Line #64 Headscratchers/SonicTheHedgehog2006


1	* Does Silver have romantic feelings for Blaze?
2	** Unless you have ShippingGoggles on there's no confirmation of romantic feelings from Silver to Blaze.
3	* After Sonic and Silver use Chaos Control in Kingdom Valley, a second timeline was created where Elise was rescued by Sonic and never died. But the game uses Stable Time Loop as time travel paradox, so they should stay in one timeline. Did the game use two types of time travel?
4	** What even happened with the timeline after Sonic, Silver and Blaze left? If the game does use Stable Time Loop, than everyone in this first timeline is safe. If Sonic did end up in the second timeline when going back, then he left the world from the first timeline to die…
5	*** The game does not use Stable Time Loop. Iblis was released after Elise died on the ship, causing Silver’s dystopian future. When Sonic went back in time to prevent Iblis from releasing, he changed Silver’s future by saving Elise. If the game follows the rules of the Multiverse Theory, than Sonic ended up in a different timeline. But the question is: where is the original Sonic from that timeline?
6	*** There exists two versions of Sonic in that timeline. I think the original Sonic was present between the events of the Festival of the Sun and the battle at Radical Train, as Sonic only went back one day.
7	* So... when space-time starts breaking apart when Mephiles fuses with Iblis... '''where the hell does everyone else go?''' Rouge, Shadow, and Omega have a possible alibi-- they were near Chaos Emeralds. Elise was near Mephiles himself-- that's a viable explanation. Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Silver, and Dr. Eggman, were ''not''. How they gather at the same place after space-time breaks apart is beyond me, simply because they had no reason to.
8	** One can assume that it was mostly just Solaris being an ass by showing them that their friend, associate, and supposed hero of the story [[spoiler:ended up kicking the bucket]], therefore letting them understand just how hopeless their situation is. Other than that, PlotArmor.
9	* In the infamous "Windows XP background" cutscene, Sonic tells Elise "If you have time to worry, then run!" '''WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?!'''
10	** Considering that "run" is Sonic's main solution to things, it probably means something like, "If you have time to worry, you have time to ''act'', too."
11	*** Supported by the fact that other quote from him is "Nothing starts until you take action".
12	* A lot of the game's plot falls apart if you think about it. Fridge-inducing moments include: why Mephiles had to [[spoiler:merge with the Iblis of the present, rather than the Iblis in the future]] despite having the power to travel through time; how Elise knew Silver [[spoiler:when she was unconscious during the entirety of his visit to the past]]; the infamous [[spoiler:blue Chaos Emerald time loop]]; for that matter, where ''any'' of the seven Chaos Emeralds are during the plot at large, [[spoiler:Elise not crying for ten years of her life, including ''after she finds out her father is dead'']], and why so many levels end with nothing accomplished. [[spoiler:All this is probably a good reason for the ResetButtonEnding.]]
13	** Well, it's been [[FanWank theorized]] that Mephiles could only [[spoiler:merge with Iblis while he was in his pure flame form, and not when he was in his normal monster form due to being released by Elise's death]]. As for the Chaos Emerald thing, supposedly the game was supposed to be a ContinuityReboot. It would keep all main characters, but for all intents and purposes, the previous games never happened. So in the story at least, the Chaos Emerald was never used to fight Perfect Chaos, the Biolizard, and so on. As for Elise not crying, let's just say she's a [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]] FanGirl, so the death of her father doesn't bother her, but the love of her life -- who she just met earlier that day, and is of a different species -- dying... That cuts her deep. As for why nothing was accomplished... Well, let's just say that some of the characters have no idea what they're doing half of the time cough Sonic, Silver cough. Also, it was probably part of Mephiles' plot to keep everyone distracted long enough for him to accomplish his plans... What? His plans might be overly complex, but he's not [[NotSoHarmlessVillain incompetent]].
14	*** The Chaos Emerald is a future version of the one we saw in previous games. As for Elise, I'd say the Duke made it so crying about his death wouldn't trigger the end of the world.
15	*** Or Elise forced herself not to cry over her father's death because he was the one who always insisted that she should never cry. She held back because it was what he wanted. Sonic's death was more shocking because, unlike the Duke, he died right in front of her, and that made her resolve break.
16	** Elise's not crying is even stupider than that. You know you form tears every day in your life? How? Yawning. Go ahead and yawn right now, your eyes will water up. What this game is trying to say is that not only did Elise never cry of sadness or joy, but ''she never yawned once in her entire life''.
17	** There is one possible explanation for Mephiles's forgoing merging with Iblis in the future. As shown in Silver's story, Elise's death causes the release of Iblis. However, Mephiles doesn't join with Iblis for 200 years, despite the latter's release. One explanation for this is that Elise needs to cry not only to release Iblis, but ''also'' to allow Mephiles to merge with Iblis. After all, the plot does state that Elise must cry in order for Solaris to be a thing again, although it admittedly doesn't emphasize this enough. Since Elise never cried up until the point where she died on board Eggman's ship, the seal was never broken, so Mephiles was stuck with an Iblis that he couldn't transform with. Still, I have to wonder exactly ''why'' Mephiles didn't just go back in time and kill Sonic as soon as he bonded with Elise. He clearly didn't need Silver to do it, and he knew exactly what to do from the beginning.
18	** Cuz Mephiles is either A: A fucking idiot or B: He just decided to it all for the shits and giggles cuz he's an evil, heartless, monstrous piece of shit with no shed of good or redeeming qualities!
19	* What exactly was the point of Blaze's sacrifice at the end of Silver's story? So she stops Iblis from ruining the future... Except that the future is still ruined. Wouldn't it have been smarter to help Sonic and Shadow take down Iblis in their time rather than taking out Iblis at a point in time when it doesn't really help anyone?
20	** Two reasons. One, because taking Iblis to a separate world/dimension/''whatever'' removes him from Silver's world, thus giving it a chance to recover, and two, because obviously this game didn't have enough EpilepticTree-spawning events already.
