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Obscure Sonic Facts Masterpost

- Sonic suffers from hay fever. [SOURCE] [SOURCE]

- Dr Eggman is fond of more than three meals a day. [SOURCE]

- Shadow went from being named after the sarcasm involved in being unable to manufacture and/or catch a shadow to being named after the direction from which a light shines (According to Maria) [SOURCE for Shadow being named after futility of manufacturing shadows]     [SOURCE for Maria being the origin of Shadow’s name]

- Knuckles’ whole design concept stems from ST wanting a character that could smash through walls. [RESEARCHING SOURCE]

- Sonic likes to read. Especially on rainy days. [SOURCE - One of the Joypolis Sonic statues quotes in Japanese confirms]

- Press Garden Zone in Sonic Mania was originally named Pulp Solstice Zone. [SOURCE]

- Tails was originally supposed to have only one tail and not have visible sclera. [SOURCE - Stated in Japanese in description]

- Sonic has a weird molecular structure, explaining why he can change form. [SOURCE KNOWN BUT I CAN’T FIND THE VIDEO WHEREIN THIS WAS STATED]

- Shadow is physically 15. [SOURCE]

- Nack/Fang isn’t a Weasel/Wolf hybrid but a Jerboa/Wolf hybrid. [SOURCE]

- Bean is not a Duck but a Woodpecker. [SOURCE]

- “Sonic Crackers” is likely to be a mistranslated title with the real one likely to instead be “Sonic Clackers” [No source but it makes sense given the “connected by a band” dynamic and fickleness of translitering L’s and R’s from Japanese]

- Sonic has a deep dislike of secrecy. [SOURCE]

- Vector believes in God according to Chaotix’s manual. [SOURCE]

- The Hard-Boiled Heavies were independent from Dr Eggman and were not acting under his command until presumably late into the game. [TRYING TO FIND SOURCE AGAIN]

- Sonic inscribed his name on his shoe soles in Sonic Adventure. [SOURCE]

- Heavy Magician’s name was originally Heavy Mystic. [SOURCE]

- The original Genocide City/Cyber City Zone’s layout in Sonic 2 eventually became Metropolis Act 3. [SOURCE]

- Chaos is a mutant Chao. [SOURCE]

- Sonic’s world has two moons. [SOURCE]

- Sonic actually has two separate eyeballs. They’re not “conjoined” [SOURCE]

- Shadow’s original name was “Terios” [SOURCE]

- The white cuffs on Sonic’s shoes are not socks. They’re part of the shoe itself. [SOURCE]

- Mighty’s favorite thing to do is forest bathe and he dislikes violence. [SOURCE]

- Charmy was the first insect to exceed the speed of sound and he has the moniker “Fastest insect in the world” [SOURCE]

- The unused line in SA2 that Omochao says regarding the doctor’s mustache being fake does not actually refer to Dr Eggman but to the Chao Professor in the Kindergarten. [Chao Professor is referred-to as “Hakase”, which is Japanese for “Professor”. Dr Eggman is not referred-to in this fashion]

- Sonic does not have a home. [SOURCE]

- Chip is genderless. [SOURCE]

- Darkspine Sonic does not wear gloves, shoes or socks.

- Maria Robotnik is 12 years old, 4′ 07′‘ tall and weighs 32kg (70lbs) [SOURCE]

- The ring that Sonic wears in SatSR has an inscription engraved into it that confers good luck upon the wearer. [SOURCE]

- “*******” AKA “Wechnia” in Knuckles’ Chaotix is the remains of Tails’ data. He and Sonic were originally planned to be in the game. [SOURCE] [SOURCE]

- Professor Gerald Robotnik is 5′07′‘ and weighs 88kg (194lbs). His age is not known. [SOURCE]

- Sonic is not fond of Twinkle Park (His idle comment in the entrance area has him state that he doesn’t like the place) [SOURCE]

- Birdie is male and the yellow and pink birds are his brothers. [SOURCE]

- Tikal’s mother died when she was young. This is specifically why she was raised by her grandmother. [SOURCE]

- Sonic has actually been voiced by at least two women; Keiko Toda in Sonic Underground and Meg Inglima in Sonic’s Schoolhouse. [SOURCE] [SOURCE]

- A young boy inside Station Square’s train station mentions Little Planet and Angel Island in the Japanese script when talking to Sonic at one point in his story. These references are not in the English script. [SOURCE]

