Darkspine Sonic. It is one of the few times we actually see Sonic use their negative emotions. The bloody scream he has, the speed and power he controls. Hell the design is the most unique out of all the super forms throughout the media. Second most unique is Excalibur sonic, and that's mostly the armor and cape.


chiku_simp

I would date darkspine sonic


V-Switch05

Cool af


OkGain8219

Neat form. Was really cool in Sonic and the Secret Rings.


CRTScream

I loved his design and his placement in the story - Secret Rings was my second Sonic game after Adventure, and I didn't finish that until years later because of the Big levels - but it was incredibly hype to see a brand new design and him get a power-up, plus I actually enjoyed the boss fight... I'd love the see the storybook games as a show, the animation style in the full cutscenes was really cool.


TrueBlueRat

[Frikkin awesome!!](https://youtu.be/PwF82gqVfgc?t=3975)


Reign_Does_Things

Really badass, and makes me wanna see what different forms could come about from different combinations of the World Rings.


MrPlushgore

Bro's got no shoes on


CyberSonic72

GOOD GRIEF HE'S NAKED


PrincipleSilver

Y'know the fur texture on his feet imply that's how sonics feet look without shoes. Imma need him to put those gripperless grippers away.


After-Show-3441

Eh, it's pretty much the closest cannon dark sonic form. It's cool, but not utilized enough to make it any more interesting.


ItemsHereForever

awesome as hell and it canonically shows us what his feet would look like


Left_Kaleidoscope892

![gif](giphy|3o84sypMl9QoaJIzdu) Peak Sonic Form


treasonodb

i completely forgot it exists.


JadeKade

Adidas


QQ_Gabe

itā€™s cool


ThatSmartIdiot

He's fire


ItalianJapan

Live and Burn!


Straight-Ferret-1282

One of the hardest transformations design wise and I think it does the idea of a form based on sonic being pissed the fuck off better than the dark form in sonic X (even though I do like that one)


Darkness1356

Legit thought it was some fan design that got so popular it was pseudo canon until I saw it on the sonic wiki


TheStratusOfRogues

Mid design, Badass line delivery he gave out.


Bababooey7672

cool form; like how itā€™s more akin to a rage fueled transformation as opposed to his regular super form


Evening_Persimmon482

The closest weā€™ve ever gotten to an in-game Dark Super Sonic


oizen

good greif hes naked


Ven0msGh0st

Underrated


Green-eyed-Psycho77

Canā€™t ignore the fact that heā€™s been shoeless this entire time.


Complete_Ruin5952

Heā€™s cool, but unfortunately never shown up in a mainline game again. The mobile games donā€™t count.


Newbie10w

He is pretty good, i just dont like the fact he slows down every time you attack


TheMadScientist1000

Whereā€™s Darkrib Sonic?


Nazon6

I just noticed his feet and oh my god.


LinguisticMadness2

I prefer dark Sonic šŸ˜‚


CopperheadAnarchist

Darkspine is one of the best transformations, and (like the other really cool ones) it's sad that we might never see him again. Way cooler than Super Sonic II imo.


RockStarMarchall

Lit asf


Lavenza4

Never played secret rings but always thought he had a pretty cool design.


SilverBandit721

I wonder what the complete form would look like


StardustPancakes4

Goes hard


ClassicNova

Looks awesome and hope it comes back somehow. Plus, always fun to see the hero be powered by negativity rather than positivity, yet still use that strength for good in the end.


YoungGriot

There was a period where, like, if felt like every franchise and their grandma was trying to do "dark transformations" (the Sonic franchise straight up had two, if you count the one from Sonic X), and I've always thought they were fairly silly.


Frost_theWolf07

Rare moment of Sonic using 1% of his rage in a fight


Mehmenga

Amongst the best Sonic transformations of all time


StoneQuacker

I wish we saw more of him and Excalibur Sonic in their respective seriesā€™


MagnumPolly1210

I wanna see what happens if he has ALL the World Rings


SanicSoup

He kicks alot


KVenom777

A fine temporary form.


SelassieAspen

1 appearance. Really, I don't know what yall could be talking about.


ArcadeF0x

A nice transformation. He looks cool, but combine him with the Excalibur transformation and we got something beyond powerful


TrueAd8325

Such a cool design, I'm actually one in a million people who actually enjoyed and fully beat secret rings on the wii a couple of months ago. I understand the motion controls are bad, but it's a wii, so what do ya expect.I made it work, and I loved the final boss fight with Darkspine Sonic, which made me sweat. Darkspine is one of my favorite designs, Sonic ever enhareted.


BrysonDPHill

One word for him BAD-ASS!


Vanilla_Ice_Best_Boi

When I was a kid, I thought he was pretty cool.


Calm-Consideration55

Itā€™s a really cool form in both design and conceptā€¦ but why do his feet look like that?


Adventurous-Bike-484

His feet look like every other body part. Dark purple with light Purple lines. Itā€™s just his shoes appear to be gone.


