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Welp, here's a thread for those of us interested in sharing theories and headcanons. Please don't get into arguments, debates, sure, but don't be jerks during one.
Because I'm in a bit of a rush, I'll post my up-to-date Sonic Timeline theory:
And the timeline mentions a second Metal Sonic during Triple Trouble. That isn't a random addition, that Metal Sonic is damaged and refurbished by Robotnik with knowledge garnered during Generations, building the Metal Sonic seen in Sonic 3 and Knuckles from TT Metal Sonic's remains.
Please, share your theories, I'd be interested to hear them all.
Because I'm in a bit of a rush, I'll post my up-to-date Sonic Timeline theory:
BlackHole, on 30 November 2014 - 09:31 PM, said:
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]Tails' Adventures
Sonic the Hedgehog (both)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)
Sonic Chaos
Sonic Generations (Classic Sonic)
Sonic Schoolhouse
Sonic CD
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit)
Sonic Drift and assorted spinoffs (aka those not listed on here)
Sonic Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic Triple Trouble
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Knuckles Story)
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1
Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode Metal
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2
Sonic Labyrinth
Tails Skypatrol
Knuckles Chaotix
SEGASonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Blast
Sonic 3D: Flickies Island
Sonic R
Sonic the Fighters
Sonic Mania (Plus)
Sonic Forces (Classic Sonic)
Sonic Mania Adventures
Sonic Pocket Adventure
Sonic Jam
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Outright said to be before Sonic and Tails met, I believe this takes place contemporarily with...
Sonic the Hedgehog (both)
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The levels weave in and out of one another: 8-bit Green Hill goes to 16-bit Green Hill, then Sonic crosses Bridge Zone to get to Marble Zone, which sits outside Jungle Zone, which Sonic goes through to get into the newly fortified former residential Spring Yard Zone, which has an entrance into the Labyrinth Zone, etcetc.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)
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Tails jumps across to South Island in order to catch a ride to go see the Little Planet.He never really sees Green Hill Zone, instead hanging around the Marble Zone because the ruins interest him and he's fearful of people due to his treatment from them prior, but one day a blue blur passes while he's wandering the Jungle Zone, a la a cutscene from Sonic Adventure. He follows, they become friendly and one day Robotnik picks him up during a raid, leading to the game...
Sonic Chaos
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Between Sonic 2 8-bit and this game, Sonic manages to master the Spin Dash and Tails mimics him, prompting the Hedgehog to consider him a little brother outright instead of just a friend. Tails, happy by this acceptance, shows off various gizmos to Sonic, such as the Rocket Boots. Then Robotnik manages to snag the Red Chaos Emerald, cue the game.
Sonic Generations (Classic Sonic)
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During a run through Green Hill, Sonic notices some Badniks and deals with them promptly. The Badniks were bait, however, and Sonic is drawn into the plot...
Sonic Schoolhouse
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The people of South Island, thankful for Sonic's assistance, construct a schoolhouse in his honour, with a holographic interface of him to teach the children, though they note there's quite a few bugs in the software at the moment...
Sonic CD
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South Island comes into view of Westside Island, allowing Sonic and Tails the opportunity to go see the Little Planet, as per Sonic 4. The games events go on, but while on the Little Planet, Sonic can't quite get used to the different gravity in order to execute a proper spindash. Tails, meanwhile, goes on his lonesome to explore the planet.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit)
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G.U.N. locate the Death Egg under construction, forcing an early launch when they attempt an assault. Robotnik proceeds to assault Westside Island to capture more labour to finish construction quickly while in orbit, but being the egomaniac he is gloats to Sonic about it, prompting the events of the game...
Sonic Drift and assorted spinoffs (aka those not listed on here)
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With Sonic's heroism coming to light, many productions in his image are made on the recovering Westside Island, including cartoons and games.
