Nagus (SatAM)

"I WILL RETURN, ROBOTNIK! I WILL BE AVENGED!" - Nagus, "The Void"

Nagus (sometimes spelled as Naugus or Nogus) is a character in the animated television series Sonic the Hedgehog (more commonly known as Sonic SatAM or SatAM).

He is a very powerful sorcerer whom Dr. Robotnik imprisoned in the Void.

He is voiced by Michael Bell.

Appearance

Nagus is a short humanoid being (although taller than Sonic), whose anatomy does not fit any identifiable species, although he seems to be an amalgamation of various animals and has some of their features.

Nagus possesses a light complexion, red eyes and has a hunched body posture. He seems to have the muzzle of a chimpanzee, He also has a pointy nose, sharp teeth, bat-like ears, and a rhinoceros-like horn on his head. He also has a long, white santa claus-like beard. His right hand resembles that of humanoid (albeit with four fingers), while he has the claw of a crustacean for a left hand. He also has stubby legs and a long, lizard or salamander-like tail that he drags along the ground. For attire, Nagus wears a purple suit covering his whole body with a dark grey belt on his waist. In addition, he wears a dark grey cape, gray gloves on both hands, and black boots.

History

TV series

Past

In the past, Nagus discovered the Void, an alternative dimension full of crystals. He later collaborated with Dr. Robotnik and Snively, who created a portal for him into the Void. One day, Nagus decided to head into the Void through the portal and he ordered Robotnik to pull him out after an hour. As a warning in case he wanted to betray him, Nagus temporarily turned Robotnik's head into that of a crow. Even so, after Nagus got dragged into the Void by the portal, Robotnik sealed the portal behind him, leaving Nagus trapped in the Void. Over the years, Nagus plotted to get out of the Void.

Season two

Over a decade after his imprisonment, Nagus opened a portal into the Void in the middle of the Great Unknown which nearly pulled in Sonic. Although Sonic managed to escape the portal, Nagus left behind an artifact on the other side of the portal that Sonic found and took with him. From within the Void, Nagus watched Sonic with interest, whose speed would allow him to get out of the Void. To this end, Nagus planned to pull Sonic into the Void with the artifact the hedgehog had picked up. Unfortunately for Nagus, Sonic left the artifact in the care of Sally and Bunnie, so when the artifact activated, its magic ended up taking the girls into the Void instead of Sonic. When they arrived, Nagus began to interrogate them and learned that Sonic had not been affected by the artifact. Nevertheless, he knew that Sonic would come to save his friends, so he froze the girls in crystal. When Sonic later arrived in the Void, Nagus greeted him and unfroze Sally and Bunnie. He then explained that Sonic's speed was needed to get them all out of the Void. Sonic, however, took only Sally and Bunnie with him and tried to escape the Void through a portal Nagus had opened. Nagus cut off their escape route however, by putting up a crystal block inside a tunnel they had to pass through. Afterward, he took the form of a sick King and lured the heroes to his palace. When the heroes found him and fell for his disguise, Nagus told Sonic that he needed his help and that he needed to get out of the Void as soon as possible. Showing no hesitation, Sonic grabbed the disguised Nagus and ran through a portal out of the Void and into the Great Unknown with him. There, they faced the forces of Dr. Robotnik. Soon after, Nagus shed his disguise and crystallized Sonic from the neck down so that he would not attack him. After a while, he turned his attention to a Surveillance Orb sent by Dr. Robotnik. After greeting the doctor over the camera, Nagus released Sonic and let him return to the Void to get his friends out of there. Nagus himself then forced Robotnik to meet him. The doctor apologized to Nagus and tried to cover up his betrayal. Nagus, however, would not listen to him and began humiliating Robotnik by turning his head into various animals'. Eventually, however, he discovered that his legs had begun to crystallize because he bad been in the Void for too long. After allowing Robotnhik to escape, Nagus told Sonic and Sally that he and the King, who had also been brought out of the Void and had begun to crystallize as well, had to go back into the Void or they would both die. As such, Nagus opened a portal into the Void with his magic and returned there with the King.

