Palette errors are almost like a retro art form.

The fact that they made Surge, Kit, and Starline from the glitched characters is quite creative.

It's pretty funny how out of three characters that feel like Wechnia homages, the two that feel the most obvious are complete coincidences and the one that feels the most like a stretch was 100% intentional

Starline's stitched-up, Frankenstein's monster-esque look in the concept art may also be a nod to the first platypus specimens sent to Britain being regarded by scientists of the time as a hoax and not actually a real animal. They assumed that someone had glued the body parts of various animals together, much like Frankenstein's monster. The bolts poking out of his body also ties into the stereotypical 'big green man with stitches on his head and bolts on his neck' look for the monster. Kind of wish they kept that, but I suppose it was overkill (and it would be a pain to redraw them in every panel Starline's in).

Starline being a platypus is a fun little Echidna nod too - platypus and echidna are both monotremes, that is mammals who lay eggs. Starline is a distant cousin of echidna

Tangle the Lemur and Whisper the Wolf from the IDW comics absolutely deserve their own videos!

The palette glitched Vector at 20:55 kind of looks like it could be a super/hyper form for him

Ok I know everyone is saying this, but I would love a port of Knuckles' Chaotix to newer consoles.

Awesome stuff as always Johnny! I always thought that little Wechnia reference at the end of Sonic Mania was so clever.

Another white echidna character in the Sonic franchise was Imperator Ix in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Given how much of that game took inspiration from the Archie comics -- to the point that there was a series-ending legal debacle about it -- I'm pretty sure that Ix likely takes inspiration from Finitivus (and possibly Zachary) moreso than Wechnia, but it's still worth mentioning.

0:06 SMG4 reference! You love to see it.

i love wechnia and all the other pallete glitches, so much has been done with these little unintentional bugs, i love it also i know i've asked this coverage but that was a while ago, how about tikal? a review of her would be pretty interesting, especially if you delve deeper into the echidna species like with shade and the nocturus clan, really interesting stuff

Out of all the Classic Era games, Knuckles Chaotix I think is the most deserving of some kind of remake or remaster treatment, in order to fully flesh out the gameplay and mechanics to make it all as fluid as it should be, as opposed to jerky and rubber band-y

6:43 I guess you could say it's a STARLINE

What if for a fan game idea Wechnia could split into two, each representing his different color palettes and he would kind of play off the idea of using all three of himself to fling themselves around a game world at high speed and use their tethered nature for other advantages like a modern knuckles chaotix

Good lord seeing SonicCult again the way it used to be is a blast from the past from me. Think that side got me really interested in a lot of the weird and obscure side of Sonic games and even somewhat linked me into NiGHTS stuff.

First off, great video, I really love how dedicated you are to go through a glitched character story. For preservation purposes, this is a great one. Second, you quickly moved on Friday Night Funkin with an OC EXE called « Wechidna », well, there is another one, more well known than the other one, that is called « Chaotix ». For a quick thing, he’s the leftover data of Tails imagined as an EXE, his Normal form looks like Knuckles from the Original game although he is a cyclop for some reason, while his Beast form is the closest to Wechnia with the palette and such. While looking up into the song, the background of the beast form screams « Tails ! ». Just that thing. That’s all. Other glitched characters I’m thinking of would be the Bluckles and Redic, both of them are from Sonic 3 and Knuckles, one by a crash + reset and the other one by a Game Genie code… Bluckles name in game is Tails btw. Outside of glitch characters, we can try digging up and search for obscure characters with a one official appearance and then nothing else but that stuck up to the community, but for now nothing comes on my mind haha Anyways, great video, wish you good luck for the next ones. You might see this or not but it’s always worth it to leave it here

I'm back again.

Only the Sonic fandom (including the officially endorsed part - yes I mean the comics) can make a palette error glitch into an actual character, several times. Absolute madlads.

Starline being a scientist is technically a hold over from the butchered tails from chaotix. All that happened to sonic in that game was that he got painted red and black

Ashura was always my favorite glitch as a kid growing up, I remember telling friends that you can change the color of sonic and knuckles but no one believed me, I also think the Mecha Knuckles from Sonic Advance is a Wechnia reference, it's when you finally broke through his disguise and you see a similar color pallet, gray silver armor and red eye lens with some dark coils around his dreads, but I know thats a stretch, but it's an interesting thought.

