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I love how the whole plot of “Sonic Heroes” is really just Metal Sonic trolling everyone, like really, did he honesty need to kidnap a one-off Chao that we never saw again and a non-sentient frog??
Sure, you can argue about them both having “Chaos Data” embedded in them (Chocola is a Chao, and Froggy swallowed Chaos’ tail once and ate a Chaos Emerald), but what sort of data could Metal have gotten from a FROG?
On top of that, he’s just messing with Shadow, like, all of Shadow’s existential crisis over possibly being an android in the following game, “Shadow the Hedgehog”, is all of Metal’s fault
He even sends out a bragging letter to Team Sonic to dare them to stop him. He gives them basically a weekend to do so.
He teases Team Rose, and honestly, he was probably only thwarted because he didn’t bank on Team Chaotix unveiling the truth and unwittingly gathering the materials to stop him
Metal was out of control for that game, he threw Eggman in a cell, stole his identity, and just screwed up Eggman’s credit score buy spending all that cash on the resources and upgrades
Then ends the entire joy ride by transforming into a dragon, and started bending Time.
“Sonic Heroes” was Metal Sonic’s teenage rebellion