Continuing the trend from Tuesday's journal, now would be as good a time as any to cover what I would consider to be the best villains (whether they originated from the games or the comic) in all of StC.
10) DRAT - Doctor Robotnik's Appreciation Tribe, a strange cult based in the ruins of Old Citadel Robotnik (the armory to be exact) viewing Robotnik in a seemingly godly light, and wanting to make other Mobians view Robotnik as they do and to prepare the planet for the doctor's inevitable return to power. The cult is led by a rooster, Grand Master Whip, who masterminds many of the cult's plots to bring Robotnik back into power and master of initiation (which involves standing stork-legged in a wooden bucket full of egg yolks, making the Nerdfighteria handsign (crossed arms with a Vulkan salute on each hand), sticking out the tounge, followed by kissing the centerpice of Whip's necklace, the Golden Moustache). Needless to say, all of DRAT's plot have ended up backfiring on themselves, with Tails being the one to turn them in. Sonic was able to take care of two nukes that DRAT had acquired, in a manner similar to Mass Transit Trouble.
9) Trogg - Trogg's story is an interesting one to say the least. He came into being when Shirob, the eldest of the three Enchanter Kings of the Nameless Zone also the most powerful, experimented with his magic, accidentally summoning the Dark One. The encounter was enough to drive Shirob insane, warping his fox form into that of a giant goblin, now known as the Berzerker Trogg. Trogg served as the king of the Goblins living in the Land Beyond, allegedly holding Shirob hostage in his castle dungeon. Tails and Errol Blackthorn went on a rescue mission for Shirob and found out the truth regarding him and Trogg. This was part of a revenge plot after Tails humiliated Trogg in his previous visit to the Nameless Zone. When Tails returned to the Zone with Knuckles, Trogg had already began to begin the goblin conquest of the Nameless Zone, kidnapping his former Enchanter King partners and transforming Errol into a Berzerker like himself. Tails, Knuckles, and Errol's sister Morain were able to defeat Trogg once and for all by throwing the Dark One's Dark Orb into the mists below the Dimension Bridge connecting the Land Beyond to the Nameless Zone. As the mists themselves are essentially nothingness, the Dark One ceased to exist upon being dropped. Its corruption reversed the transformations on Errol, the half-transformed Kings, and restored Shirob back to his old self.
8) Commander Brutus - Commander Brutus was one of the earliest examples of Sonic and Robotnik teaming up to fight a common foe, one of Robotnik's own designs. Robotnik made Brutus out of Megatal, the same stuff as the Cybernik armor. As an added measure of genius, Robotnik copied his mindset into Brutus, making Brutus into the ultimate Badnik. This proved to work too well as Brutus began to concoct his own plots, eventually leading to him making an army of his own super Badniks, along with making Badniks out of Amy and Johnny (and Cedric). Super Sonic was the only formidable foe for Brutus, tearing his arm off while he was using Amy as a meatshield. Robotnik was ultimately the one who destroyed Brutus by dousing him in liquid nitrogen.
7) Percival James Kane - a villain of sorts appearing in StC Online, Kane's main motivator is greed. A mysterious informant (revelation will come later) supplied him with footage and details to bring about a smear campaign against Sonic. Kane took a backseat role to watch as the profits rolled in, overseeing the fact that Sonic: The Inside Story was covered by Hobson and Choy (two former prisoners of the Drakon and former Robotnik employees) were the ones driving the story. The Harold Hilltop Show's coverage of Sonic was also dictated by him, in order to gauge Sonic's reaction and use it as further discredence towards Sonic's heroisms. Kane's smear campaigning came to an end by the time 272 rolled in, with Sonic re-establishing himself as the very reason that Mobius fought against Robotnik, and ultimately pulls out of it in 275 with the Drakon invasion being pushed back by Sonic himself.
