When a character in pop culture has a huge devoted fan base, it shouldn’t come as a
surprise to see the internet come together and collectively clusterfuck an aspect of
them or their franchise into a beautiful, hilarious meme.
Especially when it comes to a character like Sonic.
Who is just SO EASY to poke fun at.
It’s a wonderful world we live in friends.
So today we’re celebrating some of the magnificent comedic gold to come out of the interwebs
making sweet diabolical love to Sega’s beloved hedgehog with our list of the top 10 sonic
memes.
And I promise none of them are this guy.
10 And Knuckles Let’s start this list off with some classic
Sonic.
The And Knuckles meme is a product of the 1994 Sonic & Knuckles game.
At the time, Sega had developed two games – rumoured to had been one full game that
wasn’t complete, hence the split – the first being Sonic 3 for the Sega Genesis,
and the second being the & Knuckles add on that allowed players to play all of Sonic
3 as Knuckles.
The cartridge simply popped on top of the Sonic 3 one.
In 2010, a game reviewer known as SomecallmeJohnny released a joke review for a fictional game
called Sonic the Hedgehog 3CD & Knuckles & Knuckles, and the meme was born.
People started tacking on & Knuckles to other images and memes, primarily video game based
ones.
Sega has even acknowledged the joke, tweeting out images of their own, using it as an easter
egg in games, and even included a Knuckles mode in Sonic Mania titled & Knuckles.
9 It’s No Use Speaking of Sonic games, let’s take a look
at a meme that comes from the Sonic instalment that’s regarded as the worst game in the
franchise, Sonic 06.
In 06, we were introduced to a few new characters in the Sonic canon, included Silver the Hedgehog,
the time travelling speedster who also had psychic abilities.
During the boss fight against him in the game, Silver infamously says “It’s no use!”
whenever you, playing as Sonic, get too close to him, or if he gets too close to you.
So of course, this has been parodied, primarily gaining traction in 2012 from a playthrough
of Sonic 06 by the GameGrumps that was later animated by a fan of the channel.
8 Sonic Original Characters Everyone has seen a fan made sonic character.
The popularity of sonic fan art (or rather, the mass enjoyment of mocking it) even influenced
Team Sonic to include the make your own Avatar character in the latest Sonic Forces game.
The jokes primarily poke fun at the creation of an original sonic character as being really
juvenile and childish, or geared towards fetish communities like furries creating Sonic based
fursonas.
Whether you’re for it or for mocking it, it’s undeniable that the trend likely isn’t
slowing down anytime soon, especially when there’s such a wide range of these original
characters available online, including the likes of lower quality characters featured
on blogs like FYeahBadSonicArt and Terrible Sonic the Hedgehog OCs.
7 The Tails Doll Diving into darker territory here, the Tails
Doll meme derives from Sonic R – a game that’s known for being on the shittier side
of Sega’s spectrum – as one of the unlockable characters available.
When playing as the doll, the character often levitates, all while its theme song ‘Can
You Feel the Sunshine?’
plays in the background.
This expanded into rumours of a curse of the Tails Doll coming out of players’ screens,
and a creepypasta emerged about a man buying his son Sonic R, and how, after playing the
character and tagging him up with Sonic, the doll emerged from the game and began to stalk
him in his house, telling him that the man would be coming with him forever.
Since then, other claims about possessed Tails Dolls have popped up online.
6 Sonic Says…
Spawned from the 1993 cartoon Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Says was initially
a PSA that appeared in each episode of the animated series that sought to teach young
viewers important lessons.
So naturally, it was the perfect opportunity to soil Sonic and turn his after school special
moments into naughtier revelations.
On the site you’re the man now dog, an online community that highlights meme by using that
classic internet web page titled background along with animations or looping sound files,
someone uploaded the audio from a Sonic Says that featured Sonic teaching the audience
about being touched in a place or in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable.
This evolved into YouTube Poops – which, for those of you who don’t know, are videos
that are mash ups of pre-existing media usually for the purpose of a joke.
