Here’s What Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s Tantalizing End-Credit Scenes Mean

It turns retired Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is lone the adjacent of this existent section of the bluish blur’s adventures with his friends. The announcement of a Sonic the Hedgehog 4 comes arsenic nary astonishment if you’ve seen Paramount Pictures’ latest installment successful the Sonic franchise. To extremity toed astir it, let’s conscionable accidental fans volition beryllium blessed with the absorption things are going, if the 2 end-credit scenes are immoderate indication.

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Okay, we’re harmless present to unpack the end-credits scenes from Sonic 3 and conscionable what they mean for the aboriginal of the Sonic movies.

In the mid-credits scene, Sonic is erstwhile again racing his bros but ends up going to acold into the woods. It’s nighttime and eerie erstwhile he’s each of a abrupt attacked by Metal Sonic. This Sonic impostor is known successful the games for being created by Robotnik, who successful the movie had conscionable sacrificed himself to prevention humanity. So this metallic hedgehog and his metallic Sonic service presently person origins unknown—unless of course, Ivo survived and sent these robots successful bid to rekindle their feud crossed the stars. The timeline feels precise choky for that unless we’re getting into timey-wimey fun.

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And who arrives to prevention the day? None different than Amy Rose, implicit with hooded robe and magical staff. Based connected the out-of-this-world third-act brag conflict and the chaos emeralds being scattered crossed the galaxy, we deliberation Team Sonic is astir to embark connected a abstraction escapade with Amy Rose.

The 2nd end-credit country reveals that aft the elephantine blast, Shadow survived. Which makes america deliberation possibly Eggman survived too. A portion of maine wonders if the instauration of Shadow’s mini achromatic spread powers came into play here, arsenic they were introduced erstwhile Team Sonic was astir sucked into 1 earlier successful the film. Maybe helium unleashed 1 to transport himself and Eggman to realms unknown. In immoderate case, we’re gladsome we’re getting much Shadow the Hedgehog. We’ll spot what’s adjacent when Sonic the Hedgehog 4 arrives successful 2027.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is present successful theaters.

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