The Greatest Sonic Character Ever
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Today I wanted to talk about Fang the Hunter.
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Fang is a great character who doesn't get enough respect
Glad you agree
Someone might’ve mentioned this already, but one of the major devs of Sonic Heroes confirmed that Team Hooligan, (Fang, Bean, and Bark) was going to be in the game but was cut.
I know this and I will never forgive sega for that decision to cut them out of the game they denied us modern team hooligan......👿😔
@@UnimpressedMetalton That would have worked perfectly!!!
@@thewanderingchelmet i know right!!?
Mighty and Ray were going to be in it too, but they couldn't find a suitable speed type apparently because it was gonna be Metal Sonic. I'm going to eat my drywall over this
@@bingus48 I know.
They can't bring back fang to the modern yet Zavok still exist
Maybe we can find a way to fix Zavok. Any character can be improved given enough time and effort!
@@ArtemisAYO Even so it's weird to keep Zavok around but not the rest of his crew.
@@ArtemisAYO i hear he is a cool character in the idw comics
@@ArtemisAYO maybe we can take his current stats, like personality and likes/dislikes and stuff, and kinda revise it all. I think the design is good, just the inside of zavok is bad. and besides, the rest of the deadly six suck just as much as him, so we can just do the same to them
@@ArtemisAYO
Can they do a redesign? Because it doesn't matter how much they improve his writting, that guy still looks like a Bowser ripoff.
Fang is underrated fr
I wouldn't say underrated I'd say underused
Kinda
@@hamzamohamed6774 He's underrated and underused. What makes Fang the Sniper such a good character in my opinion is that he's not an outright villain like Eggman. Instead, Fang is an amoral character. He's the type of character who is willing to work for anyone as long as the price is right. Eggman is immoral while Fang is amoral. This makes Fang a unique and rare type of antagonist in the Sonic franchise.
@@Rishi123456789 I know but the reason I said this is because he's kind of a fan favorite
@@hamzamohamed6774 Fang is a favourite of diehard longtime Sonic fans like me. I've been a Sonic fan since 1996. I doubt that Sonic fans born after 2000 knew that Fang even existed until Sonic Superstars.
@@Rishi123456789 sonic gems collection
What makes Fang the Sniper such a good character in my opinion is that he's not an outright villain like Eggman. Instead, Fang is an amoral character. He's the type of character who is willing to work for anyone as long as the price is right. Eggman is immoral while Fang is amoral. This makes Fang a unique and rare type of antagonist in the Sonic franchise.
We were robbed of playable Fang in Superstars.
we were...and im depressed why sega why!!??
I'm starting to think this is a sonic channel
He literally started the channel with Sonic! There's also the fact that it's Shadow's year and we're going to have Sonadow Generations and Sonadow the movie.
@@Bratwurst_Chao-13 I think you got those names wrong by accident… right?
@@JT_2007sxsg sonic (X) shadow generations , n sxsg dark beginnings or sonic (the movie) 3
its the correction for the other guy
@@samirrabdelah5178 The name of Sonic 3 movie in Japan is "Sonic x Shadow tokyo mission
And yet he has never talked about the comic characters nor the girls from the series (he could skip Rouge if he felt like it)
Kind of sad that Fang’s only mainline game was Mania and Superstars.
Does Mania really count?
At least they were good games.
I see an alternate reality where Fang replaces Big in Sonic Heroes as a foil to the rest of Team Rose and no one complains about it.
OMG!!! Someone should make a mod of that or something just instead of big put fang it would be funny as hell but also a bit concerning since fang is terrified of Amy.....
Fang should've been in Sonic Adventure
Having rot my brain with HOI4, having Fang as a villain to represent rampant greed by having this once small mercenary now lead his own PMC Merc organization to cause trouble for Sonic & friends by taking the Emeralds before them in a time of crisis, only revealing himself by the end, would be a sick, utterly memorable way to bring him back in a truly "Modern Sonic" fashion :)
STRENGTH AND MUSCLE AND JUNGLE WORK!
