Go to nordvpn.com/thepjshow to get the two year plan with an exclusive deal, PLUS 1 bonus month on top! It’s risk free with NordVPN’s 30 day money back guarantee! So, what did all of you guys think of Blaze as a character? Do you agree with me? Disagree? Leave comments below as I do my best to read and respond to as many as possible! As always, thanks for watching the video! Update: Many people are asking why I haven't spoken about Blaze in the Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog game, and the simple answer is that I still have not played the game. I haven't had the chance. But I do plan to play it for a video, as well as give it a dedicated analysis video. I also just wanted to say that I, along with many other Sonictuber's, made a special appearance in AceCardGaming's latest video. So why not go and check that out after you've watched this? It will be worth it. Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/isCKjMh8nseYpZ8.html

Blaze was also in Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. Where she was handled great and being kind of paired with Rouge instead of Silver was cool to see.

Kinda hard to believe that there is actually a Sonic character that stayed pretty consistent and didn't suffer any character degradation. Although her fear of heights contradicts her ability to fly lol.

One more thing to note about the idw comics is that in the 2022 annual, we actually get an interation between blaze and knuckles. And this interaction is frankly one of the best conversations in the comic run, as blaze opens up to knuckles about her conflictions with bieng the guardian of the sol emeralds. And knuckles, with all of his experience dealing with the master emerald, comforts her by showing that all of her work to defend her deminsion really does pay off, and that she should take some time for rest every now and then. The art is absolutely beautiful and the dialogue is yet another reason as to why I absolutely love this era of Ian Flynn writing.

to me Blaze was the best character since Shadow, I love that she's closed off compared to the other characters. Her barely appearing in the 2010s was more of a blessing than anything, now that we have writers who actually care about these characters I'd love to see her in future games.

I mean, She was Mentioned in Frontiers, this means the writers might be returning back to her

Blaze is the character I would love to see a spin-off game for. Basically sonic gameplay but she also has fire powers.

One thing I especially liked about Blaze is that, as a pyromancer, they didn't go the typical cliche route of giving her an explosive personality that fuels her fire powers. I like that her being so calm, cool, and collected is antithetical to what you'd expect out of someone who wields fire, but when you consider her backstory, and how fire does, it makes sense. ;)

A lack of appearances (while not great either) is certainly preferable than outright character assassination. i did like the IDW annual story of Blaze coming to Angel Island to ask Knuckles for advice, guardian to guardian. Something Rush should have done. Plus it provided an excuse to bring Blaze back to the story for the recent comic arc.

This is a common thing with characters who aren't Sonic , Amy, Tails, or Knuckles. Sega just plays it too safe by only giving the spotlight to the 4 characters I have listed. Even when they bring back certain characters they end up being underutilized.

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The director of Frontiers confirmed on a reply to someone who wants to play with Blaze and Espio that they plan to add more playable characters in the future so there is hope.

Blaze's backstory is one of the sins from the hellfire development period of 06. They originally were going to have a proper tie in for 06 referring back to Blaze from Rush, but it was one of the many things dropped during development. The fanbase typically headcanons her lore into 06 happened first, but since 06 gets a factory reset, Blaze instead gets born into the Sol dimension and life continues.

I think what happened in 06 is that Blaze got sent to Sonic's dimension but kept that fact a secret from Silver. When she was asking Silver to seal her in another dimension, she was really asking Silver to send her home. But yeah, idk how characters remember the events of 06 when technically none of it happened.

She deserves so much more than Sega ever has done with her, she’s the very first Sonic Character I ever knew, before even sonic himself, I remember her as far back as when I was just 4, when I was watching my dad play her storyline in sonic Rush, I’ve played Sonic Rush for 11 years just trying to beat the game and getting destroyed by the Egg King, and I will always hold her close as the one character who fought against the Egg King, the being that taught me to never give up, and Blaze taught me that I should never have to fight alone, I hope Sega brings her back someday, and give her more potential than anyone ever could, May she continue to Rush through the world of Sonic, in a blazing rush of an adventure…

Characters like Blaze and even Silver are characters that I have a problem with, not because they are not good characters, but it’s the fact that we rarely get to see them. Blaze is a princess from another dimension and Silver is from the future so it’s difficult to logically bring them into the story. I know that Silver was in Forces and his character got misrepresented there, but since that isn’t near the misrepresentation characters like Shadow or Tails had in the past couple years, he’s still salvageable (that feels like a weird way to say). And Blaze’s character hasn’t been ruined, but it’s hard to bring them into a story due to them being separated to such a large degree from the rest of the cast. I do love the characters, but I just hope that they do have more prominent roles in future games.

