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This character exists primarily or exclusively within the Sonic the Comic continuity.
Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.

The name's Amy, Doc! Remember it!


— Amy Rose, Sonic the Comic #127

Amy Rose is a character that appears in the Sonic the Comic series published by Fleetway Editions. She is an anthropomorphic hedgehog and member of the Freedom Fighters.

Concept and creation[]

Nigel Kitching's original plans for Amy had her as a humourous character and an irritant for Sonic, influenced by 1930s/40s "Hollywood screwball comedies" like It's a Wonderful World, while still being a capable fighter. He never made it clear whether Amy really fancied Sonic or whether she was teasing him for the reaction, making him flustered and embarrassed. Although she was captured frequently in early strips, she never sobbed or begged for mercy, being as brave as any of the others, and she had the most lethal weapon of all the Freedom Fighters (a crossbow).[citation needed]

Kitching also planned a love triangle between Amy, Sonic and Johnny Lightfoot. ("The idea here would have been to have Johnny genuinely been attracted to Amy, Amy being friendly with Johnny (but not in a romantic way really) and Sonic being troubled by feeling of jealously and having to come to terms with the possibility that he had feelings for this girl who he could not stand.") However, besides one early hint of Johnny's attraction (as in Sonic the Comic #43, "Badniks Bridge, Part 1"), this plotline was never developed.[citation needed]

Eventually, editor Deborah Tate insisted that Amy had to be more of a role model for girls. Being the only regular female character in the strip at the time, Tate dictated that Amy had to be more mature and sensible than anyone else in the strip, something that Nigel Kitching considered an insulting stereotype: where the male characters had rounded personalities with genuine flaws, Amy became one-dimensional. After one final, failed, attempt to convey what he believed the character was all about, Nigel Kitching said that he would no longer use Amy in the lead strip, leading to Lew Stringer picking her up for his Amy and Tekno stories.[1]

Amy was later made a part of the story arc revolving around the Ring of Eternity. This was done as editor Deborah Tate wanted different locations for the back-up strips, and the Eternity Ring set-up was inspired by UK strips Adam Eterno and Garth.[2]

When Kitching returned to the series for his last ten-issue run (after Deborah Tate had been succeeded as editor by Andy Diggle), he used the character exactly as he wanted to.[1]

Appearance[]

Amy Rose is a short, anthropomorphic hedgehog. She started out with three short, yet upturned quills on the back of her head, a tuff of quills on her forehead, two conjoined eyeballs with black eyes, a short tail, and peach skin covering her muzzle, inner ears, and arms. She possessed as well a small black nose, triangular ears on top of her head, and no back spines. She also had two medium-length eyelashes on each side of her eyes. Originally, she had brown fur, but her fur turned pink after a laboratory accident.[3] Early on, her standard attire included an orange-ruffled or pleated skirt, a green puffy-sleeved shirt with a white collar and cuff bands, white and blue sneakers with orange shoelaces, white wrist-length gloves, and a red ribbon hairband.

Starting in Sonic the Comic #106, Amy would get a new look - she would begin wearing cargo pants or a skirt, with a wide variety of T-shirts and sweaters of different colors. Her T-shirts had various slogans or pictures on them. She would also wear hair bands of different colors. Though, after getting her new look, she still wore her white gloves. When the Ring of Eternity sent Amy to Planet Romanus and Ancient Greece, it changed her attire to a Greek-style outfit with a toga. During her visit to Romanus, she was also given a gladiator outfit. When the Sonic Adventure adaptation was released, her quill-style was changed to five short head quills pointing downwards, somewhat resembling a bob cut. She also began having three spikes for bangs on her head and would wear a bomber jacket.

History[]

Past[]

Amy originally lived in a village near the Chemical Plant Zone. For some time, she opposed Dr. Ivo Robotnik's dictatorship over Mobius, and would often give speeches to the people of her village to make them fight against Robotnik, only for them to refuse. Supposedly, Amy would also cause trouble for Robotnik a few times.[3]

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Amy after her transformation, from Sonic the Comic #127.

