Hyper Sonic

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**Hyper Sonic** is a transformation that appears in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series. It is the Hyper State of Sonic the Hedgehog, achieved by harnessing the power of the seven Super Emeralds, the enhanced versions of the Chaos Emeralds.

## Appearance

Hyper Sonic looks virtually identical to Super Sonic, sharing the same body proportions and raised quills. However, instead of a golden hue, Sonic's body rapidly flashes in pink/bright red, sky blue, lime green, yellow, white and violet - the same colors as the Chaos/Super Emeralds. He also has large flashing sparks floating around him. When moving, he leaves several after-images.

## Powers & Abilities

As Hyper Sonic, Sonic possesses abilities that far surpass his normal ones. Hyper Sonic is an incredibly powerful transformation, apparently even more so than Super Sonic. His incredible strength allows him, during gameplay, to plow through walls the normal Sonic would not be able to destroy without a Spin Dash (except for walls intended for Knuckles). His strength and speed surpass even the likes of Super Sonic, who can reach speeds approaching the speed of light, and harm powerful, deadly beings like Perfect Chaos, the Time Eater, and Solaris. Unlike in his traditional Super State, Hyper Sonic can also breathe underwater, and perform a devastating attack that will destroy all enemies on-screen (except bosses), and, depending on its usage, allows him to gain more speed or height, similar to the Homing Attack.

## Weaknesses

As with similar transformations, Hyper Sonic uses tremendous amounts of energy and it is maintained by consuming Ring Energy. Upon running out of this energy, Sonic will revert back to normal.

## Trivia

* Hyper Sonic's name comes from the term hypersonic, which is a speed above supersonic (which is defined as any speed Mach 5 or greater).
* Takashi Iizuka does not believe there is any possible way for Sonic to become Hyper Sonic anymore, giving the explanation why *Sonic 3 & Knuckles* is its only appearance in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* franchise.
* Much like his Super State, when Sonic is in his Hyper State, due to the hardware limitations of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, certain objects glow in the same colors he is in due to using shared palettes, such as various Flickies and Item Boxes, as well as his life icon in the bottom left of the HUD.
* Like with Tails and Knuckles, if the player turns into Hyper Sonic with S in Debug Mode, when the level ends and quickly turn back into a box, the name "Sonic" in "Sonic Got Through Act 1/2" turns into Hyper Sonic's colors.
* Hyper Sonic can also be used in *Sonic & Knuckles*, though only by breaking an S monitor in Debug Mode, itself being only usable in the game by performing a glitch in *Sonic 3 & Knuckles*. However, he still works as normal.
* In the files of *Sonic Mania* concerning Special Stages, the word "Hyper" can be found. This could mean Hyper versions of characters as seen from *Sonic 3 & Knuckles* were planned but were scrapped during development.
* Ian Flynn pitched Hyper Sonic to be the form used to battle The End in *Sonic Frontiers.* In this original pitch, Sonic would have initiated the transformation by calling out to the will of all the Ancients and Koco left in Cyber Space, absorbing the remaining energy to transform his Super State into Hyper Sonic. However, this idea was rejected.
	+ Although the pitch was rejected, one of Sonic's lines from it would be kept. As such, in the final game, Sonic still calls upon the Ancients for help prior to his battle with The End.
	+ It is also possible that Super Sonic 2 may have been a retool of this idea, and a potential reference to Hyper Sonic.