#SEGA team

[stainedrevenant]

Infinite Conundrum

Chief thinks he found the corrupted form of Cortana in the bowels of the Halo ring, but is uncertain. Has he found something far more nefarious?

And yes, that Infinite is a figure.

Made with great assistance, as always, with the crew of Figures4Fun.

[neomel]

in honor of me finally acquiring the best video game i need to share the greatest ever tweet

[acquired-stardust]

Sonic Advance Gameboy Advance 2001

[doomedyurii]

i’m suffering so espio has to suffer too

[theknucklehead]

Here are some Christmas/Winter themed official artwork from the Sonic Channel.

(Artist: Uno Yuuji)

[msdbzbabe]

Shadow & Maria from Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings clip gifset

[tooshnado]

sleepy snuggly detectives

[drunkin-kong-donic]

I've been meaning to redraw this scene/meme from kung fu panda for literal YEARS at this point.. and now i can finally check it off my list... i love any joke that makes charmy believe he's been born of espio and vector's actual flesh and blood just because they've raised him for as long as he can remember.

[piink-rose]

Maria wants to show you her friend🦑

[rico-tyrell]

SEGA has finally announced;

NEW JET SET RADIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[radiantrookie]

SEGA Mandates explained with their exceptions (Old)

Edit: (Plan on remaking this with a better format and sources, along with ones I missed)

Edit 2: Here's the New One

Game characters cannot have family members unless they were established in the game canon (Because Archie went overboard).

Game characters cannot be killed off.

Sonic cannot cry or get too emotional.

Exception: Sonic Prime didn't follow this rule despite being canon.

The terms Mobius and Mobians are banned, during the early 2010s, Earth was called "Sonic's World" because they wanted to appeal to 90s Boomers who hate Sonic living on Earth without calling it Mobius, it died down later though.

Exception: Ian Flynn has stated SEGA recanonized Sonic Spinball, which takes place in Mobius, so it exists somewhere in game canon, Veg-O-Fortress even has a cameo in Sonic Origins, Ian also stated Spinball takes place in between Sonic 3 and Knuckles and Sonic 3D Blast.

The heroes must always win at the end.

Characters and elements from Non Canon media cannot be used, Cosmo and the Metarex were potentially allowed to appear but according Ian Flynn, they're off the table now, the Metal Virus serves as a replacement for Robotization, Eggperial City serves as a replacement for Robotropolis, Restoration serves as a replacment for the Freedom Fighters.

Exceptions:

Sonic liking Chili Dogs (90s Cartoons)

Eggman's "I hate that Hedgehog!" and "Snooping as usual" lines (Aosth)

Scratch and Grounder appear in Eggman's livestream in one of the covers for IDW 40

Sonic's "Let's do it, to it" line (Satam)

Sonic being referred to as the "Fastest thing alive" (Satam)

Sonic Spinball being canon again, somwhat canonizes Sally, Bunnie, Rotor, Muttski and Scratch, Ian Flynn has clarified they're just cameos for now but could be a backdoor to make them canon if SEGA chooses to (Aosth, Satam, Archie)

In one of the covers for IDW 31, Storm's mugshot mentions he was arrested by the Knothole Village Police (Satam, Archie)

Tails being afraid of lightning (OVA)

Knuckles's cowboy hat (OVA)

Vector's crush on Vanilla (Sonic X)

Cream's favorite show, the NEXT Show (Sonic X)

The Chaotix Office building appears in the Sonic Channel Comics (Sonic X)

Sticks the Badger appears in the Sonic Channel Comics and is mentioned in English Sonic Frontiers (Sonic Boom)

The Eggnet has been canonized in both IDW and the Games (Archie)

The GUN Commander's name, Abraham Tower (Archie)

Bark being mute (Archie)

Bean and Bark working with Fang as a trio, Sonic even calls them the Hooligans (Archie)

Sally and Bunnie cameo in one of the Sonic Forces prequel comics with their Archie designs (Archie)

Shadow's Chaos Spear being shaped like an actual spear that he can throw or use as a melee weapon (Archie)

Badniks from Sonic Mega Drive appear in Classic IDW (Archie)

The term, Super Badnik (Archie)

Male characters that aren't humans, can't wear pants.

Exception: Tails Nine is allowed to wear pants.

Classic Era characters aren't allowed to appear in Modern Era and vice versa, during the 2010s there was the Two Dimensions retcon because of it, however they later removed it, Team Chaotix are also not allowed to appear in Classic because they considered Sonic Heroes to be their first appearance, however Knuckles Chaotix was recanonized in Tailstube, in the same episode, they acknowledge Mighty, Ray and Fang's Gang and teased a Modern Trip, recently, SEGA is considering retiring Classic Sonic after the disappointment of Sonic Superstars.