I saw a theory years ago that stated that Blaze's role in 06 is actually an imaginary friend for Silver, he's so isolated that he imagined up a friend. I think that's possibly the best explanation - if you look at the cutscenes you'll notice that no one ever interacts with her except Silver. everything she does is to help Silver, she's only there to act as his moral guidance and she's a lot more emotionally mature if that's the right term, she's just not the same character. obviously this wasn't their intention, it was just bad writing, but it's a good retroactive justification at least

Blaze is in my opinion the best female Sonic character. Excluding the Archie/DiC universe characters, she is the first tomboy, a princess, no less, in the series, which makes her probably inspired by Sally Acorn, and she was also Daisy's counterpart in the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series. Her debut in the Sonic Rush games really gave quite an impression as she was shown to be a badass who takes no guff from the likes of Eggman and Eggman Nega, and her going toe to toe with Sonic in the Dead Line boss fight really demonstrates that she's a very strong and skilled fighter. That said, I really hated what Sega did to Blaze cause she wasn't just underutilised, she was reduced to being a background character and having even less backbone than Amy, and I think a lot of that has to do with Sonic 06, because since that game, she's only seen as just another typical Sonic girl, and being Silver's "sidekick," and I use that term loosely, because it opens up so many plotholes like how they even met when she is from the Sol Dimension while Silver is from the future of Sonic's world, and putting them together almost every time in post games opens up the can of worms of whether 06 really happened or not. Some may theorise that the events of 06 took place before Sonic Rush, but I don't buy that, and retconning Eggman Nega to make him be from Silver's timeline really felt like a cop-out to explain Silver and Blaze's "friendship," which serves as no other purpose than to pander to the Silvaze shippers, who are really just a small fringe in the Sonic fandom. No offense to anyone who has no problem with Silver and Blaze as just friends, but either way, everything behind it just makes their interactions feel so forced and it overshadowed Blaze's other meaningful friendships with Sonic, Cream, and even Marine. All in all, Blaze is a character with so much potential, but was done dirty thanks to Sega's poor business practices and decisions and an obnoxious vocal minority who only want to see romance.

To be honest about Sonic 06 being canon, it feels like the writers have written an entirely different Sonic 06 story and made that canon, we may never know.

I would love Shadow and Blaze team up, since they both fit together so well! Both are introverted persons with fate of the world on their shoulders, combined with Shadow's quiet nature and knowledge of the rough past, and Blaze's stoicism and fight experience THEY'RE PERFECT TEAM! Tho I know they had meet in Archie Comics (and Shadow even apologizes to her and admits he was wrong....that's rare for Shadow nowdays) if I remember correctly, but I want another story with these two together.

The legend returns! I've wanted a Character Analysis on Blaze since I discovered your channel last year, thanks so much for making this!

Blaze is a character with a lot of potential still. It would be cool if we got another game that took place in her dimension since not much is known about it. Maybe even go into how the Sol Emeralds are connected to the Chaos Emeralds and heck, maybe even the Master Emerald. At least she’s still relevant in IDW. There’s even a short story where she goes to Knuckles for advice since she knows that he has a similar job to hers. Maybe now with SEGA becoming more experimental again, she’ll return in a future game. Also congrats on graduating.

I think we can all agree on how wasted Amy and Knuckles were in the Sonic Rush scenes. What annoys me the most is that it contradicts their personalities (In SA1, Amy promised to help all the people she could without the need to call Sonic for help, that is, to be independent, while in the game she continues with that joke "if you need help, call Sonic!". And Knuckles shouldn't be on earth to begin with)

I personally think that the confusion in Sonic Generations is that Blaze is from the Sol Dimension, but gets back the memories of an alternate timeline when it collides with the current one. I also believe that this is how Silver was pulled into the main timeline after he was erased in 06. He was pulled in because he had a battle with Sonic that the Time Eater felt like revisiting and so screwed with the timeline even more, which unintentionally reminded Blaze of her experiences in this alternate timeline, kind of like post-super genesis wave Archie Sonic.

I used to draw her a lot, just in original drawings. I think I still have Blaze as a mermaid drawing

I really thought I was the only one seeing how badly Blazes character has been getting killed off. Ever since Rush, she has always been my favorite character and it sucks to see her be destroyed like this

Ironically I think the whole Sonic getting sent to the Sol Dimension and losing his memories after he used a major power source could actually be some set up to the whole 06 Origin theory you mentioned. Perhaps because it’s a separate dimension, Blaze wasn’t completely affected by the time reset and only lost her memories which would allow her to start to remember crisis city in generations while still being the Sol Princess.

