History Comicbook / SonicTheHedgehogPromoComic

The comic was [[ContinuityDrift initially]] meant to be the canon backstory in some form or another for the western branch of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, [[AllThereInTheManual per word of the]] [[http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_Bible original]] [[Literature/SonicBible US series bible]], distinguishing it from the storyline of the series Japanese branch. However, none of this backstory was ever brought up or acknowledged in any of the video games (understandable, since Creator/SonicTeam had no involvement with Sega of America's western localization of Sonic), and it is [[CanonDiscontinuity no longer considered canon]] (if it ever was in the first place) due to VideoGame/SonicAdventure permanently merging the Japanese storyline of the Sonic games with that of the western Sonic games. It did provide the backbone for Fleetway's ComicBook/SonicTheComic, which borrowed the same origin story (and curiously did an adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' without nullifying any of the previous continuity).

The comic was [[ContinuityDrift initially]] meant to be the canon backstory in some form or another for the western branch of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, [[AllThereInTheManual per word of the]] [[http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_Bible original US Sonic series bible]], distinguishing it from the storyline of the series Japanese branch. However, none of this backstory was ever brought up or acknowledged in any of the video games (understandable, since Creator/SonicTeam had no involvement with Sega of America's western localization of Sonic), and it is [[CanonDiscontinuity no longer considered canon]] (if it ever was in the first place) due to VideoGame/SonicAdventure permanently merging the Japanese storyline of the Sonic games with that of the western Sonic games. It did provide the backbone for Fleetway's ComicBook/SonicTheComic, which borrowed the same origin story (and curiously did an adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' without nullifying any of the previous continuity).

Compare to the Japan only, three volume tie in manga, ''Manga/SonicTheHedgehogStoryComic'', which likewise provides a little backstory to Sonic before the main game (and are unrelated to the other Sonic manga series published there, which also had its own interpretation of the original games backstory drawn by the mangas artists, albeit as a tie-in to SonicTheHedgehog2 instead). Obviously, the former manga ignores the backstory established by the western continuity and sticks more closely to the source material, while the other manga [[InNameOnly plays fast and loose with it.]]

A very interesting entry from the earliest days in the SonicTheHedgehog series, this 16 page oneshot promotional comic (simply named ''Sonic the Hedgehog [[Title1 Number 1]]'') was crafted by Sega of America, with writing and artwork by Francis Mao, in an attempt to provide an origin story for Sonic in the western world, as well as promote his [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog debut video game.]]

->'''Sonic''': "Don't you ''know?'' I'm '''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]]'''[[TradeSnark ™]]"

A very interesting entry from the earliest days in the SonicTheHedgehog series, this 16 page oneshot promotional comic (simply named ''Sonic The Hedgehog [[Title1 Number 1]]'') was crafted by Sega of America, with writing and artwork by Francis Mao, in an attempt to provide an origin story for Sonic in the western world, as well as promote his [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog debut video game.]]

Compare to the Japan only, three volume tie in manga, [[http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_Story_Comic "Sonic The Hedgehog Story Comic"]], which likewise provides a little backstory to Sonic before the main game (and are unrelated to the other Sonic manga series published there, which also had its own interpretation of the original games backstory drawn by the mangas artists, albeit as a tie-in to SonicTheHedgehog2 instead). Obviously, the former manga ignores the backstory established by the western continuity and sticks more closely to the source material, while the other manga [[InNameOnly plays fast and loose with it.]]

->'''Sonic''': "Don't you ''know?'' I'm '''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]]'''[[TradeSnark ™]]"

* DramaticIrony: The benevolent Ovi Kintobor built the R.O.C.C. machine to rid the world of all evil by using the power of the Chaos Emeralds, but it unwittingly ended up [[GoneHorriblyWrong him into the very thing he wanted to destroy]] by transforming him, both physically and mentally, into the pure evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Invoked; Kintobor's treadmill acknowledges a proper estimate of Sonic's natural speed using the Mass Versus Velocity theory as 17 mph, but Sonic, being as brash as he is, decides to spit in the face of it by going so fast that he breaks the sound barrier, and thus violently overloads the treadmill--and the heat from the speed also changes Sonic's color from brown to cobalt blue and permanently fuses his quills together. This does raise the question of why Sonic wasn't killed by having his body reach such a dangerously high temperature (we clearly see it burned his shoes into a crisp and warranted Kintobor to construct specialized frictionless shoes for him) or suffer from the inertia of launching himself and stopping at such incredible speed, unless we accept that he was somehow [[RequiredSecondaryPowers resilient enough to withstand that kind of situation in the first place.]]

The comic was [[ContinuityDrift initially]] meant to be the canon backstory in some form or another for the western branch of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, [[AllThereInTheManual per word of the]] [[http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_Bible original US Sonic series bible]], distinguishing it from the storyline of the series Japanese branch. However, none of this backstory was ever brought up or acknowledged in any of the video games, and it is [[CanonDiscontinuity no longer considered canon]] (if it ever was in the first place) due to VideoGame/SonicAdventure permanently merging the Japanese storyline of the Sonic games with that of the western Sonic games. It did provide the backbone for Fleetway's ComicBook/SonicTheComic, which borrowed the same origin story (and curiously did an adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' without nullifying any of the previous continuity).

