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| “ | I think you have something that belongs to me. This is my power. And I'm not using it to run away anymore. I'm using it to protect my friends! | „ |
| ~ Sonic confronting Dr. Robotnik and his most famous quote. |
| “ | Uh… Meow? | „ |
| ~ Sonic upon being discovered in hiding by anyone, as well as his second most famous quote. |
| “ | Gotta go fast! | „ |
| ~ Sonic’s catchphrase |
Sonic the Hedgehog is the titular main protagonist of the Sonic Cinematic Universe.
He is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog born on an alien planet called Mobius with the rare power to harness chaos energy, giving him extreme supersonic speed. He was forced to leave his home world from evil forces and build a new life for himself on Earth, eventually becoming the planet's protector and guardian. He is the film's adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog from Sega's video games franchise.
He is voiced and motion-captured by Ben Schwartz, who also voices Randy Cunningham in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Skidmark in Turbo, Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Banarnar in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Dewey Duck in the 2017 reboot of Ducktales, and Mark in DC League of Super Pets.
Other Media[]
Movies[]
Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers[]
- Main article: Ugly Sonic
Sonic's initial character design for the first movie was featured in the 2022 Disney+ original movie Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers, under the name "Ugly Sonic" and is voiced by Tim Robertson, instead of Ben Schwartz. He is first seen at a fandom convention where he talks to Dale about how he is working with the FBI to star in his own television show called "Ugly Sonic, Uglier Crimes". Chip and Dale later meet with Ugly Sonic to see if he can use his contacts with the FBI to help them find the Valley Gang. However, Ugly Sonic refuses to help them, making Dale doubt that he actually has a television show. He reappears once more inside an FBI helicopter during the movie's climax and manages to distract Sweet Pete long enough for Chip and Dale to drop a net of heavy equipment on top of him.
Video Games[]
Sonic Dash[]
The movie versions of Sonic and his younger self are playable characters in the game and can be unlocked during certain in-game events. They are referred to as "Movie Sonic" and "Baby Sonic" respectively.
Sonic Forces: Speed Battle[]
Movie Sonic and Baby Sonic became playable characters in the game after the 2.16.0 update and are both listed under Team Sonic.
Sonic Colors: The Ultimate Edition[]
Although Sonic's live-action movie incarnation does not make a physical appearance in the game, official artwork of him can be used as file avatars.
Comics[]
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Adventures of Sonic and Donut Lord[]
The Adventures of Sonic and Donut Lord is the official comic adaptation of the live-action movie. It has a similar plot to the film but it is told using 16-bit sprites.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill[]
In the official prequel comic to the 2022 film, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic had been left to watch over the Wachowski residence while Maddie was working at the clinic. He is told to stay clear of trouble until Tom and his friend, Wade, returned from their vacation. However, after only seven minutes since Maddie left the house, Sonic grew restless and decided to use his super-speed to explore Green Hills unseen. As he races through town, Sonic thinks about how some people still believe him to be a mass hallucination or escaped government experiment and expresses his desire to be seen as a hero. After returning home, Sonic notices a news bulletin on the television about a hostage situation in Washington and jumps at the chance to stop the crime himself.
He races to downtown Walla Walla where a group of armed men had broken into a bank to steal one of Dr. Robotnik's Control Gloves. Sonic asks a women named Lindsey to assist him in stopping the criminals, but as he searched the bank vault for their boss, Lindsey tasers him from behind since she is also one of the crooks. Sonic is locked inside the vault while Lindsey contacts the person who hired her group to commit the robbery. She mentions her encounter with Sonic to her employer and is told that she will be payed extra if they can deliver the hedgehog to him in one piece. Lindsey's associate Jason uses Robotnik's Control Glove to summon Badnik drones and have them lift the bank vault out of the building.
Meanwhile, Sonic was trying to escape his predicament and soon begins to rotate the vault using his speed while it is suspended in the air. The Badniks lose their grip on the vault and drops it back into the building, allowing Sonic to ram the vault door open and quickly incapacitate the criminals. Although a Badnik gets away with the Control Glove, Sonic has the crooks surrender to police and all the hostages were safe to leave. Satisfied with how things turned out, Sonic heads back to Green Hills, but not before helping himself to a box of donuts belonging to the police.
Appearance[]
Sonic's appearance is mostly similar to that of his video game counterpart, being a blue-furred, mobian hedgehog with gloves and brown boots when he was a little child. He later dawns two different shoes, one being green Velcro shoes and the other being white-ish laced shoes.
