The 2019 Sonic the Hedgehog movie – it’s really the gift that keeps on giving.
While all of the news surrounding the live action feature film is concerned with Sonic’s
now inevitable physical overhaul these days, it’s no surprise that some fans and critics
have come up with wild theories surrounding what on earth the movie will actually entail.
So today, we’re returning to our list of the top 10 scariest sonic the hedgehog fan
theories with a part 2!
Some of these are scary.
Others are just flat out absurd.
And some will just make you uneasy and uncomfortable.
So with that in mind, let’s get to it!
10 Sonic was Genetically engineered While the trailer implies that Sonic is not
from our world, this theory suggests otherwise, and speculates that Sonic merely things he’s
from elsewhere.
It’s actually kind of tragic.
So the idea behind this one is that Sonic was genetically engineered by the government,
mutating a hedgehog and splicing human DNA into it, all as part of a scientific experiment
to see if animals could be militarized.
Hence the military’s involvement in the film.
While being created, Sonic was led to believe he’s actually from a world called Mobius,
hence why he’s so different from humans – it was all part of a psychological tactic
to keep him sane while he grew up, and his goal in the film (after fleeing the government)
is to return to his home, only to find out by the movie’s conclusion that it never
really was real after all.
9 Sonic is an SCP If you’re into horror, or have been to our
sister channel top 5 scary videos, you’ll probably be familiar with the SCP Foundation.
It’s a fictional organization that is responsible for locating and containing entities, individuals,
locations and objects that violate natural law.
So naturally, there’s a fan theory out there that Sonic is actually an SCP, without actually
being called an SCP so as to avoid copyright issues.
Essentially, Sonic is a character who came from a facility like the SCP Foundation, broke
out, and has been hiding out in an underground den in order to avoid being recaptured, or
just flat out hunted and killed.
8 Robotnik is actually the good guy Despite his incredibly villainous introduction
in the trailer (and over the top mocking of a military general), this theory speculates
that Robotnik is actually the good guy, and Sonic’s attempts to save the world are misguided
and misinformed.
This theory stems from the moment in the trailer in which members of the government and military
gather to discuss the power surge and massive outage ion the Pacific Northwest, which the
trailer implied was caused by the blue blur.
If Sonic is the source of that power surge, then this theory may have a chance of holding
up – Robotnik is actually trying to keep the world safe, and over the course of the
movie, is driven from extremely eccentric to flat out insane, to the point where he
tries to take out Sonic by using a ton of rockets to bomb the crap out of him.
Sonic slowly drives him mad, but he’s still trying to be the hero.
7 Part of the Multiverse Hey, here’s an absolute bat sh*t crazy one
that most definitely isn’t true, but it’s still a scary theory to even consider.
It’s that the Sonic universe, both our world and his Mobius, are actually part of a bigger
more prominent multiverse we all know as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
At the end of the film, it’s revealed that the only way Sonic can get back home is through
a rift in his dimension, but accidentally finds himself exiting that rift in the wrong
spot, plopping him into the MCU for the crossover that literally no one ever asked for.
6 Sonic’s Feet This theory is a simple one – we’ll see
Sonic’s feet in the film.
All to appease a very niche Sonic fan base.
It’s the reason why we got that shot in the trailer featuring all of Sonic’s used
shoes.
Paramount and Sega know their audience.
5 All of the Tropes This theory suggests that the Sonic film is
actually one giant pastiche of tropes, with Paramount and Sega having opted to use a bunch
of tropes and stylistic choices from other films in order to ensure ‘success’ for
the movie, all by riffing off of the success of others.
Yikes.
That sounds like some serious slander!
So where is this coming from?
Well, when the trailer dropped, fans and critics noticed a lot of similarities to other big
franchises out there.
One of the biggest comparisons that was drawn, for obvious reasons, was to Detective Pikachu,
which comes out later this year.
The scene with James Marsden discovering Sonic in a trailer felt eerily similar to Justice
Smith finding Pikachu for the first time inside his apartment, except the former wasn’t
as charming as the latter.
Secondly, many noticed that the slow motion scene where Sonic essentially stops time and
bops around all of Robotnik’s rockets was pretty much a rip off of the Fox X-Men films
and the beloved Quicksilver sequence where the mutant speedster does the same thing (except
time doesn’t stop, it just moves incredibly slowly around him, which felt more accurate
compared to the scene in Sonic).
