How Exactly Old IS Sonic??? 

Maybe Sonic's age was the friends he made along the way...

Tbh I really think Sonic just SAYS he's 15 every time he's asked, but actually has no clue about the passage of time. That hedgehog is a mysterious being and he was not enrolled in kindergarten. /hj

He ages in the same way Ash Ketchum does

You see Sonic is staying perpetually 15 because one time Tails watched too much Doctor Who and attempted to recreate the tardis and it went horribly wrong.

Honestly i think saying hes 19/20 in frontiers makes sense. My headcanon is that he starts his adventures relatively young. Id say like 10-12. And by the time heroes rolls around hes 15. His age also matters because we get a sense of his growth in terms of strength as well as how he actually rests and relaxes. Imagine he goes through unleashed, colors and then generations all in the span of like, 5 months. That's sonic going from like, Light speed, to mftl and able to take on guys he needed to be SUPER for in his base form in less than a year. With barely any time to rest and recover from previous fights. That's not only insane growth in terms of power but in speed and recovery as well. It'd be like if u went to the gym at 12 and started lifting 35 lb weights, then came back 2 weeks later lifting 2 ton weights, then came back a day later and lifted the ENTIRE DAMN GYM.

There's also some dialogue that completely screws with the ages set for characters. Like in Sonic Forces, Infinite states that Eggman has tried and failed to destroy Sonic for "decades", implying it's been more than 10 (maybe 20) years. There's also a quote in Sonic Frontiers where Sage says that Tails has known Sonic for "most of his life", implying that Frontiers takes place more than 8 years after Sonic 2. This whole age thing is just a confusing mess given all the little details like that

I find it incredibly simple and it usually shocks me what crazy numbers people throw out, as low as 8 and as high as 47. Here's the facts, here's what we know: He's 15 in Adventure 2 He celebrated his birthday in Generations so he's over 16 He celebrated his birthday in Sonic Runners which ISN'T a Generations adaptation but a canon game to the timeline so he's over 17. How much time passes from Generations to Forces is unknown but there is a 6 month time jump in Forces, so Sonic is either late into his 17th year or past 18 by the end of Forces. Given his different voice in Frontiers I'd argue it's safe to assume some time has passed, as well as taking into consideration the IDW comics which take place over many weeks at the very least (and it honestly feels like months, especially after the Metal Virus saga), Sonic right now in Frontiers is 18+. Could be 18, could be 19, could be 20, but I'd assume they're trying to keep him as young as possible without retconing anything, so he's probably 18.

Sonic's Age is ∞

My head canon is that every 10 years is one year in Sonic's universe.

Sonic being 19 is actually what my headcanon for his age is honestly.

Sonics age is all over the place because he time travelled to many times - it got scrambled by the big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

Doesn’t Amy aging up from 8 to 12 retroactively make Sonic 11 during Sonic CD?

20 is an INCREDIBLY important age in Japan, signifying adulthood. So I doubt he would be 20 or older. Sonic also takes a lot of inspiration from the shonen genre (which is notorious for never aging their protagonists) so I think being slightly older than 15 works for the series.

What bothers me is that sometimes time actually passes in Sonic's world. Little Planet is said to come back each year to the same location. It obviously first appears in Sonic CD, but it also comes back in Sonic 4, (which supposedly is still canon and happens somewhere between 3 and the first Adventure game), making it make even less sense that Sonic is 15 years old in both games. It also comes back in Mania but that time it probably happened due to Phantom Ruby shenanigans. For me Sonic is at least 17, since in his first appearance they claimed he was 15. At this age is when all of the classic games take place. A year passes, his design changes and most of the modern games happen. Then comes his birthday in Generations making him 17. Plus the 6 months that he was in jail in Forces he might actually be close to being 18. At least this is how I like to view all this conundrum. It's kinda wild that after 31 years of the franchise SEGA doesn't want him to age a single year lmao.

i just go by different age brackets for the characters. child: consisiting of characters like cream and charmy who are portrayed as yound childeren young teen: consisting of characers like tails who are more mature than the child bracket but still quite young. teen: consisting of characters like amy who are portrayed as teenagers. young adult/ old teen: consisting of characters like sonic, knuckles and espio who are clearly close to being a full adult and are fairly mature. adult: for characters like vector, vanilla, rouge, eggman and shadow who are portrayed as adults. elderly, this is used for characters who are portrayed as elderly like gerald, and unknown: used for characters like the end, chaos, chip and dark gaia who we know are ancient but have no explicit time frame of when things happened

He was originally stated as 15 on Sonic Channel, but then his and every other characters' age was removed, which tells me Sega doesn't really want this to have an answer anymore. My guess is cuz said ages makes things complicated with Amy considering she was 11.