After receiving a gift from Jojo, he wears two red Puma shoes with white straps over them, with the Puma logo being yellow.
He has a black stubby nose and a topaz (or peach) stomach, muzzle and inner ears. He has blue legs, arms, a blue head and a small blue pointy tail. The same for his six, spiky quills he has on the back of his head and the two spines on his back.
Older Designs[]
In the first film's teaser poster, Sonic had muscular limbs and an enormous head. His red shoes and laces and he had no gloves. His head was similar to an actual hedgehog's head, having dotted, bulging green eyes and a muzzle pointing out along his nose.
In later posters (and the first trailer) of the first film, Sonic seemed smaller. He had a lot of human features, like his eyes, mouth (plus teeth), hands and other limbs. He had a small nose and a white stomach and white hands (with fingernails). His inner ears were pink, and he had the same shoes as his earlier design, with the exception of having white streaks bending.
Personality[]
Sonic is adventurous, cheeky, lively, fun-loving, and confident. He is a thrill-seeker who enjoys being able to go fast and live freely, which much of his early childhood was spent doing. However, this carefree nature can land him in trouble, as shown when he used his powers in the open despite being told to keep them hidden, allowing an echidna tribe to ambush him and Longclaw.
He is mostly fearless and cool under pressure, mocking and bantering with Dr. Robotnik during their encounters. Sonic is also very compassionate; after saving a turtle on the road, Sonic takes it for a ride so it can be fast for a change (although he accidentally traumatizes it in the process).
After being forced to flee his world and live on Earth for 10 years, Sonic became extremely lonely and insecure, as he was never able to interact with people lest they attempt to take his powers. His loneliness caused him to sometimes talk to himself when he was alone. It also caused him to long for a real friend to connect with (as highlighted in the bucket list he creates), which he eventually found in the form of Tom Wachowski.
The two quickly bond during their journey to recover Sonic's lost rings, where Sonic gains a better understanding of life on Earth and is thrilled to finally have a friend.
Sonic is very hyperactive and energetic. He constantly moves around at super-speed and does not sit still for long. For example, he could not resist the temptation to party in the Piston Pit.
He is also very interested in Earth's culture, and has picked up many interests and hobbies, such as baseball, playing guitar, watching action movies, and reading comic books. Sonic is very enthusiastic about trying new things and enjoys seeing new places. He is very confident, and he sometimes brags about his speed and skills, giving himself the nickname, the "Blue Blur". His confidence also extends to pride in his appearance, describing himself as "incredibly handsome". Sonic also shows a clever, resourceful side.
For example, when he was falling off the Transamerica Pyramid and could not reach one of his Rings, he plucked off one of his quills and stuck it through the Ring to get it and save Tom and Maddie.
Sonic is impulsive and tends to act without thinking, leading him to sometimes disobey others, such as when he used his super speed outside when Longclaw told him not to or when he went into the Piston Pit instead of staying in Tom's truck like he told him to. Sonic enjoys giving people nicknames, such as calling Tom "Donut Lord" and Maddie "Pretzel Lady".
He also has a sense of humor, as he enjoys making jokes and pretending to be other people.
Sonic's hobby of watching action movies and reading comics, combined with his lack of experience dealing with humans, gives him a slightly unrealistic view of the world and causes him to occasionally act irrationally, such as mimicking the characters in Speed by starting a fight with people in the Piston Pit instead of leaving the area and avoiding a fight.
Sonic is highly protective of his powers, being willing to spend years running away and living in hiding so that no one would discover or try to steal them. At the climax of his battle against Robotnik, however, he resolves to use them to protect his friends.
Sonic is also known to be friendly towards any animal he comes in contact with. For example, he rescued a turtle from being run over and showed it the joys of his speed.
Another example is when he met Tom's dog, Ozzy. Initially, he attempted to put up a jealous front due to Ozzy's status as Tom's best animal friend. However, when Ozzy expresses his like of Sonic by licking his face, Sonic found it both gross and touching.
Trivia[]
- The film was originally scheduled for release on November 8, 2019. However, after negative reaction to Sonic's previous design in the first trailer, which was released on April 30, Paramount Pictures delayed the film to February 14, 2020, pledging to redesign Sonic.
- Sonic's redesign and Ben Schwartz's portrayal are well-received by most fans as they felt the blue blur's film appearance were matching his early game's personality.
