History Fridge / SonicTheHedgehog

* I'm not sure if this fact will continue in later games, and may not be the case in the other universes, but every character to canonically have a Super Form has [[spoiler:gone into said Super Form for the first time along side Sonic. It happens with Shadow in [=SA2=], with Blaze while she used the Sol Emeralds, and most recently with Silver (and Shadow) in Sonic '06. Sonic is first shown using his Super Form, without any known help, way back in Sonic 2! I understood it as Sonic just being The Chosen One, but he could also be able to hand off the ability or show how to use Emeralds in this way, since everyone mentioned can go Super on their own from that point on. Tails and Knuckles getting their super shields in Sonic Heroes may or may not count, since it wasn't a real Super Form for either, but Sonic was still the one that gave them said shields. And their Hyper modes are an entirely different matter since they aren't known for being cannon, at least in the games.]]
* In ''Sonic 2'', all you had to do to become Super Sonic (after collecting all the chaos emeralds and 50 rings of course) was jump. Then ''Sonic 3'' came around. In order to go super in that game you had to jump and then press the jump button while in mid-air. Why the change? Since ''Sonic 2'' was the first time Sonic ever transformed, he probably couldn't control this new sudden burst of power so it easily overtook him. By the time ''Sonic 3'' takes place, he's had some time to master his new form, and can now control when he becomes Super Sonic as shown in the game's intro. It makes perfect sense! - MPEFF

* I'm not sure if this fact will continue in later games, and may not be the case in the other universes, but every character to canonically have a Super Form has [[spoiler:gone into said Super Form for the first time along side Sonic. It happens with Shadow in SA2, with Blaze while she used the Sol Emeralds, and most recently with Silver (and Shadow) in Sonic '06. Sonic is first shown using his Super Form, without any known help, way back in Sonic 2! I understood it as Sonic just being The Chosen One, but he could also be able to hand off the ability or show how to use Emeralds in this way, since everyone mentioned can go Super on their own from that point on. Tails and Knuckles getting their super shields in Sonic Heroes may or may not count, since it wasn't a real Super Form for either, but Sonic was still the one that gave them said shields. And their Hyper modes are an entirely different matter since they aren't known for being cannon, at least in the games.]]

* Noticing an overload of newer games, and a lack of classic ones, here. The Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic & Knuckles counts here. If we skip to the final boss battle in Doomsday Zone, Sonic (as Super Sonic) is travelling at super speeds in raw space, against Robotnik's latest giant robotic, humanoid egg, right? Let's go back to the Hidden Palace zone, specifically the battle with Knuckles, look at the mural in the background. [[spoiler: It's a blatant image that forshadowes the final boss battle, a rodent consumed by a golden aura, facing off against a giant mecha.]] Many people came to realize this more than most fridge examples on this wiki, but ask yourselves, how many of you were completely unaware of this, then later shat bricks when you realized it some time later? But that's not even the extent of it.[[spoiler: It also potentially brings up more justification of why the Hidden Palace zone is REALLY HIDDEN inside/under a volcano, the powers within it, and what it's capable of foreseeing, perhaps it's protecting far more than just the chaos emeralds.]] - [[DCHorror]]

* Noticing an overload of newer games, and a lack of classic ones, here. The Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic & Knuckles counts here. If we skip to the final boss battle in Doomsday Zone, Sonic (as Super Sonic) is travelling at super speeds in raw space, against Robotnik's latest giant robotic, humanoid egg, right? Let's go back to the Hidden Palace zone, specifically the battle with Knuckles, look at the mural in the background. [[spoiler: It's a blatent image that forshadowes the final boss battle, a rodent consumed by a golden aura, facing off against a giant mecha.]] Many people came to realize this more than most fridge examples on this wiki, but ask yourselves, how many of you were completely unaware of this, then later shat bricks when you realized it some time later? But that's not even the extent of it.[[spoiler: It also potentially brings up more justification of why the Hidden Palace zone is REALLY HIDDEN inside/under a volcano, the powers within it, and what it's capable of foreseeing, perhaps it's protecting far more than just the chaos emeralds.]] - [[DCHorror]]

* Noticing an overload of newer games, and a lack of classic ones, here. The Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic & Knuckles counts here. If we skip to the final boss battle in Doomsday Zone, Sonic (as Super Sonic) is travelling at super speeds in raw space, against Robotnik's latest giant robotic, humanoid egg, right? Let's go back to the Hidden Palace zone, specifically the battle with Knuckles, look at the poster in the background. [[spoiler: It's a blatent image that forshadowes the final boss battle, a rodent consumed by a golden aura, facing off against a giant mecha.]] Many people came to realize this more than most fridge examples on this wiki, but ask yourselves, how many of you were completely unaware of this, then later shat bricks when you realized it some time later? But that's not even the extent of it.[[spoiler: It also potentially brings up more justification of why the Hidden Palace zone is REALLY HIDDEN inside/under a volcano, the powers within it, and what it's capable of foreseeing, perhaps it's protecting far more than just the chaos emeralds.]] - [[DCHorror]]

* Another realization that I've just had from ''SonicUnleashed'': Why couldn't Dark Gaia just have taken Sonic's power away from the start? Even as he was awakening, he should still have enough energy to syphon away his energy from Sonic, if he had the energy to summon minions the size of towers. Answer: He couldn't, even if he had tried. Since the Werehog was formed by a combination of both the negative energy of the Emeralds and Dark Gaia's power, this formed some kind of bond between the two powers. And since the Chaos Emerald's power is ''"unified by the controller"'', and Sonic obviously had not much objection to his new form, the bond was even stronger. Once Sonic and Chip restored the last Emerald, all of the negative energy had been sapped away by the Temples, leaving Sonic with pure dark energy. This....led to an easy takeaway.