Re: headcanon, I have a bit of an idea based on what you've talked about. Off the top of my head; "Wechnia" was an Echidna mage who lived in the original Isolated Island. He'd spent his life studying magic in an attempt to win Pachacamac's favour. He wasn't very good at it, but he did discover the gliding technique, which he would later develop into full-autonomous flight by manipulating turbulence with his dreads. However, Pachacamac and his tribe, who valued brute strength over all, saw Wechnia as nothing more than a crazy old coot. Tikal and her grandmother admired Wechnia and encouraged him in his studies, but this did little to satisfy him. When Chaos attacked, Wechnia tried to avenge the fallen Pachacamac by leaping from the highest point he could find to fight Perfect Chaos alone. However, by an awful stroke of luck, Wechnia slipped off the edge and fell headfirst into the ground, dying upon impact. His body was then swallowed up by Chaos' waves and eventually entombed in the depths where what became Angel Island once lay. In Knuckles Chaotix, Isolated Island rose from the seabed, disturbing Wechnia's soul. When Knuckles went to investigate, Wechnia's ghost followed, seeing his beloved Pachacamac in him. However, neither Knuckles nor anyone else on the island ever realised this, as nobody could see or hear Wechnia, no matter how desperately the mage tried to get their attention. Wechnia continues to haunt Isolated Island to this day, still yearning to be noticed by Knuckles. Maybe he will someday...?

Brief aside about Starline; both Platypi and Echidnas are monotremes. Monotremes being mammals that lay eggs. So, you know, further connection between Knuckles and Starline.

I think Doctor Echidna's are popular because they are known warrior "race" at least the Knuckles clan and the opposing one from SA1 so making doctors would be the exact opposite.

Glitch characters are fascinating to me. Ashura, Wechnia, Missingno. and his many MANY siblings.... There's just something kind of magical about a character basically being made from a programming quirk. We sadly don't really get those anymore.... I could be wrong, but glitch characters seem to be a relic from an age in gaming long passed....

My head canon is that Wechnia is the ghost of Knuckle's father, watching over his son from the afterlife.

9:50 that specific sprite wechnia is using is actually an unused sprite for knuckles. It was either intended for him turning around while gliding or for him transitioning into one.

I'm still waiting for the Ashura&Wechnia fan-game!

Hey, poster of one of those TCRF videos here. Yeah, 1207 is our most complete look at Chaotix's Tails, which features the full moveset and a palette. This moveset would remain in later prototypes, but the palette was quickly removed. He would always jump at full height, and his flying would be controlled reminiscent of how it is in Sonic Triple Trouble, entering the same way as Sonic 3 but controlling like TT. What strikes me interested the most is the animations, which remain all the way up to final. It would imply Tails was given unique sprites and animations past Crackers. There are entries for Tails's sprites, arms, and even Tails's tails in the sprite bank lists too! Unfortunately, in all versions, they fall back to Knuckles' set. Anything borrowed from Mighty is simply a default instead of a fallback. I'm interested in further figuring out the animations to give a proper (interpretated) restoration to Tails.

Sonic Grams (the letter section for the Archie comic) I could've sworn confirmed the Wechina connection along with the Ashura one.

I'd like to see a video about Tiara, a scrapped character that was probably intended to appear in Sonic X-Treme.

this has for some reason occurred to me here, in this video, but with the re-rise of Sonic serialized media, it would be INCREDIBLE to have an animated IDW Sonic series- with maybe nods to Sonic the Comic and Archie Sonic- made by the creators of the new Ducktales series. I dunno, something about seeing these sleek, fun IDW characters made me think back to how those animators really updated and ran with the Ducktales universe

Nice glitch!

