THE ULTIMATE SONIC ICEBERG! | Over 300 entries!

[Music] uh if you ask me what my favorite franchise is of all time i will answer without hesitation sonic the hedgehog i grew up playing the games on the genesis and dreamcast and in general the series has always been a big part of my life sonic is one of the biggest multimedia franchises in the world and it has tons of media to enjoy from games to comics to shows and even a movie as a result a lot of information has fallen to history thankfully a user on reddit noah's arrowmerson took it upon themselves to make the ultimate sonic iceberg this iceberg goes over everything sonic from the games to the side material and details everything from the memes to lost media to fan theories to obscure trivia and everything in between there are over 300 entries on this iceberg so i'll try to be brief as possible before i jump into the iceberg it would be awesome if you go fast and subscribe to the channel and hit the bell as well for notifications on future videos with all that all the way let's start the sonic iceberg it's way past cool [Music] blast processing this was a marketing term from sega to make the genesis sound more powerful than the super nintendo and explain how sonic can move super fast on the almighty sega genesis it certainly worked as the genesis sold it very well in north america and people still remember blast processing to this day movie redesign the first trailer for the sonic movie had this thing as sonic's design some suits at paramount thought that this homunculus of a character was a better design than the design sega has been keeping relevant for years thankfully god and the entire world hated it and we got a much more appealing design for the final movie some remnants of the initial design can be found in merchandise for the movie i know it doesn't exist but i would love to see the full cut of the movie with the original design in place sonic xtreme one of the most infamous games of all time is sonic xtreme a game that never properly released what was supposed to be the killer app before the sega saturn ended up having one of the worst productions of all time everything that could have gone wrong went wrong including technical issues poor leadership bad communication a movie tie-in deal that went nowhere and finally health issues sonic stream is a rabbit hole that's very interesting if you are into game development or just like unreleased games i really can't go too much in detail about sonic xtreme in this video because this video is long enough as is but there are plenty of videos out there detailing sonic xtreme's rough history not all is lost as fans did try remaking extreme in their own way and some ideas were unintentionally used for sonic lost world and hot take that's one of the best sonic games hidden palace sonic 2 is infamous for how much content was cut before the final product one of the most infamous bits of material that got left on the cutting room floor was hidden while it wasn't in sonic 2 proper the mobile port does include a playable map of hidden palace zone as a bonus it was also a playable stage in sonic 3 and knuckles but has a totally different layout tails doll an original character from sonic r tails doll is a robot version of the twin-tailed foxtails thanks to his creepy appearance he's become one of sonic's more popular characters and has been in several creepypastas sonic.exe another creepypasta this one turned into a fan game and animation there's some cool imagery in it and i like how fans took this silly idea of a haunted game and made a little world out of it for me personally i never got into creepypastas they just were never anything for me but between sonic.exe and the tales doll sonic was always a part of the creepypasta scene michael jackson shamone michael jackson was a gamer and he picked sega he was a fan of the company and worked with sega on several occasions it's been heavily implied but not how i confirmed that jackson wrote several tunes for sonic 3 but went uncredited the two reasons given for this is either a jackson was unsatisfied with the genesis and sound ship or b there was some drama around jackson at the time and it was just easier to not give him any credits brad buxer one of jackson's collaborators did admit to working on the game but was unsure of what tracks made it into the final product whenever sonic 3 is brought up for re-release it is always said that the music is an issue holding the game back that said as of 2021 there seems to be something that was worked out as the game is getting important to modern systems dreams come true a japanese pop group from the late 80s they are credited for composing the music for sonic 1 and 2 on the genesis more specifically masato nakamura who composed the music supposedly sega has to pay out the nose for his music and i can't find the original soundtracks to sonic 1 or 2 on spotify ugandan knuckles do you know the way this bastard was everywhere in 2018. basically someone took a parody animation of knuckles and made a 3d model of it for vr chat paired it with someone saying do you know the way in an accent and became an internet meme carnival night barrel in sonic 3 there's a barrel and carnival night zone that you have to move by moving up and down on the d-pad a lot of people got stuck here there's even a rumor that a gaming help hotline had an automated message just for the barrel since then yujinaka has apologized for the barrel sonic bible each series has a bible that contains information about the series sonic had one and it was the earliest backstory for the character and it was uh it was very different sonic was a brown hedgehog called sani and he grew into the blue hedgehog we all know and love it was a weird script and was used as the basis for the sonic promo comic by sega of america some british promo material and the novel stay sonic big's big fishing adventure made by sega of virgin islands for april fools you play as big in a visual novel and it's a game that parodies and makes fun of the sonic series again this is a joke made by sega but does have a lot of continuity nods to the main franchise beta wendy valley wendy valley and sonic adventure 1 had a totally different look and geometry and the beta builds of adventure that said some promotional screenshots for the dx remake for the gamecube did have betta windy valley remade and it appears in the intro and in amy's flashback where she's captured by metal sonic the sonic cycle a new sonic game is announced fans get hyped game comes out disappoints new game is announced and the cycle repeats every time a new sonic title is announced this discourse will always appear cope a mysterious sign in spring yard zone cope what sonic coping with it probably means nothing but it's just funny that this is here i guess it was a warning of the copium meme soap shoes in sonic adventure 2 the ability to grind was added to sonic and shadow's moveset as a form of promotion sonic wore soap shoes in the game and there were ads for the shoes in the game too it must have been a really late deal as the demo 4 adventure 2 had sonic where his classic kicks leave a comment if you wore soap shoes i'm out of here in sonic cd if sonic idles for three minutes he says i'm out of here in perfect english and the player gets a game over for ignoring sonic nice cameos knights is one of sonic team's more beloved games knights has appeared in sonic here and there such as having a pinball table and adventure 1 and in pinball party appearing in radical highway in adventure 2 in generations and having a ciao dragon ball z parallels dragon ball z is without a doubt one of the most influential series ever and sonic paid tribute to the series sonic is compared to the laid-back goku the stern rivaled nicholas's piccolo the [ __ ] arrival is shadow and he's compared to vegeta silver was literally called trunks in internal data the seven chaos emeralds pay tribute to the seven dragon balls and of course the super modes are tributes to super saiyans hilariously enough goku and vegeta would pay tribute to sonic with their blue super saiyan forms pingas a meme from the adventures of sonic the hedgehog where robotnik says snoop ping as usual and it sounds like he's saying well penis or pingas as they would be written in text also memed was ah happiness is always so much more enjoyable when it's based on the misery of millions i would have played you the clips but i got claimed when i tried using adventures of song the hedgehog clips so yeah you can look at it on your own oh man youtube poops take me home country roads rad mobile prior to the debut of sonic 1 sonic made a cameo in the arcade game rad mobile as a toy hanging from the rear view mirror magic gloves a unique upgrade found for sonic on city escape magic gloves can take most enemies out and when hit by changing them into a ball which sonic can throw it is underutilized in the game as you can't get it on your first playthrough of city escape and there aren't any puzzles or level designs that require the gloves to complete nazo in the pilot for sonic x there was an alternate version of super sonic who briefly appeared according to the series producer takashi zuka naza was an early design for super sonic and the name came from an image found on sonic team's website nazo means mysterious in japanese and has become a character and fan works no way no way if you lock certain games onto sonic and knuckles you'll have this image of all the sonic characters posing with the no way tech scrolling but if you have sonic 1 put into soccer knuckles if you put on a code then you can play the game blue sphere stupid sonic sometimes sonic looks a little bit off one notable example here is seen on the sonic 3d blast menu there was once a whole tumblr blog devoted to stupid sonic faces sonic swearing in japan they are way more lenient on casual english curse words than in america sonic will occasionally drop a dirty word as seen here in sonic x [Music] [ __ ] ashura glitch ashrae is a fan name to a glitch in sonic 2 where if you mess around with the debug mode it turns sonic green while a glitch fans did take to the green sonic design and gave it the name ashura and gave us some backstory and he appears and fan works sonic's band an early concept for sonic had sonic jamming in a rock band it was supposed to be in the sound test for sonic 1 but it was scrapped the only character to survive from this day is vector in the games but the other characters do appear in the comics you're named the hedgehog people enjoy making sonic ocs to the point of mimetic levels it's guaranteed that if you search your name plus hedgehog you will find your first sona here's zach the hedgehog rom hacks and fan games there is a huge modding and fan game community for sonic a lot of them being pretty good there's so many fan games out there that i can't even begin to cover in this video sega seems okay with them as long as none of the games are sold for profits christian whitehead actually got to start doing fan games before doing stuff officially for sega fans resurrected shadow the hedgehog shadow dies at the end of sonic adventure 2 spoiler alert supposedly shadow was going to stay dead but fan demand had him come back during the development of heroes sonic team was having internal debates about shadow staying dead or not ultimately shadow was brought back as become a mainstay in the sonic series splats a bunny based badnik splats was supposed to be in the first sonic game and it was even submerged but got cut splats made its official debut in sonic mania but could have been accessed in the mobile port of sonic 1 with debug mode it should also be noted that sonic was going to be a bunny in some of the earlier designs of the character but it was scrapped because it didn't quite mesh well with the faster pace that sega wanted for sonic the hedgehog amy was named to sally for sonic cd and the japanese version of sonic cd amy was called the rosie the rascal in europe she was called amy and in america she was called sally to tie into the comics and cartoons however this was quickly dropped and has been called amy ever since hydro city's pronunciation