- E-10000R (The red robot playable character in Sonic Riders) has the same engine as Metal Sonic. [SOURCE]

- Classic Sonic is 76.5cm (2′05′‘) tall as his sprites are equal in height to Metal Sonic’s in Sonic CD. Who’s height was given as 76.5cm in his profile in the manual. [SOURCE]

- According to text on the World Rings’ concept art, they’re made out of a glass-like substance. [SOURCE]

- Knuckles hates the city. [SOURCE]

- Amy dislikes the main area (Not the Jungle) of Mystic Ruins. [SOURCE]

- Caliburn was originally female. Shiro Maekawa was surprised to see she was changed to male. [SOURCE]

- Earthia is a conservative leader of Cosmo’s homeworld whilst Lucas is the leader of the war faction. This is stated (In Japanese) on their eyecatch cards. [SOURCE]

- The flower Merlina holds that wilts is a Strawflower/Straw Chrysanthemum. This was an intentional choice, as Strawflowers/Straw Chrysanthemums represent eternity in the language of flowers, a direct reference to Merlina’s desire to make the Grand Kingdom last forever. [SOURCE - Note that this is Shiro Maekawa’s Twitter post. Who wrote the Storybook games.]

- Clove the Pronghorn is/was regarded as lesbian by her creator Aleah Baker. [SOURCE]

- Dr Eggman went to the effort of collecting the Hyudoro’s in the Sandopolis pyramid himself and placed them inside that capsule. [SOURCE]

- According to Shadow’s SONIC CHANNEL profile, he does not have a “favorite thing” or anything that he likes. [SOURCE]

- Silver’s age originally wasn’t set in concrete. It was given as being 13-15 in SONIC ‘06′s script. His final age is given as 14. [SOURCE]

- Rouge dislikes Dry Lagoon. [Idle dialogue in Dry Lagoon confirms this]

- Sonic Jam’s title was originally conceived as “Sonic Ages” [SOURCE]

- “Nazo” is one and the same as Super Sonic and is not a unique, independent character. This was outright stated on a Japanese Sonic X poster. [SOURCE]

- Blaze is put-out by her small breasts and comments about them rouse her anger. [SOURCE]

- Metal Sonic idles in his spare time. [SOURCE]

- Sonic does not live in Green Hill Zone, he just enjoys running around there. [SOURCE]

- Emerald Coast is the hottest vacation destination in Sonic’s world. [SOURCE]

- The female ghost in Night of the Werehog is named Raa/Laa, the short, fat ghost is named Suu and the thin, taller ghost in named Wuu. Their fused form with the horns is named Baker. [SOURCE] [SOURCE] [SOURCE] [SOURCE]

- Knuckles’ design was originally Dinosaur-like. This was due to the popularity of Jurassic Park at the time. [SOURCE]

- Sonic is capable of reaching the speed of light. This is stated in his profile in one of the official JP Sonic Adventure guides. [SOURCE]

- Sonic does not recall memories of his actions in Purple Frenzy form when he reverts to normal. This is stated in the Sonic Colours manga. [SOURCE]

- The cackling one-eyed creatures that accompany Mephiles in the first boss fight against him are named “Zerophiles” [TRYING TO RE-FIND SOURCE]

- Jimmy (Heavy Rider’s steed) is described as being like a rampaging bull in the JP Sonic Mania manual. [SOURCE]

- Jari-Thure in JP Unleashed wonders if Sonic is perverted given that he wears only gloves. This is not mentioned in the English script and he wonders if Sonic is a weirdo instead. [SOURCE] - Chip refers to itself/himself in the third person in the JP script of Unleashed. - Omochao adds the word “Chao” onto the end of every sentence in Japanese. This quirk is not present with English Omochao.

