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| “ | Submit. your reckless actions endanger the world | „ |
| ~ Sage, Sonic Frontiers |
| “ | Such a beautiful friendship. A family born out of love and not genetics. Everything I want... I wish I'd never seen this. It was so much easier accepting the future when they were simply enemies. | „ |
| ~ Sage having a tearful change of heart after seeing Sonic with Tails, Sonic Frontiers |
Sage (セージ Sēji?) is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. She is an artificial intelligence created by Dr. Eggman, which he used in an attempt to harness the technology of the Ancients during the Starfall Islands incident.
Appearance[]
Sage resembles a human girl. She has a slim body and limbs with white skin and a large, round head with a high forehead. In particular, she has glowing red eyes and a red energy structure on the left side of her face. She also has short white hair with swirls on her forehead with a single red energy highlight within the swirls. However, the rest of her body, especially her arms, and legs, are completely black, with what appears to be red computer code outlines around them. As for her outfit, she wears a black cloak and shoes, covered with red computer cords that outline the inside and most of her right side. However, when Sage becomes sympathetic or emotional, her design flips to a white cloak complete with blue wireframes and her eyes.
Powers and abilities[]
- Incorporeal
- Genius-level intelligence
- Mental calculation
- Efficiency
- Levitation
- Datakinesis
- Flight
- Teleportation
- Laser beam projection
- Information manipulation
- Technokinesis
- Ancient technology manipulation
Appearances in Ideas Wiki[]
- Sage appears in Chao in Space: Behind the Scenes, a tie-in comic book prequel miniseries for Sonic Presents... Chao in Space. She appears in the final issue, where she receives five tickets delivered by Sonic and his friends to her, Eggman, Orbot, Cubot and Metal Sonic to watch the titular fictional movie at the Westopolis World Premiere Theater.
- Sage appears as a playable character in Sonic and Marvel Superheroes: Multiverse Speedstorm, voiced again by Ryan Bartley.
- Sage appears in Sonic the Hedgehog: Frontiers.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Sage's name is an anagram of "Sega". Ian Flynn, in a cheeky tone, denies that officially the name is a nod to the Sonic Amateur Games Expo, an online annual fangame exhibit meant to highlight community made content.
- Despite similarities between the characters, Ian Flynn denies taking inspiration of Phage from the Archie series when writing Sage. He states "[both characters] were meant to have a degree of detachment, but Phage was always meant to be spooky and off-putting; there was never meant to be a degree of humanity to her, or what was there was just enough to make her likeable, but even more unsettling. They were different interpretations of the digital character idea".
- According to Ian Flynn, Sage's development creation was roughly around the same time Evan Stanley pitched Belle the Tinkerer, another robotic "daughter" of Eggman, for the IDW series. This caused Flynn to feel awkward about how to break the news to her, but he took retrospective confidence in knowing that they are two separate personalities despite their similarity.
- Sage's design is thought to be a homage to Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion in appearance and personality, though this has not been confirmed. Both characters share the same English and Japanese voice actresses (although in Rei's case, Ryan Bartley only voiced the character in the Netflix dub).
External Links[]
- Sage on the Sonic the Hedgehog Wiki