#Sonic underground characters series

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.

#Sonic underground characters series

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.