21	** Up until the BigBad Big merge, the game was in a StableTimeLoop. If they did manage to stop Iblis alongside Sonic and Shadow, it probably would have come back again some other time. There was at least a 200-year gap for something like that to happen.
22	** The future wouldn't stay ruined. There was clearly enough water and food to keep the few survivors going. When Iblis went away, the world would've slowly healed due to no Iblis continually devastating the world.
23	** The cutscene preceding Silver's final level contains a hint at Silver's motivation; he explicitly mentions his current plan doesn't involve changing the past. After all the shenanigans that he already experienced, this point isn't exactly without its merit.
24	** The part that REALLY messes this up is the fact that Silver helped [[DeaderThanDead completely erase]] Solaris. If Solaris never even existed, then ''why did Blaze have to seal half of it (Iblis) inside herself''? Does this mean she no longer has Iblis in her soul? Was her sacrifice meaningless? They kicked her to another dimension for no reason? This would also imply that the Duke of Soleanna never did the experiment and died either.
25	* When Rouge gives Omega the Chaos Emerald, and Omega prepares himself for the TheSlowPath, one of the preparations he mentions is "External access no longer permitted". And indeed, when Shadow and Rouge [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble found/find]] him in the future, they're unable to even rouse him from his standby mode. So... how did the humans of the future manage to reprogram him to go after Shadow?
26	** Because that was the Omega from the future. I assume the External Access thing was only for the standby period.
27	*** The Omega with the Chaos Emerald ''was'' the Omega from the future. That's the whole point of TheSlowPath, you sit and wait until it's the future.
28	** Because there were two Omegas: the Omega in standby, and his future self who came back from the future after giving the emerald to Shadow. The one they reprogrammed was the latter, so no paradox here. If they had reprogrammed the Omega in standby, his reaction to meeting Shadow in the future would have been quite different.
29	* Why didn't Amy tear Elise's head off when she [[PowerOfLove kissed Sonic back to life]]?
30	** She has priorities. If she didn't let Elise revive Sonic, [[ApocalypseHow the universe would be pretty much done for.]]
31	*** Cutscene in Silver's storyline after the Sonic boss battle, after Silver tells her Sonic will destroy the world:
32	--->'''Amy:''' If I had to choose between the world and Sonic, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy I would choose Sonic]].
33	*** Context is important here. She was saying that to someone who was trying to ''kill'' Sonic, whereas here Sonic is dead and this is pretty much the only way to save him. Plus with Silver, he claimed that Sonic would cause a disaster in the future, which is simply a hypothetical scenario to Amy at this point, whereas at the end she can plainly see that everything's going to hell.
34	*** But if she stopped the kiss, she wouldn't have either.
35	*** Because tearing someone's head off would bump the game's rating from E10+ to M.
36	*** If Elise romantically kissing a hedgehog didn't bump the rating, I'm sure decapitaion wouldn't either.
37	*** Because Amy is only tearing off her head on the inside.
38	* Two questions for the Shadow Story: why were we randomly put in a hand glider thing when getting to the castle? And after the fight with Egg-Cerberus (why is he called Cerberus anyway?) they get transported to... a place... where, how and why?
39	** A) He was sent there by GUN, so it's only natural that he'd get some equipment to go along with his mission.
40	** B) A secret [[MemeticMutation computer room]] that Eggman was probably safeguarding so that nobody else would know the details of his plans, which Shadow reached after rendering the base useless for the time being, because it was his and Rouge's mission.
41	* Why not just transfer Iblis to someone about to die?
42	** Because as soon as that person dies, Iblis is released and free to wreak havoc.
43	*** Well, Iblis was within Elise when she died, and havoc did not ensue. The above statement does make sense, that it should release Iblis in death, but the game messes up logic anyway, so in some way, both transferring it to someone who would die and that transferring would release Iblis would make sense. They just chose the latter, most likely, for plot.
44	*** "Well, Iblis was within Elise when she died, and havoc did not ensue" < The future Silver hails from says otherwise.
45	* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', there's a mission with Silver where he tries training procedures done by the Soleannian Guards. However, it takes advantage of Silver's abilities. Including levitation. Now tell me this. How is this possible for the guards? Do they have superpowers or something?
46	** The game is just that bad. That or the guards use trampolines.
47	** GameplayAndStorySegregation is in full effect, or else the Soleanna guards are idiots. Further evidence: In Sonic's playthrough, there's a point where Sonic needs the guards to open a gate so he can go rescue Princess Elise (the person they were hired to protect). The guards make Sonic solve a logic puzzle before opening the stupid gate.
48	* Alright, in ''Sonic 06'', this bugs the hell out of me: What exactly did Eggman plan to do with Mephiles once he contained him? Because he spends the start of Shadow's story trying to get the Scepter of Darkness, and later tells Shadow to retrieve Mephiles if he wants answers, then all evidence of that is dropped partway through. If the Scepter was the only thing tough enough to contain Mephiles, and it's made of MAGIC... then how the hell does Eggman think he can make something that can hold an ultra-powerful science botch-up that's nothing short of sinister, given Eggman's record of his creations being failures? Not to mention that anything that Eggman tries to tame USUALLY turns against him anyway and clocks him in the head. Considering that Mephiles' one true desire is to fuse back with Iblis so the two of them can eat up time and all that... that leaves to question how Eggman would have thought this was a good idea. And better yet... WHAT was he planning to do with Mephiles anyway? My only logical guess is that he intended to use him like a battery to sap his time travel powers so that his time machine could work even better. Which would end badly the moment that plan is set into motion anyway...
49	** Eggman probably planned on using Mephiles to control time (same reason he wanted Iblis). I mean, he wanted to rule over ''all'' time. Not just have the ability to time travel, but constantly rule over the past, present, and future. And why does Eggman think he can control Mephiles? Simple, his [[SmallNameBigEgo ego]]. He thinks of himself as the greatest genius in the world, so what's to make him think he couldn't control Mephiles? And while it is true that dealing with SealedEvilInACan has been problematic in the past ([[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Chaos]], for example), he may actually ''know'' [[TaughtByExperience what he's doing this time]].
