Yeah. People like to joke that 06 retconned itself out of continuity, but that's not exactly what happened. Due to timey wimey stuff the events of the game never happened, but all the places and characters in it are still canon and are there in the universe to be theoretically visited at any time.
As far as anyone in-universe remembers Sonic once visited Soleanna, there was a festival, and he had a great time before moving on to the next place.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 12th 2024 at 10:07:33 AM
Sonic 06 and?
Robotnik reigns Supreme,
The Sonic Terminator end with Sonic preventing part of the story from having happened but he and a friend remember what had happened before the change. There was also a Brotherhood of Metallix story involving Sonic and the Chaotix putting time right.
Edited by neoamon on Jan 13th 2024 at 2:22:44 PM
"May your heart be your guiding key"Re: Season 3 Sonic Prime battle length
I also agree that it was a bad idea to have almost the whole season be about Sonic and company versus Nine and his forces. It almost feels like you could cut out all the episodes that are just the fighting in the Grim and still have it make sense pacing wise.
Edited by TheDarkMantis on Jan 14th 2024 at 8:51:56 PM
"That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another."Incidentally, a couple days ago, Flynn posted another, much more clear "for the love of god stop asking me about this crap"
post regarding Prime.
I don't think this is the first time he's expressed annoyance with fans treating him as "the guy who knows everything about Sonic," when really he doesn't really know anything beyond what they specifically tell him to work on.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 14th 2024 at 10:38:06 AM
To be fair, he does seem to care a lot about continuity.
It's been due to him that we're getting references to past events.
But yeah, I can get why he's sick of being asked this stuff.
One Strip! One Strip!You know what? I like the Chaos Council. And I like that the Prime characters have room left to grow.
Whether Prime is in any way connected to the main continuity or not, I could enjoy its characters interacting with each other again, or with characters in the comics.
Also, while season 3 went on for too long, I think it was only maybe by 1 or 2 episodes.
And as for the Mangey and Sails thing, I didn't really consider it a fakeout at all, since I never believed they were hurt. They were no closer to the blast than Sonic was, it was going away from them, and they'd already established Mangey as the type to wander offscreen and take care of other issues when no one is looking at him. Heck, that's even what they were doing at that moment.
I'm indifferent to the Chaos Counsil, but they suffer from bad jokes that kill whatever interest they have. Of course I'm talking of Babbles.
Appearently they made the Deadly Six look better by comparison. Then again, Zavok already gained some appreciation because of IDW.
To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.The Chaos Council feels more meaningful than they actually are. Five Eggmen, each at a different stage of Eggman's life, seems like an opportunity to make commentary on his character and development.
Like. The Shattered versions of the other characters are used as opportunities to explore facets of their characters. Thorn is an exaggeration of Amy's love and protectiveness of nature, for example. Dread embodies Knux's possessiveness of a sacred gem but pushes it to 11 and divorces it from the contexts of ancient duty and heritage.
But the Chaos Council never feel like they have anything in particular to say about Eggman. They don't feel like different facets of Eggman, so much as Eggman wearing various funny hats. The character examination is much more shallow here - Which may, itself, be a factor of how shallow Eggman himself is as a character. Nonetheless, the end result is that the Chaos Council feel more like five copies of the same fucking guy than any other "set" of a character.
Amy, on the other hand, made out like a bandit. Tails got Nine as a standout depiction. Knux got Dread. Rouge was also present. But Amy got the bromance between Black Rose and Rusty and she got Thorn on top of it. Tails has the best variant in the show, but Amy has the best variants plural.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 14th 2024 at 12:41:36 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I feel like Batten Rouge should've been the new captain, but I do like Black Rose. I was also so ready to be disappointed that we didn't get a Grim Big, but then we did, and it was the biggest greatest threat, so I was satisfied. Hangry Cat had some really funny moments in the first seasons. I was feeling I could've used a little bit more of Denizen 1998 and Catfish, but that moment where one of them took a hit for Sonic was helpful.
As for the Council, they were no more reflections of Eggman than most of the other shatterversions were of their original characters (do not steal), so I was alright with that. I also found myself being less annoyed by Babble and Don't, and starting to like Deep and Done-It, the further the show went on. Not expecting them to be tied to the regular Eggman helped. That's probably also why Mister Doctor was probably my least favorite. He had the least of his own thing going on.
Eggman actually has a lot of depth as a character, it's just that he's a static character so rooted in the franchise's original status quo that it's incredibly easy to miss his depth.
But yeah the Chaos Council are less shattered variants of Eggman and more five guys all given the Eggman branding on themselves.
A hypothetical Boscage-Eggman would probably be like an evil version of the Professor from Gilligan's Island, making mechanized war-engines out of Bamboo Technology.
A hypothetical No Place-Eggman, on the other hand, would probably be a tyrannical admiral fielding a more modern-style navy of metal battleships and submarines to take down the Wooden Ships and Iron Men pirates, kind of like the Fire Nation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
In-canon, the only Shatterverse dimension that got Egg-variants was New Yolk City.
Edited by TrashJack on Jan 14th 2024 at 6:34:47 AM
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryI imagine Boscage Eggman could be some sort of giant beast that tries to eat all the plants and almost eats Sonic and the Scavengers, and No Place Eggman is the "Captain Blackbeard" of the setting with an almost entirely mechanical body.
"That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another."I think the implication is that the Chaos Council weren't native to the New Yolk shatterspace in the same way as everyone else. Sonic and Eggman got affected differently from everyone else because of their proximity and Sonic's attack, and Shadow wasn't affected at all because of his Chaos Control. Sonic and the Eggmen just happened to go to New York at different times, first.
But also, the key to any Sonic media where Eggman's the only human is "don't ask too many questions."
You know, on the topic of Shadow, before I just assumed that the reason Shadow couldn't travel between Shatterspaces was because his Chaos Control made him escape the blast. However, if that's the case why was he able to go to Ghost Hill? My only guess is because of Ghost Hill's connection to Green Hill, but outside of that I've got nothing.
No rain could douse the flames that burn within me!My guess on Shadow not being able to enter other Shatterspaces is that he just didn't have the Shatter energy like Sonic did, since he used Chaos Control to nope out at the last second. So he both avoided being shattered like everyone else, but also didn't receive any kind of infusion of Shatter energy like Sonic did from being at ground zero of the incident.
This prevents him from entering Shatterspaces at all until the worlds start breaking down enough that he's able to bypass the direct gate and enter through one of the rifts. And even then, we're not sure if he could do that with the other spaces, since he never gets a chance to leave the Grim and travel to the other worlds.
One Strip! One Strip!To be honest, I don't know why fans keep asking Ian Flynn about Sonic Prime, when he had nothing to do with that show. All he did was just consult the people working on the show about the history of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and that was it. I completely understand his annoyance with being asked questions about Sonic Prime all the time when he had nothing to do with the development of the show.
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Something I recently learned: I originally thought the first Sonic game to have a female composer was Knuckles’ Chaotix, but then I found it might actually be Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble (1994), by Yayoi Fujimori. So maybe this would be that game’s biggest claim to fame.