Supreme (stylized as SUPREME) is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a colossal Titan created by the Ancients and once piloted by Crane. It ended up being used to bind The End within it and sealed within Cyber Space. Tens of thousands of years later, it is awoken and fought by Super Sonic on Ouranos Island.
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Appearance
Supreme is the tallest of the Titans, constructed primarily of brushed white metal with black and red highlights. It highly resembles Giganto, as a humanoid with a broad upper torso and thinner legs, with holes resembling eyes along its entire body. Its wrists and hands are black, with three fingers ending in pointed red claws. Attached to its shoulders is a cape-like plate featuring ten cylindrical thrusters, and upon its shoulders are laser emitters that can summon magenta ethereal laser wings.
Supreme's head is covered by a red helmet that connects to a spinal cord down its neck. This helmet has multiple lines and lights analogous to eyes. Two horn-like protrusions rise above the back of its head, curving around its face and splitting into three horns pointing downwards on each side. Its chin has four more protrusions similar to a beard, the outer pair longer than the inner pair.
According to Sage, Supreme's wings may refer to one of the five Ancient tribes, who developed wings.[1]
Stored below its shoulders is a giant, collapsible red and black sniper rifle, which it can freely draw to fire yellow energy blasts.
While storing The End, the lights on Supreme's body are colored red. However, while piloted by Sage, the lights on Supreme's body are colored blue, including the fire emitted from its thrusters.
When possessed and transformed by the End in The Final Horizon, Supreme has a purple energy cable attached to its neck, causing five arms to emerge from its thrusters, the extra weight forcing it to move on all fours like an animal.
History
Past
Supreme was the strongest of the four Titans constructed by the Ancients, designed to lead the battle against the End in case it located the Ancients' new home on earth. When the End finally arrived, the pilot Crane boarded Supreme and used the power of the Chaos Emeralds along with Wyvern, Knight and Giganto, to fight it in outer space. Despite their preparations, the four found themselves still outmatched by The End. With no other options, Crane planned to bind the End into Supreme and send them both to Cyber Space, forever trapping the entity. Crane apparently died in the process, so the other pilots finished the mission by sealing The End and Supreme within Cyber Space on Ouranos Island. The seal to the End was locked behind the lives of all four Titans, as well as six towers on Rhea Island. The Supreme remained dormant for tens of thousands of years beyond the fall of the Ancients' civilization.[citation needed]
Sonic Frontiers
When Dr. Eggman visited the Starfall Islands and was trapped in Cyber Space, his artificial intelligence Sage began awakening and influencing the dormant Titans. She attempted to manipulate Supreme in the same capacity as the other three, but found herself unable to do so.[citation needed]
As Sonic the Hedgehog began exploring the Starfall Islands, he was commanded by the End's disembodied voice to destroy the Titans and break the seal on Cyber Space - unaware of the voice's malevolent intentions, Sonic complied in order to save his friends. After defeating three of the Titans and traversing the towers of Rhea Island, Sonic saw visions of the history of the Ancients, including Supreme's doomed battle against The End. Though this resulted in Sonic succumbing to cyber corruption and the End exiting Cyber Space, it remained adhered to Supreme.
Once Sonic recovered from cyber corruption and collected the Chaos Emeralds again, he transformed into Super Sonic to fight the corrupted Supreme. Super Sonic overcame Supreme, leaving its body dormant as The End escaped to assume its own form in outer space and destroy the earth. Supreme was then used by Sage, using its powers alongside Super Sonic to finally defeat The End. As The End threatened to explode and destroy the earth, Sage piloted Supreme directly into the entity, sacrificing herself and the Titan to save the planet.
The Final Horizon
Supreme initially has the same role as in the main game, remaining dormant on Ouranos Island with The End trapped within.
After Super Sonic awakens and defeats it, The End is expelled, instead of moving to outer space for Sage to pilot Supreme, it chose to manifest itself in the real world through its "true" physical form and attaches an energy cable to the Supreme's neck, using the Titan as its "Avatar", controlling it like a puppet, granting it cataclysmic new abilities as well as five extra arms from its thrusters.
Despite the mutated Supreme's immense power, Sonic is able to harness his cyber corruption to become Super Sonic 2, disconnecting the cable and its rifle. Super Sonic 2 launches Supreme into the air before teaming up with Dr. Eggman to be shot from the Supreme's rifle, becoming Super Sonic Cyber to instantly destroy both Supreme and The End.
Powers and abilities
Like all Titans, Supreme is unbelievably strong and durable, being so powerful that Sonic must become Super Sonic in order to damage it. It shares the immense physical prowess of Giganto, but with additional equipment that gives it long-range capabilities. Its primary weapon is a collapsible sniper rifle, which fires gigantic red or yellow blasts at a steady rate, held in both hands. In battle, Supreme has two large octahedron-shaped sentries above its head and a ring of seven smaller tetrahedron-shaped sentries around its body. The two sentries can fire giant purple lasers and seven tetrahedron sentries can fire waves of yellow octahedral shots. Supreme can also fire eight golden homing shots from its eyes simultaneously or sequentially. When it activates its laser emitters, they create giant wings of light that give Supreme enhanced mobility, allowing it to glide effortlessly through the air.
When piloted by Sage, Supreme mounts its rifle on its back, turning it into a tank that can fire light or dark energy shots at a rapid-fire rate.