- However, some fans also feel that Ben Schwartz's performance makes Sonic sound too whiny in places, and instead wanted either Roger Craig Smith or Jaleel White to take over the role. Jaleel even admitted that he didn't get a call or email from the film's creators, though he's still confident that he is still a Sonic fan in general. The former however approved of Ben Schwartz's performance.
- And the film's distributor, Paramount Pictures, is the same studio that distributed the teen film Mean Girls (2004) with actress Lacey Chabert, who was the voice of Princess Elise in the infamous video game Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- Coincidentally, Gulf and Western Industries, which originally owned Paramount Pictures, also owned Sega from 1969 to 1984.
- When Sonic plays with nunchucks, he wears a headband with the logo from his first game on it.
- Sonic briefly references his classic American box art design's Mohawk style in the second film, when he was fooling around and making messes while throwing a personal party at home. He messes with his quills through alternate quill-styles until he found a style that he liked, which is a mohawk.
- Even though Sonic was cared for by Longclaw, the identity of Sonic's biological family is currently unknown in this timeline. It's also unknown what happened to them.
- This is the second incarnation of Sonic to have blue arms. The first being his Sonic Boom counterpart. It's also the first version to have two separate eyes.
- This is also the first incarnation of Sonic who wasn't wearing his trademark sneakers. Prior to that, he was wearing boots as a child and unmatchable worn-out gray sneakers as a teenager.
- The pose when Sonic dodging one of Dr. Robotnik's laser has a striking resemblance to his official Super Smash Bros. Ultimate render.
- Sonic's bioelectricity control ability maybe inspired by his Sonic X counterpart. In the episode, "Cracking Knuckles", he left a trait of electricity on running.
- In the most ironic twist, both of the actors who voiced Sonic are both named Benjamin: Benjamin "Ben" Schwartz and Benjamin L. Valic.
- Ben Schwartz voices and provides the facial motion-capture for Sonic.
- "It is an insane honor, an incredible honor," Ben Schwartz says of being hired to voice Sonic. "I was playing these games as a kid, so the idea that maybe my voice will be the one that brings in a new generation to the Sonic franchise it's incredible. I feel very, very lucky."
- When Sonic starts rolling along the ground, two sounds from the games play simultaneously: the iconic "Spin Attack" sound, and the "Dash Pad" sound.
- When Dr. Robotnik shoots missiles at Sonic on the roof of the Transamerica Pyramid, Sonic puts his hands on his hips and taps his foot impatiently, copying his idle animation pose from the games.
- Jim Carrey, who portrays Dr. Robotnik, is Ben Schwartz's favorite actor and hero.
- Artist Tyson Hesse, who worked on previous Sonic the Hedgehog media, was brought on to lead the redesign of Sonic.
- Sonic is shown sliding underneath a vehicle at one point to escape weapon fire from Dr. Robotnik. His pose while sliding is identical to both the sliding part of his somersault animation in the Sonic Advance games and his sliding animation in the modern games, particularly Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors, and Sonic Generations.
- When Sonic blinks, his upper eyelids are the same color as his fur, while his lower eyelids are the same color as his muzzle. This references how Sonic originally had flesh-colored eyelids that were later changed to fur-colored. On a similar note, when Sonic closes his eyes, one can see a line of small-but-present black eyelashes. He also had these in Sonic Adventure and Sonic X. He also has blue eyelids in Sonic Underground.
- Sonic can't swim in the film, or generally in his video games. However, according to Fay Vass from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society: "Actually, hedgehogs are great swimmers, they only get into trouble when ponds have steep edges, and they can't get out. But hedgehogs love a swim."
- Sonic's current video game voice actor, Roger Craig Smith, approved of Ben Schwartz, who voices Sonic in the movie. The two of them even met in June 2019.
- When Sonic gets a chance to drive as he and Tom flee Dr. Robotnik's drone tank, he calls up the Fast and the Furious franchise. Sonic says, "I feel just like Vin Diesel", and it echoes Dominic Toretto's refrain throughout the Fast series about how it's all about family. Neal H. Mortiz, a producer of the film, is also a producer of the Fast series.
- Sonic sneaks around the bar in a cowboy hat and baggy shirt. In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) Sonic was infamous for donning a variety of disguises.