** Related to Sonic Unleashed, in the PS360 version, if you pause the game in one of the hubs, everything freezes in place except for Chip. Why? Because [[spoiler: Chip is Light Gaia; a god. You merely pressing the pause button is not enough to freeze him in place.]]]

** Would've worked, if not for the fact that the Werehog isn't the result of the negative energies of the Emeralds. It's rather that during the blast that woke up Dark Gaia, part of the EldritchAbomination shot back up to the satellite and infected Sonic. So, with that logic, his body was rather possessed by Dark Gaia, hench why the form only appears at night, has the ability to stretch arms(I seen the other creatures do it), and since he's an anamorphic creature, it can pretty much justified why it affected him differently than the humans affected by it. [[spoiler: If you're wondering how he retains his mind, think Kingdom Hearts]] Following the earlier would make ever more fridge logic on how he breathe on land, and have fur.

* In ''Sonic 2'', all you had to do to become Super Sonic (after collecting all the chaos emeralds and 50 rings of course) was jump. Then ''Sonic 3'' came around. In order to go super in that game you had to jump and then press the jump button while in mid-air. Why the change? Since ''Sonic 2'' was the first time Sonic ever transformed, he probably couldn't control this new sudden burst of power so it easily overtook him. By the time Sonic 3 takes place, he's had some time to master his new form, and can now control when he becomes Super Sonic as shown in the game's intro. It makes perfect sense! - MPEFF

** Connected, but for a different reason. After playing Sonic Chronicles, it occurred to me: it's not a prophecy, it's a history lesson. A ancient version of Super Sonic banished the [[spoiler: Nocternus Clan to the Twillight Cage.]]

* When discussing SonicTheHedgehog characters with a piano teacher, I then discovered that Tails' real name, Miles Porwer, [[PunnyName is actually a pun on "Miles per hour,"]] a FridgeBrilliance moment on its own, and a fitting enough name for a character in a speed-driven series. However, when searching the "Rare Baby Names" sites, I also discovered that [[MeaningfulName Miles in Irish means "servant,"]] which Tails ''definately'' acts like towards Sonic ([[DoubleEntendre not]] [[{{AccidentalInnuendo}} in]] [[NoYay that]] [[RuleThirtyFour way]]!). - DiscoGlacier

* Here's a hypothetical example for you all. Let's say you have a teenager who wants to write a fanfic. The obvious traits of such a work become evident: he makes himself the lead character, and includes his friends as supporting characters. They all have a grand absurd adventure, complete with some absurd exaggerated powers, fighting robots and demons, travelling through time, and little thought is left to the dialogue, which takes a pretty big hit. The story ends, as typical, with the main character being uplifted as a sort of messiah, getting raised from a glorified death, getting the girl, and all that. So you have a very strange, twisted, plothole-ridden story that appeals mostly to this particular guy, nobody else. Simple enough. Now assume further that said fanfic writer has a best friend who's good with computers. He decides to make a fangame out of the fanfic. He's pretty good, he makes something really shiny out of the story ... however, it proves to be a poorly-designed glitchfest. It's riddled with bottomless pits, very problematic controls, and falling-through-walls-and-floors glitches. Coupled with a poor excuse for a story, you have a pitiful excuse for a game, largely because it was the work of a couple of inexperienced fans of the series. [[spoiler:You also now have a valid explanation of the phenomenon that is SonicTheHedgehog2006! If you view the story as something that SONIC HIMSELF imagined (and put Tails as a programmer - the kit's a genius, but most of his stuff has glitches), then it makes far more sense than if the absurd plot ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Could it be that one of the most ridiculed games in history was deliberately a parody of fanfics and fangames, and that the world misunderstood the point? Think about that.]] - LillyJade

* Noticing an overload of newer games, and a lack of classic ones, here. The Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic & Knuckles counts here. If we skip to the final boss battle in Doomsday Zone, Sonic (as Super Sonic) is travelling at super speeds in raw space, against Robotnik's latest giant robotic, humanoid egg, right? Let's go back to the Hidden Palace zone, specifically the battle with Knuckles, look at the poster in the background. [[spoiler: It's a blatent image that forshadowes the final boss battle, a rodent consumed by a golden aura, facing off against a giant mecha.]] Many people came to realize this more than most fridge examples on this wiki, but ask yourselves, how many of you were completely unaware of this, then later shat bricks when you realized it some time later? But that's not even the extent of it.[[spoiler: It also potentially brings up more justification of why the Hidden Palace zone is REALLY HIDDEN inside/under a volcano, the powers within it, and what it's capable of foreseeing, perhaps it's protecting far more than just the chaos emeralds.]]