The Sonic Universe Explained In Under 10 Minutes

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Ай бұрын

Sonic the Hedgehog started off as a pretty simple concept but I'm sure many people have fallen off from the series from time to time. Let's do a recap! 32 years of Sonic lore in one video.
Disclaimer: This video does not include from lore spinoff games, comics, TV series, or movies
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Music:
Sonic Frontiers - Ouranos Island
Sonic Unleashed - Apotos (Day)
Sonic Adventure 2 - Masters of the Desert
Sonic Adventure - Tricky Maze (Lost World)
Shadow the Hedgehog - Broken
Sonic and Knuckles - Lava Reef Zone Act 1
Sonic CD - Stardust Speedway (Bad Future)
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Final Boss
Sonic Adventure - Strain
Sonic Adventure - Open Your Heart
Sonic Adventure 2 - Supporting Me
Sonic Adventure 2 - Live and Learn
Sonic Heroes - Final Fortress
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - His World (Instrumental)
Sonic Unleashed - Arid Sands (Day)
Sonic Colors - Planet Wisp Act 1
Sonic Generations - Death Egg Robot (White Space)
Sonic Generations - Skill Shop
Sonic Lost World - Dr. Eggman Showdown
Sonic Forces - Justice (Park Avenue)
Sonic Frontiers - Kronos Island 3rd Movement
Sonic Frontiers - I'm with you
Sonic Frontiers (Final Horizon) - I'm Here Final Boss

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@TheMentok Ай бұрын

Should I make this experiment a full series? This was a challenge for me because I like including every detail. 😅(I know I missed spinoffs, movies, tv shows and comics)

@loafyishere Ай бұрын

You should

@shattershock1234 Ай бұрын

Yea

@HIPHOPHER Ай бұрын

Yes! Please!

@EBTheOriginalMaster Ай бұрын

The Mario Universe Explained in Less Than 10 Minutes

@LoquenderoInazuma Ай бұрын

Yes, it was nice :)

@MrSpoodersaurus Ай бұрын

Sonic games: Blue Hedgehog that runs fast. Sonic Lore: Ancient Aliens and Gods

@SonicYT-ce6kr Ай бұрын

Then sonic frontiers: most powerful hedgehog

@bensims6796 3 күн бұрын

Sonic abel to beat some said gods. And becomes more than just a hedgehog that run fast… He is now! A blue hedgehog that runs faster than light and is at multiverse level type feats.

@cpwcomputerplayerwill Ай бұрын

I cannot believe you managed to cover every major plot point in just 10 minutes

@androgamerzx389 28 күн бұрын

It's 9 minutes

@Mr.MR2111 26 күн бұрын

Except whatever Emerl was, but ok who cares about Sonic Battle

@Apro101 21 күн бұрын

Bro had to summarize in sonic speed

@Kibui Ай бұрын

This batshit insane lore is unironically part of why I love this franchise so much

@Prince_Dracula Ай бұрын

It’s not that insane for a game about a blue hedgehog that runs at sonic speeds. The fact that there’s lore at all is what’s surprising. Mario could never be this interesting

@randomdoctorsstudios142 Ай бұрын

@@Prince_Dracula Clearly you’ve never played Super Mario galaxy paper Mario 64 paper Mario the thousand year Door Super paper Mario Bowser’s inside story.

@Brianna-eo8nu Ай бұрын

The lore going chronologically from ancient alien races and god to funny hedgehog going fast is so hilariously jarring.

@flaviapederzini Ай бұрын

I'm shookened to my core that you managed to make this. I didn't even believe that making one cohesive sonic timeline could be possible. My compliments to you man, really well done

@TheMentok Ай бұрын

This took a few re-writes but I admit, it was fun condensing all this lore down! Would love to make more videos like these in-between my bigger projects.

@chaosspider5765 Ай бұрын

@TheMentok now do this again but with all the spin-offs, including different versions of games like sonic 1&2 8-bit

@Contenwtdeketedd Ай бұрын

@@chaosspider5765 no bcuz they will recomplicate the timeline The 8bit games arent even canon or made by sonic team Riders trilogy is canon excluding free riders cuz its garbage I think sonic chaos could be canon

@TheBLUEM64 Ай бұрын

You made everything sound so simple.