Then, there’s been plenty of comparisons drawn to Sonic’s ring teleportation ability,
which include video game Portal and the MCU’s Doctor Strange and his sling ring.
And Gangsta’s Paradise?
Well, that might be a new choice for a trailer, but the use of ironic old school music ain’t
nothing new.
So based on ALL OF THAT, many are predicting that the film will just recycle tropes and
stylistic choices that we’ve seen work successfully in other major franchises.
4 Robotnik Transforms Our Earth into Mobius At the end of the trailer, we see Robotnik
in his classic video game form, surrounded by large cartoon-esque mushrooms.
While the consensus here is that Robotnik travels into Sonic’s world at the end of
the movie and transforms physically into his true form, another theory speculates otherwise.
It suggests that the thing that sonic is trying to save our planet from is used by Robotnik
to transform earth into Mobius, and that shot of him at the end of the trailer is what Earth
has become.
Another riff on this theory is that the trailer is misleading, and, similar to MCU trailers,
filmmakers just popped in that background to trick audiences into thinking they know
what the plot will be, when really, that scene takes place in a completely different location.
3 Fever Dream This theory suggests that the entire film,
and Sonic himself, are all in James Marsden’s head, and it’s all just a really bad fever
dream.
There are two offshoots to this theory; one is that Marsden wakes up at the end, and,
Wizard of Oz style realizes that there’s a bunch of similarities to his Sonic fever
dream to stuff in the real world that clearly influenced said dream.
Considering that previous fan theory about the film being one giant pastiche, this could
actually hold up.
The second offshoot and less likely of the two, is that Marsden is sleep walking of sorts,
and is actually going around the county of Green Hills imagining he’s helping his favourite
video game character with a mission, but really, he’s just going around town on a rampage
with a dead hedgehog he found inside of his bag.
Dark.
2 The Movie is a Prequel to the game This theory, from redditor CombustibleCompost
suggests that the movie is actually a prequel to the first Sonic game from 1991.
Based off the trailer, we know that sonic isn’t from our planet, and that at the time
the movie takes place, Robotnik has never encountered Sonic (this is implied from his
line “we need to find whatever this thing is, contain it, see what makes it tick”).
In addition to this, the tagline that appears in the film is “every hero has a genesis”,
implying that this is an origin story, with the film ending with Robotnik following Sonic
into his own world, leading into the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 1.
1 Producers Knew All Along As we mentioned at the start of our video,
the biggest news concerning the Sonic movie is how Sonic looks.
His design has been a hot topic for months now ever since the first promotional images
for the film were released.
When the poster featuring Sonic’s silhouette dropped, everyone was appalled at how muscular
and human like his limbs were.
The bad reactions even had some of the people who created Sonic and the original Sega genesis
games questioning if the film would be “good”.
After that backlash, the Sonic the Hedgehog official movie account tweeted out this image,
with the caption “this shouldn’t get any attention on the internet, right?” as if
the studio and producers were trying to increase the hype about the character’s design.
See where this is going?
The theory suggests that releasing all this promotional content and a trailer featuring
an unsettling version of Sonic was all part of Paramount’s plan to increase hype for
the film.
Sega has fallen far from its former glory back in the early 90's, and these days, while
Sonic is still a beloved piece of nostalgia, Sonic games from the past decade or so (that
are developed within Sega, aka Sonic Mania doesn’t count) have done poorly, both in
reviews and sales.
To avoid risking that same kind of failure, why not create a controversy that Paramount
could secretly control?
The theory goes on to speculate that there has been a proper design of Sonic all along
that will appear in the final film, and that this version of Sonic was solely to get more
hype in the press.
If you consider how much it would actually cost to completely redesign Sonic in the film
and then change all of the CGI that’s already been completed, that’s going to be millions
of dollars wasted.
And also put a strain on post-production, meaning they’ll be majorly crunched for
time.
If all post production crew signed NDAs to ensure their silence about the two designs,
it’s definitely something that is plausible.
There we have it friends!
Which of these theories do you think actually stand a chance of panning out?
Let us know in those comments below!
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