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This is a "Wild Mass Guess" entry, where we pull out all the sanity stops on theorizing. The regular entry on this topic is elsewhere. Please see this programme note.

Sonic Underground

Sonya is a boy and Manic is a girl.

Let's face it, Sonia's voice is just too manly for her to not be a crossdresser. And Manic's singing voice does not sound like any boy I've heard.
- Manic's singing voice doesn't sound like any singer I've ever heard.
  - Doesn't help that Sonia is voiced by the same actor as the other two (Jaleel White, he has said that he used his Steve Urkel voice for sonia)
  - jossed in the song "fun in the sun" sonia wears a bikini and she has breasts

And in other songs she has a normal womans voice when she sings and manic's chest is always exposed and its clearly flat if he was female why would he have it exposed? and his singing voice is normally deep so it may just be an error.

The Oracle set it all up for his own twisted amusement

Aleena wouldn't have abandoned and split up her kids at all if he hadn't just appeared one night and told her that they had to be split up to reunite to form the Council of Four to overthrow Robotnik.

...So the Oracle is a True Fae?! Dear god, no wonder the series never got a proper end!
Additionally, he told Robotnik about his "prophecy" simply to make sure the bad blood between Robotnik and the hedgehogs kept flowing.

The show wasn't originally going to be a Sonic cartoon

Simple, and it makes sense, given how different it is from other Sonic media. Early in development, it was originally going to be a wholly original cartoon, only to be Re-Tooled into a sonic show. It is entirely possible that originally the heroes were just a Brother-Sister Team consisting of the characters who became Manic and Sonia, given sonic's personality is still relatively intact. Robotnik was likely some generic evil overlord who the two main characters would use the Power of Rock to fight.

Sofia The First

WMG/Western Animation Series

South Park