One Of Sonic 3’s Game References Is Hidden In Plain Sight

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Largely based on the events of the 2001 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure 2. The live-action movie doesn’t recreate the platformer’s story beat for beat, but it introduces Sonic’s revenge-driven adversary Shadow, explores the family of villain Dr. Robotnik, and at one point the moon gets blown up. Although retaining many of the same story elements, Sonic 3 does omit some key characters Like treasure-hunting rouge bats and creature lizards, Sonic Adventure 2The final boss. However, eagle-eyed fans have noticed that the movie does seem to have a “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” reference to the giant reptile, and they’re conflicted about it.

In the game, the biological lizard is the prototype of the ultimate life form. It was the creation of Dr. Gerald Robotnik, who went on to create “The Shadow” as the “true” product of his research into creating immortal beings. Since Gerard didn’t create Shadow in the movie because he, like all anthropomorphic animals, is an alien from another planet, there was no need to include the creature lizard Sonic the Hedgehog 3. However, it turns out that the film does briefly mention the creature in Shadow’s flashbacks. Fifty years before the movie takes place, Shadow lives in a government facility with Gerald’s granddaughter, Maria Robotnik. The two are as close as siblings and played together as scientists attempted experiments on the speedy hedgehog. One of the moments involves the two watching a monster movie, which at first glance appears to be an homage to the early Godzilla Movie. But upon further inspection, it’s also a clever reference to the creature, the lizard. The giant reptile that terrorizes civilians in the movie bears a striking resemblance to the character, from its elongated mechanical eyes to the cables that extend from its jaw to its body. The movie the two watched was in black and white, but I imagine if it were in color more people would immediately notice this reference seeing its orange-brown skin.

On one hand, it’s cool to see the movie paying homage to important characters in the Shadow game’s story, but considering the way the live-action version Sonic Universe has previously used one of the game’s monster-like enemies as a comic relief prop, and some fans weren’t happy about it Sonic 3 The creature lizard was mentioned, fearing it would become a pattern for these films. Iblis, the fiery monster from Sonic ’06, cited in Knuckles Paramount+ Shows As a stage puppet in a rock opera. So now, the second giant monster in the game has turned out to be something else, which has some fans a little wary as they wonder if Sonic and his friends will ever face a monster of this size in a live-action movie.

That being said, some fans were pleased with the omission of the biotic lizard, saying its presence might have Make the story complicatedwhich may then not transition gracefully to the screen As more focused stories do. In view of the following events Sonic 3of Post-credits sceneMetal Overlord, Metal Sonic’s dragon form is likely to come from Sonic Heroes, Might appear in fourth movieso maybe we’ll see Sonic, Shadow, and the rest of the crew face something of this magnitude Sonic 4 Premiere 2027. If not, there will always be perfect chaos, from sonic adventurea water-based monster that floods entire cities. The timelines of these movies have been playing fast and loose, so there’s no harm in going back to the previous games Sonic Adventure 2.