it's been a debate among fans to how to pronounce the name hydro city i used to say hydrocity but it is in fact hydrocity zone two words sonic says sonic says where psa messages at the end of adventures of sonic the hedgehog the one where sonic talks about getting sexually assaulted is easily the most infamous while a good message it's hilarious coming from sonic and became a gold mine for memes why does sonic need a car sonic is fast so why does he need a car that is a common question whenever a sonic racer comes out in story is to give a fair race to the other racers from a technical perspective having sonic drift or transform without a car is pretty weird so it's just easier to put him in the car unused goggles in sonic 1 there is data for goggles it has been speculated that it would have been used to help sonic in underwater segments given that there is only one stage and one act in the whole title to have water as a threat it probably would have been underused in the game proper mean b machine is puyo puyo if you watched my puyo puyo video you would know that mean beam machine is a localized version of puyo puyotsu my guess is sega thought that a sonic spinoff would sell better than a puyo title in america debug mode debug modes are necessary and software to well debug the software in the 2d sonic games the debug modes could be accessed using codes and allows you to mess around with the game tails crashes the tornado and heroes in the opening movie to sonic heroes tails and knuckles are in the tornado talking to sonic tails and knuckles jump out of the tornado and follow sonic so what happens to the tornado it probably crashed unless it has autopilot given that tails forgot to put in landing gear in adventure 1 tails probably crashed a very expensive airplane sami classic sonic fan this was a young youtuber who did reviews focus on sonic and was infamous for his rant videos the two i know are stop hating on sonic and rant against the sonic fanbase he's been memed on and had a little bit of a comeback but quit youtube all of his videos have been archived the sonic twitter around 2015 or so sega hired a new marketing guy aaron webber for sonic's social media outlets and has become prime mean material frequently making fun of the sonic series the fans posting memes and in general being a laugh i'm not sure if the sonic twitter was the first corporate social media account to embrace the memes and humor that would become popular with other corporate accounts but it's the first one i know of i think aaron roberts still works for sega but he's no longer behind the sonic social media accounts sanic sonic is a poorly drawn version of sonic that popped up in 2010 it's another infamous sonic meme that inspired a lot of intentionally bad sonic artwork it's been acknowledged by sega themselves in the sonic twitter it was a shirt in sonic forces and had a brief cameo in the movie wreck-it ralph wreck-it ralph was a pixar movie that involved gaming several video game characters appeared in the movie such as mario zangief and of course sonic ralph would appear as a playable character in the game sonic and all-stars racing transformed sonic runners this was a mobile game that was active from 2015 to 2016. it was an endless runner that had a ton of content and fan service in it and even crossed over with puyo puyo and that's how eggman met satan however thanks to its aggressive monetization it didn't take off quite as well as sonic dash and as a result sega pulled the plug on the title in 2016 and knuckles one of sonic's best memes you'll see people add add knuckles to just about any title pride and prejudice and knuckles is my favorite all we need is dante and smash and then we'll have the funky mode featuring dante from double may cry and knuckles meme trifecta will be complete gotta go fast an immortal line from sonic x's us intro it's used to describe the series as a whole and is seen as a meme within the community sega has referenced this a few times such as that in yakuza 0 where an upgrade is called gotta go fast blaze's backstory blaze the cat has two backstories in rush she's from an alternate world in sonico6 she's from the future so which is the canon backstory for blaze according to izuka from sonic boom 2012 she's from the soul dimension and her story from sonic 06 should just be ignored much like oh six itself hooter's partnership to promote sonic forces sega did a collaboration with the chain hooters yes really three hooters locations in japan were decked out in sonic goods you could get sonic themed food and drinks and occasionally the girls would dance two fist to bump i don't know why this happened but i'm glad it did mr yuji naka is all right a line from shadow the hedgehog assuring us that mr yuji naka is alright wait a minute ballin of wonderland bombed and he's out of square enix i really do hope he's all right planned a yu cameo during the production of this sonic movie yuji naka asked the producers if he could cameo in the movie much like stan lee in the marvel movies however either paramount forgot or they never got back to them and he never made a cameo in the final movie anthroconfusion one thing that's confusing in worlds with antho characters is consistency in sonic you have the anthro heroes but you also have the animals you rescue from eggman's robots it gets weirder in later games such as in chronicles where non-anthro animals are common enemies and in adventure 2 where you have 3 types of bats bats you save from the robots real life bats in death chamber and rouge the bat and let's be real rouge doesn't have much in common with bats and that's probably for the better punching 3d blast 3d blast has a hidden level select that can be found by punching your genesis more accurately moving your game cartridge according to game huds this was a way to get around sega's quality check process basically a crash takes you to the level select instead of crashing the game outright and messing with the cart glitches the game to the level select or something like that i'm not a game dev i just play games and drink too much alcohol sky chase dragon and sonic adventure there is an unused dragon that might have been a boss in sky chase it was cut from the final project but data does exist for it in the game files redesigned conspiracy this has to do with a movie some seat sniffers out there think that paramount intentionally made nightmare fuel the man hog for that first trailer for the sonic movie and then they were going to change it to something more appealing for the final product thinking that getting some negative publicity would turn into good publicity and higher sales later on this doesn't make any sense as a making a 3d character like that for a movie takes a lot of time and money and b there's a lot of early sonic movie merch that was using that original design if paramount was going to change it at the end of the day they would not include the original design with the original design documents and early merch flicky 1985 flicky is actually one of my favorite sega arcade games i love how simple and addictive it is so this is referring to one of two things either the sharp x1 port of flicky which was released in 1985 or the game teddy boy blues an arcade game that released in 1985 which had flicky as an opponent flicky was introduced into the sonic series early on so in a way flicky could be considered the first sonic game adult swim bumper for the record i haven't watched adult swim in years on account of living in japan and not watching much tv in the past five years sonic had a few bumpers on adult swim one talking about the lego set the other about the movie redesign and there was also a commercial made by adult swim for sonic cd's chronological order sonic cd was developed as soon as sonic 1 wrapped up hence why sonic 1's sprite is used so where does sonic cd fall into the timeline according to sega it is canon but has no particular spot on the timeline for what it's worth it does take place before sonic 4 and adventure at any rate sonic synergy sonic boom the rise of lyric was a crap game the development was a disaster and just a bad idea to begin with sonic synergy was an early version of boom separate from the boom multimedia franchise thanks to an exclusivity deal with nintendo and sega just in general messing with the title synergy was changed to boom and well boom is about right sonic 3d demo tracks 3d blast had a couple of unused in music tracks one sounded like a special stage theme and the other one sounded like a boss theme the latter of which was salvaged as a song for sonic 4. chaos 3 and 5 chaos was the entity robotnik tried to use in adventure 1 to take over the world throughout the campaign you fight chaos as he absorbs more chaos emeralds and changes forms the number changing with how many chaos emeralds it absorbs the player fights chaos 0 2 4 and 6 and you get a glimpse of one in a cut scene you don't see the third and fifth chaos forms in adventure and from my search no official r of chaos three or five exists casinopolis cowgirl in adventure 1 there's a sign of a cowgirl and casinopolis if knuckles goes near it the girl moans yep this was cut from the international releases deus ex and knuckles you see this hilariously epic meme with knuckles and more knuckles this was in deus ex mankind divided of all things angel island san francisco angel island is an important part of the sonic lore and it's a real place angel island is in cali and you can take a ferry there from san francisco looks like a nice place impossible rings many sonic games have rings that are impossible to collect in normal gameplay for example in adventure 2 sky rail and white jungle have quite a few rings that are normally inaccessible tails gets trolled a fan comic by artist laserbot while the art is nothing special the writing is surprisingly good and gets into some dark territory basically this is [ __ ] posting as art big cameos and the dreamcast version of adventure 2 big makes various cameos throughout the campaign supposedly this was due to the director of adventure 1 being really salty that big was negatively received in adventure 1. so he snuck big into adventure 2 as revenge the ironic part is people love the big cameos he was removed from the gamecube release r2 not to be confused with the roblox sonic fan game in sonic cd there is a cut level called r2 by fans the name comes from the naming conventions for levels found in the game's code since the stages in sonic cd somewhat mimic sonic 1's levels it's speculated that the lost level would have been analogous to marble zone or at least it would have had some kind of ruins theme ken penders ken penders was a writer on the archie sonic series and he wrote a lot of the knuckles and chaotic stuff for the comic at the same time he introduced a lot of controversial stuff that was uh not that well received he had a lot of legal issues with sega and archie and after a legal dispute he left the series in 2013 and archie had to reboot the series to undo a lot of plot threads for the record i haven't read the comic christian fan art for some reason there's an odd amount of sonic fan art that has christian imagery in it i don't know why but this is a thing in general sonic attracts a lot of weird fan art and this weirds me out the most yes more than the inflation stuff it might have come from this religious themed ad for sonic adventure 2. slank does not give a [ __ ] about religion 1993 macy's day incident sonic had the honor of being in the annual macy's day thanksgiving parade in 1993 and being the first video game character to do so however in his debut parade the wind was not on sonic's side the one pushed sonic into a lamp post and got a big tear and fell onto the ground two people were injured but thankfully nothing serious keep in mind it's cold and windy during thanksgiving in new york so balloons being destroyed isn't all that uncommon still the sonic balloon would return in subsequent years unused final judgment skybox in sonic forces the stage final judgement has a skybox that is normally unseen in gameplay you can glitch out of the stage and see it there's actually a lot