Yes yes!!!! Someone write this down and make it into a game!!!
Well, Tails Tube 5 not only confirms that he and the rest of the classic characters are still at large in modern world.
Specifically, Fang is still wanted as a mercenary alongside Bean and Bark, so probably they could reintroduce him in a way to differentiate from Rouge or the Babylons.
@StellaFangX oh!? Really!? That's so cool!! Would be interesting....
I forget the source, but I read somewhere that Fang, Mighty and Ray were planned for heroes
i am fang's biggest fan this is the exact video i have been waiting for. now i can show this to all of my friends who wonder why i love this stupid rat man so much
also, fun fact! he was going to appear in heroes as a team alongside bean and bark, but was scrapped (along with a team comprising of metal sonic, mighty and ray)
he's genuinely such a perfect sonic rival
Such a shame they're scrapped. Team Hooligans(Fang, Bean, and Bark) and Mighty, Ray, and Metal Sonic's inclusion in Sonic Heroes would've been really awesome.
@@retrofan4963 Maybe they could be introduced if they'll ever make a Sonic Heroes remake.
@@StellaFangX If they'll ever remake Heroes, I hope they do that.
@@retrofan4963 Plenty of rumors are spreading abour a possible remake, but it wasn't teased yet.
Maybe next year if they don't want to focus only on Racing CrossWorlds.
Don’t forget that in the Archie series, he captured Sonic several times, and he used real guns
This!!! This comment here!!! Thank you for mentioning that!!! Also my bro fang has a liking for guns I feel if he wasn't a sonic character he would be using so many different types of guns!!!
Finally someone with impeccable taste acknowledging this amazing jerboa dude. I would have loved if Fang was like, not completely redeemed villain like Knuckles but somewhere down the middle with Bean and Bark, going about on their own business as treasure hunters, not on the side of Eggman but y'know, just being comical and doing their own thing. #FangDidNothingWrong
He along with Bean and Bark are my all time favorite Sonic characters
About time someone gave fang the credit he deserves! He’s always been my favorite Sonic character.
"Speaking of the adventure games, Fang has a GUN"
A new favorite KiroQuote of mine
Fang is very underrated the only game he sucks is superstars cuz that boss fight but overall fang is a good character
What do you mean "he sucks in sonic superstars"
I mean sure he was a big asshole to trip but that's besides the point
@@hamzamohamed6774 his boss fight was like hell
@@jacquelineperez4341 how the hell does that make him a bad character
@@hamzamohamed6774 well it's the same argument that is used for silver duh
@@roxonightreturns holy crap you're actually right
Back when the whole “two worlds” thing was going on, I had friends theorizing that Infinite was a way of bringing Fang into the modern universe, since some sources list Fang as being part-wolf (even though Infinite was a jackal in pretty sure?). It feels like cope to me, but it’s an interesting idea.
Two worlds theory? Are you talking about modern vs classic or sonics world vs the human?
This is kinda interesting ngl
@@XavielArt the first one. When Forces came out and the localization had Tails say Classic Sonic was from another world, and we spent like four years believing Sonic Team wanted Modern and Classic to be different universes until Tails Tube proved otherwise
I kind of always saw it as Fang living under unfortunate circumstances that the franchise was going through between his debut in Triple Trouble and the release of Sonic Adventure. As I feel like the modern redesigns, or the release of Sonic Adventure, was always meant to be treated as a soft "reboot" of the franchise.
Keeping only the most substantial of the classic era characters, lightly using older inventions like the Metal Sonics, and making good enough callbacks due to the main 4 (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy) having good connections between one another. They obviously cover 4 completely different playstyles in Sonic Adventure, but they wanted to represent two key genres with two characters that stood out next to the usual woodland creatures we're using to seeing. So naturally we give the gunner section to a brand new Eggman invention who grows a connection to Amy, and a giant cat as a means of comic relief (since by this point, Amy had been upgraded from her status as comic relief).
