Sonic the Hedgehog

*pThis article is about the character. For other uses, see the disambiguation page.*

## Sonic the Hedgehog

* Normal
* Child
* Energy
* Super

### Aliases

Blue Blur
Blue Devil
Blue Justice

### Affiliates

Tom Wachowski
Maddie Wachowski
Jojo
Ozzy
Longclaw

## Appears In

### Films

*Sonic The Hedgehog*
*Sonic The Hedgehog 2*

### Books

*Sonic The Hedgehog: The Official Movie Novelization*
*Sonic The Hedgehog: The Adventures of Sonic & Donut Lord*

### Games

*Sonic Dash*
*Sonic Forces: Speed Battle*

### Portrayed By

Ben Schwartz (Teen)
Benjamin L. Valic (Baby)

 I'm Sonic, a little ball of super energy, in an extremely handsome package!
 — Sonic the Hedgehog [src]

**Sonic the Hedgehog** is a mobian hedgehog born with the power to travel at the speed of sound, but because of this power, Sonic makes himself very dangerous and powerful by said ability, thus making habitant's of Green Hill want to possess it. But Sonic doesn't have too worry, because he was raised and protected by Longclaw.

That is until a tribe of echidnas take away Longclaw's life, leaving him trapped on Earth. There, he meets Wachowski's Tom and Maddie and an evil scientist wanting his power for world domination. He eventually defeats the forces of Robotnik, alongside Tom and Maddie, gaining the runofrom Green Hills' citizens.

Upon meeting Miles "Tails" Prower, Sonic must thwart Robotnik's Master Emerald stealing plan, brought to action with help of Knuckles the Echidna.

## History

### Early Life

 I was born with extraordinary powers and was told to keep them secret, and like any kid, I did the exact opposite.
 — Sonic the Hedgehog [src]

One day, The Echidna Tribe noted Sonic's power and wanted to capture the hedgehog. When Sonic comes home to meet Longclaw, the tribe followed, resulting in a chase. Longclaw gets shot by an arrow which causes her to make a rough landing. She then throws a ring out of her bag and hands it over to Sonic. She tells him to be careful and to never stop running. He then rushes over to the other side of the portal. Taking a look back at Longclaw's defeat. He attempts to save her, but the ring closes. Sonic is now left alone on a planet bewildered to him.

### Living in Secret

Ten years later, Sonic's having the time of his life in his cave in the town of Green Hills, Montana.

But misses friends. He then finds Donut Lord and Pretzel Lady, mostly known as Tom Wachowski and Maddie Wachowski. Sonic begins to notice that both so-called friends of his do not even know he exists. Whilst realizing that fact, he sadly walks away. He speeds over to a group of kids, playing the playoffs at the baseball field. Being amazed at how one player of the winning team gets appreciation, he decides to play a game himself. Playing a match with nobody around except him and his speed makes him realize he is indeed very lonely, making him run around the whole field, once he reaches his max he erupts a large energy blast, which knocks out all of the Pacific Northwest's electric power.

This results into Dr. Robotnik going on a hedgehog hunt, which is an order from the government. Now that Sonic knows there's the government behind his back, he has no choice but to run away to his undesirable Mushroom Planet. Unfortunately the search dogs are getting closer, resulting to him leaving somewhere else except the planet.

#### Surprise

He later finds himself in the shed of Tom. Tom then opens the door exactly at the time Sonic was about to throw a ring. Tom then shoots Sonic with a tranquillizer gun. Sonic becomes dizzy reads Tom's shirt, which says San Francisco. The ring then drops, opening a portal above The Transamerica Pyramid. He finally tumbles down, dropping the bag of rings into the portal on the pyramid and the portal closes. After that, Sonic passes out and he is locked inside Ozzie's dog cage by Tom. When Sonic regains consciousness he is worried about why he's still on Earth and where his rings are, and is mad at Tom for shooting him.

Just after his realization about what happened, Dr. Robotnik comes to pay a visit. Sonic is told to hide. Robotnik sends drones to look around the house. Sonic, hiding in the attic amongst many balls, has to flee because of the drone that almost detected him. While rolling down the stairs he eventually made an impact with a table, leading to Robotnik entering the kitchen while Sonic hides under the table. Robotnik finds a quill from the hedgehog and gives 5 seconds for Tom to tell him where he is. Sonic comes out of the table, misleading Robotnik into a heavy punch from Tom. Sonic and Tom then take cover from the attacking drone, Sonic then has an idea to ride the drone and cause it to stop. Soon after, Sonic explains what's happening to Tom in his car. After Tom understands he sends Sonic out. believing San Francisco is in the west direction, he runs and returns to the car, listing up what he realizes.

