the reason why sonic looked smash in the beginning is cause eggman made a hammer robot that smashed him and that was one of his inventions that went perfectly spotless
Imagine sonic meet an version of sonic who always stayed as dark sonic beceaus the tragedy he lived making tails and the other dies showed he can’t protect poeple he love so he think he need to be stronger and use all his rage to become dark sonic ok command and almost never turn back into regular one VILLAIN ARC
My gosh. Every time I watch these cutscenes, it just reminds me how excruciatingly horrible and lazy the writing is. And how they just massacred the characters' core personalities since 2010.