#sonic misconceptions

[sonknuxadow]

if a characters name is just a word related to their powers or job then they are transgender. because obviously their parents wouldnt know that information the second theyre born so how would they have those names. its because they named themselves

[nickpeppermint]

Now that classic Mickey is getting more attention, i think it's about time to talk about one very annoying design misunderstanding

Has anyone noticed how Mickey Mouse eyes are COMPLETELY misinterpreted in coloured version? 👀

He has a mono eye like Sonic, which was changed into two small eyes inside his pupils

Also for example, notice the placement of Minnie's eyelashes that went from her eyelids to the top of her pupils

Yet Goofy retained normal eyes for some reason

Does anyone know why it's the case? 🤔

[benis-chillin]

You're telling me that the dude who has canonically led teams called "Team Heroes" and "Sonic Heroes" doesn't think of himself as a hero?

You're REALLY gonna tell me that shit with a straight face?

Sonic is not a Hero

From Pariah695

[vanalex]

Interviewer: "What is the biggest misconception you feel people have about you?"

Peter: "That I’m this completely suicidal, depressed guy all the time. That’s not really true. I mean, yeah, I do get depressed sometimes, but I take this side of me and exorcize demons by writing songs about negative things. It’s sonic therapy for me. I’m actually just an average guy who happened to be in the right place at the right time." ~Revolver magazine interview~

[radiantrookie]

I'm really glad fan wikis like Mario and Kirby have misconception pages

I know certain fandoms that could also use misconception pages

[hermanunworthy]

if taylor is 19 why was he kicked out of sonic CHECKMATE FREDDIE WONG /j

[lowpolyshadow]

the tailstube was fucking funneeee and i may have my qualms on some stuff but i think the W's (sa2 acknowledgement, heroes acknowledgement, shth2005 acknowledgement, specifically sonic using a fake emerald acknowledgement, the idea of a mutual respect even if they may have differing ideals and should things come to it end up on opposing sides again) outweigh the cons and so im WINNING!

[m3tr0n0m333]

Who taught him to be silly like that

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

the difference between how people who aren’t huge sonic fans see shadow and his actual canonical personality is so funny to me bc like. do they know he's a deeply traumatised teenager who is only aloof bc he doesn’t know how to connect with people or do they think he’s genuinely a badass loner. do they know he's extremely quick to get attached to people even if he struggles to show his affection. do they know he has suicidal ideation.

[bixels]

out of all my misconceptions and false assumptions about who the sonic characters are, omega's definitely the funniest.

[son1c]

did captain america age when he was stuck in that iceberg? did squidward age when he was locked in the freezer??? were they aware AT ALL during that time? their minds and bodies were FROZEN. they did not age. it was like they went to sleep and then woke up, however many years later. it's THE SAME for shadow.

the only thing i want from sonic movie 3 atp is for sonic to look directly at the camera and say "that guy is 15, just like me!" irt shadow because people constantly misunderstanding how CRYOSTASIS works drives me completely insane and is overall just annoying as fuck

[sonknuxadow]

people thinking that green hill is called green hills 🤝 people thinking endless possibility is called endless possibilities 🤝 people thinking that fleetway super sonic is his actual in universe name

[tomboymikayla]

What sucks about the Sonic franchise is that people only seem to like it when the franchise isn't being itself

Sonic Colors is liked by non Sonic Fans because it's kiddy and lighthearted and not dark and edgy like the 2000s games, which is considered cringe to them and the only time people "like" the 2000s games is when they're talking about those obnoxious Snapcube dubs which they's been spamming for 4 years now

New Fans also praise the current voice cast, which sucks because a majority them don't fit the characters

New Fans also praise how Ian Flynn writes the characters, which also sucks because Flynn's version of the characters don't act like the actual Sonic Characters, (Sonic considering himself as a hero, Tails being Jimmy Neutron, Amy chooses to keep her feelings for Sonic secret and having Tarot Cards be her whole personality, Shadow being an edgy dick, etc) but the New Fans keep insisting that the new versions are better

