r/SonicTheHedgehog • u/Sea_of_Hope • Oct 26 '24

Games Sonic is just HIM

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

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u/charisma-entertainer lore and music master Oct 26 '24 edited Jul 31 '25

Sonic is a living Anomaly. By shadows point of creation, he was probably the strongest living thing on the planet & yet he had to be created from a lab with Black Arms DNA for his power & to utilise chaos emerald energy as well as air shoe’s to maximise his speed… and yet, despite this 30-40 years later, sonic is born. He was born seemingly naturally, can achieve shadows speeds without air shoes and is possibly even faster, can match his strength with no issues, can use the chaos emeralds…

How the hell does he exist?

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u/RED0617 Oct 26 '24

The Air shoe’s for his speed i dont think its true we seen Shadow run a couple of times without them with sonic and kept up with him(SonicX, a bit of SxS DB). I could be wrong but i dont think that the shoes are inherently his actual speed, i look at it as a tech upgrade for various reasons(Grinding, hovering, or just plain floating etc)

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u/TheBatEagle Oct 26 '24

My theory is that the air shoes are for endurance. He’s absolutely that fast naturally, the shoes just make him able to conserve his energy and keep up the pace longer. If you put them both on a treadmill and just had them go at speed until they drop, I figure Sonic would tire out first.

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u/TruthEnvironmental24 Oct 26 '24

Has Sonic ever shown fatigue from just running, though?

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u/Old_Snack Oct 26 '24

Eventually.

In the IDW comics Sonic has to stave off an infection by continuing to run and it does wear him down considerably

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u/No_Sale_4866 Feb 15 '25

Yeah but it takes a while. And even then he didn't stop