Where’s the monthly content I love watching your videos

I love these kind of videos

You know in the sonic comic series there is this character called surge and now that i see this Ashura sonic i get the feeling that her fur color got inspired by ashura sonic

20:00 as soon as you mentioned srb2 I went to go tell a certain person (ruby, the same guy that made extra life) who has been making wechnia a character (although as a sprite swap, the mod in question is a port of another mod that just swaps a ton of sprites with knuckles) very cool

I'm glad that these glitch characters have inspired some characters (mostly recolors) but characters like Surge, Kit and Dr. Starline IMO are awesome, it should be noted that both an Echinda and Duck billed Platypus are both Monotreme so it kinda makes sense that Dr. Starline is inspired by Wechnia (like how Tenrecs is like a Hedgehogs)

0:08 -Knuckles -With sonic's colors - *T A I L S*

I've always liked the character idea of Heavy and Bomb from knuckles chaotix, that and I like their design

I love this guy

I'm surprised that no one brought up Mecha Knuckles as a character being partially inspired by Wechnia.

We must find the blue tails next!

I definetly think that wechnia is the most interesting glitch in the sonic series. Great video!

It perplexes me to no end that Knuckles’ Chaotix hasn’t ever been rereleased and has been left on the 32X. Say what you will about this game, it doesn’t deserve to be a game left behind on an underperforming system. Every Sonic fan deserves easy access to this game.

Can we have a piece about Metamorphia? I always found her a tragic character and one of StC's strongest original characters! Would be cool to see your take on her character :)

Cool video thanks

you just unearthed ancient childhood memories by bringing up Secrets of Sonic Team/sots Holy shit, I REMEMBER

I don't know if you've done these before, but I would love to see you do videos on Johnny Lightfoot or Porker Lewis, as I always thought they were quite underrated main characters in the Fleetway saga and had their own unique charms to them respectively. I especially liked when they started wearing the leather jackets, as it felt like they were really coming into themselves, so to speak. I also remember one of them had a bit of a ship tease with Amy Rose at one point, but I don't remember which one 😅 I wonder if (unless you've already done it?) perhaps you'd be open to doing a video on Rankles the Otter!! And thus of course, the silly (April Fools maybe???) magazine article he comes from. I've seen some fan art of him too, in which he is drawn to actually look like what you'd likely imagine an otter "Mobian" to look like, and its pretty cool!

20:58 I would like to name this character Bubblegum The Alligator. "Bubbles" to her friends, this bright pink mallrat never hesitates to buy anything that strikes her fancy or might make somebody she cares about happy. Her seemingly-endless supply of rings stems from a surprising aptitude for day trading, even if her somewhat airheaded and immature nature make it easy to assume she has wealthy parents that she shamelessly mooches off of (they're actually quite comfortable middle-class). She also loves all things retro and has a particular weakness for vaporwave. Bubbles has a surprisingly fast run, built up from perpetually hurrying to make it to limited-time events to meet this celebrity or watch that performance; whatever's going on, Bubblegum makes it a point to _be there._ "There's no bad time to have a good time!" - Bubbles The Gator

21:01 Petition to call him "Puny".

All I can think is, " white knuckles, hands sweaty from hanging on too tight. Clench, shut jaw , I've got another headache again."

Theory wechinia is proportinetly made to keep back up sprites without deleting them so they can use them for items an older sonic games but the mock up of sonic crackers used more sprites than knuckles chaotix unfortunately most of these were deleted but weren't forgotten so they weren't intentionally deleting these and they kept a lot of stuff in this ( jeez that was long) Hope this helped so conclusion they kept these sprites for backups and thats why wechninia exists.

Oh Knuckles Chaotix, sadly a game we will never see outside of Emulation again.

Seeing the Smg4 who let the chomp out? Thumbnail brings back memories

Honestly. I like to think of Wechnia as a kind of alternate Tails. He was tossed out of his own dimension and it broke him, and he's now trying to fix himself

This is so interesting

Yay! 🥳 more glitch lore

In the World of Toys Palette Swaps are called redecoes.

I'd love to see vids on Blaze the Cat and Marine the Racoon, and Belle the Tinkerer.

Nice! Hey can you do Metal Knuckles next? This character video was great and it would be a crime if you haven't done Metal Knuckles yet.