Also to this day, misconceptions about the franchise and 90s boomers who refuse to let go of the US Lore still persist:

His name is Eggman, not Robotnik

Sonic lives on Earth, not Mobius

Sonic is not obsessed with Chili Dogs

Amy is not a stalker

Sonic has never fucking said "Gotta Go Fast"

Shadow is not an edgelord

People thinking the cartoons and movies are canon

People thinking the Snapcube Dub is canon

Majority of the characters are teens (For some reason people think every Sonic character is a grown adult, even characters like Charmy and Tails)

Also a lot of people seem to forget that the franchise was niche/hated during the 2010s, people didn't give a flying fuck about Sonic and even if they did, they brought it up just to shit on it, it was especially worse when Forces and the Ugly Sonic design came out, everything about Sonic in the 2010s was mocking it, nonstop memes and people saying the franchise only works in 2D (What's worse is that Sonic Mania indirectly proved them right)/was never good, etc

Sonic hate is a lot less common nowadays due to the movies, (mocking Sonic 06 is still brought up to this day tho), however i feel like most of it is people pretending to like Sonic, majority of Sonic praise nowadays comes from the Movies or Frontiers's vocal tracks (because of Kellen Quinn), it also goes back to my previous point with people liking the mischaracterised versions of the characters better

The big two Sonic content coming out this year are Sonic x Shadow Generations and Sonic Movie 3, which has a lot of people hyped because of Shadow the Hedgehog, but it also goes back to my previous point of people pretending to like Sonic, Shadow was heavily disliked by critics and the general audience for being a "edgelord" and looking like a Deviantart OC, so why are people switching up now?

Also from a majority of reactions I've seen, they'll say shit like "Shadow has always been my favorite character" but they don't even know his backstory and when see Black Doom, Maria or Gerald, they go "Who is this!?" (Or make an obnoxious Snapcube joke), I've even seen people ask for Silver, who is a character who was more hated than Shadow and know less about, I doubt they even know he's from the future

All this shit makes me scared that by the time both of these come out, that I'm gonna have to gatekeep the fuck out of this franchise, which is something don't wanna have to do, I just wanna live in a world where the franchise isn't a laughing stock and people actually the franchise unironically

[speeps-highway]

Hey! If you're a fan of the 1998-2009 era Sonic (which you probably are since most of my followers are Sonic Adventure fans), you should read the short stories from the Japanese site Sonic Channel fully. They're the ultimate experience for anyone invested in the characters, explore their personalities in-depth, and shed light on their relationships and how they would act in a variety of impossible situations. They're written by Eitaro Toyoda, one of the Sonic Team OGs who's been with the series since SA1. Windii (@browniestash) compiled English translations on her blog (the page goes from newest to oldest).

I'm sharing this because Windii recently ran a poll and found out most fans had either not read them or only know of the 2016 comic strips (which are short and small and mostly just cute gags). I consider that a huge shame, because these are absolutely a must-read. There's a lot of misconceptions in the fandom about the characters' traits and dynamics (since much of it is distorted through word-of-mouth and Sega of America retcons) and these clear up a good bit of them. They really help scratch the itch of wanting more oldschool 3D Sonic story content.

[flingmetothemoon]

↑ THANK YOU

I don't like the idea that Tikal has become dead or even a ghost from an afterlife. I don't think it makes sense and including her in a trend of dead nice girls lists like Maria, Cosmo, Molly and even Longclaw is a disservice to her character imo. As a matter of fact, I have Cylent Nite's Shadikal essay document downloaded into my Google Docs and here's a debunkment page regarding the whole Tikal being dead argument.

Tikal is not dead

This is a very common line of thought that is always a stub in discussion. Focusing on the cutscenes featuring Tikal’s sealing within the Master Emerald, there is nothing in the sequence that really indicates that she ever “died”. If anything, the prayer she recites implies the opposite, where the power to stop Chaos is enriched by her own heart for peace.