50	*** This is further supported by the fact that the machine he had already managed to reverse-engineer from the Solaris project, he had no control over whatsoever... Coupled with Mephiles and Iblis pretty much being the original components for the project from which the machine spawned from in the first place. It also helps that he had no idea whatsover what the future was actually like, coupled with the fact that nobody he encountered who had been to the future actually specifically knew the connection between the Solaris project and the devastation they saw or didn't know the connection until ''after'' their encounter with him (with the exception of Silver, but he and Eggman had neither the chance to speak or any reason to assume their respective involvements were important, just about everyone present in that scene had different things on their mind). Not that knowing the association between Mephiles/Iblis and the apocalypse would necessarily stop him from trying to meddle with forces that man should not meddle with -- this ''is'' Eggman we are talking about here...
51	** Similarly, what the hell did he plan to do with Iblis? He kept kidnapping Elise, so he wanted Iblis, but what was he gonna do? The same thing with Mephiles?
52	*** For all we know, Eggman was not necessarily aware of every detail of the Solaris Project. He could have expected at least one of the two half-deities to be in a more usable state.
53	* Also, wouldn't an easier plan to trap Iblis be that they seal him in Mephiles? Not fuse, but trap. Considering that the seal breaks when the host either dies or cries, and Mephiles is shown to have an extended lifespan (I doubt he's immortal if 200 years leads to lightening of fur color and eye color looks like it's clouding), and we know Mephiles either can't cry (lack of eyelids first off, and dude's too heartless to even channel any other emotion other than hate and fixation for power), or wouldn't stoop to that. So, if Iblis was trapped in the same way as he was in Elise, then the only way Mephiles could have released him was to either bawl like a baby, which would never happen, or die... which would not only make it impossible to fuse to Iblis, but would erase all other Mephileses (Mephili?) from the time stream so that neither of them can fuse either. Not only that, but it would drive him more insane than he already is knowing that Iblis is RIGHT THERE, and he can't get to him... but then, that's kinda torture... which sucks because he's my favorite in the series, but the only really logical and safe method...
54	** Because there's pretty much no chance that that would actually work. Having the one thing he wants already inside of him seems like Mephiles would have no problem simply fusing. Plus, the sort of lifeform Mephiles is might exempt him from sealing anyway.
55	*** Actually, that's not entirely true -- just because you have something inside of you doesn't automatically mean you can be affected by it. There are numerous cases of asymptomatic carriers of various diseases who never showed symptoms of the diseases they carried (and I'd also like to point out that Iblis never showed any signs of attempting to possess Elise -- if fusing Mephiles would've let Mephiles fuse with Iblis with no problems, then by the same logic, Iblis should've been able to easily possess Elise). If I had to guess why, however, it's likely because Mephiles could travel through time -- he could just go back to before Iblis was sealed inside him, and stop the sealing process, and merge with the Iblis that wasn't sealed within him.
56	* And finally... for a time master, you'd think that Mephiles would know that if he were to destroy Shadow, especially before Shadow goes back in time, that he would erase himself as well. Why? Because Shadow inadvertently created Mephiles as we know him now. The simple fact that Mephiles only hates Shadow for trapping him in the Scepter and leading history to have no trace of him anywhere, only to show up again, and everyone scratches their heads at his identity, which drives Mephiles into a rage, in which he attacks Shadow of his time and sets forth the events that lead to that Shadow doing the very same to this Mephiles to the next timestream's Mephiles. Not only that, but Shadow's calling of his name mere minutes after the newly created Mephiles is trying to flee the hell out of this horrible horrible lab with dead bodies and a pissed-off hedgehog, is probably the reason Mephiles took that name anyway... so, Mephiles trying to kill Shadow would be a bad thing for him, because he'd kill off all Mephili that are like him... think about it... if none of that happens, then Mephiles could have very well been a mass of darkness living in solitude in the empty halls of the abandoned lab, where probably no one would venture, and he would have probably never interacted with anything... so, this is all Shadow's fault, and Mephiles is showing to be self-destructive trying to get rid of him...
57	** Who's to say Mephiles actually knew that Shadow was in the present, the future, then the past in that order? Sure, he may have control over all time, but we don't know if he paid that much attention to Shadow's entire journey. And if he ''did'', then why ''NOT'' attack Shadow when he refused to join him? He may very well know he's not going to die yet, because he hasn't gone into the past and sealed him yet. That way he could beat him all he wanted with no consequence. But let's say he ''did'' kill Shadow, who's to say a paradox would even occur? Mephiles might have so much control over time that he can [[WildMassGuessing prevent paradoxes from even forming]]. And well, even if Shadow never did seal up Mephiles in the past, it's pretty much a garnet that Mephiles would've still been searching for Iblis. His whole goal was to find him and join together so they could destroy time as Solaris. Even if Shadow never sealed him, and he never took Shadow's form, he probably just would have stolen someone else's shadow, and then gone on his Iblis hunt. If anything, Shadow prevented Mephiles' goals (if only for a short time).
58	** Does Mephiles even know that the Shadow he met before is the Shadow of the future? He seemed surprised that Shadow forgot him, so for all he knew, Shadow just happened to be there in the past and no time travel was involved.
59	* In ''Sonic 2006'', Mephiles attempts to get Shadow to join him by saying that humans hunted him down at some point between Silver's time and the present. But then he also basically says flat-out that ''he'' is the reason that Shadow wound up persecuted. Why is he surprised when Shadow refuses his offer?
60	** Because the circumstances that caused the situation doesn't ''matter'' -- the fact is that if the government got spooked enough, they would turn on Shadow and persecute him as a scapegoat even though he helped save the damn world. That's a pretty good point to bring up if you want to make a character question their motivations/the side they're on. And remember, Shadow didn't refuse because Mephiles was the cause, he refused because he didn't care if the world turned on him one day.
