06 Silver has always been my favorite interpretation. I feel he strikes the best balance between being serious and cocky when he needs to be, but also sensitive and quiet. His unexpected but sweet friendship with Amy and brief mentor-mentee relationship with Shadow were also pretty cool.
I really hope that someday they give Silver the same treatment Shadow did in generations. Where more stories are added, and we get to learn more about his backstory. Because if you really think about it, this kid grew up in a messed up future. Like, I don't think this guy has actually touched grass in his life before time traveling. I would definitely love it if they were to explain a little more of that. I get it's hard because of 06, but if Rivals is his actual appearance, I kinda wish we got to see more of what happened to him. Along with how he's able to time travel, his origins, etc, like he has so much potential, and I just wish we knew more about him. He is canonically one of the strongest characters, which is why he stands by Sonic and Shadow in that regard. So, c'mon Sega, give this poor dude a game already.
Considering that Silver is one of the only characters who were unaffected by the white void in Sonic Generations (the others being Shadow and Metal Sonic) it's not entirely off the table for something like that to happen in the future. That he's continued to appear in the games and spinoffs since means that they understand that fans like him, so I'd expect that it's likely that we'll get some good representation at some point soon in the future.
Of note, the conversation of "In your dreams Sonic" is very different in Japanese. It implies Sonic remembers 06's events, as its about Sonic saying Silver has changed from when he was all "I will destroy you" which confuses Silver since he never said that. Colors DS is interesting for Dimps games because according to Iizuka and Ian Flynn, it's canon unlike the other alternate versions of Sonic Team games (but canon alongside the Wii version, not instead of. My guess is it means the Wii main story is canon, but so are the DS missions and True Final Boss. So despite having little story, Colors DS is important for Silver's new future being established and meeting Blaze a second time)
I’d take a look at Mario and Sonic again. The Winter and London Handheld versions have story modes. Winter I specifically remember Blaze and Silver trying to be the ultimate Hockey team which I’ve always found really charming
Silver has been criminally underutilised in the series since 06's failure. And this is coming from someone who doesn't consider Silver to be one of the best characters in the series (he's about maybe 15th in character rankings for me). He has never had a fair chance for a redemption outside of external media in the series. I'm hoping with Sega's renewed interest in using the wider cast will see another attempt in using Silver (story and gameplay) especially if Shadow Generations turns out successful. Project 06 shows how fun Silver's gameplay can be when properly realized and finished.
As someone that played the mobile games, there isn't really a lot of characterization. In Runners i think it's cool he and Blaze get captured in an event and save themselves before Sonic even arrives, but that's about it. He has a Nutcracker costume in the other games that i think is cool bc his character line was about the current time being one to cherish, and that's why it's the "present", but that's about it
Silver and Blaze is a great duo, both have kinetic powers, one travels through time and the other through dimensions each representing time and space in some ways.
Considering that Silver was one of the characters other than Shadow and Metal Sonic who were unaffected by the white void in Sonic Generations, it is possible that we might get a Sonic 06 centric expansion akin to Sonic x Shadow Generations at some point...maybe. I'm not getting my hopes up. He is my favourite character though, I do hope he gets some justice at some point. Edit: He did actually have some characterization in the Story Mode of the DS version of Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games and I feel he was done pretty faithfully. He even started a friendship with Donkey Kong of all people after retrieving some bananas for him.
Beside Sonic and Shadow Silver is currently my third favorite character in the whole Sonic franchise, I love him a lot and think that you're right that the IDW version of Silver can be the best one because of how well he's been written in those comics.(I've never read those comics so I only understand it because of what you said in this video about that version of Silver, I'll try to read them online sometime) He deserves to get his own solo spin-off game and be playable again in future mainline ones too. Those things could happen because it's been said that SEGA is finally acknowledging Silver, and they also had his own theme song play in this year's Sonic Symphony! PS, in a few years you might want to update this video by including Movie Silver, because in the contract his debut game is on the list of which Sonic games SEGA is allowing Paramount to adapt copyrighted source material from into the movies, and he got hinted at in episode 1 of the Knuckles series by having Maddie be shown wearing a white hat and an auqua green shirt (colors that match the long fur around Silver's neck and parts of his gloves and boots) when she was outside. So Silver can make a first appearence in the SCU (Sonic Cinematic Universe) through a Sonic 06 inspired movie. That "Flames of Disaster" titled episode can count as a second hint that a movie that will have inspiration in it from that game is likely coming in the future.