Sonic Spinball
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With the Death Egg down, Robotnik retreats to Mt. Mobius to use the resources to rebuild the Death Egg in Angel Island. Sonic and Tails hear word of Robotnik's mass Badnik production and decide to strike first, leading to the events of the game.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
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As said in the Japanese manual, Sonic and Tails find a relic on Westside Island's beach and learn of the Death Egg's survival and Angel Island, prompting them to immediately fly on over.
Sonic Triple Trouble
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With the Death Egg downed again, Robotnik 'accidentally' launches the Chaos Emeralds Knuckles gave him after nicking them from Sonic in Sonic 3 to the four corners of the world with a 'misfire' of the Death Eggs weapons, prompting Sonic to go after them instead to keep them safe. This gives him time to properly rebuild the Death Egg, much quicker as well since Knuckles is also off the island. Robotnik goes after them as well, even sending a second Metal Sonic after them, if only to keep up appearances as he's discovered a much larger energy source on Angel Island...
Sonic and Knuckles
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With the Chaos Emeralds safe, Sonic immediately returns to Angel Island. After Tails drops Sonic off in Mushroom Hill, since the Tornado can't get in close because of strange weather patterns causing turbulence, Sonic goes it alone while Tails stays with the Tornado incase the Death Egg manages a take off again as it did in Sonic 3. Cue Sonic and Knuckles (Sonic section)...
Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Knuckles Story)
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Knuckles, angered with Robotnik's betrayal, proceeds to destroy all the obvious bases on Angel Island (the Sonic 3 portion), before deciding to relax in Mushroom Hill. However, he's attacked by a certain Badnik, kicking off the Sonic and Knuckles section.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1
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Upon Westside Island, Robotnik attacks in a show of force from an E.G.G. Station in orbit. This is to distract Sonic from what remains of the Death Egg being salvaged in preparation of the Little Planet. Upon destroying the E.G.G. Station, Sonic uses the rocket to return and the Tornado, placed where Sonic would land via Tails calculations, to return to Westside Island. As Sonic does so, he notices a commotion on the Sky Sanctuary and circles until he can assist...
Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog 2
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As Knuckles now owes Sonic his life twice over, he agrees to help Sonic deal with the remnants of Robotniks' remaining forces on Westside Island in the same way he dealt with them on Angel Island before Tails takes him back. As Sonic deals with the E.G.G. Station, Knuckles deals with the Badniks alongside Tails, since Knuckles isn't familiar with the land. Knuckles even proceeds to take out a chunk of the Death Egg that has managed to remain active. However, they all fail to notice the robot leaving the Mad Gear section of Metropolis and making a beeline for the Lost Labyrinth...
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode Metal
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As the Little Planet approaches, Robotnik contacts the Stardust Speedway facility and uses what power it has to get the original Metal Sonic back home and powered up, as in the game.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2
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As the Little Planet approaches, everyone is horrified by the appearance of a familiar metal skeleton around it as the salvaged Death Egg is constructed around it. Sonic and Tails immediately hop into action, Knuckles home on Angel Island, but both are followed by a familiar robot...
Sonic Labyrinth
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Robotnik, irate and thoroughly angered by his constant failures through Sonic, decides to enact revenge. Using a robot to sneak into Sonic's resting place, he decides that death is too easy as option and instead decides to humiliate the hedgehog in the same way Sonic has humiliated him countless times: swapping out the shoes for ones that hold his feet down, he taunts Sonic and captures him as in the scene from SEGASonic the Hedgehog, taking him to one of his many island fortresses, this one known as Carnival Island that is being used as a base while Robotnik attempts to locate the Chaos Rings, before making him navigate the maze in a twisted game. When Sonic completes the mazes, however... he is immediately dumped back into a cage for Robotnik's leisure, where he meets a young squirrel named Ray.
Tails Skypatrol
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With Sonic currently missing in action, Tails steps up to protect the island from several new bad guys whom claim Westside Island for their own.