I'm a cat person and I like fire, so Blaze (and Percival) are easily my favorites. Shame I never got to play Rush

I can relate to Blaze so much due to her introverted nature. She manages to overcome her anxiety and distrust for others and slowly open up. Now that she knows Sonic and co. so well she can socialize with them no problem. Vid title is kinda misleading. She’s not “destroyed,” more like forgotten, neglected, cast to the wayside. It’s a real shame. I love her character so much.

If you’re wondering what the whole thing with 06 was, it’s the writers who worked on it were not the ones who wrote Rush and so the writers when given the idea of using Blaze were unaware she had pre-established lore and just made up a different origin for her.

"Wrath of the 2010s" is now a permanent part of my vocab while discussing anything Sonic.

Honestly my favourite version of Blaze is probably the Archie comics version, In the Sonic Universe comics I loved how she was written and interacted with most of team Rose and Team Dark, she formed a friendship with Shadow in the beginning mini arc and helped him in defeating Metal Sonic when they were transported into the Sol Dimension and showed a lot of independence when chasing for a stolen Sol Emerald and how much of a loner was displayed when she refused help from Amy and Cream. I’m enjoying what they’re doing with her in the IDW run at the moment, although I’m several issues behind, like how she decided to go to Cream’s house on free time to just talk and hangout.

I played Sonic Rush and Rush Adventure when I was a lot younger and enjoyed Blaze for basically standing shoulder to shoulder with Sonic in those games. She had to grow in the first game but definitely proved herself and gets a sick transformation sequence that holds up today. And it was cathartic to finally see her show up kind of out of nowhere in Rush Adventure when most were waiting for her to appear, since she's in the opening of the game and everything. Not to mention she immediately reaffirms that she's as capable as Sonic, and from then on you can select her at the start of every level. Though when I played these games as a kid, I think I still stuck with Sonic the whole game through. My perspective has shifted as i got older and since revisiting both Rush games last year, and playing them again this year, I can firmly say Blaze is my favorite Sonic character. i picked her all throughout my playtime in Rush Adventure once I could play as her. She feels so well-realized in both of her games (thankfully I never suffered through Sonic 06 only to have her character sidelined until the very end) . Blaze was probably one of the first depictions I saw in a game of a female character being equally competent as the "male default". That wasn't really the norm back in the early 2000's, so I'd say it was fairly commendable to see a strong and flawed female character go through a satisfying character arc and maintain relevance over the course of two games, Sonic games on the DS, of all things. The game doesn't have to draw specific attention to the fact that Blaze is a girl, either, she's just Blaze the Cat doing her thing, and I love that. So bring her back Sonic Team! Let her actually do stuff again like she used to, even just for one game.

Brilliant analysis, summarizes my feelings exactly! Also quick note, Sonic briefly mentions Blaze in Sonic Frontiers saying: "What I wouldn't give to have Blaze's help right about now" Really hope Blaze will be playable in the next big game after Frontiers.

According to the IDW comics she gets sent to certain points in time in Sonic's world mostly when they find it necessary so they sent her too the future to help protect it and as for her memories, my guess is when Iblis went into her and she was lost, him being part of a time God might have somehow been able to prevent her amnesia before he was completely lost or something

I think that 06 does take place before Rush, but once the game was erased, it also changed the timeline and made her from another dimension. The Time Eater just pulled in Crisis City from a dead timeline.

Blaze isn't "forgotten" she's jus not overutilized like MOST other characters & that's a good thing imo. It harkens back to how they originally wanted to handle most of the characters till plans changed & they jus shoved everyone everywhere wit no rhyme or reason & it means when she or anyone else is used after not bein around sonic for a while there's full confidence in there bein a PROPER reason that is necessary for whatever narrative they wish to tell without compromise of the bloat of unnecessary characters jus bein there takin up time, space, & attention that can create an unfocused mess cus they were never accounted for beyond "put them in cus ppl jus WANT them around no matter wut". I like this especially cus I feel similar to shadow she's 1 of the few characters NOT utterly ruined in the games. An issue we're still dealin wit in Frontiers

I like how Blaze was designed to be like an alternate version of sonic, with how popular the multiverse is right now, this is a good time for Sonic team to bring her back as a main character for a game

I feel like we need an episode like this for Cream the Rabbit now after this one on how she was basically forgotten in recent sonic games, also great job

Shadow the hedgehog has always been a childhood favorite character of mine (and always will be) but Blaze has also always been a close 2nd for me. This video has actually helped me fully realize some similarities between the two. Well, similar-ish. They both start off rather distant from people but later learn to become, sort of, more open with others. They both start off being against Sonic when they meet him. While Shadow was more antagonistic towards him, Blaze was just trying to do her own thing by any means. I don't know, calling these similarities might be a bit of a stretch but that's just how it always felt to me. Either way, They're both super badass and I absolutely adore both Shadow and Blaze!

