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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 |
| “ | Gotta go fast! | „ |
| ~ Sonic’s catchphrase |
Sonic the Hedgehog is the titular main protagonist of the Sonic Cinematic Universe.
He is an anthropomorphic hedgehog born on an alien planet called Mobius with the rare power to harness chaos energy, giving him supersonic speed. He was forced to leave his home world from evil forces and build a life for himself on Earth, eventually becoming the planet's protector and guardian. He is the film's adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog from the video game franchise.
He is voiced and motion-captured by Ben Schwartz, who also voices Skidmark in Turbo, Dewey Duck in the 2017 reboot of DuckTales, Randy Cunningham in 9th Grade Ninja, Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Banarnar in The LEGO Movie 2: The 2nd Part, 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 "Teen Sonic" and "Baby Sonic" respectively.
Sonic Forces: Speed Battle[]
Teen 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 Linsey to assist him in stopping the criminals, but as he searched the bank vault for their boss, Linsey tasers him from behind since she is also one of the crooks. Sonic is locked inside the vault while Linsey 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. Linsey'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) belly, 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 belly 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, 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.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Superhuman Speed: Sonic's main power is his immense superhuman speed as Tails has stated that he is the fastest creature in the galaxy. When Sonic runs, he creates a blue energy trail. He is said to be able to move at supersonic speeds and during his fight with Dr. Robotnik in Egypt, Sonic can even generate sand tornadoes by running around in circles to disrupt Dr. Robotnik's visual contact. He can move so fast that it looks like time has stopped from his perspective as is shown when Sonic took out the thugs including the punk leader during a bar fight and destroying Dr. Robotnik's drones in Transamerica Pyramid, for everyone else, he is like a blue blur,or even travel long distances without any difficulty, like when he ran from a place in Montana to the Pacific Ocean (which is hundreds of kilometers of distance in just a few seconds). As a side-effect of this ability, Sonic also has a super-fast pulse rate, even while unconscious. Sonic is also fast enough to run above water and even leap in-between colossal waves and briefly regain his momentum, until the waves overexerts him to the point of unconsciousness and risk of drowning.
- Accelerated Thought Process: Sonic is even capable of thinking and processing information at super speed, being capable of reading through a meter-high stack of The Flash comics in about a second.
- Accelerated Perception: Sonic thanks to his speed has a reaction time that is fast enough to counter an incoming attack moving at near lightspeed and make everything in his environment like time stopping.
- Superhuman Reflexes: His reflexes are noticeably better than the average human, allowing him to react to attacks incredibly quickly and accurately. Sonic's shown quick enough to dodge most of Knuckles' rapid punches until he gets caught off guard.
- Hypermetabolism: Sonic thanks to his speed, have a fast metabolism. When he was knocked out by one of Tom's tranquilizers, he manages to recover himself from the tranq's effects in minutes.
- Accelerated Thought Process: Sonic is even capable of thinking and processing information at super speed, being capable of reading through a meter-high stack of The Flash comics in about a second.
- Ball Form/Spin Attack: Sonic's signature move this is done by rolling and turning himself into a ball, he attacks with his spikes at full speed this allows him to break through objects and he can combine this with his chaos energy. It has enough force to destroy one of Dr. Robotnik's mobile vehicles. In his third fight with Knuckles, his spin dash is powerful enough to plow repeatedly through thick layers of stone.
- Chaos Energy Empowerment: Sonic is able to naturally emit Chaos Energy from his body to give himself the power of super-speed. He is also capable of harnessing power from the seven Chaos Emeralds to become Super Sonic. This power seems to be linked to his emotional state. If he feels extreme emotions, Sonic will start generating blue energy that causes his quills and eyes to glow blue and his body to unleash surges of energy akin to lightning bolts. Conversely, should Sonic harness this energiy for himself, this energy seem to amplify his speed, strength and spin attack, providing the latter with enough power to hit the Eggpod hard enough to send it flying in the opposite direction, break down a bank vault's sealed door, and clash with the similarly charged Knuckles. Even if Sonic's quills are separated from him, they will retain some of the energy he creates and react to Sonic's emotional state from a distance; the energy output from these quills is astronomical, with even one of them possessing unlimited power.
- Bio-Electrokinesis: Sonic can emit blue colored electricity from his body when using his speed or when he gets very emotional. He can use this to powered up his attacks to become more powerful like with his spin attack.
- EMP Blast: By running in a circle at top speed, Sonic can generate an EMP blast. He generated enough EMP to disable the entire Pacific Northwest, and considering each of his quills is said to store unlimited energy, he could potentially be powerful enough to literally shake the universe (also in the second movie, explains that when Sonic did that EMP, the energy generated was feel even in the planet of Tails, which is somewhere in the universe).
- Energy Absorption: Sonic can drain his own Chaos Energy from his separated quills by literally pulling the energy out of them, although they will eventually regain their power. He can also absorb energy from lightning Sonic used this in his final fight with Dr. Robotnik and his flying vehicle in Green Hills in order to restore his strength.
