Mimic (IDW Sonic)

"They weren't my friends. They weren't even my comrades. They were a means to an end. I was in it to reap the rewards. When their big crusade put my life on the line, it wasn't a difficult choice. Heroes become martyrs. Professionals stay alive."

- Mimic

Mimic the Octopus is a villain in the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comics, appearing as the main antagonist of the Tangle and Whisper storyline. He was a former member of the Diamond Cutters mercenary team before betraying them to serve Eggman.

Appearance
When in his true form, Mimic appears as a octopus mobian with purple skin, a beak-like mouth, black eyes with white pupils, suction-cups on his hands and feet and tentacles for hair. He wears a black, tattered poncho and coverings on his arms and legs. While he was working with the Diamond Cutters, his poncho was much nicer and and he wore black gloves and boots. He also had a mask that identical to Whisper's until he betrayed the Diamond Cutters.

Personality
When working with his former team, Mimic put on a facade of a loyal and trust-worthy comrade. In reality, he was a greedy and duplicitous individual who did not think twice about betraying his team to save his own life. He was also sadistic, changing into different forms to torment his opponents.

Powers and Abilities
Mimic has the ability to instantly disguise himself as different people, including Sonic the Hedgehog and an Egg Pawn, and was quite good at impersonating them. However, he could not replicate the skills of the people he changed into, and whatever form he chose, he still maintained some usual traits, such as brown eyes and the suction cups on his hands. He also had impressive combat skills and usually fought with a knife, along with some other weapons Eggman supplied him with such as guns or bombs.

Past
Mimic was once part of the Diamond Cutters, a mercenary team dedicated to fighting the Eggman Empire, alongside Slinger the Ocelot, Smithy the Lion, Claire-Voyance the Howler Monkey and Whisper the Wolf. His profession was the team's infiltrator, in which he uses his shape-shifting abilities to fool the Eggpawns into thinking he was one of them, and his main Wispon was a hammer inhabited by a blue wisp to create blue cubes as stepping stones. However, while the others were fighting to preserve freedom for everyone and cared for each-other, Mimic was only interested in gaining profit and cared only for himself.

At some point, the job became too difficult for Mimic to bear, and so he secretly cut a deal with Eggman to betray his team in exchange for sparing his life. He then led Slinger, Smithy and Claire into one of Eggman's bases where he trapped them in a room filled with Shadow Androids that overwhelmed and eventually killed them while meeting with Eggman in a secret room. Eggman was impressed by Mimic's treachery and agreed to pardon him for his crimes, but his wisp, disgusted by his heinous actions, abandoned him. When Eggman learned that Whisper was not among the casulties, Mimic was ordered to eliminate her or face the consequences. After failing to find her, Mimic decides to use her wispon he found laying on the ground and his own mask as proof of her demise, believing Whisper to be too cowardly to be a threat without anyone-else to support her.

Present
To be continued...

Trivia

 * Mimic is based off of the mimic octopus, which can camaflouge itself with the environment and impersonate other species, which fits Mimic's abilities and profession.
 * Like all the members of the Diamond Cutters, Mimic is based off one of the main operatives of FOXHOUND in the Metal Gear series. In Mimics case, he is based on Decoy Octopus, who he shared his mastery of disguise and animal theme with.