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This exists primarily or exclusively within the Post-Super Genesis Wave continuity.
Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.

The post-Super Genesis Wave timeline is a universe that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It is the reality of Sonic's World after it was rewritten by the Super Genesis Wave.

It also refers to the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series and its various spin-offs following Archie Comics' attempts to invalidate Ken Penders' copyright claims on the characters he created while working for them.

Description[]

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Sonic explaining the creation of the post-Super Genesis Wave timeline, from Sonic the Hedgehog #256.

In-story, the post-Super Genesis Wave timeline is a timeline that was created from the result of the events of the comic crossover event Sonic & Mega Man: Worlds Collide. In said crossover event, Sonic the Hedgehog (in his Super Form) attempted to revert the damages done to his original timeline via Chaos Control but was thwarted by Dr. Eggman in an attempt to sabotage Sonic's restoration on his world. The result of Eggman's undermining created the Post-Super Genesis Wave timeline.

The post-Super Genesis Wave timeline is a mixture of adaptations from the video game series, Sonic the Hedgehog television series, and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, along with additional and original comic-exclusive stories.

Development[]

Ken Penders

Ken Penders.

Ken Penders was a former writer for the Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna comic series who, in the fall of 2010, claimed copyright on the characters and concepts he had created while working at Archie[1]. Archie Comics, in response, filed a lawsuit seeking to have those copyright claims invalidated.[2] The legal dispute continued until the tail-end of 2012 when Archie Comics fired its legal team and stopped disputing Penders's copyrights on his characters.[3] The result triggered a huge revision of the current Sonic and Sonic Universe comic stories, resulting in multiple changes to the then-current stories.

The lawsuit brought multiple changes to the long-term storylines, resulting in Ian Flynn's present plots and goals being canceled. The storyline Endangered Species (Sonic the Hedgehog #243-#246), for example, was abruptly altered to exclude any characters created by Ken Penders. Covers of Sonic the Hedgehog #244 and the following issue were subtlety changed to get rid of any Penders-characters (for example, the original cover featuring Julie-Su then the final cover without Julie-Su of Sonic the Hedgehog #244).

The comics did not suffer from the absent characters for too long, Penders' affect from the lawsuit began changing the comics starting with Sonic the Hedgehog #244 and Sonic Universe #46, shortly before the crossover event Sonic & Mega Man: Worlds Collide. Seeing as gaining Penders' characters back in the comic would be too troublesome, writer Ian Flynn "rebooted" the comic series at the finale of the crossover to a more video game-oriented timeline, erasing all of the characters not created by Ian Flynn or Tracy Yardley. Not only this, but storylines that were carried from the old timeline were either abruptly ended without a conclusion or brought back with the plotline fundamentally changed.

Ian Flynn has stated multiple times that he is certain that none of the original timeline characters created by Penders or any character related to any old timeline-concept that was created by Flynn will return.[4]

Story arcs[]

Beginning in Sonic the Hedgehog #252 and Sonic Universe #55, the post-Super Genesis Wave timeline immediately kicked off in the Shattered World Crisis, which is to help establish the new timeline and introduce (as well as re-introducing) characters and locations exclusively created for this timeline.

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