Exception: a Classic Froggy appears in various Sonic PICT artwork

Only one Metal Sonic is allowed, not multiple (They must really dislike Shard and Metallix)

Exceptions:

Metal Sonic 3.0 from Sonic Rivals 2

Chaos Sonic and Grim Sonic from Sonic Prime were allowed

Shadow: He has the most guidelines out of any character, most of them come from SEGA wanting Shadow to remain an Anti-Hero and not be too heroic, however SEGA has easied up on these with Shadow Generations

Knuckles: Knuckles is the only Echidna and only resident of Angel Island besides Chao and Baby Animals, (Ken Penders lol), Knuckles is also not allowed leave Angel Island without a reason now, prolly due to critiques with games like Heroes

Silver: Silver's Future is off limits, only SEGA can explore that, if they ever choose to

Super Forms: Male hedgehogs are the only ones allowed to go Super, this has been changed with Sonic Superstars and Otherworld Comedy.

Humans: Due to complaints from 90s Boomers, Humans besides Eggman weren't allowed until Shadow Generations

Romance: Characters can have crushes but they can't date or get married.

Money: Only Team Chaotix can talk about money

Rings: Ian Flynn was told Rings were no longer canon, however Rings appear in Sonic Prime and cutscenes in The Final Horizon, which Ian didn't know about

Special Stages: No longer canon and Fang's bio of living in the Special Stages is retconned

Off Limits Characters: These characters can only be used by SEGA/Sonic Team only:

Eggman Nega

Black Doom

Solaris (Mephiles and Iblis)

Infinite

[speedofsoundsketches]

Thanks for bringing this up because this again ties into SOA's fumbling with bringing Sonic into western markets and the unfortunate dissonance between them and SOJ.

The american sonic bible wasn't even drafted until 1991, a year after SOJ had already started production on Sonic 1 in 1990. SOJ had their own internal material and canon that was firmly established and published in full with the Japanese manuals of the games themselves. You can read a full breakdown of these manuals and the whole story of the classic trilogy here.

For whatever reason at this time, SOA either didn't receive materials from SOJ (Yasushi Yamaguchi also known as Judy Totoya, has mentioned that Sega Team was so focused on just making the games, they had little time to spend on cross-checking everything SOA did) or just decided to go off doing their own thing. This bible is where the earliest mentions of Sonic's planet being called "Mobius" occurs. Again, completely divorced from anything to do with what SOJ wanted or intended.

This habit of SOA pushing their ideas for Sonic and his lore continued beyond just the first game. You had Sonic CD's localized manual calling Amy "Princess Sally" or the inclusion of SatAM characters in Spinball (a game made almost exclusively by an American only team in STI).

The two things that were adopted from American only lore were Eggman's real name being Ivo Robotnik and Sonic's love of chili dogs, which are fairly easy to elegantly insert into the established game lore without any major disruptions.

We're at a point where having any sort of continued confusion on these facts should have been made peace with AGES ago. Mobius, SatAM and Archie are simply self contained things that were products of their time and do not have any impact nor relevance to on the main series overall.

(To note, this is NOT a criticism on SatAM or Archie themselves. Just laying the facts out.)

Just answering a question on one of my posts from earlier.

Mobius as a name is ONLY from the Archie comics. Its never been used in the games to refer to the planet.

And hilariously, if you've read the comics, Mobius is literally just Earth but a futuristic, post-apocalyptic one similar to the OVA. They changed the planet's name because I guess in the comic's timeline, everyone forgot all of Earth's name and history after an alien race came and destroyed human civilization.

[sonichedgeblog]

On the Japanese Sonic Team website in 1996 they had a section showing off Sonic goodies. This entry showed off a Sonic Christmas cake, made and sold at Joyopolis in Tokyo, Shinjuku and Yokohama. Wonder what the recipe was? Support us on Patreon

[acquired-stardust]

Sonic Advance Gameboy Advance 2001

[polling-sonic-fans]

Who is the leader of team dark? Shadow, Rouge or Omega?

Thanks for the anonymously submitted poll!

Polling Sonic Fans for their opinions on all manner of things. Share good questions to indicate what you want asked. Submissions open.

[theknucklehead]

Sonic eating chili dogs over the years.

I do love what started out as something made up for the American cartoons would eventually become canon in the actual games.