How Did Knuckles Beat Super Sonic?

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Published 2019-12-01
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Sonic 3 & Knuckles might be one of the greatest games in the Sonic series, but it kicks things off with a very confusing moment. Let's make sense of it.

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All Comments (21)
  • @ClientLost
    The answer's quite obvious. He's rougher than the rest of them - the best of them. Tougher than leather.
  • @Oliver_Mason
    Knuckles punched sonic in the balls, even the chaos emeralds couldn’t protect him from that
  • "Do I look like I need your power?" And just like that, Knuckles can be taken seriously again.​
  • @Glossybro131
    plot twist: sonic actually just ran out of rings and knuckles timed it right to jump out and snatch the emeralds
  • @kingscourge6031
    I think he used the power of the master emerald to cancel out the effects of the chaos emeralds when he punched Super Sonic!
  • “Knuckles isn’t an idiot.” Knuckles in sonic mania adventures: looks for the master emerald under a small rock Edit: yes, I am aware that knuckles is like this mainly due to his long history of being alone. my dumbass 2019 self did not bother to research.
  • @iamerror6546
    Knuckles, the most underrated, amazing character thats ever been brought to the genesis. he needs a new game. let me know if you agree!
  • @mr.intruder1536
    It's because Knuckles doesn't look like he need Sonic's power
  • @Brobore
    I always thought he just caught sonic off guard... he literally came out of the ground, sonic wasn’t expecting him, so he got hit. Kinda like in the sonic unleashed intro
  • @ryansanders5362
    What if you wanted to defeat Sonic But God said: HIS WOOOOOOOOORLD
  • Yeah, I never believed that it was knuckles's "brute strength" that took out sonic's super form. I always thought of it as he knows certain things about the emerald that no one else knows. Including how to depower someone with all chaos emeralds without any external power.
  • After Sonic 2 (the Movie), while clearly following its own lore, I think the idea that Knuckles can manipulate chaos energy is basically confirmed, he does it to Robotnik, the flashbacks imply this is a power, etc. It's not brute strength, it's like an ability.
  • @omaraburub6967
    knuckles when sonic was coming: I feel some strange energy
  • @mattm7220
    Considering the Master Emerald canonically has the power to literally disable the Chaos Emeralds at Knuckles' command (e.g. Sonic Adventure 2, inside Space Colony ARK), it seems pretty obvious that Knuckles simply used that power to stop Sonic's use of the Emeralds' power when he arrived on Angel Island.
  • @rodridante
    I have my own theory: We know that the Master Emerald can neutralize the Chaos Emeralds, and we also know that the Super Emeralds can be used regadless of distance. It isn't far-fetched to assume the Master Emerald can also be used regadless of distace given it gave the Chaos Emeralds that power.
  • @cookietree2994
    No wonder Knuckles says "Do I look like I need your power?"