Going to offer up my own explanation. Classic Era Sonic: 11 Amy: 8 Tails: 4 Knuckles: 12 Classic Sonic is constantly shown to be considerably younger yet still has the attitude fitting a middle-schooler who just saved the world. (Or at least saving Mighty and Ray in SegaSonic since that game seems to take place before Sonic 1.) Tails met Sonic when he was very young and in a lot of media at the time, he was portrayed as being younger than just 8 judging by voice direction and just how he was presented in general. Amy is known to have been 8 in CD before having a design change and agelift to 12 in Sonic Adventure. So it is reasonable to say that between Sonic 3 & K and Adventure, the countless spin-offs took place over a few years. In Sonic Adventure, pretty much all of the main cast act like they haven't seen each other for a long time and that the Classic Era stories happened years ago. So Classic to Adventure is four years. The Adventure Era is much more simple since all games in this time period happened relatively close to each other and were closely related. Thus, they can fit within one year. Sonic: 15 Amy: 12 Tails: 8 Knuckles: 16 After the Adventure Era, Sonic's birthday happens, meaning everyone goes up a year. There have since been a few more games and Sonic Forces gave us a MASSIVE time-skip, meaning it's likely that Sonic missed his own birthday, Tails hit the big 1-0, and Knuckles became a legal adult (at least as far as the United Federation is concerned anyways). So currently: Sonic: 17 Amy: 14 Tails: 10 Knuckles: 18

Here’s my sense on it: Even though Sega claimed the voice tone is a one time thing for frontiers, I doubt it since they also said they plan to further go down that road of frontiers and given People generally seemed to have a positive response toward the voice direction I think it’s here to stay. With that in mind, if we are to assume he is an adult in frontiers than I’d say he in his early twenties or at the bare minimum 21. The reason I say that it because it still seems he is 3 years older than Amy and Although Sega doesn’t seem too keen on putting Sonic in a relationship, I do think they wanna keep the character to does have feelings for him within a reasonable and legal gap especially since the Twitter Takeovers (which do seem to be semi canon) seem to hint that he may like her back as well. Plus Amy sounds older in Frontiers when compared to previous games aswell. So from what it seems to me, Sonic is 21 at the bare minimum as of Frontiers.

the blue hedgehog was ash ketchum all along

You know, if Sonic moves fast enough, that would actually cause time dilation from his perspective and make him biologically younger than his chronological age.

Honestly, my inner storyteller is intensely intrigued by the potential implications of Sonic literally not aging despite multiple canonical years clearly passing. Think about it, We don't really even have a proper canonical backstory for him, Sonic is one of the small handful of individuals capable of turning Super with the Chaos Emeralds, effortlessly reproduces Shadow's Chaos Control after seeing him do it once despite pretty much nobody else being able to do so at all, and Shadow himself even makes the observation that Sonic himself might actually be the true Ultimate Life Form. Even after that, Sonic continuously just kinda casually does things that nobody should be able to do, such as in Frontiers with his casual entering and leaving of Cyberspace. What if Shadow was actually right? What if Sonic really IS the Ultimate Life Form? What if the characters around him are slowly aging up, but he's just... Not? Who and what really is Sonic the Hedgehog? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but that's what makes being a fan of a franchise so fun. We don't nitpick the finer details out of these franchises out of hate, but because we care enough about the franchise to do so. It's fun to theorize about such things.

