SONIC X Was Awful Here's Y Z (@RebelTaxi) 

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Someone named Chris who threw his whole life away over Sonic the Hedgehog? Man, why does this sound familiar?

What's funny about the maid and Eggman being played by Mike Pollock is that in the Sonic X comics it's revealed that Eggman has a crush on the maid. So it's Pollock falling in love with himself.

Chris is relatable to the average kid by: • Having Parents who are famous and don’t take care of him themselves. • Having an extremely racially diverse. set of friends and house workers. • Being extremely rich. • Living in a giant mansion. • Being “Alone”

Fun Fact: The voice actor for the Mexican Maid is the same VA as Eggman.

> ''We're not allowed to mention him'' > Mentions him on the title.

Honestly, Helen (the girl in the wheelchair) would've been a better relatable character than Chris.

"I can cause a lot of problemas for you, lady!" Did... Did he just threaten to have her deported?

theme song: "no time for relaxation. Sonic: relaxes

The fact that he made this review without mentioning The upcoming Sonic movie displays how timeless his content is. Good on ya!

“...at least it’s not Sonic Underground” That should be the quote on the back of the DVD

Sonic X: [exists] DeviantArt: *It's free real estate*

Fun story: the Metarex arc is so different because it originally wasn’t supposed to happen. Sonic X initially was planned for cancellation at the end of its second season as it wasn’t a big hit in Japan. It WAS however very popular with kids in the US and in other countries (which usually used 4kids’ English dub as it’s source). So much so that 4Kids themselves actually commissioned Sega/TMS to make 26 more episodes. Given that the planned game adaptation/human world stuff was the initial end goal, they had to come up with something new. Hence the change in setting, villains and an increased focus on the core Sonic cast. Rewatching it as an adult I’d say that was the right call to make, and I only wish the whole show was like it. I just can’t help but find it funny that 4kids is the reason the best season of the show got made at all.

>main human character who accompanies Sonic is named "Chris" >Chris >Christian Weston Chandler _huh..._

Fun fact: The Japanese intro of Sonic X has the same singer who sang Cha-La Head-Cha-La from Dragon Ball Z

Not gonna lie. I didn't hate Chris he was just...there. Funny enough though I watched the Japanese version of the anime and season 3 Chris is what he should have been through the whole series

So, Chris is like a fanfiction self-insert where he can help all of his favoirte childhood heroes while leaving some of the heroes useless and with no purpose...Hmm...Sounds like another brown haired Chris that I know of.

Say what you will about Sonic X , but we definitely got to thank it for giving us the blessing that is Mike Pollock's Eggman

That always bothered me with Chris. He actually had a good life. He had three best friends with Helen, Danny, and Frances, his parents weren't the worst either. When they had time, they wanted to spend this free time with their son. There were a handful of episodes where his parents left in the middle of their work to be there for Chris. But it seems his life is only worth something if he can hang out with Sonic, which makes him come off more like an ungrateful, pathetic, loser fanboy rather than a lonely child.

Honestly, I can relate a lot more with Tails than Chris.

I do agree that Sonic X is more of a nostalgic show, it definitely did not age well. But yeah, season 3 was awesome, too bad they had to bring Chris back into it

Sonic X gave us Mike Pollock as THE definitive voice of Eggman.

I always thought Tails was a girl until my older brother pointed out to me that everyone in the show had been referring to Tails as a "he" and then I got mad.

2:35 I remembered the AVGN did a video on a Mario DVD Menu that had Inspector Gadget explaining the complicated rules of BUTTONS

Helen would've been infinitely better pratagonist than Chris.

Jason Griffith really stole the show with his Sonic Sez segment on condoms

Pan’s review of Sonic X is instantly credible be he didn’t start out by saying “Sonic has had a rough couple of years recently “ and admits he would bang Rouge the Bat

I forgot how condescending sonic sounds when thanking Chris for saving his life.

Hey, you forgot the second best thing to come out of this anime... GOTTA GO FAST!!!!

Everyone:Its impossible to talk about sonic without mentioning the movie Rebeltaxi:hold my chilli dogs

"A Gardevoir named Cosmo" How did you know I named my Ralts this for this exact damn reason?

5:08 Chris: Wait, so you're a blue talking anthropomorphic hedgehog Sonic: Don't know what that last word was but yeah Chris:.....*dives in pool* Sonic: YOU'RE NOT DREAMING! YOU'RE NOT DREAMING!