61	*** Mephiles is only ''partly'' responsible for the destruction of the world. Iblis was the one who physically tore up all the buildings, and set the world ablaze. (Just wanted to clear that up.) Though, even if Mephiles ''did'' destroy the world, he wasn't the one who went and hunted down Shadow. The humans did. They were the ones who blamed Shadow for the disaster, and they were the ones who reprogrammed E-123 Omega to capture him. Even if Mephiles caused the the desolation of the future, he technically wasn't behind Shadow's capture.
62	*** Remember, though, Mephiles can take on Shadow's form (albeit sans mouth). It's entirely possible that he tricked people into thinking Shadow was responsible, just to set that entire thing up.
63	* In ''Sonic 2006'', why does Mephiles want Shadow to join him? There doesn’t seem to be a practical reason for having someone capable of defeating him hanging around - apart from the ‘keep your enemies closer’ idea, but I doubt Mephiles thought Shadow wouldn’t see through something like that. The only other reason I can think of is that, knowing Shadow’s very powerful, Mephiles wanted to use him as a backup plan to kill Sonic in case Silver failed, but again there are problems: by this point Shadow considers Sonic to be an ally, and also Shadow isn’t as easy to manipulate as he used to be in ''Sonic Adventure 2'' and his own game. It also spawns this question: how much does Mephiles know about Shadow’s life? He’s talked about Shadow’s future, but does he know anything about the ARK incident or Black Arms?
64	** And why does Mephiles tell Shadow that he will be hunted down and imprisoned in the future? If he didn’t reveal this to Shadow, then he wouldn’t be able to do anything about it, the events would inevitably happen, and Mephiles wouldn’t have to worry about Shadow messing up his plans. [[MindScrew Unless he made up the whole story to mess with Shadow’s head…?]]
65	*** If nothing else, he gets more manpower for hunting Chaos Emeralds, keeps one of the few who actually knows about his plans quiet, and gets a front-row seat to the inevitable confusion between the heroes over [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Shadow yet again being an antagonist]]. He doesn't really treat Shadow's alliance as anything more than a nice bonus, after all, and was probably just taken off-guard by his offer being rejected so quickly.
66	* What just bugs me about ''Sonic 2006'' is that the fans say there were three godlike entities in the game, Mephiles, Iblis, and Solaris, and that the former two controlled Solaris, and that two new entities were created at the Solaris Project. Except, that's not the case -- Mephiles was Solaris's mind, so he IS Solaris. Once he fuses with Iblis, it's still Mephiles, just in a new body -- Iblis, who was Solaris's body.
67	** Correct, sort of; Mephiles is Solaris's mind, but Iblis is merely Solaris's raw power. Without Mephiles, Iblis isn't able to take Solaris's actual form, instead having to manifest as a beast that could be described as "Perfect Chaos, only made of lava." Iblis and Mephiles ''together'' make up Solaris; independently, neither of them can even begin to be what Solaris is.
68	* Just what the [[GoshDangitToHeck fudge]] happened to the Master Emerald during all of this? I mean, yeah, gathering the seven chaos emeralds makes sense, but you know... The Master Emerald can make you super as well. They'd have twice as much energy, and it would actually make sense when all three of them go super.
69	** Considering how time and space is basically broken, I doubt they chose where they went. Probably just went whereever they could and started searching, and they didn't end up on Angel Island.
70	*** The writers probably got tired of the whole "Knuckles is the Master Emerald's guardian"; maybe one day we'll get an official explanation as to why he isn't still on Angel Island sitting near it for the rest of eternity.
71	*** He probably realized it'd be easier to do what he wants and hunt down whoever stole it this time instead of sitting in front of it and waiting.
72	*** Besides, judging form the Super Mecha Sonic boss fight, unlike the Chaos Emeralds, the Master Emerald doesn't "merge" with you when you go Super; so you can only maintain the form for a short while before needing to go back to it and power up again.
73	*** He probably has it shrunken down in his {{Hammerspace}} like when he pulls it out in one of the last cutscenes in VideoGame/SonicAdventure2.
74	* So if Iblis is released when its host dies, what did they plan to do when Elise died of natural causes? It had to happen eventually, unless she gets immortality from Iblis, which wouldn't make much sense since she grew while he was in her.
75	** My guess? They'd "transfer" Iblis to a new, willing(?) vessel once Elise was on her deathbed.
76	** Nothing. Iblis is still released. It's the reason why Silver's future is still messed up even though Elise is saved by Sonic.
77	* How the hell does Silver's era exist? During "the present," Mephiles kills Sonic, Elise cries and releases Iblis, and Mephiles merges with him and becomes Solaris to destroy time. In order for Silver's scenario to exist, Iblis would have had to have been released and then NOT immediately merged with Mephiles -- which doesn't make a damn bit of sense, since Mephiles was the one who released him in the first place.
78	** Because Mephiles killing Sonic isn't part of the timeline which ended up with Silver's future. In the original timeline, Iblis was released when Elise was killed when the Egg Carrier malfunctions and crashes.
79	** Solaris could break the time "before" getting itself together.
80	** Shouldn’t everything happen in one timeline? The Scepter of Darkness is an example of an object traveling through time by a Stable Time Loop. What types of time travel did the game use?
81	* "What's that? You want us to let you go and save our princess? Well, I would let you do that, or I could force you to pick out who the captain among us before I let you go and save our princess." Yeah. TheGuardsMustBeCrazy. Do these guards not have any damn priorities? They're stopping someone from saving their goddamned princess just so he could do some game.
82	** It's made pretty clear that the guards don't trust the hedgehogs at all during the earlier parts of the game, so it could be {{Hand Wave}}d as the guard in question trying to test his intelligence.
83	*** I mean, it makes sense seeing [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog one's known to be connected to so-called terrorists]], [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure one has disaster following him wherever he goes]], and the other wouldn't be born for 200 or so years.
84	* Considering that it's specifically said that Solaris exists throughout time, wouldn't it take an infinite number of people to successfully stop him? I mean, having only 3 people fight Solaris would be in vain as the "past" means between the creation of the universe and present time, and the future always having infinite possibilities.