I would also put 06 in S. There would be no “good version of silver” to have the comics base him off of if not for 06. They nailed him. It’s the silver everyone fell in love with. Deserves an S.
Silver the Hedgehog is one of the best characters in all of Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Pre Super Genesis Wave did a great job with him like being a member of the Secret Freedom Fighters.
As much as I like Silver, I really wish there were some or even many more games returning him majorly since the earlier times he was seen. I also wish he had another best friend besides Blaze. May I ask who wants to know about my imaginary character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series as Silver's other best friend? Before I share with anyone, I would like to say I am never ever giving up on Silver on the next awesome future.
i won’t lie, i really hate how silver is in tsr, it doesn’t feel like the same character from 06 (which makes sense since this is canonically a different silver) but it also doesn’t feel like rivals silver at all, he’s just… really weirdly unaware? of course he wouldn’t get the trash talk, but also he is generally pretty competitive himself so it feels weird seeing him just be like “uh… sure!” same with his idw, he is such a pushover it’s sad, especially with lanolin, he just took it and got all sad, which why would he do that, he hates it when people don’t trust him or believe him and lanolin was being a real jerk about it too and he just took it??? like what??? last thing is that he definitely isn’t a realist, a realist wouldn’t see time travel as a valid option, nor would a realist see someone die in front of him and be like “we can probably fix this”, he just feels really weird with how he currently is and i don’t like it, kinda went off topic of the video but i just hate how they’ve been writing him so far, sorry
btw, apparently tsr silver is better with the japanese version, especially with his interactions with sonic, since they actually get taken more seriously once sonic realizes silver is pretty concerned about the whole situation, so that’s something!
I think “babygirl silver” is kinda funny considering he is Sir Galahad in Black Night. If you play Fate/Grand Order, you probably know what I’m talking about
I think you should split pre-reboot Archie Silver and post-reboot Archie Silver because they are very different characters with different backstories, motivations and reactions to stuff happening despite being technically same person.
Look in forces ha actually played a crucial role in it so during when silver fights infinite the phantom Ruby drops and it's the same one the rookie avatar picked up and stopped the sun from killing them all at the almost end of the game
You missed a REALLY interesting detail about Silver in the IDW comics! …he DOESNT save the future. Once the metal virus and other arcs are over, returning to the future it’s still… destroyed? Which is frustrating for him because, his entire PURPOSE being in the past is to solve this! But he’s run out of ideas for what could be wrong and it makes him feel pretty aimless. Espio however convinces him to relax. Silver has a habit of putting the world on his shoulders and hyper focusing on his problems, which can be a bit unhealthy. So he decides to not worry so much about it and take his time figuring things out. Interestingly, this implies that whatever threat destroyed the future hasn’t been revealed yet, and is likely a bigger deal than the metal virus and other problems so far. Which is interesting because it leaves this foreboding unknown presence hanging over him the entirety of these comics. It’s especially weird because, the way he describes it is that the future isn’t destroyed in a traditional sense, it’s just everyone is… gone. He can’t even figure out why or what could have caused that. It’s the first time he’s at an absolute loss about what to do.