On top of Fang not having the appearances he had, I think he also missed out potential relevance not appearing in Sonic X-Treme and from there I feel like SEGA didn't necessarily *wanna* neglect Fang but never really wanted to revisit him. Since at the point it'd take to bring back classic characters like Mighty, Ray, Vector, Espio, they may as well be introduced as brand new characters. I mean as much as possible when we got classic titles brought back in collections and were permitted to put in Game Gear titles, naturally that's 2 games Fang was in. He was even a gachapon toy you collected in Shenmue alongside other characters who were in Sonic the Fighters.
That is, when we get to Sonic Heroes and SEGA actually was attempting to bring back as much of the classic roster as possible. Since we know that Fang *was* actually considered for Sonic Heroes, and lost out to the more unique Chaotix featuring Vector, Espio, and Charmy as Mighty and Ray could be seen as too similar archetypes to Tails/Knuckles. Had there been a 5th team however, I do think Fang, Bean, and Bark had a real possibility of showing up.
However, that's not what happened, and as another theory I kept in my mind SEGA essentially went back to ideally not bringing any other older character back as much as possible while the cast featured in Sonic Heroes with a couple stragglers like Silver and Blaze would remain as recurring characters. Wasn't a thing exclusive to classic era characters either, as this hammer unfortunately hits characters like Gemerl, Marine, Johnny, Vanilla, even Cream for a long time.
Obviously when time came to it to create a classic era title though, we got to see older characters return as part of creating titles like Sonic Mania and Sonic Superstars feels in part to appeal to an older audience anyways so naturally it feels nonsensical to have the same rulings against bringing older characters back as before.
Maybe as SEGA is also trying to give this treatment to the Modern Sonic brand too, by bringing back older characters we hadn't seen in awhile like Emerl, there's good hope they may try to appeal to older audiences with future titles a little more than before.
I'm surprised his initial role as a team with Bean and Bark in Sonic Heroes, his apparences in IDW with his very own mini-series and expansion with how he interacts with Bean and Bark or even Bean and Bark in general in Sonic the Fighters weren't mentioned in this video at all
I know right!? I thought he would mention those things....well not everyone knows about him almost being in sonic heroes along with bean and bark it's not talked about enough....as for the other things it could have been mentioned....
This video gave me good luck I watched it and then a few hours later I found the fang figure at walmart
It's weird that SEGA hasn't made a game on Fang The Sniper, nor he made an appearance on other future Sonic titles. I'd love to see a action platformer game for Fang.
binged your channel for the last 3 days and as i was finishing the awkward phase video i saw this was uploaded, watched this on the last of my work break and i wanna say i love the relaxed vibe your channel has!
feels like im sat here having an informed conversation on whatever topic you bring up. love ya personality man
Fang appears in the comics
He even had a 4 part special this year and still no reference to the comics in this video.
why tf am I seeing different previews each time this video is recommended
A snarky fellow! Wishing his fans all the luck for another return just as much as I hope to get more Vector at some point (the coolest down to earth guy for me).
I love vector too
SEGA GIVE TEAM CHAOTIX AND HOLLAGAINS MORE LOVE (i think thats vectors and his pals team name "chaotix")
Fang is a jerboa, he looks like a gold miner and is mixed with a bush ranger, if that doesn’t make him Australian canonically I don’t know what does.
in the comics he works with bean and bark as team hooligans and they were considered for sonic heroes
I honestly very often forget this character existed. But it seemed like for the longest time Sega themselves just completely forgot entirely. I was first introduced to fang when I was watching some old RUclips video that probably wasn't really that all the time as it was 2008 or 2009 or something but anyways it was a walkthrough of Sonic triple trouble and that was how I got introduced to fang. It was cool to see him in Sonic mania even though it was not the real version of him. Also it's cool that in Sonic origins plus you can play Sonic triple trouble
Honestly, a good way to bring him back? Make a new background where he and rouge used be partners but found themselves on different sides after they had a falling out (honestly, haven't read the comics in years so no idea if they toyed with that or not).
