Sonic The Hedgehog: 10 Things In The Movie That Only Make Sense If You Played The Games

The Sonic the Hedgehog movie features some moments and items that only fans of the games would understand. Here’s a look at 10!

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The breakout hit new action-adventure movie Sonic the Hedgehog is a rare gem: an actually successful and entertaining movie adaptation of a popular video game series. The movie has been both praised and criticized for how easy it is for people unfamiliar with the original video game series to enjoy.

Sure, it’s newcomer-friendly, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have treats for those who have grown up playing the classic games of SEGA’s iconic blue blur. Even while catering to those who only know that Sonic’s a blue hedgehog and nothing else, there are still plenty of worldbuilding and character details from the new film that only make sense if you’ve played the games.

10 The Significance Of Loop-De-Loops

As the flashback cues and Sonic opens the movie’s prologue by narrating his life on his home island before being warped to Earth, he lists the loop-de-loops as a reason why his idyllic home is so perfect.

For those who haven’t played the original games, the loop-de-loops seem like a fun worldbuilding detail that serves to mark how alien or different Sonic’s original home is from our own. In reality, it’s actually a clear reference to the games, in which the loop-de-loops maximized the gameplay’s clever use of momentum to fling Sonic across stages.

9 Who The Other Creatures Are In The Prologue

While the loop-de-loops are a definitive nod to the games, Sonic’s owlish parental figure at the start of the movie isn’t. In fact, Long Claw is a brand-new character found nowhere else but this new Sonic the Hedgehog movie, making the prologue strange and unfamiliar to longtime fans.

But then the movie introduces potentially antagonistic characters who are after Sonic’s special abilities and those who have played the video games are back in familiar territory. These creatures are echidnas just like Sonic’s rival, Knuckles. According to series lore, Knuckles is the last of his kind, which tells fans something will happen to these hunters before Knuckles is hopefully introduced in a later sequel.

8 What (Exactly) Caused The Massive Blackout

Sonic’s superspeed is nothing new even to those unfamiliar with the games. The electricity and unlimited power that accompanies it might be, but not the fact that when Sonic runs he can become a blue blur of light. But longtime fans know that there’s more: Sonic can go fast enough to break the sound barrier.

At the beginning of the movie, as Sonic ran around the baseball diamond over and over again, he got so fast that, with a cry, a surge of power blew out electricity in the region and caused a massive blackout. For someone who hasn’t played the games, this may be interpreted as something not connected to his speed, but in reality, Sonic created a boom because he quite possibly broke the sound barrier.

7 Sonic’s Spin Dash And Homing Attacks

Sonic’s spin dash and homing attacks are signature moves from the original video games. They’re the primary methods by which you use Sonic to destroy all of the notorious Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik’s machines. Sonic jumps into a ball and with a press of a button can shoot towards a robot to damage it.

In the movie, Sonic and Tom discover these abilities accidentally. While Sonic frequently curls himself into a ball before the highway car-chase, he doesn’t know how to do this offensively, most likely because he’s never had to before. When he spin dashes Robotnik’s giant car, Tom asks what many audience members who haven’t played the games are probably thinking: “How are you not dead?”

6 Why The “Mushroom Planet” Is Next

To anyone else watching the movie, the fact that it’s an uninhabited and unlikable mushroom planet Sonic has to warp to may seem like a comedic gag. It comes off pretty funny when Sonic talks about it to a bewildered Tom who is trying to make sense of the ridiculously fast blue “spacehog” in his truck.

However, to those who have played the original video games, there’s a clear reason why it’s a mushroom planet and not some other place. The aforementioned “mushroom planet” is also better known as Mushroom Hill Zone from the games Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles.

5 Why Sonic’s Rings Can Be Portals

In the movie, it seems like a curious and creative detail to have Sonic’s signature golden rings also act as measures of transportation between worlds. From the beginning, as Long Claw tosses out a ring to send Sonic to Earth, the movie establishes its lore that Sonic’s bag of series-iconic golden rings are anything but normal jewelry that jingle and scatter when he gets hit.

The truth is: Warp Rings exist in the games, too. Sonic and friends have used them from the very first, original Sonic game. Most often, they’re used to travel to a Special Stage area, though they’ve popped up as transportation tools for other reasons, too.

4 Dr. Robotnik’s Nickname as “Eggman”

In the movie, Dr. Robotnik’s machine cronies are white and oval-shaped. They look like eggs, as Sonic points out when he dubs the villain “Eggman” during their confrontation on top of the Transamerica Pyramid building. It seems an appropriate enough teasing nickname in the heat of the moment.

However, in the games, Dr. Robotnik isn’t known as Eggman thanks to his machines, especially when his aforementioned machines are actually known to take a variety of shapes. Instead, Dr. Robotnik is known as “Eggman” thanks to his rotund shape and size. However, in the movie, it seems like a strange name when Robotnik himself isn’t as large and ovular as his original, cartoony counterpart.

3 Eggman’s “Evolved” Appearance In The Mushroom Hill Zone

This makes Eggman’s new appearance once he’s stranded in the Mushroom Hill Zone at the end of the movie much more significant. We see Eggman finishing his last shave to completely rid himself of his hair but leaving his mustache bushy and long.

In addition to this, he’s also gained weight; Eggman is rounder than he was at the beginning of the movie. He still wears the red flight suit he had been mocked for before, which gives him a combined look that many recognize as traditional Robotnik from the original video games. This is our Eggman, egg-shaped and mustachioed, with his signature beady eyeglasses, that we know and love.

2 Sonic’s Idle Waiting Animation

On top of the Transamerica Pyramid, as missiles are flying at Sonic from the newly-dubbed Eggman’s robots and time once again screeches to a halt so Sonic can show off how fast he can go, there’s a moment where Sonic stops, checks his wrist, and taps his foot.

While this may seem like normal behavior for the overconfident blue blur, which it very much is, it’s also a clear reference to Sonic’s idle waiting animation in the original games. If left alone with no movement for an extended period of time, Sonic taps his foot, looks at a non-existent watch on his wrist, pulls a Jim from The Office look at the camera, and expectantly waits for the player to move him again.

1 The Significance of Tails in The Post-Credits Scene

Lovable twin-tailed sidekick Miles “Tails” Prower is arguably one of the series’ most adored characters. For those who haven’t played the games, however, it’s a mystery as to who the yellow fox in the post-credits scene is, why he’s got two tails, and how he’s flying with them.

In reality, Tails has been helicopter-flying since his initial debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. In addition, Tails is also incredibly intelligent, with an IQ to rival Dr. Robotnik’s. His post-credits scene appearance is far more significant than people who have not played the video games may even know.

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