Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) scrapped enemies

Page Rename

Considering that all the categories were changed from Badniks to Enemies, wouldn't it be better if this page was moved to Other Scrapped Sonic 2 Enemies for consistency reasons? SOTI 16:28, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Could go either way. While we had to change the categories because modern enemies often aren't badniks, it's still a legitimate term in this PAGE title because everything in Sonic 2 was a badnik. Frozen Nitrogen 18:04, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

EDIT - Actually, Bubbler.

So yeah. Frozen Nitrogen 18:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Todo

On top of the Tom Payne documents, some of these are discovered to have been coded into the game in the August 21st alpha. Something will have to be done about this, especially if other enemies like BFish and Gator are allowed to have pages on the basis of being coded. --BSonirachi (talk) 18:57, 16 December 2023 (EST)

So I guess the vague rule was that if an enemy had code, it should get a page... if not just to explain the code (spoilers: that's a job for someone else). That's why I made Ball and Bubbler - it's a worry it took so long, but whatever.

For the rest on this page

• We're probably better grouping the bees/wasps into Buzzer
• There are apparently three(?) iterations of Snail, but we only have sprites for two and... yeah combine them
• Banper is almost certainly Crawl. I'm not sure we gain much by classing them as separate enemies.

A good chunk of the rest, while never appearing in the game itself, are reasonably well documented

• I'd be tempted to give "Frog" a page on the grounds it was invented by Yasuhara, and thus seriously considered for inclusion in Sonic 2. The rest are Tom Payne inventions, and he wasn't a designer.
• But there are a lot of pigs. Lots of concept art, lots of Digitizer graphics - more than some of the above. It's clearly something Tom was pitching, even if it didn't go anywhere.
• These lads have Digitizer graphics. I'm not sure there's enough to justify separate pages (except the frog), but you tell me.
• And there's a list of enemies planned for the desert zone. Of these, only the scorpion seems to have got anywhere, but most have at least a little bit of art.
• Anything else can fit on this page. Or go back to Sonic 2/Development.

-Black Squirrel (talk) 12:54, 18 December 2023 (EST)