In the middle of her incantation she has a short revelation about what she must do, revealing that they turn her thoughts into power. Through this process, Tikal has actually “ascended” in order to gain the necessary power and became an entity commissioned to serve the Master Emerald, rather than simply having died and become an undead ghost.

To consider some basic terminology: Tikal is never referred to as a “ghost”, however in certain texts and bios she is called a “spirit”. Ghosts fall under the category of “spirit”, but spirits aren’t considered “ghosts”. Also consider other entities that identify as spirits too: djinn are considered spirits who are canon elements in the Sonic series, and in various mythology, angels and demons are also considered “spirits” too. Pretty much anything that falls under that mystical banner is considered a spirit, even smaller entities like sprites and pixies.

All the above considered, Tikal is more like an “angel” than a “ghost”. Tikal’s ascension calls to mind certain characters in the various mythology who due to complete servitude to their master, transcended life and bypass death in order to become more than the simple mortal beings that they once were- in this case they became angels. These texts in particular heavily emphasize that they did not die- they were transformed.

Obviously it’s purely conjecture to apply this to something as simple as Tikal’s state of being, but given that Tikal holds a close connection to Chaos and the Master Emerald, it only makes sense that she would have to be on an equal footing with Chaos rather than just being some simple disembodied ghost; The undead should never have this much responsibility when it comes to godly affairs, this is a duty reserved for deities.

Harkening back, consider the fact that Tikal and Chaos are “equals'': Even Chaos himself was once a simple Chao before he ascended into the state of a god by the Master Emerald in order to protect its people; Chaos was never a god from the beginning. Tikal’s transformation shares the exact same properties, however, with the purpose of keeping Chaos in check.

Another line of thought people commonly consider is that at the end of Sonic Adventure, Tikal and Chaos rise up to “pass on into the afterlife”. That just doesn’t make any sense at all; Why would a god like Chaos need to pass on, especially since he himself isn’t dead?

TL;DR Stucking herself in a magical rock just gave her new superpowers/forms

The whole “pass on into the afterlife” thing doesn't make sense either because I've been exposed to enough media to know a trope called "A Twinkle in the Sky" where someone or an object is thrown into the sky and disappears behind a twinkling four-pointed star. Does that mean a character literally went straight to heaven? No. It usually occurs for either slapstick or to show that a comedic recurring villain is defeated and out of the way for now without having to kill or otherwise permanently inconvenience them, and said villain can be expected to show up again with little to no lasting damage nor explanation on how they survived or where they landed. It's just a convenient yet creative way of saving up time for the rest of the plot when it could've shown a hero knocking the villain out and dragging them back to their evil lair they may not know the location of. Just FLING and done.

Tikal and Chaos floating up to the sky is essentially a more gentler form of this trope. They didn't like go to heaven to "pass on into the afterlife as dead ghosts" or something, they simply float away to another location they would've most likely been more familiar with. Of course it might not have been obviously openly confirmed where exactly they went to, perhaps it was left open for interpretation. But I believe the Master Emerald can be used as an interdimensional gate, and I speculate that when Tikal used its power to use it as a cage for her and Chaos, one of its side effects is it created a dimension that strongly replicates the past altar, so if this ending screen is any indication ↓

I think it's safe to say that's where they most likely went to.

Summary: If Tikal is dead because she was suspended in time in an object for a long time does that mean that Shadow, Captain America and Phillip J. Fry are also dead too?

Tikal is sealed in the master emerald in like a time space girly never died she just sealed herself and chaos in the master emerald time space she is not dead

[sonicfactsijustmadeup]

“Sonic can’t swim in Sonic 1 because the creators thought hedgehogs couldn’t swim” is actually a common misconception. Sonic cannot swim because Yuji Naka couldn’t swim, and he didn’t realize that anybody else was able to.