of content cut from forces so i might have to do a video about that in the future 25th anniversary stream in 2016 sega had an epic stream to celebrate sonic and announced sonic mania and forces for its 25th anniversary and the stream was plagued with technical issues and uh yeah right here right here pakistani mcdonald's remember those awesome lcd games from mcdonald's i had the sonic one and it was pretty enjoyable what wasn't as enjoyable was this ad seen in pakistan and well i think it speaks for itself where does sonic keep his ranks a question as all this time where does sonic keep his rings even tale doesn't know as lap shaded in generations my theory is that the rings are absorbed as a defensive barrier but get knocked out as soon as you take a hit let me know about your sonic rings theories in the comments in the movie sonic has a bag of them and accused them to teleport between dimensions and that's how he wound up in montana eggman is faster than sonic in sonic 1 and 2 sonic gives chase to eggman on foot but eggman is always a smidge too fast for sonic fans like to joke that eggman is the fastest being in the series my guess is sonic likes the thrill of the chase so he lets eggman grab another mech or escape for the sake of a good battle knuckles is jamaican between the dreads and spirituality it's clear knuckles takes a lot of inspiration from jamaican culture at one point sega almost gave knuckles a jamaican accent fun fact in virtual fighter jeffrey [ __ ] mcwild is supposed to be aboriginal but everybody mistakes him for being jamaican sonic adventure uses real photos for inspiration for sonic adventure 1 sonic team took a trip to south america it reflects in the mystic ruins and having a character named takal some of the photos the team took of the trip were used as textures and adventure one eggman's dreamcast and unleashed there's a brief appearance of a dreamcast in eggman's mech even with the world in ruins and him fighting a god damn god you always gotta protect your dream cast i wonder what game he is playing mod connects shizzy stefan's gotta go fast an unused song for the movie gotta go fast was by artist chizzy stephens it samples green hill zone but i could not find a reason why it went unused in the movie the moon's rotation eggman blows up a part of the moon in adventure 2 with the ark in canon the moon is still destroyed in subsequent games so how's the rotation supposedly the non-destroyed side is facing the earth even though eggman blew up the side that was facing the earth in adventure 2 and my brain hurts thinking about this eggman was originally the good guy in early designs for sonic eggman was the protagonist that's right he looks like theodore roosevelt it's a cute design but let's be real sonic was a much better choice for a protagonist character prototypes much like any title sonic and his friends have gone through many prototypes before their final forms we'll look at some of the more interesting prototypes later but one i want to talk about now is shadow's early form where he was called terios he looked way creepier but was changed to being too scary or being too difficult to render in game egg yet a fan named blackbook alpha on twitter drew a picture of an original character affectionately called egg yet it came from the artist looking at an upside down eggman in the flying battery stage in sonic mania while it didn't catch on to the extent of balzettes people do wish eggett would become an official character sad i am cliff anger sonic saturday am is finally remembered by fans as one of the best sonic cartoons unfortunately disney bought abc and saturday am got shoved onto usa network and got the axe before abc killed the show a season 3 was in development that would have wrapped up the story the mips the world of sonic xtreme was not going to be filled with animals but these bastards called mips they would have been colored to the level and signaled the end of the level i don't think they inspired the whis but i wouldn't be surprised also i think there was a toy line called miss at least according to google the nouveau drm the nuvo has a bad name in the pc gaming community it causes issues with people's games and pcs and for something to stop piracy it does a crap job at that sonic mania got caught up in some controversy as they had the nuvo drm the pc port was delayed a bit and sega gave out free versions of sonic 1 as an apology but it wasn't a good look for sega hey publishers stop using the nouveau it doesn't work totino's at the 25th anniversary event totino's was a sponsor and it came right out of left field and of course someone made a mod for sonic mania that replaced the rings with delicious totino's pizza rolls o6 is a platinum hit 006 as crap as it is did sell well enough thanks to the name and being the first hd sonic game according to wiki it sold over 870k units putting it in the platinum hit territory ciao and space cinematic universe as a background joke for the adventure games there is an in-game series movie series called ciao and space and as of generations the series has had over four installments unlike sonic i don't chuckle the immortal lion from knuckles this theme in adventure one to be fair and knuckles did not do a lot of chuckling in either adventure title i wonder if the lyricists played sonic 3 and knuckles knuckles is afraid of ghosts despite the lyrics to pumpkin hill proclaiming that he is not afraid of ghosts he gets spooked pretty easily by ghosts in adventure 2 well getting knocked off your feet by ghost coming out of the ground is one thing but knuckles verbally being nervous when facing king boom boo especially in the original voice recording is another thing donkey mode youtuber donkey had a voice clip in mania that could be heard with a cheat in hydro city zone if you got launched by one of those hand spinner launcher things you could hear a voice clip of donkey going yeah but this was patched out sonic adventure 3 the adventure games are two of the most beloved games of all time no matter what shitty youtubers tell you one question on fans minds is where is sonic adventure 3. sonic heroes might have been adventure 3 but it was rebranded to heroes to not alienate players on xbox and ps2 in japan sonic unleashed is called sonic world adventure shadow the hedgehog directly follows the stories from both adventure games and many say sonic 06 is the closest to an adventure 3 with multiple characters adventure fields and the plot focus heavy campaign if sonic 06 was going to be the adventure 3 it certainly killed the adventure formula by being a crap game okay ko crossover sonic crossed over with the cartoon network original cartoon okay let's be heroes in the episode let's meet sonic i haven't seen the show but it looks like a fun show you mean the chaos emeralds what do you have to say about the theft of dangerous artifacts that could cause attacks like this to happen again you mean the chaos emeralds i'm going to assume you mean the chaos emeralds because that's what you're concerned about i've got one of them right here holy crap obama has a chaos emerald not much to say here but i think obama would have handled the whole space colony arc thing way better than bush chris chan starting off level three on the right foot chris chen aka christine winston chandler is an infamous member in the sonic community she is the one behind sonichu there are whole documentaries made about christine from her humble beginnings to her current status personally i never got into sonichu because i had better things to do with my time sonic's educational software sonic being a character popular with the kiddos is perfect for a few educational games sonic's schoolhouse is on the pc there are a few games for sonic on the sake of pico and at least one game on the leapster sega sonic bros this was an unreleased puzzle game for our kids this game went undiscovered for years but found in 2019 the rom has been dumped those who have played it think it's a decent little game sonic statue in the mountains in the body there is a sonic statue in the woods in a remote location it's been restored sega world made the statue and it was auctioned off to a man who lives in the woods he used the statue to help guests find his driveway wacky work bench statue an easter egg in sonic cd if you go to the past and a certain hole in the wall you can find this little statue it gives out rings and in the bad future of the stage it changes to an eggman statue that you can destroy shadow was based off of super sonic gerald was searching for immortality and looked at various murals for inspiration and hidden palazzone one of the murals depicts super sonic fighting a mysterious figure while it can be guessed that gerald based the biolizard off of the chaos mural found in lost world he might have gotten the idea for shadow based off of supersonic from the hidden palace mural tails dies in sonic 2. in a depressing twist of fate and the master system and game gear versions of sonic 2 if sonic fails to get the chaos emeralds sonic looks to the sky to see tails face implying that tails dies at the end of sonic 2 and the bad ending sonic x pilots as with most cartoons sonic x had a pilot that was pretty different from the final product there are no humans especially white boys summer chris thorndike so it might have taken place on mobius instead of earth some of the animation was reused for the intro sonic's parents one thing that's been inconsistent is who is sonic's parents the games make no mention of any parents and the archie comics he has a mom and dad and the manga he has parents and an underground sonic's mother is queen elena in the movie longclaw was his adoptive guardian rouge the cats this one is pretty weird there is some very early concept art for a cat that came out before adventure 2 so maybe rouge was planned to be a cat at some point but switched to a bat amy's tarot cards this isn't a big part of her character but amy likes her tarot cards they told her to go to little planet where she got kidnapped by metal sonic but she got saved by sonic she uses the tarot cards as an attack in sonic chronicles sonic and tails and melee one of the most infamous gaming hoaxes the magazine egm claimed that sonic and tails could be unlocked in melee by defeating 20 opponents in cruel melee guess what people did that and no sonic surprise surprise egm gave out copies of sonic adventure 2 battle to those who did that said yuji naka did say that if ass sonic could have been playable in melee given that sega was leaving the hardware industry at the time the man 3. the man 3 is a movie poster seen in the dreamcast version of sonic adventure 1 when you fight the egg walker in station square it was the only poster scene in earlier builds and does not appear in the dx versions i guess the man 3 bombed at the box office sonic ride not to be confused with sonic the police game or that popcorn maker sonic was planned to have one of those rides where you sit down and watch a movie and well it kind of just speaks for itself original white jungle layout as mentioned in level 2 there are rings in sonic adventure 2 that are impossible to get the biggest example is white jungle which had a different layout before release and as a result has over 200 rings that are inaccessible silver lcd games silver had his own lcd game in the mcdonald's promotion it was extremely rare and if you got it you could enter in competitions to win some really awesome prizes due to its rarity it was thought to be lost media but it has been found the jetsons hard times hard times was a song from the jetsons a band that had michael jackson's collaborator and it's brad buxer the song in question sounds an awful lot like ice cap zone from sonic 3. the truth is ice cap zone sampled this song medarex saga never aired in japan sonic x was a big hit in north america to the point where four kids commissioned more episodes but in japan not so much the final season did not air on tv in japan but did get released on dvd here get blue balls get blue spheres is what you do in the special stages for sonic 3 knuckles originally it said get blue balls before each special