Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Fans Are Already Theory Crafting About Metal Sonic

Earlier today, Paramount Pictures practically opened up the floodgates, showering highly diligent and steadfast Sonic fans with the long-awaited Sonic the Hedgehog 3 trailer featuring Keanu Reeves arsenic Shadow the Hedgehog. But Sonic fandom is thing if not speedy connected the uptake, particularly erstwhile combing each 2nd of footage to mentation trade Sonic 3, teasing the quality of different foe, Metal Sonic.

Interspersed betwixt the memes and fan art from today’s trailer is simply a prevailing instrumentality mentation that Sonic 3 volition acceptable up Metal Sonic arsenic the adjacent villain successful a aboriginal movie oregon arsenic the last villain of the Blue Blur flick. Shortly aft Reeves’ Shadow collectively hands Knuckles, Tails, and Sonic their generous asses successful hand-to-hand combat, Sonic floats the thought that they’ll request to enlist the assistance of Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik to decision him.

Aight, mentation time

This is however we get Metal Sonic pic.twitter.com/TRJGrl50Ve

— SuperSmashBro64 (@SmashBro64) August 27, 2024

A seemingly innocuous country follows, successful which Robotnik initiates a quid pro quo, starring Sonic to springiness him 1 of his super-powered quills. While the trailer glosses implicit the country to get backmost to Shadow doing the Akira slide, fans doubled backmost to theory-craft the scene, leading to the instauration of Metal Sonic.

Metal Sonic, who archetypal appeared connected Sonic the Hedgehog CD successful 1993, is an evil robotic mentation of Sonic that Dr. Robotnik invented to decision the titular hero. In the 1999 Sonic the Hedgehog anime film, Dr. Robotnik created Metal Sonic by copying his abilities, thought process, and property into the mechanical being.

Sonic and Metal Sonic facing disconnected successful the ’99 anime OVA. © Sega / Pierrot

While the method mumbo-jumbo of Metal Sonic being susceptible of copying immoderate Sonic is reasoning is simply a unusual improvement successful the anime, it stands wrong crushed that Dr. Robotnik would betray Sonic—as he’s wont to do—to usage his quill to marque Metal Sonic successful a post-credit country teasing a 4th Sonic film.

Either that oregon Sonic 3 volition spell full Godzilla vs. Kong and recontextualize Shadow riding a motorcycle alongside Sonic arsenic they articulation forces to decision Mechagodzilla—I mean Metal Sonic. Either way, fans are pleased arsenic a peach to spot the caller Sonic trailer and volition battalion theaters to witnesser this each unfold (or not) travel December 20.

Along with Keanu Reeves, the formed for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 includes Jessica Jones‘ Krysten Ritter, Ted Lasso‘s Cristo Fernández, Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, Furiosa‘s Alyla Browne, Harley Quinn‘s James Wolk, and Jane the Virgin‘s Sofia Pernas—as good arsenic the returning Jim Carrey arsenic Dr. Robotnik and Ben Schwartz arsenic Sonic.

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