I just realised flanderization is quite common in Sonic media. Tails: Help me Sonic! Amy: I love Sonic! Eggman: I hate Sonic! Shadow: I'm better than Sonic! Knuckles: Master Emerald! Meanwhile Blaze is the last person I'd expect to have this, since her cold princessy attitude can't really be simplified to a single trait. Flanderization for Blaze would probably be her leaning more towards her high and mighty holier than thou royal status, which just doesn't fit for her.

Blaze deserve her own classic version video game for herself. There is so much untapped potential for this character to be spotlighted a bit more. She is like knuckles, but a bit more protective of her own world.

*Fixing Rush scenes:* I just imagine a scene from Cream introducing Blaze to Amy and, desperate, the kid says that Amy must look for Sonic to resolve this conflict that could basically destroy the Earth. Amy, in the role of the older sister (as in Heroes), tells Cream not to worry, that everything will be fine and that together they'll solve it out, adding that they won't look for Sonic, saying to herself "No, I'm not going to look for Sonic, maybe I'm too weak and need him, but I want to solve this problem by myself. as I promised (SA1)" She would also be somewhat hostile when seeing Blaze, thinking that she might be a threat, but then she would understand Blaze, and tells her to let her help, but she refuses (lots of creative scenes can come from that). In the case of Knuckles, again, he should be on Angel Island, maybe a scene of Knuck could be shown worried because he felt the presence of emerald energy on the ground and that's why he went down, but I still think no, he shouldn't be there. Instead of him another character could appear, what do I know? Why not Espio? The idea sounds stupid, however if you think about it, there are parallel characteristics in those two characters (they spin when jumping, they are fast, they are serious, and much more) and it could form some fun interactions. Espio would meet up with Cream and he would explain that the rest of the team went on vacation and he is seeing new challenges for himself. He then meets Blaze and he explains the importance of teamwork etc. There would even be funny scenes like Blaze getting hostile towards Espio and he uses his sarcasm to tease or humiliate her (as a joke, but not over the top either, and he does it on purpose to calm Blaze down and because, obviously, defense is needed)and Blaze would get even angrier (that would also make her think about the value of tolerance and that there are friends of all personality types). See the crazy ideas that can be done with Sonic's friends?

Blaze is my favorite Sonic Character and also one of my general favorite chars. I'm almost like her when it comes to the behavior. I also like it that she is afraid of heights which is normally no issue for a cat but that's something where she's more sympathetic to me than she already is. If there are some real life issues coming I would mostly act like her. And I don't care if it's good for me, for her or no one I really love Blaze and I hope that she gets a major appearance in a Sonic Jump'n'Run game back.

Blaze is one of the few characters who I believe wasn’t ruined by the 2010s writers

I just wanted to let you know how thankful I am for your Sonic videos. You are easily my favorite Sonic creator here on KZfaq. I recently just started getting into the Sonic franchise and had no clue where to start and was honestly thinking of dropping getting into Sonic altogether. But then I found your channel and instantly got hooked on each of these amazing characters. Thank you again

In my head it went like this: The Sol emeralds sensed some type of "danger" in sonics dimension & wanted to stop it. I believe there R other instances but the Sol/Chaos emeralds R both shown/implied in Rush Adventure to have a "will" of some kind of their own. Blaze has a similar connection to the sol emeralds as knuckles does the M.E. since she is their "guardian". The Sol emeralds felt it necessary to help deal wit this & so told Blaze & as showcased in other games & IDW attempted to transport blaze to sonics dimension as that is somethin they can do freely. This is where some of my own conjecture comes in & cus of how unclear 06 makes things(since it wasn't finished) it could be diff for others, but somethin(I assume mephiles personally cus of his abilities) tampered wit the transport midway & caused blaze to end up in the future on accident & made her lose her memories(this is def a big "my conjecture" part lol). She meets silver & they grow a bond fightin iblis as she learns bout the world wit only a few of her memories retained(or even attained after lol). The rest of the story goes bout the same & she either A. is sent to another dimension or b. dies by the end(idrk but it's not like this part matters much) & everythin gets reset to be (mostly) non-existent. This is y when she hears of a "blue hedgehog" she seems more oddly curious as if "that sounds familiar but idk y" & she never acts as tho she's in any way familiar wit Sonics present time or himself. Granted she's in a VERY diff location than in the 1st Rush & sonic never acts familiar either when she's right there in some cutscenes but this jus goes to show how unfinished the game is in so many ways regardless of whether or not I'm right cus it's all so unclear in the end & they've never gone back to explain. Tho I'm unsure if the sol emeralds can also deal in space-time like the chaos emeralds even if they're a dimensional counterpart cus it's never been a thing in any media (not necessarily canon but) related to the main sonic timeline whether it be stuff like Rush or IDW which is y I brought mephiles tamperin instead tho both could be true now that I think bout it lol.