- Cheese’s favorite food is Coconuts. [SOURCE]

- Orbot is noted in his SONIC CHANNEL profile to have a “poisonous” sort of sarcasm towards Dr Eggman. He is also noted as being quite intelligent. [SOURCE] - Cubot has the same CPU as Orbot but is dense despite that. This is stated in his SONIC CHANNEL profile. [SOURCE]

- One of Sonic’s originally conceived names was “Lighspee” (”Raisupi”), derived from “Lightspeed” [SOURCE]

- Pumpkin Hill’s theme song “A Ghost’s Pumpkin Soup” was the very first track composed for Sonic Adventure 2. [TRYING TO RE-FIND SOURCE]

- Windy Valley was the first stage designed for Sonic Adventure and the last to be remade. [SOURCE]

- Some of the files in SA2′s data still refer to Shadow by his original name Terios. [SOURCE]

- Cosmo loves to bask in the sun according to her eyecatch card. [SOURCE]

- If you duck a small distance away from Knuckles in Sky Sanctuary Zone in Sonic (3) & Knuckles, he will gesture for Sonic and/or Tails to go on without him. This can be seen in action here.

- Speaking of Sky Sanctuary, it is considered holy territory that only Knuckles is permitted to enter. This is stated in the official JP Sonic Jam startegy guide. [SOURCE]

- Sonic Team had a survey to decide whether to reverse the controls for up and down in Death Egg Zone when the gravity is reversed. [SOURCE]

- The name of Emerald Hill Zone came from a location in San Francisco. STI were located in the city at the time. Which is how they were inspired. [SOURCE]

- Game!Sonic does not have parents in the game continuity, suggesting that he is an orphan [SOURCE]

- The crescent-shaped marking on Knuckles’ chest symbolizes the moon whilst the circular patch on Sonic’s stomach symbolizes the sun. This was for the sake of making them contrast [SOURCE]

- Sonic has a precognitive ability that manifests in the form of sneezing when he senses danger [SOURCE]

- According to Naoto Oshima, Sonic has never cried openly or at the very least has never shown true tears of grief to anybody [SOURCE]

- Chaos 0′s eyes originally had pupils. They are depicted in very early storyboards for the beginning of Sonic’s story in Adventure [SOURCE]

- Contrary to popular belief, Dr Eggman is NOT stated to be a womanizer in the JPN Sonic Heroes manual [SOURCE]

- Pachacamac’s name is pronounced with a silent C at the end [Pachacamac’s name is rendered as “ パチャカマ” or “Pachakama” in Katakana]

- Although normally impossible to see, the room in the cutscene in Shadow the Hedgehog wherein Black Doom is shown beside Professor Gerald by the unconscious Shadow in his capsule has other capsules that contain horribly deformed Shadow’s, all of which are missing limbs. As stated, they are normally impossible to see and can only be seen by hacking the camera. They are notable for having entirely unique textures on their models [SOURCE]

- The early version of Sonic Unleashed’s opening showed Sonic’s actual skeleton whilst he is being electrocuted. This detail is completely missing from the version of the opening in the game’s final release [SOURCE]

- In Sonic 3/& Knuckles, Tails is entirely immune to Badnik projectiles whilst he is airlifting Sonic [SOURCE]

- In Sonic Pinball Party, the Moon Zone table contains an airship that is based entirely on a scrapped design for the Egg Carrier in Sonic Adventure [SOURCE]

- According to Yuji Naka in a Russian magazine article, Sonic’s birthplace Christmas Island is inhabited by strange animals and robots. It is also the location where action first unfolded in the Sonic series [SOURCE]

- According to Naoto Oshima, Sonic himself is Fairy-like [SOURCE]

- In the PS3/360 version of Unleashed, a person in the shower can be heard whistling the game’s main theme if Sonic is stood near a particular building in Spagonia at night [SOURCE]

- There are numerous small graphical differences in some cutscenes between the Wii/PS2 version of Sonic Unleashed and the 360/PS3 version [SOURCE]

- Yuji Uekawa was inspired to give Modern Sonic green eyes because it connects to the fact that Sonic is always viewing green pastures like in Green Hill Zone [SOURCE]

- The purpose of Sonic’s “long journey” immediately prior to the events of Sonic Adventure was to train himself [SOURCE]

- Sonic the Werehog was known as “Monster Sonic” very early in Sonic Unleashed’s development [SOURCE]

- Wacky Workbench Zone’s original name was “Crazy Toy Box” [SOURCE]

- Meta Junglira Zone is a 1 billion year old jungle [SOURCE]

- Sunset Park Zone is an abandoned amusement park [SOURCE]

- Robotnik Winter Zone’s icy conditions were caused by Dr Eggman testing his final weapon in the vicinity [SOURCE]