That's a fun idea.
I'm crying....I almost never see a person genuinely like this character and well Im just so shocked and happy all at once to find another fang enjoyer!!! At this current time it's a good time to be alive as a nack the weasel, jet the jeroba, fang the sniper, and fang the hunter enjoyer!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
It is actually straight up confirmed that Sega said characters that appear in classic, will stay in classic.
Unless Sega change their minds about it, but it will never happen unfortunately.
I hate sega and their stupid mandates.....
@@UnimpressedMetalton Same
@@meno3104 I'd sell my soul for them to change their minds
i like that you made this video about at the very same time i've considered starting out my drawing journey by doodling up him & maybe a rocko's modern life character
If Sonic Triple Trouble was a 16-Bit gam- oh wait, there already is one. :D
I know and it's brilliant!!! I replayed it so many times now.....even though I always love playing as fang....😅
@@UnimpressedMetalton Indeed, not to mention you can play as him in another fan game Sonic Galactic
@@Jadinite-2006 i know right!? im so excited for when they finish demo 2 of sonic galactic!!
My third favorite sonic character right behind mighty and Ray
Fang reminds me of Cad Bane from Star Wars 😂. He's a cool character with not enough love 😢.
SEE YOU GET IT.
A fan game did more justice to fang than Sega
Yes yes!!!! I love sonic triple trouble 16 bit!!! But I also love sonic galactic and sonic classic 1 and 2 and sonic robo blast 2!!!! The fans that actually care about the characters did so good!!! We ate so good!!!
ill u have to rethink about it after watching the sonic theory characters analysis n the ranni's characters philosophy or just after reading all the idw commics n analyse the characters on it
3:00 Felt the need to bring up his little cameo in Tails' Adventures on the Game Gear. While it's not an actual appearance, they respected Fang enough to make him a usable item alongside Sonic and Knuckles that Tails could find. Fang would increase Tails' chance of finding rings from defeated enemies!
fang becomes sniper tf2
I'll send my condolences to his kangaroo wife
when i was trippin’ i thought he is the most likely one to exist out of all the other sonic characters.
Hey! Touma still loves his jerboa son _very much_ and is _very_ proud of him and happy to talk about him. Like the fact that the four-fingered hands are based on the fact that real jerboas actually do only have three or four digits per paw (the exact number varies from species to species, but it has precedent; Touma was a brave designer for daring to give a character in a Japanese franchise less than five fingers per hand, all things considered).
you know i watched this vid
and it didn't convince me Marine is still the GOAT
I think he was soppesed to be in heroes with bean and bark as mighty ray and metal would be on a team as well as gamma in some other team
How many freaking teams was that game going to have?
I was so upset you couldn’t play as Fang in Sonic Superstars , I do like Trip playable, but would have preferred Fang here’s hoping Sega adds him as a playable character as DLC ! Also why not add Espio, Vector, Charmy, Mighty and Ray to Sega !
OMG same!!! No one will understand the uttermost disappointment I had when I found out trip was playable and not fang....why am I still here? Just to suffer?......and yes unpopular opinion I can hear the hate and the pitch forks and torches but I don't like trip very much at all....and besides she kinda stole a part of Fang's personality which is that he is clumsy and tends to trip quite a bit....and to be that was such a cute and charming little thing to his personality and then what does sega do? Gives it to someone else....typical sega....
IT'S FANG-TASTIC
OMG!!! Hi @raxraq3029!!!! 😊 I see you a lot on X! in fact I think I follow you but I'm not sure.... Well anyway nice to see you here on RUclips!!!
Fang is my GOAT ong 🗣🔥
Fang had to be roped in with the two Sonic the Fighters debutants Bark the Polar Bear and Bean the Dynamite; and that game was developed by SEGA's AM2 team rather than the main Sonic Team, meaning those two characters were _even more_ screwed than Fang ever was. It took the third-party extended material from Archie Comics to give him some extra character depth.