- According to press interviews with IGN, Ben Schwartz's favorite Sonic video game is Sonic & Knuckles (1994). Ben Schwartz owned a Sega Game Gear as a child, and played the handheld port. Just prior to the film's release, Ben Schwartz invested in a Sega Genesis Mini, and talked about beating the original Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
- In a deleted scene, Longclaw actually escapes with Sonic to Earth, and the duo live together in hiding. In the end, Longclaw still dies before the main action of the story gets going, but she does so of old age, in Sonic's hideout, with Sonic by her side and caring for her. The majority of the clip is unfinished CGI, clearly this idea was scrapped and replaced with the version we got early on. But not too early. Some of the scene looks to be completely done, or very close to it, and it's complete with the version of Sonic that was shown in the film, not the earlier version that was met with an outcry from fans. This means this concept wasn't entirely dropped until some time after the redesign took place.
- As Sonic and Tom fight with Dr. Robotnik's drone, Sonic remarks that he "can't believe Amazon is going to deliver packages with these things." Amazon's "Prime Air" program is a very real thing that they're still trying to get off the ground to today.
- Ben Schwartz' third time voice acting in a theatrical film, after Turbo (2013) and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).
- According to early drafts of the script for the first film, Sonic's super form was originally going to appear in the latter. However, the transformation was cut, due to the fact that it didn't make any sense to be included this early, and because Jeff Fowler wanted to primarily focus more onto the origins of Sonic and Dr. Robotnik's relationship before introducing the other elements. Because of this, it appeared at the end of the sequel instead.
- Sonic is nicknamed "Blue Devil" in the first film by Crazy Carl, which is a reference to the car driven by his robotic nemesis, Metal Sonic, in the kart racing game Sonic Drift Racing (1995).
- Sonic has some food-related nicknames for people that he knows:
- Tom is Donut Lord for how he "interrogates" his donuts.
- Maddie is "Pretzel Lady" for how she does yoga on her back porch.
- He starts calling Dr. Robotnik "Eggman" (a classic name for the character) for how all of his drones are egg-shaped.
- Sonic is the fifth character voiced by Ben Schwartz to be associated with the color blue. The other four were: Skidmark in Turbo (2013), Uncle Steve the Troll in Nickelodeon's Wallykazam! (2014) two-parter special, Wallykazam!: The Big Goblin Problem (2015), Dewey Duck in DuckTales (2017), and Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018).
- The Flash is seen to be Sonic's favorite superhero. They are both speedster heroes, obviously. Ironically, DC and Sega worked together to make toys and Funko Pops that show Sonic as The Flash.
- Sonic's bare feet are never shown, but they are shown having five toes on Dr. Robotnik's foot scan.
- A young Sonic gives Longclaw a sunflower. They can be seen in the first level of Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).
- During his slow-motion moment in the bar fight, Sonic eats chili dogs and utterly enjoys them. Sonic is said to love chili dogs in the video games/cartoons.
- According to the writer of the IDW Sonic comics, Ian Flynn, this counterpart of Sonic is the fastest in the franchise, although this is a bit contradictory, considering that Sonic from the games and Archie Sonic have higher speed feats.
- When Sonic wakes up after Maddie administers the smelling salts, his first words are the character's longtime catchphrase, "Gotta go fast!"
- When Sonic moves into Tom and Maddie's attic, he gets a racecar bed, which he had in the Archie Comics "Sonic the Hedgehog" series.
- Sonic's constant distaste for mushrooms and the Mushroom Planet refers to the Mushroom Hill Zone in Sonic & Knuckles (1994), where Sonic met Knuckles the Echidna, as well as his occasional rivalry with the Nintendo character Mario, who uses mushrooms to become powerful.
- In the first film, Sonic's feelings towards water aren't fully shown, but he does get a bit annoyed when he apparently runs into water in a single attempt to find San Francisco by himself. However, In the second film, is shown to dislike vast bodies of water because he is unable to swim, or even stay afloat in water for long, if at all.
- Early in the film, when Sonic is hiding from the people of Green Hills, Crazy Carl keeps trying to catch him. He draws a picture of Sonic, and the drawing happens to look exactly like the internet meme Sanic Hegehog.
- Sonic says, "Gotta Go Fast!", when Maddie wakes him with smelling salts, referencing the heavily memed line from the theme song of Sonic X. Later on, Jojo, Tom's niece, is seen running around the coffee table repeating the phrase ad nauseam.
- At the Piston Pit, Sonic orders nachos and buffalo wings. And when the order doesn't arrive, he downs an entire basket of chili dogs during his Bullet Time run inside the bar.
- Sonic uses grungy used sneakers to run around in for most of the first film, but he gets his trademark red and white sneakers later on.
