#Metal virus

[lovelylivewirez]

Nightmare Coated in Metal

A comic I made specifically to fulfill my own need for catharsis

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #amy rose #knuckles the echidna #shadow the hedgehog #charmy bee #vector the crocodile #zombot #metal virus #idw sonic #☆my art☆

[fiberc]

blegh

#art #sth #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #shadow #chaos sonic #sonic prime #metal sonic #metal virus #idw sonic #robot

[littletrash1027]

The Beginning of the End |

"Tetuso" Metal Virus | Pt. 1

the start of my new infection au! it'll get interesting in the next post, trust me, boys.

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic idw #silver #silver the hedgehog #amy #amy rose #tails #sonic tails #tails the fox #miles tails prower #tangle the lemur #whisper the wolf #starline the platypus #dr starline #sonic metal virus #metal virus #infection au #infected au #horror #sonic infection au #sonic infected au #sonic au #tetsuo metal virus au

[marinaiguess]

beautifully painful IDW moments that I could talk about for AGES.

(aka I miss the metal virus saga)

#all of them are incredible #im in tears #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic #idw sonic #sonic idw comics #cream the rabbit #amy rose #silver the hedgehog #miles tails prower #dr eggman #metal sonic #neo metal sonic #babylon rogues #jet the hawk #wave the swallow #storm the albatross #metal virus #the pain is real #the first one is the one i hold closest to my heart

[raine-rudnick]

laid to waste

#sonic the hedgehog #sega #digital painting #gaming #sonic #digital art #video games #sonic frontiers #sonic fanart #idw sonic #sonic and the secret rings #sonic 06 #sonic unleashed #scrapnik island #Sonic labyrinth #metal virus

[son1c]

once infected, subjects will experience increased aggression as well as an uncontrollable desire to spread the virus to others. this urge is impossible to resist.

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #metal virus #sonic idw #this was supposed to be a doodleeeeeeeeeeeee #scribbles #i'm always thinking about this. tbh #so much willpower. and yet

[ziggyfin]

@idwpublishing’s Sonic the Hedgehog #25 RI-B Cover, by Jon Gray and colored by me! I have been away from tumblr for many a year, so will be posting a bunch of old art over the next while to spruce up my page, starting with one of my favourite colouring gigs!

#sonic the hedgehog #idw sonic #metal virus

[themightyhumanbroom]

“̻͓͓W͉͜E̼͉͍ W̘͙͙I͚͇͜L̦͕͚L̻͔̫ S͙͇͔U͓̫B͎̻͜S͇̝U̠̻̙M̡̪͇E̟͙ Y̺͙͚O̻͉̫U͇͖̼ A̢̞͚Ș̡̢ W̝̪̞E͇͉̘'̝͎V̘̟͙E̟̼͓ D̠͕͍O͔͖͓N̞̞E͎̘̞ O̝̪̘N̡͖̻C͎͓E̡͚̟ B̦͚͇E̢̘̠F̢͍͚O͇̟̻R̟̘͖E̝͓̘!̼̙̞!̡͙͕!̦̦”͍̠͜ - Metal Virus Possessed Surge.

Art I commissioned from the phenomenal @SETHWIJEZ on Twitter!

This piece is set during my fic "Fury Oh Fury" when Surge is fully possessed by a sentient Metal Virus during her fight with Shadow.

Might actually commission some art of what happens immediately after Surge yells this, Shadow going "Nope!" and removing his inhibitor rings.

#art i commissioned #not my art #surge the tenrec #shadow the hedgehog #lead to light au #sonic au #idw sonic #sth #sonic #sonic fanart #sonic idw #metal virus #sonic fanfiction #surge

[neurotypical-sonic]

hoping I'll finish this one day but the chances are. slim. anyways I am thinking about my headcanon that repeatedly burning off the metal virus seriously damaged sonic's fur and it's now fairly thin and brittle. he gets cold a lot more easily!! tails has his back tho

#egg.txt #sonic #tails #sonic&tails #myart #sonicposting #metal virus #the metal virus

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I got infected by the metal virus from Sonic IDW and was actively turning into a zombot, but everyone told me I was being dramatic.

#dream #sonic idw #virus #infection #metal virus #zombot #zombie #zombie tw

[rabbithaver]

shadow "if shit sucks hit da bricks" the hedgehog

#shadow the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #tangle the lemur #zavok #vector the crocodile #espio the chameleon #whisper the wolf #idw sonic #metal virus #kyle don't look #i kind of love idw shadow. like i hate that this is what Sega did to him but i love that he's unapologetically an asshole

[pretzlforpresident]

Guess who finally finished the metal virus arc and got emotionally destroyed (I genuinely teared up at the panel the second image is a redraw of)

#Someone please talk to me about this #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #cream the rabbit #gemerl #metal virus #sonic idw #idw sonic #idw sonic spoilers #sth #sonic #sonic fanart

[the-cactus-taco]

Listen- I know the zombots were designed like that to save money and time, but consider: ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A ROBOT

Also, yes, I am just now reading a comic that started in 2018, and getting obsessed with an arc that wrapped in 2020- sue me.