I think he, his gang, Mighty and Ray shouldn't be limited to be classic-only characters
Fang is one of those Sonic characters who managed to avoid character association.
A lot of people always say that they want Fang in the modern games because they want to see him with the art style they use in those but I kinda like the idea of him staying exclusive to the classic style games.
The idea of classic and modern exclusive characters is interesting. But then again I’d get a kick out seeing Classic Rouge or Modern Mighty.
@@kirotalksyt oh yeah, I definitely wouldn't be mad if that did happen but I also just kinda like the idea of the classic versions being younger versions of the characters instead of some alternate universe and there being characters that the main cast have just outclassed so significantly in skills that they just back off like "can't top that, bye"
@@ClaireZhasa It's confirmed that the classic version of the characters are just younger version of the characters. There's no alternative universe where classic and modern games take place in different universes. Sonic Adventure's story is built upon what Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles establishes, so it wouldn't make sense if Sonic Adventure has no connection with the previous games in the continuity.
@@retrofan4963 it's confirmed right now yes but they do flip flop on it, lest we forget Forces and the "you're that Sonic from another dimension" nonsense
@@ClaireZhasa True, right. Though, about Forces mentioning that Classic being from another dimension, I have heard that most likely is a bad translation scenario.
8:35 ...Bean and Bark exist. (I'm just sayin')
You haven’t read the Fang side comic huh
@DioBrando-DIO the wha-
@@sltiwx At the beginning of this year, Fang got an entire comic miniseries released by IDW. Fang constantly mistreats Bean and Bark and they end up leaving him, explaining why they aren't present in Superstars
0:00 This is the same opinion as me!!! I think he's the Best character in the franchise!
Fang in the IDW comics is cool
5:38
Ayyy I see u kiro!!
For Fang only having 4 digits instead of 5 originally, that is based on his species, the Jerboa. Jerboas only have 4 digits instead of 5 in real life. Kinda wish they kept this little aspect of him but I digress.
Also, Fang technically appears in Mania, having a 1/3 chance to. The Hooligan that shoots down the Tornado is confirmed to be the real deal, whilst the boss fight is Heavy Magician disguising herself.
He’s the best troll character in Sonic the Fighters… Until someone blocks or spin-attacks 🤣
Fr!! And I love him for that....he is so cute in that game so full of personality!!!! I always choose him as my main!!!
Yeah. Fang is fine. I like his bike looking saucer majiggy.
Time to subscribe
Ayyyyy
Fang can beat Goku, fight me.
Strong agree I love this guy, but I hate how over villainous they've portrayed him ever since superstars. He's suppose to be a neutral bounty hunter who puts rewards over morals but he's still good enough to stand against evil when it goes too far or betrays him and work with the good guys and seems to care about his partners, not just an irredeemable abusive a-hole. The change from Sniper to Hunter is also just pointlessly dumb unlike his other name changes which actually make sense both in and out of universe.
All of that you just said was likely comic exclusive stuff, in games Gang is just a bounty hunter asshole, and it's not like any of his friends were in danger even if what you said did apply.
He does appear a lot more mean in Superstars but I guess to be fair we didn’t see a ton of Fang before
@@roxonightreturns He helps get the chaos emeralds in Fighters.
@@WilfredCthulu In the wiki it says Fang stole a chaos emerald one of Sonic's friends were protecting.
@@roxonightreturns He still stops Eggman in the end though. The idw comics he's appeared in, including the classic one are canon to the main series too.
At least Fang was able to come back. Honey the Cat was only in Fighters and even then, she could only be playable if you hacked the game's code. Her only other appearance was in the Archie reboot comics and nothing else.
And I know Honey was originally a character from Fighting Vipers, but she's still a Sonic character as well so... what the fuck?
Exactly. Bean the Dynamite, Bark the Polar Bear and Honey the Cat should seriously come back.
I'm glad the video agrees with me!
That's a funny way to spell Marine the Raccoon
Fang would make a good rival for Rouge.
2:25 where the hell did this name come ftom
Sega does team hoolagan dirty
Thank you thank you
Fang…..Really? FANG THE PURPLE FOX?!