I want more of blaze's appearance in mainline games again 😭

Something that I noticed is that when Blaze absorbs Iblis, she kind of looks like Burning Blaze, and that makes me think that Iblis ends up turning INTO the Sol Emeralds. Also, there are tons of unused voice lines for Blaze in 06 that suggest she would accompany someone, presumably Silver, a lot more than she did. It's possible, and likely probable, that this was cut because 06 was notoriously time crunched.

Missed Opportunity to call the Sonic '06 Sacrifice of Blaze as "Schrodinger's Cat", since due to writing and logic, we can assume these are two different Canons/Interpretations of the same character. If Silver would successfully seal Blaze with Iblis Trigger into another dimension, she would experience time differently due to relativity... Time is **Relative** She would persist forward, yet everyone else would be stuck in the past, in Cycle Of Solaris... The Cycle of Solaris eventually is broken, the events get retconned, **but here is a catch** It did happen, **Once** There are at least two options: >>>We could accept that it happened in the past, Blaze perishes within _one timeline and dimension_ , Solaris is defeated, and since events never happen, She lives. Valid Or giant *IF* condition: >>>Silver is successful, Blaze is transferred, her continuity... continues on to the future. Solaris is defeated, her sacrifice is undone, She lives... ...AND she still alive in another dimension. Cat is ded and alive, then Alive/Alive. That is a PARADOX It doesn't mean her origin story, it means TWO CANON VERSIONS. Sonic Rush Blaze is her own story and experiences, and Sonic '06 can't change that Just like Sonic Rush doesn't have any impact on Sonic '06 Blaze as a character Sir Percival is her own Arthurian equivalent with no impact to others, only to Sonic. Now the question would be, _how would existence of Ignis Blaze impact the future of modern Sonic canon?_ Ignis Scintilla ---> The Inciting Incident before a dumbster-fire

I think I got it. Since sonic rush blaze is from another dimension, sonic 06 blaze is this dimension’s version of blaze. They both exist, they just live in separate places at separate times.

I imagine the reason for her appearance in Generations is because of her friendship with Sonic, though she could definitely have used a bit more of an active role. As for the inconsistencies, I think I can give a logical reasoning. Blaze was always from the Sol dimension, but travelled to the future of the Chaos dimension, meeting Silver there, and stuck around with him for a while, though this is still spitting on Blaze's character's boots, seeing as though she's not one to shirk her duties.

On the Sonic 06 Blaze insanity, I believe she is still in fact from the Sol dimension, but wound up trapped in Sonic's dimension and in the future, sticking with Silver for... Reasons. As for her recollection of Sonic, the way she said "blue hedgehog..." suggests she DOES remember him, but some time passed since Rush and the memory has faded, but the effects remained.

Can’t believe this was released on my birthday!! Honestly before I watched this I didn’t know what to think of her character, but now she might be one my most favorites. I think the fact that she has fire powers are really cool, and when you talked about her childhood I kinda thought of tails of all characters, both were bullied at a young age but they turned out so different. I’m also glad that she wasn’t really butchered just underused.

Blaze the Cat is perhaps my most favorite character from Sonic. I’ve always loved cats and thought Blaze was very pretty! I for one would love to see a Sonic Rush 3 or a spin off game starring Blaze! At least Blaze was well portrayed in the IDW comics, and she even had empathetic bonding with Knuckles, who guards a powerful treasure like she does. I would be stupid excited if I saw Blaze in a post credits scene in the Sonic 3 movie, and have her be in the fourth film voiced by Mae Whitman (Katara and Amity Blight). In the Sonic cinematic universe, I could be Blaze ending up on Earth yearning to cure herself from her fire powers. But Sonic tries to convince her to see her powers as a gift than a curse, since he learned to accept his super speed powers. Blaze really deserves better these days!

Ah A masterful character analysis as usual I would love to see Team Chaotix done at some point.

I just wanna see her and Sonic actually talking together again, the last time they properly talked to one another was technically 09 with Black Knight, but if you don't count Blaze as Percival then the last time they properly interacted was 06 (or maybe 2010 with Colours DS but I might be wrong).