I think 19 sounds about right for Frontiers. Although that would mean that sonic 1 and frontiers are canonically only 6 years apart which is weird to think about. I also like Sonic being 15 in the adventure era. Being immature but still doing what's right. He acts a little more mature in Frontiers but still overall is himself and I love it. It really makes it feel like Sonic is a character that grows mentally and physically with the design changes and writing tone changes.

I’m waiting to play as 40 year old Sonic where he has to determine what percentage of his rings he wants to keep in his 401k

Ok ok I've actually thought about this a lot. Around 3:02 in the video, he mentioned that Amy Rose was 8 in Sonic CD, but she was 12 in Heroes. That means 4 years has passed. If Sonic was 15 in Heroes, then he was 11 or 12 in CD. Hope that helps!

Where did they confirm Sonic's lower voice was a one time gimmick?

The fact is, there is no good answer because no one at SEGA cares enough to keep this story straight. New game and new media just arbitrarily label Sonic age as whatever they want with no thought to previous continuity. You put more effort into tracking Sonic's age than the people who actually create Sonic media, it's pointless to try and find a conclusive answer that makes sense to the question of Sonic's true age.

At this point I just say "Yes" when ppl ask this question becuase of how complicated it is.

Clearly he discovered the secret to eternal youth on one of his adventures. Sonic found the guy who initially discovered it and simply asked. Though he did find it weird that there was a yellow mouse that followed the dude everywhere but he’s seen stranger.

Sonic here casually being 15 for the last 30 years

8:28 Man. She was 8 back in Sonic CD. WE HAVE TO KNOW IT!!!

Sonic, amy and knuckles age constantly flopping up and down for no reason Tails: 🙂

Funny enough I asked my sister this question and she said, “well he’s a teen, is he not?” I took that as fact because he looked like and sounded like a teen.

Well, I see why Sega is hiring a dedicated loremaster now. And this is probably the smallest detail to line up lol. I do agree Sonic being around 18-19 as of Frontiers makes sense So if it ever does come up again I hope they consider something like this (assuming that Frontiers is the farthest game in the timeline... IDK enough about the comics to confirm that stattement).

In Brazil, one of the most culturally appreciated and childhood of many generations is a comic called Turma da Mônica (Monica's Gang, in the english version). In the stories, although it all started in the 1950s and they made A TON of birthdays thorough the comics (and they are mostly very fun to read), they never age past 7. Sometimes they even joke about it, about being eternally 7. They are 7 until the next birthday episode, when they suddenly turn into a 6 year old kid going to their 7th birthday. There's also the manga style version that has been going on since 2008 (I'm a huge fan and have the majority of the "mangas"), where they are eternally 15 (just like Sonic!), even if there are main events in the story that takes place months after one another or they're returning from their school break _again._ I just don't think much about it lololol

i think classic sonic was 11, and then in sonic adventure he became 15 years old, sonic is definitely not 30 years old because he still sounds like a teenager in current sonic games so maybe he is like 18 or 19 or something

sonic's age might as well be a time paradox...

I think the more important issue here is that the world is reliant on a high school student to save their world every time

Old enough to be dead two times over in hedgehog years 🪦🦔

*Sonic is canonically old enough to drive a car. Team Sonic Racing/ Sega All Stars Racing games etc. Also he is probably older in Frontiers.*

This video legit made me question about the Sonamy ship more than before since you're head canon of his age (in which I agree on) makes his year gap to Amy longer. A.k.a makes Sonic 19 years old, while Amy (from my calculations and it's not 100% correct) 14 years old in Sonic Frontiers.

Sonic must be having a really tough year.

I feel like the characters live in a time loop and that’s how they’re still the same age because there’s no way all of these adventures happened in the span of a year.

sonic is a time traveler problem solved

Trick question : He ages with us in our hearts 😔

Regarding the joke you made about Amy around the end I think it’s safe to say she’s right around sonics age, possibly 17-18 at the least. If she were 12 would she really have been put in charge of the resistance in forces and the restoration efforts in the IDW comics? She’s been showing to be much more mature than her earlier counterparts behavior and I’d find it odd to place a 12 year old in charge of war efforts LOL

