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In the fictional universe of Sonic the Hedgehog, King Maximillian Acorn (or just the King, as he was referred to in the Saturday morning cartoon in which he was voiced by Tim Curry) is the father of Princess Sally Acorn. He is an anthropomorphic, humanoid squirrel, and his current age appears to be somewhere between the mid 40s and early 50s.

King Acorn's traditional attire is a blue, uniform like outfit and a crown.

Contents 1 SatAM 2 Archie 2.1 Past 2.2 Present 2.3 Possible Future 3 Alternate Selves 4 Trivia 5 Footnotes

King Acorn was the ruler of Mobotropolis in the sovereign Kingdom of Acorn, until the evil genius Dr. Robotnik took over and banished King Acorn to the Void. Sonic and Sally later used the Time Stones to travel back in time, meeting him and warning him of the threat, but they were unable to save him from this imprisonment. Worse yet, the King was not alone; the Void was also the prison of Robotnik's mentor Ixis Naugus, a dark wizard of great power.

Sonic and his allies managed to enter the Void years later, finding the King alive and well. However, he only escaped the Void for a brief time with them before his body began to crystallize as a result of years of exposure to the Void's strange environment. As a result, he was forced to return their, much to the dismay of the Freedom Fighters and Sally in particular. However, they did benefit from the brief meeting: not only did they rescue the King's fellow prisoner Ari, but they also received a list of all their ally groups.

Had the series not been cancelled, King Acorn would have escaped the Void along with Ixis Naugus, and been used by the wizard as bait to lure the Freedom Fighers into a trap.

The Archie Comics echoed SatAM in the fact that both King Acorn and Ixis Naugus were banished, but to the Zone of Silence rather than the Void. While in the Zone, King Acorn was forced to pledge loyalty to Ixis Naugus to survive. Over time, he lost his memory, not recognizing Sonic or Sally when they came to the Zone.

Years later, the Freedom Fighters managed to free King Acorn from the Zone and brought him back to the safety of Knothole Village. Unfortunately, the King's body soon began to crystallize, apparently due to prolonged exposure to the Zone's harsh, alien environment (similar to the situation that occurred during SatAM). It was then discovered that the Sword of Acorns, when brought together with the Crown of Acorn and the King himself, possessed powerful healing properties and was able to restore King Acorn to his former self. It later became known that the wizard Ixis Naugus had been responsible for the King's condition, forcing Sonic to confront him and his minions in Max's dreams.

At one point, King Max was secretly replaced by one of Robotnik's Auto-Automatons, robots that are virtually indistinguishable from the living beings they're designed to imitate. While impersonating the King, the robot unilaterally sentences Sonic to life in prison in the Devil's Gulag prison when Sonic is mistakenly charged with the murder of Princess Sally. He also later brings Robotnik himself to Knothole, where Robotnik reveals that the King was a fake.

Following Robotnik Prime's defeat, it came to light that King Max had been hiding the existence of other members of his family from Sally. These relatives were his wife, Queen Alicia, and his son Prince Elias. Shortly before Robotnik's takeover, the two of them had been sent into hiding, only to disappear and crash land on Angel Island. Found by the Brotherhood of Guardians, the young prince and comatose queen were cared for until they were eventually returned to Knothole. Alicia awoke shortly after this, but Max found himself paralyzed from the waist down. This necessitated his use of a wheelchair to get around. For unexplained reasons, he recovered from this condition during Sonic's Xorda enduced, year-long exile in space.

He currently leads the Kingdom of Knothole (or Knothole Village) in its ever raging quest to defeat the Eggman Empire. He is not well liked among the Freedom Fighters, because of his arrogant decisions, which have included disbanding the Freedom Fighters in favor of his own Secret Service (though he later had the Freedom Fighters reinstated), trying to force Sally into an arranged marriage, and denying Sally her birthright. This is later revealed in the comics as his mind being half-crystallized.

King Max was poisoned by Antoine D'Coolette (who was really an alternate, evil Antoine known as Patch) and slipped into a coma, forcing Prince Elias to take the throne to keep Patch from becoming King. Some time afterwards, Max was revived by a device powered by a Chaos Emerald.

King Acorn also appeared in a future storyline where Sonic and Sally are married as King and Queen, and where he is a grandfather. This version of the future is where NICOLE originated. He does not appear in the Mobius: 25 Years Later future, possibly having died at some point between the present and the possible future.

Like many characters in the Archie Comics, King Acorn has varied alter egos. One version of him, known as Evil King Max, exists on Anti-Mobius. This King Max is completely evil, and appears as a squirrel version of Dr. Robotnik. He used to rule the planet, but was dethroned and cast into the Zone of Silence by his daughter Anti-Sally and by her boyfriend Evil Sonic, who later became the Mobius Prime villain Scourge the Hedgehog. Were he to appear in a future story, he would likely have become the Anti-Mobius Zone of Silence's equivalent to Ixis Naugus.

• Sonic HQ features an article in which a possible future storyline involving King Acorn was introduced. In this storyline, Ixis Naugus would use a link to the Crown of Acorns to take over the king's body, transforming it into his own before being defeated. ^[1]

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