Headscratchers / Sonic X

• Why did 4Kids erase text in the dub? If you check this video, you'll see that a lot of text was erased with paint editing like Sonic and Chris holding signs, and Vector's name being erased off a handkerchief.
  • Presumably so that they didn't have to think of something else to put there.
  • The text was done by TMS Entertainment for international distribution. 4Kids just didn't add English text to where the Japanese text was. Other countries who dubbed their own version have the same issue.
• Why the hell did Chris de-age when he went through the "portal" anyway, apart from it being artistically convenient?
  • It's said that while six years passed in Chris's universe, only six months had passed in Sonic's. I suppose the de-aging was just a result of Chris technically only being six months older in Sonic's universe.
    • Which makes even less sense since several months had supposedly passed by the time Sonic had made his way to back to their world (which was all of a day after his friends had teleported back), unless his journey really took that amount of time rather than due to space and time complications. Earth supposedly has the slower time continum in the first season finale, then is suddenly several times faster than Sonic's world the start of the second season.
    • There's a theory in the Wild Mass Guessing page that it's the Master Emerald's fault - he passed through it to get to Sonic's world, which could mean that the portal was just reconfiguring him when he got to the other side as the Master Emerald itself "remembered" him being.
    • Or the creators just didn't think about it that much.

• One thing that bugs me about the last episode is why earth didn't Sonic try to comfort Tails, God Tails just lost the love of his life, did Sonic hate him or something?
  • Of course he didn't hate her. Were we even watching the same episode? It's just that he's SONIC. He's just not the type of person who knows how to deal with emotional situations and grief. Some people just don't handle grief by being openly tactile and apologetic. He didn't hug Tails back because he was basically didn't know what to do and it might seem obvious to us that the answer is "hug the damn guy" that doesn't mean it's obvious to Sonic - all he could think of to do was say sorry for not finding her. He clearly WAS sad and sorry you could see it in his face.
    • Did Lupin stand there looking sorry when Sirius died, no he tried to hold Harry back, so This Troper believes Sonic should've tried to comfort Tails, oh and also Amy, Cream and Cheese◊
    • What he should have done (i.e. what we feel would be the right thing to do) and what the character would do are not the same thing. This is actually pretty typical behavior for X Sonic: His earlier response to leaving a friend forever was "hey, let's go for a run", and he can never accept Amy's advances for various reasons, but jumps into water to save her and still wore the present she gave him. As said above -he's Sonic. He's not the kind of character, in this continuity anyway, who deals with emotional situations by hugging and telling people it'll be okay.
    • The anime's interpretation of Sonic was generally given a more limited and one dimensional personality compared to other depictions, likely due to playing something of The Ace in the show. SEGA had in fact already taken action against other medias making Sonic too emotional a character, suggesting they don't find it part of his character to break his dignity, even if it makes him somewhat cold at times such as these (granted even the games Sonic was more openly sorrowful at times, case in point Elise's Disney Death).
    • Sonic was stupefied, for him to interact at all would have been great effort, it seemed he did what he could, and in the original context Tails was no doubt making Sonic's condition worse, he wasn't exactly welcoming some brotherly affection.
    • Exactly. In the japanese version Tails was yelling "I believed in you! I BELIEVED IN YOU!" in reference to Sonic unable to save Cosmo. It would have been a hypocritical move for Sonic to hug Tails like that, since he was half of the reason his buddy was crying in the first place.
    • A minor addition - the series was written in Japan. The Japanese are a lot more conservative with their emotions than Americans. Once again, this is one of those things that loses something due to culture clashes and translations. Of course Sonic cared. But it would have been rude, in Japan, for him to start drawing attention to his friend's distress in public. Especially since Tails was upset at him as well.
    • The way this troper sees it is like this: By that point, Sonic is physically and emotionally exhausted, but he won't show it, because he's Sonic. He's the hero. He has to be strong for Tails. Sonic wants to comfort him, but he knows that if he does, he'll break down. You can see from his posture; hands clenched into fists, body stiff and uptight. He is forcing himself to hold together, when all he wants to do is collapse. For Tails' sake, he doesn't dare try and hold him, for fear of hurting them both beyond repair.
    • I like the above explanation a lot. Everyone has said good stuff but this one seems perfect to me.
    • That was just a dub fail. As said above, in the Japanese version of that scene, Tails was blaming Sonic for his failure to save Cosmo. In such a situation, Sonic trying to comfort Tails would only have made things worse, so he simply stood there without saying anything and let Tails take it out on him.

• I have one more query about the Metarex saga, why in the heck did they bring Rouge and The Chaotix along, i mean why not bring along Big? the only real impact that Rouge and the Chaotix had was helping Amy Finding out Dark Oak's identity and helping out the people on the human planet for Rouge as for the Chaotix, the only impact they had was Shipping Tails and Cosmo together.
  • We can assume they brought back Rouge for Shadows case. As for the Chaotix.

• How the hell was sending Sonic and his friends back to their world saving both Earth and (presumably named) Mobius from merging together when clearly not only was Eggman from Earth (so it was suggested after discovering his grandfather's notes) and spent most if not all his life on Mobius but the Space Colony ARK had been hovering above Earth since its creation, being manned by Gerald Robotnik? Was the merging of the planet so slow that it just needed that one extra push of colourful characters?
  • It's possible that their presence was sort of speeding things up. We can't really know all of the factors involved..it sounds wibbly wobbly timey wimey to me.