I guess aging only works for certain characters Amy went from 8 to 12 Knuckles went from 15 to 16 Charmy went from 16 to freaking 6 💀 But now it seems the characters have no official ages anymore according to Sonic Channel. And honestly, even though we've known the ages for years, I kinda like with this update maybe we can interpret their ages now. It's kinda like the vocaloids where most don't have confirmed ages, so fans can come up with their own ideas how old they are

Honestly not to long ago I worked the math out on my own (using sonic x as a bases for how time works between our reality and theirs) I know it’s not the same continuity but I remember that in SonicX on earth when 6 years passed in Sonics universe on his planet only like 6 months passed.. so what if for every 12 years our time from 1991 (age 15) to now 2022 he has only aged about 2.5 years (his time) making him about 17 almost 18 years old.. makes sense to me it also it will kinda line up with the fact he had a birthday in generations (2011) making him 16 (but our time 20 years) which is 1.6 years his time.

I think Sonic just goes by cartoon logic where the characters never get older even though time has passed. The difference from Classic and Modern Sonic is just a redesign, not indicative of the character getting older. Idk about why he went from 16 to 15 in Heroes though.

For me, the Classic Sonic in Forces and Mania are still alternate timeline versions of Sonic. Basically Modern Sonic exists in a timeline where the Time Eater never grabbed his younger self but that does happen to the Classic Sonic in Gens; which creates a new parallel timeline going into Mania(Plus,Adventures) and then he goes into Forces and then back into his own timeline. If that Classic Sonic in Forces, Gens and Mania continues to exist in the same timeline of Modern Sonic; then Modern Sonic should have known about the events of Generations beforehand since he experienced them as his younger self.

My guess is that he’s 17, I think they want to keep him a “kid” but he seems a lot more mature.

He’s 16 in frontiers. But when he was knocked out upon entering starfall islands, he woke up with a sore throat.

I think Sega is going to age up the characters if they keep the more mature/serious tone like in Frontiers, and I think the biggest point to that idea is sonic and tails. If sonic is going to continue on the path Frontiers laid out, it would make sense for sonic to be an adult because its more ethical (not sure if thats the right word, correct me if you know what I mean) for a mature, kinda mellow and calm sonic to tackle a serious/mature story instead of a fast paced, cocky and immature teenager, and in my opinion they can't have a mature sonic that's still 15 without some time travel BS, because that would change sonics character, while a sonic that has matured over the years and all his adventures would make sense form a story perspective. The next big point is Tails and how he says he wants to start doing solo adventures, and it would make more sense for tails to be a young teen in Frontiers (in Frontiers every island if focused on a specific character and their story, tails story arc seems to focus on self discovery and growing up, I believe that because tails has realizations about how inconsistent he is in storys, wanting to have solo adventures, and how he views himself after Forces. Also Eggman says in an eggmemo that he thinks tails is wasting his potential and staying in sonics shadow and sonic mentions growing up to tails a few times in Frontiers) instead of the 8 year old fox thats followed sonic around for years to finally have those solo adventures and challenges. (Yes, I know they were most likely talking about the dlc to Frontiers when tails said he wants to "go it alone" but weather its the dlc or a spin off game, it'll be the first time tails was playable in a mainstream * not sure if it's the right word * game sense sonic adventure 2 * to my knowledge *).

Classic Sonic is from another time in another dimension. Both Classic and modern Tails said they were traveling through time and space

Sonic forever being 15, physically 15 forever sounds cool cause ya know he’s Sonic, he’s full of energy, heroism, can perform tricks and stuff and doesn’t have to worry about broken backspines in his old age. But if you think about 19, fits Sonic in Frontiers. 19 year olds do sound more like that sometimes and they’re just down to earth as he is in Frontiers. Sonic is still 15 though because SEGA says so, Look at Dreamcast and Heroes Sonic, they’re just full of more spirit and adventure, just more excited to save the world than anything. We all want that back. Not a 40 year old Sonic, who saves the world until he passes on.

Sonic realistically as an orphan who was left somewhere and grew up all alone in most versions of his story so I don't think he knows how old he is and he's so small that he could get away with saying that he's 15 but in a lot of merch he looks a lot older so maybe he thinks he's 15 because the passage of time doesn't matter to him.

