Secret identity of Sonic Forces villain

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Secret identity of Sonic Forces villain

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So I have a theory about who the floating masked villain in the Sonic Forces trailer is. This is him by the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3p0zoX5OCM (he shows up at 1:17 in the video)

My suspicion is that he's actually a distorted Sonic from another timeline. Let me explain:
-His appearance. If you look carefully at that clip, you'll see that the character has blue skin, green eyes, and hair spikes, and his overall outline resembles Sonic's noticeably. The game already features a past version of Sonic, so why not a future version?
-His disguise. This character is constantly surrounded by an evil aura that distorts his appearance, and wears a big metal mask at all times. He appears to be in a transformed state of some kind, so we don't know what he'd look like in his base form.
-The villains. At least two of the villains in Sonic Forces, Shadow and Chaos, have redeemed themselves. Considering this game's plot involves time travel, it's not hard to imagine that someone decided to pull these characters from time periods where they were bad guys.
-The setting. It seems like it's some kind of apocalyptic future that Eggman created, it has all the earmarks of a world that's been ruined. So the main question is, where is Sonic in all of this? Something must have happened to his future self for the world to be in this kind of mess, whether he was killed or turned evil somehow we don't know. So it's quite possible that he was turned bad by some evil energy in the future and that's how that new villain came to be, he's the Sonic of that timeline and he's been corrupted somehow.

What do you think?
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doctor finitevus...

also I don't know where this energy came from, but we cannot let it fall into Dr. Wily's hands
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Info that's been floating around says the guy's name is Infinite.

I'd personally vouch that it's not Sonic, (specifically because of things like this) but it's not outside of Sonic's range to change
practically everything about him (including his shoes, oddly enough) when he transforms.

Anyways, here's my guesses in no particular order:

- Guess 1: Infinite is Black Arms related. I said that many of the events of the main series Sonic games might not have happened in this timeline earlier, but if no one stopped the Black Comet, who did?
They could have just left the Earth alone, since it seems pretty destroyed and worthless as is.

- Guess 2: It's actually Mephiles. Potentially from another timeline, either because of '06 broke everything or because the Generations fixed everything, including '06.

- Guess 3: You in 5 Minutes. Similar to your guess of a corrupted Sonic, this Infinite is the player's avatar.

- Guess 4: Metal Big the Cat.

- Guess 4: A different design for Gemerl, or something related to that?

- Guess 5: A completely new character with no relation to prior events (or rather games), characters, and was made just for this game to stab Eggman in the back later like the others.

- Guess 6: A sentient and compressed version of the Time Eater?

For the most part, I'm gonna assume this guy's name isn't actually Infinite, and it's just the name he uses to mask something.
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chaoadventures wrote:
- Guess 3: You in 5 Minutes. Similar to your guess of a corrupted Sonic, this Infinite is the player's avatar.
I'd bet money that this is it.

The game will be just like Sonic Battle- you get a custom character, have him fight alongside Sonic and grow over the course of the story, then he turns evil and you're forced to kill him.

The final battle is a two on two showdown with Modern and Classic Sonic vs Infinte and the costum character.
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The cover definitely makes Infinite look similar to the new guy:
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WHERE IS EVERYBODY GETTING THIS COVER FROM
but i'm honestly more interested in that void wispon and both tails and knuckles being on the cover

But yeah, he looks like the Custom Hero, a bit bat like too, but that could just be to make it easier to have CGI including them and also keep them ambiguous.

Just remember, your custom character's possibilities are infinite. Er, well speaking metaphorically, of course.
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The closer I look at Infinite the more I notice the white dreadlock like things coming from the back of his head. So...

New theory: Infinite is another one of those evil white Echidnas. but his face is obscured to avoid invoking the wrath of ken penders

Theory counter argument is that he has those giant ears on his mask.
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This is going to sound silly but here goes nothing.

Infinite's a joke on edgy OC's people have made, if he was based off the custom hero then he would look different than what I imagine is his default model. If anything changes, we can definitely start making links to him and the custom.
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To be honest, Infinite does feel kinda like an edgy OC. He could always just be their attempt at Shadow 2.0 though.

Whether or not Infinite is a joke, a surprising homage, influenced decision, or just a coincidence is beyond me. This is supposed to be an anniversary game right?
Seeing what the fan community does could be part of it.

...Or not.
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I agree with Triert, he seems to be a huge mix of OC parts to make an edgy OC "faster than Sonic".
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I don't know why I didn't hear this similarity earlier.

Infinite sounds like Nazo.

They're really going for it aren't they?
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