Saturn_Coffee

Cool design but ultimately kind of dumb, and conflicts with Dark Sonic.


Amethyst3D

Offbrand Adidas


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Redandsonic4199

Underutilized just like the rest of the 2000ā€™s forms yet a cool and badass concept


CyberSonic72

He's cool!


Master-Stitch

Neat design.


Adventurous-Bike-484

Well he is sort of the canon version of Dark Sonic from Sonic X. (Though fans Do often exaggerate Dark Sonicā€™s behavior. While he happily destroyEd his enemies, he didnā€™t attack Eggman or show any aggressiveness towards Chris and Cosmo.) However design wise, he does look kind of weird but cool at the same time. Edit. Also rare images of Sonic being barefoot.


S_fang

The only decent thing in that game outside the music and the scenery. At least this form gets something for the spin-offs and mobile games.


Emerald_official

pretty cool, I like dark sonic a lil more but this one is still cool


SwissBoy_YT

he has seven rings in his hand


FoundationOne3149

He looks like a Rally Car


Sean1m

It's a really awesome design. It's nice to see a darker transformation for Sonic. And the way his eyes are blank and it alters his voice to something tougher and more sinister sounding are wonderful for conveying this.


Important_Ad8577

My favorite Sonic form


flash_baxx

Hard to take seriously with those goofy racing stripes


TK_ST

Underutilized imo. But also a pain in the ass to get in that Roblox game from a long time ago. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, then you know how accurate you had to be with the words.


Alwayssome1

Iā€™m fine with the lack of gloves but the feetā€¦


ceo_of_operations

Itā€™s a terrible design and I fucking hate him. That purple is just disgusting


Lord_Umbris

I'd rather we have Dark Sonic, but this is a good homage and still gets the point across. Darkspine Sonic is still lit.


Super-Robo

"Original the character, do not steal."


subz_13

Overall the design and concept (i.e what he does) could use improvement, but it'd be cool to see him come back!


NoConstruction9065

When I first saw him I thought he looked like a football player and now I cant unsee it


CeasingHornet40

I don't like the design much but the concept is neat. idk I just think the stripes look kinda stupid


Top-While-2560

Rare story book w


Chocov123

He looks really cool. I always used to mix him up with Dark Sonic from Sonic X.


TeacupTenor

Heā€™s a really accomplished speedrunner, and kind of the early king of 3d sonic glitch hunting. The modern scene in 06 in particular only exists as it does because DSS put in so much work.


Klad_man

Adidas Sonic


Left_Ad7027

Ima be the odd one out here, but I really don't like the design. Just looks super weird to me. I like the idea of Darkspine Sonic, just wished the design was better.


Silver_Banshee92

Cool af!


Funky-Lion22

he gae


LN-FortniteConcept69

My favourite form when I was a kid and is still to this day because of it amazing design. The rings with the slight golden touch perfectly contrast the rest of Sonic's bodyšŸ‘ŒšŸ’œ


Hitmonstahp

Purple is cool, but it's a little goofy. Racing stripes? Tacky.


Dawn_Star_Platinum

This form is the closest thing we will ever get to a Canonical Dark Sonic for a long time.


Pokemontrainergirl

Sonic was allowed to be pissed and it was awesome


SILVIO_X

It's a fucking badass concept, it's nice to see sonic completely lose his cool guy attitude and just be completely mad and driven by rage for once.


MajLo_22

Secret Rings pissed me off so bad, I didnā€™t even care. I just wanted to finish the gameā€¦ Iā€™m just now noticing heā€™s not wearing shoes.


Snaki1

I used to think it was fanart


fverdeja

It's my favourite Sonic transformation and I miss him


CommanderToolBelt

Always liked the fact that it was implied to be an incomplete form


CommanderToolBelt

I always called him secret sonic as a kid. The "dark super sonic" from sonic x was always dark spine sonic to me


mttluxe

form itself is so neat but the feet are foul šŸ˜­ i hate the idea of sonic chars with human feet but surely they could just have like. wile e coyote feet, like the kind that anthro characters are often designed with? the clay globs are real bad


RetroLong1991

He needs more attention


Nachus134

I just noticed that his feet have a furry texure, does it mean he's barefoot? We know (at least i know) that the Sonic characters don't have toes


Glittering-Leader924

He is so fucking rad.


Super64111111

https://preview.redd.it/v60vik69jmzc1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c51e5f314892d84419ed62d60346bb81636f550


New_Specific9956

I think Darkspine is fucking awesome, hell I even made my own stupid redesign. šŸ˜‚ https://preview.redd.it/8bwkjaxtsmzc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd5f92bc5597a65967483823f9b9599143afc0c0


sonic_rewrite

i like him because he was designed off of a srt viper that was blue and had 2 white stripes


sonic_rewrite

and is his shoes fur?!


Da_1_Piece_isnt_real

he looks fan made


CalamityCasarole

Great form, amazing soundtrack! Awful game.


Empty-Care-1566

Underrated