I remember I knew silver when I was little but I got more into his stroy caus of the comics and it makes me sad that he dosent get the same respect😭I remember I loved him in worlds unite when he came across X and Zero
Silver should be playable in a mainline game again because come on , 06 failed because it was rushed not because Silver was in it and if they got him right he can be a fun character to play as and P06 proved that
I was kinda nervous cause I like TSR Silver, but IDW Silver really is the best version of my favourite character. Get Ian Flynn on a Silver spin-off game + Blaze and Espio and I’m so there day 1
Bruh??? All he said is that his gameplay is held back because 06 and 06 because yeah 06 is pretty shit to play, doesn't mean you can't like it, but he didn't say 06 is bad, in fact he does it pretty good justice while not being blind of its flaws but still mot beating the dead horse
@@baguettetheweirdguy2529 Silver gameplay is not bad, every gameplay style except Rouge, Knux, Amy and snowboarding is not bad in fact. I'm extremely tired of the repetitive "you like it even tho it's bad and that's fine" card. No. It's just not bad 👍. I didn't see him make any comments at the expense of Secret Rings, Black Knight, Rivals, Rivals 2 and Mario & Sonic gameplay, games with undeniable shallower and worse gameplay than 06 but of course, only 06 got the "gameplay bad" comment, how very fair and balanced, it doesn't feed into the worst tendencies of this fanbase and their bad apples at all... 'Bruh'.
It should have been sonic x silver generations since the game focus on time travel and silver is one so he would have let his past behind he would have had travel through green hill to planet wisp and would have face time eater
I really don't know how you could say that about IDW Silver right after talking about Archie silver. You go on to explain that he doesn't have anything to do outside of the metal virus. To me IDW silver just isn't enough and I so prefer Archies's version especially since we actually see how his future is effected, what hes fighting for. After the metal virus, IDW silver is just there for the sake of being there, especially at this point. And no I don't find that interesting because in Archie he always had something to do, whether it was helping to fight scourge, to helping to subdue mecha Sally. And you didn't even cover the fact that he has a whole Sonic Universe arc Post-SGW called the Silver Age. Gold the tenrec ring any bells?
Fire video! My top favorites have always been 06, Sir Galahad & IDW. 💯💯💯 Where did you find the Silver render for the thumbnail? Looks really cool!! @GullySama
You could literally just say negative egg man or the og word because if you do a quick google search n I double g. A had no meaning it's literally a adbridged version of the actual word thus it has no meaning.
Silver doesn’t deserve an Oscar, he deserves his own spin off game!
Fax
Yeah he deserve his own game. 💚🤍
Even main line tbh
nah we need the TIMELESS YEAR OF SILVER
Silver is the perfect character to deliver a mario like playstyle, a bit slower but wirh cool powers for puzzles and traversal
06 Silver has always been my favorite interpretation. I feel he strikes the best balance between being serious and cocky when he needs to be, but also sensitive and quiet. His unexpected but sweet friendship with Amy and brief mentor-mentee relationship with Shadow were also pretty cool.
FACTS
Sir galahad is peak silver because it implies shadow fricks
Hold on, plz explain💀
Silver takes the form of Sir Galahad, son of Lancelot(Shadow) and the Lady of the Lake, Nimue, who is Amy.
💀that’s what you get out of that
Ok that's actually hilarious to me ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
It's confirmed they're not related
I really hope that someday they give Silver the same treatment Shadow did in generations. Where more stories are added, and we get to learn more about his backstory. Because if you really think about it, this kid grew up in a messed up future. Like, I don't think this guy has actually touched grass in his life before time traveling. I would definitely love it if they were to explain a little more of that.
I get it's hard because of 06, but if Rivals is his actual appearance, I kinda wish we got to see more of what happened to him. Along with how he's able to time travel, his origins, etc, like he has so much potential, and I just wish we knew more about him. He is canonically one of the strongest characters, which is why he stands by Sonic and Shadow in that regard. So, c'mon Sega, give this poor dude a game already.
Considering that Silver is one of the only characters who were unaffected by the white void in Sonic Generations (the others being Shadow and Metal Sonic) it's not entirely off the table for something like that to happen in the future. That he's continued to appear in the games and spinoffs since means that they understand that fans like him, so I'd expect that it's likely that we'll get some good representation at some point soon in the future.
Of note, the conversation of "In your dreams Sonic" is very different in Japanese. It implies Sonic remembers 06's events, as its about Sonic saying Silver has changed from when he was all "I will destroy you" which confuses Silver since he never said that.
Colors DS is interesting for Dimps games because according to Iizuka and Ian Flynn, it's canon unlike the other alternate versions of Sonic Team games (but canon alongside the Wii version, not instead of. My guess is it means the Wii main story is canon, but so are the DS missions and True Final Boss. So despite having little story, Colors DS is important for Silver's new future being established and meeting Blaze a second time)
Awesome! My favourite interpretations of Silver are Sonic 06 and IDW Comics!
