The trophy was a statue of the hedgehog. The English-language dub featured Martin Burke in Sonic's role. Starting with the game Sonic Adventure , all of Sonic's video games feature voice acting. Ryan Drummond performed the role of Sonic in Sonic Adventure and continued to play the role for several games. Despite this, Drummond continued to provide the voice of Sonic in the series until , when Sega replaced all their Sonic voice actors with their 4Kids counterparts, in order to keep his voice the same in all media forms.
This has been a controversial decision among fans of the Sonic Adventure series and Sonic Heroes voice cast. Griffith's voice has been negatively viewed by some fans of the old voice cast of the Sonic series, as his voice for Sonic had been criticized by fans of lacking the enthusiasm that Sonic's last voice actor Ryan Drummond put into the role and not being able to fit Shadow's personality as well as David Humphrey did.
More recently however, Sega has announced that they might have no need for the 4Kids voice actors in the future, which may lead to their firing and replacement, possibly by the original actors except for Pollock. Ryan Drummond has sent an email to Sega about the 4kids voices except for Mike Pollock to see if they have left for good. However, Ryan understands that it won't be easy negotiating with Sega. Character Personality Sonic has been described as being "like the wind", and is noted for being free-spirited and adventurous.
He enjoys relaxation, but is never one to rest in the face of injustice. He is extremely benevolent, and willingly puts himself at risk to help others, taking on any challenge that confronts him without hesitation. However, Sonic is not generally modest when it comes to his abilities; in fact, he is often portrayed as being narcissistic and self-absorbed. The British Sonic the Comic presented him as being bossy and arrogant, often making cruel jokes about his friend Tails, and characters regularly referred to his strange sense of humour.
Sonic is an all around, fun-loving kind of hedgehog. His favorite food is gumballs and chili dogs. He displays an interest in rock music, and in the cartoon Sonic Underground was a vocalist in his own band. Some official character art and a television commercial for Sonic Adventure suggests that he has a personal hobby as a DJ. Furthermore, it is displayed in Sonic Rush for the Nintendo DS that Sonic also enjoys breakdancing as it is one of his primary ways for filling up his Rush meter.
His battle moves in Sonic Battle are also based on breakdancing, as mentioned in the attack descriptions. Lastly, he breakdances in Sonic Advance 3 if he finishes a level in a short-enough time. Knuckles initially misread the mural to mean that Eggman would protect the Master Emerald from a villainous Sonic, but he eventually realized the truth. There is also speculation that as Gerald Robotnik had studied Echidna culture he at some point had seen the mural and the lasting image played a hand in the appearance of Shadow the Hedgehog, given that Shadow looks extremely like Super Sonic.
In Sonic the Hedgehog , Silver the Hedgehog is led to believe that Sonic is 'the Iblis Trigger', the one responsible for starting a situation which plunges the world into ruin.
This turns out to be a half truth created by Mephiles the Dark. The threat in question, Iblis, was sealed within Princess Elise who had grown emotionally attached to Sonic. Mephiles misinformed Silver in the hopes he would kill Sonic, which in turn would cause Elise enough trauma to release the seal on Iblis.
The word Iblis relates to the equivalent of the devil, or Satan, in Islamic culture. Home The games: Sonic's home planet is Earth although the name has varied slightly depending on minor regional differences. He lives at a location known as South Island during Sonic 1 , and according to early written material from Sonic Team was originally born on Christmas Island. Although Sonic has always lived on Earth to players living in Japan during the s bit era, players elsewhere then believed that Sonic's home world was called "Mobius" because of localized information provided by some later American and European instruction manuals.
This name stemmed from a mistranslation of the word "Mobius" in a Sega Visions interview with Yuji Naka; he was in fact referring to a Mobius strip used in Sonic 2. However, games produced since 's Sonic Adventure have clearly taken place on Earth, and all of them use the same story and names regardless of the language they are played in. Sonic Adventure 2 was the first game of the franchise to consistently use the term "Earth" in-game, a standard which holds true down to the present day.
