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| “ | Walters: What are you doing?! Those are children! Corporal: We've got our orders, Walters! Walters: STAND DOWN! |
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| ~ The Corporal refusing to listen to Captain Walters' order to spare Maria and Shadow.
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The unnamed G.U.N. Corporal is the overarching antagonist of the 2024 Sonic Cinematic Universe film Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
He is a soldier who works for G.U.N. and was given orders by the government to detain Professor Gerald Robotnik and Shadow the Hedgehog to "tie up loose ends". He is also indirectly responsible for causing the death of Gerald's granddaughter Maria Robotnik, which directly led to him and Shadow hating humanity and attempting to wipe out all life on Earth with the Eclipse Cannon in an attempt to avenge Maria.
He was portrayed by Barry Calvert.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He raided Gerald's base to detain him, endangering the lives of Shadow and Maria.
- While giving chase to the trio throughout a corridor, he pointed his gun at Gerald to kill him, but Commander Walters intervened due to the soldier also trying to kill Shadow and Maria, both of whom were young at the time.
- He rejected Walters' demand to spare Shadow and Maria and fired his gun at the latter despite knowing she was an innocent little girl, causing an energy tank to explode and destroy the facility, killing Maria instantly and endangering numerous other people, including his fellow soldiers.
- His actions mentally destroyed Gerald and Shadow so much that they became misanthropes thanks to the death of Maria, and because of the soldier, the two of them would go on to nearly destroy the world with the Eclipse Cannon.
- In addition, Gerald hijacked his grandson's Badniks to kill Walters before pinning the blame on Team Sonic and Shadow almost killed Tom Wachowski, the adoptive father of Sonic the Hedgehog and a police sheriff upholding the law, to lead the blue hedgehog himself down the path of vengeance.
- Even though he did not intend to cause destruction in the facility, he felt no remorse and detained Gerald and Shadow.
- While his screentime is very brief, he was shown to have a wrathful and deranged personality with his one line, preventing him from being insufficiently characterized. He also had a clear motive, with that being to follow the government's orders by killing and detaining Gerald and Shadow.
- While he was following G.U.N.'s orders, nothing suggests he cares about them, given that he feels no remorse for damaging the facility and putting other solders in danger. This shows that he has no care for G.U.N. and only follows orders for the sake of his own job.
- While he's not as heinous as Gerald, or Shadow, he has way lower resources as he's just a soldier with a gun, whereas Gerald has the Eclipse Cannon and Shadow has his energy powers. On top of that, he lacks the advanced weapons that Agent Stone possesses and never had access to the Master Emerald unlike Dr. Robotnik.
Why Doesn't He Stand Out?[]
- While he passes the baseline due to endangering several people and having personal villainy towards Gerald and Shadow thanks to being the one who killed Maria, he relies on too much Fridge Horror to be Pure Evil or Near Pure Evil:
- The explosion he caused due to his recklessness, while dangerous, was not confirmed to have killed anyone else besides Maria, making his overall kill count ambiguous. During the scene where Shadow's backstory was revealed to Team Sonic, while Walters did mention that the accident "took human lives with it,” it's too vague to convey a higher body count, and Walters wasn’t telling the entire truth in that scene to begin with, so it’s possible that Maria was the only one who actually died.
- Although it's true that he's directly responsible for Gerald and Shadow's descents into villainy, he had no idea they would go as far as they did and attempt to destroy the world, making it unintentionally heinous.
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