[STEAM] The gloriously stupid return of Sonic the Hedgehog’s edgiest villain shows that Ian Flynn is the GOAT of the franchise’s writers

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Image via ***** Luckily for Infinite, Ian Flynn has practically built his career around picking up other Sonic writers' slack. During his tenure as the head writer for Archie's Sonic, Flynn gathered the ashes his predecessor, Ken Penders, had left after burning the comic to the ground and breathed new life into them. The man has an almost encyclopedic understanding of Sonic's lore and cast, and he uses it to create stories that play into Sonic's friends' and foes' strengths.

Flynn's knack for reinvention is on full display during Infinite's reintroduction in The Chaotix Casefiles. Everything fans loved about Infinite is back: the iconic thrum of his powers, his low, crisp voice, and his love of monologuing. However, Flynn also plays up the element of Infinite's character that got shortchanged in Forces: he uses his illusions to toy with his opponents psychologically, and he immediately breaks ranks with Eggman, allowing him to stand on his own as a villain.

As a character, Infinite is essentially an in-universe version of the edgy original characters the Sonic fandom has pumped out over the years, and Flynn leans into this hard. Infinite is intimidating, but Flynn also plays up his self-seriousness and psychotic motivations for laughs a bit. Both sides of the fandom's opinion of Infinite get time to shine, and the result is delightfully demented.

Since Flynn took the reins of the narrative department, Sonic's world has changed in ways no one would have thought possible. Now, after just a few years, a character as underutilized as Infinite can be the threat Sonic fans were hoping he'd be when he was first revealed.

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