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The synopsis of Sally Acorn from Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series.
Biography[]
Background[]
The crown princess of the Kingdom of Acorn, Sally became a fugitive after her father, King Maximilian Acorn, was usurped by the villainous Dr. Ivo Robotnik (later replaced by Dr. Eggman). While in exile, she formed a rebel group called the "Freedom Fighters" which, with the exception of Sonic and Tails, initially consisted of SatAM-exclusive characters (including herself). However, the Archie comics also have Team Rose (Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, and Big the Cat, plus the latter two's pets Cheese and Froggy) join them eventually, with Knuckles and Team Dark (Shadow, Rouge, and E-123 Omega) as major occasional allies. Even after dethroning Doctor Robotnik/Eggman, she decides to keep leading the Freedom Fighters until the time comes for her to take the throne.
Along with Robotnik, his forces, and mercenaries he occasionally hires to do his dirty work, Sally and her friends also contend with other villains, such as the evil wizard Naugus. With Sonic by her side and she herself in the lead, the Freedom Fighters always succeed despite their adversaries' best efforts. Although Sally and Sonic have had romantic feelings for each other, they never truly acted on it and Sally has always taken her role as princess and Freedom Fighter very seriously, in contrast to Sonic's carefree attitude. Despite this, Sally, ever the tomboy, can sometimes be as stubborn and reckless as her speedy blue boyfriend. While she isn't a game original character, Sally is very popular among fans of the series, who never cease to ship her and Sonic.
Despite Sonic disobeying Sally's orders, they still care for each other and are both willing to risk their lives to save each other. However, in the comics' Post-Super Genesis Wave continuity, Sonic and Sally are no longer (and have never been) in a romantic relationship due to a mandate put in place by SEGA, although they still retain a strong friendship with each other and are considered to be close friends.
Pre-Super Genesis Wave[]
Princess Sally led the Freedom Fighters against their never-ending war with Robotnik until his demise by one of his own inventions, ending the First Robotnik War, at which point, "Robo-Robotnik", AKA Eggman, became their primary enemy with his Dark Egg Legions, triggering the Second Robotnik War. However, as time wore on, Eggman and Snively unleashed the Death Egg Mk. II, armed with a deadly doomsday device. Wondering what it could be, Sonic and Sally infiltrated the Death Egg Mk. II shortly after exchanging what would unknowingly be at the time their last kiss together, but when Sonic was distracted facing the latest model of Silver Sonic, Sally tried to go on alone, but was caught off-guard by a wall turret that ambushed her and, tragically, gunned her down. Hearing the gunfire, a horrified Sonic rushed to Sally's aid, but discovered her fate moments before Eggman activated the Genesis Wave as part of Operation Clean Sweep, engulfing everything on Mobius in a white light as Sonic screamed out Sally's name upon seeing her lifeless body and shattered goggles.
In the alternate timeline created by the Genesis Wave, memories of the original timeline had been erased, including those of Sally and the other Freedom Fighters. Nevertheless, Sonic rescued them and helped fight Eggman's forces until boarding the Death Egg Mk. II and noticing the temporal storms raging across Mobius as the planet, and the Prime Zone, tried to reset to the original timeline. Using the Chaos energy from the Chaos Emeralds now powering the Death Egg Mk. II, Super Sonic is able to defeat Eggman and revert the Genesis Wave using Chaos Control, resetting time back to 10 seconds before the Genesis Wave was originally triggered.
This gave Sonic the chance to save Sally from her grim fate by the wall turret now that he knew of future events, leaving Silver Sonic to take the bullet instead, but upon discovering that Eggman's doomsday weapon is a Roboticizer powerful enough to Roboticize all of Mobius, when it is learned that half of Mobius' population is still permanently immune to Roboticization thanks to the Bem, Eggman reveals that those immune will still be slaughtered as the World Roboticizer has a secondary power to cause all electronic equipment to short-circuit and explode, including the likes of the nanites that built New Mobotropolis and Nicole, putting Station Square, the United Federation, G.U.N., and even Bunnie with her cybernetic limbs at life-threatening risk. Worse, despite reminding Eggman that if the World Roboticizer fires, he'll lose his Dark Egg Legions as well, Eggman doesn't care, willing to sacrifice his own robotic or Roboticized minions to attain ultimate victory since he can rebuild his ranks with his new, freshly Roboticized forces.
While Sonic deals with a still-functioning Silver Sonic and the latest version of Metal Sonic, Sally heads down to the World Roboticizer, but with time short and no other options available to try and shut it down or disable it due to the heavy security Eggman placed on the World Roboticizer's mainframe, Sally decides to make a heroic sacrifice of her second chance at life and has Nicole redirect the beam back at that very room, meaning that, while Mobius will be spared at large, Sally herself will be Roboticized with no chance of being restored to flesh and blood later. After having Nicole back herself up on the mainframe in New Mobotropolis below and leave her with Nicole's handheld and a manual trigger, Sally chokes back her tears, thinking one last time of the kiss she shared with Sonic, as she says goodbye and activates the trigger just as Eggman orders the World Roboticizer fired. When the dust clears, the World Roboticizer is destroyed, Mobius is safe, and the Death Egg Mk. II is heavily damaged, but Sonic soon discovers, to his horror and Eggman's triumph, Sally is now Mecha Sally, with only one thing on her Robian mind: "Hedgehog Priority One".