#I am not immune to the allure of Roboticization in character design #I LIKE ROBOTS! I FUCKING LOVE DESIGNING ROBOTS OK!?? #also I gotta draw knuckles more #don’t know why I like the ‘little kid who loves punching things’ archetype so much #BUT BOY DO I!! #art on tumblr #shit posting #brain rambling #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #knuckles #knuckles the enchilada #art #drawing #doodle #digital art #edit #comic edit #sonic IDW #metal virus

[littletrash1027]

Doc.1: Infection Stages |

"Tetuso" Metal Virus | Pt. 2 Pt. 1

a bit stagnant compared to the last post, but it's more of an info bit really. next time, tho... stay tuned ;)

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic idw #dr starline #starline the platypus #starline #belle #sonic belle #belle the tinkerer #sonic metal virus #metal virus #infected au #infection au #horror #body horror #blood warning #sonic infection au #sonic infected au #sonic au #tetsuo metal virus au #also peep Madychi's character Audio

[hishighnesstheprincess]

Hi! This is gonna be a masterpost about how the metal virus in Sonic IDW functions, complete with screenshots and a whole ton of rambling!

So first off, this is gonna be divided into four sections: How It Infects, How Zombots Behave, The Cure(s), and Miscellaneous.

Obviously let's begin with section 1: How It Infects

We find out from some scenes of Dr Starline and Eggman the very basics of how the virus infects things: it starts with the liquid ooze that Eggman creates, but anything that is infected can be a transmitter. It can infect anything organic, but inorganic/processed materials, at least in these early scenes, cannot be infected.

The rabbit and the flower are both infected and converted by the initial liquid, and the rabbit goes on to infect the pig by just touching it, and the flower infects the squirrel in the same way.

Some other details from analysis of these scenes: once something is infected, it can transmit the infection to other parts of its body just by tapping them (the last shot of the squirrel transferring their infection from their hand to their head). And while completely covering the victim in liquid converts them to a zombot within seconds (as also seen below with Rough and Tumble), merely tapping them doesn't spread it nearly as quickly.

However, repeated exposure to the virus is shown to speed up the process significantly (as seen below).

Lastly for this section, how the virus works while it is on organic material. It actually appears to have two different rates of infections for plants and for living beings, as shown in the panels below.

In the first one, we see that it takes at least ~8 hours minimum for the virus to creep a couple inches up the side of a tree and to infect a flicky sleeping in it. In the last two, we see that it doesn't take long for a small spot of infection on a Mobian to progress into a full blown zombot conversion (we know not much time passes, maybe an hour or so, because the sky doesn't progress much from what looks like the middle of a sunset to the end of a sunset). While due to the power of exponential growth it's likely that more of the natural plant life on Mobius would get infected at an increasingly faster rate as the virus went on, it does seem that the initial infection rate is very different. For whatever reason, I don't know and don't particularly care, it's useful.

One last note on this section before I end this bit (cus I've hit the image limit already yay Tumblr): how the virus interacts with clothing. We can see clearly from Charmy's case that not only can the virus get on clothing, it can infect from there, and in many other cases down the line we see that it can get all over clothing. Additionally, from Rough and Tumble we can see that their gloves and shoes get transformed along with them. Either this means the virus can infect inorganic/processed material, or every Mobian we see infected is all wearing organic material somehow. I'm going with the secret third option: it's for plot convenience, and in my AU of the metal virus I'm just going to bullshit something about the clothing being skintight or something.

Anyway, this is the end of part 1, other parts on their way shortly.

#im on mobile rn so theres no readmore for yall #sth #ivo robotnik #dr starline #sonic the hedgehog #amy rose #rough the skunk #tumble the skunk #charmy bee #vector the crocodile #espio the chameleon #when i said i was doing research on this i was NOT joking #prin posts #sonic posting #long post #metal virus

[uselesstaroth]

There's a trope of "magical/cursed/whatever object doesn't work on character and it's reassuring/disturbing"

We saw this with Metal Sonic not being infected by the Metal Virus and it sent him into an existential crisis

So, what if when Sonic touches the Phantom Ruby, it doesn't show his heart's desire, because he has none

Reassuring/Disturbing, what do you think

#being able to make that comparison is my buy-in to metonic fr fr #that annual lives in our head rent free huh #coming up with something that might shake Sonic's resolve is haaaaard #sonic the hedgehog #metal sonic #sonicthehedgehog #sth #sonic #phantom ruby #metal virus #sonic forces #idw sonic #sonic idw