History Headscratchers / SonicTheHedgehog

* ''Headscratchers/SonicAdvance''

* ''Headscratchers/SonicAdvanceTrilogy''

*** The same could be asked of [[VideoGame/MegaMan Dr. Wily]]. Then again, Wily seems to be conning the populace in ''9'', so...

* ''Headscratchers/SonicTheHedgehog2''

* What about the animals in Sonic's world? Not [[FunnyAnimal Funny Animals]] like the main characters, but others. Is there a difference within the world between [[https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Bat cartoon animals]] (such as Flickies) and [[https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Bat_(Sonic_and_the_Black_Knight) ordinary animals]] - or is it a purely stylistic difference, similar to the difference between humans in [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 ''Sonic 06'']] and humans in "VideoGame/SonicUnleashed"? Are the cartoonish animals intelligent or not? The [[Manga/SonicTheHedgehogStoryComic very first manga]] shows them talking, and even later media shows them reacting to other characters's actions in meaningful ways. Speaking of the manga, at the other end of the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: are Sonic's bodyguard girls just humans with artificial ears - or do they have animal traits, like Sara from [[Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie the OVA]]? How many levels of anthropomorphism do we have, after all?

** "Eggman" was his original Japanese name. It was changed to "Robotnik" in America, probably because they thought Dr. Eggman as a villain sounded silly. And as far the "Sonikku" thing goes, I think the reason it's pronounced differently in Japanese is because "Sonic" itself is a loanword and not exactly a common word in Japan. It happens a lot in other games where characters have noticeably foreign names; "Kuraudo Storaifu" ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud Strife]]), "Soriddo Suneku" ([[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]]), "Gairu" ([[Franchise/StreetFighter Guile]]), to name a few. All of the characters have English names in the Sonic universe, so you get stuff like "Sonikku ze Hejjihoggu" all the time. Translated in Japanese, it would have to be something along the lines of "Sonikku no Harinezumi". Sonic's seiyuu is probably the only one who uses both pronunciations, but he kinda has to.

*** The fifth TailsTube seems to agree, as Mighty is treated as a friend of modern Sonic while they all participated in the events of ''Sonic Superstars''.

Individual games have their own pages, please put Headscratchers for specific games on their own pages. Only put series-wide Headscratchers on this page. If you have a Headscratcher for the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, go [[Headscratchers/SonicTheHedgehog1 here]]. If you got Headscratchers about the 2006 game, go [[Headscratchers/SonicTheHedgehog2006 here]]. For the 2020 film, go [[Headscratchers/SonicTheHedgehog2020 here]].

*** VideoGame/{{Sonic Rush|Series}} Adventure pretty much stated it canon.
*** No it... no it didn't. Sonic Rush Adventures involves a parallel world (Blaze's). The troper above it merely going by Sonic the Comic canon, which is basically nothing like the games'.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Sonic Rush|Series}} Adventure'', Sonic comes upon an island populated by anthropomorphic koalas. We also have Marine there, who while pretty close to the other animal characters in Sonic, is a noncombatant. (More so than Cream.) So I think comunities of animals do exist, but they have yet to be plot-important.

*** Well, I've heard some fans say ALL of Shadow's appearances following Sonic Adventure 2 ruin his story so I guess it's a moot point..

*** I feel like the fans ''think'' they know what they want, but most don't know what the truly ''need''. So they think they want 3D, but in actuality what they needed was a Sonic game that sticks true to its first formula ([[TheyChangedItNowItSucks since that's why the fans loved Sonic in the first place]]), like with what Sonic Mania did. 3D games just wouldn't cut it for them. The fact that Sonic Mania was made by fans might be a good example of BetterThanCanon, since, although it is indeed canon, it was still made by fans and the fans know what they themselves want out of a Sonic game. The fact that a game such as Sonic Mania, being made by fans and not SEGA themselves, may say a lot about SEGA, which is probably why fans ''think'' they don't listen. In shorter words, SEGA gives fans what they want, but not what they '''need'''.

*** With the release of Forces, this makes even more sense; it's not just Knux that can knock Sonic out of his Super form.

** I can think of two possible reasons: First, maybe Metal Sonics are resource-intensive to manufacture or operate, so might not be fit for mass production (in VideoGame/SonicAdventure, several Sonic-like robots including the traditional Metal Sonic are shown in storage but are never activated during the plot). Second, Metal Sonic is sometimes shown as delusionally believing that it is the "real Sonic", so having two or more operating simultaneously might end with them attempting to destroy eachother.