stage and now why do you think they changed it to blue spheres personally i would have loved to add get blue balls that's my kink if rouge wants to do that to me then i'm okay with that sonic 16. this was an unreleased sonic game for the genesis developed by the sega tentacle institute it would have focused on following the continuity of the television show it looks a lot slower than what people wanted in a sonic game and it's probably for the better that it did not release sonic xtreme not to be confused with sonic xtreme the saturn game extreme with an e was a planned hoverboarding game for the xbox made by visionscape aka the guys behind bare knuckle grind and a canceled rocket power title i hate that show extreme has a test level and was pitched to sega but it never got the green light supposedly there were some contractual agreements with sega and that whatever was pitched to sega using their assets sega had the rights to the idea and they did not have to include the original developers in the final products so many people think that sonic riders was inspired by the extreme pitch but this has never been confirmed sonic's real name wait that's sonic's real name what kind of crap name is that no wonder sega killed the archie comics no i'm not reading that name i refuse marble zone ufos an early build of sonic 1 had ufos in the background of marble zone i don't know why they were there but they were cut from the final product final egg silver sonic in the 8-bit version of sonic 2 in the final level you fight two bosses one of which is silver sonic it's a tough opponent and one of the first robot versions of sonic this design would later return in sonic mania time eater is methylase time ear is a mysterious entity no one knows where it came from some fans think that the time eater is left over material from methylas from sonico6 comic book writer ian flynn thinks so too some fans joke that the time eater is the fandom personified or is the spirit of the carnival zone barrel back for more the prez has a photo of sonic and shadow on his desk shadow the hedgehog was a stupid game let's be real at one point it's shown that the president has a picture of sonic and shadow on his desk okay sonic and shadow did save the world from destruction at the end of adventure 2 but how did the president get that photo plus didn't he send a gun to kill sonic in the first level of adventure 2 revenge of dr robotnik this is a typo found in the intro for sonic the fighters and just to pat out this segment it's also the only vhs release of sonic underground titled sonic underground robotnik's revenge with the correct spelling the vhs has three episodes in it and sonic's arms are blue on the cover because why not no hopers in donkey kong country 2 cranky ranks video game heroes based on how many donkey kong coins you get the trash can nearby has sonic shoes and earthworm gyms gun that says no hopers near it as a jab against sega this was removed in the game boy pour of dk country 2. sonic dreams collection this is a fan game made in unity sonic's dreams collection starts out as a basic mini game collection but then it goes into surreal horror that takes jabs at the sonic fandom genocide city zone a planned zone in sonic 2 was called genocide city zone my guess is someone as sega of japan thought genocide sounded cool but someone told them what genocide actually means and the zone was renamed or just scrapped out right oh six va goofs sonico 6 was a hot mess during development so it's no surprise that some goofs made it into the final product like this person flubbing their line [Applause] e123 [Music] sonic forces drama from marketing the english version of forces was a bit darker than the japanese script alluding to sonic being tortured by eggman for six months and tails uh losing it this might have been an attempt to make forces seem as dark as adventure 2 or shadow the hedgehog but it didn't pan out considering how bad force's script was irish the hedgehog as an april fool's joke the sonic twitter announced a new sonic character called irish the hedgehog voiced by the online personality jacksepticeye the slap a really weird panel from the comic where sally slaps the [ __ ] out of sonic and calls off their engagement this launched a lot of shipping wars within the archie fandom for who sonic should be with the artist behind the panel john gray hates the page and said that it encapsulated everything wrong with the comic verbally artistically and editorially metallic madness bad future lyrics there's lyrics in this song and i'm too lazy to read them so i'll throw them up on screen now japanese box are quotes many japanese products have cheesy english quotes on them to sound cool sonic 1 and cd have english in all of its glory and i love it bring these back sega ice cream with gumball eyes oh man i had this ice cream good times playing smash and street fighter with the boys then hearing that ice cream truck roll by and of course i got the sonic ice cream bar with the off center eyes it was amazing sonic movie supplementary media the sonic movie had a lot of promotion material made for it no surprise given how long the movie was in production there have been novelizations style guides merch baby sonic the works let me know if you bought anything for the movie toy vs junior sonic toy studios was credited as making the intro and outro to sonic cd and many people called this look of sonic toy sonic but really junior studios made the animated segments out of respect for juno and the poor conditions that they worked in people now refer to this sonic as junio sonic sonic r was a formula one game according to one of the developers behind sonic r traveler's tales was making a formula one game for the saturn before sega reached out to them to make sonic r in wake of extremes cancellation i actually like sonic r a lot but the controls are slippery for an on foot racer but it might make for a fun formula one game haunted station square statue in station square in the burger shop there is a statue you can pick up and move around if you play around with it you can really glitch the game out supposedly there was some supernatural connection with the statue as in real life the hunching tigers were cursed by a kfc statue anyway np scenes seem to be weirded out by it and in dx their missions to find the thing in weird locations sonic jam for the game comp the game com is a crap system made by people who hate children somehow they got sega to make games for their thing even when sega was still in the hardware biz sonic jam got a port which has some levels from some of the classic sonic games and well i'll just let mark from cgr give his thoughts on the title sonic jam on the gamecom makes me sad it makes me sad because somewhere some kid was suckered into buying one of these things thinking it would be good like oh i get three sonic games in one no no you just get one giant headache classic sonic and adventure one adventure one was originally prototyped on the sega saturn if you played the sonic world you were playing a prototype version of adventure and some promo screens and concept art for adventure 1 sega used the classic sonic scene in jam and r instead of the modern sonic with the green eyes sonic 2 bonus video i think this is cyber shells video on sonic 2 where he goes over betas of sonic 2 he promised a video about sonic 2 and it uploaded it for all to enjoy he did one for sonic 3 as well sonic can't save pikachu gallium unleashes a devastating beam in the intro of ultimate's world of light story mode and many of the heroes fail to escape or fight the beams sonic should be able to outrun the beams but instead he tried to save pikachu and that costed both of them reminds me of a certain scene in sonic lost world sonic sends you to minecraft and the steve trailer for smash ultimate sonic punches mario so hard he breaks reality and launches mario straight into minecraft i guess that punch channeled the rage of sega losing the hardware war and launching nintendo's mascot into a different game was cathartic for him adventure 1 hidden npc dialogue many of the npcs in adventure 1 have some interesting dialogue and the e3 build and many of the npcs have dialogue that is unused in the final product the dialogue also changes the further you get into the game and if you go back to station square during certain times like in supersonic story where you normally don't go the npcs do have dialogue reflecting the state of the game blue core studios fan made sonic movie in 2013 blue core studios made a fan made sonic film it's well made for a short film jillian white voices sonic in the movie sonic omen's controversy sonic fan games are common and sega is cool with them as long as they don't make a profit sonic omens is a fan game but they have a patreon which kind of muddies the water while omens is still up i guess they aren't directly profiting on the title but some people are iffy on the situation sony threatened for a hero's port heroes was made for the gamecube and xbox the original version played great on those platforms but sony said that if they didn't get heroes they would deny sega any favors so sonic team had to redo the engine to work on the playstation 2 which explains why the playstation 2 port of heroes is a bit rough and the game in general is a bit slippery this goes for the ps2 port of shadow of the hedgehog which uses the hero's engine game grumps suck at sonic on purpose the game grumps mostly aaron are infamous in the sonic community for being extremely negative on the franchise a few people joke that they are terrible on sonic games on purpose to be more negative on the franchise even if that's the case that doesn't excuse aaron's terrible gaming takes the sonic sense a trait that sonic was supposed to have was that he was going to sneeze when danger was around kind of like spider sense but sneezing it shows up in the sonic cd intro and every now and again but this trait of sonic has largely been ignored winking rouge and heroes if you go into the first person mode and look at rouge she winks at you fun little easter egg knuckles and big arms are stronger than super sonic super sonic is depicted as being invincible only being weak to crushing drowning and falling into pits a few things have injured supersonic like the device eggman used on him and unleashed big arms in sonic 3 can knock super sonic out the final boss of mania also has an attack that can make super sonic lose rings and knuckles just straight punches the [ __ ] of sonic in the intro of sonic 3. and i think in lost world there is an obstacle that can hurt super sonic the simpsons riders ship sonic and amy sonic says wait until marriage tech toy in brazil techtoy distributes sega products the master system was extremely popular in brazil and techtoy continues to make plug-and-play sega devices that are very popular stop santiago a tweet from snick that claimed that the 3d classic sonic from generations and forces is an imposter and not the classic sonic we all know instead that classic sonic is called santiago and of course the fandom took with this meme and ran with it we're on your ass santiago you [ __ ] outrun skid sound the original skin noise for sonic 1 was actually ripped from the sega classic outrun and well that's a very anti-climactic finish to this tier sonic gather battle another fan game it looks pretty cool but as for administrative privileges on your computer as in drm and the game [ __ ] out if you try to deactivate the anti-cheat and drm stuff basically gather battle is ransomware more like sonic gathered data haha boobs incident and the defunct sonic runners sega accidentally wrote boo as a boob fun little goof and sega quickly get fixed and apologized for the typo personally i like boobs more than boo metal sonic is sonic roboticized and the comic sonic got captured by eggman and was roboticized into metal sonic there was a whole arc about the freedom fighters trying to save sonic and it ended with metal sonic and metal knuckles having a punch out and yeah that's pretty badass anyway this is a fan theory about metal sonic in the game's proper but nah metal sonic is just metal sonic eggman