- Fulgurkinesis: Sonic is also shown the ability to summon lightning from the sky. He used this in his final battle against Eggman in Green Hills in the first movie in order to absorb its energy and restore his strength.
- Bio-Electrokinesis: Sonic can emit blue colored electricity from his body when using his speed or when he gets very emotional. He can use this to powered up his attacks to become more powerful like with his spin attack.
- Superhuman Strength and Durability: Sonic is able to dent objects made of metal or stone without sustaining any damage on his body, but an explosion is enough to knock him unconscious. He is also able to cause significant damage to Knuckles in battle, as well as repeatedly take heavy blows from the former and keep on fighting with little struggle.
Super Sonic[]
- Nigh-Omnipotence: Due to being infused with the Seven Chaos Emeralds' power Super Sonic possesses immeasurable god-like power which makes him the most powerful being in the universe. He has shown to be invulnerable to injury, easily capable of super-strength, able to turn his thoughts into reality, and can possibly perform various other incredible feats on a whim.
- Mentifery: Super Sonic can bring anything he wants into existence by thought alone. He uses this ability to create some Chili Dogs after Dr. Robotnik's defeat.
- Flight: Super Sonic can fly at incredibly high speeds. He was able to cut off the head of Dr. Robotnik's Giant Eggman Robot using his flight speed alone.
- Immense Superhuman Strength: Super Sonic possesses an incredible amount of strength. He was able to hold and lift the foot of Dr. Robotnik's Giant Eggman Robot without any problem and when Dr. Robotnik tries to punch Sonic with the Giant robot's fist Sonic was able to stop it with ease like it was no problem at all.
- Immense Superhuman Durability: Sonic as Super Sonic also possess incredible durability, able to catch a punch from the Giant Eggman Robot's colossal fist without hurting himself.
- Immence Superhuman Speed: Sonic's speed has also increased in his Super Sonic mode his speed was great enough to let him circle the Giant Eggman Robot multiple times in a matter of seconds and slice its head off with sheer speed
Abilities[]
- Survival Skills: Sonic has good survival skills he was able to live alone in the wild on Earth for ten years without problem he was also able to enjoy it from time to time, but he always wanted friends and family.
- Dancer: Sonic is a skilled dancer, whether he is dancing by himself or with a partner.
- Leadership: He is also a capable leader he inspires others and come up with good battle strategies.
- Combatant: Even he has no formal training Sonic possess some skills in Hand-to-hand combat he was able to keep up and adapt to even Knuckles who is known as the most dangerous warrior in the galaxy in combat. However, Sonic's fighting prowess is rather unrefined and crude, as he has undergone no forms of combat training for his entire life. Knuckles has even deemed him unskilled and untrained in the field of combat, but regardless, in close combat, Sonic is extremely self-taught, and highly adept in combat skills during his battle against Dr. Robotnik in his Giant Eggman Robot when he's shown to take out the drones.
- Snowboarding: Sonic has shown to get the hang of snowboarding rather quickly when pursued by Knuckles and Dr. Robotnik.
Equipment[]
- Portal Rings: Sonic possessed a bag of golden rings that allowed him to open portals to any location he wanted to travel. To use a ring, one just needs to imagine their desired location and throw the ring to open a portal. Unfortunately, Sonic loses his bag of rings during a fight with Knuckles and Dr. Robotnik at the alps.
- Longclaw's Map: A map Longclaw left to Sonic when she sent him to Earth. It contains instructions on what Sonic needed to do if he was discovered by the planet's inhabitants. It also contained a hidden message from Longclaw about the Master Emerald which would play when Sonic's energy interacted with it.
