In the games he was president of the United Federation. In the anime it was explicitly of the United States lol
United Federation is not a real thing. For Sonic X, pretty sure 4Kids changed a lot of the script. Does not matter anyways, Sonic X is not recognized in any of the games outside of advertisements.
But take a look at Colors for example. Where does that space crap fit in? Have you seen how many shit Robotnik has put up in the sky? He blew off the moon, he made several robotic moons, has tons of lasers and crap. At one point he threw a giant lizard into space as well.
Sonic Colors is a spinoff and part of a different canon of the franchise. Sonic Adventure 2 is part of the main series.
And what is Mobius? How did Sonic come to Earth on the Adventure series? What about Angel Island? How come it was both in Mobius and Earth?
Mobius was the name of the planet in the Sonic games by French and American versions of Sonic things, such as the animated shows, comics and even English language manuals in some cases. Sonic Team had always designed the series as if it took place on Earth, but they did not explain this to other branches of SEGA well.
Angel Island is the Floating Island which is powered by the Master Emerald. It's powers come from the mystical powers the Echidna tribes had, which Knuckles now protects. Only the Archie comics ever had any of this mentioned on a Mobius and that should be completely ignored anyways.
I am not sure of this, but I heard that the Archie comics explain that Mobius was originally Earth, but they renamed it for no reason. I guess this is all the evidence you need to know to avoid these comics.
Where the fuck is Soleanna located?
Never really explained. However, there was barely any good planning that took place in that game, so only you and Cube care.
My point is I think it's a bit late to try and make something cohesive out of geographic locations (and plot). But that doesn't really matter much I think.. I like the idea of having different timelines in different places with different stories.
A bit late? I already pointed out Sonic Unleashed is seen as a reboot of the franchise to SEGA and Sonic Team. They are going to continue this style, as proven by Sonic Colors' mechanics, so how is any of this late?
Obviously it does not matter at the end of the day, but especially for such a massive series that is now mostly designed with young children in mind, they should have basic fundamentals like where some characters live and how they know eachother. Sonic Adventure and even Sonic Battle on the Game Boy Advance did it alright, so they ARE capable of this stuff. When they keep changing everything it can get very confusing for us, think of how hard the children have to strain to understand this. WON'T ANYONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!
And I don't think Sonic 4 should be on the same place as Unleashed. Sonic 4 is a continuation of 3, so it's all in Mobius (or whatever it is called). In fact, the final boss is in Sonic 2's space station.
So from where did all the humans in Unleashed come from? Does that mean that those dark earth spirits might return in Sonic 5 if the planet is shattered?
No, Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3 and 4 all take place on Earth. This eventually leads into the Adventure series and presumably Unleashed and whatever else goes next. The humans are not in the levels in the classic games, but they do exist, which is why all of those buildings are everywhere, unless you expect the little animals live in all of those? Sonic was also originally going to have a human girlfriend in the first game that he had to save from Robotnik, but the concept was scrapped. The concept around this was reused for Elise in Sonic 06 though.
Games like Sonic Colors, Sonic Rush, Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic Spinball are all considered part of the spinoff series that have no humans outside of Robotnik. The way these games progress does not effect the main series in any way outside of design concepts.
This is confusing!
Glad I cleared it all up then!
