Although this sense of humor has died down in the past few years, the titular hedgehog in Sonic Boom is almost like a blue Deadpool the way he jokes about himself and the franchise he's in. This can be seen in every aspect of the character from the time, even extending to the Sonic Twitter account. In the 2010s, after a decade of games that failed to meet a lot of fans expectations, the Sonic brand made a hard left turn into self-deprecating meta humor. This version of Sonic was more of an episodic comedy, and the style of humor was very meta. Sonic Boom is mostly remembered for the notoriously buggy video game on Wii U that was meant to serve as a tie-in to the cartoon, but the cartoon fared much better. But that doesn't mean the high points of this show can't be appreciated. Robotnik in other shows) in Sonic Prime! Everything is coming full circle.Īdmittedly, this is the only Sonic TV show this author didn't grow up with, so the lack of nostalgia for it almost makes for an unfair comparison. Besides being one of the original English voices of Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z back in the day, Drummond is also returning to the world of Sonic as the new voice of Eggman (previously named Dr. This show also marks the first animated appearance of the character Knuckles, who in this show is voiced by Brian Drummond. The only reason it ranks above Adventures is that the sheer amount of 90s pop culture influence can make it a charmingly nostalgic viewing experience. As you can tell, this show is aggressively 90s. In addition to the royalty element, Sonic Underground is also a musical show with each Sonic sibling playing their own instruments to form a rock band. If you hear the intro once you won't be able to get it out of your head for the next 20 years. The show follows Sonic as he teams up with his brother Manic and sister Sonia, as they try to find their mom. In Sonic Underground, the backstory is that Sonic is a child who was separated from his Queen mother and two siblings when he was baby thanks to some kind of vague prophecy. The plot of this iteration resembled nothing from any of the Sonic games, comics, or past cartoons besides the fact that it had a similar art direction and that Sonic was present. If you watched this at the right age, was it awesome? No - it was rad.ĭid you know that Sonic has a sister and a brother? Well he doesn't! Except in Sonic Underground. Do the memes that came from it make it worth it? Totally. And it made you laugh! That's the real magic of this Sonic adaptation - it's excellent as an introduction to the world of cartoons and slapstick humor. You go home, pop it into the boxy VCR and sit back with way too much candy and watch something that you never knew existed. Along those off-yellow shelves next to a litany of Pokémon and Disney VHS tapes, you see your favorite video game character. However, picture this: The year is 2002, you're 5 years old, and your parents take you to Blockbuster. Robotnik, there isn't much similarity in this television series to the games, and the jokes aren't amazing. It's not exactly the same, but it follows some sound logic. It makes sense - Sonic's "way too cool" 90s attitude taped onto a super snarky Bugs Bunny type of character who always wins, works. So, the decision was made to make Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog similar to a Looney Tunes show. The first show based on the Sonic games, 1993's Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, didn't exactly hit the ground running with only the first two games out and not much else official material to work off of.
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