85	** In a dimension where most of the laws of time and space are completely undefined and distorted? It really just boils down to beating the core senseless so that everything fixes itself.
86	*** And it doesn't even matter seeing Elise blew out the flame anyway.
87	** Maybe the fight's supposed to somehow take place at all points in whatever remains of time at that point? Or at the very least, maybe the three hedgehogs are in the past, present, and future ''representatively'': Shadow represents the past, being a decades-old genetic engineering project; Sonic represents the present, living in the moment; Silver represents the future, considering... well, he's ''from'' the future, so yeah. A bit silly, but at least plausible by game logic.
88	* Where the heck do Silver and Blaze ''live'' while they're in the past? Think about it; since they're from the future, they don't have a thing to their names and they don't exist according to any records because they haven't even been born yet, they don't know anyone who could legitimately give them a place to stay, and they might not even have any experience living in a domestic setting since the future is... desolate.
89	** The game takes places across, what, two days at most?
90	*** Don't forget that the game originally was supposed to have a day/night system. Mostly irrelevant now, but it's something to consider.
91	** Still. What, did they just find a random park bench somewhere?
92	*** Since it took place over such a short time and they had such an important mission, it's possible they didn't really stop at all, and therefore didn't need a place. Certain cutscenes even take place at night.
93	* Does Blaze even exist, or is she merely a figment of Silver's imagination? Despite what backstories claimed (all of them not even making it into the game), notice that ''not a single character besides Silver acknowledges her existence.'' Not even [=NPCs=]. It only matters in the levels where she's playable, and those are dubious at best. Mephiles? Not a glance. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles? They don't even comment on anyone but Mephiles, but it's assumed they don't see Blaze either. When Sonic and Silver meet up before Eggman and Elise's death, she's again not noticed. You'd think someone would throw at least ''one'' comment her way.
94	** Summary: In the one case where it would have been beneficial to bend the plot to show off a character, the plot doesn't do it. Despite going out of its way to pick up everyone else. No one ever ''needed'' to talk to Blaze, but it just feels bizarre that no one's going to notice a bright lavender overdressed cat walking next to a Tron-esque telekinetic hedgehog.
95	** Which would be OutOfCharacter for Sonic, considering he and Blaze in ''VideoGame/SonicRush'' had a [[HeldGaze long stare at each other]] and are trying to hold on to each other as long as possible before they get separated — Sonic's holding on with both hands. It's as if they're both reluctant to part ways. He has a lot of things on his mind, but he could have at least acknowledged Blaze's presence stating that it's "good to see her again."
96	* How does Elise even know that she's [[SealedInAPersonShapedCan housing]] Iblis? She was clearly unconscious when her father performed the sealing and explained to Shadow and Silver that she can never cry again. She was still unconscious by the time the hedgehogs left, which also begs the question of how she knew what Silver looked like in the opening cutscene. Most confusingly, how could ''7-year-old'' Elise not cry for '''''10 YEARS!?''''' She should have cried at least upon waking up to find her father dead, among other things, but [[spoiler:it's not until a hedgehog that she's only known for a few days gets killed that she ''finally'' sheds a tear for the first time in 10 years?]] That's really stretching my WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, Sonic Team.
97	** It could just be that it was a DespairEventHorizon that's required to free Iblis and that the Duke saying that she shouldn't cry was his way of simplifiying that concept for her. Regardless, it's stretching the suspension still.
98	* Have they given an explanation why Shadow is willing to cooperate with the organization that killed Maria?
99	** It was already shown by the end of his titular game that he had already more or less gotten over it. Everything past that is mostly just conjecture, though it's not hard to imagine Rouge (one of the few people he's decently familiar with) managing to coax him into it at some point.
100	** Besides, Maria's death happened fifty years before. Everyone involved most likely died or retired in the intervening years.
101	* Okay, I have a LEGITIMATE question. Why is Sonic X Elise so hated, and people are like "EW! BESTIALITY!" When NO ONE complains about something like [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger and Jessica Rabbit]]?!
102	** Because the relationship between Roger and Jessica Rabbit was more comedic, given the movie as a whole, as they were cartoons in real life. Patty cake to toons is sex. Sonic, a cartoony hedgehog, and Elise, a realistically rendered human, on the other hand, are portrayed as having a more serious relationship; this can make many people uncomfortable.
103	*** [[VideoGame/BlazBlue So the relationship between Nine and Jubei is comedic?]]
104	** It probably has something to do with the fact that Roger and Jessica were the same type of being (both of them are {{toon}}s), while Sonic and Elise aren't (one's an anthropomorphic hedgehog, the other's a human).
105	*** Meanwhile -- Shadow X Maria is a FanPreferredCouple, Rouge is a PerverseSexualLust symbol, and the list goes on. Like the asker said, no sense at all.
106	** Besides the whole "cartoon hedgehog x realistic human who's art styles clash massively but we're supposed to believe are from the same world and this is normal" thing, there's also the fact that Elise is a flat character who keeps getting kidnapped and rarely actually takes any initiative to do anything helpful. Elise having feelings for Sonic possibly makes sense as he's the first one to encourage her to actually have feelings and express her emotions (and she's probably so isolated normally out of fear of emotional attachments that she'd crush on the first being that was nice to her even if it was a cartoon hedgehog)...but Sonic developing a crush on a human girl he's only know a few days is completely out of character for him and just reeks of bad writing/Mary Sue-fanfic territory.
107	* When Amy and Silver were walking together, Amy says that she can sense Sonic's presence. Later on, Elise senses Sonic's presence in the wind. HOW can they do that?
108	** Amy has always had a habit of finding where Sonic is due to her [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]] him all the time. Elise, well, it's not like Sonic and Co. haven't met ghosts before, ([[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Tikal]]), so this may be a similar occurrence?
109	* What kind of monarchy is Soleanna? At one point, Rouge refers to Elise as "Princess Elise III". The fact that her title is princess with a regnal number would suggest that it is a principality. However, her father is referred to as the Duke of Soleanna, which would suggest that it is a Duchy, which ranks higher than a principality. Was the country demoted in status after his death?
