Sonic Prime - Nine betrays Sonic, becomes the villain

I called it too, Nine would become a twist antagonist, I theorized that when his backstory was introduced. I'm on Nine's side. So much for Sonic. Also, if you'd like an in-depth analysis of Nines' psychology and character, here, check out this video of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8t3HhvN4dQ Or if you'd like to watch a tribute to Nine, here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO-46JVdqis

The moral of this story: Never take your friends for granted

I'm loving the writing in Prime so far. This "betrayal" scene can be viewed in a number of ways, since from Nine's perspective, Sonic's the one who's the traitor since he only cares about restoring his own dimension while not considering what Nine personally wants. Sonic only sees Nine as just "another Tails" and is so used to his perception of Tails being his ever supportive sidekick, he doesn't realize that Nine isn't Tails and isn't going to let Sonic walk all over him. Nine is his own person and has his own personal life and struggles to begin with and even was willing to consider Sonic his friend, yet Sonic expects Nine to only see things his way and goes as far as to imply that Nine isn't "real" or isn't his own person after bringing up the "real Tails". This is just me, but it almost puts things into perspective with how Sonic views Tails since it comes off as Sonic usually taking Tails for granted as a friend and being so used to him being a pushover. While I understand the importance of Sonic wanting to restore the dimension he came from, I also understand Nine's reasons for wanting to create a new world (even if his idea of this new world has flaws in of itself in regards to social isolation) and why he is so angry at Sonic and ends up taking the Prism shards for himself. While it's selfish of Nine to do that and essentially abandon Sonic like this for his own goals, he still has valid reasons for doing so. Sonic's biggest enemy really is his own ego and the show makes it clear how Sonic is too reckless for his own good. This really is a moral dilemma where both sides have valid reasons for believing what they believe and doing what they want to do. One side ends up believing the other is the traitor even though the same can be said from the other side's perspective. That is top-notch storytelling. I can't wait to see where the direction of this storytelling goes.

"It was our home." Sonic proving he is still incredibly dense and not realizing the shattered versions of his friends have no memories of him or his world whatsoever, because they're their own people... Maybe he's in denial.

The way nine said that proves that Sonic’s biggest enemy is his own personal ego

I really like the idea of Nine becoming the main antagonist. I've always thought it was interesting how Tails and Eggman are essentially equals in terms of their intelligence and their skills as mechanical engineers. The big thing that has always differentiated them is that Eggman is selfish and ambitious while Tails is gentle and kind. I believe Tails always had the potential to become another eggman (if not even MORE dangerous) had he never met Sonic and been influenced by his kindness. That's essentially who Nine is, a Tails who never knew love. It's just something really interesting to explore.

The interesting part, is that even if Sonic was betrayed by Nine, the young fox also feel himself betrayed by Sonic, because when the grumpy young fox met the blue hedgehog, he though that he found his first friend, to the point that Nine wanted to shares his new perfect world with Sonic. But during the final scene, Nine only noted that Sonic considers him like another Tails, not Nine, as he want to retrieves the "true" Tails, showing him that Sonic only was interested in be his friend for be an alternate Tails, not for be Nine, adding the fact that maybe if the Paradox Prism is repaired and restores the reality to its original form, exist the possibility that Nine and the other alternate versions end disappearing, making that the young fox feels himself betrayed, leading him to take away the Prism shards to continue his plans without his former friend.

Shadow: WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT NINE?!? Sonic: Shadow listen, I’m sorry! (Shadow proceeds to fight Sonic)

He isn’t exactly a villain, it breaks my heart when people say he is, he just wants a better world

So Shadow was right about Nine. Not surprised.

Take note, Frozen. There's doing twist villains well, and then there's you.

Not a villain, but the antagonist.

1:48 - 1:53 this part is sad yet very true. It’s like what if Tails is brave enough to express his thoughts towards Sonic

I really think that at some point during the 3rd season, Sonic’ll have to fight Nine in order to get the shards back from him. While it may seem selfish on his end, they’re both looking out for their own needs. Nine wants to make his own world, while Sonic (obviously) wants to restore his world back. To think this was all caused because Sonic nonchalantly jumped into the fight against Eggman without thinking about any consequences is astounding. Shadow was right the whole time. I semi-doubted him at first, but as I continued watching through the rest of the season, I started to see through to his words more and more. Nine isn’t Tails, but is his own person. He’s an iteration of him, but his personality is immensely different.

At his core he’s tails but sonic failed to acknowledge it’s not the tails he knows. Sonic doesn’t know anything about this iteration of tails. He’s not just a copy and paste of the tails he knew. He has his own inhibitions, his own experiences, and worst he has his own insecurities which is a trait that is universal to all tails and this was what drove a wedge between them. Nine never once believed he could someone and now due to sonics carelessness he thinks he’s just a tails replacement. This is greatly shown when he reacts with hostility to being called a little buddy. He realized this whole time “he just sees me as tails he doesn’t recognize I’m nine”. And shadow tried to warn him of this and to tells sonic not to assume he knows them he doesn’t know what they are capable of.

"The power of the shards....in the palm of my hand."

Who else noticed Sonic was crying at the end?

FINALLY! One that's not "FOR KIDS"

Shadow knew he couldn’t trust him

Not going against anyone here, but, I kinda agree with Nine here. The only reason this all happened in the first place is because Sonic just dived head-first into Eggman without knowing the Paradox Prism was in the way, and even though his friends warned him, he still did it. So, again, I agree with Nine on this one. Sonic clearly did not have any notion of the consequences of his blunder, and this is where it brought him now.