stash is fake there is unused ammo audio from adventure 2 that says that eggman's mustache is fake however this was not meant for the good dr eggman but instead for one of the professors at the ciao academy sonic skeleton an unused sprite 4 sonic cd would have showed sonic skeleton they were also going to show sonic skeleton and unleashed but that never happened either inside an all-stars racing games when characters get electrocuted they don't show their skeletons or the very least a very low resolution version of one sonic and the wonders of the world not a lot of people know this now but sega has always been eyeing up sonic for the big screen one pitch that sega and sonic team were about was mgm's sonic wonders of the world written by richard jeffries it would have had sonic come to the real world to buy a science device straight out of rick and morty and sonic would have gone on an adventure to stop rabonic in the real world before he dies from being outside the game sonic xtreme yes this was made as a promotion for the cancelled sonic xtreme game well that summary sucks but the script seems fun and it would have been a fun time for kids ultimately the movie never came to be and this was just another thing on top of the million other things extreme had going against it sonic armageddon another sonic movie armageddon would have been a darker take on the series with a destroyed mobius and trying to wrap up sonic's sad am there are four pieces of concept art plus a homemade pitch from ken penders penders pitched the idea straight to sega but sega was too focused on sonic x and recovering from leaving the hardware industry and honestly armageddon looks really stupid and i'm glad it didn't get made at least the pitch video penders made still exists female tales tails is a boy and the games have made sure everybody knows tails is a boy that said many people thought he was a girl at first thanks to his younger appearance and frequently being voiced by women hell and the spanish dub of one of the cartoons he was called a girl i guess tails now knows what karama and kuropika feel like big the cat is voiced by duke nukem in adventure 1 big is voiced by john st john who voiced duke nukem saying john actually hates big voice and intentionally forgot how to do big's voice adventure 2 stage test and the digital ports of adventure 2 if you do some glitches with the ciao keys you can access to a test level for adventure 2. sonic 2 time travel an unused idea for sonic 2 time travel was planned for the title however early on in development it was found that the genesis did not have enough room to properly implement a time travel mechanic this idea was put into sonic cd sonic 1's original build sonic's first public appearance was at tokyo toy show in 1990 the build shown at the event was playable and was very different from subsequent builds yuchinaka did say that he wanted to include the toy show built for one of the collections but that build is lost media sonic and sally hoarder so this should be renamed to sonic and sally's statue in australia there was a sega world and they had a statue of the two after the place shut down a lot of the stuff was sold off including the statue of the two and it found them in the junkyard and i think it's been restored rankles the otter an infamous prank wrinkles was a hoax from a magazine that detailed wrinkles as knuckles partner the original article even confirmed that wrinkles was a hoax as with anything fans have made wrinkles their own sonic r and survival the lyrics in sonic r are amazing while they are all cheesy love songs you can read the lyrics about survival hell it even says you know you have to survive when you're living in the city though i personally read the lyrics not so much about surviving but working hard and earning your keep shout out the hedgehog uncut there was a rumor about the japanese version of shadow the hedgehog that had a more graphic death for maria complete with blood but due to how the scene is shot you can't see anything rouge's hyper-realistic vagina according to zach from when he plays rouge has a highly rendered snatch in adventure 2 horny on main sega nice sonic adventure dlc adventure 1 has some dlc that affects the adventure fields there were ads competitions and decorations for christmas and new year's a lot of dlc was thought to be permanently lost the japanese new year's dlc in particular but a fan bought a used vmu that had the dlc and backed it up for all to enjoy sonic 3 hacked a fan hack that has princess sally in it it's actually a creepy pasta and the site i found it on has its images broken sonic sound effects in gas stations i remembered going to a gas station somewhere in northern new mexico and at the cash register i was flexed to hear the sonic ring shine from the register apparently this isn't a uniquely new mexican thing though that wouldn't surprise me the company for the registers gill barco video roots made the registers and a third-party developer made the point of sale software it's thought that the software developer has some connection to sega and that's why gail barco never got c and d's nuts over the ring sound or more than likely sega just doesn't care sonic crackers a concept for a sonic game that would have had sonic and tails tailored together this idea would eventually shape into knuckles chaotix which used tethering as a core mechanic wekneya wakanya is a glitch character in knuckles chaotix that makes knuckles silver it looks pretty cool and the hidden stage select it doesn't have a name other than just a bunch of asterisks it was left over data of tails who was supposed to be playable in chaotics sonic boom post apocalypse a theory about sonic boom is that it takes place after the apocalypse with less emphasis on technology and humans the characters wearing bandages is the style of the post-apocalypse sister sonic when sega was looking to localize pop full mail on the sega cd they're going to localize it as sister sonic and tight into the sonic franchise due to fan backlash sega opted to keep the game as is i really missed the days where lead heroines wore leotards as their main outfits adventures of sonic the hedgehog pilot the adventures of sonic the hedgehog started production presumably before sonic 2 released the animation looked way better than the final product but is incomplete as it lacks sound a cameo of the pilot does appear in the show proper sonic satayam also had a really different pilot too with a different freedom fighter team that didn't even have tails on it though this might have just been mockups the actual pilot has a different intro and more resembles the final product show gaku khan manga publisher sho gaku khan made a sonic manga that ran between 1992-94 it really highlights the differences between american and japanese sonic american sonic media was always darker and edgier but japan went more for a cute approach somari one of the most infamous hacks of all time is samari basically it's mario in sonic 1 on the famicom and of course there is the opposite of having sonic in mario 2. characters can't show too much emotion this is a mandate from sega in regards to the comics supposedly characters especially sonic can't show too much emotion which many read as sonic can't cry a few panels were even were drawn to not have sonic cry sega had a lot of mandates on the comics to the point where archie just said [ __ ] it and stop the series altogether not helping was the legal issues with the series between some of the writers robotnik's diabolical traps sonic 3 had a rushed development due to a marketing deal with mcdonald's so a lot of content had to get cut from sonic 3. another side effect was the lack of bug testing sega knew this and hand waved the glitches in sonic 3 as robotnik's diabolical traps cobramani 456 cobra mounty was a popular youtuber who focused on sonic and nintendo games he had over a million subs but his last upload was over three years ago he was close to etika and stopped uploading after he'd passed away there was some drama around the guy but i don't know enough about that to comment but i hope cobra manny is doing okay official human sonic you see this picture it's official it was made for a tokyo game show 2001 by adventure artist yuji uekawa it's not clear if it is sonic in human form or just a cosplayer but we don't know still this is real art missing press start button sonic 1 was supposed to have text that says press the start button but it goes unused in the final product you can restore it thanks to a mod lost world launch party sega of london held a launch party for the pc port of sonic lost world while originally it was supposed to be invite only sega ended up having all the sonic fandom in london come to the party and there was an open bar a bunch of sonic fans plus an open bar is a total disaster as a result sega held off on doing launch parties for 4 years after this event sonic 1 beta in wayne's world and a blink and you missed a cameo a beta of sonic 1 can be seen in wayne's world you notice the beta because it has the ufos not seen in the final product similarly nick arcade had a unique build of sonic 2 but that was made to promote sonic 2. scott pilgrim in the scott pilgrim comic it is heavily implied if not outright stated that scott's favorite game is sonic 3 and knuckles hell he even wears a sonic and knuckles t-shirt at one point i wonder if michael cera's favorite game is sonic 3 and knuckles adventure 2 submarine adventure 2 was going to have branching story paths kind of like shadow the hedgehog one example given was a submarine sonic was stuck on a submarine and he would have the choice to either escape the submarine or try to get it to safety what happens after that is unknown my guess is they didn't have this actually planned for the game it was just an idea to give to the press jimmy the moto bug this is a bad nick in mania that the heavy writer rides his name is a tribute to the sonic hacker polygon jim as he made a sonic game called moto bug the bad nick where you play as the moto bug sadly polygon jim passed away shadow and knuckles in unleashed unleashed is a pretty good game but it lacks two of my favorite characters in shadow and knuckles a report says that the two would have been playable but they must have been cut really early on i guess they just wanted to focus on sonic shame as the werehog levels would have been perfect for a knuckles brawler sonic x two inside bumpers i don't remember toon zai at all i remember fox box anyway there were several bumpers for sonic x and apparently one of the bumpers had jason griffith voice a bumper after the second major voice change was announced making it some of the last material griffith work on yuji naka's youtube channel so apparently yuji naka has a youtube channel where he uploads some stuff about balan wonderland and a video about working in sega at 1990 he's also really into cars and drones and the vid you're watching now is of him flying a drone over some cherry blossoms endless possibilities isn't on streaming services one of the best themes for sonic is endless possibilities from unleashed i used to jog to that song back in high school while sega has been great about uploading their music to spotify unlike other companies the song endless possibilities isn't there the rest of the unleashed ost is up just not that one song it might have something to do with jarrett riddick the front man for bowling for soup as there might be some legal issues there keep in mind most sonic music since sonic r has been on spotify vocal themes included hell the japanese intro and outro to sonic cd is on spotify and sega had issues with those tracks so something is up on reddick's end sonic ds when the ds was shown off at e3 2004 one of the games was sonic ds a game that had some of heroes aesthetic and you rub the screen to make sonic go fast and i really thought this was going to be a launch title for the ds well we never got this sonic game we got the rush series instead for the ds looking at this footage sonic dash might have been inspired by this title top 10 hottest song chicks i agree with that description the sonic series is full