@BrothaKyo Ай бұрын

That was needed actually. I never actually thought that Infinite is DEAD dead. Thank you.

@GangstaCrab Ай бұрын

shit has gone wild since sonic and knuckles

@haonneogip4740 Ай бұрын

Emerl, the 4th greatest civilization, and Mother Wisp: "Am I a joke to you?" But seriously, this is actually very thorough, yet so simple! Awesome work!

@lightyoshiman Ай бұрын

its funny too because Emerl's back story is completely skipped over even though it lead's to some important moments in the sonic lore, why the knuckles clan wanted the emeralds so badly that they'd defile a sacred land and why gun started to fear gearlds work so much they'd raid the arc leading up to the shadow story

@haonneogip4740 Ай бұрын

While I disagree on the bit about the Knuckles clan (what with Chronicles not considered canon and there being a 1,000 year difference between Emerl's creators and the Knuckles clan), I wholeheartedly agree on how he ties into the ARK's lore. He also directly ties into Sonic Advance 3 and by extension IDW, with Gemerl being made using Emerl as a template.

@AngelPerez-tu1nk Ай бұрын

It's funny and awesome how a game about a fast Blue Hedgehog fighting a más scientist basically turned into Dragon Ball with anthropomorphic characters.

@emerald_playz9211 15 күн бұрын

For. Real

@Drydoctor-qo5wt Ай бұрын

The fact that you made every game in the series sound good while also covering EVERY SINGLE PLOT POINT. Is insane

@kamothe1 Ай бұрын

Dark Gaia looks like Emerald Weapon from Final Fantasy VII. Excellent work as always, Mentok. Looking forward to your insight on other material as I constantly learn dope shit each video.

@TheMentok Ай бұрын

Thank you sir for your dedicated viewership 🖖😆

@kamothe1 Ай бұрын

@@TheMentok 😂 just waiting on FF content, specifically FFIX

@ZechOfTheWest Ай бұрын

Weeeeelllll, there's technically the side stuff that ties in, like Sonic Rush [Blaze], and Sonic advance [Cream]. But yeah for the mainline games, spot on. Would like to see side game lore next. As it's just as crazy.

@scul40928 Ай бұрын

One bit of correction, Sonic doesn't live on South Island, he was born on Christmas Island, then when he was young, he decided to use his Biplane, the tornado, to travel the world. During one of the travels, before the events of Sonic 1, he encounters Eggman, and decides to pout a stop to his plans for world domination.

@TheMentok Ай бұрын

Good point and I considered leaving that in but the Christmas Island thing being canon these days is questionable. But I agree I could have used better word choice than "lives".

@Chayusuizai 12 сағат бұрын

@@TheMentok can you make a video of the Christmas island, first time hearing this

@JonyPlayz1 Ай бұрын

Great video! You really managed to explain well everything and somehow organize the lore as confusing as it is lol

@SonicAndShadowFanYT Ай бұрын

I actually think the final horizon is the cannon one it just makes a lot more sense

@ghostspider2056 Ай бұрын

Left out the lore concerning Blaze and her world, the Babylonians, the story book series and the Rival series.

@TheMentok Ай бұрын

Yeah, I know I missed a few games. Decided to stick to the major plot points to keep things simple. I would have otherwise named it "The Entire Sonic Universe Explained in Under 10 Minutes" 😂 It was hard giving Blaze the cut since she's in my top 5 character list. I'm down to do this format again with the spinoff games/other plotlines I missed

@ghostspider2056 Ай бұрын

@@TheMentok Fair enough, if it’s just the major ones than it’s understandable since some of the ones I mentioned were kind of spin-offs. If you do decide to redo with all of them, hopefully Mephiles’ involvement at least gets a mention.

@TheBobasbro Ай бұрын

Having just learned there is a wholesome ending to the last game with Dr. Eggman learning the value of caring for someone and Sonic is able to focus on finding future personal growth. Dr. Eggman does deserve a War Crimes trial at the bare minimum tho, his crimes were global and near genocidal multiple times, but still, warms my heart to see that sick SOB liking the idea of being a Dad, not a Dictator.

@ShinGoji1987Official Ай бұрын

Very impressive work explaining all the main events in such a short time!