After Sonic is ejected from the heavily-damaged Death Egg Mk. II after failing to break through the Roboticization of Princess Sally Acorn following her heroic sacrifice of her free will and flesh and blood body to stop the World Roboticizer, Mecha Sally becomes one of Eggman's top enforcers as he intends to turn her against her fellow Freedom Fighters, having realized that Sally was the key to Sonic's victories against him due to her strategies and planning, as in while Sonic was the WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction), Sally was the one who aimed him. Now he intended to use that against Sonic and the other Freedom Fighters, using their love and friendship with Sally against them as they would be unwilling to fight her because of their relationships with her. After spending some time and effort, despite his own injuries from the World Roboticizer's destruction, upgrading and streamlining Mecha Sally into his best weapon and general of his Dark Egg Legions to serve him with no chance of her ever getting her free will back when he installs a Power Ring to give her a much-needed power boost, and being turned back into Sally Acorn again, he sends her after the Freedom Fighters during his next encounter with them. This leaves the rest of the Freedom Fighters horrified when she is unleashed against them alongside Metal Sonic, and with Bunnie unable to help after being restored to full flesh and blood by Ixis Naugus as a reward for her help saving New Mobotropolis from Eggman's backup plan regarding Titan Metal Sonic and the Death Egg Mk. II's Egg Annihilator Beam, Metal Sonic kamikazes itself to critically wound Antoine, putting him in the hospital, and forcing Bunnie to leave the Freedom Fighters, presumably to have her cybernetics restored via her Uncle Beauregard and his Dark Egg Legion forces via Legionization. This leads to where Eggman teams up with Doctor Wily of the Mega Man universe to attempt another Genesis Wave, while the Freedom Fighters become splintered between two new factions: Team Fighters and Team Freedom.
In the meantime, Mecha Sally continues to serve Eggman without question, even suggesting plans to try and drive some of the opposition against each other in civil war, such as regarding the uneasy peace between Lupe the Wolf's Wolf Pack and their neighbors, impressing Eggman by how difficult fighting the Freedom Fighters was while Sally was still on their side and flesh and blood. This also included the likes of G.U.N. and the United Federation when they tried to fight Eggman as well, only to also find their plans thwarted thanks to Mecha Sally having full knowledge of their tactics.
Finally, as Eggman and Wily prepare to launch the second Genesis Wave, Mecha Sally had cornered Sonic, Amy, and Tails and was about to terminate them, when she is disabled from behind by Silver the Hedgehog, now realizing that Sally is the "traitor" that destroyed his future, but against her will. Before further can be done, such as figuring out how to revert Sally back to her flesh and blood self from Mecha Sally, everyone is swept up in the second Genesis Wave, and then there was the matter of the Super Genesis Wave that Eggman and Wily attempt to unleash to rewrite both their realities to their liking. However, Eggman and Wily are defeated by Super Sonic and Mega Man, who attempt a Chaos Control to undo the damage, only for a spiteful Eggman to interrupt Super Sonic during his attempt while Mega Man succeeded without interruption, resulting in a catastrophic rewriting of the Prime Zone's history that would prove cataclysmic to Mobius as the multiverse collapses and reboots.
Post-Super Genesis Wave[]
Following the Super Genesis Wave and Super Sonic's attempts to reverse it being corrupted by Eggman's intervention, Sally is restored to her flesh and blood self, but only when she and Amy make contact with Nicole's handheld does Sally remember everything from the Pre-Super Genesis Wave universe, leaving her traumatized upon learning of the evil acts she committed as Mecha Sally, which she is comforted on by Bunnie due to Bunnie's own trauma after learning of her own Pre-Super Genesis Wave past and how she will have her cybernetic limbs permanently. However, the planet had been overtaxed by all the excess energy from the rewriting of the Prime Zone and multiverse, and broke apart, triggering the Shattered World Crisis, which followed the events of Sonic Unleashed. The Freedom Fighters found themselves working overtime to aid G.U.N. and other allies with the chaos that erupted from the planet breaking apart, along with Eggman's forces, those of Dark Gaia when the sun sets, and recovering the Chaos Emeralds to help restore the planet at the Gaia Temples. During one attempt to recover a Chaos Emerald from one of the Egg Army commanders in Thunderbolt, Sally is lured into a trap alongside Amy Rose and a couple of other allies, causing Sonic to suffer his first transformation into his Werehog state from the stress of the situation finally triggering the full transformation. After Sally is able to help calm him down until he reverts back at sunrise, Sonic, not wanting to put the Freedom Fighters at risk until he has better control of his Werehog powers, leaves them to train with Moss. With Sonic gone, Sally works overtime to recover the rest of the Chaos Emeralds with the rest of the Freedom Fighters, until Sonic returns, now with better control of his Werehog form. Soon, Eggman manages to awaken Dark Gaia, and Chip, who is the manifestation of Light Gaia, summons the Gaia Colossus to face it. In the meantime, Sally is summoned back to learn that Nicole's handheld has been destroyed from overuse of a Red Star Ring to turn Nicole into Overclocked Nicole when dealing with Phage in the Sky Patrol's systems. However, she had backed herself up onto the Sky Patrol's mainframe, doing her best to keep it airborne against Phage. Once Perfect Dark Gaia is defeated by Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus, Sally is able to breathe a sigh of relief as she and the rest of the Freedom Fighters enjoy the sunrise with the Shattered World Crisis finally over. Later afterwards, Sally was seen her father and friends Sonic, Amy (who was helping Knuckles on Angel Island to receive the Master Emerald) and Cream (who was with Big, Cheese and Vanilla) having tea and talking about the events of the Shattered World Crisis being officially over.
Other Media[]
SatAM[]
- Main article: Sally Acorn (SatAM)
Sonic the Comic[]
In the UK Fleetway Sonic comics, Sally is a squirrel and a news anchor rather than a princess.