Seeing a Japanese opening for Sonic X for the first time ever blew me down

Sonic Adventure X Chris is left at Daycare

The worst thing 4kids did with the series was cutting out “Live & Learn” during the Sonic Adventure 2 Arc

Plot Twist: Chris is Sora After Smoking Crack

Sadly modern Sonic game writers have reverted Tails.

Oh man I just realized that RebelTaxi had to watch 3 seasons of Sonic

The kid fron Iron Man 3 is a better character than Chris

Ok, so I noticed you made fun of TMS for the bad animation, saying “but they made Akira and the good parts for Batman!” In Japan, the majority of anime are made as requests from other companies (in this case, Sega). A production committee made up of various sponsors decide a budget and gives it to the studio. TMS would have almost no say in what budget they got, and probably did what they could. If you want to blame someone, blame Sega. Btw, nice video overall :)

I still have a soft spot for X, even if it is flawed. Early on it tries to find its niche but the JP version at least uses Live & Learn when Super Sonic and Shadow use Chaos Control. That's pretty damn awesome still

Nobody: Pan Pizza: YEAH I’D BANG ROUGE WHAT OF IT

Major props to Pan for not doing the typical "Sonic USED to be good but now sucks" shtick

*Sonic gains weight* Sonic: "Gotta fast."

LOL I knew I wasn't the only one who thought Chris looked like Sora from Kingdom Hearts. XD

"Everybody hates Chris".

Sonic X is the thing I don’t watch out of fear that someone somewhere is somehow watching me watch it

I really wish we got the Sonic X that the pitch pilot showed, in which it was set in Sonic's own world where all the inhabitants (save for Dr. Eggman) were anthropomorphic animals as opposed to the "reverse isekai" we ultimately got where Sonic and his friends are transported to our world. It would certainly spare us of Chris Thorndyke and actually be ABOUT Sonic himself, which is something that always bugged me about Sonic X, how it was barely even about Sonic, as well as the fact that we never saw any other anthro animals in the series beyond Sonic and his friends. It's kind of one reason why I always preferred some of the more western Sonic material such as SatAM, AoSTH, and the Archie Sonic comics (and yes, even Sonic Underground), because I always found it so jarring to see these technicolor cartoon animals interact with more realistic looking human characters. Sonic always just felt more in-place in an overly cartoony world populated by anthro animals like him. I think that's the reason Sonic X never really resonated well with me and why I always found more appeal in the western Sonic material.

Chris is just a bad name in the sonic fandom, we got Chris Chan and I don’t need to mention anymore degenerates

5:50 So you're telling me that Chris lives with Rick Sanchez, Samurai Jack as a butler and Consuela? What is he complaining about? I'd love to have them in my house!

13:25 That's not a Gardevoir, that's a Kirlia, you doof!

The reason they named him Chris was because of Chris Chan

You better remove the clip from 11:25 or Paramount's gonna get you. For spoiling their new sonic the hedgehog design.

I don't care, Helen the Wheelchair Girl should of have been the main human character!! This would also helped that She looks like Maria Robotnik, an important character to Shadow the Hedgehog, It gives her character more purpose in the situations, They F*cked up! You see in their timeskip that she gotten smarter and more useful with technology, She has the brain, but lacks the strength and feet to be "Normal" like other kids. But then incomes Sonic who is all about running, It's crazy how well they compliment each other, and the whole thing of the fastest thing alive helping a kid in a wheelchair have fun is honestly so touching and this could maybe start some tension with some characters like Tails being already good with technology and Amy who'll just get jealous of Helen hanging around Sonic. I think there is more you can do with Her that would made things interesting for this series, talk about missed opportunity :(

"Who uploads RU-vid videos at 6 am?" Pan: OH BOY! 6 AM!

A lot of people in this comment section seem to believe that Helen would have worked better as Sonic's friend than Chris. But honestly, both of them wouldn't really work as Sonic's friend. If Helen was Sonic's human best friend instead of Chris, there wouldn't really be any difference. Helen and Chris are very similar characters. They both have parents that work too much, they both feel insecure about themselves until Sonic showed up in their lives that lead to helping them, and they both grow up to be intelligent inventors. They both also don't really capture what Chris' purpose as a character was meant to be: The everyday child that the audience could see themselves as. Chris' wealthy life style, having a famous scientist for a grandfather, having a butler and maid, having neglectful parents that never spend time with him, and growing up to be an inventor is not something the whole audience can see themselves as. Helen has this problem as well. She's a girl in a wheelchair, who doesn't spend much time with her parents, and can't really go places by herself. So, neither of these two would really work well as audience surrogates. Helen's relationship with Sonic wouldn't really be as big by comparison with his already great relationship with his friends, as well as his friendship with Chris. If your stating that Helen would be a great foil to Sonic because she can't feel any happiness or freedom that Sonic feels because he can run while she can't wouldn't really work because that would be considered offensive to handicap people, and characters that CAN run don't really feel the same way as Sonic. Helen's relationship with Sonic would kind of be exactly what Sonic's relationship with Chris is, but the difference is that it took one episode to address Helen's problem while it took two seasons to address Chris'.

