Sonic Prime facts for kids
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| Developed by | Man of Action |
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| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Running time | 22–43 minutes |
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| Distributor | Netflix Streaming Services |
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| Original network | Netflix |
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| Audio format | Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 |
| Original release | December 15, 2022 – present |
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Sonic Prime is an animated television series based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, co-produced by Netflix Animation, WildBrain Studios, Man of Action and Sega Sammy Group's animation studio Marza Animation Planet. It is the sixth animated television series based on the franchise.
The first season, comprising eight episodes, was released on Netflix on December 15, 2022. According to WildBrain Studios, the series is to have at least 24 episodes in total.
Contents
Premise
During a battle with Dr. Eggman, Sonic recklessly shatters the Paradox Prism, a crystalloid artifact with reality-bending powers, which destroys the universe and creates the "Shatterverse", a void where each shard of the prism forms an alternate dimension inhabited by alternate versions of Sonic's friends (Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Rouge and Big) called a "Shatterspace", which lack their own versions of him. Seeking to restore the Universe, Sonic ventures into each of the perilous worlds, to restore the artifact, while combatting the Chaos Council, a group of Dr. Eggman variants who seek to conquer these new worlds and collect the fragments for their nefarious purposes.
Voice cast
Main page: List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters
- Deven Mack as Sonic the Hedgehog, Orbot and Cubot
- Brian Drummond as Dr. Eggman / Mr. Dr. Eggman / Dr. Done It, Stormbeard
- Ashleigh Ball as Miles "Tails" Prower / Tails Nine / Mangey Tails / Sails Tails, Bunny Bones
- Adam Nurada as Knuckles the Echidna
- Shannon Chan-Kent as Amy Rose / Rusty Rose / Thorn Rose / Black Rose
- Ian Hanlin as Shadow the Hedgehog, Big the Cat / Denizen 1998 / Hangry Cat / Catfish
- Kazumi Evans as Rouge the Bat / Rebel Rouge / Prim Rouge / Batten Rouge
- Vincent Tong as Renegade Knucks / Gnarly Knuckles / Knuckles the Dread, Dr. Deep / Dr. Don't / Dr. Babble
- Rachell Hofstetter as Squad Commander Red
- Seán McLoughlin as Jack
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 1 | "Shattered" | Erik Wiese | Man of Action & Erik Wiese | December 10, 2022 (Roblox premiere)
December 15, 2022 (Netflix) |
| While engaging in a fight with his nemesis, Dr. Eggman, Sonic the Hedgehog destroys the Paradox Prism, an ancient artifact with immense power. This causes a ripple in the space-time continuum, separating Sonic from his friends and sending him to New Yoke City, a dystopian version of Green Hills in a parallel universe ruled by the Chaos Council, a group made up of five Eggman variants (Dr. Babble, Dr. Done It, Dr. Deep, Dr. Don’t and Mr. Dr. Eggman). Travelling through his new surroundings, Sonic is confronted by Nine, a variant of his best friend Tails who constructed mechanized tails as weapons against his childhood bullies, not having Sonic to help him. Sonic earns Nine's trust, and the young genius modifies Sonic's shoes and gloves to attune to the new energy in his body from the Prism. However, Sonic and Nine are captured, and Sonic is taken for tests run by Rusty Rose, a variant of Amy Rose turned into a subservient cyborg. When the variants threaten Nine, Sonic pushes his powers to maximum, causing him to generate a massive amount of energy. However, he notices what seems to be a hallucination of his rival Shadow the Hedgehog during the surge and flashbacks to an earlier confrontation with him. | ||||
| 2 | "The Yoke's On You" | Erik Wiese | Man of Action & Erik Wiese | December 15, 2022 |
| In a flashback, Shadow receives a vision of Sonic causing the world to shatter while feeling the impact Sonic causes when he attacked Eggman's badnik. Shadow questions Sonic's action and attempts to stop him from reaching Eggman's place to prevent the impending catastrophe. However, his hostile tactics and cryptic warnings make Sonic misunderstand his intention, and both fight each other before Sonic slows him down enough to reach Eggman. Back in the present, Sonic's energy surge causes New Yoke City to temporarily black out, cluing the Eggman variants to a new source of power, coming to the decision to dissect and strip the energy from Sonic's body. However, resistance fighters Rebel Rouge and Renegade Knucks arrive and rescue him and Nine, but are prevented from leaving by Rusty Rose and were also brawling with a large sum of bots but were saved by Sonic flimsy knocking an activated laser gun off balance. | ||||
| 3 | "Escape From New Yoke" | Erik Wiese | Man of Action & Erik Wiese | December 15, 2022 |
