Metal sonic vs psycho red ( sonic the hedgehog vs power rangers in space) NEW CONNECTIONS and POTENTIAL

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Core theme

evil duplicates created by the main villain to surpass and destroy their original counterparts because of this reason they would both gain in obsession with with them to the point where their losses began to drive them mad and betray their masters

Connections

Both are evil robotic copies created by the main villain for the purpose of destroying and surpassing their original heroic counterpart that repeatedly gets in their way ( metal sonic obviously being a robot and psycho pink who is the exact same as psycho Red showed mechanical parts when she was damaged implying that he's at least somewhat robotic) Design wise they look very similar to their counter parts but Yet more dark and sinister ( Psycho red having an extremely similar design to Andros even the Glass forehead but Has much more darker colors and With thing like Things on his mask and Metal sonic Having not only the same color scheme but body proportions to sonic but with sharper claws and red eyes )

In their first appearance they were able to show up their counterparts ( The Psycho rangers have any advantage in their first fight with the power rangers and metal sonic with overdrive being able to easily surpass sonics speed in sonic cd) after they kidnapped one of the friends of the Their counterparts ( The silver Ranger and amy) They drew out their main rival to fight them but Faced their shortcomings at the hands of their master ( The psycho rangers being called back Before they could do more damage and Metal being blown up by eggman or shut by the door trap he set )

Because of their purpose are passing and destroying them both are obsessed with their counterparts so the point to where they only care about destroying them and that's practically all they can think about is killing their counterparts this is not only cause them to attack their own allies ( metal sonic backhanding rough and trouble to get the chance of fighting sonic and psycho red fighting psycho bla forgetting in his way of killing the red power ranger) but have caused them to fail in schemes ( in five of a kind the psycho red was one of the reasons the psycho ranger's lost because he tried to seek out the red ranger instead of fighting them all and in idw metal sonic mainly lost because he was solely targeting sonic rather than focusing on his other friends that were jumping in)

Both have took the data of their Counterparts to make them an extremely difficult to fight ( Psycho red taking the energy of the red ranger gaining his memories and being able to sense where he is and Metal sonic copying the data from sonic and his friends gaining their abilities) not only this both have the abilities to transform into different forms which was used to try to fool others( Psycho red transforming into a child the power ranges themselves and a human Form and Metal sonic transforming into eggman)

Both also have electricity based powers that they can shoot from their bodies ( metal sonic in generations being able to shoot electricity and the psycho rad with his green electricity) of also have the ability to transform into different people notably they transformed into their counterparts the full people into believing their ( metal sonic in sonic heroes transforming into sonic to full team Rose into believing sonic took choco choa and the psycho red turning into the red ranger to fool the news reporters into believing the rangers were attacking them) also have ships named after them ( the metal carrier in the psycho mothership)

Despite succeeding them in their main categories ( Metal Being stated to be faster than Sonic In some Instances and Psycho red outright being stated to surpass Andros) They consistently face Defeat at the hands of their inferior counterparts This Causes them to spiral into madness ( Psycho red Progressively becoming so obsessed To destroy the red ranger the other psycho rangers had to tell him to get a grip of himself and Metal sonic obsession with sonic going to the point where he began to refer to himself as the real sonic and) this causes them to betray their masters and strike out on their own to kill Their counterparts and the friends Which they use giant kaiju like forms to attempt to do but thanks Their to a trio of their counterparts in their Strongest state they face to defeat one more time ( The power rangers in space episode enemy within and Sonic heroes) after this they were shown to just be puppets

Both in their respective comics ( Power rangers the psycho path and the idw Comics) have a parent and child relationship with their maker ( The psycho rangers Referring to Karone as Mother and The whole go kill for daddy thing with eggman and Metal sonic and both Are part of a team of colorful Doublegangers Whose purpose is to hunt down and kill their original counterparts ( For metal sonic the metal fighters and For Psycho red the psycho rangers)

It's also revealed in these comics that they were reprogrammed by a villain to be far more loyal than they were before ( metal having his rebellious programming removed from him is to be more loyal to eggman and the psycho rangers being reprogrammed by psycho green to be more loyal as a family to him) they also have most likely been reprogrammed by one of their siblings ( psychography programming the psychographers again and say saying that you look into metals loyalty program to see if it's still intact after the race)

other creations of their creators consider them their siblings ( psycho Rangers calling each other's brothers and sisters and orbot is calling metal big bro and sage sage and crossroads apologizing to metal after she hits him likes she does eggman) one of their siblings being able to possess technology and being very intelligent ( sage and psycho pink)

Despite this family relationship both are not only less close to their creators then their sisters( metal sonic is being less close to eggman than sage and psych a red being less close to Karone then psycho pink) they both are actually disrespectful towards their creators ( metal sonic is being stated to sass eggman in the crosswords and psycho red having a big argument with Karone)

Contrast

Psycho red does like and care for his siblings while it seems like metal only tolerates Cubot and orbot and outright dislike sage as his cross world dialogue states he is more aggressive to her than usual

While psycho red has an entire team backing him and they shown to work together very well one of metal's greatest weakness is his lack of helping or lack of getting help from others

While Karone decided to destroy the data cards of the psycho rangers setting them free and letting them live the way they want eggman will most likely never let metal sonic

While the red ranger believes that the psycho Rangers are in redeemable and deserved to be destroyed sonic still holds out hope that metal sonic will turn sides

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Animation potential and story potential

3D or maybe even an HD animation with the eggman empire attacking the psycho mothership metal sonic being of course the enforcer of the eggman empire would immediately go and confront them directly and would fight psycho red

You could easily have a fast pace fight with both of them it's both of them jumping around the ship and in space as it's shown that both of them can move at very high speeds ever since their first appearance they are psycho red having similar power through siblings like basing through walls turning his head backwards which can happen easily fun fight dynamic you could also have metal claws and spin dash going up against psycho reds sword and their electricity attacks going up against each other

Fun little sports scuffle between the psycho rangers and the entirety of the eggman empire Including members like metal knuckles and the tails doll sage and even orbot and cubot

During the fight, both metal sonic and psycho red will crash on another planet metal frankly, having enough of this would turn into his neo transformation and try to find him psycho ranger disguised as the original red ranger or his human form would hit metal surprise attacking him

Now we're focused on metal using some of his copying abilities and psycho read using more of his obscure abilities like they're facing invisibility incangibility stuff like that and psycho red genuinely being shocked by by chaos control

During the end they would both turn into their giant forms one final battle ending with one of them being exploded

Interaction potential

You could show metal getting visibly angry at psycho red mocking him during the beginning like showing him shaking or his eyes doing that weird wetter thing when he gets angry

During the end-stage of the fight, they both have massive egos.So I'll be both of those clashing with each other.And finally during the ending of the fight quite they'd both yell out that they cannot lose the likes of them and how they cannot die until they complete what they were created to do to destroy HIM

Debate potential

Most likely the weakest thing here.But depending on what ends you use it's not a total wash