C'mon pal, Heavy and Bomb (aka peak) are right there
The reason they changed Fang to have 5 fingers has to do with the Yakuza. Members would sacrifice a portion of their pinky as an initiation ritual.
This connection is why most Japanese characters have 5 fingers. US characters commonly have 4 for stylistic reasons
In Superstars they should've renamed him Fang the Weasel, I know he isn't a weasel but this way the American and European names would've both won 🤷♂️
Thats a weird way to say Dooby's Real Manager.
The goat
Funny enough, I initially though Infinite to be Fang in Sonic Forces. Like, if that guy would try to go against Shadow (Infinite's origin story) that would be exactly how I imagine that would go. Only later I would learn that Infinite was just some new jackal schmuck.
You missed one talking point. Fang is purple, and purple = cool.
This.
I generally woudve love to see fang fight rouge
so this is the greatest, and Knuckles is teh coolest, this guy has some pretty good opinions
That’s a weird way to pronounce Metal Sonic.
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT!
4:36
He’s actually always been in the comics since the 90s.
If you were able to read the Archie Sonic comics or the Fleetway comics and then getting into Archie, since I think Europe got the Archie Sonic comics at some point, Sonic’s most iconic obscure characters got a bit to do.
Sure, Fang didn’t get as much as Mighty and Ray, but he still was prominent.
In the case of side games like in the 2000s-10s those R still made by ST so it would count for that reddit post u referenced. In Heroes they DID try to put EVERYONE & give them all teams but it became too much & so they whittled it down to a select few & fang was alr an easy 1 to cut for obv reasons. The Olympics it's harder to guess but 1st easy thing to point out is it's again a ST game. They prob also only wanted to include only relevant & known characters that would more immediately fit & even parallels on both sides(sonic/mario, shadow/wario, tails/luigi etc etc)
Fang for Sonic Movie 7
I think Sega abandoned Fang because just think about it: there's plenty of Sonic characters that don't fit in the classic or in that case, modern era. Fang is a classic character that is very hard to fit in the modern timeline. AND, and, if he would be in the SA2 there had to be Bark and Bean to make a team for Fang!
agreeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The greatest sonic character ever is the one that goes fast
i agree i love fang the sniper so much hes been my hyperfixation for the past few weeks please hgelp me i cant look at the color purple anymore please please pleaseh elp help help help help help help hep
This was me when I was having special interests and hyperfixations about fang....
Me mith Mighty he is my brain worm i love him please sega bring them all to modern canon please please please please p
@@UnimpressedMetalton i'm still having fang brainrot
@@bingus48 SO TRUE I LOVE MIGHTY i used to have a massive brainrot over him
@@MimasWife same...🤣🤣🤣
Why did SEGA Call him a Sniper, when He never held a Sniper Rifle?
I know it really doesn't make sense....but if it means anything he did use a sniper rifle like once or twice I think in the Archie comics... probably even in the other comics he was in....if anything they should have just called him fang the mercenary.......yoooooo!!!! That's sounds so badass....I like it!!!
5:36 why did that version of robotnick had to be named eggman nega 😭
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@@With2Ls Fang
Fang doesn't even appear that much he had 3 game appearance and the Archie comics
Please talk about more sonic characters, please.
I suggest Heavy and Bomb as they are quite forgotten.
You can NOT make me feel sympathy for the author of literally the worst Sonic boss fight of all time. I want this mf on hiatus for another 20 years after that
i think you misspelled him as fang the hunter in the description
yes
I agree
I mean he is pretty cool I geuss
That's a weird way to pronounce Charmie the Bee
At least he has a modern design and it appears often instead of waiting for almost three decades before showing up in an official game.
Granted, the dev should flesh him up instead of being relegated as the gimmicky joke of the Chaotix. Like, Espio and Vector had solo roles while Charmy none.
How dare you?!
@ I'm stating the facts regarding the charmiest of the bees, can't do much othet than that.