The Most Way-Past-Cool Birthday

It’s Sonic the Hedgehog’s birthday today! Wooooot! :D

Holy flip I don’t even know where to begin! How do I describe the world’s most famous hedgehog in just one blog post? That’s asking a lot! Well, here goes...

Sonic the Hedgehog started out as a video game character in 1991. He began his adventures in the famous Green Hill Zone, racing across crumbling bridges and spin-dashing his way through Dr. Robotnik’s robot minions with superb ease. If he didn’t start moving within five seconds, he would look at the player and tap his foot impatiently. In one game he actually jumps off of the edge after the first three minutes just because he’s so bored!

Sonic’s popularity grew quickly. It wasn’t long before he had his own TV shows, with Jaleel White giving him a voice for the first time. Sonic SatAM, Adventures of Sonic, Sonic Underground...all three shows aired on TV in the 1990s while his games grew in complexity and introduced an ongoing storyline.

At the turn of the century, Sonic met his match, Shadow the Hedgehog (whose spotlight is the post right before this one! Check it out!), in the game Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. The famous Sonic Heroes came along after that, and in 2003 Sonic was the star of another TV show: Sonic X, which introduced Jason Griffith as the replacement for Jaleel White.

While Sonic battled Eggman and the evil Metarex in the show, he rescued princesses, made new friends, and traveled across worlds in the games. Sonic Generations gave the Blue Blur a blast to the past at the same time that Roger Craig Smith introduced himself as the newest voice for our favorite hedgehog. Sonic also made his very first big-screen appearance in the movie “Wreck-It Ralph” in 2012. (I still go all fangirl when he has his cameo. XD)

And let’s not forget the comics! The comics are really the only storyline I follow avidly, since they are much more exciting than the games or the TV shows. What’s happening in the comics right now? Sonic and his friends were still suffering from the effects of the first Genesis Wave (that took place two years ago our time, on his 20^th birthday) when the second one hit in May of this year. This time the Wave reached across two worlds, and Sonic met the Blue Bomber – Mega Man! The crossover event is an epic battle against the evil Drs. Eggman and Wily, as well as a tribute to the fans with the appearance of nearly every popular character from both sides. (For me, it was Shadow...though he spent most of his time as a Roboticized Master...*sigh*) Anyway, with any luck our heroes will come out victorious and set things right! Maybe when the Genesis Wave fades this time, Sally will be normal again...I hope...

So there you have it! The world’s most way-past-cool hedgehog is celebrating 22 years of awesomeness today! How will I celebrate this time? By watching the TV shows and movies, reading the comics, and playing the games, of course!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SONIC! :D