Sonic: What If?

***Sonic: What If?*** is The Sega Scourge's second long-running Sonic the Hedgehog series on his YouTube channel, beginning its run in the wake of the Sonic Theorist's final episode. In his own words, The Sega Scourge believed that he was 'running out of material' with which to make videos to his standard of quality, and the amount of time and effort he was pouring into each episode was not balanced with the returns he got in viewer engagement. Inspired by other 'What If' channels and series' on YouTube (particularly within the anime community, with MasakoX's Dragon Ball What Ifs being cited as a particular inspiration), *Sonic: What If?* aims to construct new narratives around twisting the Sonic series around a given catalyst. These kinds of questions are addressed by the show and each episode is presented via direct narration from The Sega Scourge himself running through the events of a given part of these new stories.

Unlike some other What If shows on YouTube, *Sonic: What If?* is less themed around the 'audio drama' format due to it's inclusion of custom artwork for each instalment that acts as a visual aide to accompany the narration, custom music and voice acting is also included as part of some episodes. Since it's start in October of 2019, the show has received multiple visual updates in the form of custom backdrops and an animated intro sequence featuring an original song by Freen In Green, sampling the lyrics from Sonic Adventure 2's theme song 'Live and Learn'.

### Waves and Polls

Waves are the unofficial term used to group episodes of Sonic: What If? together, grouping together instalments of the series based on the production order decided by Polls. On The Sega Scourge's YouTube Community tab, Polls are used to determine which stories have their next episodes made in what order. The first Poll went live after the first four What If? series had been revealed, allowing fans to choose which story they were most interested in first - after all the episodes included on the poll had been released, the next one went live and thus the cycle was established.

## List of What Ifs

> *Main article: List of What Ifs*
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## Episodes

**WAVE 1**
 *What If E-102 Gamma Survived? Part 1* | February 1st 202O

#### Poll Stats

* *What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form? Part 3:* **30%**
* *What If Emerl Survived? Part 2:* **6%**
* *What If Sonic Lost His Memory? Part 2:* **50%**
* *What If E-102 Gamma Survived? Part 2:* **6%**
* Unnamed Espio What If (later revealed to be *What If Espio Trained With Master Zik?*): **8%**

**WAVE 2**
 *What If E-102 Gamma Survived? Part 2* | June 21st 2020

#### Poll Stats

* *What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form? Part 4:* **21%**
* *What If Emerl Survived? Part 4:* **13%**
* *What If Sonic Lost His Memory? Part 3:* **49%**
* *What If Gamma Survived? Part 3:* **6%**
* *What If Espio Was Trained By Master Zik? Part 2:* **11%**

**WAVE 3**
 *What If Gamma Survived? Part 3* | February 1st 2021

#### Poll Stats

* *What If Sonic Never Lost The Werehog Form? Part 6:* **18%**
* *What If Sonic Lost His Memory? Finale:* **50%**
* *What If Espio Was Trained By Master Zik? Part 3:* **6%**
* *Unnamed Miles "Tails" Prower What If:* **9%**
* *Unnamed Metal Sonic What If:* **18%**

**WAVE 4**
 *What If Espio Was Trained By Master Zik? Part 3* | TBA