- Sonic the Hedgehog has shades of this in both design and personality:
- Following the redesign, Sonic's design has struck a balance between his Classic, Modern, and Boom designs. He has the height, larger torso, and attire from the Classic design in addition of being a little bit younger, the green eyes, darker blue fur color, and quill length of the Modern design, and the blue arms, scruffy/bushy quills, and visible neck and shoulders from his Boom design. He also maintains his general expressiveness from all three designs. Additionally, his trainers appear to be a hybrid of both his iconic Power Sneakers and the Soap Shoes from Sonic Adventure 2.
- Personality-wise, he's mainly his Modern self: being cocky, cool and not being one to take most things seriously, but simultaneously knowing when to step up once things truly get dangerous. However, he also likes to horse around and be silly much like his Sonic Boom and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog incarnations.
- In regards to his abilities, along with his speed he also has electrical powers which are tied to his emotions, specifically his anger. The only character in the Sonic mythos who has elemental powers that are fueled by emotions is Blaze the Cat.
- The film's version of the Rings are a composite of the Rings that players collect in the games and the Giant Rings in the games that act as transport to the Special Zones. This has the effect of making the rings identical in appearance and function to the Warp Rings created by Doctor Finitevus in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics).
- Longclaw being an owl who is initially the only character on Sonic’s world to be aware of Sonic’s existence, makes her a rough analogue of Sophocles, an owl from Stay Sonic who was mentioned as the first one to discover Sonic. But her acting as Sonic’s mentor and Parental Substitute and being the one to give him the Power Rings is taken from Uncle Chuck from Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM). She is also a mother figure to Sonic that has to abandon him at a young age to protect him from a greater threat much like Queen Aleena from Sonic Underground.
- The first trailer shows Sonic causing the EMP blast by running down a remote road too fast. The accident actually happened at a baseball field.
- The second trailer implies the accident was the result of Sonic running too fast scoring points, being reckless, not caring about any collateral damage he may be causing. In the actual film, however, it's an Angst Nuke, as Sonic's loneliness and frustration from 10 years of forced isolation finally boil over. He also reacts to the EMP with immediate horror, and it's implied he didn't even know he could do that.
- The trailer makes it appear that Sonic is enjoying his life on Earth despite being alone. This isn't the case at all. He was forced out of his own home planet to escape capture, and he hasn't interacted with anyone in 10 years, which turned him into a depressed loner.
- The trailers also show Sonic wearing his signature red sneakers throughout, while in the film, he spends most of his screentime wearing worn-out mismatched grey shoes. He wouldn't receive his super sneakers until about two-thirds into the film.
- Despite this, the scene that takes place right later on in the film is shown right at the beginning of the film, and Sonic himself claims how he ended up in that situation, where Sonic runs through San Francisco while Dr. Robotnik chases him in his egg pod, and of course is wearing his signature red sneakers since he received them from Jojo (Rachel's daughter) right before the said scene.
- The second trailer also shows Sonic running around the Green Hill Zone-esque island on his homeworld as a teenager and notably wearing his signature red sneakers, which he only received on earth in the film. In the film, Sonic was forced to flee from his homeworld as a small child and has not returned since. This trailer scene very well notably refers to the first level of Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) when the player moves Sonic through Green Hill Zone.
- A trailer for Baby Sonic depicts him wearing his signature red shoes instead of brown boots in the scene from the film where he gifts Longlaw a sunflower. A Japanese poster of Baby Sonic also depicts him wearing his red shoes.
- On the cover of the novelization for the first film, Sonic is seen wearing basic red and white shoes which he is not nowhere wearing in the actual film. This was also used in some stock artwork's of him, instead of wearing his signature red and white sneakers.
- Some lines from the film are used in different contexts between the trailer and the films. For example, Sonic saying "Gotta Go Fast!" isn't said when he's about to start running along the Montana desert highway, but rather after being woken with smelling salts.
- The trailers played fast and loose with the detail of why Sonic is on Earth. The first trailer and the international version of the second trailer states Sonic came to Earth to save it, but in the actual film the actual reason why Sonic is on Earth is because his adoptive mother, Longclaw, sent him to Earth a decade ago to protect him from the Echidna Tribe who was after his power. The US version of the second trailer was more honest about this, with Sonic talking about how on his world "people were always after my power".
- This is how Sonic's offensive abilities actually work. His body starts producing blue lightning whenever he starts feeling angry, extreme joy, sorrow, etc. while his eyes would turn from green to glowing blue. The first example of this power being shown was during the baseball scene where Sonic realizes that he is completely all alone and all the stress of being alone on Earth for 10 years causes Sonic to emit a powerful electromagnetic blast that caused a blackout across the Pacific. Come the end of the film, The Power of Friendship causes Sonic to consciously bring out his full power, and it's implied that he has learned to control this.