110	** The rank of Duke/Duchess is below Prince/Princess. Thus, a principality is higher than a duchy in theory. However, Archdukes and Grand Dukes are higher than Princes. The Duke is never referred to as Archduke, although it may be shorthand for Grand Duke. Thus, we could assume Soleanna has gradually declined – it contains "Kingdom Valley", suggesting former kingdom status, was later ruled by a Grand Duke and now by a Prince(ss). Alternatively, the Duke was the sibling of the reigning Prince(ss), and Elise was the closest in line upon their death.
111	** In the various German monarchies, sovereign Duchies were typically senior to sovereign principalities.
112	* Since Iblis was released when Elise died in the Egg Carrier crash, it means the seal is broken when she dies. So why didn't Mephiles just kill her instead of trying to trick Silver into killing Sonic?
113	** Probably just to keep everyone else guessing. Mephiles was Solaris's rage personified; it didn't matter how/when he accomplished his goals, so long as he can make people suffer while doing it. The more suffering, the better.
114	** It's possible that Iblis is released in a different form depending on ''how'' he's released. If the person dies, he's released in the form of the fiery monster we know him as. If the person cries, he's released in his flame form. Presumably, Mephiles could only merge with the latter form.
115	* How did Shadow know Sonic was in trouble during Radical Train? I mean, it goes straight from him talking to Eggman to jumping out of nowhere saving Sonic from Silver trying to kill him.
116	** This game is an absolute mess, I'm not surprised it made a directorial mistake like this. The most likely scenario: Shadow decided to track down Eggman when Eggman went to go capture Elise for the second time, because obviously just letting someone like Eggman dick around unsupervised is a dumb decision, which naturally led him to the cargo area where Sonic and Silver were having their confrontation. Split between the choice of rescuing Elise himself but potentially failing because Eggman was already airborne, or quickly and easily saving Sonic from Silver's misguided wrath, he took the far more logical option and jumped in to save Sonic's ass, buying the blue hedgehog time to go and rescue Elise himself. There, bam, I just made the game's story more logical.
117	* How can Amy turn invisible by "concentrating her energy", and why does she never show any interest in doing it after this game?
118	** It's just an ability she has in this game, albeit out of line compared to her earlier appearances. The ability itself, however, is only about as questionable as how Knuckles is able to glide.
119	*** Knuckles seems to extend his quills to his sides in order to glide, judging from his sprites. There's no hint whatsoever as to how Amy turns herself invisible.
120	** Amy can also see into the future, so I guess her invisibility is psychic of nature? Then again this power isn't brought up ever again so it may as well be considered non-canon at this point.
121	* How does Eggman come to the conclusion that Elise can somehow help him revive the Flames of Disaster? Silver's the only one who knows how Iblis can be released and reunited with Mephiles and that Elise is the vessel for Iblis. Eggman says that he researched the Solaris Project Incident, but the only useful information he would get from that is that Solaris was originally a flame that was entrusted to the Royal Family but was then experimented on by the Duke before splitting into two different entities. None of the information from the Solaris Project would have even hinted at Elise's being useful for Eggman's plans. She was only seven years old at the time and most likely had no involvement with her father's experiments, not to mention that she wouldn't have understood them. She doesn't even remember much from that incident, so what made Eggman think that she could be useful?
122	* When does ''VideoGame/SonicRush'' or ''VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure'' take place as far as ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' is concerned? This game released between the two ''Rush'' games, so why are Sonic and Blaze surprised to see each other again in ''Rush Adventure'' when they just reunited in ''Sonic 06'' not long ago?
123	** Blaze doesn't recognize Sonic nor Eggman's robots in this game, so it's likely ''06'' takes place before the ''Rush'' series. Then she got sent to another dimension, and her memory was wiped in the ResetButton ending, so by the time of ''Rush'' she doesn't remember her adventures in this world and treats it like a new place.
124	* So, does Elise ''have'' to cry out of sadness in order for Mephiles to be released? Because you can cry as a result of being really happy (tears of joy are a thing), from laughing too hard, or from cutting onions. I could buy that maybe the last one wouldn't have happened, since she would likely have had servants cook for her...but you're really telling me that she hasn't cried of joy or of laughter before?
125	* In ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'', Knuckles says "[[GodzillaThreshold Chaos appears during great crisis]]". The game features a location [[MeaningfulName called]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Crisis City]]. Where was [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Chaos]] during all this?
126	** Evaporated? Truth is the writers probably didn't even know about that line, considering Battle was a relatively obscure game that likely had a whole different team of writers, and that line was already treading the line of non-canon just for an excuse to have Chaos in the game.
127	** Even if Chaos did show up, what could he possibly do to stop Iblis? With the world being consumed by Iblis, it's unlikely he could gather the Chaos Emeralds in order to become Perfect. Although, Perfect Chaos vs Iblis would probably have made an incredibly epic battle.
128	** Well, there was certainly Crisis, but the question is whether it was '''great'''. ;3
129	** Maybe Chaos did appear earlier on, but got destroyed or trapped or something.
130	* How The Hell does Silver still exist if the events that lead to his future, Where He Was BORN No Less, Were Erased From The Timeline?
131	** Silver's future [[VideoGame/SonicRivals always seems to be]] [[VideoGame/SonicForces a mess somehow or other]], so those circumstances probably still lead to him being born.
132	* So, the festival that happens at the start of the game is to celebrate Iblis, right? [[spoiler: Iblis is essentially wiped from history at the end of the game. Yet there's still a festival]].
133	** The festival celebrates ''Solaris'', who has existed since ancient times.
134	* Why was Sonic in Soleanna in the new timeline at the end? Sonic went to Soleanna to stop Eggman from getting the Flames of Disaster, as detailed in the [[AllThereInTheManual instruction manual]]. But in the new timeline, Solaris (or at least its corporeal form) was removed from existence, ergo Eggman has no reason to kidnap Elise and Sonic has no reason to be there.