| After destroying most of the Badniks, Sonic, Nine, and the Resistance decide to take the opportunity to steal the "Crystal" that gives the Council supreme power. Nine successfully takes over Rusty Rose's programming, making her fight alongside them. When reaching the room where the power source is located, Sonic and Nine are separated from Rebel, Knucks, and Rusty who buys them time fighting against the incoming Badniks while Sonic and Nine get the power source. It turns out that the Crystal is in fact a shard of Paradox Prism. This makes Sonic realize that he has caused the world to change after he destroyed the Paradox Prism during the attempt to stop Eggman. Sonic refrains from touching the shard, but does so at Nine's insistance, sending him to another universe. | ||||
| 4 | "Unwelcome to the Jungle" | Erik Wiese & Kiran Sangherra | Brittany Jo Flores | December 15, 2022 |
| Sonic is sent to the jungle world of Boscage Maze, where he meets Mangey, Prim, Hangry, and Gnarly, (strange tree-dwelling versions of Tails, Rouge, Big, and Knuckles) who live in fear of a familiar "monster" down below. Seeing that they can use Sonic's speed to distract the monster long enough for them to get food from the forest, Prim tricks Sonic into helping them with the promise they'll guide him to a shard of Paradox Prism. While looking for food, the monster attacks them, sending Mangey, Prim, Hangry, and Gnarly back to their lair, leaving Sonic alone to face the monster, who is revealed to be Thorn Rose, a variant of Amy, and her giant bird, Birdie. Thorn explains that Prim and the others are scavengers who have greedily ravaged the jungle without a care for nature, so she's fighting them to protect it. During the fight, Thorny notices the light from Sonic's shoes is similar to "The Great Green". Believing it to be a shard of the prism, Sonic convinces Thorn to escort him to the Great Green by promising he will leave afterward. The Great Green that Thorn refers to is actually a coconut tree that Sonic is familiar with from his original world. Sonic finds the shard of Paradox Prism beneath the tree, but when Sonic tries to take it, Thorn deems Sonic as another scavenger and takes the shard from him. | ||||
| 5 | "Barking Up The Wrong Tree" | Erik Wiese | Patricia Villetto | December 15, 2022 |
| Sonic remembers a time when Amy gave him a coconut tree as a surprise gift. Amy explains the importance of the memories made around the tree, but Sonic dismisses it as his friends being too sentimental, which disappoints Amy. Back to the present, Sonic tries to grab the shard from Thorn who uses its power to make more plants grow to cover the whole jungle until the scavengers can't go down. Sonic tries to persuade the scavengers to find a common ground with Thorn so they can live side by side. It is revealed that the scavengers and Thorn were friends until Thorn became disgusted by how the scavengers greedily kept taking the natural resources from the jungle to the point of harming it and become obsessed with protecting the forest, chasing them all the way to the canopy. Sonic arranges for both sides to meet up and talk, only for the scavengers instead to use it as an opportunity to attack Thorn while she's distracted, angering her further. Noticing that the same coconut tree has withered due to lack of sunlight, Sonic tricks Thorn into throwing her hammer and the shard above, revealing the condition of the tree, and healing it. This helps Thorn realize she's doing more harm than good, revealing her side of the scavengers' story in that she tried to warn them about their overfarming of the natural resources but they kept ignoring her, upon which she eventually snapped and attacked them in a misguided act of defense, something she came to regret as this lead them to view her as an enemy. This leads her to reconcile with the scavengers. Sonic goes to get the shard, but trips and comes into contact with the shard, transporting him back to New Yoke. | ||||
| 6 | "Situation: Grim" | Erik Wiese | Marcus Rinehart | December 15, 2022 |
| Rocketed back to New Yoke in full revolt, Sonic learns that weeks have passed since he got transported to Boscage Maze. It turns out that right after Sonic vanished, Nine fled with the shard, leaving behind Knucks and Rebel at the Badnik's mercy and Rusty returning to her original programming. As the result, Rebel and the other Resistance members are distrustful of Sonic. Taken to the Resistance's hideout, Rebel shows Sonic their version of the coconut tree, the only natural tree left and the symbol of the life they deserve. The Chaos Council tracks down Sonic's position through the traces of the shard's energy from him and attacks the Resistance's hideout. Nine appears in an airship powered by a Shatter Drive, a machine that allows him to use the stolen shard's powers to open portals between the Shatterverse, the void between the worlds, which he calls Shatterspaces. Nine takes Sonic with him to a barren Shatterspace called the Grim. Nine admits that he hopes to start over everything in the new world with the proper fortification of the shard's energy to create a new home for both of them. But Sonic refuses to abandon the rebels, so Nine reluctantly sends Sonic back to New Yoke without him, but has a change of heart and returns to assist Sonic and the Resistance. While Sonic and the Resistance successfully defeat the Eggforcers attacking them, the Chaos Council unleashes their giant floating fortress, the Mothership, and captures Nine. | ||||
| 7 | "It Takes One to No Place" | Erik Wiese | Omar Spahi | December 15, 2022 |
