Since releasing its first trailer, the live action Sonic the Hedgehog movie has definitely
gotten….
A reaction, to say the least.
Whether you think it’s a pile of cold damp garbage or it might actually manage to redeem
itself (bless your optimistic soul), there’s a lot of talk online about what exactly this
feature film will entail.
And because of the visual treatment given to the blue blur, a lot of those theories
and tidbits of speculation have gone down a rather dark path.
So today, we’re taking a closer look at some of those feels with our list of the top
10 scariest sonic the hedgehog fan theories, specifically pertaining to the upcoming movie.
Let’s get to it.
10 Sonic is Stranded In the trailer, when Sonic is driving with
James Marsten in his car, and Marsten is attempting to question him, Sonic says he’s here to
save your earth.
This has led to theories that Sonic’s in quite the tricky situation – he accidentally
found his way to our reality, and is stuck here, at least until he finds a way back home.
This explains the den that he’s living it, the fact that he uses a cassette tapes (it’s
all he could find when rummaging through old garbage) and that he has a pile of discarded
burnt through shoes.
He ain’t a hoarder, he’s just trying to cover his tracks and lay low.
Although another explanation for the shoes has popped up, and it’s a more sinister
theory- 9 Sonic has a Foot Fetish
When Sonic drops down into his den before his full body reveal in the trailer, we see
that he’s got a pile of discarded shoes.
While some believe this is due to the fact that he hasn’t found shoes in our reality
that can support the speeds in which he runs (therefore he goes through shoes like crazy),
others believe this is something much more mature – Sonic has a foot fetish, and has
been stealing shoes from those in the Green Hills county.
Gross.
8 The True Villain While robotnik and the government sure do
seem to be antagonistic forces for the blue blur, there is speculation that the massive
energy surge that the government notice is due to something else other than Sonic – the
reason why Sonic is here on our Earth.
Could this be a villain we’ve already encountered in the video games?
Or is it someone completely brand new?
7 Sonic is Half Human
Many fans felt rather jarred by the details of Sonic’s live action persona.
Specifically, the nostalgic character now has teeth, and little finger nails.
This has spawned a theory in which Sonic is actually revealed in the film to be half hedgehog,
half human.
Meaning yes, someone SOMEHOW managed to breed a human and a hedgehog in some sort of weird
genetic experiment, and bam, we got this version of Sonic.
At least that would better explain Sonic’s romantic choices in the Sonic 06 video game.
Eek. 6 Sonic is an SCP
Another theory that sets out to explain why Sonic is living in an underground den in secret
is that he’s actually an SCP – SPC stands for Special Containment Procedures, and the
SCP Foundation is a fictional yet highly theorized organization that contains individuals, entities,
locations and objects that violate natural law.
Think the reveal in Cabin in the Woods.
This theory suggests Sonic broke out of the foundation and has been living on the run,
which is why the organization feels it needs to bring out Robotnik in order to find a way
to contain him.
It’s also the reason why Robotnik is so damn mental – he spends all of his time
dealing with SPC related issues.
5 Environmental Crisis One theory suggests that Sonic has come to
our Earth because he’s searching for a way to save his planet from an environmental disaster.
In the original 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog game for the Sega Genesis, sonic saves little forest
creatures who are captured by Eggman’s forces throughout.
There’s also this constant theme of nature versus technology.
This theory speculates that the global warming in our reality has somehow seeped into Sonic’s,
and he now must do something in our world (like knock out all the power) in order to
keep his world alive.
Another take on this theory is that technology from our reality somehow got into Sonic’s,
and caused some seriously environmental damage, causing Sonic to come to our world to look
for a way to put it to an end, but got stuck here in the process.
4 Robotnik’s Transformation In the trailer, we see that Doctor Ivo Robotnik
comes from Earth, whereas it’s established that sonic comes from elsewhere (likely Mobius).
The end of the trailer provided us a look at Jim Carrey’s Eggman in a form that looked
way more like the character from the video games, versus the first glimpse we saw of
Robotnik harassing a military superior.
This theory speculates that at the end of the film, Robotnik will follow Sonic back
home to his dimension, and as part of the process of travelling to another reality,
his body becomes warped and disfigured, which will explain the character’s aesthetic transformation.
3 Sonic Causes Robotnik’s Transformation Riffing off of that theory, another one speculates
that Sonic will be responsible for Robotnik’s disfigurement.
Throughout the trailer, the government becomes concerned with an energy surge that is implied
to be caused by Sonic.
This theory explores the idea that the energy surge is in fact caused by Sonic because that’s
how his powers translate into the real world, our world – he breaks the laws of nature,
and thus, massive electrical surges that can knock the power out in half the country and
even cause massive damage spawn from Sonic running at incredibly fast speeds.
When fighting Robotnik, Sonic moves at his fastest, and that causes a massive surge which
then disfigures Robotnik into his classic video game form.
2 Tails is Dead One of the biggest things fans noticed about
the trailer was that Tails, Sonic’s best bud and partner in heroics, was missing from
the trailer.
This has spawned multiple theories about the character in this film universe, and a few
theories about how he’ll tie into the film’s ending, but one theory explores a much darker
possibility.
It suggests that Tails is actually dead, or is deathly ill, hence why Sonic is in this
reality, searching for a cure after he couldn’t find one in Mobius.
While we don’t think this one will pan out – we’ll likely see an appearance from
Tails at the end of the film, potentially leading into a loose adaptation of the Sonic
2 game for the Sega Genesis, Tails absence could be due to a more sinister reason.
We doubt it though.
1 Sonic is actually tiny Here’s an interesting one, and actually
bodes with another Sonic fan theory about the game franchise – Sonic is actually a
regular hedgehog, and for some reason, likely some sort of genetic experiment or accident
of Robotnik’s, as a side effect Sonic has grown from a regular hedgehog into whatever
it is he appears to be in the trailer.
That’s why when we see that shot of Robotnik in his full Eggman form there’s all those
mushrooms surrounding him.
Rather than it be an alternate world, Robotnik has just shrunk down in size, and that’s
why his mustache is so big.
The original fan theory states that sonic, being a hedgehog, just runs at fast hedgehog
speeds, which to us regular humans, looks like the speed a regular hedgehog would move.
But when he gets big and child sized, his speeds also morph to match his new found size
in the film.
Weird.
There we have it friends!
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