But one day, Kintobor [[NiceJobBreakingItHero spills a drink on the R.O.C.C. controls]], causing the machine to go haywire; not only scattering the R.O.C.C.'s containment rings all over South Island, but also bathing Kintobor in 10,000 bolts of Pure Evil Energy, causing him to transform into Dr. Robotnik.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ovi Kintobor is obviously patterned after AlbertEinstein.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: While the Mass Vs. Velocity theory was written by AlbertEinstein, here he's called [[PunnyName Eggstein]] due to the Einstein name being trademarked.

The comic was [[ContinuityDrift initially]] meant to be the canon backstory in some form or another for the western branch of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, [[AllThereInTheManual per word of the]] [[http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_Bible original US Sonic series bible]], distinguishing it from the storyline of the series Japanese branch. However, it is [[CanonDiscontinuity no longer considered canon]] due to VideoGame/SonicAdventure permanently merging the Japanese storyline of the Sonic games with that of the western Sonic games. It did provide the backbone for Fleetway's ComicBook/SonicTheComic, which borrowed the same origin story (and curiously did an adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' without nullifying any of the previous continuity).

No relation to [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic series]], which has a completely different backstory and continuity, despite also being ([[ContinuityReboot or rather, was]]) set on Mobius. However, Fleetway's ComicBook/SonicTheComic did borrow its backstory from this promotional comic.

No relation to [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic series]], which has a completely different backstory and continuity, despite also being ([[ContinuityReboot or rather, was]]) set on Mobius.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: The original game proper had a [[ExcusePlot straightforward, kiddy good vs. evil scenario]]. This comic practically turns it into a tragedy for kids.

A very interesting entry from the earliest days in the SonicTheHedgehog series, this 16 page oneshot promotional comic (simply named ''Sonic The Hedgehog [[Title1 Number 1]]'') was crafted in an attempt to provide an origin story for Sonic in the western world, as well as promote his [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog debut video game.]]

A very interesting entry from the earliest days in the SonicTheHedgehog series, this 15 page oneshot promotional comic (simply named ''Sonic The Hedgehog [[Title1 Number 1]]'') was crafted in an attempt to provide an origin story for Sonic in the western world, as well as promote his [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog debut video game.]]

A very interesting entry from the earliest days in the SonicTheHedgehog series, this 15 page oneshot promotional comic (simply named ''Sonic The Hedgehog [[Title1 Number 1]]'') was crafted in an attempt to provide an origin story for Sonic in the western world, as well as promote his [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog debut game.]]

* ContinuityDrift: Initially the canon Sega of America backstory, but this was either ignored or forgotten (the actual game obviously does not acknowledge the western backstory this comic elaborates on, since Sega of America didn't have a hand in its creation), and it was made moot anyway when ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' nullified the concept of different localizations getting different storylines. Later games like ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' would introduce story elements that would contradict the events of this comic anyway, such as the games clearly being set on Earth and Ivo Robotnik having a grandfather in canon whose surname is Robotnik, which rules out the Ovi Kintobor backstory.

* ContinuityDrift: Initially the canon Sega of America backstory, but this was either ignored or forgotten (the actual game does not acknowledge the backstory this comic elaborates on, since Sega of America didn't have a hand in its creation), and it was made moot anyway when ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' nullified the concept of different localizations getting different storylines. Later games like ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' would introduce story elements that would contradict the events of this comic anyway, such as the games clearly being set on Earth and Ivo Robotnik having a grandfather in canon whose surname is Robotnik, which rules out the Ovi Kintobor backstory.

* ContinuityDrift: Initially the canon Sega of America backstory, but this was either ignored or forgotten (the actual game does not acknowledge the backstory this comic elaborates on, since Sega of America didn't have a hand in its creation), and it was made moot anyway when ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' nullified the concept of different localizations getting different storylines.

* DramaticIrony: The benevolent Ovi Kintobor built the R.O.C.C. machine to rid the world of all evil by using the power of the Chaos Emeralds, but it unwittingly ended up making him into the very thing he wanted to destroy by transforming him, both physically and mentally, into the pure evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik.

* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Kintobor's R.O.C.C. machine goes completely haywire just from having a soda built onto its controls.

* DownerEnding: If you take the story at face value as the official backstory for the classic games, Sonic was never able to return Ivo Robotnik back into Ovi Kintobor.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The backstory presented here for Sonic and Robotnik is very odd and quite different from their more straightforward rivalry in the games proper.

* AdaptationExpansion: The game tries to elaborate on the backstory for the the original game and explain elements of it, such as the purpose of the Chaos Emeralds (they were magical items meant to be used for good purposes and rid the world of evil) and the rings (which are [[HandWave handwaved]] as being "Containment Rings" for the R.O.C.C. machine and its energy, which got scattered all over the island when the machine went haywire).

* ContinuityDrift: Initially the canon Sega of America backstory, but this was either ignored or forgotten (curiously, the actual game does not acknowledge the backstory this comic elaborates on), and it was made moot anyway when ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' nullified the concept of different localizations getting different storylines.

* ForWantOfANail: If Kintobor had just kept that soda away from the machine (or at least made the machinery waterproof in the first place), the entire plot (and by proxy, the entire series) wouldn't have started.