Quotes[]
| “ | I'm Sonic, a little ball of super energy, in an extremely handsome package! | „ |
| ~ Sonic's self-introduction in the trailer of the first film |
| “ | So, I know what you're thinking. "Why is that incredibly handsome hedgehog being chased by a madman with a mustache from the Civil War?" Well to be honest, it feels like I've been running my whole life. Is this too much? Am I going too fast? It's kinda what I do; you know what? Let's back up. | „ |
| ~ Sonic's opening narration; also his first words |
| “ | This is the island where I'm from. It had everything. Sandy beaches, cascading waterfalls, public access to loop-de-loops. And I never had to catch a school bus, because I could run across the entire island in less than two seconds. Also, there was no school. | „ |
| ~ Sonic about his island of where he's from |
| “ | No one saw me, I'm too fast. And... I wanted to bring you this. | „ |
| ~ Young Sonic giving a flower to Longclaw |
| “ | My favorite person is the Donut Lord. Protector of this town, and defender of all creatures big and small. | „ |
| ~ Sonic about Tom Wachowski during his narration |
| “ | Pop quiz, hotshot. You just picked a fight with a poorly disguised hedgehog who's seen way too many action movies. What do you do? What do you do? | „ |
| ~ Sonic |
| “ | So, you're supposed to be Tom's "best friend" that he won't shut up about. Well, I don't see the appeal. | „ |
| ~ Sonic meeting Tom and Maddie's dog Ozzy |
| “ | Guess what, Eggman?! I'm not leaving Earth! YOU are! Donut Lord? | „ |
| ~ Sonic before banishing Dr. Robotnik into the Mushroom Planet |
| “ | Holy Sherbert! | „ |
| ~ Sonic |
| “ | No need to thank me, citizens. All in a night's work for... BLUE JUSTICE! | „ |
| ~ Sonic after saving the night in Seattle |
| “ | I miss you, Longclaw. I'm trying to make you proud. | „ |
| ~ Sonic holding a feather of Longclaw |
| “ | Sonic: Eggman?! (Dr. Robotnik blows out the taser like a candle and looks at Sonic) Dr. Robotnik: Hello, Hedgehog. Did you miss me? Sonic: I don't know how you got back, but you made a big mistake coming here. Dr. Robotnik: Au contraire mon frère. The mistake was thinking you'd won. But that was just a prelude; an hors d'oeuvre, an apéritif, an amuse-bouche. Sonic: (Tersely) I get it. Dr. Robotnik: (chuckles) I don't think you do. But you're about to. And so will that idiot sheriff and his wife. (Sonic makes a fist with chaos energy building up) Dr. Robotnik: (Mimicking voice of the Wicked Witch of the West) AND YOUR LITTLE DOG, TOO! |
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| ~ Sonic realizing Dr. Robotnik's back on Earth for revenge |
| “ | You forgot one; Unstoppable. | „ |
| ~ Sonic to Knuckles who underestimated him |
| “ | WHAT IS GOING ON?! Robotnik's back?! And who is Clifford the Big Red-Rage Monster!? | „ |
| ~ Sonic realizing the Earth is in danger again |
| “ | Oh great! The Winter Soldier! | „ |
| ~ Sonic after seeing Knuckles chasing him on a snowboard |
| “ | Sonic: For a guy named "Knuckles", you are really bad at punching! Knuckles: Surrender the compass! You're no match for me! I've been training for this my entire life! Sonic: And I have no training at all, yet here I am ahead of you! That's gotta be embarrassing! |
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| ~ Sonic confronting Knuckles while snowboarding |
| “ | This is what we're gonna do. Step one, light taunting. Step two, I have no idea. | „ |
| ~ Sonic to Tails |
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'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'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 Schwartz's performance.[1]
- And the film's distribution, Paramount Pictures, is the same studio that distributed the teen film Mean Girls (2004) with actress Lacey Chabert who is the voice of Princess Elise in the infamous video game Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- 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.
- When Sonic plays with nunchaku, he wears a headband with the logo from his first game on it.
- He briefly references his classic American box art design's Mowhawk style in the second film, when he was fooling around and making messes while throwing a personal party at home, messing with his quills through alternate quill-styles till he found a style he liked, being a mohawk.
- Even though Sonic was cared for by Longclaw, the identity of Sonic's biological family is currently unknown in this timeline. Its also unknown whatever happened to them.
- This is the second incarnation of Sonic to have blue arms, the first being his Sonic Boom counterpart and the first version to have two separate eyes.
- This is also to be 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, where in the episode "Cracking Knuckles", he left a trait of electricity on running.
- In the most ironic twist, both actors who voiced Sonic are both named Benjamin: Benjamin "Ben" Schwartz and Benjamin L. Valic.
- Ben Schwartz voices, and also 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 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.
- Sonic is shown sliding underneath a vehicle at one point to escape weapon fire from 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 this 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. "I feel just like Vin Diesel," Sonic says, and 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). Schwartz owned a Sega Game Gear as a child, and played the handheld port. Just prior to the film's release, 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' 3rd 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 lattter. However, the transformation was cut due to the fact that it did not 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. So it instead appeared at the end of the sequel.
- Sonic is nicknamed "Blue Devil" in the movie 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 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.
- and he starts calling Dr. Robotnik "Eggman" (a classic name for the character) for how all 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. Both are speedster heroes, obviously.
- 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 movie, Sonic's feelings towards water are not 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 movie, 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, 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 movie, but 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 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 hasn't interacted with anyone in 10 years, turning 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 screen-time wearing worn-out mismatched grey shoes. He wouldn't receive his super sneakers until about two-thirds into the movie.
- 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 movie are used in different contexts between the trailer and the movies. 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 that his adoptive mother Longclaw sent him to Earth a decade ago to protect him from an echidna tribe 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 is 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 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 movie, he's 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 counterparts one is a mystery.
- As he is officially claimed to be 13 years old in the first film, this means he was born in 2006-2007 in this timeline.
- As its being claimed he was living on Earth for 10 years, he came to Earth in 2010.
- 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.
- 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 while this quote is not 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 from the first movie to him doing the same in the Knuckles TV show trailer, it shows Sonic has grown bigger.
References[]
External Links[]
- Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sonic Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sonic Wiki
- Sonic the Hedgehog on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Sonic the Hedgehog on the Shonen Heroes Wiki
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