#### Road Trip

Tom "admits" it's his fault, making Sonic go on a "road trip". Tom then makes a stop and Sonic sees a Biker bar. He then decides to go in with a disguise. After that Sonic dances and plays games with Tom in the bar. Eventually, 3 men tell them that they don't like "hippies" in their bar. Sonic dislikes that and tries to break a bottle on one of the guy's head. After trying multiple times to break it, Sonic almost receives a punch. The man accidentally hits Tom, resulting into a fight. Sonic turns everything into slow motion when they same man tries to get him. The two run out, going back to their car. Sonic then slides on the car and jumps in. He always wanted to do that. They later go in a Motel to get rest.

When they continue their journey Robotnik is chasing after them again. While he's attacking them, Sonic gets frustrated when Tom tells him he's going out of town. He accidently gets on the hood of the car, still frustrated. The frustration makes his electric energy slowly come out. Tom then hits the breaks, not only getting the harpoon out that was in the car, but also launching Sonic into the air, causing him to do a spin-dash.

The vehicle was destroyed by Sonic's attack. Unfortunately Robotnik sends another, smaller vehicle which sends out tiny pads that makes vehicles lose their control. This was dodged by Tom but worked by another family. Sonic decides to ride the pads to the vehicle and then destroy it. That vehicle then deploys a third vehicle that tries to pop the tires of Tom's car. After that one was knocked out, the final, fourth drone was deployed, this one broke the roof of the car. Sonic breaks the mini drone, which surprisingly sticks onto him. Sonic gets it off but gets knocked out after the drone blew up.

Sonic then gets send to Maddie, who was by Jojo and Rachel's home. After Maddie recovers Sonic, Jojo gives him a gift, a new pair of shoes, so he won't hurt his feet anymore. Sonic then meets their dog, Ozzy.

#### Chase

Sonic and Tom then finally arrive at The Transamerica Pyramid, along with Maddie. Sonic needs to hide in a bag to get to the top, so nobody freaks out. Once they are up, Sonic says his goodbyes to Tom and Maddie, he throws the ring. Just as the ring was going to become a portal, Robotnik's ship blocked it. Cornering the three. Sonic then pushes Maddie and Tom off the building. Robotnik then shoots off his weapons, only for Sonic to turn them into slow-mo again. However, Robotnik was about to push the button slowly but Sonic was distracted. Once the button was pressed, he got shot at with a laser. While Sonic's falling he sees the two Wachowski's falling as well. He then struggles to save them with a ring. He then falls into a tree, then onto the ground. He recovers and collects his rings, he then makes the chase. While he questions how Robotnik's keeping up, he throws out a portal to Paris. He and Robotnik then dash through the ring, almost hitting a mime, child and a mother. They run in The Great Wall Of China. After that, they travel to Egypt. There, Sonic makes a whirlpool out of sand, distracting Robotnik from finding him. However, it didn't last long, because he was in time to shoot Sonic whilst he was running up The Great Pyramid of Giza. He then landed badly back into Green Hills, being left unconscious.

##### Final Battle

After Tom tells Robotnik that Sonic was his friend, Sonic regained power and charges up for a big fight. Sonic attacks Robotnik multiple times in the form of a ball, he then asks Tom if he's ready, Tom throws a ring. Sonic aims and fires Robotnik into the Mushroom planet. Thanks to the hedgehog, Robotnik is defeated.

After the events of the fight, Sonic is in the Wachowski house, asking to watch a movie. Being told it's a school night, he is upset, pointing out the fact that it's 3 in the afternoon. He goes to the door, going back to the cave. Tom says he doesn't have to, since they moved the stuff Sonic once had is in cave in the attic. From now on, Sonic is part of the Wachowski family.

### Around the World in 80 Seconds

Some time after the events of *Sonic The Hedgehog*, Sonic decides the roam around Earth in a span of 80 seconds, passing by various countries whilst quipping. He speeds through Los Angeles, Arches National Park, Chichen Itza, New York City, London, Paris, Egypt, India, Japan, Sydney and Green Hills along with the viewers.