One day, after another failed attempt to inspire the folk of her village to fight Robotnik's regime, Amy broke through the Chemical Plant Zone, where Robotnik and some other scientists were trying to make a machine that would grant Robotnik Sonic's powers. After shooting the machine using her crossbow, Amy was thrown to the machine's power core by Robotnik, hoping that the explosion of the machine will dispose her. However, she emerged totally unscratched, much for the surprise of Robotnik and his colleagues, with her quills having fused together and turned pink the same way Sonic's quills fused together and turned royal blue. She subsequently left, taking out Robotnik's Troopers with her crossbow. This incident inspired her village's folk to resist the doctor's rule, much to her delight.[3]

Ruled by Robotnik[]

Amy first appeared in a two-part story where she was 'arrested' by Doctor Robotnik's Trooper Badniks for the criminal offense of association with Sonic (she had been saying she was his girlfriend). While annoyed at the fact she had been lying about them being an "item," Sonic still had a duty to rescue her and did so, but to his horror, realized that she was now a fugitive and would have to stay with the Freedom Fighters.[4]

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Amy fires her crossbow, from Sonic the Comic #108. Art by Roberto Corona.

While it had been planned for her to be a more useful member, unfortunately the first three stories she was in (one a Sonic the Hedgehog CD adaptation) had her taken hostage as a plot motivator. In the second of these, however, she showed her maturity and quick thinking by brokering a mutually beneficial deal between her kidnappers (Captain Plunder and the Sky Pirates) and the Freedom Fighters.[5]

She appeared often in strips, where she saved the day without the others noticing. She also took a second-in-command role, taking full control when Sonic was absent or transformed into Super Sonic; when Sonic was lost in the Special Zone, she led the Freedom Fighters[6] until he returned in #100.

Post-Ruled by Robotnik[]

At a later part of the comic's life, Amy would be mostly written by Lew Stringer as a straightforward adventurer and had a long series of back-up strips teamed up with her best friend Tekno. After encountering the mysterious Eternity Ring, they both traveled through time and space to help out people in trouble and save multiple planets (including Earth). Adventures included Mobius in the year 5000AD, helping Hercules complete his thirteenth labour to get into Olympus, and witnessing the birth of life on Mobius.

Personality[]

While she initially started out as a damsel-in-distress, Amy's character swiftly matured as the comic went on and became one of the most valuable members of the Freedom Fighters. Amy has a crush on Sonic and often flirts with him and calls herself his girlfriend. However, she also does it partly to annoy him, showing a mischievous sense of humor.

Amy has also showed clever thinking and pragmatism, such as when she both figured out how to defeat Plasma and made Sonic believe he had defeated him as she knew that, as a symbol of hope for Mobius, "it's important that they think it's him who saves the day!".[7]

Powers and abilities[]

Amy is shown to possess expert marksmanship with her crossbow (which she created herself[8]) or hand-drawn bow.[9]

Weapons[]

Relationships[]

Sonic the Hedgehog[]

Amy often flirts with Sonic and calls herself his girlfriend. The notion of a love interest for Sonic was, for the most part, underplayed and one of the comic's writers, Nigel Kitching, revealed he saw it partly as Amy just trying to annoy Sonic.[1] However, it has been said that Amy would dearly love to be his girlfriend.[10] Amy has also displayed jealousy over Sonic flirting with another girl.[11]

Tekno the Canary[]

Friends/allies[]

Enemies[]

See also[]

Gallery[]

Concept artwork[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 sonicthecomic Yahoo! Groups #13701. "Re:question concerning Amy Rose" posted by Nigel Kitching
  2. Yahoo! Groups. Yahoo!.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sonic the Comic #127, "Amy's Secret Past"
  4. Sonic the Comic #21 & #22, "Girl Trouble"
  5. Sonic the Comic #23, "Pirates of Mystic Cave"
  6. From Sonic the Comic #89, the "Sonic's World" back-up strips
  7. Sonic the Comic #78, "Plasma"
  8. Sonic the Comic #41, "In Good Hands"
  9. Sonic the Comic #44, "Badniks Bridge, Part 2"
  10. Sonic the Comic #41, Quiz: The Mobius Factor
  11. Sonic the Comic #30, "Metamorphia"

External links[]

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