| In a flashback, Shadow chases after Sonic and arrives seconds before Sonic shatters the Paradox Prism. At the same moment, Shadow uses Chaos Control in a split second before Sonic shatters the Prism, teleporting him to The Shatterverse. However, the teleportation has trapped him in the void, unable to traverse the Shatterspaces. Back to the present, On his way to rescue Nine, Sonic sees an apparent apparition of Shadow telling him to keep going without stopping, and when he does, his powers kick in and he teleports into another Shatterspace, the deep seas of No Place, where he meets Batten, Sails, Black Rose, and Catfish (partying pirate versions of Rouge, Tails, Amy, and Big), led by legendary pirate Knuckles the Dread. They welcome Sonic into their crew as they find his speed useful and he helps them defeat Dread's former crew. Dread explains how he and his former crew used to aim for a treasure called the Devil's Lighthouse which is actually a shard of Paradox Prism, only for them to end up with their ship getting wrecked and Dread's former crew deserting him. Sonic insists on getting the shard, so Dread makes him the captain. Unexpectedly, Rusty Rose and a group of Eggforce arrive on a submarine and attack the pirates. | ||||
| 8 | "There's No ARRGH In "Team"" | Erik Wiese | Justin Peniston | December 15, 2022 |
| After being captured by the Chaos Council, Nine is forced to surrender his Shatter Drive Technology to them so that they can use it to conquer the entire Shatterverse, but Nine conveniences them that Sonic will be needed due to his unique ability to generate Shatter energy to send their entire fleet across the Shatterverse since the Shard they have has only granted them a limited amount of Prism energy, which they reluctantly agree on. Meanwhile, in No Place, Rusty Rose and a submarine full of Badniks attack Sonic and the pirates, who attempt to fight back, but with very little success. After having a drone scan and replicate the Shard navigation mod on Sonic's sneakers so that she can find the Prism, Rusty prepares to give the order to destroy the ship, but unexpectedly holds back and orders the Badniks to stand down after seeing her Pirate counterpart, Black Rose. As the Submarine leaves for The Devil's Lighthouse, the pirates' ship starts to sink. Sonic convinces Dread to return. Dread is reluctant to do so at first, but, after realizing that finishing what he failed to accomplish would restore his reputation as a feared Pirate, he reassumes command and has his crew use buoyancy materials to keep the ship afloat. They sail to The Devil's Lighthouse at full speed, dodging the rocks and catching up to the Council's submarine and engaging them in combat, using Sea Dogs instead of cannons to take out the Badniks on board, while Dread spin-dashes his way toward the Devil's Lighthouse. Sonic and the pirates defeat Rusty and the army of oncoming Badniks, before Sonic speeds to the Devil's Lighthouse. Dread, who has suddenly gone mad with greed, gets his hands on the Shard, and wards off the Badniks trying to take it from him until he is knocked off the top of the mountain. Sonic saves him, but touches the Shard and disappears back into the Void. However, he is confronted once again by an enraged Shadow, who informs him that his actions has resulted in their world's non-existance. | ||||
Production
Sonic Prime was officially announced in February 2021, though the development of the series was initially revealed in a deleted tweet in December 2020. The series will have 24 episodes overall. Colleen O'Shaughnessey, known for portraying Miles "Tails" Prower since 2014, responded to a tweet on Twitter that she won't be reprising the role in the Netflix series, due to Canadian content and union laws meaning that a large portion of voice actors portraying roles in Canadian television programs have to be Canadian. In May 2022, it was announced that Deven Mack would voice the titular character for the series.
The series is made by Man of Action and WildBrain Studios, and marks as their second collaboration on a video game based series after Mega Man: Fully Charged, along with Netflix Animation and Sega's animation studio Marza Animation Planet. One of the writers, Duncan Rouleau, stated that the series will be set in "the video game universe created by Sonic Team" and that "possible Sega crossovers are not ruled out." According to executive producer Logan McPherson, the series is canon to the game's timeline. In June 2021, concept art of the series was discovered on a now deleted artist's portfolio.
Duncan Rouleau later confirmed that Ian Flynn, who has written for the Archie, Boom, IDW series and the newly released Sonic Frontiers, would be a consultant. Additionally, The Willoughbys director Kris Pearn worked on the series as a creative consultant with My Little Pony: Equestria Girls director Ishi Rudell as an episodic director.
Release
The first season of Sonic Prime, consisting of eight episodes, was released on December 15, 2022. The first episode premiered on Gamefam's Roblox game, "Sonic Speed Simulator" on December 10, 2022. The release timeframes of the next seasons have not been officially confirmed, but will be in the "not too distant future" after the first season, according to executive producer Logan McPherson.
See also
In Spanish: Sonic Prime para niños
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