The Complete Story & Lore of Classic Sonic

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  @cactusjuiceenthusiast1600 · 2 years ago

  Sonic’s favorite color being red makes Amy randomly switching to a red dress and boots absolutely hilarious

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  @cowyemrsox · 4 years ago

  The classic Sonic games feel like an omage to many Hayao Miyazaki films in their themes of man vs nature and of human progress and the environment. Some are very obvious such as Angel Island being like Laputa the Island in the Sky in "Castle in the Sky". Also anthro animals fighting against humans wanting to develop land and destroy the environment reminds me alot of "Pom Poko". Sonic also feels alot like a classic Hayao Miyazaki protagonist; cool, a little cocky and pure of heart.

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  @ryank2780 · 4 years ago

  &quot;Sonic loves the ocean&quot;<br><br>Pretty ironic cuz he can&apos;t swim

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  @ProjectEchoshadow · 4 years ago

  I’ve always seen Knuckles as an expert in specific things yet clearly an idiot when it comes to social interaction. &nbsp;He knows how to make and use traps on Sonic yet he’s dumb enough to use them on Sonic.

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  @Berdlyknowsitall · 2 years ago

  Sonic is an example of almost true freedom. &nbsp;He has no house, no stuff, no family, no friends (at the time of sonic 1). &nbsp;The only thing that tethers him to this world is his care of the environment. &nbsp;Over the games he sacrifices his freedom for companionship. &nbsp;Deep stuff.

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  @tokusentai777 · 4 years ago

  One thing I always loved about Sonic&apos;s original personality is that he&apos;s neutral-good more than anything<br>Like you said, he wasn&apos;t a &quot;hero&quot;, he doesn&apos;t care about authority or rules, he does things his way, that&apos;s something the modern games can&apos;t understand

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  @justcallmekai1554 · 4 years ago

  I feel like the &quot;Dragon Egg&quot; thing Knuckles was initially worried about may have been an idea that eventually lead to Chaos in SA1. <br><br>It was sealed in the Master Emerald after the fall of the Echidna Tribe (Sonic 2 and 3 refer to some fallen civilization). Perfect Chaos in particular has a reptilian design which are usually associated with Dragons and Chaos is a mutated Chao which hatch from eggs. Idk I could be stretching but it seems like this idea was refined over time.

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  @Far2Sega4U · 4 years ago

  Ok so I wanna clear something up. South Island, Westside Island and Angel Island all used to be a single continent that at one point was guarded by Chaos. When the clans on that continent started waging war on each other trying to obtain the Emeralds power for themselves Perfect Chaos shattered the entire continent into pieces and the Emeralds scatter to each of the three islands - 6 on South, the 7th one on Westside and the Master Emerald on Angel Island. This is also why stages like Labrynth Zone and Hydrocity are flooded and the only thing left are the murals of the Owl Clan (Labrynth) and the Echidnas (Hydrocity). Chaos is the &quot;dragon&quot; Knuckles was afraid of.<br><br>The original theme of the games was Chaos vs Order. Sonic represents Chaos because of his free nature and Eggman is Order because he wants control over eveything. Knuckles represent Order as well, but Positive Order because of his role of protecting the Master Emerald and the island. Then finally comes Chaos who also... obviously represents Negative Chaos meaning destruction. They also represent the 4 elements - Sonic is air, Eggman is fire, Knuckles is earth and Chaos is water. Notice how the characters that represent Chaos are blue and Order are Red. And the logos for on the title screens are kind of Red vs Blue.

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  @mistar_feed · 4 years ago

  I didn&apos;t know the classic Sonic games had so many inaccessible info and lore due to the localization changing the story, It was great to learn about those.

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  @hyruleguy9569 · 4 years ago

  The whole bit about Sonic&apos;s true personality at the beginning of the video makes me think about my favorite of his portrayals, Sonic and the Black Knight. That game gets him EXACTLY right.

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  @laneplain107 · 4 years ago

  While it&apos;s all head canon, I actually really like the idea of Knuckles going around Angle Island in search for treasure. I could see him having a stash of shiny and cool looking rocks and showing them to all the little flickies. I imagine he&apos;d be very bored sitting around the Master Emerald alter all day, so when he allows himself some downtime that&apos;s what he does.

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  @THATGuy5654 · 11 months ago

  Someone needs to point out that Sonic was saving squirrels long before it was cool. And maybe that&apos;s the real Punk rock.

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