What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form?

**What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form?** is the first series under the *Sonic: What If?* umbrella.

## History

*What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form?*'s first part was uploaded on October 16th of 2019 roughly 1 year after the last entry in The Sega Scourge's previous main video series: *The Sonic Theorist*. As the first foray into a new style of content, *WI01* tackles a rather simple premise surrounding the popular one-off transformation featured in Sonic Unleashed: The Werehog.

## Premise

This What If diverges from the main timeline at some point towards the climax of *Sonic Unleashed*, when Dr. Eggman is putting together his plan to hypnotize the Dark Gaia Spawn across the planet and reform the full Dark Gaia. Remembering Chaos' insubordination, he not only prepares the spire that lured the Dark Gaia Spawn via electromagnetic frequencies and the Dark Gaia fusion furnace, but a device that would ensure that this godly being would remain under his control.

Later during Sonic's battle against the Egg Dragoon in his Werehog form, Eggman realizes that he has little chance of victory with his mech and unleashes his trump card: a controller linked to a mind control device affixed to Dark Gaia's head. Using this controller, Eggman summons the giant planetary god to do battle with Sonic and attack with 'all his strength'. This command makes Dark Gaia throw out constant attacks without re-absorbing it's essence within Sonic, and as such he never loses the Werehog transformation.

## Characters

### Heroes

* Sonic the Hedgehog (WI01) / Sonic the Werehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower (WI01)
* Knuckles the Echidna (WI01)
* Chip / Light Gaia (WI01)
* Caliburn (WI01)
* Nimue, the Lady of the Lake (WI01)
* Knights of the Round Table
	+ Sir Lancelot (WI01)
	+ Sir Gawain (WI01)
	+ Sir Percival (WI01)
* Cream the Rabbit (WI01)
* Silver the Hedgehog (WI01)
* Blaze the Cat (WI01)
* Rouge the Bat (WI01)
* Team Chaotix
	+ Vector the Crocodile (WI01)
	+ Espio the Chameleon (WI01)
	+ Charmy Bee (WI01)
* Big the Cat (WI01)
* Amy Rose (WI01)
* E-123 Omega (WI01)
* Shadow the Hedgehog (WI01)
* Classic Sonic (WI01) / Classic Sonic the Werehog
* Classic Tails (WI01)

### Villains

* Eggman Empire
	+ Doctor Eggman (WI01)
	+ Orbot (WI01)
	+ Cubot (WI01)
	+ Classic Eggman (WI01)

* Dark Gaia (WI01)
* King Arthur (WI01)
* Time Eater (WI01)
* Erazor Djinn (WI01)

### Other

* Merlina (WI01)
* Sir Marrok
* Jet the Hawk (WI01)
* Yacker (WI01)
* The Mother Wisp (WI01)
* Shahra (WI01)

## Episodes

### Reception

*What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form?* has been consistently well received and has placed well on community polls deciding the production order of What If episodes. Despite the seemingly simple premise, there are multiple instances of large collective requests and ideas among the fanbase such as the huge push of requests for Classic Sonic to receive a Werehog transformation in the eventual adaptation of Sonic Generations as well as clamour for an adaptation of Sonic and the Secret Rings despite the events of said game already having happened before Sonic Unleashed. Both of these far-reaching requests ended up going fulfilled in the long awaited Sonic Generations Arc.

Another example of this story's reception is found in the multitude of theories that have been supposed in the fanbase such as the 'Stage of Grief' theory, in which each story arc represents Sonic undergoing a stage of grief in the wake of his 'curse'. With it's ability to cause such large debates and exchanges of ideas, *WI01* has a prominent effect on the Sonic: What If? Community and is a well respected story loved by many fans.

## Trivia

* Being part of the first wave of *Sonic: What If?* episodes, *WI01* features the original pale blue backdrop for Parts 1 and 2.
	+ Part 3 features the Casino Night background, as with all the Wave 2 episodes minus Part 1 of *WI04*.
* *WI01* was the first series to feature animated clips of Sonic cutscenes to accompany the narration as well as custom images.
* In Part 4, The Sega Scourge states that Classic Sonic had never gone Super before the events of *Sonic Generations*, but this was retconned after the episode's release.
* This is the first What If? to have adapted the following games:
	+ *Sonic Unleashed*
	+ *Sonic and the Black Knight*
	+ *Sonic Colors*
	+ *Sonic Generations*