“Bunnie’s Worst Nightmare” - Sonic the Hedgehog #37
So here we finally have some development for Bunnie.
Up until now, I’ve complained about how Bunnie hasn’t been given any real foibles. Well not all flaws need be physical and in this story we finally get a look into the psychological damage that her cybernetics have caused her.
Turns out Bunnie’s cybernetics are starting to consume the rest of her organic body.
Micro-cyber-bots are slowly robotizing her fully.
The comic up to this point has only pointed out the positives of her cybernetics; super strength, enhanced fighting ability, ect. ect. while glancing over the trauma of having such cool robotic limbs forced upon her.
Her greatest enemy, the guy who’s killed hundreds and enslaved thousands, who has destroyed homes and separated families, who’s ruined the lives of her closest friends and loved ones, attempted to turn her into a weapon, a slave, to be pitted against everything that she holds dear.
She was fortunate enough to escape that fate, but she now lives with a constant reminder of what nearly happened to her. A reminder of what Robotnik is capable of doing to the rest of the world. A reminder that, though she can now help her friends in the fight, she was originally created to fight against them.
Anyways, Robotnik beams in a holographic message to clue the gang in on what’s going on.
Everyone has been concerned and supportive of Bunnie thus far, but Antoine, you’ll notice, is the only one to offer up any practical solutions.
However, Robotnik shuts this idea down. By saying the device can remake itself, and this scene should be the real tip off viewers that everything isn’t as it seems.
If Robotnik really had this device implanted into her from the get go why hasn’t he activated it until now? Why can’t the device be completely removed even if it is self repairing? Why would Rotor, the official science guy, just shrug his arms and go “I don’t know” instead of immediately getting to work on a solution?
Well the answer is, dear readers, is that none of this is real. Bunnie is indeed having a nightmare. One that is fulled by her greatest fears. She’s afraid of becoming the very thing that she fights. She’s afraid of harming the ones closest to her. Of letting down the very people she chose to protect.
That’s why in the dream world the improbable happens. She is given no hope, the robotization process is absolute and her normally proactive friends are now seemingly inadequate. And it’s telling, that within this dream world, the person most actively searching for a way to save her is the man she secretly loves.
That’s not to say the rest of her friends are unhelpful, just that Antoine is the only one to come up with a concrete viable solution. Everyone else just offers up generic words of encouragement: “hang in there”, “it’ll be ok”, “I’m going to do what I can” “We’re here for you.” ect. ect.
Bunnie’s solution to all this is to run away.
Now, while none of this is real, it is coming from Bunnie’s mind. This scene here will come to help define Bunnie and the way she confronts her problems in real life.
Lets just say, Bunnie’s not the best at dealing with crap. She often rather ignore or run away from a problem and, without a strong support system to lean upon, she’ll make knee-jerk decisions that are often really, really dumb.
While on the run she “falls asleep” only to wake up for real back to normal.
And thus begins Bunnie’s long, long journey of accepting herself for she is.
The other story in the comic involves an earthquake shattering Robotropolis and our heroes trying to rescue the robotize citizens. All things considered it’s pretty intense.
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