135	** Maybe he was just in the area and wanted to go see the festival.
136	* Shadow's trip to the past ends with him leaving the Scepter of Darkness there, saying he knows what will become of it. Um... isn't that a ''very good reason'' for him to take it back to the present with him?
137	** He was probably trying to avoid causing a paradox.
138	* Where's the Duke of Soleanna in the new timeline? Obviously, the accident that killed him couldn't have happened since Solaris was erased beforehand, so why is he nowhere to be seen at the Festival of the Sun?
139	** Died of natural causes?
140	* It's said that Mephiles needs a Chaos Emerald to merge with Iblis. But... he already has one in the future, so why doesn't he just merge with Iblis then? And if he has to merge with Iblis shortly after his release for some reason, why didn't he just travel to when Elise died in the original timeline and merge with Iblis then?
141	** It's possible that Iblis is released in a different form depending on ''how'' he's released. If the person dies, he's released in the form of the fiery monster we know him as. If the person cries, he's released in his flame form. Presumably, Mephiles could only merge with the latter form.
142	* Why didn't Eggman evacuate himself and Elise from his ship before it exploded in Silver's BadFuture timeline?
143	* If Eggman knew that letting the Scepter of Darkness fall would end so badly, why didn't he order his robots to catch it before it hit the ground? He certainly had enough time.
144	* Why did Sonic and Elise immediately jump to "RetGone Solaris" as the means of preventing the game's events from happening? Shouldn't they have been afraid that doing so might have some negative effects and cause some serious problems, up to and including a catastrophic collapse of time itself?
145	* Isn't sealing Iblis inside Elise a temporary solution at best? Even if Eggman hadn't gotten involved and Mephiles hadn't been freed, she would inevitably die of natural causes at some point. Was there a plan for when Elise inevitably passed away?
146	* How does Elise know what Silver looks like? She never actually saw him in the past, due to being unconscious.
147	** She doesn't. Her visions of the future with Silver were just that -- premonitory visions, likely caused by Iblis.
148	* Is this Blaze the same Blaze from ''VideoGame/SonicRush''? Her murmur of "blue hedgehog" when Silver describes the Iblis trigger he saw in his vision seems to imply so, but she never gives any other indication of knowing who he is, and you'd think she'd be less amenable to killing him if she did. Hell, she even dismisses Silver's moral concerns about killing him at one point, saying that the future would remain the same if they didn't go through with it.
149	** She didn't recognize or remember Sonic. When she said "blue hedgehog", she was just reciting what Silver said after seeing Sonic in Mephiles' gem (she didn't get to look at it, so those words were all she had to go by). This was more clear in the Japanese script, but the wording in the English script [[BlindIdiotTranslation made it sound as though "blue hedgehog" was a nickname]], which in turn [[DubInducedPlothole made her come off as strangely cool with killing a former ally in cold blood.]] Note that she never calls him that in any other game. That's why she never mentioned knowing Sonic nor suggested actually talking to him rather than going for the kill.
150	** So going from that, the only possibilities seem to be that this is a different Blaze, or this game was intended to be a prequel of sorts to Sonic Rush.
151	** Apparently there is an unused line with Blaze wondering "Could Sonic really be the Iblis Trigger?" If taken into account, then she did remember Sonic and the dub was actually accurate in translating her lines as "blue hedgehog". As for the original question, her profile in Sonic Rush basically answers what's the deal with her being in Silver's future, as it states that the Sol Emerald can take her through space and even time. This, coupled with the fact the emeralds were shown to occasionally take their holder where they're needed, heavily implies that at some point after Rush the Sol Emeralds took her to Silver's future so that she could aid him.
152	* At one point in Shadow's White Acropolis, he has to destroy five searchlights. It's possible to go up and break the searchlights themselves, but the game doesn't register them as destroyed unless you take down the pillars below them, so why even let the player break the searchlights on their own?
153	* Shadow asked a good question: why ''does'' Eggman's base lead to that... security room or whatever it is?
154	* When Eggman crashes the Festival of Solaris, where did all the attendees go? Surely there would've still been at least a few people there.
155	* How did Eggman manage to sneak up on Sonic at the beginning of his story? The eggmoblie he uses in this game doesn't seem quiet enough for that. Shouldn't Sonic or Elise have heard the sound of its engines?
156	** Stealth mode, perhaps?
157	* Why did Amy mistake Silver for Sonic? You'd think they'd be distinct enough in appearance that she wouldn't do that, especially considering how obsessed she is with Sonic. And did she really slap him because ''she'' made a mistake?
158	** First of all, Amy has mistaken Shadow for Sonic [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 too]] - she just sees a hedgehog boy and gets so excited she can't contain herself. It's a ''joke''. Secondly, the slap is {{Slapstick}}; it's comic irony that she's slapping him for something that's her fault. They're ''just jokes'', even if not everyone finds them funny.
159	* For the "Adventure Stage" missions, why do they need ''four'' load screens? Especially when one is just for a bit of pre-mission dialogue and another is only for the results screen?
160	* Why doesn't this game have an autosave feature? ''Sonic 3 & Knuckles'' had an autosave feature in 1994!
161	* At the end of Sonic's Wave Ocean, why do he and Tails go back into the city? That's the ''opposite'' direction from where Eggman is going!
162	* Why does Sonic need an antigravity chip to ''slide''?
163	** It's supposed to let Sonic glide over the ground, like an air hockey puck. With it, he can slide from a standing start for much longer distances than in other games such as ''Sonic Unleashed''.
164	* The girl on the roof in the town mission before Sonic's Dusty Desert managed to get up on her own safely, so why couldn't she get back down on her own? Surely she could've gone back the way she came.
165	** See the CatUpATree trope - descending from a high place is scarier than scaling it.
166	* Why is Amy's hammer so much smaller in this game?
167	** To go with this game's more realistic and less cartoony look, most likely.
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169	* At the end of the game, Elise and Sonic blow out the Flames of Disaster, making sure Solaris never comes back. ''Sonic '06'' is so bad that the whole point of ''Sonic '06'' is to undo the events of ''Sonic '06''.