I would like to see a video about Heavy and Bomb, from Knuckles Chaotix.

Can you do a video Neo Metal Sonic/Metal Overlord, or maybe Witch Cart?

Dr. Starline''s logo is literally his tail...and a line of stars.

Head banging might come from Tails animation. Notice when Tails first starts his running animation before he picks up speed he's nodding his head up and down.

I’m back and better than ever! -Freddy Fazbear, probably _smg4_

New Johnny Vector let's go!!!

Can you do another character profile on everyone's other favorite green hedgehog scourge, one of my favorite characters

19:33, this is a certified & Knuckles moment

I think i'd be super fun to see what can be extracted of the Battle kukku group from Tails Adventure

I like to call this glitch character, Starline. Since their name is a bunch of * in a line.

I mostly remember blue Knuckles. Also, if you're taking suggestions, how about a vídeo covering Tangle & Whisper? 🙂

A video about tiara boobowski would totally be cool

I’d love to see a video on Heavy and Bomb or maybe Metal Knuckles.

nice :)

Please make more sonic character profiles I love their so good

WOW You have to jumpscere me for the FNF thingy in 15:52

Wechnia? Oh you mean Numbles the Coke Fiend

Makes you wonder why nobody has made some kind of hack to fully restore Tails with proper sprites

0:10 literally every sonic OC ever

I remember in sonic mania i pulled the blue super sonkc glitch it was crazy

Yes knuckles chaotix needs to be in origin

Funny I actually did a new playthrough of Chaotix a week ago, it is a fun game to just go crazy in with the band mechanic, the level design is def the weak part, and the fact each stage has 5 parts instead of 2 or 3 with barely any differences it can get tiring. Just running around with the fun abilities of the Chaotix though makes it worth it imo.

Lore of The Wechnia Story ▸ The Mysterious White Echidna Momentum 100

21:04 Mecha Mighty, cuz the color palette reminds me of a variation on Mecha sonic

Bro. Imagine if the sonic community was the cyberpunk community.

Sonic Cult was the unfiltered and odd one of the bunch like 4chan you could roam around and find exclusive interesting stuff.

I would have been cool if you could find a secret in green hill in sonic mania, and it looks like a abandoned Eggman lab. And you could fight Tails than you touch one of Eggmans devices, than Sonic becomes Ashura than you get a secret alternate style for sonic.

Can you do one on both Fiona’s the original automatic fox and her new Archie counter part?

that knukles color palet was what was left of tails

It’s been a year where are you?

21:03, I'd like to make a suggestion for this character's name to be Olfactornic (Olfa for short), a slightly misspelt version of the word Olfactory derived from the Olfactory Nerve; this is because Olfactronic is typically just like Mighty, the armadillo but if he is exposed to something like the common cold he will transform into Olfactronic the Armournik a robot that is capable of sneezes so powerful they can cause a hurricane or a high pitched ear whistle sound which will cause all of Eggman's robots to be temporarily stunned. (Also Olfactory is a synonym for the word sonic, hence I chose the name Olfa)

Does somebody know someone who covered some of those other pallete swap glitches? I would love to see them all

Fun fact: No one has watched the video at the time of writing.

if you have read any of the sonic archie comics i was wondering if you could do a video about Fiona The Fox?! i don't know much about her sense i never got to have any of the sonic comics, Sorry for this being so long

Idea for Sonic Character Profiles: Who is Tiara Boobowski (The Unused playable character for The Cancelled Sonic X-Treme)

Also, his people have said that he’s like another character. He’s also based off and reference by as a chaotic

Would be cool if you did a video on Sonic Cult.

My head canon is that Wechidna (who I like to call Dread the Wechidna) is an alternate version of Knuckles who was experimented on by Dr Eggman, being exposed to negative chaos energy and being turned into a cyborg as part of an experiment called Project Starline, after the 10th test Wechidna escaped and somehow managed to get to the main Sonic universe, due to him being from an alternate reality his power and appearance were glitched, after the defeat of Metal Sonic Kai and the Dark Rings, Wechidna ended up back in his own dimension and vowed to stop Eggman.

Manic the hedgehog would be amazing