@pupulauls 9 күн бұрын

with the release of Sonic Superstars I believe they’ve not only backed out of the two dimensions (classic and modern) a while ago, but now recently backed out of Generations creating a split timeline that leads to Mania and Forces which I believed for a while. Now Sega is saying that Mania happens after Sonic 3&K, and Superstars is sometime in between Mania and Adventure

@LRM5195 Ай бұрын

Good thing people don’t play Sonic for the story lmao 🤣 this is so convoluted but at the same time it’s nice that they’re also experimenting and trying new things and just having fun with it :)

@SSB_Gogeta9001 Ай бұрын

The storybook games are underrated

@masterreece1098 Ай бұрын

i like how you just go straight to the point and dont overcomplicate the lore, great vid dude

@imnotkaizo Ай бұрын

This is amazing man!! It’s insane how you fit the most important parts of the lore all right here in 10 minutes

@Dork.. Ай бұрын

So basically, egg-man never gives up

@bettynug Ай бұрын

This is awesome, thanks for making it!

@HamzinaGalina Күн бұрын

Sonic team: uuh... yeah, that's *exactly* what is the lore of Sonic is.

@Nothavinit00 Ай бұрын

Excellent Work. I'm always paying attention to lore, and you covered all the bases flawlessly.

@CarlThePirateYT Ай бұрын

This is the best Sonic lore video I've seen. Great job!

@Fafaboi Ай бұрын

This was a pretty good explanation on universe of Sonic the hedgehog Well I don't know why people say That's Sonic 4 is where they got their modern look when adventure exists Now Sonic 4 is not cannon since people don't like that game and it's not even finished because episode 3 never happened and was abandoned 12 years ago but I do respect the theory as to what others they're trying to do

@zombiesouffle Ай бұрын

Fast paced, informative, and entertaining! Great video~☆

@Kumlord Ай бұрын

Well done. Would love to see more vids like this

@johnpett1955 Ай бұрын

I find it hilarious how you pointed out that Chip gives Sonic the bracelet, and then you never see it again.

@Vrabsher_-Supreme_Perhinther- Ай бұрын

I think Sonic keeps it somewhere safe in a locker in one of Tails' houses .

@Ericdj15 5 күн бұрын

Best video ever for sonic lore this is insanely good!

@therandomvideochannel8589 Ай бұрын

this is the BEST mainline sonic game timeline video

@Wolfcam96 Ай бұрын

You have earned a subscriber! Amazing work man and I hope to see more videos like this in the future! :)

@seiyaz6657 Ай бұрын

Incredible how you did this! I just want to see another video like this but with IDW comics lore!

@SonicTheCosplayer Ай бұрын

This was actually accurate af and incredibly well made! I'd watch more of these with other mediums!

@ladyhitchhikerjackmanson8097 Ай бұрын

Thank you! This helped a lot!

@Bruh89006 Ай бұрын

MAN THIS VIDEO WAS SO GOOD!!! I imagine a video like this with all the other Spin-Offs games (GameGear saga, DS saga, GBA saga, and others), the IDW comics and Sonic Prime, would be wild.

@SoranotRoxas 20 күн бұрын

I need a *"really long video all about Sonic the Hedgehog"* at some point, but this is still good 👍. You did great explaining here

@CookieKing42085 29 күн бұрын

after watching this, I realized how the movies and the shows aline with the Lore and I think I can predict the new sonic movie

@valmid5069 Ай бұрын

Cant wait for more content!!!

@TeesaT555 27 күн бұрын

This made me love n understand everything about Sonic even more 💙

@ProjectNB 2 күн бұрын

In the Classic timeline, Sonic actually failed to collect the time stones because eggman had the last one, therefore mania shows little planet still conquered by eggman.

@ozzbozz3813 Ай бұрын

5:04 a pissed of person from the future that is definitely not named trucks

@kay_glo Ай бұрын

Wow, thanks for doing this

@JMXico Ай бұрын

This was very insightful since i always treat most sonic games like their own story. Thank you

@TheMentok Ай бұрын

Making this video I realized this timeline is not all that crazy when you don't sweat the details too much.

@user-el2pm2um1h 13 күн бұрын

and breathe… great vid mate

@OkaySunrise Ай бұрын

This is literally exactly what I’ve been looking for for like months holy shit

@zwaywest9445 Ай бұрын

It makes sense. It finally makes makes sense. It makes sense to me.

