History Headscratchers / SonictheHedgehog

** "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" ([[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.

** [ExactWords Keyword - alive.] I highly doubt that anyone would consider a consumer vehicle ''alive''.

** [ExactWords Keyword - alive.] I highly doubt that anyone would consider a consumer vehicle ''alive''.

* The chaos emeralds are always seen as the be all and end all in sonics universe, basically as soon as you have them all, you become super and can save the day from anythiing and many games revolve around gathering them. Why then does knuckles never ever use the master emerald, the most powerful item in the universe, above even the chaos emeralds, that he always has with him, to solve any problems the gang have? Metal sonic, Black doom, Solaris, Time eater etc, just have knuckles use the master emerald, and wish away or god mode the problem away, he cold be omnipotent if he wanted and yet it's always up to gathering the chaos emeralds for sonic to use.

* Why is ''Sonic'' considered the biggest example of PolygonCeiling? It's first 3D games, ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', were well-received, and there are many other franchises that suffered far worse, such as ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}''.

*** 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.
* So, in the Sonic OVA, what's Sarah's deal? Why is she a CatGirl of all the things?
** She was probably inspired by the [[LittleBitBeastly kemonomimis]] in the ''Manga/SonicTheHedgehogStoryComic''.

* Why did Archie depict Ray the ''Flying'' Squirrel as a regular squirrel (no membranes), and never corrected the mistake?

* In Sonic '06, does Silver have romantic feelings for Blaze?
** Unless you have ShippingGoggles on there's no confirmation of romantic feelings from Silver to Blaze.

* Speaking of Sonic ports on phones, seems Sonic 2 was released with that Hidden Palace zone that never made it into the Genesis version (and its re-releases). Why did they stick the Mystic Cave 2-player track onto it instead of the Hidden Palace track that was intended which never saw any use in the game?
** The track used for the beta Hidden Palace didn't fit the prehistoric feel of the new Hidden Palace, according to [[https://twitter.com/CFWhitehead/status/411261767046553600 the director]].

* What the heck is in that giant mech's eye, shown from the front during the second to final battle in Sonic & Knuckles? [[http://www.theghz.com/sonic/s&k/s&k_29.gif]]
** That's a light. It's just a goddamn light. You could easily recreate that in real life.

** Sega goes back and forth, but it's either a separate dimension or a split timeline. Sonic 1, 2, 3K and CD make up both timelines' histories. The modern games are exclusive to the modern timeline, while Mania is exclusive to the classic timeline. The status of the other classic games is ambiguous.

* Someone please clarify what classic Sonic's world is. Is it '''[==]''just''' Sonic Mania'' (and by association the world classic Sonic came from in ''Forces'') or is it all the classic installments of the series (i.e. black-eyed Sonic and friends and any games involving them)?

* Someone please clarify what classic Sonic's world is. Is it '''''just''' Sonic Mania'' (and by association the world classic Sonic came from in ''Forces'') or is it all the classic installments of the series (i.e. black-eyed Sonic and friends and any games involving them)?

** Sega just overrode the above with a new one: anthros live in islands, humans in continents and big cities. This is more consistent with the games and answers the original question: games that took place in islands like the classic games had all-animal casts (besides Eggman), while games that took place in cities like Sonic Adventure or Sonic Unleashed had human NPCs.

* Sonic's animal friends from the "classic" games. They still cameo every once and a while, and they're reappearing in Sonic 4. However, what are their English names? Now that every continuity shares the same continuity, I'm pretty sure they've changed to their Japanese names, as seen in Jam and Game World, and Ricky's a boy again.