• Related to the above question, why did Chris look to teleport to Sonic's world considering the massive risk of the obvious convenient plot point of merging worlds could be made into a reality once more? Is the kid just OUT to cause an apocalypse because of his own selfishness?
  • Well, he has had a few years to work out a safer method of doing it and is now inexplicably a genius, or something so maybe it's possible. Portals are probably more reliable than huge, mad fluxes of chaos energy and a lot easier to reverse if you realize you've screwed up. And one can argue he always intended to go home again -remember it took months, if not longer, for the time-flux problems that required everyone to go home again to start happening, there was no reason for him to assume the world would explode the moment he stepped into the portal. Kid just needed some closure, I guess.
  • It wasn't just him. Everyone was interested in using the portal and even Chuck obviously supported the project. Remember as well, it wasn't just the presence of aliens causing the time mess, it was the planets merging. Chris (and his friends/family in the original plan) were simply going to visit, not merge planets.
  • Just one person going to the other world isn't enough to merge the worlds, otherwise they would have merged long ago when Eggman (an Earth native) first got to Sonic's world.

• Why didn't Shadow just use Chaos Control to save Molly when Pale Bay Leaf killed her.
  • It's because Shadow thought she was going to live and then randomly fly off into space to fight more Metarex, like the English dub.

• Okay, so the reasoning behind Chris de-aging is that time passes more slowly in Mobius, so... why does this only apply to when Chris goes to Mobius? Shouldn't Chris's world be thousands of years ahead of Sonic's? Wouldn't Sonic and friends have rapidly aged and died instantly as soon as they went to Chris's world?
  • There's no point in answering that, just like trying to figure out how Chaos Control can also do inter-dimensional travel.
    • I assume it's because he used the Master Emerald the second time, in more controlled circumstances, but somehow something got messed up in the process. Or maybe the creator's didn't care that much.
    • Eggman explained, or at least gave a theory, in the final episode (of course I only saw it in Japanese subbed so I don't know what America said on the subject). He said, if I remember correctly, that the teleportation process was VERY complex and a little dodgy. In essence, a decimal point was shifted in Chris' biological/chronological information when he came to Mobius. Eggman also said that it could happen again on Chris' return journey, no way to know.

• In this continuity Sonic and friends are from a different world than the Earth, so why does Gerald know so much about it? He designed Shadow after the Mobians and knew about the chaos emeralds. Not to mention the issue of Eggman somehow going to Sonic's world in the first place, which is never explained or even brought up again after the Wham Line of "This world is the world I was born in," and why exactly Eggman is able to go back to Sonic's world when he should be in this one, or why him being in Sonic's world all his life before wasn't an issue.
  • Perhaps Chaos Control happened somehow which sent Robotnik and his kids to Earth, and then, sometime later, Robotnik attempted to send Ivo (Eggman) home and was successful. That could explain how Eggman was able to send Chris home in the end of it all, he followed his grandfather's designs or something like that.

• At the end of their adventures on Earth, when it's said the world will end if everybody from Sonic's world doesn't return, we see the main characters all go back with a lot of fanfare... but what about minor characters like Big, and Froggy, and the Flickies? Since the world didn't end, they must have gone back too, but when and how?
  • They were sent off-screen before Sonic and his friends. At the beginning of the episode, see that they're nearly done sending everything and only Sonic and co remain.
• So, after the revelation that the Sonic cast had to be sent back to their own dimension or else time would remain on a standstill, where does Shadow fall under again? Isn't he created in the Space Colony Ark? A thing made on Earth way before Sonic's cast were teleported to Earth? Yet we see Shadow back in the universe for the Sonic cast? How Shadow happens to look like a Sonic character before the Sonic cast appeared on Earth feels like too much of a massive coincidence.
  • Like in the games, Eggman secretly rescued Shadow after the battle with Finalhazard and had him in a healing pod. So when Eggman returned to Sonic's world, he brought the still-healing Shadow with him. It doesn't matter that Shadow was from Earth. Just a few people staying in the other world isn't enough to cause issues, going from the fact Eggman lives in Sonic's world despite being from Earth.
    • Well this also brings up the question as to why Eggman needed to return to Sonic's world though. If what you say about how only a few people from other universes living in another don't affect the time is true, then why didn't Eggman just stay on Earth and just let Sonic and co go back? Especially since he'd have Earth free for the taking, without Sonic and friend's protecting it. The way Eggman talked to Chris during the time anomaly made it seem like he had to go back to Sonic's world as well, without exception. Again, it feels like the time anomaly thing only applies to the Human world and not Sonic's world.

• When Sonic and Chris first said Goodbye to each other, Chris is really upset because Sonic is the best friend he ever had. However when/how did Chris get so attached/close to Sonic in particular? Sonic rarely hangs out with him and even refused to go on trips with everyone on more than one occasion. Instead it’s usually Tails, Amy or one of Chris’s human companions that hangs out with Chris. So shouldn’t Chris be more upset about everyone EXCEPT Sonic leaving?
  • Sonic was Chris' hero and a Cool Big Bro to him. He could always count on to Sonic to protect him and save him when he was in trouble. Tails was closer to Chuck than to Chris, while Amy was closer to Cream and Ella, and didn't interact with Chris that much. As for Chris' human friends, they were his school buddies, but how often did you see them hang out with Chris outside of school?
    • I wasn’t just referring to Chris’s School Friends but to answer your question. After Sonic befriended Helen, She began hanging out with Danny, Frances and Chris. Frances joined missions with Chris in a couple episodes. (Little Chao Lost, Beating Eggman parts 1 and 2) I also wasn’t denying that Sonic helps Chris, it’s just I find it a bit weird that Chris dubbed Sonic the best friend he ever had when Chris has more episodes/scenes with other characters.

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