Honestly, it feels right with Sonic being 19. Let's hope he ages consistently with each game released.

19 years. That's his age. Why? The answer is very simple, Sonic has 2 official birthday games and with a 3rd happening this year. (Frontiers is the 3rd one) Forces also counts as partial part of his growth too, due of his captivity months.

It should be ambiguous. If he had to have a age it should be early 20s

answer is that sonic is stuck in a time loop

Sonic is a fictional character who simply doesn't age.

I actually much prefer how you broke it down towards the end. It makes the most sense. Stealing headcanon now

I have a theory what if the reason why sonic is still 15 is because he ages slowly his body is still 15 but his physical age is like 32 (sense he’s existed that long) that’s what I’ve always assumed

I think movie sonic is 12 but I have no idea.

I genuinely think Ryan and Roger Tap into the teenage part making him sound 15 (excluding the fact that frontier sonic sounds much older now), but Jason made him sound much older in the 2000’s

Good video btw definitely subscribing. My headcanon as well with information from websites, videos (sonic fandom website)and manuals (Japanese manuals to be precise.) it says he left Christmas Island at an early age, and since the manual for Sonic Heroes says he's 15 (along with other characters ages.) doing some math and theorising he could at least be 9 to 10 years old in Sonic 1 until adventure 1&2 where he's at least 13 to 14 years old, then Heroes to generations he's about 15 to 16 (06 took place in an alternate universe which means it's not canon and Sega and Sonic Team making Sonic Rivels Slivers canon appearance in the series. Info by Tony Sonic's EWW CHARRI5'S EWW SONIC Generations video.) then 16 to 17 in Forces and Frontiers. That's my theory.

Perhaps mobians (I know that term isn’t technically canon but there isn’t a better word to include all anthropomorphic creatures in the sonic series) age slower than humans. Sonic being 15 is just how old he is when translated to human development

sega: sonic's age is 15 infinite in sonic forces: you've been losing to sonic for decades

Nice video my friend! You have a lot of potential dude! I wish you great amounts of happiness and success! :)

Great video! I don't think Forces decanonized the classic games, I think Generations just caused a timeline split. Modern Sonic moved on to Lost World, continuing the main timeline. If Generations didn't happen, Classic Sonic would've moved on to (most notably) Adventure, like Modern Sonic did after 3, but because Generations happened, Classic Sonic went on to Mania. Basically, they were the same person, but since Generations, they are now two different entities from different dimensions.

8:28 THIS PART GOT ME GOOD, I GUESS I GOTTA WATCH MORE OF THIS LOL

i think its way fitting when sonic is around 15-17, he got that teenager vibes and apparently he sounds like one

i always love these videos really tryna figure out things, subbed

8:29 Okay that sound was pretty creepy

Sega should just age them up, I don't see why they don't since it would fix a lot of problems. If I had to give them an age range it would be: Sonic: 19-21 Amy: 18-20 Tails: 12-14 Knuckles: 20-23 Silver: 18-20 Shadow: Immortal but mentally in his 20s?? Not so sure about this one. The other children characters like Cream and Charmy could be 10-12 and the adult characters like Cream's mother and Eggman could be left ambiguous. The rest of the characters, such as Tangel or Espio or even Jet aren't of much concern, but I'd just chalk it up to the same age range as Sonic's. Unless, However, they're wanting to get rid of their ages entirely so Sonic could be whatever age they want for whatever he's in like OTHER game characters- Although, if that was the case I don't know why they don't just state that the ages are no longer canon. Sega being Sega ig

Well, considering how much Rule 34 of Sonic and his friends there is, I sure _hope_ he's at least 18 by now.

0:03 THAT ACTUALLY GOT ME 💀

Ok so i know there may be some debate but here's my headcanon ages for sonic throughout each of the games. Sonic 1 and CD- 14 (i always assumed that the death egg was being constructed during the events of sonic one and was completed in sonic 2. that explains why eggman was able to finish it so quickly in between the first two games. Sonic 2 -15 Sonic 3&K - 15 Sonic adventure 1 and 2 - 16 Sonic heroes and sonic rush - 17 Sonic unleashed - 18 Sonic colors - 20 (mostly because it would take eggman 2 years to build the park and chain multiple planets, even with an army of robots) Sonic generations and lost world: 20 Forces: 21 Frontiers:22 So that makes sonic currently 22 years old as of sonic frontiers And before you ask yes I know that tails should also age but It could be that foxes in universe age differently then hedgehogs.