After the Doomsday Machine was destroyed, Nagus was seen emerging from the remains in an elevator with Snively.

Personality and traits

Nagus is grim and cunning. Highly vengeful, he hates Dr. Robotnik for imprisoning him in the Void. As such, he seeks to take revenge on the doctor by torturing and humiliating him.

Rather amoral, if not desperate, Nagus was shown to use any available means to get out of the Void, even resorting to kidnapping some close friends of Sonic in order to lure the hedgehog to him or disguising himself as a sick King in order to use the King's allies. Despite this though, he does have a small sense of morality, as he let Sonic save his friends from the Void after he pulled him out of the Void himself.

He also has a very slow, raspy voice and sounds as though he has trouble breathing.

Powers and abilities

Nagus is a powerful sorcerer whose power manifests in the form of blue energy around his hands. When casting his spells, Nagus usually only needs to snap his fingers.

Nagus' magic allows him to achieve various reality-bending feats. For example, he can imitate the appearance of others through shapeshifting down to the tiniest detail, including the voices of those he imitate. His magic also allows him to shapeshift others, as seen in the case of Dr. Robotnik when he transformed the doctor's head into those of various animals'.

Inside the Void, Nagus' magic is at its strongest. He is nearly omnipotent inside the Void, with his magic being able to let him do anything, except allow him to escape the Void. Within the Void, Nagus can manipulate the local crystals to form various shapes or even freeze his victims in them. Nagus can also produce special artifacts with different properties, such as putting his victims in a trance and taking them straight to him through telekinesis. In addition, Nagus has learned to open portals into Void, although they can only go one way.

Relationships

Neutral

• Bunnie Rabbot (former prisoner)
• King (former ally)
• Sally (former prisoner)
• Sonic the Hedgehog

Enemies

• Dr. Robotnik (former ally and banisher)
• Snively (former ally)

In other media

Archie Comics

In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-off published by Archie Comics, Ixis Naugus was one of the last members of the disbanded Order of Ixis. After the Forgotten War that resulted in the Order of Ixis' destruction, the few remaining mages fought over the scraps of knowledge left over from the war. But three worked together: Agunus Rhino was a master of earth-magic, Nusgau Bat of air-magic, and Suguna Lobster of water-magic. Each taught the other while investigating the Order's past. Eventually, they competed for the remaining element: fire. Their vicious rivalry returned, and the three were last seen struggling towards the Sun to reclaim its power. The mixing of powers fused the three into Ixis Naugus. He made himself Royal Wizard to King Frederick Acorn. From Mobotropolis he created a doorway to the Zone of Silence. When he felt threatened by Nate Morgan, he conspired with the Warlord Kodos and had Nate Frame for treason.

As the Great War loomed, Naugus escaped into his zone. Julian Kintobor sealed the exit. Naugus was almost god-like in the Zone of Silence. He perfected crystalline magic, using it to protect the zone's other prisoners - if they served him. Over ten years later he escaped, planning to conquer the Kingdom of Acorn by possessing King Maximillian Acorn. Sonic and Tails chased him down and he was sealed back in the Zone of Silence with the help of Nate Morgan.

Naugus was later summoned back by the Arachne Clan, but was forced to submit to Mammoth Mogul, and was later captured by Dr. Eggman and sealed within his Egg Grapes. While Mogul protected them both for a time, eventually Naugus was left to fend for himself. He was released by Anonymous as part of a larger scheme, but the damage were done: Naugus was a feral animal. However, he was later restored by Geoffrey St. John and the purple Chaos Emerald.. Through manipulative magic and politic Naugus was crowned king. After the Genesis Wave, Naugus past lives returned to haunt him, causing him to suffer from random mutations.