I’d take a look at Mario and Sonic again. The Winter and London Handheld versions have story modes. Winter I specifically remember Blaze and Silver trying to be the ultimate Hockey team which I’ve always found really charming
As soon as shadow generations was announced, I was immediately thinking about silver generations
He was only playable in one game and two of his levels are taken by Sonic and Shadow , what else left to Silver Generations
@@haiderraad468 we wait another 10 years and use those levels
So many character in this franchise is awsome but we never see them...
Silver has been criminally underutilised in the series since 06's failure. And this is coming from someone who doesn't consider Silver to be one of the best characters in the series (he's about maybe 15th in character rankings for me). He has never had a fair chance for a redemption outside of external media in the series.
I'm hoping with Sega's renewed interest in using the wider cast will see another attempt in using Silver (story and gameplay) especially if Shadow Generations turns out successful. Project 06 shows how fun Silver's gameplay can be when properly realized and finished.
I basically follow the IDW comics for Silver at this point. Wouldn't change a thing on this tier list.
I just remembered that Silver's voiced by Bryce Papenbrook
Most of us are calling it. 2026 is Year of Silver.
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I’m thinking mid-late 2025 will be when they slowly start to push year of silver
YESSIR, PLEASE SEGA WE NEED A YEAR OF SILVER 🙏
It makes sense since it would be 20 years since Silver was introduced.
If anything, we'd have to wait for silvers 30th anniversary or something like that.
There’s ton of merchandise of Silver Funko pops, action figures, tshirts, hoodies, and plushies his popularity is going up.
Sometimes in IDW it looks like Silver has eyelashes and i think that means it's the best characterization to date
I really hate his character was butchered imo, this is why he needs a year like Shadow's
“Silver! You’re a twink!”
-Snapcube dub
Ever since Snapcube's '06 fandub i've always percieved Silver as a twink
I've been begging on my hands and knees for people to talk about him thank you for this
As someone that played the mobile games, there isn't really a lot of characterization. In Runners i think it's cool he and Blaze get captured in an event and save themselves before Sonic even arrives, but that's about it. He has a Nutcracker costume in the other games that i think is cool bc his character line was about the current time being one to cherish, and that's why it's the "present", but that's about it
06 Silver is my fav
Silver has the potential to be the 3rd most popular Sonic Character of all time along with Shadow and Sonic!
Silver and Blaze is a great duo, both have kinetic powers, one travels through time and the other through dimensions each representing time and space in some ways.
Blaze doesn't have kinetic powers
@@reggielacey2235 Pyrokinesis
Considering that Silver was one of the characters other than Shadow and Metal Sonic who were unaffected by the white void in Sonic Generations, it is possible that we might get a Sonic 06 centric expansion akin to Sonic x Shadow Generations at some point...maybe. I'm not getting my hopes up.
He is my favourite character though, I do hope he gets some justice at some point.
Edit: He did actually have some characterization in the Story Mode of the DS version of Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games and I feel he was done pretty faithfully. He even started a friendship with Donkey Kong of all people after retrieving some bananas for him.
Next can u rank every tails
Beside Sonic and Shadow Silver is currently my third favorite character in the whole Sonic franchise, I love him a lot and think that you're right that the IDW version of Silver can be the best one because of how well he's been written in those comics.(I've never read those comics so I only understand it because of what you said in this video about that version of Silver, I'll try to read them online sometime) He deserves to get his own solo spin-off game and be playable again in future mainline ones too. Those things could happen because it's been said that SEGA is finally acknowledging Silver, and they also had his own theme song play in this year's Sonic Symphony!
PS, in a few years you might want to update this video by including Movie Silver, because in the contract his debut game is on the list of which Sonic games SEGA is allowing Paramount to adapt copyrighted source material from into the movies, and he got hinted at in episode 1 of the Knuckles series by having Maddie be shown wearing a white hat and an auqua green shirt (colors that match the long fur around Silver's neck and parts of his gloves and boots) when she was outside. So Silver can make a first appearence in the SCU (Sonic Cinematic Universe) through a Sonic 06 inspired movie. That "Flames of Disaster" titled episode can count as a second hint that a movie that will have inspiration in it from that game is likely coming in the future.
