Commander Alan Mak is a military-general working at G.U.N. He was a character in Sonic: Revolutions and served as Sonic's "contact in the international affairs". He is an anthropomorphic hedgehog who was crippled and permanently wheelchair-bound in the finale of Season 3. He is somewhat of an anti-hero in the series, having opposed Sonic's plan to have his friend Milo Prower retrieve his stolen equipment and even got told to nuke Station Square, but was stopped.
It's believed that he is the Hooded Employer and the main antagonist of Sonic the Hedgehog: Stranded Revelations, as there is a lot of clues and even straight-up solid evidence to support this.
Biography
Early life
Alan Mak's early life is unknown, other than his great role in G.U.N. battles, saving country after country from terrorists, the world's greatest war hero basically.
Supplies stolen
At some point, he was commissioned to work in a military camp outside Station Square. A Bounty Guild member named Dr. Eggman eventually started stealing convoys meant for Alan's camp, which got the attention of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic's apparent "contact" in G.U.N. He sends Milo Prower to talk to Alan in his camp in the forest (snow was everywhere). Alan tells Milo that his supplies were stolen repeatedly and wants to stop this.
Eventually, Eggman is murdered by Sonic and the supplies are sent back. Milo is given thanks.
A city in chaos
When the terrorist Metallico Prower unleashes a super-soldier army on Station Square, Alan was commissioned by the President to destroy the city with a drone-strike. However, Sonic stops this so that Milo can save the city without destroying it. Milo's half-brother Max Prower comes to the camp and sabotages the drones, dropping them off a cliff to freeze in the icy water below. Alan was right about to tell the President about this, but then Max takes a gun and shoots Alan in the leg, crippling him for life. Milo still won and Alan was crippled.
Creatura incident
When the werewolf-like beast named George Creatura attacks and plans to use the Space Colony ARK to destroy the world, Milo calls up Alan, who isn't too happy with what Max did to him. Still, he helps when he is told that Sonic had been twisted into an evil monster on the inside, now evil and has to die. Milo comes to his camp and tells him of a fort in the Dusty Desert owned by werewolves. Alan sends five battleships to dock with the nearby settlement (this fort was right at the edge of an ocean) and had them bombard the fort while Milo got inside and killed Sonic. It later turns out that Creatura is taking a spaceship to the ARK. He has a hovercraft send Milo there, which lead to Milo defeating Creatura and destroying the ARK.
Hooded Antagonist?
In the prequel game Sonic the Hedgehog: Stranded Revelations, a hooded figure was seen as the employer of Killian Fredson and the hidden main antagonist. Speculation rises among fans that this hooded villain might actually be Alan Mak in disguise. Could this actually be true? Sometimes in Sonic: Revolutions, hints are made to reveal that Alan might be, as said in the credits, the Man in the Hood. While bits of it are just mere clues, others are solid evidence:
- When Max invades Alan Mak's camp in Fury, we can see in Alan's locker in his bunker that there is a brown hooded cloak hanged up. It greatly resembles the hood seen in Stranded Revelations.
- In Stranded Revelations, we can see that while the rest of the villain's face is covered, his eyes are zoomed-in on, revealing heterochromic eyes; red and grey eyes. Alan also has these eyes, but a different face.
- In Crisis, part 3, Sonic uses his laptop to search-up bullet-shot victims, but winds up pulling up a list of names that shows a series of people at Station Square General Hospital that had gotten various forms of surgery. In this list, if you look closely, you can see "Pvt. Alan Mak" on the list and Sonic clicks on that file to see how to recover from a gunshot to the rib-cage. Literally 5 seconds later, he pulls the file that shows how to do surgery on a gunshot victim, but if you pause the episode and look closely at Alan's file, it reads "Plastic surgery, face completely changed, claimed to be hiding from someone". This could likely mean that Alan had gotten plastic surgery to hide from Sonic, who had proclaimed before the credits of Stranded Revelations that he would find the hooded villain and kill him.
- To support this, Alan had once said he had gotten plastic surgery in the episode Truce, part 3. He said it was to prevent a terrorist from attacking him and had changed his name too. He could very well be referring to Sonic.
- In Stranded Revelations, when Sonic was looking at a computer file in Killian's lair showing his past employers, we can see a visit to a G.U.N. prison (likely Prison Island). The hooded villain was there, with the file reading "Gen. Alan Mak: bails out Dr. Ivo Robotnik with $200,000". This means that Eggman was in prison before he met Sonic and Alan had let him out in case KIllian was to fail in his plan, and that Alan might have been demoted before his introduction to the TV series. Killian even said "I'm not going to let that diabetes-peppered mustache do this for me! The hooded man WILL pay me!" It isn't made apparent if Eggman was working for Alan for lots of the franchise or if he betrayed him, but it is known that Alan had let him out of prison and was essentially responsible for setting many of the Sonic the Hedgehog games in motion.
- In Final Sacrifice, when Milo comes to Alan and Tails and says that he killed Sonic, Alan is shown turning his back to Milo and speaking very quickly, too quickly for the audience to understand. However, if you slow this down and listen closely, you can hear him say "Oh, jeez, he did something that an army of bounty hunters couldn't do, seriously, how does that work, oh well, with Sonic gone, Tails will be next, I swear, I swear it, I swear it." This seems to be a way to reveal to the audience that Alan is the hooded villain.
- In Fury, when he was told by the President to destroy Station Square with a drone-strike, he could be heard muttering under his breath, saying "How could he [Metallico] do what his superior [Killian] couldn't? Why didn't I just directly hire him to do this? And where was that serum this whole time that I was hunting for it? Rocky's alternative didn't work."
- In Final Sacrifice, Tails was revealed to have put a wire-tap on Alan's computer, so now he can read everything he's seeing on the Internet, but more importantly, he can now read his e-mails, sent or received, and read all his personal files. An e-mail he sent to "Leader of Followers" was in coded form, so we don't know what it meant:
"OPX, XJUI TPOJD EFBE, NJMFT XJMM GFFM NZ XSBUI GPS UIBU SPDLZ JTMBOE FWFOU"
This doesn't mean anything on it's own. Tails uses a decoder kit to decipher this message, but it cuts to credits before anyone can find out what it means. However, if YOU were to use a decoder kit and set "A = B", it would translate to:
"NOW, WITH SONIC DEAD, MILES WILL FEEL MY WRATH FOR THAT ROCKY ISLAND EVENT"
This was meant to foreshadow the likelihood of Alan being the main antagonist of Season 5.
Trivia
- All the hints above point to Alan Mak being the true main antagonist of Sonic the Hedgehog: Stranded Revelations and probably the main antagonist of Season 5 in Sonic: Revolutions, assuming it ever happens.
- He seems to have a fear of dogs, as he said that one came by and he wet his pants.