Knuckles Chaotix
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Knuckles, spotting Carnival Island from Angel Island, feels a familiar energy. He goes to investigate, being drawn by the Chaos Rings, before interrupting Robotnik as he tends to Espio the Chameleon. The events of the game pan out...
SEGASonic the Hedgehog
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After Knuckles Chaotix, Mighty immediately returns to Carnival Island to locate an old friend, Ray, as he was why Mighty was there in the first place. Being captured and thrown into the same cage as the other two, the other facilities to damaged by the Chaotix to hold them, they all manage a breakout and proceed to finish off the Carnival Island base, though with the Chaos Rings gone Robotnik feels there was no more point to the base anyway.
Sonic Blast
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Robotnik decides to shove caution to the wind and just shoot Sonic, but instead accidentally hits the Chaos Emeralds and scatters them again. Knuckles, looking for Tails to catcha ride back to Angel Island, agrees to help Sonic fight Robotnik once more.
Sonic 3D: Flickies Island
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Calming the hell down after his revenge plot, Robotnik decides to start from scratch on Flickies Island and immediately begins constructing an army as he did on South Island. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles all head for the island to stop Robotnik, Knuckles tagging along as he still feels he owes Sonic his life.
Sonic R
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Seemingly losing his mind again, Robotnik organizes a race with Sonic and co, but his planned courses have Sonic worried as they all seem curiously close to where he has hidden the Chaos Emeralds...
Sonic the Fighters
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The Little Planet comes around once more, still held by the Death Egg (since Sonic 4 seems to have been abandoned). Robotnik immediately pounces and uses it to construct an army, adding more modules to increase production. As the world fends off the invasion, a minor fight breaks out over the Chaos Emeralds and whom gets to deal with Robotnik...
Sonic Mania (Plus)
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Sonic and Tails travel to Angel Island at Knuckles' request, as Angel Island has mysteriously crashed into the water once more. Upon their arrival, however, they encounter EggRobos, lead by the EggRobo of Sonic R, digging up an odd jewel that proceeds to interfere with the world around it.
Sonic Forces (Classic Sonic)
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Due to the influence of the Time Stones ambient energy on Little Planet, similar to how it absorbed the energy of the Master Emerald and caused Angel Island to crash, the Phantom Ruby displays the point in the future when it becomes active again as an illusion for Sonic to interact with. Tails and Robotnik, as a result, mistake Sonic as being from another dimension, as they have no recollection of Sonic's absence in the past, disappearing for after adventures just being par for the course with him. The Phantom Ruby 'remembers' this and enacts it as an illusion once the correct time comes, unable to stop itself as it wasn't meant for the power of the Time Stones and thus cannot control it.
Sonic Mania Adventures
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With the Phantom Ruby inactive until the future, Sonic reappears to the world on Angel Island, another effect of the Time Stone-empowered Phantom Ruby. Upon seeing Robotnik continuing his usual ways, Sonic springs into action.
Sonic Pocket Adventure
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After so many defeats, Robotnik hits a slump and finds himself unable to develop new Badniks. Instead, he employs some old excess badniks in an attempt at grabbing the Chaos Emeralds. After his defeat, Robotnik decides to take a year off to try and reinvigorate himself.
Sonic Jam
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Sonic, now a worldwide hero, receives a museum dedicated to his actions: the Sonic Journey Accumulation Museum. A recap on his journey up until now, he decides to have a proper holiday while Robotnik is being quiet, taking about a year off until he eventually turns up in a place called Station Square...
And the timeline mentions a second Metal Sonic during Triple Trouble. That isn't a random addition, that Metal Sonic is damaged and refurbished by Robotnik with knowledge garnered during Generations, building the Metal Sonic seen in Sonic 3 and Knuckles from TT Metal Sonic's remains.
Please, share your theories, I'd be interested to hear them all.
This post has been edited by BlackHole: 09 April 2018 - 12:04 PM