## Appearance

Sonic is a blue-furred, mobian hedgehog with gloves and brown boots when he was a little child. He later dawns two different shoes, one being green Velcro shoes and the other being white-ish laced shoes.

After receiving a gift from Jojo, he wears two red Puma shoes with white straps over them, with the Puma logo being yellow.

He has a black stubby nose and a topaz (or peach) belly, muzzle and inner ears. He has blue legs, arms, a blue head and a blue tail. The same for his six, spiky quills he has on the back of his head, the two spines on his back and the small and pointy tail.

### Older Designs

In the first film's teaser poster, Sonic had muscular limbs and a enormous head. His red shoes and laces and he had no gloves. His head was similar to an actual hedgehog's head, having dotted, bulging green eyes and a muzzle pointing out along his nose.

In later posters (and the first trailer) of the first film, Sonic seemed smaller. He had a lot of human features, like his eyes, mouth (plus teeth), hands and other limbs. He had a small nose and a white belly and white hands (with fingernails). His inner ears were pink and he had the same shoes as his earlier design, with the exception of having white streaks bending.

### Other Designs

In *Around The World in 80 Seconds*, Sonic is colorless and has a rounder belly and connected eyes (similar to Sonic's design in other media), along with a bigger nose. His shoes are very pointy and similar to the shoes of Sonic's classic design.

## Abilities

* **Super Speed**: As pointed out various times in the first film, Sonic equips the extraordinary power to travel at enormous speeds. He can use this as a fight-or-flight response, either fleeing from dangerous things, or fighting them off knowing they will miss every hit they make.

* **Spindash**, a performance when Sonic charges at anything, but he is instead tuckered into a little ball. Upon hitting anything with this attack, the target will be electrocuted and/or even be blown up.
* **Electrical Blasts**: Sonic can emit energy blasts by reaching past his normal speed. When Sonic reaches this event, Sonic can shut down about 1,200 miles of electricity.

## Personality

Sonic is an energetic, comedic good-doer who runs as fast as his charm who is also adventurous and fun-loving, yet caring and fragile when it comes to friendship. He is a fan of action movies and describes Keanu Reeves as a "national treasure". He's also the impatient type, trying to make fun when he can't, sometimes he's protective and careful (which happens rarely) and mostly a joker, spitting out one-liners when ever he can.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* At one point in the movie, Sonic refers to himself as a "southpaw", indicating that he is left-handed.
	+ Later in the movie Sonic is seen assuming a right-handed batting stance and writes his bucket list with his right hand, meaning he could be ambidextrous.
* Sonic enjoys action films, as he quotes lines from *Speed* and the *Fast & Furious* films. He also regards Keanu Reeves as a national treasure.
* A couple of the things Sonic put on his bucket list are references to games in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series, such as "Find a genie lamp" (*Sonic and the Secret Rings*) and "Learn parkour" (*Sonic Lost World*).
* Sonic's line, "I'm wet, I'm cold, there's a fish on my head!" was written by actor Ben Schwartz to pay tribute to *Dumb and Dumber*, a cult classic film featuring Jim Carrey.
	+ Additionally, the line, "Perfect park!" was written as a reference to Ace Ventura, another character played by Jim Carrey, who was known for saying, "like a glove!" after completing a ridiculous (yet perfect) parking stunt.
* Sonic also appears to think highly of Dwayne Johnson, as one of his questions to Tom and Maddie (upon recovering from unconsciousness) was whether or not he was president.
* It can be assumed that Sonic's favorite dance is the Floss, as he is seen doing it twice. First as a victory dance after defeating Dr. Robotnik on the highway, and later on his bed after being given a new room and Tom and Maddie's house, effectively being adopted by them as he is allowed to stay at their house.
* Sonic wears Puma "Dare" shoes, gifted by Jojo.
* Sonic's early casting choices were: Tom Holland, Josh Gad, Chris Pratt, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, Will Forte, Jim Parsons, Charlie Day, Paul Rudd and Adam Devine
* He normally uses his rings only for serious use

## Sources

1. Sonic Fandom Wiki
2. Wikipedia
3. IMDB

## References

1. ↑ Jeff Fowler about a Sonic sequel. *YouTube*. Will King (17 February 2020). Retrieved on February 25, 2020.