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Sonic the Hedgehog [a] [1] is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog and the main protagonist of the series. Developed as a replacement for their existing Alex Kidd mascot, as well as Sega's response to Mario, his first appearance was in the arcade game Rad Mobile as a cameo, before making his official debut in Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).
Sonic the Hedgehog [b] is a character created by the Japanese game developers Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima. He is the star of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Sega. Sonic is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speed, hence his name.
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Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the bestselling video game franchises. Its cumulative sales reached 89 million copies by March 2011 [481] [482] and over 140 million by 2016. [483] The Mario & Sonic series alone sold over 19 million copies as of 2011. [482] The Sonic the Hedgehog games had grossed over $5 billion in sales by 2014. [484]
Outside of the video game series, Shadow appears in the anime series Sonic X, which adapts the story of the Sonic Adventure games, as well as Sonic Boom and Sonic Prime.The original Japanese cast from the games reprised their roles for the former, [25] while Jason Griffith (who also voiced Sonic) voiced Shadow in its English dub by 4Kids Entertainment. [26]
In the American Sonic comic book, along with the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, he was originally brown, as the only color reference of Tails provided to DIC Entertainment by Sega of America was an early sprite of Tails, which depicted him with a burnt orange color scheme; the comic artists and cartoon artists ...
The Sonic the Hedgehog Archie Comics series contained various references to the OVA; in issue #101 the character Metal Robotnik appears in an alternate universe story, although his coloring altered from red to blue. Knuckles the Echidna also dons his hat from the film numerous times across the comic's run.
Multiple prototype designs of Knuckles the Echidna. During conception of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the development team wanted to create a new rival for Sonic. [9] The final design of Knuckles was the result of dozens of possible designs inspired by numerous different animals.