Sonic Superstars' Secret Final Boss EXPLAINED

Mind you that this game was developed by Arzest, who worked on Yoshi's New Island, and that game is notorious for putting Adult Bowser as the true final boss out of nowhere, like he suddenly appeared, with no foreshadowing or anything.

The stone actually appears in one more place. It's present in the base hubworld throughout the game, and I recognized it immediately from the prologue mural...but that still doesn't explain the final boss lol

The End being there makes sense because the Ancients sealed its essence and not its physical form. What we see in Superstars isn't The End, but its empty physical form. The dragon tho? Well, idk. They just came out of nowhere for whatever reason and said: "GRAHHHHH. IT'S BOSS FIGHT TIME"

I was so confused when I saw that dragon. Like……where……why….how…..?

I believe the Black Dragon was probably a member of Trip’s race who used the negative energy of the Emeralds and became the monster he is.

The Egg Fortress seemed to have messed with time, even restoring Speed Jungle to what it was before Fang went all trigger happy. I think Eggman was trying to rewind time to bring the dragon back, and with it the sealing stone. As for the Dragon itself, I think it could be an incarnation of the End. The color schemes are similar and who's to say two incarnations must be identical. The End cameo'ing in Egg Fortress could've been foreshadowing the dragon's release.

I'm actually shocked how people even got confused at the Dragon when they literally teased it in the end of Trio of Trouble animation and in Golden Capital, I guess people need to catch on more lol

I feel like we might get some explanation for the ending from a variety of different resources, the most likely ones being TailsTube or the next game. While I do wish they could've just made it make more sense in the game, I still do hope that we at least get some sort of explanation. There's also a possibility that we could wait for some sort of SuperStars bonus DLC that adds on to the story. That could be neat. As for The End, I have two theories. Either that's just it's physical form without consciousness, drifting along in space, or when Sonic released it during the events of Frontiers, it pulled a Solaris and was sent to many different times, though since it didn't destroy Earth, I'd assume that it was still unable to do anything. Just a couple headcanons if mine, but I don’t think The End's cameo really breaks the story of the game. It's just kinda there, which I'm perfectly fine with tbh.

I think its pretty neat that it seems like there are different colonies or tribes in the past that had relationships with emeralds and harnessed them in different ways

This was a good video. It’s interesting because a lot of this game’s marketing revolved around trying to emulate the “feel” of classic sonic, and having this story with elements that seemingly don’t connect at first glance is I think part of that attempt at recreating that “feel”… still, I would like to know why in the world did they go from golden capital to cyber station… I think that threw me off even more than the dragon itself lol.

The dragon was foreshadowed with the purple mist in trip's story during her boss fights. It was trying to get out but that's it.

Superstars' story reminds me of 3&K, where certain things only make sense if you read the manual, except there is no manual. The opening animation kinda implies Eggman wanted the dragon (he kinda asks Fang to capture it) but we never see what they do to free him. He just captured the animals and built a few bases like he always does.

Important info Ian revealed in the Oct 23, 2023 Bumblecast: While he's not sure how much info he can reveal just yet, he does state that Trip is the most current guardian of Northstar Island, that there have been previous guardians, and that her armor is ceremonial. I guess we can assume that the figures in the mural resembling Trip were also guardians. Perhaps her armor was passed down by the guardian who came before her.

I think Trip the Sungazer's design is inspiration SEGA took from the lizard villains that got scrapped from the first Sonic movie that were later replaced with the Echidna tribe.

Sealing Stone that Trip uses can be seen at the "World Map" between Bridge Island and Speed Jungle.

This final boss disappointed me so much that it caused me physical pain Yes, I like it NOW, but the work you have to do to get to this fight is just too much

It’s funny how you can see “The end” above Mobius in egg fortress. And it makes sense that it’s in sonic frontiers because this game takes place in the past.

Also the dragon could possibly be the end morio said the end takes form of the person who’s looking at it and in frontiers we see a moon because that’s what we see the dragon could just be what trip/sonic sees

All of us were literally praying for it not to be the end and we ended up with the end but it's a dragon. They need to stop having out of no where villains and actually make them coherently tied to the story we go through.

Thank you for this video it helped me alot❤