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An Animated Sonic the Hedgehog
Tell It Animated is back with Sonic the Hedgehog! What a nice way to start this Monday, which is gonna be a very interesting Monday for me. And it’s nice to have a simple animated video to share at the start of the day.
Good old Sonic. Always up for some fun and silliness. He’s had a lot of good designs, and a lot of crummy designs. And now they’re all animated. I dunno. I got nothing in me this morning. Just wanted to post something and get to work for a busy day! So enjoy!
And, as always, Tell It Animated should do a video on Robin!
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I Don’t Like Keanu Reeves as the Voice of Shadow the Hedgehog
The voice just isn’t working for me. We’ve heard only snippets in a pair of trailers so far, and I just can’t put the voice and the character together in my mind. I can’t wrap my head around it. I just hear Keanu, in a rather flat, but also kinda normal for him performance. And I don’t hear Shadow, this crazy, energy-filled new villain character.
See it for yourself in this new trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
The movie itself looks…like a Sonic sequel. It looks like a crazy, wild, mania-infused Sonic threequel. And that’s fine. I’ve never been the biggest fan of these films, but I’ve watched them and the Knuckles show and I’ll definitely see Sonic 3 in the theaters. And then the voice will probably work for me. I guess I just have to have faith in this crazy world we live in. Things will probably work out…with this movie.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 comes to theaters on Dec. 20, so it’s a month away.
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My New Favorite Sonic Character is Surge the Tenrec
OK, so feel free to ignore this post completely because it’s just some silly stream of consciousness nonsense I wanted to write. I don’t really engage in Sonic the Hedgehog media. I don’t play the games, watch the shows or read the comics. But in my random stumbling through the internet, I have discovered a silly factoid that I want to share: There exists a character named Surge the Tenrec in the Sonic the Hedgehog Universe, and she’s my new favorite.
Longtime readers of this blog might know that Knuckles the Echidna is my all-time favorite comic book character, and that remains true. (Remember when Knuckles had his own live action TV show, and it came out earlier this year?!). But Surge the Tenrec, man…this is crazy.
Why is Surge the Tenrec my new favorite, you may ask? I can answer that question by posing another question: What the heck is a Tenrec?!
Surely you’ve asked yourself that very question upon seeing the headline of this blog post. Surely you’ve already gone to Google, like I did, to find out. If you haven’t, let me save you the search.
This is a tenrec:
It’s a real animal! It’s a little shrew-like mammal that lives exclusively on Madagascar. I’d never heard of a tenrec in all my years on this planet, until randomly stumbling upon this character. Did her creator already know about tenrecs and always wanted to create an original Sonic mammal character? Did they spend time searching up hedgehog-like animals to turn into new Sonic characters?!
I don’t know why I find this fascinating, I just do. Surge is pretty much exclusive to the new IDW comics, but it seems she’s been in the Sonic Rush mobile game too. Maybe she’ll appear elsewhere someday.
I just think it’s really, really nifty that a tenrec is a real creature and has now been turned into one of these tiny, furry mammal Sonic characters. What a world.
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The Sonic Movies Are Gonna Get Shadowy
We’ve got the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 out today, and it’s a really dark and sinister affair! Shadow the Hedgehog was after my time with the franchise, which ended with Sonic & Knuckles, so I’m not at all connected to the new critter on the crew. But the movie sure does feed into a probably very healthy Shadow fandom.
I mean…it looks cool, eh? I’ve never been the biggest fan of these Sonic movies. But the geek in me can definitely appreciate how they’ve gone whole hog into the lore and the characters after the first film. I can dig that. But yeah, I don’t care about Shadow, so this movie isn’t poking at my personal fandom interest. So hopefully Shadow fans are happy.
And at least Knuckles, my favorite character, still seems fun. His TV show was…something else. But at least we got a real, live-ish action Knuckles the Echidna TV show in my lifetime. That was neat in and of itself!
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 comes to theaters on Dec. 20.
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Hold All the Phones, There is a Knuckles TV Show Coming
We knew this was coming. It was announced, talked about, hinted at; and now we have a trailer. Dear lord in Heaven, we have a trailer for a live action Knuckles the Echidna TV show. How has it come to this?! I love Knuckles. Like, to an absurd degree. I loved him before I even knew what he looked like, because I was the sort of dorky kid who already knew what an echidna was before Knuckles showed up in Sonic 3. I spent so much energy hoping that Knuckles would show up in one of those two Sonic the Hedgehog animated cartoons from my youth.
Young Sean would have his mind freakin’ blown at this existence of this Knuckles TV show.
And it looks good maybe?! I’m no mega fan of the live action Sonic movies. In fact, I don’t think I particularly like them? I don’t remember. But I do think I really enjoyed Idris Elba as Knuckles in the sequel. So you best darn well believe I’ll be watching this show when it comes to Paramount+ on April 26.
Jeez louise. The Knuckles live action TV show. What even is the world we are living in?
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