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>I GUESS you can kind of go either way with Shadow in Sonic 06. It's never explicitly stated from Shadow himself if he actually works for G.U.N, or it's some other kind of arrangement.
That's a pretty major stretch, anon. He's clearly working for GUN in that game. You might as well say Rouge isn't working for GUN. Even that thing about "on request from the president" still means working for the government. This is like how the CIA never actually does anything because they hire "contractors" that they claim aren't technically CIA employees.
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Sonic is Sonic because he moves fast like sound. lmao. Super Sonic is faster than sound. Also originally they had an idea that Sonic would be in a band, because it would make sense for a character named Sonic to have some relation to music, but they didn't actually put it in the final game. The producers of Sonic Underground then made the same connection and thought they were clever for it, so they made it the entire TV show. To be fair, "The Sonic Underground" is a pretty sick name for a rock band.
Knuckles is called Knuckles because he has Knuckles.
Not a pun, but Amy Rose and Charmy Bee have names like that (not Amy the Hedgehog or Charmy the Bee) because they're originally from a manga. I suppose Tails doesn't have the naming scheme either, but then that just explains why the manga people thought Amy Rose and Charmy Bee wouldn't be the least bit strange as far as names go in the series.
Vector the Crocodile also appeared in that manga series before the games. He was originally made to be in Sonic's band that didn't make it into Sonic 1, then appeared in many pieces of art for the manga, but never in an actual story.
Dr. Eggman is called Dr. Eggman because he's an egg-shaped man. Also his big moustache and the yellow on his shirt (which sometimes is part of a cape, but not always) make the yellow on his shirt look like walrus tusks. He is the eggman, but he is also the walrus. This almost justifies Ken Penders' first Sonic story being nothing but Beatles references, except there is no way he knew that Robotnik was called Eggman in Japan when he wrote that story.
Metal Sonic is called Metal Sonic because he's like Sonic but Metal. But also Mecha Sonic from Sonic 2 is called that because he's a deliberate reference to Mechagodzilla. It's less clear in a 16-bit sprite, but the concept art shows many more deliberate details that are clear references to Mechagodzilla. This also explains the "mystery" Sonic robot outside of Final Egg in Sonic Adventure. It's just Mecha Sonic, now with graphics that let him look even more like Mechagodzilla. I suppose they could have given him more Mechagodzilla-like eyes in Sonic 2, but they evidently didn't decide on that detail until Sonic Adventure.
Bean the Dynamite is a reference to the arcade game Dynamite Dux, starring characters called Bin and Pin. Bin and Bean could just be alternate transliterations of the same word, but Bean has a different color and in some games he appears in (including non-Sonic games, like one Sega Soccer game) he has an alternate color that makes him look like Bin. Also, in the Master System port of Dynamite Dux, Bin and Pin are humans who get transformed into ducks. What this says about Bean is unclear.
The villain of Sonic Shuffle is called Void. In mythology, Chaos is the Void. They're the same thing. In Sonic, Void is the god of nightmares, so essentially of negative thoughts. Chaos was filled with negative thoughts and destroyed the world, hence why he's called Chaos. Chaos became Chaos because he came to embody Void. Also they have similar eyes, and Void's hair vaguely resembles a shortened version of Chaos's tentacles or Sonic's spines. Oh yeah, Chaos's tentacles are analogous to Sonic's spines. The characters deliberately mirror each other. Both being blue might not be a coincidence either, though there is the aspect that Sonic's weakness is water. Chaos is the legendary and prophecised destroyer, and Sonic is the prophecised savior. They're also the two characters shown fully using the Chaos Emeralds. Also, in the manga, Sonic is also a legendary hero who saved people in the past, before he even should have existed. That's not explained before the series got cancelled, though.
Big the Cat is a big cat. Froggy is a frog.
Gamma is a codename for E-102. His older brother is E-101 Beta. Why is 101 Beta? Because E-100 Alpha is actually in the game, but is usually called Zero. In production materials and even in the code, Zero is called Eggrobo, which makes sense with his role as Amy's antagonist, since Eggrobo was Amy's rival in Sonic R. Sonic R's story was about Robotnik using robot copies of the protagonists to try to beat them, with him inventing Tails Doll and Metal Knuckles to try to counter those guys, but he didn't bother with an Amy Doll (though that does appear in Sonic Mania), and instead he just sent an Eggrobo to counter her.
The manual for Sonic Adventure also explains that most of the Eggman's Robots in the game are also E-Series robots, but E-10 series, not E-100. They are all E-xx. Some of these perhaps apply to earlier versions of these same enemies that appeared as early as Sonic 1.
Shadow is called that because he is the faker. He's a pale imitation of the real thing. He's based on the Super Sonic mural in Hidden Palace Zone, but he's not the actual figure it displays, Sonic is. Shadow is just a shadow of Sonic.
I don't have much about Emerl's name except it's like Emerald, but remember how Chaos 0 resembles Sonic? Now realize how much Emerl resembles Chaos 0, and thus in turn Sonic. But Emerl is ancient was was literally based on Chaos 0 before Sonic was born.
Cream the Rabbit isn't just a name, it's an instruction.
Chip is called Chip because he likes Chocolate Chips.