6) Lord Sidewinder - This is more of a coverall for his gang as a whole as all of them appear in the same stories, with the exception of one. Sidewinder is an elderly rattlesnake and criminal overlord in New Tek City, located on the Special Zone's Planet Meridian. Not much is known about his criminal activities, but he has once made use of nuclear weapons. His gang includes Lightmare, Biohazard, and Proctor Speckle. Biohazard, rather than be a walking zombie apocalypse, is a walking nuclear wasteland (despite sharing the name with Capcom's Resident Evil series), resembling a squat, hunchbacked, vaguely humanoid machine with crimson-coloured torso plating, orange plating on his head and limbs and a green-coloured lower jaw, acting as the dumb-muscle. Lightmare is Sidewinder's specialist in infiltration, using illusions and a Box of Nightmares to confuse her enemies or make them live their worst fears. Of the members of the gang, she is the most concerned about the safety of Sidewinder, because she is infact his daughter. Proctor Speckle is actually two members in one, being the smart man for the gang as well as his reknown abilities in alchemy. One such portion lets him transform into the second of the two, Mr. Fry, a huge brute who shows disdain towards his frailer alter ego, even one time serving as the ship cook/doctor for Captain Plunder, after they made Speckle walk the plank for eating Plunder's supply of chocolate bars and seeing Fry beat the sharks that would have eaten him. Fry has been seen more than the others, often acting on his own or under Sidewinder's orders, last seen in the non-canon Trickster strip where he somehow was imprisoned in the Metropolis Zone rather than in New Tek City.
5) Grimer Wormtongue - Robotnik's old lackey (a role originally penned to be Snively like in SatAM and the Archie comic). Not much is known about him prior to Mobius RBR, but he was not just Robotnik's right hand man, but also his cheif roboticist, creating many of the Badniks fought by the Freedom Fighters. After quitting Robotnik's side in Sonic Adventure, Snively called for an asylum to lock Robotnik up for the safety of Mobius, hoping that he would one day regain his sanity. In that time, Grimer set up a simulator of when it was he and Robotnik working together to conquer Mobius, until he came with the idea to discredit Sonic after watching his master spiral into insanity. When he found out that the Drakon's Chaos Siphon was to destroy the Special Zone, he informed the Zone's insectoid mafia, the Family, allowing the order of Robotnik to be replaced by the chaos of the mafia. Then he found out about Kane, and began to call him as an anonymous contributor about the truth behind Sonic, creating the smear campaign. Metallix Mk. III was soon built to continue the discredence, taking Sonic's form T-1000 style and planting Mega Mack bombs across Mobius. And that was the last we have seen of Robotnik's second-in-command.
4) Vichama - the God of Death in Echidna lore. Vichama first arrived on the scene when Doctor Zachary created his Syndicate to destroy Mobius, taking the appearance of a Knuckles clan warrior. When the Syndicate's plan backfired and Shadow died, he used the Chaos Emeralds to escape his echidna body, taking on a spectral form. Tikal's meditations in the Place of Voices on the Floating Island became an omen that "Vichama is coming home". It was later revealed that the Place of Voices was once built on the ruins of Vichama's Temple. It was here that Knuckles and Tikal fought against the God of Death, discovering the truth behind Knuckles' seeming immortality, after the faux-affably evil diety murdered Knuckles with "the gift of death". Knuckles and Tikal were able to drive the demon back into the hell he originally crawled out of when Zachary summoned him.
