Silver the Hedgehog Shocking Facts Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Gaming, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
You guys have been asking for a video about Silver, and I aim to please.
While he’s somewhat controversial to some since he was introduced in everyone’s least
favourite game, Sonic 06, personally I think he’s awesome, so let’s hop right in!
If you enjoy this, check out yesterday’s video on the Fastest Sonic Villains!
Now get ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Shocking Facts about Silver the Hedgehog!
Number 10: He has Psychokinesis.
This is definitely pretty well-known, but not everyone watching this video will be familiar
with him, so I think it’s important to get out of the way.
Silver is one of the most magic-focused Sonic characters, able to manipulate the environment
around him with his mind.
He can move things, throw things, and even compress many objects together to make a massive
projectile, using his Meteor Smash ability.
He can use it as a limited form of telepathy, use it to fly, and can even teleport short
distances by warping space.
Most importantly, he can use chaos control to open time portals to travel through time.
Which he does a lot.
Not too shabby.
Number 9: His powers were based on the game.
Sonic 06 was using a new physics engine, and developers used it to create stages with multiple
ways to complete them.
In an attempt to add more variety to the player, rather than just running quickly through every
level, they introduced silver with his psychokinetic powers.
A lot of people saw this as Sonic heresy, but personally I thought it was an interesting
addition.
Too bad there were so many other things wrong with the game.
Number 8: He’s a Fly type.
Some people who aren’t super well-read in Sonic may assume that everyone’s just fast
and stuff, but that’s not true.
There are actually 3 main ability types: Speed type, like Sonic and Shadow, Power Type like
Knuckles and Big, and Fly type, like Tails and, well, Silver.
Fly type characters are represented by the colour yellow in game.
This is less of a shocking fact, and more of a way to explain a certain mechanic to
non-sonic fans.
In the words of Professor Quirrel, “Just thought you ought to know.”
Number 7: Conflicting backstories for the game.
It seems the writers couldn’t quite get the story straight for Sonic 06.
On the website, it said he came from the future to the present, but learned that the future
could be destroyed so he fights to save it.
In the game guide, it was implied that he started in the present, finds himself in the
future, learns that the future might be destroyed, and tries to change it.
Then in the game, he comes from a destroyed future, and goes back to the past to change
it.
Yikes.
I can’t believe they’d make a mistake in that gem of a game!
Number 6: He’s voiced by Daisuke Ono in the Japanese versions (dye-su-keh).
Much of the flak Silver gets is for his voice acting in the Sonic 06 game.
Not gonna lie, it was pretty sub-par.
The voice itself was pretty good, but the lines sounded kinda forced at times.
But in the Japanese version, Silver was voiced by Daisuke Ono, best known as the voice of
Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler.
And he just kills it, I really dig his interpretation, and even though I don’t understand Japanese,
it still feels more natural to me than the English version with Pete Capella.
To Capella’s credit though, he does get better in future games.
Number 5: He stepped on a whole bunch of toes in the comics.
Silver wasn’t so popular with Sonic and pals when he was first introduced in the Archie
comics.
In this story, he learned that his future was destroyed by a traitor inside the Freedom
Fighters, so he went back to figure it out.
But after accusing three different people and being wrong, they started to get tired
of the guy who just came to point fingers and pick fights.
Thankfully, he eventually learned that, spoilers!
… Sally was the traitor, but hadn’t done it intentionally, so all was well.
Number 4: He was raised by mammoth Mogul.
Silver’s story in the Archie comics is pretty interesting, and probably the craziest thing
is that he was raised by a future version of Mammoth Mogul, one of the big baddies in
the comics.
Thankfully, double M had already more or less hung up his villain cap, but his teachings
weren’t exactly as squeaky clean as others would have liked.
Speaking of…
Number 3: He was mentored by a relative of Knuckles.
Silver’s education didn’t stop with Mammoth Mogul.
Another important teacher of his was Edmund, a distant relative of Knuckles from the future.
Edmund taught Silver about Chaos energy, and trained him to be cunning in battle.
Edmund didn’t approve of Silver’s relationship with Mammoth Mogul, calling him “a sad sack
of lies”.
Savage.
But, fairly accurate.
Number 2: His top quills weren’t based on the marijuana leaf.
Some fans have theorized that Silver’s quills were supposed to look like a marijuana leaf,
but the real inspiration was a lot more child-friendly.
Turns out they were based on the Japanese Red Maple Leaf, And as a Canadian, there will
always be a place in my heart for any maple-leaf, Canadian or not.
Awesome.
Number 1: He was almost a mink.
Silver changed quite a bit during development, and one iteration that ultimately didn’t
pan out was that of Venice the Mink.
Venice was supposed to have orange fur and have futuristic headgear.
I couldn’t find an official picture, but the fan art makes it look pretty cool.
Venice was eventually scrapped because developers didn’t think the mink would fit in with
the other characters.
Personally, I think he’s good as a hedgehog, but I think it would be cool to throw a new
kind of animal into the Sonic world.
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Later gamers!