of hot characters i'm not a furry but i would totally have consensual sex with rouge sega choir origins the iconic sega choir is closely tied with sega's identity and many people associated with sonic so where did it come from it started as far back as 1983 for tv ads for the sg-1000 sonic 06 russian roulette yes there is a mission in 06 called russian roulette apparently it was cut from the final project because uh yeah russian roulette in a sonic game the footage taken is from sonico 6 restored sonic plush in the amazon and a tv advertisement for sonic adventure 1 a sonic plush is heated out of an airplane into the jungle pat mack would be very upset at this ad thankfully sega did not pollute the jungle as a tribe found the plush and has been taking care of its anti-sony ps2 club on a poster in sonic adventure 2 there is a poster that has some text that reads anti xxx ii association which many fans take as a jab against the then competing sony playstation 2. sadly the ps2 would become the highest selling console of all time while the dreamcast died in 2001 but it lives on in our hearts sonic arcade album this is an album released by a german music label arcade with songs inspired by sonic and that's where this banger comes from and it was supposed to be with the ride and don't worry i won't play the track through the rest of the layer [Music] knuckles nike symbol sega was planning to do a nike promotion for sonic and one thing that was going to cement the promotion was knuckles having the nike swoosh on his chest the deal fell through and all that's left is the crescent on knuckles chest the promotion hasn't been officially confirmed but it has been alluded to by members of the development team hidden knuckles idol in sonic and knuckles there's a hidden knuckles animation where if you wait at a specific spot knuckles will shoo you away after he opens a bridge for you the animals in sonic dash sonic was on the yogurt the animals was in sonic dash as a cross promotion to get kids to eat super unhealthy yogurt mascot costume wrestling sega sponsored a mixed martial arts event and had shadow come out in a costume for the people as a form of promotion for shadow the hedgehog naka basically said that the logo of the pancreas mma logo was the same color scheme as shadow and that's the answer behind this promotion in 2007's sonic stepped inside the arena against mario and these are official costumes being used at a wrestling event in australia and sonic smacks the hell out of some guy the acid in the ark is biolizard p in canon's court and the biolizard fights there is orange fluid throughout the level some think that the water comes from the biolizard itself aka it's p and if that's the case that is a lot of pee it would even make reiki fast tiger blush look her up amy's buzz saw amy rides in a car in sonic r and her weapon would have been a saw blade pokeball sound in the ova apparently somewhere in the sonic ova you can hear a pokeball sound my guess is the team had a stock music library and just used whatever they found and hoped no one would notice at the very least nintendo nor the pokemon company did i'm really sad that the ova never became a full tv series it had so much potential alas what could have been sonic cafe sonic cafe was a series of mobile games released in japan it was the service that you paid for monthly about three bucks and got access to a ton of sonic games neopets crossover on neopets in 2009 there was a flash game called sonic knight in training to promote sonic and the black knight it was taken down after the promotion ended yuji naka is the train station announcer this is a joke from a sonic 1 iceberg basically the announcer for train station in station square is yuji naka himself and i really doubt nakasana's english is that good shadow smoking so in shadow the hedgehog there's an audio clip of shadow smoking a cigar i honestly blocked a lot of the game for that memory so i think the audio clips of shadow smoking are unused if they exist egg hvc001 that random combo of numbers and letters is the official name for the first boss in sonic cd hvc-001 is the model number for the famicom so this was probably a jab at nintendo sonic for real justice this was a joke tumblr blog made by some friends who pretended to be sonic characters and fight for social justice in an exaggerated tone the tumblr got pretty popular but there was some drama behind the scenes and is now immortalized on know your meme sonic 3 drop dash in one of the builds for sonic 3 it was discovered that it was going to have a drop dash mechanic as seen in sonic mania and the m2 port of sonic 1 for switch among other oddities the music for certain stages in this build were different from the genesis release sonic cd tech demo sega had to shell the sega cd somehow and what better way than with a tech demo here sonic is in a room holding a cd as the rest of the video shows the capabilities of the sega cd origen aura transports holy copyright infringement batman that's just straight up sonic used for this service's logo the brazilian government used sonic music current brazilian president and [ __ ] lunatic jair bolsonaro used music from sonico6 in an official tweet for some promotional video i don't speak portuguese sonico 6 has some banging music but that would not be my first choice to use in a political video hell the fact that both snarls team used sonic 06 music right away should be accounted against them strange thing is he's done it again with both mario and sonic music brazil don't stop being brazil but seriously get bolsnaro out of the present chair hunted p 100p was the rapper who wrote the raps for knuckles levels in sonic adventure 2. apparently he only had like a day to write and record the music for adventure 2 and he's a controversial figure within the scene as he lied about not being paid by sega he claimed to work on a sonic title that doesn't exist and extorted a music creator brasmo in an adventure 2 randomizer it was found that the randomizer affects shaw too one streamer got a super powerful child called brasmo who had max stats and an egg that looked like a strobe light big the cap grows the weed big is a pretty chill dude let's look at his place is he growing the devil's lettuce probably not but it's fun to imagine a character growing weed in a sonic game mysterious speed highway character and speed highway there are neon sounds of an unknown cat like a creature it's probably supposed to be ciao but who knows it probably means nothing at all zodik the hellhog in cult classic dreamcast title illbleed there is a boss titled zodik the hellhog and obviously evil parody version of sonic so if you see this guy as some kind of nightmare fuel character just be known it's from a totally unrelated dreamcast game ciao death percent run yes this is a meme category some speedrunners do to kill chow as fast as possible speed runners will never be satisfied they are always searching for that next rush even if that comes from killing chao hedgehogs can swim hey would you look at that real life hedgehogs can swim someone should have told sonic team to take a bio class red mountain prison when you get inside red mountain there are some freaky looking prisoners and even an electric chair one of the missions of dx even said hell outright when you go to red mountain again as gamma the prisoners are gone presumably killed by the rising lava in red mountain sonic in an mtv political ad do you remember video mods they were music videos made with video game assets and of course death jr would be set to my chemical romance sonic tails and knuckles do their part as americans and vote for an original song by vg party called stand and choose i wonder who they voted for unrelated there was an mtv contest set in alcatraz where competitors played sonic and knuckles for cash wisps are em wave beings em wave beings are from mega man star forest they are aliens that fuse with you and give you super powers that sounds a lot like whis don't sonic death ray pinned badge in italy if you bought a mega drive with sonic 1 you could get a pin which had an advertisement that gave sonic blue arms and a creepy red eyes and a goofy face the pin itself has red eyes that flash went on anti-sonic bangs bunny and one of the comics anti-sonic later known as scourge the hedgehog dresses up as sonic and makes some advances on several females in the series including bunny in one panel the two have a lengthy nap which is implied to be the two banging in the woods uh i can see why ken penders is so loathe in the sonic fandom now toppers ice cream ad sonic entails torture eggman with some ice cream from topper or excuse me this is australian so tapa it had shock rocks in it eggman looks a bit too happy to get tortured i know the toilet is going to be tortured afterwards viral chow these are a unique shower from sonic chronicles that were supposed to be given out at official events adventure 2 pepsi man influence in 1999 the cult classic pepsi man was released on the playstation one the first level of that title has a lot in common with city escape where you ride a sled through the streets and then get chased by a truck it's probably coincidental that the two games have some commonality between them in the japanese version of fighting vipers pepsi man is a playable character quick and silva sonic's unofficial console debut sonic appeared as a bad guy in the european side scroller quick and silva which was made by factor 5 under a different name sonic isn't alone here as characters such as mario and the bubble bobble dragon appear here too as bad guys yes this is hella copyright infringement russian game show super blitz in russia there was a sonic game show it was funded by the people who distributed sega products in russia game shows were weird back then the eighth chaos emerald there are seven chaos emeralds that standard for the series since sonic 2 and sonic the fighters each opponent you defeat has a chaos emerald but there's eight opponents while you don't start with a chaos emerald eggman does clone you so you have an emerald so did eggman clone a chaos emerald sega sonic a lot of early sonic merch in japan was branded as sega sonic and only in japan and only for the arcade stuff such as the arcade only sega sonic as well as the plushies this had to do with the arcade game sonic blast man and trying to avoid any potential legal issues sonic 2 special edition sonic 2 was going to have an updated version that would have been called sonic 2 special edition that would have been on the sega 32x a quote i found was we added a shitload of secrets into this thing seriously you thought hidden palace zone was bad this thing is going to be like goddamn jfk really it's just a joke let's play that goes from everything to the surreal to the horrific secretary menu if you want to customize your sonic adventure 2 experience you can change the theme or the main menus for the dreamcast version the president's secretary of all characters got a theme as dlc the gamecube version does not have dlc but someone with too much time on their hands found out the secretary is in with a really obtuse code mario in marble zone it's a me a mario i'm a texture in the marble zone on genesis i like the pasta and getting pegged by peach sonic hedgehog gene sonic has the honor of having a pro teen named after him you can read more about it on wikipedia because i barely passed bio 101 climax studios sonic games climax studios made titles like silent hill origins and lizzie mcguire 3 homecoming havoc climax made two pitches to sega for sonic titles sonic the shadow world would have been a darker title with sonic and shadow making an escape before they are stuck in the shadow world forever they also pitched another sonic title called sonic origins but i couldn't find any information about the second pitch sonic 1 invisible credits due to sega's mandates at the time they forbade developer credits in their titles yuji naka did not like this so they snuck in the credits that can be accessed in the japanese version with a code dynamite ducks shared universe being the dynamite took inspiration from the sega arcade game dynamite