Abandoned and Unused Concepts

When planning a story, whether it be in movies, television or books, many ideas are considered for how to progress with the narrative. Ultimately, not all ideas make it into the final product for various reasons.

Over the years, the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog publications have had many unused ideas and concepts. Reasons can range from the creatives deciding that something doesn't work, plans changing, or (in the majority of cases) the idea is not approved by Sega.

Unused and Altered Villains
One of the earliest story ideas pitched by Ken Penders involved two villains who where essentially parodies of the Super Mario Bros. in reference to Sega and Nintendo's fierce rivalry in the 90's. This idea was rejected by Sega for being too obvious.

Early ideas for Evil Sonic where plentiful. One concept involved Sonic's Anti Mobius counterpart being "Dr. Sonic", a version of Sonic who, judging by the name, would've been in Dr. Robotniks role.

Princess Sally Miniseries
Ken Penders and Michael Gallagher had originally pitched two alternate storylines for the comics first three issue miniseries starring Princess Sally.


 * The first pitch revolved around an alternate origin for Alicia Acorn. Sally would discover that her mother was Roboticized and is currently leading an underground civilisation. Had the plot come to fruition, the robotic Alicia would've gone on to become a reoccurring threat to both the Knothole Freedom Fighters and Dr. Robotnik.
 * The second pitch involved Sally and Bunnie Rabbot doing a "Thelma and Louise" and heading off on a road trip to stop a threat that had come about on the other side of Mobius.