The Exhilarating Lore of Chaos Control

What do you think? Is it possible to use Chaos Control without a Chaos Emerald?

I think Shadow should be the one character that can use choas control without an emerald. Shadow's body is like a vessel filled with chaos energy, and when he takes off his inhibitor rings he releases the chaos energy thats already within him. It would make sense for Shadow to be able to use chaos control without an emerald because he'd still have chaos energy with him. When he does chaos control with an emerald, he draws chaos energy from the emerald. When he does chaos control without an emerald, he draws chaos energy from within himself.

The fact that Sonic doesn't use Chaos Control anymore is yet another reason why the Modern Sonic era has always felt like an unofficial reboot to me. With Frontiers being this bridge to the Adventure era lore now being relevant again

The Master Emerald's ability to neutralize the other emeralds should be called "Master Control"

I liked to think as a child that Knuckles was much more naturally gifted with Chaos control almost like a “Ki” based off of his relationship to the Master Emerald while the Hedgehogs learned it a little later (with the exception of Shadow)

I like to point out that the Time Travel variant of Chaos Control seems to only be possible when two users with an Emerald each invoke it at the same time. If a single use of Chaos Control is meant to allow the user to stop time or teleport something in the space around them, then a simultaneous use must combine both of those abilities. Double/Dual Chaos Control allows the users to teleport to a point in time. Pretty cool.

The way I see it, Shadow was infused with the energy of the Chaos Emeralds during his creation, allowing him to use other Chaos abilities without the Emeralds like Chaos Spear, and Chaos Blast. So it would make sense that he can also use Chaos Control without the Emeralds, but it would be far more limited in its effects. However, if he removes his inhibitor rings, then the affects of all his Chaos abilities are enhanced for a while, but he ends up extremely exhausted and must rest for a period of time.

dude that thumbnail art is SICK

you will never convince me that shadow teleporting around without a chaos emerald in the sonic forces cutscene where he fights infinite wasn't an oversight

Another confirmation that chaos control draws from the user is the retroactive implementation of Sonic X’s inhibitor ring aspect of Shadow’s power. One of the Twitter takeovers confirmed how Shadow was doomed and Sonic tried to save him. Being Super alone wasn’t enough for Shadow to pull off the final stretch so he had to tap deeper into the reserves of his power to the point of almost dying.

10:22 Actually, it's far more consistent than you state: Shadow uses Chaos Control without an Emerald multiple times throughout SA2's story: at the beginning of the game after Eggman frees him from his stasis, when he saves Rouge (he begins to charge the ability before grabbing onto her) and in the final showdown against Sonic, when the latter has one of them and the other 6 are on the Ark's cannon (that said, actually wielding an Emerald/s increases its power and range, and Shadow's dialogue to Sonic in their first confrontation was to esablish how Chaos Control and the Emeralds are connected so that Sonic could later replicate it). In Shadow the Hedgehog (the game), Black Doom is shown to be able to do so as well, as he warps himself and Shadow around a couple of times, as well as teleporting around as Devil doom in the final battle, when he doesn't have them anymore: while it isn't stated, it's implied Shadow got his own ability to use Chaos Control with no emeralds directly from Black Doom, and it's likely one of the reasons Gerald needed his DNA to complete the Ultimate Life From project. Shodw then uses Chaos control teleportation in his '06 story intro, and in the Sonic Forces prologue against Infinite. Shadow can also use Chaos Control to slow down time in Sonic Rivals 1 and 2, and uses it to freeze time against a Phantom Ruby clone of himself in a Sonic Forces cutscene. I believe Shadow (and those directly related to him or whom have copied his powers) is the only one who can do this, whereas other Chaos Users like Sonic, the Biolizard and Silver require an Emerald/s to do so. Even then, time-manipulation is something that likely requires more effort from Shadow and he can't just spam it like teleportation.

I always assumed frequent use of chaos control made Shadow so skilled with it that he could just do it on his own. I feel like I remember Sonic Chronicles saying something like that and I think there was some implication that the same was happening for Sonic.

I think you should have mentioned how Shadow was able to use Chaos Control in Forces without an implied emerald in possession. And that was time stop variant of CC. I think that feat itself can prove that with enough energy you can you preform chaos control.

Hopelfully with the Chaos Emeralds being plot relevent again, maybe Chaos Control, and Chaos Energy manipulation can be explored in the future.

8:47 - Chaos Boost is not technically unique or even original move to 06. It first appeared in Shadow the Hedgehog. After you defeat enough of "good" enemies, your "evil gauge" fills up, and you also get this red aura around yourself. It was even stronger than in 06, because it provided complete immunity to all attacks, not just bullets. And just like in 06, he couldn't use Chaos Blast without Chaos Boosting himself first.

Awww, you left out the most important part! That Biolizard had a 'Chaos Control' organ, and from that, we can presume that all organic users of the move possess such an organ!

Another instance of Shadow using chaos control without an emerald is durring his fight with Sonic on the Ark. Sonic has the fake one and all 7 of the real ones are inside the Ark.

You are always putting in so much work in the vids and especially the thumpnails

Hey! This video turned out great! I haven’t even thought about the multiplayer mode of SA2 when it comes to chaos control, thanks for pointing that out! All the best to you as always!

Chaomix can really make us watch an entire 1 hour Sonic documentary about something that we don't really think much about. It's amazing, really