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Hi, everyone! It's Louisa here (for Iphigenia and a few others~), and I am trying very hard to get back into RP. Boo, work.

So! I have a kind of getting-to-know-you game we can play. Maybe it will be...fun? Hopefully? /cringes at self

I'm curious about everyone's pups' and their respective canons, and I'm hoping others are as well! So, in this post, feel free to link to video clips/blogs/general flailing about the worlds from which your characters come from. Go wild! Wax poetic! Just be excited about media!

Also, if anyone wants to use this post as a sort of ~enabling~ thing, go right ahead. We probably all need more characters to play, right?

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As promised, I'm gonna make this as embarrassing as possible for myself and everyone who has ever taken Naugus seriously.

Ixis Naugus is from the Sonic the Hedgehog comics as published by Archie Comics. His first appearance in that media was in Issue #53, published on Sept. 1997, drawn by Sam Maxwell and written by Karl Bollers. Here's the page containing his very first appearance and introduction:

Following this is some other notable depictions during this time in the 90's with just a hair of context beyond "this was the 90s, so." I'm going out of my way to find the worst/best stuff here.

This is a select panel from the same issue as his introduction that I just wanna point out for fun. He had his tail in the very beginning, but somewhere during the upcoming arc illustrated by Steve Butler, it vanished! Never to return until the recent reboot:

After his intro, he wouldn't show up again until Super Sonic Special #4, projecting fake versions of the good guys and soon possessing the king to do another attempt at at the crown. He never makes a proper appearance given that he's spending all his time in other peoples' bodies, except for this panel (once again drawn by Maxwell and written by Bollers):

Here's Naugus as a storm or "cloud-being", as he puts it. Also, canon demonstrating there are science ways to track him. Issue #61, written by Bollers, drawn by Steve Butler:

Cover to Issue #64, art by Patrick Spaziante.

Owned by a snowball. Issue #64, Bollers and Butler.

Check out that fucking title. Issue #65, Bollers and Butler.

I only now noticed he only had three fingers in the days of yore. Also, ugly face, big disgrace. Cover to Issue #66, art by Spaziante.

Naugus gets super weird-looking when he's souped by by a hojillion power rings. Issue #66, Bollers and Butler.

EYE LASERS!!! Issue #66, Bollers and Butler.

I'm gonna wrap up these pages with an infamous appearance of his. This was in the last issue of the Sonic Super Special, #15, that was headlined by a another showdown of Sonic Vs. Naugus. It was written by Ken Penders, a now-infamous figure in the comic's run, as well as 'breakdowns' being done by him. The art credit went towards someone called Many Hands, who had never appeared before and never would again. This story was SO bad that it was completely rewritten and redrawn for a Free Comic Book Day in 2011. It did not get a reprint in later trade paperbacks.

Also, my own sister got her fanart published in the back of this issue! They whited out a big section of it because ???. They also mailed us this issue for free thanks to her contribution, which is great because that meant we didn't have to pay for this hot mess.

Here's a page you can colour. Just stare at this face for the next hour and colour it, you animal.

(And here's the fanart submission, for fun. We still talk about the mysterious white-out going on here.)

Oh, you thought I was done? Naw, son, naw. Now we gotta talk about the cartoon. Because that's where Naugus actually originated from. He sadly/thankfully only got one proper appearance and one cameo. I'm gonna present without further comment that episode, "The Void", first aired in Oct. 1994.

The cameo happened on the very last episode. This is the end of that ep, "Doomsday Project", originally aired Dec. 1994. There failed to be a third season and one of the show's creators eventually disclosed that the eyes at the end are meant to be Naugus', who was going to play a big part in the coming story.

AND NOW YOU KNOW.

Edited (heyyy you can't embed videos in a comment haha what upppp) 2016-03-22 06:58 (UTC)

brb coloring that page :D

I WILL HANG IT UP IN MY ROOM TO WATCH OVER ME BENEVOLENTLY EVERY NIGHT

THAT IS A GREAT IDEA

It's incredibly impressive how, even with all his adventures, and a giant pincer, he manages to keep his beard so long.

Also, wow did the tv Naugus have a different voice to the one I'd thought he has.

Yeah, you think someone would be tripping over that thing constantly. But he's had it since he was "born" so maybe he's just used to it. Maybe he braids it when he's on the go. Maybe it's Maybelline.

Also YEAH CHECK OUT THAT ASTHMA. WHY HE BREATHING LIKE THAT. SOMEONE HELP HIM.

Also, Tim Curry does the voice of Sally's dad, King Acorn. So that happened.

EDIT: Also, just cuz: I usually picture Naugus' voice in the comic (and Nexus) canon sounding like more like this clip from an unrelated game. Might as well throw that out too since this is share and care time!

Edited 2016-03-22 21:54 (UTC)

Maybelline indeed! ... Or it's magic and he uses it like his tail. X]

I don't know! D: He never stops gasping!

Wow, well. You find famous actors in such odd places.

Yes, much more like I imagined it. Deep, booming, occasionally hammy... (Pun not intended)

There's some points where listening to those weird gasps and rasps made ME feel like I was choking. Gotta do some breathing exercises. Who greenlit this.

I think the only carryover from the show version of him is his occasional habit of hissing when he's pissed. Otherwise, safely imagine the above clip and enjoy. B]

OK WOW. I knew that voice sounded familiar, but I didn't realize it was Tim Curry until you just said so. Mind = blown. :o

HAHA that icon's face. Pretty much mine the first time I rewatched this ep in recent years. "...That's not Tim Curry." Checks IMDB. "Okay, so maybe it is."

Yeah, thank whatever Hollow-Art user made these for preserving that one, eh? And thank Luke Pasqualino for having a ridiculous face, too. :) (fun fact: that face and a few others in the set are what inspired me to even watch The Musketeers in the first place)

Oh man, I had the same thing happen not too long ago. Got nostalgic and started watching Peter Pan and the Pirates on YouTube, heard Captain Hook and went "where do I know that voice from?" Checked IMDB and, oh hey, it's Tim Curry. He went on a cartoon voice-acting spree during the 90s, I guess.

I can't blame him! Being a VA seems like a lot of fun. I'd love to do it, honestly.

Also holy cow, I remember that cartoon. What a blast from the past.

It does seem like fun, doesn't it?

Right? I used to have an episode on tape when I was little - the one where Hook fakes his own death purely to dick with the kids.