@studior2962 28 күн бұрын

The Sonic lore can be summed up as “Because Eggman”

@aklekq Ай бұрын

just a tiny correction! • sonic doesn't live on south island, he's actually from a unknown island called "christmas island". and since he got out of there, he's being living as a nomad, always traveling freely

@evdestroy5304 Ай бұрын

He was *born* on Christmas Island. He lives on South Island.

@aklekq Ай бұрын

@@evdestroy5304 nope! he doesn't have a home, he doesn't live anywhere

@evdestroy5304 Ай бұрын

@aklekq Just because he doesn't have a home doesn't mean he doesn't live on South Island. It's a whole ass island, and there's more than just one spot.

@giasca 27 күн бұрын

I'm very new to the franchise and I have to say that this lore recap was very useful! Thanks. At least I know the jist of it

@Jpdclan 3 күн бұрын

I just realised that chaos looks like the ancients

@Miju001 Ай бұрын

Now THIS is a good video

@shypeoplearehawt8155 29 күн бұрын

👍😊Always doing the Lord True Justice when the explanations is quick precise very accurate

@kingdedede584 Ай бұрын

You definitely need to do this again 😍

@CJ_IceCissalc 15 күн бұрын

This is GOLD content! Magnificent. Even makes me want to play games that I’ve skipped due to not being appealing to me (Sonic’06 and Forces). Just wish you’d squeezed in the story books ones (Wildfire and Black Knight) they are great games for me.

@ozzbozz3813 Ай бұрын

7:32 people loved this game yes, 'loved'

@WchannelYT Ай бұрын

Great video

@chrismaystar3014 Ай бұрын

If the subtext about Sonic being the ancients' god is true, then it's kinda funny that humanity twice over recreated him before he was born.

@PayForViewsJST 21 күн бұрын

I once sat down friend who is a fan of kingdom hearts and told him the entirety of the sonic franchise lore including the chaos Emeralds lore and the split timeline theory before the retcon. And he Told me how can I think kingdom hearts is confusing knowing all this? I told him its like breathing I don't think about.

@kitbct1444 Ай бұрын

Very impressive you pulled this off. This makes the Zelda timeline seem simple by comparison.

@MrCrowjones Ай бұрын

The Goku yell 💀💀💀💀 3:10

@Opdudall Ай бұрын

This actually makes sense

@prettymuchmemes9735 Ай бұрын

love this vid ima sub

@TheMentok Ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@Waderboi2005 Ай бұрын

Dang that’s crazy how you manage to make the entire timeline

@Neo6lur 9 күн бұрын

You should definitely do this again.

@oluyomilael 23 күн бұрын

alot of people dont know witch ending to frontiers is canon but in a twitter takeover sonic said a quote amoug the lines of " oh I change my answer my favorite to fight was the end teaming up with my freids, eggman and sage to take a narsasitict planet down was legendary" in the og ending sonic did not team up with his buddies only sage and eggman so I guess final horizon is the canon one kinda off topic but I wanted to say anyway

@shypeoplearehawt8155 29 күн бұрын

👍🤩I don't know about anyone else out there however I absolutely love these very quick Lore minutes explain vids

@ominicronikal0902 Ай бұрын

Wow. Just. Wow. I am extremely impressed

@purpwl 29 күн бұрын

this lowkey explains a lot

@user-fh7di8st6l Ай бұрын

oh crazy lore

@Chitose_ Ай бұрын

heh, there are a lot of powerful gemstones in the sonic franchise

@ColdHighway7 Ай бұрын

This was good. Curious if you could do the Sonic universe in the Archie comics in that same amount of time

@alis7763 29 күн бұрын

Super sonic 2 They're not hiding it at this point

@DocBloc87 Ай бұрын

At 3:35 you mention that Sonic turns super to defeat Robotnik again, except that would be Hyper Sonic... I know it's minor, but I do feel the need to point it out considering the significance of the transformation on the series as a whole. Game Apologist has great videos on the subject if anyone is interested!

@ThatSonicFanBoy Ай бұрын

I hope Dark Gaia doesn’t destroy Earth in 10,000 years!