What I hate is that she's usually cast as Silver's sidekick in modern games, which sucks because she's way better than Silver

I feel like Blaze is a lot like Princess Daisy from the Mario Series. Both are great characters but are sadly neglected in main games.

Cream: Mr Sonic is the best, he will help you. Also Cream: That's it Blaze, kick his ass!

Asking for more Blaze is one Hell of a monkey paw's wish. Look at Metal: There was a time he sat out a few years, and now he's pretty much always around, but as nothing more than a glorified attack dog that should be traded out for any other badnik. Blaze is honestly blessed to have made it through the years largely intact.

Nah… it wasn’t so much with her being “forgotten”, it’s the fact that 2006 was the game that DESTROYED her, 100%. Aside from being completely worthless to Silver and the story as a whole, she was completely devoid of any personality. She goes from a badass introverted princess to a soulless mentor figure. She was SO worthless in 06, even the writers wrote her out before the final story. The worst part is that she could’ve easily had Elise’s role (and done it better). 06 was LITERALLY meant to reboot the franchise for fucks sake! Why make a human princess who has a latent flame in her soul, struggles with her duties, is introverted as hell, and has the her kingdom called “SOLeanna”, when Blaze is RIGHT FUCKING THERE?! Having her in Sonic 06 means they had to rewrite her anyway which only rubs even more salt to the wound. In fact, they fuck this character HARD, in 3D. Even if she played fine in 06, she only had 2 small sections and one stage In the beginning of Silver’s story. She got reduced to 1 section in Very Hard Mode, and while she gets 2 sections in Team Attack Amigo, that was Xbox 360 exclusive. Sonic and the Black Knight, everything about her in that game was slow and clunky from her Fire Spin, double jump, and air lunge… plus her canonical stage “The Cauldron” is ASS! You think you had it bad with Tails being scared, Knuckles being an idiot, or Shadow being arrogant as hell, us Blaze fans have it WAY worse, because outside of the Rush Duo-logy, she got screwed in the ass in the only two 3D games she was ever in (just the campaign). Fuck 2006’s Story!

Another great video! I’ve been waiting for this one to come out lol! I’ve been a fan of Blaze since her debut and I honestly think you have one of the most accurate analysis of her character. Crossing my fingers she’ll actually get recognized in a mainline game cause she definitely deserves it! Anyways I can’t wait for your next video!😁

I don’t know if this will be seen or not, but I wanted to suggest a video idea. Could you make a video about the evolution of chao in the Sonic Universe? You can throw Omochao in with them, of course. They are such a prominent species that is so often overlooked in the games. I love your work, and I hope you continue what you do!

Blaze is definitely somewhere in my top 5 characters. I really enjoy her arc in Sonic Rush. I'm very mixed on her inclusion in 06. I do mostly like how she's portrayed. My main issue is that she isn't suspicious of Mephiles. People give poor Silver undeserved grief for falling for his deceit, but hardly anyone talks about Blaze, the one shown to be more level-headed, doesn't suspect a thing. I know she wanted the future to be fixed as much as Silver did, but that just felt out of character for her. I haven't played Rush Adventure yet, but I like her portrayal there from what I've seen in videos. She's been getting some attention this year with her inclusion in The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and her first action figure in a decade. I sure hope this means they plan to include her in future games. From what I've heard, Frontiers' ending left it open for less utilized characters like her to possibly show up in future games.

You should also see her appearences in the Archie comics! Sonoc Universe volume 1 has her being amazing with Marine, defending her from Shadow. It's amazing and i love her in that series as well.

So here’s my head canon on how blaze is in 06 blaze is still the princess of the soul realm but was transported to Silver’s future she decided to help him and was there for a while and became best friends with him but still always looked for a way to get back home, after the events of 06 which got retconned she was back at the soul realm where she then transported to Sonic’s world which leads to the events of rush

If you assume Color theory is in play then Blaze being Purple makes perfect sense. Sonic is the Protagonist, and Knuckles is a Guardian. So Naturally Blaze is both.

I feel like Blaze secretly knows Sonic in 06. Hinted by the cutscene before you start wave ocean as her as well as her dialogue when the stage starts. Plus she knows the chaos emeralds when she and silver find one after the egg Genesis boss.

The Sol Gems have the ability to find your match , soul mate , or kindred spirit. Nega wanted a mental equal in his heart , and saw Eggman as a threat. lol When Blaze had opened up , it could sense her desire for companionship. And using the temporal weakness as an opening , found Silver to make a good match.

blaze was a good chunk of the cast rolled into one, she's got the speed (and shoes) of sonic and practically is his alt dimensional counterpart was bullied for her fire powers like tails for his extra tail is a guardian of the sol emeralds like knuckles is for the master emerald is anti social at first like shadow isn't afraid to show her girly side like rogue/amy

Blaze is so pretty and beautiful not to mention adorable when she smiles and shows off her adorable cat fangs with her ponytail making her look all the more adorable. She is also a badass as well.