170	* Related to the ApatheticCitizens above, it really seems like they wanted to update their town. Except for a few bell towers and the castle, there are not a lot of tall buildings. Neither are there any cars, even though they're advanced enough to have flying-TV-screen-wending-machine-thingies and underwater laboratories. But in Crisis City, an apocalyptic future, there are many skyscrapers and cars. So she died, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is upon them... so they manage to build all these things only to die a bit later. They were so willing to have these things that they were willing to sacrifice their {{Princess\|esRule}} ''and'' '''themselves''' for it. Couldn't they just have asked her if they could improve the town if they wanted it so goddamn much?
171	* A lot of the game's plot falls apart if you think about it [[strike:too much]]. Fridge-inducing moments include: why Mephiles had to [[spoiler:merge with the Iblis of the present, rather than the Iblis in the future]] despite having the power to travel through time; how Elise knew Silver [[spoiler:when she was unconscious during the entirety of his visit to the past]]; the infamous [[spoiler:blue Chaos Emerald time loop]]; for that matter, where ''any'' of the seven Chaos Emeralds are during the plot at large, [[spoiler:Elise not crying for ten years of her life, including ''after she finds out her father is dead'']], and why so many levels end with nothing accomplished. [[spoiler:All this is probably a good reason for the ResetButtonEnding.]]
172	** The blue Chaos Emerald situation is not a plot hole, but a StableTimeLoop. Everything else listed, however, has no excuse.
173	*** It actually is a plot hole. If it's in a StableTimeLoop in this game, what about its presence in the rest of the games?
174	*** Yes, it's STILL a plothole, as the game never bothered explaining how the time loop started.
175	*** Maybe there's 2 blue Chaos Emeralds due to one being in the time loop. Yes, it's a paradox, but they're '''Chaos''' Emeralds. They don't have to follow logic.
176	*** You can't just explain something off by saying that because they're mystical, time-warping {{MacGuffin}}s, they don't have to obey the rules of logic and simple chronology.
177	*** Those two emeralds could explain why there are eight emeralds in Sonic The Fighters.
178	*** That can't be possible. If there were two blue emeralds, how come that when hunting for Chaos Emeralds in previous games, the Sonic characters never found Elise's emerald (especially when they used radars to detect their energy signatures)?
179	*** Well, where is Soleanna on the map of Sonic's Earth? If it's outta the way enough, then who says the characters went near enough to find said Chaos Emerald?
180	*** Or the game's a reboot, therefore it doesn't and never did exist in the actual ''Sonic'' timeline.
181	*** The fact that the chaos emeralds are the important macguffins at all is itself arguably a NewPowersAsThePlotDemands-style plot hole: For this game and this game only, they are able to freeze time and open time portals. Even having an entirely new set of {{MacGuffin}}s would have been better. Or even the Time Stones from VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD.
182	*** The games have established that there ARE more Chaos Emerald sets than the seven we usually see that have variable powers. There's the six from Sonic 1 that Sonic is able to use to restore the island's health, the [[VideoGame/Sonic3DBlast Flickies Island]] Chaos Emeralds that can create dimensional rings, the twenty-ish blue emeralds Robotnik secured to power his [[VideoGame/SonicSpinball Veg-O-Fortress]] , ETC. Who's to say that Soleanna doesn't have it's own set? It'd even help to explain their unique abilities in this game like using Chaos Control to inducing time warps.
183	*** Say what? Nothing implied that the Chaos Emeralds from Sonic 1 are a separate set. Sonic 3D's canon status is debatable, and Sonic Spinball isn't even part of the game universe, seeing how it's based on WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM, just like VideoGame/DoctorRobotniksMeanBeanMachine is based on WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog. And even then, the emeralds that appear in it were never called ''Chaos'' Emeralds.
184	*** "For this game and this game only, they are able to freeze time" < Not true, they could do that in [=SA2=]'s multiplayer. And if they could freeze time, being able to open time portals when using two Emeralds in conjunction isn't that big a leap.
185	* If both of Elise's parents are dead, and Soleanna is a monarchy, then why is Elise still a princess and not a queen? And who has been ruling Soleanna for the past several years if it hasn't been Elise?
186	** She's still a princess because PrincessesRule and children associate princesses with good and queens with evil.
187	** Presumably, there's a regent ruling for her since she's only 17. Perhaps she'll be crowned queen once she comes of age?
188	** Also, if she's a princess, and is going to eventually become queen (as evidenced by her father's line, "Grow up to be a strong queen."), why is her father is a duke and not a king? Perhaps she wasn't originally the heir apparent to the throne, and her father was the brother of the monarch or something, but became it because everyone ahead of her in the succession was killed in the Solaris accident?
189	*** For all we know, he abdicated because there was a law against the reigning monarch conducting dangerous research that might result in their death.
190	** Soleanna might be a principality, rather than a kingdom. As for why her father had the title of "Duke", maybe Elise's late mother was the sovereign and "Duke" is the title given to the princess's consort, much like how Queen Elizabeth II's husband is a prince, not a king.
191	* If Elise never died on the Egg Carrier, how does Silver’s future still exist?
192	** Elise isn't immortal. She would have died at some point in Silver's past anyway.
193	*** Did Mephiles lie about his records of Elise’s death on the battleship? Were these just fake articles shown on his screen at the beginning of Silver’s story?
194	*** They were right, Elise died on the Egg Carrier originally. But then Sonic changed the past (his present).
195	*** So the game did not use the StableTimeLoop? Than what caused the time travel loop of the Scepter of Darkness for example?
196	*** It's inconsistent. The scepter was in a StableTimeLoop, but the characters could still change history, as shown by the fact Mephiles was able to merge with Iblis in the last story.
197	*** Other than the fact that Mephiles has time travel abilities, how is it possible that there are two ways of time travel?
198	*** TimeyWimeyBall.
199	* How the hell did Sonic share the energy of the Chaos Emeralds to make Silver and Shadow enter super forms?

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