It, its remake Sonic Adventure 2: Battle , and subsequent game Shadow the Hedgehog even show views of Earth from space. Western fiction: In all American and European comics, cartoons, books and some manuals published before , Sonic's home is a planet called Mobius. The long-standing US Archie comic expand on the relationship between Mobius and Earth, as Mobius is revealed to once having been Earth. After Xorda aliens set off a Gene Bomb, wiping out almost the entire human race, animals mutated and evolved into the various species what are now called 'Mobians' with alongside what little humans were left.
The time line in the Archie comic series is set about 1, years in the future As stated in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic issue The British spin-off Sonic the Comic stated that the version of Mobius in that comic is a world completely separate from Earth, and is described as the Earth's sister planet to the point of actual humans from Earth invading it.
During the course of the movie, it is explained that the world is split into two dimensions: The Land of the Sky, which is home to Sonic and his friends, and the Land of Darkness, where Dr. Eggman resides. It is heavily implied that this planet is in fact a future Earth.
Sonic X: Sonic's home in the Sonic X anime series is an unknown planet in an alternate reality that shares the same space as Earth, as revealed in Episode This logically suggests that the planet is indeed an alternative Earth, although this has not been explicitly confirmed. This planet however appears only briefly in the show, with the majority of the action first taking place on "our" Earth, and later in outer space.
Abilities Sonic is known as "the fastest thing alive", with the ability to run at speeds higher than Mach 1. He can run backwards just as well as forwards. In the games, his super speed has not been explained, although according to the official American Sega website, he was born with this ability. A promotional comic printed in Disney Adventures magazine and other publications in established an origin story later used in numerous British publications including Stay Sonic and Sonic the Comic in which his running ability was achieved through training on a high-tech treadmill until he surpassed the speed of sound.
Stay Sonic also gave his fastest recorded speed as mph, while in the Archie Comics, a response to a piece of fan mail stated that the fastest he ever ran was Mach 2, and that in his super form he can travel at the speed of light. In both Stay Sonic and the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, Sonic's distinctive "Power Sneaker" shoes are used to protect his feet from the heat arising from the friction involved when running at such speeds.
Soap shoes with a similar design and colour scheme were featured in Sonic Adventure 2 , which introduced Sonic's ability to grind on rails. In the original 2D games, once Sonic had reached his top speed, he ran with his arms fixed pointing forwards.
However, in the 3D titles, Sonic CD and the Sonic Advance series, his top-speed running animation was altered so that his arms trailed behind him and that he leaned forwards more. This animation is copied by most of the other, super-fast characters. Many of his abilities are variations on the tendency for hedgehogs to roll into tight balls for protection. His primary offensive maneuver is the spin jump or "Sonic Spin Attack" ; as Sonic jumps, he curls up and spins round, damaging any enemies which come into contact with him.
This ability was enhanced in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with the introduction of the "Insta-Shield", which allows Sonic to momentarily surround himself with a spherical force field, giving him a split-second's worth of protection, and slightly increasing his attack range while jumping.
He can also curl into a ball while running, allowing his momentum to carry him along in an equally dangerous attack. Although well-protected, in this position he cannot maintain his top speed, and curling up limits the amount of control he and the player has over his movements. The "Spin-Dash", introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , allows Sonic to quickly accelerate into this roll from a stationary position.
The "Super Peel-Out" introduced in Sonic CD also known as the "Figure Eight" move in the comics, so called due to the shape his feet take when he does this accelerates him in a similar manner, but allows him to remain running in an upright position and the camera sticks to Sonic when in maximum speed.
In the upcoming game Sonic and the Secret Rings , Sonic can trigger a speed boost in which he is surrounded in flames and is invulnerable. His super move in Sonic Rivals has a similar effect, but it may not be the same power. Another of Sonic's moves is the homing attack, introduced in Sonic Adventure.
Sonic performs the homing attack in midair during a jump, speeding towards a target in his ball form to damage or destroy it. Sonic can perform multiple homing attacks in rapid succession; as he bounces off of one target, he can aim for another one and attack it.