This led to gems like He Touched Me Inappropriately, and Sonic Says Touching is Good.
5 Sonic.exe Jumping once again into a meme of a darker
nature, Sonic.exe is a creepypasta about a player receiving a mysterious modified PC
port of Sonic the Hedgehog.
He’s warned to destroy it, but plays it anyway, to discover that the game is excessively
glitchy.
Turns out he can only play as Tails, Knuckles or Robotnik, and as he navigates the levels,
they’re filled with wounded animals.
A demonic Sonic who is bleeding from the eyes begins to hunt them down.
As he continues to play, Sonic threatens the player, saying he’ll break out of the game
and kill him.
So the player shuts off the game, but turns around to find a sonic toy with bleeding eyes
is now in his room.
Since then, the legend has actually been crafted into a full-fledged game that you can download
and play, or rather just watch other YouTubers play.
Regardless, still creepy.
4 Gotta Go Fast Gotta Go Fast is an extension to some of that
badly drawn Sonic fan art we mentioned briefly in some of our previous numbers.
The phrase tends to be attached to poorly drawn Sonic illustrations, all starting with
an image of a deformed face on sonic’s body that has been parodied excessively since.
The phrase itself comes from the Sonic X animated series and its theme song, and it’s reach
has even stretched as far as being featured in other popular animated shows, like Steven
Universe.
3 Pingas Before we dive further into this number, contemplate
this.
What body part does the word PINGAS sound like?
Now that that’s out of the way, Pingas is a meme that originates from an episode of
that same 1993 Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, and a line that Robotnik says : “Snooping
as usual I see”.
People interpreted it to sound like snooPINGAS, with the last half of snooping attached to
the as, which then resulted in a YouTube poop to surface called Robotnik has a viagara overdose,
followed by one called This Video Contains Win.
All cause it sounds like he’s talking about a dick.
2 Sanic Hegehog The last mention of awful Sonic artwork comes
in the form of Sanic, the purest form of Sonic fan art parodies out there.
Sanic, intentionally misspelled, refers to a series of poorly drawn artwork featuring
Sonic and other characters from the franchise.
The work is commonly paired with our number 4 meme, Gotta Go Fast.
It originated with a video by YouTuber Onyxheart titled How 2 Draw Sanic Hegehog that featured
footage of a badly drawn Sonic in MS Paint, accompanied by a distorted version of the
score track from the Green Hill Zone stage in the original 1991 Sonic game.
After the video was uploaded, similar images using the name Sanic appeared on websites
like Newgrounds, and more videos featuring Sanic drawings started popping up on YouTube.
Even memes featuring more humanized anthropomorphic Sanics surfaced.
And those are the ones that are truly disturbing masterpieces.
1 Ugandan Knuckles The newest and most recently adored Sonic
meme comes in the form of Ugandan Knuckles – the nickname of a depiction of Knuckles
that was created by youtuber Gregzilla, which is commonly used as an avatar in VRChat.
People who use Ugandan Knuckles typically repeat the phrases do you know the way?
I will show you the way, and other phrases made popular by memes of the country Uganda,
with many coming from the film Who Killed Captain Alex?, a no budget 2010 action comedy
film.
Oh, and lots of clicking.
Lots.
Anyway, Gregzilla had released a video on his channel featuring a parody animated of
Knuckles that was then adapted to a 3D model DeviantArtist tidiestflyer.
THEN another youtuber by the name of Stahlsby uploaded a VRChat gameplay video titled You
Do Not Know The Way that entailed this.
It spread like wild fire from there, with a bunch of other well-known YouTubers featuring
their own gameplay experiences with players in packs of Ugandan Knuckles avatars, and
subsequent images featuring the meme starting popping up everywhere.
There we have it friends!
I hope you learnt something valuable today.
I hope you go out into the world and make your own Sanic, or jump into VRChat and spit
on an unsuspecting Qween.
Be the hero we all know you were meant to be.
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