- Dust Hill Zone was in fact intended to be the name of Mystic Cave Zone all along, which itself was intended to be the bad future of Emerald Hill Zone very early in Sonic 2′s development when STI intended the game to have a time travel mechanic. The Dust Hill name was mistakenly attributed to Sand Shower Zone by the gaming media, a zone cut very early in development and represented only by a mock-up image. [SOURCE]

- Shadow’s red stripes were inspired by Kabuki makeup according to his designer Kazuyuki Hoshino [RESEARCHING SOURCE]

- “DA Garden” AKA Little Planet’s theme in Sonic CD originally belonged to one of the scrapped R2′s timeframe’s according to Masato Nishimura. It was also a “technical” stage, focused on exploration like Tidal Tempest (Stages like Palmtree Panic and Stardust Speedway are “Speed” stages) [SOURCE]

- Uh and Suu (The two ghosts in Night of the Werehog) are brothers [SOURCE]

- The reason as to why the Eggman Empire’s logo resembles Classic Dr Eggman and other instances of Classic Eggman’s design in Sonic Adventure (Such as on the Sonic Pinball table in Casinopolis) is because of Satoshi Okano’s fondness for Classic Eggman’s design. [SOURCE]

- The Drop Dash, which was introduced in Sonic Mania, was originally planned for Sonic 3 and is present in the November 3rd 1993 Beta. It was removed in the final game [SOURCE]

- Sonic’s shoes are in fact boots and the white cuff-like part is folded-over [SOURCE]

- Sonic sleeps for twelve hours a day (Specifically from midnight to midday) [SOURCE]

- Silver’s bracelets only open and show their cyan-coloured lines when he is using his PSI. They are closed when he isn’t using his powers [SOURCE]

- ZERO is a prototype of the E-Series with the designation E-100 α. What sets him apart from the later models in the series is that he lacks an animal [SOURCE]

- The Egg Walker has an uneven center of gravity without balancers on its ankles. This is why it’s main body tips sideways when Tails attacks its ankles [SOURCE]

- The original name for the infamous scrapped Sonic CD zone commonly known as R2 was “Dubious Depths”. Aside from being underground-themed, it was also dungeon-themed. This was confirmed by Naoto Ohshima in a Twitter DM in 2023 [SOURCE] - In the 16-BIT version of Sonic 2, The Tornado was orignally planned to have a transformed state during Sky Chase Zone. Yamaguchi did not have time to incorporate the transformed sprites, causing its scrapping. Instead, the Tornado received a booster. No paper documents exist depicting this transformation as Yamaguchi drew the sprites on the SEGA digitizer directly [SOURCE] - The reason as to why Sonic has 3 spines on his back in his Sonic 2 special stage sprites was due to a misinterpretation of Sonic’s design from his Sonic 1 sprites [SOURCE]

- Super Sonic was originally intended to having a cycling palette of 7 colours. This was likely recycled for Hyper Sonic in Sonic 3 & Knuckles [SOURCE]

- Tails wears gloves and shoes in imitation of Sonic but they are too big for him. This is why he wore belts around the cuffs so that they would fit him better [SOURCE]

- Mecha Sonic’s concept art states multiple abilities that the robot possesses that didn’t make it into the final iteration of the boss fight such as missiles, lasers, a chainsaw and a super gravity smash [SOURCE]

- Rhea and Ouranos Islands in Sonic Frontiers were originally part of Kronos Island. They were split-off from the latter during development due to issues with creating the end-game. This is why parts of Kronos Island are actually visible from Rhea Island. [SOURCE] - Darkspine Sonic’s stripes were inspired by the Dodge Viper racing car. This was stated by his creator, Morio Kishimoto. [SOURCE]

- The loading icon in Sonic Frontiers changes shape from a triangle to a gradually more rounder shape as the game’s story progresses as an indicator of the state of Sage’s soul. [SOURCE] - Genocide/Cyber City Zone was intended to use the rotating gun turrets that were ultimately used in Wing Fortress Zone. [SOURCE]

- Genocide/Cyber City Zone was also planned to have underwater sections. [SOURCE]

- One of Tails’ earliest sprites had brown and beige fur rather than gold-orange and white fur [SOURCE] - The End’s appearance is based on what its observers perceive “death” to look like. It takes the form of the Moon from the player’s viewpoint due to the association that the Moon has with death in various cultures. [SOURCE] - Sonic Frontiers’ story is based off of the Japanese folktale “The Rabbit in the Moon.” [SOURCE]