Alternatively, Sonic can use the homing attack to hit a single target multiple times. Sonic can run or bounce across the surface of water, but he cannot swim. In Sonic the Hedgehog 3 , a water shield allows Sonic to breathe underwater, but in the 3D Sonic games, landing in water is usually the equivalent of instant death. In the Fleetway comic book Sonic the Comic , his inability to swim was one of his major weaknesses for a long time.
Sonic's fear of water is often alluded to in the animated series Sonic X and Sonic Underground , though in Episode 9 of Sonic X , Sonic is seen to be able to swim when he rescues Amy from drowning he gained this strength because he is devoted to help those in need especially his friends. Also, Sonic has shown an incredible degree of strength in one episode of Sonic X.
This would suggest that Sonic may have super strength, but this does not apply to the actual Sonic storyline. Transformations Since the bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , Sonic has had the ability to transform into an incredibly powerful form known as Super Sonic.
The transformation is triggered by collecting all seven Chaos Emeralds, and at least fifty rings. As Super Sonic, he is even faster than normal, can jump higher, can fly, and is invincible to most attacks and obstacles. Sonic's appearance also changes; his body becomes yellowish-gold, his quills rise into a wilder arrangement, his eyes turn red, and he physically resembles Shadow. A slight continuity error in the Super Sonic levels is that Sonic can breath in space, obviously not needing oxygen , yet he can drown underwater.
Sonic 3 and Knuckles introduced the even more powerful Hyper Sonic. Hyper Sonic glows with the colors of the Chaos Emeralds, is surrounded by glowing sparks, and leaves afterimages in his wake. Filming begins in and around Vancouver, Canada, the next month. Sonic 2. Reaction within the gaming world is decidedly unsupportive. Over the intervening year-plus, additional work-in-progress posters for the film leak, leading to an initial wave of Schadenfreude-driven memes. A second trailer is unleashed online, prompting what can only be described as a radical turnaround.
The trailer reportedly receives the highest like-to-dislike Google ratio of any official studio trailer released within the last three years; Paramount quietly removes the first Sonic trailer from its website. As the Sonic review embargoes lift, Movie Twitter registers its 69 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes with a collective shock. Sonic was no longer cute. He was cool.
To double down on this new Western coolness, Sonic Adventure 2 in gave Sonic shoes that looked more like American sneakers. Much like the old version of Sonic, this new version was featured in peripheral TV shows and comics. Sonic games since then haven't delineated too much on his design. In , however, Yuji Naka wanted to create a Sonic game with a more realistic tone. The game, simply called Sonic the Hedgehog, reintroduced the concept of another human love interest for Sonic.
Elise is a princess who has a secret power that Dr. Eggman wants to exploit. Sonic saves her time and time again. Because Sonic had to interact with Elise, a full-sized human, they made him slightly taller and more mature. That game, let alone that relationship, was seen as a huge failure and prompted Sega to return to a lighter tone for Sonic games. A game called Sonic Unleashed introduce a "werehog" version of Sonic in which he became furry and muscular. And the Sonic Boom franchise launched in To make Sonic look more like what audiences recognize in a hero, art director Bob Rafei gave him bandages, tattered hair, and a scarf.
This design gave us another radical deviation from the traditional Sonic design in that this version had blue arms instead of flesh-colored ones. This franchise is seen as an outlier in terms of Sonic's appearance, though, as the modern Sonic is still being used in other games and media. Initially, the designers for the film created a Sonic that was supposed to resemble a realistic hedgehog.
The eyes were small. He had creepy, humanlike teeth and generally looked like a small child in a onesie. It was a disaster. Sonic fans hated the design so much that director Jeff Fowler promised he would change it to better reflect Sega's modern version of Sonic.
Paramount released a new, updated trailer in early The revamped Sonic looks much better, but there are still a few differences. The biggest one is his eyes. Paramount's version of Sonic has two eyeballs, whereas Sega's version famously only has one with two pupils.
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