Yamato-san said:
all things considered, those Super Emeralds are supposedly just a gameplay bonus and nothing more. Plus, due to the storyline continuity of older games being so confusing, they supposedly started off with a clean slate on Sonic Adventure. So, Tails may've actually been turning Super with Chaos Emeralds for the first time, and since the Chaos Emeralds are supposed to be weaker than the Super Emeralds, he'd lack the Flickies.
As for Super Knuckles.... since when was Tails able to throw things with an added electrical current? Since when was Knuckles able to punch at the ground and shoot fireballs upwards? Since when was Amy able to pull off the same speedy techniques as Sonic, including the before-inexecutable spin jump? Besides, not like Super Sonic's able to shoot fireballs.
I have a theory that there may be a neutral side to the emeralds as well, making their energy kinda similar to an atom, and just because they're protagonists doesn't mean they'd always be using the positive side. In Sonic Adventure, the positive and negative sides were shown with Sonic and Chaos respectively. In Sonic Adventure 2, Shadow may've been using the negative energy, considering the game was playing him up to be on the Dark Side while Sonic's on the Hero Side, making the two polar opposites. Biolizard, being a mindless, raging beast, could only have neutral thoughts, leaving it to absorb neutral energy. Finally, in Sonic Heroes, it's possible that the old rival Knuckles wound up with the negative energy, while Tails was left with the neutral energy. Like I said, though, just a theory.
As mentioned before, Sonic Adventure started on a clean slate, so Tails and Knuckles may've been surprised due to turning Super for the first time. As for the auroras.... I'd say they're kinda similar to those simple auras Super Tails and Knuckles gave off in Sonic 3 & Knuckles (notice they don't change their shape like Sonic does).
Actually about the clean slate of Sonic Adventure, a lot of people, like myself don't believe in the clean slate. If you look at Amy's flashbacks you can see her being rescued by Sonic while Metal Sonic hunts them down, obviously a flash back of what most likely could be
Sonic the Hedgehog CD. Another argument on the clean slate is the simple, "How the hell do all these characters know each other then?"
Sonic Heroes, Metal Sonic stated that it was a long time since he saw Sonic and how he could never defeat him, he was referring to all the classic Sonic games him and Sonic fought it, Eggman in
Sonic Adventure stating that he could never beat Sonic and this time he won't get in his way.... hmm how does he know Sonic always beats him if this would be their first time they ever met? Of course if you look into a game like
Sonic Battle it has the Death Egg in it and Sonic acts like he never saw it, but remember there is a few Death Egg's and they change shape, plus the one in Battle was equipt with Eggman's Final Egg Blaster. Of course a lot of fans like to think Sonic Adventure starts the series over but I'm firm when it comes to all the games come together into one story. Also in Heroes Vector knows Knuckles, his name at least... he yells it during the Metal Overlord fight, but Knuckles never took time to tell Vector his name when an evil robot overlord is attacking the planet... simple, they know each other from
Knuckles' Chaotix. And yes, Team Rose and Team Chaotix didn't know each other... but when did Amy ever meet the Chaotix? She could of met Espio in
Sonic the Fighters but seeing as its a fighting tournament, they could of never got the chance to fight, plus
Sonic the Fighters is a rare game people don't take into account, and Espio never did say anything like he didn't know Amy in
Sonic Heroes, remember he is the quite type, he wouldn't even care and Amy had her mind on things helping out Cream and Big and finding Sonic. You want me to be honest? I don't think the classic Sonic games have a mixed up, hard to follow storyline at all... in fact the newer Sonic games has just as many plot holes.
And I'm sure Tails wasen't so suprised to see a super form for the first time... after all, wasen't he the one who was telling Sonic to basically become super? Well he said "Sonic, you should be able to harness their real power!" But he seen Chaos transform with Chaos Emeralds, what was he going to expect Sonic to do? He would prolly have a transformation as well if anything. Remember, Tails knew Sonic could harness a stronger power then Chaos, so if Chaos was able to transform... Sonic would too... and Tails and even Knuckles both knew that.
I doubt Shadow would use the negative charges of the emeralds seeing as even if he was a Dark character, he wanted to make Maria's wishes come true of making people happy, which is not an evil thing, a very heroic thing, he even gave his life, plus he teamed up with Sonic, these are things of good so Shadow would of most likely used postive energy, same goes for Knuckles in Heroes. Yet I can understand where you are comming from the diffrent energy, but the dark energy of the Chaos Emerald shows its true strength in something that is evil itself, hence why Chaos took the negative energy and not the postive energy. If Chaos wanted true distruction, which he did, hence his name, he would of drained the Chaos Emeralds of ALL its energy, I don't think any creature trying to destroy the world isn't stupid enough not to take all the energy just because some of it was icky postive energy, simple, the negative energy was the only thing that would work with him. Also remember, the negative energy is a weaker energy of Chaos Emeralds, stated in
Sonic Adventure, when, like I stated, Tails basically says that the REAL energy of the Chaos Emeralds is in the postive side, and its safe to assume that Super Sonic and Super Shadow are equals, if anything, Shadow would be stronger when it comes to Chaos Emeralds seeing as he knows how to use Chaos moves better then Sonic, he knows Chaos Nightmare, Chaos Blast, Chaos Control, Chaos Spear... yet Sonic only knows Chaos Control, he only used it a handful of times, and it took him almost a whole game to learn it, Sonic just sticks to his speedy moves and such.
Plus as for Biolizard also powering up, remember the Chaos Emeralds were in the presence of the Master Emerald, whenever the Chaos Emeralds are with the Master Emerald they themselves grow stronger, an example is in
Sonic 3 & Knuckles, they are able to transform into Super Emeralds when they are with the Master Emerald after Sonic does the Special Stages, a fact that the Chaos Emeralds are stronger themselves when with their controller. Now I'm not saying they became Super Emeralds last minute when we weren't looking but they could of gained more energy in themselves allowing all three characters to power up, and as we see in Heroes... there is no Master Emerald. Yes I do hear of Super Emeralds not being canon all the time but did you ever read the
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 manual? As we know Sonic had obtained the Chaos Emeralds from
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 but in the manual for
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 it states in the stroy that Tails and Eggman sence emeralds comming from Angel Island... but wait... don't Sonic and Tails already have them? Could these emeralds they sence be the Super Emeralds? Its possable, yet like I stated the Super Emeralds are power ups of Chaos Emeralds so that wouldn't make too much sence from my end but there are lots of believers thats the Super Emeralds are a seperate set of emeralds and it could be possable, just the Chaos Emeralds are needed to charge their power. Plus maybe if the Chaos Emeralds are just power ups Tails and Eggman could of been sencing discharged energy comming from Angel Island. I will be honest, you can't go by everything in the manuals, they are the ones who screwed a lot of things up, but this is mentioned in the Japanese storyline as well so... in this case... maybe not...
Of course I will give you on Super Knuckles' fireballs... yet I still have reasonable doubt that it is Super Knuckles, super forms are traditional stuck to the fur change rather the auroras. But you kinda made it seem like Knuckles' fireballs are enough proof alone, they could just simply come from the energy he was serving off of from Super Sonic, like the power of flight. The Chaos Emeralds do have limitations, not everyone could go super just because they are there, there has to be a limitation to their power they use at one time.
My final argument. The artical I read on the final battle in Heroes where it states regular Tails and Knuckles follows Super Sonic. =P
But anyway, this is starting to become SPAM... but hey, throwing in my opnions on this argument, heh. ^_^;
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