Sonic being 19 in Frontiers makes the most sense. Also, they should 100% keep Sonic like that. I like the more serious tone.

I think Sega doesn’t really want to make a specific, restricted canon for Sonic and his games and other appearances. I’ve found people who’ve put together timelines for the games, and while they can be made into timelines sure, I don’t think they entirely meant to be restricted to a timeline so they could allow for more creative freedom when making their games. My guess is however we can say Sonic’s age as 15 was retconned. So since Amy aged from 8 to 12 from Sonic CD, i’d assume we go back 4 years and Classic Sonic would be 11. Then his modern version in the games is 15-16 years old. Maybe it’s me but I feel like if we include the comics with the games which are vastly different from each other, things get WAAAAY more complicated. So i’m just making this theory for the games. The comics I don’t read so idk. But i’d assume this would be the same for the comics.

Here's every confirmed instance of a timeskip or birthday for Sonic (that's at least arguably canon): Knuckles Chaotix: "months" after Sonic 3 & Knuckles (JP manual) Sonic Mania's Mania Mode: 1 year after Sonic CD (little planet appears once a year) Sonic Mania's Encore Mode: 1 year after Mania Mode (little planet) Sonic 4: Episode 2: 1 year after Sonic Mania's Encore Mode (little planet) Sonic Adventure: unspecified timeskip (I headcanon 1 year, but any amount of time is reasonable) (JP manual) Sonic Heroes: over 1 month after Sonic Advance/Sonic Adventure 2 (whichever is latest) (ENG manual) Sonic 06: "years" after Shadow 05 (one of Shadow's mission dialogues) Sonic 06: takes place at the end of Summer (when Sonic's birthday is during Summer) (Sonic Pict, a series of artworks with a short story attached released on SoJ's twitter account - one depicted Silver at the Soleanna Festival with the exposition clarifying this detail) Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity: "months" after Sonic Riders (ENG manual) Sonic Unleashed: birthday (Sonic Pict, one depicted Sonic enjoying a birthday during Sonic Unleashed, and him and Chip deciding to share a birthday due to the latter's amnesia) Sonic Colours: "years" (unlike Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, Eggman needed to maintain a facade of genuine remorse in order for his cover story to make sense to the extent that Tails would believe it) (ENG manual) Sonic Generations: birthday Sonic Runners: birthday, Easter, Halloween, Summer (various side events that may or may not be canon, but I'm just going to assume they are) Sonic Forces: Episode Shadow: "months" (between Shadow attacking Eggman's base and Episode Shadow proper) Sonic Forces: Episode Shadow: 1 month Sonic Forces: 6 months Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW comics): 1 month (takes place 1 month after Forces) Chao in Space: Christmas With all of that in mind, the *minimum* amount of time needed to pass between Sonic 1 and Sonic Frontiers is 9 years and 10 months (and that's assuming Sonic Colours is like a week or smth before Sonic's next birthday). ... And given Charmy's age is listed as 6, you can't exactly put him too late in the timeline or else he wouldn't have been born during Knuckles's Chaotix

That forces bit generally caught me off gaurd. You just made me have an epiphany.

4:19 now it all makes sense

Nice to see I’m not the only one who analyzes this issue

What's presented in the actual games themselves is what should be taken as canon, above anything that's said in the comics or on some website or social media post, and in Sonic Forces it's said in very explicit dialogue that Sonic has been fighting Eggman "for decades", which at a minimum means two decades, meaning Sonic is at LEAST 20 in Forces, but surely older since a 0-year-old Sonic likely wasn't fighting anyone yet. If we accept that Sonic was 15 when he first started fighting Eggman, as was originally established, then that makes Sonic at least 45 by Forces and Frontiers. Sonic is unambiguously at least an adult in the recent games, and straight up middle aged if we accept him as 15 from the start. Again, the actual content of the games take precedent over any supplementary material or internet posts.