I would also put 06 in S. There would be no “good version of silver” to have the comics base him off of if not for 06. They nailed him. It’s the silver everyone fell in love with. Deserves an S.
Silver the Hedgehog is one of the best characters in all of Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Pre Super Genesis Wave did a great job with him like being a member of the Secret Freedom Fighters.
Please make a video on idw characters especially surge. Also i see you made a video about riders.....
again IDW
fire video keep going
06 and IDW Silvers are amazing
"06 is bad" until you end up playing Project 06.
As much as I like Silver, I really wish there were some or even many more games returning him majorly since the earlier times he was seen. I also wish he had another best friend besides Blaze. May I ask who wants to know about my imaginary character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series as Silver's other best friend? Before I share with anyone, I would like to say I am never ever giving up on Silver on the next awesome future.
i won’t lie, i really hate how silver is in tsr, it doesn’t feel like the same character from 06 (which makes sense since this is canonically a different silver) but it also doesn’t feel like rivals silver at all, he’s just… really weirdly unaware? of course he wouldn’t get the trash talk, but also he is generally pretty competitive himself so it feels weird seeing him just be like “uh… sure!”
same with his idw, he is such a pushover it’s sad, especially with lanolin, he just took it and got all sad, which why would he do that, he hates it when people don’t trust him or believe him and lanolin was being a real jerk about it too and he just took it??? like what???
last thing is that he definitely isn’t a realist, a realist wouldn’t see time travel as a valid option, nor would a realist see someone die in front of him and be like “we can probably fix this”, he just feels really weird with how he currently is and i don’t like it, kinda went off topic of the video but i just hate how they’ve been writing him so far, sorry
btw, apparently tsr silver is better with the japanese version, especially with his interactions with sonic, since they actually get taken more seriously once sonic realizes silver is pretty concerned about the whole situation, so that’s something!
Yeah Silver being a realist makes no sense, he's whole arc is about him being naïve which turns into optimism like what???
My goat 🐐
Deserves much better
FUN FACT:
as galahad, Silver would be Lancelot (shadow)'s son!
6:54 HOLY SHIT THATS MY COMMENT IT MADE IT INTO A VIDEO!!!
oh btw, rivals was released like a day before 06
I think “babygirl silver” is kinda funny considering he is Sir Galahad in Black Night.
If you play Fate/Grand Order, you probably know what I’m talking about
Honestly, Eggman N sounds kinda fire
I think you should split pre-reboot Archie Silver and post-reboot Archie Silver because they are very different characters with different backstories, motivations and reactions to stuff happening despite being technically same person.
The Sonic 06-P brought out silver 🤍 character much better than the original, you guys should try it out, you will enjoy it ✌🏽😊☺️
Silver was a great character in 06, yet he was completely overlooked when looking at the game.
06 had its problems, but Silver was not one of them.
The only way I see Silver gaining prominence is if he's in Sonic Movie 4 which will most likely make Sega/Sonic Team focus on a Year of Silver
Look in forces ha actually played a crucial role in it so during when silver fights infinite the phantom Ruby drops and it's the same one the rookie avatar picked up and stopped the sun from killing them all at the almost end of the game
You missed a REALLY interesting detail about Silver in the IDW comics!
…he DOESNT save the future. Once the metal virus and other arcs are over, returning to the future it’s still… destroyed? Which is frustrating for him because, his entire PURPOSE being in the past is to solve this! But he’s run out of ideas for what could be wrong and it makes him feel pretty aimless.
Espio however convinces him to relax. Silver has a habit of putting the world on his shoulders and hyper focusing on his problems, which can be a bit unhealthy. So he decides to not worry so much about it and take his time figuring things out.
Interestingly, this implies that whatever threat destroyed the future hasn’t been revealed yet, and is likely a bigger deal than the metal virus and other problems so far. Which is interesting because it leaves this foreboding unknown presence hanging over him the entirety of these comics.