ducks so i guess sonic and dynamite ducks share the same universe same with the flicky games oh man watch out mcu the sonic cinematic universe is really coming together sonic 2 holographic labels sometime in 2014 al nilsson found a roll of holographic sonic 2 labels for well sonic 2. my guess is this was a pitch to see if sega of japan would be okay with this but i guess mass producing holographic labels would have been super expensive especially for a game as common as sonic 2 on genesis sally's loss of virginity because of course why why not why not in our comic book for kids when we want to know if sally lost her v card or not programmer is taking a nap hold out programmer during a pre-release build for sonic cd the special stages were unfinished and as a joke they threw in this little tagline dammit programmer this is also a good time to mention the easter eggs and cd like the sonic batman tribute sonic spin on the mic and of course fun is infinite spanish adventures of sonic the hedgehog intro like a lot of foreign dubs of 90s cartoons the spanish version of adventures of sonic uses its own theme song complete with lyrics serene comics sorry if i mispronounced the name i don't speak french because this is the french sonic comic there is some interesting stuff here like there is a mystic ruins before a mystic ruins existed in sonic so yeah sonic live in sydney sega world cine had a stage play involving our favorite franchise in 1997 and sally is on the cover of the cd involved puppets the cd is available to listen to on youtube but i can't find any footage of the actual show outside of some pictures spax3 spax3 was one of the earliest youtubers devoted to sonic he had a huge hatred for jason griffith and must have been a bigger figure in the community than i had realized enough to have a whole god damn documentary made about the guy whatever the case i hope specs is doing all right in life music similarities sonic team recycles a lot of music in the sonic series there's actually a lot of recycled music one example being green grove from 3d blast being reused for windy valley and adventure there's also some other tunes that sound similar to other tunes outside of sonic but again that's a whole different rapid hole to go down tails sky patrol was originally a disney game tail sky patrol is a weird game even by sonic standards it's a rail shooter with puzzle elements that isn't particularly good it was originally going to be a disney game probably for the master system and game gear before things happen behind the scenes and it was salvaged as a tales game that is vaguely related to sonic as a whole that's probably why the game feels so removed from the sonic series as a whole the game gear version was originally released in japan only but has seen releases outside of japan since sonic entails in fighting vipers during the development of fighting vipers one of the programmers put in sonic and tails for the heck of it you suzuki liked it and proposed an idea for a sonic themed fighter 2 am2 head hiroshi kataoka honey was planned to be in the original sonic the fighters 2 but she was brought back for the hd port sonic and tails can be accessed in fighting vipers through hacking sonic the wrestler there is a man who has been wrestling under the name sonic the wrestler for years he wears all blue has a mask with spikes and wears red shoes and even throws rings into the crowd he is a jobber and had a pretty good stage presence not a lot of information about sonic the wrestler is out there no one even knows the guy's name there is a luchador wrestler named sonic and they might be the same person r2 hoax going back to r2 they lost sonic cd stage someone claimed to have found the music to the stage but it was a hoax the song was called take it from alex lee the song is up on spotify and while i can't play it for you it does sound like a sonic tune from the era shadow likes kill a kill one of the twitter takeovers the sonic characters answered questions from the fans one question has shadow answer about his favorite anime he likes the one with the edgy girl with the sword and guess what anime he is talking about form of art it was not a mistake second i like the one with the edgy girl and the scissor blade killer kill has a lot in common with adventure 2 and fans have memed on the similarities it's only natural that sonic would lampshade it at some point fan art and sonic and all-stars racing in all stars racing on roulette road the developers put in a piece of art they thought was official amy art but was actually sonya art from sonic underground a patch fixed this except for the wii version the artist behind the picture thought it was pretty funny christian vector apparently vector the money-focused and fun-loving leader of the chaotix is christian according to the manual for knuckles chaotix feminist eggman in the english version of hero's manual it says that eggman is a feminist this is a mistranslation as in the japanese version of sonic heroes it says that eggman is a womanizer neither trait really shows in the games or shows but i guess if you're conquering the world you don't care if you're conquering boys or girls and that sounds really wrong as i say that out loud treasure tales this is a cancelled sonic game this one would have focused on tales in a slower platform and puzzle game it was pitched by the sega tentacle institute it was only a pitch and doesn't have any actual footage in fact i think these are just mockups astropede this was another pitched title for the genesis from the sega tentacle institute there is a video of it and it looks pretty cool the demo is set in hidden palazone and astropede would have fought robotnik as a boss scrapped demonic entity an early concept for the sonic series was to have sonic fight monsters and save his blonde bombshell of a non-girlfriend from said monsters you can see a bunch of the monsters in this concept art and this [ __ ] more than likely would have been the main villain adventure 1 game over music the game over music in adventure 1 is pretty sad isn't it while the other games have fun but annoying game over tunes adventure ones sounds like you're stuck in limbo it's the knowledge that station square is doomed to chaos and you've failed in your mission and the black game over screen with the music just adds to the eeriness third storybook game sonic in the secret rings and the black knight were a part of the story book spin-off series which were games with a fantasy setting there was a third storybook game planned but due to the meh reception of the two aforementioned titles the third game got scrapped cancelled sonic merch there's actually a lot of cancelled sonic merch out there like cancelled burger king promotions canceled jazz fares and toy merch and this big plush that pat mack has lots of merch gets cancelled because of legal reasons practicality lacking a market or sega just saying no if you are lucky you can score a prototype or sample merge sonic the intergalactic criminal this is one thing i could not find a lot of information on i think it was a rejected plot for something maybe sonic extreme or maybe the movie but i couldn't find much about the intergalactic criminal if anyone knows anything let me know in the comments sonic dance power mix tapes this was a series of pop slash techno slash electronic compilation albums even though sonic is on the cover and a painfully eurobeat cover the music contained has nothing to do with sonic or sega the club scene there was a song for sonic 2 made by the american side that went unused it was found on twitter by a user named kevin slacky who said that his teacher made a song that went unused the accompanying scene shows sonic dancing with tails having a classic shibuya meltdown sonic level creator super mario maker sega beaten attended to the punch with sonic level creator a flash based level creation tool where you make sonic levels sega took down the creator in 2011 archie holocaust one of those what the [ __ ] is wrong with you ken penders things and the knuckles storyline there is a straight up reference to the holocaust complete with nazi salutes imagery from world war ii and a quote from german pastor martin neil moore i'm i can't speak german basically the dark legion in the sonic comics is the sonic version of nazis and i wonder why sega canceled the archie comics 3d blast shockwave game this was a web browser game based on the special stages in 3d blast called sonic's bonus game it was made to promote the saturn version of 3d blast sega took it down in 1999 chili dogs are made of animals sonic's favorite food is chili dogs and guess what hot dogs and chili is made out of yep sega releases the animals from eggman just to eat them in chili dogs unless of course that's a soy hot dog and vegan chili sauce the sonic toaster yep this happened gambling addicted mother in adventure 1 there is a woman and a boy near the entrance of casinopolis if you talk to the boy he keeps saying that his mom is stuck in the casino she straight up amidst that she goes to the casino every night gambling addiction and a sonic game what a world basically what happened everybody had amnesia when asked about the story inconsistencies in sonic 06 a sega rep said that everybody had amnesia which is a hilarious way of asking the fans and the public to forget sonico 6 even happened which is probably for the best blaze's breast size an unused character trait for blaze was to have her conscious about her chest size this is a personality trait that never made it into any sonic media as far as i can tell at the very least the blaze can take some comfort knowing that she still gets furry porn not as much of it as rouge but still unleashed mobile poor blood did you know that unleashed had a mobile version which was essentially a d make of unleashed looks cool and look at the screenshot is that blood and skulls on the spikes did sonic wander into the pit from mortal kombat tamers12345 this is a sonic youtuber known for his fan animations and odd obsession with sonic underground his ships and sonic's butt tamers claims that his works are serious but who knows this is my first time experiencing this youtuber and it's like the rapper viper [ __ ] posting as art data designs interactive sonic data design interactive were known for making shovelware games game archivists obscure gamers acquired a bunch of hard drives from the defunct ddi among the hard drives was a weird looking model of sonic it probably wasn't for a game but made for the british freeway comic more than likely used as reference material chuck yeager jaeger was the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound old mate jaeger appeared in one of the comics where his friend gordon died and he kept his jacket which had a hedgehog emblem on it as a tribute chuck named the emblem to sonic the hedgehog super sonic cross universe this is a surprisingly well made and high produced animated series from a person named joro sahay i think i said that wrong the series is in spanish and doesn't have too much of a presence in the english fandom yes mega man is in the series too basically think of every shonen trump plus the occasional sex scene and you have supersonic cross universe alex henrol some people have fantasies about fictional characters and that's fine alex henrol the creator of the site sonic passion was really obsessed with the character having fantasies about sonic that i can't say here because it would make me throw up i don't king shame but hey you do you these days alex is no longer into the sonic fandom instead she is focusing on plastic surgery sonic and tails and mario kart double dash shigeru miyamoto made an offhand comment about the then upcoming mario kart double dash saying that sonic might even be a playable character with this quote rumors ran wild but ultimately sonic and tales are nowhere to be seen in double dash satanic texture in the arena where you fight chaos 2 and sonic adventure 1 there is a mysterious seitan texture in the level that's normally unseen it does not help on the back of the box for the japanese release of sonic adventure 1 it says 666 on the cover if you're 5'556 