3) Robotnik - the former Ovi Kintobor. I won't spare you with the details on early Sonic canon or why Kitching and Elson made him change from the Naoto Ohshima design to the Milton Knight design from AoStH. Robotnik's cunning plots begin when he remotely controls the Omni-viewer to drop Sonic, Tails, Johnny Lightfoot, and Porker Lewis into the future (although he didn't say at what time in the future), allowing him to conquer the planet. After the plots of both Sonic CD, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic 3D, as well as the earth-shattering kaboom of the end of his reign of terror, Robotnik forms an alliance with the Drakon Empire to obtain the Chaos Emeralds for nefarious purposes. The overflow of Chaos Energy turns Robotnik into a crystal statue, before he eventually transforms into the Supreme High Robotnik (as seen in Order & Chaos and Robotnik Reigns Supreme). Robotnik resurfaced after spending time as Kintobor in Shanazar (a subatomic world that soon merged with Mobius) eventually creating a pact with the Plax Hivemind to destroy Mobius and double cross them. By the time of Sonic Adventure, he has fallen into a suicidal depression, slightly envigorated by the action created by former Drakon Prosecutor Chaos, plotting to kill everyone by proxy when Chaos absorbed all the Emeralds. In StC Online, after he was Chaos Controlled away from the collapsing Death Carrier by a dying Shadow, the Drakons hooked him up to a supercomputer, where he now controlled all Badniks on Mobius. After the events of issue 270, Shadow's turn towards heroism (this one being a digital recreation by Kintobor) ended up breaking Robotnik free from Drakon control, using their own machines against them and beginning what would have been Mobius' greatest battle.
2) Zachary - While this is a spot normally reserved for Robotnik, Zachary is more fitting here, being just as cruel as, if not crueler than Robotnk. When he first appeared to Knuckles, he was "attacked" by an ancient robot. As he later reveals to Knuckles after he wakes up from being KO'd, the robot was actually a Guardian Robot created by Pochacamac, and being an echidna, he knows the ins and outs of it. Manually piloting the robot himself, he breaks the Master Emerald and absobs the energy from it. Using the now super-powered robot, he turns his sights towards the as-of-yet-unseen Echidnas in his bid for revenge against them. Knuckles thwarts this plan by decapitating the robot, sending Zachary and the torso to the ground near Citadel Robotnik. He returned in issue 97 working alongside Robotnik to capture the Emerald Hill folk (now Mushroom Hill folk) and create a super biomechanical computer. However, an EMP wave created by Super Sonic being teleported from the Special Zone to the skies above Mobius, shorted out all of his and Zachary's electronics. He was last seen in the printed run when Knuckles knocked him into a fissure created in the ensuing chaos. Zachary returned in StC Online attempting to take control of Super Sonic, using the Syndicate, eventually using Sonic's DNA to create Shadow (with energy originally made by the Drakons), and now taunting Knuckles that he failed to protect the Special Zone from destruction. He has since been locked away by Knuckles in a special cell, before he escaped in an attempted hostage situation with Tikal's life at stake as well at the Floating Island's. The plot failed, and now he has been leaving behind a breadcrumb trail for Knuckles to find any of the remaining echidnas on Mobius.
1) Metallix - Kitching's coincidental nod to the Daleks of Doctor Who fame (was off the air at the time of publication), combined with many Sonic-based robots from the games. While Robo Sonic made an appearance in Issue 6, crippled after the events of Sonic 2, he is not considered a Metallix. Metallix first appeared in the adaptation of Sonic CD, recreating its role as Metal Sonic from the game. Sonic was able to defeat him by travelling back in time on the Miracle Planet to destroy the machine that was cyberforming the planet, effectively making this a grandfather paradox. A second Metallix, based on Mecha Sonic, appeared in the events of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, fought in the Sky Sanctuary Zone. Sonic was forced to turn into Super Sonic to defeat him, whereupon he revealed that he was the brother to the original Metallix, and that there is a Brotherhood of Metallix, led by an Emperor. Knuckles, Fang, and Team Chaotix met them first hand in the Total Chaotix story, where they masterminded a series of events that would allow them to change Mobius history, out of fear of a self-destruct button that would kill every active Metallix. In terms of personality, Emperor Metallix is very similar to Davros while he was the Dalek Emperor. Grimer and Robotnik then created a new Metallix of their own, Mecha Knuckles, and used him (and mass-produced him) while they fought alongside the Drakon Empire. Grimer soon made Metallix Mk. III as part of the smear campaign against Sonic, eventually being destroyed by Sonic himself. While many of the Metallixes have not had a long time on Mobius, they have ended up making a big impact to the readers, eventually being used by Alvin Earthworm when he rebooted SMBZ.