It’s especially weird because, the way he describes it is that the future isn’t destroyed in a traditional sense, it’s just everyone is… gone. He can’t even figure out why or what could have caused that. It’s the first time he’s at an absolute loss about what to do.
I remember I knew silver when I was little but I got more into his stroy caus of the comics and it makes me sad that he dosent get the same respect😭I remember I loved him in worlds unite when he came across X and Zero
I don't know shit about the comics but honestly X and Zero interactig with Silver sounds amazing i love that idea
Silver should be playable in a mainline game again because come on , 06 failed because it was rushed not because Silver was in it and if they got him right he can be a fun character to play as and P06 proved that
12:36
It's a mistranslation.
You can just call Eggman Nega "Eggman Negative" since that's what it's supposed to mean
I was kinda nervous cause I like TSR Silver, but IDW Silver really is the best version of my favourite character. Get Ian Flynn on a Silver spin-off game + Blaze and Espio and I’m so there day 1
It makes me wish that sega could pull a episode shadow and final horizon with silver for sonic x shadow generations.
i really want 2026 to be the year of silver
Im shipping espio and silver extremely hard now, thank you for feeding me this good stuff
I’m pretty sure blaze was sent to the sol dimension
Also the team sonic racing thing is really different in japan
silver is my fave too
Silver is more a Shadow rival than Sonic.
Silver the best 🤍💚😃
I can’t believe that Archie and 06 are below IDW but okey
Oh look, unnecessary, irrelevant and meanspirited "06 bad" comments! No. His gameplay in 06 was amazing.
*clicks off video*
Bruh??? All he said is that his gameplay is held back because 06 and 06 because yeah 06 is pretty shit to play, doesn't mean you can't like it, but he didn't say 06 is bad, in fact he does it pretty good justice while not being blind of its flaws but still mot beating the dead horse
@@baguettetheweirdguy2529 Silver gameplay is not bad, every gameplay style except Rouge, Knux, Amy and snowboarding is not bad in fact. I'm extremely tired of the repetitive "you like it even tho it's bad and that's fine" card. No. It's just not bad 👍. I didn't see him make any comments at the expense of Secret Rings, Black Knight, Rivals, Rivals 2 and Mario & Sonic gameplay, games with undeniable shallower and worse gameplay than 06 but of course, only 06 got the "gameplay bad" comment, how very fair and balanced, it doesn't feed into the worst tendencies of this fanbase and their bad apples at all... 'Bruh'.
Silver from forces isn't the same silver from sonic 06 because that timeline doesn't exist
I think Silver is in love with Blaze 😊
It should have been sonic x silver generations since the game focus on time travel and silver is one so he would have let his past behind he would have had travel through green hill to planet wisp and would have face time eater
I really don't know how you could say that about IDW Silver right after talking about Archie silver. You go on to explain that he doesn't have anything to do outside of the metal virus. To me IDW silver just isn't enough and I so prefer Archies's version especially since we actually see how his future is effected, what hes fighting for. After the metal virus, IDW silver is just there for the sake of being there, especially at this point. And no I don't find that interesting because in Archie he always had something to do, whether it was helping to fight scourge, to helping to subdue mecha Sally. And you didn't even cover the fact that he has a whole Sonic Universe arc Post-SGW called the Silver Age. Gold the tenrec ring any bells?
Knuckles next
Can you rank rouge?
Can you rank every blaze?
Fire video! My top favorites have always been 06, Sir Galahad & IDW. 💯💯💯
Where did you find the Silver render for the thumbnail? Looks really cool!! @GullySama
Yay silver
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7:12 "Canologically" you mean Canonically right?
I mean he also said “psychokinNESIC” instead of psychokinetic, so we’re pretty par for the course with that.
15:11 WRONG GAME
Eggman naga
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*Why Archie Silver is bad?*
its no use ranking him
Honestly you was not even close to saying the n word when you pronounced eggman nega
First
idw silver sucks.
You could literally just say negative egg man or the og word because if you do a quick google search n I double g. A had no meaning it's literally a adbridged version of the actual word thus it has no meaning.