Ok, I would Say that Sonic's Age at Frontiers is Around 24 to 27 years, actually. Sonic also is shown to grow between Black Knight and Colours due to his voice also being deeper. Also, Between Shadow and 06 we can add at least 3 more years, because a G.U.N. agent says that Shadow works for G.U.N. for Years. So, For me, Sonic in Sonic 1 have 10 years, in Sonic Adventure he has 13, in Heroes he has 15, in 06 he has 18, in Colours he has 19, in Generations he has 20, in Forces he has 21 and in Frontiers he has 24.

There is no way he’s 15 and he sounds the way he does. I’d say he’s in his late teens or early twenties.

I have my own thoughs too, and now that RU-vid's algorithm brought me here, I'm going to share them. At first, Sonic was 15 years old, but then, Adventure changed the design, and generation retconned the canon so... Sonic was 8 years old, in adventure had 15 and got 16 years old in generation. The real question is how many years passed between Generation and Frontiers? Perhaps 1, one very crazy year. XD But in Forces passed 7 months, so Sonic can't be 16 years old so perhaps in Frontiers he's between 17 and 18 years old, that's why he is so mature. Plus, Sonic said that Tails and him are getting older or something so, in my headcanon, Sonic should have 18 yo or even more.

after 15 sonic never aged at all but physically he stopped aging after his modern design

He’s 15 and is always 15. Never understand why Sonic fans refused this fact for years. I’m starting to understand why some fans gatekeep stuff that came out of sega america of sonic. Sonic the character will always forever will be a teenager. Sonic the franchise is 30+ years old. Learn the difference. Some cartoon characters does not age and never age. Also Sonic was always relaxed and gentle, the “teen Sonic” you described sounds like exactly the american rendition of Sonic, which, is a stark contrast with how he actually is in his japanese version.

First 😘

"We gotta know if he can drive a car or not," ...... "Wait a second"

You deserve waaaaay more subscribers! Great content👍 and sonic is obviously 23.62747495726457 years old

sonic is 31, yuji naka is in jail, and kanye did nothing wrong

I would like Sonic to be aged up to 17. He acts way more mature than he did back then and he’s gone through way more stuff than could ever happen in a single year. I think that aging him up a couple years makes sense and would make his current characterization fit a lot more. Edit: I’d say Sonic is 11 in the classic games. If Amy was aged up from 8 to 12, then Sonic would be 4 years younger than he is in Heroes at the time that Sonic CD takes place.

That ending broke me and had me ascending. 💀

For damn near a decade, i thought he was 25 and classic was way younger, but i only found out last year he was considered 15, but he seems to actually grow up throughout the series weather people like it or not, he still stands as like 20-25 to me

I recently Went back and started reading the Archie sonic comic series from the beginning and went down this rabbit hole. In the beginning of the Archie comics Sonic is 14 and then Sally has a birthday and then shortly after Sonic has his birthday making both of them 15 years old. Then before the start of the adventure era Sonic has his 16th birthday and gets his design upgrade to match the adventure style. Very simple so far but then the Xorda attacked and the time skip happened making things a little complicated. Sonic is hurled across the cosmos and when he returns he discovers a year has passed. So sonic is still technically 16 while everyone else is atleast 17. then later Sonic has a surprise birthday party and rotor asks Sonic how old he is now and Sonic replies "Still a teenager" because the writers didn't know anymore, I read that the writers were going to have sonics 17 birthday before they came up with the xorda attack time skip arc which would make Sonic 17 while everyone else is 18 and then they forgot to do it after he returns so Sonic is at least 17 or as old as 19 by his last birthday party in the comics, which does make his answer to rotor funnier because nineteen is still technically a teenager lol

The way I solve this is with something that actually relates to humans and explains his passage of time, compared to us. I say that Mobians physically age 1 year for every 5 human years, but mentally age like normal. Using Generations as his "16th" birthday, this would mean that he was 12 in the first game, and would currently be 18. This also explains how young Mobians like Tails, Cream, and Charmy can be as intelligent as they are for their age.

8:32 So that's why he avoids her all the time

Ain't no way