- Sonic's motivation is making a real friend. Because of Longclaw's instruction to never let anyone see him, Sonic stays out of sight in Green Hills. But then, he becomes desperately lonely after so much isolation. One of the items on his "bucket list" is to make a real friend. By the end of the film, he made a genuine friend with Tom and his wife, Maddie.
- When Sonic is watching Speed behind the Wachowskis' back, he repeats the "Pop quiz, hot shot" line from said movie. He says the line again at the Piston Pit, right before he instigates the Bar Brawl.
- Sonic doesn't get a lot of people to talk to. So, once he does, it's hard to shut him up. Even when Tom and Maddie step outside to have a moment to themselves, Sonic's still talking in the other room, even though no one's listening to him. Even before Sonic gets anyone to interact with he's seen talking to himself repeatedly, which is implied to be a coping mechanism to deal with his loneliness.
- Along with Knuckles, his childhood is shown, while his game counterpart's childhood is a mystery.
- As he is officially claimed to be 13 years old in the first film, this means that he was born in 2006-2007 in this timeline.
- As it's being claimed that he was living on Earth for 10 years, he came to Earth in 2010. But in the Knuckles TV series, it's revealed that he lived in a cave for seven years. Also, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is set in 2024, which was the year that the film was released. This could mean that he actually came to Earth in 2013.
- He is the second CGI main hero to be friends with a character portrayed by James Marsden. The first being E.B. from Hop.
- His design as a child appears to be inspired by the look of Classic Sonic.
- Ben Schwartz and Keanu Reeves, who voices Shadow, previously worked together in the 2022 DC animated film DC League of Super-Pets. Ben Schwartz voiced Mark and Keanu Reeves voiced Batman.
- Much like his original American, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Archie, Sonic the Comic, SatAM, and Sonic Underground counterparts, he hails from the planet Mobius.
- Although this quote isn't present in the film, Sonic calling the doctor "Robuttnik" in the novelization is one of Sonic's most famous insults to Dr. Robotnik in the original Sonic cartoons and comics.
- If Sonic is compared to lying on his bean bag chair from the first film to him doing the same in the Knuckles TV show trailer, it shows that Sonic has grown taller.
- In the first film and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic refers to Dr. Robotnik as Eggman. In Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic Drone Home, and the Knuckles TV series, he refers to Dr. Robotnik by his name.
- The Knuckles TV series marks the first Sonic the Hedgehog television series where he doesn't serve as the main protagonist of the show, as he only appears in the first episode. It's also the second Sonic the Hedgehog television series where Sonic doesn't appear in every episode. The first being Sonic X. In that television series, his Sonic X counterpart is absent in two episodes.
- So far, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the only film where Sonic doesn't say "Uh, meow?" It's also the only film where he meets new characters in the mid credits scene instead of during the main events of the film or in a future sequel. In this case, he meets Metal Sonic and Amy Rose.
- Unlike the first two films, Baby Sonic doesn't make a physical appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Instead, he appears in a drawing that Sonic drew on his first night on Earth.
- Tom claimed that Sonic was trying to act like Batman at the start of the second film.
- Compared to his game counterpart, specifically in the 1990s, this incarnation of him seems to be one of the goofiest save for having seriousness in half of occasions, specifically final battles.
- According to Toby Ascher, the producer of the Sonic the Hedgehog film series, Shadow, who is the complete opposite in demeanor of Sonic, is the what-if version of Sonic if he didn't meet Tom and Maddie.
- Back in the 90's, a Sonic the Hedgehog film was in development, but with two different versions:
- The first draft was an in-name-only version, where Sonic was a human teenage delinquent named Jimmy Hedgeman with an estranged father and then mutated into a hedgehog. He would've went on a mission to rescue his father from a mad scientist who was creating mutants. The idea was rejected by Sega as it was an In-Name-Only adaption.
- When Agent Stone takes off his helmet and shows himself to Team Sonic, Sonic and Tails look surprised to see him, even though they've never met him before. However, it's possible that Knuckles told them about his time with Dr. Robotnik and Agent Stone before the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
External Links[]
- Sonic the Hedgehog at the Sonic Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Sonic the Hedgehog at the Sonic Wiki
- Sonic the Hedgehog at the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Sonic the Hedgehog at the Shonen Heroes Wiki
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