@AquaBlueTea 17 күн бұрын

Sonic 2 takes place before CD. Literally confirmed by Naoto Ohshima himself no matter what Origins and Ian Flynn claim. Also you mention 06 (even tho it’s really not suppose to be canon anymore but for some reason is treated as such) but not the Rush games (where Blaze is introduced into canon) or the Rivals games (which properly reintroduces Silver into the canon). Other than that, good video mate

@PeacefulBoi 11 күн бұрын

0:22 “ it explodes” why did bro say it like you was used to it?

@Axlx777 Ай бұрын

Cool video man, but can u please tell me where u found that sick super Sonic picture in the thumbnail? Whats it calledddd

@TheMentok Ай бұрын

Yeah! It's from the Japanese official Sonic website. they post cool art all the time. I have a link to that Twitter post in the description if you want to check them out.

@Axlx777 Ай бұрын

@@TheMentok Thanks bro. And again awesome video. Loved the entire explanation! Just subbed

@labron._ 3 күн бұрын

Thanks to Akira Toriyama we have Sonic the hedgehog 🤝

@AkumetsuOne 12 күн бұрын

Hey love the story, but can you share the order of game, so i can play chronologically or where can i find it?

@alikhangg_tv Ай бұрын

I know you briefly meontioned Mania but I think it deserves something. And the Mania lore is straight on point: Sonic and Tails see that Eggman is doing something on the Angel Island after that they go there to stop him the Eggrobos with The Phantom Ruby take them into the past while the Eggrobos got personalities. Sonic and Tails beat Eggman and Eggrobos a bunch of times and in the end Eggrobos betray Eggman but the Ruby teleported Sonic to Sonic Forces. After Forces Classic goes back to Mania but Encore mode. Which is just a restart with Ray and Mighty. In the end everyone is just chilling and eating Ice cream. Oh, and Superstars. Eggman pays Fang the Hunter to get all the BIG animals while they encounter Trip. And Trip goes with them. Sonic, Tails and Amy see that Eggman is doing something and fly to the NorthStar Islands to stop him. Meanwhile Knuckles notices something is with the Master Emerald and it tells Knuckles to go to the Northstar Islands.Trip meets Amy they become *besties* then Fang wants to go in his mech but SUDDENLY Trip goes Super and BUSTS the thing. Then they go into space to destroy eggman's space base. They destroy it.

@alikhangg_tv Ай бұрын

The Trip's story: She lives on her island. Then there's Eggrobos and we go through the Campaign again. But at the end there's an egg that you can enter as Super Sonic and beat the Final Dragon. AND THIS IS WHERE WE GET TO THE GAME THEORY: This Dragon may be a Trip's relative. Oh and it was in the promotioal video for Superstars: The Trio of Trouble. BUT HEY THAT'S JUST A THEORY A GAME THEORY

@matthewmccoyd2578 Ай бұрын

How it started: Hehe stop egg boi. How it's going. *YOU STAND AGAINST THE END OF ALL THI--*

@Jumblefate 23 күн бұрын

shadow’s existence came before classic sonic defeated egan for the first time?

@erwinljungberg6318 Ай бұрын

Excellent video but I cant say the same for the Sonic lore Sonic has potential to be the best platformer even better than Mario but Sonic haft to combine elements from many games in the sonic series in order to create the perfect formula

@ozzbozz3813 Ай бұрын

8:51 ok, now you aint even tryna hide it. spiker hair. electricity around. stronger. bruh

@SomeGuylGuess Ай бұрын

Quick correction: mania is in fact canon to the main timeline!

@nuraolblast1721 Ай бұрын

oh my, i wonder if someone wrote a fanfic to fill all the plotholes

@FLlin3s_mewsic Ай бұрын

Bro explained 3 generations in 9 minutes 💀

@SpiderusPrime Ай бұрын

Yes do it again, but with Mario.

@shangothrax Ай бұрын

Loved it. Been a Sonic fan my entire life, but kinda lost the plot after the 2D games...

@amazingboi9388 7 күн бұрын

the storybook games are canon bro

@shadicboi4007 Ай бұрын

uh oh bro forgot Sonic Mania (I'm just kidding, this summary was actually perfect and short and simple, if i wanted to know sonic lore from no knowledge at all this would clear up everything)

@itzdcx7991 Ай бұрын

I know I'm nit-picking that's actually not Earth they always tend to change the planet that they're on in each game or media and they never give make story canonically connected which is frustrating to follow but if you read the comics they would literally tell you that Sonic on Earth cus he gets transported their 😅