Guess I am happy Blaze does still get those few appearances that she does, because she easily could've been yet another character that got shadow realmed entirely. But man... it sucks how she's the best female Sonic character imo, but is held back by how little she's used overall. I think there's still potential with her. Great video.

I’m so happy that you uploaded, I love watching your videos! Can’t wait for your next Sonic character analysis!

Potential badage for the canon contradicts: More than one Blaze. Rush Blaze is post-06 not despite the reset, but because of. And her memories are a bit scrambley because the reset was Less Than Perfect, partly because of the fact her non-06 life shoved her into Sol dimension, which screwed with time in a few ways itself, and partly because in the retconned 06 canon she died, and reality isn't 100% sure on how to handle a Dead's Deathing becoming decanonized even in most ideal circumstances, which Blaze is Not.

Ey.... Part 2 was great. Anyway good video. Also you missed this one amazing short story from the IDW comics which in Blaze visits Angel Island on vacation, where she and Knuckles have this talk about the responsibility of protecting such priceless artifacts that can never fall into the wrong hands. (It's the first short story in their annual 2022 comic)

Imagine being a cat princess with a firepower which allows her to play at the Himalayss and be completely fine yet ended up on no.4

Should do one based on Cream the Rabbit (and Cheese the Chao to an extent) imo.

Blaze is hands down one of the best Sonic characters ever. Also a fantastic female character too. There’s so much to love about her and what makes her so great. I hope she (and the others) become playable again without the character assassination. She is deserves her own spin-off games. Give her Rush gameplay and set the game in the Sol dimension where there’s a lot of creative potential. She’s a hero like Sonic but in her own way. A lot of the characters deserve better but it looks like that’s going to take time. The success of Frontiers gives us some hope.

I'll be honest, I was a huge Sonic Rush fan (despite its flaws) when I was a kid. I think Blaze in that game was really well written for a sonic friend. She had this whole defrosting ice queen arc throughout the game, as she learns to trust others and make friends in Sonic's world. Plus her design parallels sonic pretty well I think. When I saw her in Black Knight, I really liked that they brought her back. Her noble-like mannerism made her rivalry with Sonic feel unique compared to the usual rivalries Shadow and Knuckles have with him. So when I learnt she was in 06 years later and that they retconned her whole backstory, I was like "bruh, you wasted a perfectly good character, and for what? Time travel shenanigans and evil fire gods?". Same with Eggman Nega! Why'd they have to make him a "descendant from the future" to Eggman, scrubbing the entire alternate reality.

Blaze will never be truly forgotten in my eyes.

Blaze has had quite a good number of appearences in animations, comic dubs and other fan made content that is arguably true to her character depending on what you watch.

We're getting a few more issue with her in the IDW! Thank you, Ian Flynn! Even if she doesn't appear very often, it's nice that here character is so consistent. I'm pretty sure Blaze was in Generations because she used the Sol Emeralds to come to Sonic's world to celebrate his birthday. Same with Amy in The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog. Maybe that's why she was in 06. The Sol Emeralds "told" her, they do communicate with some sort of way, she was needed in Silver's time. I'm just grasping at straws, I don't overthink this stuff.

Actually, there were plans for the Sol Dimension to be involved in 06, but because the game was rushed, most of the stuff revolving Blaze was cut off

The funny thing about Blaze in 06 she actually feels faster then Sonic in it ignoring the God Awful Mach Speed Levels Sonic has to go through and she is more controllable then the rest of the playable characters.

Fun Fact:Blaze was originally meant to be in Sonic Adventure 2 as a prototype of Shadow but that got scrapped and now she in Sonic Rush

Her Bio doesn't conflict, think about it. The Blaze from the future is the blaze from Rush brought into that version sonics world through some unknown reason. She ends up becoming a resistance fighter like silver due to Iblis destroying the world. When the events of 06 were erased, the events of Rush take place after 06 in the new timeline where she appears in the modern timeline rather than the future one

Great video! Been waiting for a while for the blaze one! (And the Infinite one mentioned in the poll a few months back, but that one will likely not happen...)

