#needsmorepony

YOU CAN GET FLYING PIKACHU WITH THE POKEWaLKER IN THE THUNDER FOREST OR W/E IT'S CALLED

SO YEAH

There’s also the fact that Sonic goes “Shadow, are you out of your mind?” within the fight, I got to hear it for myself when I did it omfg.

Well said.

Thank you. I guess I'm just like trying to present it logically because...idk. There are people who like every Sonic game produced, then there are people like me who absolutely love some and then just like some ideas in others, and then there are those who want to stick with their old/new games. And with these different types of fans there tends to be confusion on what's going on.

True, but not sure Sonic team actually cares about plot consistency between games that much. I mean, maybe I missed the explanation, but wasn’t Blaze originally from another world? And suddenly in Sonic 06 she’s from the future. Food for thought.

She's still in another world. Sonic 06 isn't actually canon; it's a reboot of the entire series that fell flat.

A lot of Sonic fans try to oversimplify it, which is probably where the confusion comes from -- but each series of games actually has its own separate continuity, and this was even explained by SEGA themselves at Sonic Boom 2012 (which I attended and I know someone who attended the same event who can indeed verify what I am saying here). Sonic Adventure 1, Sonic Adventure 2, Heroes, and Shadow are their own continuity. Sonic 1, Sonic 2, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles are another continuity. Sonic 06 is a standalone continuity. Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations, and the upcoming Sonic Lost World (whose cutscenes I have already watched) are from yet another continuity. Sonic the Comic is its own continuity (by Fleetway), and Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog takes this a step further by making the separate continuities separate "Zones" within the universe that it is in, and making one the "prime Zone" (realistically, there is no prime Zone, but whatcanyado.) Sonic Boom (the TV show, not the event) is likely to be its own continuity as well. Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is its own continuity, SatAM is another. And who fucking knows what continuity the Sonic from the spin-off sport games and Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing is from. Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic and the Black Knight are also likely to be the same Sonic, so to speak. Sonic X is another continuity...and that about concludes that.

There's nothing wrong with blending these continuities, but the distinction between them has to be made in order for gaps in storylines to be fully understood. Think of them all as alternate universes of each other. Again, they can be taken to be along the same storyline (Sonic Colors, Generations, and Lost World are usually considered along the Sonic Adventure one, even though I'd rather not associate those three games with them), but ultimately character changes and back drop changes are made as a result of those continuity differences.

Sonic 06 is not the only game that Silver has appeared in, which is very important to note as there is actually two Silvers in existence (at least, game-wise; there are probably millions more in the Archie-verse for all I know). Silver from Sonic 06 is from a destroyed future, and he's going into the past to prevent it. The lesser known Silver is from Sonic Rivals, and in those games Silver's there for the purpose of hunting after Eggman Nega. Now this is where it gets confusing -- in Sonic Boom 2012, SEGA seemed to state that Eggman Nega was, like Blaze, from another dimension, and therefore was an AU!Eggman, just as Blaze is Sonic's mirror counterpart. (So apparently she's canon genderbend of Sonic? I DON'T KNOW JUST ROLL WITH IT.) So where exactly does Silver play into this?

I think the reason why they really wrote him into a rut is because of one ill-fated quote from him in Sonic Colors DS, which I can't give you word for word, but basically states that the future in Sonic Colors's timeline is perfectly fine. The way he talks about it is that it's beautiful and nothing bad has happened, which not only spoils all of Sonic's adventures in one swoop (he's obviously succeeded in preventing Eggman from fucking everything up) but also effectively gives Silver nothing to do. And what with Eggman Nega supposedly being from Blaze's dimension, it's a wonder firstly A) how he even met Blaze in this particular continuity, since in Sonic 06 it's explained they're childhood friends, and B) why he's pursuing Nega. Did Nega, for some reason, decide to go into the future? I suppose he did since Rivals had something to do with time travel as well--

SEGA please stop it with time travel it's not a good plot device for you you keep fucking it up

Anyway, plot consistency 'is' there to some degree? Sonic and the Black Knight does reference Sonic Adventure 2, but you would be right in that the consistency isn't very fluid, and it definitely isn't nearly as linear as some Sonic fans would like to make it out to be. Maybe they could rehash Silver's character? At the same time, though, I'm still doubting it. Every single game he's been in, he's been associated with time travel in some way. It seems to be like his shtick.