In the reality created by the Super Genesis Wave, Walter Naugus is one of the last trolls on Sonic's World. Becoming the Royal Wizard to the Kingdom of Acorn, Naugus plotted to seized the kingdom for himself. After several setbacks however, Naugus was rendered powerless by the first Genesis Wave and sought to restore his powers.

Trivia

• In the cancelled third season of the Sonic the Hedgehog TV series, Nagus would have returned and become the show's most prominent villain, forcing Robotnik and the King to serve as his minions and reducing Snively to a more pathetic lackey than he had been previously. However, this plot never went through, though the red eyes seen looking out from Snively's escape pod in the finale are revealed to have been Nagus' by writer Ben Hurst. Despite this, the red eyes shown were originally intended to belong to Knuckles the Echidna, and were changed to belong to Nagus by Hurst during his draft for season 3. The eyes themselves also feature a conjoined design similar to Sonic's, as opposed to Nagus' being separated. Interestingly, however, the laugh still sounds strikingly similar to Nagus'.
• Ian Flynn has revealed that, contrary to what was previously believed, the term "Ixis" for Ixis Naugus was applied to Nagus in the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon production materials, and not invented by Ken Penders.
• The spelling of the SatAM incarnation of Nagus's name was unknown for a long time. It is generally agreed that "Nagus" is the correct spelling of SatAM Nagus's name, as this spelling is present on the original model sheets for the character, the official DVD releases, early writings of head writer Ben Hurst, and is how his name is spelled in the official subtitles of the show for the most part. "Naugus", the spelling later popularized by the Archie Sonic comics, does appear once on the subtitles, however, and it is written as such in some descriptions of a few streaming releases.    "Nogus" is also the spelling used once in the subtitles, specifically the episode "Blast to the Past Part 2".  As the later two spellings are only used once in the subtitles and Nagus is how his name is spelled primarily otherwise, it's likely the later two spellings in the subtitles were simply typos.

References

1. ↑ ^{Jump up to:1.0 1.1} SatAM Historian . Screencaps of the Official Subtitles for Sonic SatAM. Twitter. ""Nagus knew Sonic wouldn't help him. / It was an accident, Nagus. / Nagus, What's happening?""
2. ↑ ^{Jump up to:2.0 2.1} "After Sonic is almost sucked inside the Void, he finds a huge ring which Sally believes is an ancient relic but it turns out to be trick of the Sorcerer, Nagus. Sally and Bunnie are drawn inside the Void when Sonic comes to rescue them, Nagus pretends to be the king so will use his speed to transport him outside. There, he discovers he has become a victim of his own magic and begins to turn to crystal." - Back cover of Sonic the Hedgehog: Freedom Fighters Unite!.
3. ↑ ^{Jump up to:3.0 3.1} "After Sonic is almost sucked inside the Void, he finds a huge ring which Sally believes is an ancient relic but it turns out to be trick of the Sorcerer, Nagus. Sally and Bunnie are drawn inside the Void when Sonic comes to rescue them, Nagus pretends to be the king so will use his speed to transport him outside. There, he discovers he has become a victim of his own magic and begins to turn to crystal." - Model Sheet of Nagus.
4. ↑ ^{Jump up to:4.0 4.1} SatAM Historian . Ben Hurst's Earliest Nagus Writings. Twitter. ""The red eyes you saw were NAGUS, the sorcerer trapped in the Void.""
5. ↑ ^{Jump up to:5.0 5.1} SatAM Historian . Additional Screencaps of the Official Subtitles for Sonic SatAM. Twitter. ""I am Naugus, a Sorcerer.""
6. ↑ I-like-Sonic-91 . Screencaps of the Official N Circle DVD Set Subtitles for Sonic SatAM. Twitter. ""- Well, well. So Naugus finally did it. / - Naugus. / -Very, very good, Naugus.""
7. ↑ ^{Jump up to:7.0 7.1} SatAM Historian . Roku Channel and Peacock Listing for Sonic SatAM. Twitter. ""Within the Void, Sonic and Nicole