Blaze was actually featured in the last comic arc. In an earlier story, she was urged to take a vacation by Marine and Knuckles (of ALL people) and after some hesitation accepted. Her being in Sonic's world made her available to help out when Sonic and friends had to thwart Eggman's latest nonsense

She needs her own game. We have a whole new dimension that actually has ties to her. Plus, i feel like out of all the side characters, she deserves her own game the most. Especially considering she can be considered another version of Sonic and Knuckles. By that account, Knuckles deserves his own game too, but he got his own acknowledgement in a plethora of games.

If Blase dimension is called Sol Dimension, does that mean the series main dimension could be called Chaos Dimension? The name sounds awesome ngl

Blaze and Knuckles actually do have a neat interaction in a sub-plot in the IDW comics. A side story in which Blaze is concerned about how her absence from her world would make the Sol Emeralds unguarded and put the Sol dimension in jeopardy. At this point, she’s learned to show her emotions more, in her own cool and serious fashion. She visits Knuckles on Angel island after leaving her world, and asks Knuckes about her situation, explaining her role, and how he was her go-to being so simialr to her. Knuckles asks her questions like: are the emeralds secure? How do you feel regarding your duties as their Gaurdian? Knuckles concludes “it’s a gift”. Reassuring Blaze that she should take a vacation for a while, learn to relax and cut loose, kind of like Sonic. Knuckles explains she has it easier than him a Guardian of powerful artifacts, he’s stuck on Angel island, and the Chaos Emeralds don’t stay in one place. Blaze doesn’t need to be confined in one place, because her dimension has no Master Emerald related to the other gemstones. The Sol Emeralds stay in one place. I loved this interaction between them. It shows, while Blaze takes her job very seriously, like Knuckles, but isn’t as emotional, she doesn’t need to be. Blaze me be a monarch in top of being a Guardian, but her job as Guardian isn’t nearly as tough when compared to Knuckles.

Sega messed up in the whole storyline of 06, but overall she's a great a character and deserves her own game in my opinion!!! there's so much potential

A theory I adhere to when talking about Blaze between 06 and Rush is that 06 does come before Rush, and Blaze does sacrifice herself by sealing herself in another dimension, but since the main world was retconned by the ending of 06, Iblis gets erased, leaving Blaze alone in the Sol Dimension. Since she's from the other dimension (where the mainline Sonic games take place, I'll call it Main Dimension), she is affected by the timeline reset, and forgets everything that happened in the Main Dimension, leaving her trapped in the Sol Dimension. Here's when things become more headcanon rather than anything else, but I like to think, that her pyrokinetics were a result of having Iblis trapped inside of her, and being sent to the Sol Dimension. Since she arrived at the Sol Dimension WITH her powers, that was her "default state" there. Since Iblis got erased, she was "changed" in that dimension, which tried to correct that change. If the Sol Dimension actually changed as a result of that, you could have your cake (make 06 the actual backstory) and eat it (make Rush canon as well). That's what I think 06 was trying to do, and it kinda came out wrong because of what happened with that game. Good luck reading this lol.

Despite she has fire powers she is cold and distant which is the opposite of her powers.

Awesome video. I had mostly forgotten about her too, having never played the Rush games, but now I hope sonic team brings her back for a larger mainline role in an upcoming game!

Blaze is not only my favorite Sonic character, but one of my favorite characters of all time! I just wish Sega would do more with her. Besides making her playable again, she should be in Sonic animations, merch, etc. She gets overlooked too much, along with a few others. Sega, it's time to stop playing safe!

I remember the first time requesting a Blaze Character analysis back then when your Knuckles analysis video blew up. Glad it's finally here :) She is defintely my favourite female character and one of my favourites of the whole series at all. I remember palying Sonic Rush adventure as one of my first Sonic DS games and I immediatly loved her powers and the game. Thanks again for such a great video :)

I think J's review had the idea, but the concept that 06 and Rush are different timelines could make sense. And the fact that it's all undone at the end and become the timeline that the Rush games occur. Not sure why Generations had that line in there, though

To answer your question on Blaze with being in 06 and how games after like Generations and Colors DS mention her having a case of deja vu or something feeling similar there's a post over on tumble from spiritsonic called "clearing up the confusion in the fanbase regarding 06" and they even mention how Sonic Runners playable Silver's description mentions their relationship as partners from 06 and that their parting ways in 06 is based off a famous japanese story of "lonely Princess Orihime and Hikoboshi, two lovers who get separated across space on opposite ends of the milky way and can’t see each other anymore." therefore yes Blaze's original origin was 06 in being from the future however because she was split across space into a different dimension her now origin as we know from Rush. Sonic Team has back then made the mistake of chronological order for lore not matching like in Battle Rogue mentions how a Gamma robot looks like Omega despite the fact Battle came out BEFORE Heroes in having met Omega so that line can only make sense the other way around.