This has been the year of multiverse storytelling from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to Evelyn Quan Wang’s life in Everything Everywhere All at Once, so why not Sonic the Hedgehog too?
Sonic breaks Eggman’s mysterious paradox prism and thrusts himself into a world of hurt. The consequences of Sonic’s actions send him into a dystopian timeline, akin to the ‘93 Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, where no one knows who Sonic is and Eggman rules with an iron-gloved fist. But not everything is doom and gloom, because Sonic’s friends have some rather sick new designs.
When Sonic asks Tails why the hell his friends look so different, Tails drops some much-needed exposition that he and the rest of the gang hail from “shatter spaces,” The new dimensions come with new glow-ups for Sonic’s chums. Throughout the trailer, we get glimpses of a mad-scientist Doc-Oc looking Tails, a cyborg Amy with extendo-legs, Big the Cat in tribal garb, and Knuckles and his on-and-off girlfriend, Rouge, in slick militia get-up.
These got viewers thinking about some trends existing on multiverses as film themes and such. Cool idea, though.
This new animation not only serves as a nice change of pace from the animations in shows like Sonic X and Sonic Boom, but it also gives a neat tie-in to the concept of infinity. Sonic Prime is being jointly produced by Sega, WildBrain Studios, and Man of Action Entertainment, the folks behind Ben 10 and Big Hero 6, according to The Wrap. The show’s first season will have 8 episodes.
It premieres on Dec. 15 exclusively on Netflix.
Check the marvelous trailer here:
