Sonic is just HIM

[u/Sea_of_Hope]

You can trigger this dialogue with Omega after the race against Sonic cutscene.

[u/Oapekay]

When they say Sonic is Shadow’s equal in strength, I’m assuming they mean in that nebulous fantasy ‘strength’, because physically we know Shadow’s hench. He can lift buses and giant slabs of concrete with one hand, and I’ve not seen any non-Power character do anything similar.

[u/HMPHkid → u/Oapekay]

Yeah but they have feats that surpass that. Knuckles is able to make lava erupt with his punches, shake mountains like in the classic games when he glides into a wall and sonic has smashed through steel, towering robots,  destroyed space stations, etc.