How Do The Sonic Movies Handle The Themes Of The Games?

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There may be no video game franchise more controversial than the ongoing adventures of the blue hedgehog known for running very fast. Sonic fans are amongst the most hardcore devotees in the modern media ecosystem, crossing over into every other fanbase and putting their stamp on every art media one could imagine.

The early Sonic the Hedgehog games were hallmarks of the 90s and are generally held in higher regard than the Blue Blur's modern output to this day. Those games had several interesting hallmarks in their gameplay, but they also featured unique storytelling efforts. Limited to background details and informational guides in the game boxes, Sega had to tell its story in unusual ways.

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The three Sega Genesis entries in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise set the tone for its 31-year-history. Sonic does battle with the evil Dr. Robotnik, running through intricate stages and smashing whatever machinery gets in his way. Fans of the early games will recall that every destroyed robot reveals an animal that once presumably animated its various gears and systems. Dr. Eggman's general quest to take over the world is punctuated by the much more direct evil of enslaving adorable woodland creatures to act as low-cost batteries. Eggman is the only human being depicted in those early games, so he easily stands in for mankind as a force. For his part, Sonic is referred to in a variety of in-game and otherwise official sources as a «freedom fighter.» It's not exactly An Inconvenient Truth, but the central plot of Sonic the Hedgehog and its first few sequels concerns the battle between natural beauty and the evil consumption of greed.

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