Weird but True

Chapter Five (Sonic Edition!)

Sonic Edition! YAY!

1. Sonic Spinball Is the Only Sonic Game to Feature Characters From the Archie Comics Continuity

2. According to the sonic comic, Sonic’s speed and color are a result of a lab accident. According to the Sonic Comic series, Sonic had a weird lab accident involving a hamster wheel and some sneakers and this managed to give him blue fur and super speed. No, really! Sonic was supposedly a normal brown hedgehog until this accident took place

3. Sonic cannot swim due to mistaken information about real hedgehogs. When Sega first made Sonic, they were under the impression that hedgehogs couldn’t swim so they made Sonic drown if he stayed under water for too long. This, unfortunately, is not true.

4. Sonic is suicidal. Well, not in all games, but if you wait around long enough in Sonic CD, Sonic jumps off the ledge and kills himself. That’s dark, SEGA. That’s dark.

5. "Project Needlemouse" was the name given to the Sonic project.

6. Sonic's shoes were inspired by a combination of Santa Claus and the colour red for speed and fire.

7. Sonic originally had a girlfriend called Madonna and was in a rock band.

8. Between them, Sonic fans have collected over 70 billion rings between them.

9. Sonic was the first video game character to have a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

10. Sonic has made cameos in various games including, The Simpsons Game, The Incredible Hulk, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, and he also featured in the Simpsons show