religious imagery n06 i i guess some people drew some christian fan art from sonico 6. according to some people mytholous illbilis and solarius are basically the sonic version of satan and then there's one pose where shadow is posed like jesus uh personally i don't read it like that but hey art is open to interpretation you shh if you went to the child garden with eggman in adventure 2 and you pet the chow eggman goes yosh which is japanese for an affectionate okay they left the japanese in the english script for some reason and dean bistro had to say japanese and the final version of adventure 2. sonic also gives out a very japanese yield in the english script too persian adventures of sonic the hedgehog intro for some reason the persian version of this show uses katy perry's last friday night as the instrumental to its opening with original lyrics laid over it personally i would have used what was me's version of last friday night for the intro jump boy chemical plant music jump boy was a game that was built into some samsung phones and in this game had chemical plant music i'm going to assume that samsung did not ask sega or masato nakamura for permission to use music for this game man of the year part 2. in sonic jam there is a cartoon short called man of the year sometimes called sonic the animation it's a funnel or cartoon and it's called part one so where is part two it was planned but due to time and budget issues as well as problems with tmse at the time man of the year won't be finished sonic cross love live in japan sega has collaborated with multimedia franchise love live sonic has appeared in official art with love live image girls rin hoshizoda and hanamaru kunikida so yes if you have the cash you can afford a figure with an anime girl holding sonic giving two big thumbs up four thousand pontos this is where the tier image comes from on a brazilian game show called play game they had this eggman show up and to be honest this character freaks me the [ __ ] out weird genitals hedgehogs and echidnas have some of the weirdest peepees in all the animal kingdom echidnas have a four-headed pee-pee meanwhile male hedgehogs have a pp in the middle of their torso and it can grow massive now imagine those pee-pees on our furry cartoon animal heroes yeah that's nightmare fuel or jack off material depending on how degenerate you are i actually messaged the creator of the iceberg and even he didn't know why he put this in the iceberg sonic awakening on the resume of former silver voice actor pete capilla he has a mysterious title called sonic awakening on there what is sonic awakening it might have been a dlc or direct sequel 206 but given sonico 6's poor reception awakening probably didn't get too far off the ground 34 degrees north 12 degrees east mad spaces song in the ost is called 34 degrees north by 12 degrees east so what are at these coordinates let's take a gander it looks like the mediterranean sea with a really nice island why the song is titled with these coordinates is unknown clamp in wonderland sonic dojin clamp is a legendary manga group that made some classics like card capture sakura and magical night ray earth they also made an infamous dojin where kakyoin from jojo's lays an egg and for some reason sonic appears on the cover clamp i love your art but you girls went full stupid in wonderland and ruined my favorite jojo character lemon sun dropped dandelion i already mentioned big gas in this video but did you know that in the sonic universe there are actual drugs lemon sun drop dandelion is an addictive substance in the comic a character in charming's kingdom even got killed by it oh wait lsd if for a snake it would have bit me eggman is the client of morality eggman can be a pretty affable villain he's hammy but never too malicious okay uses cute animals to power mix but whatever it seems like at least with the 3d games and each new title he gets more and more extreme like awakening a god of destruction and almost nuking station square in adventure 1 blowing up the moon in adventure 2 erasing time in generations enslaving a whole alien race in sonic colors and straight up taking over the world and torturing sonic allegedly in sonic forces and apparently he's done worse in the comics i guess constantly losing to sonic year after year takes a toll on the mind eggman is satan following the above a lot of fans especially in america like the joke that eggman is really satan a lot of it stemming from how evil eggman looked in american promotional material not helping is the aforementioned devil texture in sonic adventure 1 and the fact that in me and b machine eggman replaces saiyan as the final boss don't worry though puyo satan is way more pleasant than dr eggman funnily enough eggman and saiyan did meet in the puyo puyo event in sonic runners everybody has some sort of autism you ever notice how inconsistent the characterization is take tails for example he goes from growing independence in adventure 1 to being a coward in forces knuckles goes from stoic to chuckling to being a god damn idiot and amy is either really independent or really horny on maine for sonic some fans speculate that everybody in the series has some form of autism to justify the inconsistent personalities i chalk it up to crap writing sonic 1's dream like aura this is one of those collective memory type things similar to how many people think wet dry world and mario 64 has a depressing vibe many people got euphoric feelings when playing sonic 1. the special stages and spring yard zone in particular thanks to the trippy visuals and the relaxing music some even say they get vaporwave vibes decades before vaporwave was a thing i'm writing this now and as i look at the footage i can totally get that feeling does anybody else think so some people say the same thing about adventure 1's station square adventure field sega would also upload a very vapor wavy remix of station square's theme to their official youtube channel original movie tales tales appears in the stinger of the movie spoiler alert many fans insist up and down tails had a nightmare design like the original sonic as much as fans insist that there is an original tales designed people who have worked on the movie have stated that tails never had a design like homunculus the manhog boomi the cat boomi the cat is this thing this was made at some kind of arg for the adult swim project this house has people in it and well yeah sally six doll made of real bones you probably saw wang's video on this but to quickly sum it up a person named grand dedine made a giant sex doll of sally acorn that use real bones it's an impressive feat of art he clarified that it isn't real bones and the doll but bones carved from wood to be shaped like bones mario and sonic kidnappings one of the stupidest marketing ideas i've ever heard so as promotion for mario and sonic at the olympic games a sega dev allegedly got kidnapped and tortured by mario and sonic what a weird promotion for a game that was already going to sell well i guarantee you the guy in the chair just had a kidnapping kink and really wanted to get kidnapped without actually getting kidnapped or spending a fortune on a dominatrix knuckles drug addiction in 2011 out of nowhere a fanfic came out detailing that knuckles is a drug addict and the lyrics to his stages are telling the story of knuckles hallucinating the sonic universe and an alleged cut snow level would have been knuckles dying of an overdose this is my first time reading this and while i think it's absurd i am impressed that someone took these silly rap songs and interpreted it as a drug metaphor i'll link the fanfic in the description if you're curious true validity of sega's mandates ask anyone who has worked on the sonic franchise in any official capacity and you'll get a lot of complaints about sega's mandates on the franchise particularly if you work on the comics how valid these mandates are is something that has been debated in the fandom given that the games themselves are super inconsistent with story and character personalities and sega is somehow allowing this thing to exist that said in the ken pinders lawsuit there is a list of mandates that was a part of the suit so yes sega does have a lot of control over the franchise that continues into the idw comic do you think that sega is too strict with a franchise too inconsistent let me know in the comments two babies one fox you see this picture of tails relaxing on the bench seems innocent enough but guess what it comes from a very raunchy porn drawing made by someone with issues and i will not go into details about it in research for this video i tried to find the original comic but i could not find it anywhere even asking the most degenerate of people online they have no idea where the original is at and you know what it's probably better that way south american curse this is a joke from the sonic adventure 1 iceberg i guess something on sonic team's trip to south america cursed adventures development maybe that would explain why the game was so buggy at launch and the dx ports aren't super amazing other than sega's laziness sonic schoolhouse is haunted one of sonic's educational games is sonic schoolhouse on the pc looks like an innocent game for young children but did you know it's cursed probably not but it is a weird game you're in a giant schoolhouse with random eggman showing up trying to kill the player character and probably the weirdest thing about this game are the weird animals that join you and are straight out of the uncanny valley this might have come from youtuber pete netter who painted the game as some kind of nightmare experience sonic was never good trying to find this thing that was never really actually there sonic was never good sonic was never good sonic was never good sonic was never good sonic was never good sonic was never good sonic was never good someone at ign said that sonic was never good probably the troll of fanbase but it comes across as them being unprofessional and dicks which is really funny as ign has given sonic games some pretty favorable reviews in the past their review of wii u lost the world was terrible though this line has been memed on but you'll find a lot of internet wise guys unironically saying that sonic was never good but nuts to that sonic is good i would even say amazing if the sonic series is never good it would not have persisted throughout the years and would not have amassed such a strong and devoted fandom to this character and i think it really speaks volumes to how sega has matched the franchise and despite how inconsistent it has been sonic has always managed to stay culturally relevant so shout outs to you sega for making such an awesome franchise that is very important to me and so many other people and if anyone tells you that sonic has sucks or sonic was never good just let them know sonic is awesome i'm saying that here officially so anyway guys that was the sonic icebreak explained and it was um it was a lot more so than the street fighter or the nintendo icebergs i've done so to quickly wrap up my thoughts on this iceberg totally unscripted here it was definitely a lot there was some stuff on the iceberg i would have for sure cut out for the sake of consistency and flow and time and all that stuff but hey no disrespect to the person who made this iceberg i'm sure they put a lot of work into it and they really helped me out in making the iceberg so shout outs to them and uh shout outs to you for making it all the way to the end of the video so leave me some comments what's your favorite sonic game who's your favorite sonic character is there anything i missed on the iceberg let me know down there in the comments and while you're down there make sure you subscribe to the channel and hit the bell as well for notifications on future videos that really helps the channel out and if you want to know more about me and my life here in japan hit me up on the social media twitter instagram at zmang's happy 30th anniversary sonic and i'll see you guys in the next video later take care [Music] you

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Published: Fri Jun 25 2021