He often contemplates that unlike Sonic and Sonia, he never really had a home, and the closest thing he had to family was the street urchins he was trained with. He shows some objection to his siblings criticizing his hard upbringing, and like Sonic, seems to show mild resentment that Sonia was brought up among nobility. Manic is thought of as the "laid back" sibling, and often uses 80's slang in the show. Manic was initially left on the doorstep of a house in the slums, which would have given him the lowest social rank of his siblings in any case, but then his basket was stolen - although the thief was unaware that it contained only a baby - and brought to the head thief Ferrel, who trained Manic as a pickpocket in the sewers and on the streets of Robotropolis along with many other young street urchins. ( SSS: #10)Īround the time of Sonic Prime's absence following the Xorda Attack on Mobius, Manic and his siblings paid a visit to Mobius Prime as part of an Interdimensional concert tour. For helping Robotnik get the components of Giant Borg in the first place, Evil Sonic was then taken into custody by Zonic, who left Manic and his siblings to continue their fight. After defeating Giant Borg, Manic and Sonia freed Evil Sonic from jail after Robotnik imprisoned him. Manic, Sonia and Underground Sonic would then team up with Sonic Prime and Zonic to stop the threat of Giant Borg. Zonic would remark how he had a lack of data on Underground Sonic and the Sonic Underground dimension and would request an explanation of the Zone’s history. Manic, Underground Sonic and Sonia mistook Prime Sonic for Evil Sonic until the two new hedgehogs explained who they are. The evil hedgehog departed only for two new Sonics to appear: Prime Sonic and Zonic. Believing Underground Sonic also possessed a piece of the Giant Borg he located and interrogated him and his siblings. Evil Sonic would appear in the Underground Zone on a mission from Robo-Robotnik to recover the Giant Borg. Manic and his siblings would engage Robotnik in battle many times. It was then that the three hedgehog children would form an alliance with each other to locate their missing mother. Robotnik captured Farrell, as well as Sonic and Sonia’s guardians and roboticized them. The Oracle of Delphius reappeared to tell the children of their origins.
Manic would learn how to play drums and went off to form a band after meeting Sonic and Sonia.
Sending the siblings to three different caretakers, Manic was left on a doorstep but was stolen from his intended home by the thief Farrell, who raised Manic as his favorite student. Eventually, the Oracle of Delphius appeared before her with a prophesy which foretold that she would have to separate with her children in order save their lives. A bounty was placed on the children of the queen, and thus Aleena was forced to take them into hiding. Robotnik would seize power of Mobotropolis and convert it into the polluted and metallic city of Robotropolis. Shortly after Sonic, Manic, and Sonia’s births, the Underground Zone’s local Dr.