When possessed and transformed by the End, Supreme gained five additional arms from its thrusters. These arms can throw balls of cyber corruption that reduce Super Sonic's max Ring count on hit, and can only be parried by Super Sonic 2. It also has a cable attached to its neck which regenerates its health indefinitely as long as it is connected to The End.
Battle
Supreme is the fourth and penultimate boss of Sonic Frontiers, being fought on Ouranos Island. Unlike the other Titans, the player never fights it in Sonic's base form, and Sonic receives the seventh Chaos Emerald from Dr. Eggman beforehand rather than from the Titan's body.
Boss guide
First phase
Super Sonic watches as Supreme awakens to equip its rifle and the two large sentries. The fight is initially similar to that of Giganto, moving slowly and swiping at Sonic, which releases projectiles. However, the real challenge is navigating Supreme's sentries, known as Bits, which continuously fire said projectiles that push Super Sonic away. The player can either Dodge or Parry Supreme's swings while closing in to attack either it or the Bits. (On Extreme mode, the projectiles won't instantly kill Sonic)
After taking repeated damage, Supreme performs Giganto's spin attack, blasting Super Sonic away with two red beams from the large Bits if parried. If the player stays too far away from Supreme for too long, it will use its rifle to shoot Super Sonic and keep him away; complete the Real-Time Interaction to dodge and move in.
The player can also target Supreme's Bits. If one is destroyed, Supreme automatically pushes Super Sonic back (which does not insta kill him on Extreme and cannot be parried) and fires eight Homing Shots at him (which will insta kill him if not parried on Extreme). A successful Parry not only destroys all the small Bits at once, but opens up Supreme for damage. After taking repeated damage, Supreme will attack again. If parried, Sonic can Grand Slam Supreme to deal damage and respawn the Bits,
Cyclooping Supreme has an identical effect to Quick Cyclooping Giganto, with one Cycloop suspending it midair (occasionally triggering a single counterattack) and a second one slamming it into the ground (sometimes triggering a second counterattack).
Even if the player fails to parry every time the Homing Shots appear on modes other than Extreme, the player will still be able to open up Supreme for damage after destroying the last sentry, though it takes considerably longer.
Second phase
After depleting half of Supreme's Health Gauge, the second phase starts, the music transitioning from an instrumental variation of "I'm Here" to the vocal version, starting from the second verse. Supreme deploys huge laser wings (though they are absent in-game) that allow it to quickly glide around the arena. Its attack pattern remains largely the same, but its increased movement and the higher firing rate of the Bits make it more difficult for Super Sonic to get close enough to attack.
If Sonic targets a Bit, it performs the same push and homing shot attack, but with the shots in groups of two instead of all at once, requiring four Parries. Once Supreme's health is down to approximately 15%, destroying a Bit automatically triggers its rifle shot RTI. This RTI must be triggered at least once, otherwise Supreme's health gauge cannot be drained any further.
After emptying its health, Supreme is defeated and falls to its knees. In the base game, The End exits its body and moves to outer space, allowing Sage to pilot Supreme in the final battle. In The Final Horizon, The End exits its body but attaches a cable to Supreme to control it for an alternative final battle.
Music
| Title | Artist(s) | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Titan: SUPREME - I'm Here [Re-Edit]" | Tomoya Ohtani, Merry Kirk-Holmes | 5:44 |
Video
Trivia
- Supreme's boss fight has several unused cutscenes, animations, and Real-Time Interactions stored in the game's files, which can only be accessed by hacking the game.
- The two red beams that repel Super Sonic originally had a longer cutscene where Super Sonic is first targeted by laser sights before the attack.
- The Interaction when Supreme shoots at Super Sonic for being too far away was originally longer, with Supreme shooting four shots instead of just one.
- There is a scrapped Interaction where Supreme shoots two Dark Shots from its rifle, then swivels around Super Sonic to shoot from behind, and finally jumps over him to shoot from above, before landing back in front of him.
- Supreme has data for two of Giganto's Interactions: one where it claps its hands together and then catches Super Sonic with its teeth, and also Giganto's mouth beam, though the animation is unfinished.
- There is an alternate cutscene for repelling Super Sonic with the large lasers.
- Supreme also has an animation for taking out and putting away its rifle.
- The Bit sentries have two unused attacks: one where they face upwards and launch unparryable Dark Shot homing missiles on Sonic, and one where they stay still and shoot continuous (albeit invisible) laser beams.
- Supreme was originally going to shoot Homing Shot bullets out of its back in two formats: one where they fire slowly and one during Phase 2 where Supreme flew around and shot them more frequently before respawning the Bits.
- Both Giganto and Supreme have an unused bite attack animation which would entirely miss Sonic unless he moved in closer during the attack.
- Oddly, the laser wings that Supreme deploys at the start of phase two of its boss battle are not actually visible during gameplay.
- Supreme is the only Titan that doesn’t get destroyed at the end of its boss fight, instead simply falling to its knees and deactivating.
- During the final boss of The Final Horizon, Supreme visually appears to be in pain, likely due to the transformation caused by The End.
- The way Supreme grew its extra arms could be a reference to Dark Gaia's transformation into its Perfect form from Sonic Unleashed.
References
- ↑ Sonic Team (28 September 2023). Sonic Frontiers. Xbox One. Sega. "Sage: There used to be five tribes co-existing on the planet of the Ancients. A tribe with big and powerful bodies, a tribe that developed a tail instead of legs, a tribe that walked on four legs, a winged tribe, and a tribe that was the most intelligent of them all."