Sonic X started in 2003 and ended in 2010, yet it only has 3 seasons? How?

Can we all just agree Sonic Boom is the best Sonic cartoon of them all Endgame Spoilers: Thanos snapped Chris from existence and everyone celebrated

Does inspector gadget count every single brown brick in Sonic SATAM?

Does it help that the cringiest Sonic fan in existence was also named "Chris"?

I remember of the early episodes that there were only three I really liked. That episode where Sonic and Knuckles fought was pretty expressive and Sonic actually had some personality in it, the episode where Sonic and the wheelchair girl went off looking for that island was fun, and the episode where Sonic was desperately trying to get off a cruise ship was funny. Really, the best episodes were one's where Sonic was proactive and didn't just sleep all day. How about that?

4:39 so basically a reverse Isekai.

"Rouge and her life partner" I suddenly remember why I watched this show.

I don't know why, but the maid's voice sounds like Mike Pollock trying to do a Morocco Mole impression.

I think it's pretty important to mention that one of Chris's plot relevant human friends literally commits suicide by military in the Japanese version, but in the English dub she literally says "I must go, my planet needs me" (not verbatim, but she literally disappears because she wants to help her home planet). The enemy military is shown just mowing her down heartlessly without flinching in the original version. In English, they just freeze frame the shot, slide her ship off the top of the frame and pretend she just flew away.

The best takeaways from X were Dark Sonic and the voice cast which ended up being better in later Sonic projects.

Robobuddies is the Best Silver Voice actor. PERIOD

Girl: “JAAASSSSOOONNNNNN!!!!! HOW COULD UOU COME SO QUICKLY BEFORE MEEEEEE??????!!!!!!!” 😡 Jason: “YOU’RE TOO SLOOOWWW!!!! 😎

I will say their version of Knuckles is closer to what I imagined than "Sonic Underground," where he made a couple appearances. There, he was more quiet and sensitive.

Sonic XXX was always my favorite show to watch as a kid.

"Sonic X, at least its not Sonic Underground." OOF

"I can cause lots of problemas for you, lady! GET SONIC!"

I've just watched the 2020 movie and I consider it almost like Sonic X but done right with likable characters.

I'm under the impression that Chris Thorndyke was just the writer's kid's self-insert O.C.

I have to keep reminding myself that Mike Pollack voiced the maid.

7:58 Yes, it does give me feels, and I know why. Because it shows that even when we sometimes think Sonic is a cheesy hero with bad games as of late, it reminds us he inspires everyone around him to become better and stronger with the amazing things he accomplished, and he won't be able to instill those feelings forever. Uncomfortably unintentionally deep.

Fun fact: The Japanese version of Sonic X played Live and Learn during the Shadow arc.

This is how I was first introduced to Sonic. Then came the flash games.

About that thumbnail, I can't tell whether it's sonic talking or pan... and I don't know which is more worrying

The worst type of character, the audience-surrogate. Chris Thorndyke, the Dark Stalkers cartoon, Bucky O'Hare...

That cut-away about *not going away there is more Sonic X* gave me so much nostalgia

"Wow. That's awesome." *intimate staring into each other's eyes*

I know you RU-vidrs need sponsors to keep the lights on, but no force in heaven or on earth will make me play a mobile game.

Pan does his sponsors in a way that doesn’t feel intrusive or annoying

This show isn’t bad enough to be on the worst shows list.

So... is nobody going to mention the sonic cosplayer eating a sandwich in a wheelchair at 11:25?

"Changes everything you know about mobile games". Still has pay-to-win. Sure Pan whatever pays the bills I guess.

"a Gardevoir named Cosmo" glad to see I'm not the only one who thought this as a kid! XDDD

One of the absolute best things this show gave us was Mike Pollock as Dr. Eggman. He was so damn good that when the 4Kids cast was dropped, he got to stay.

Wow, I didn't realize Sonic X was this mediocre as a kid. Also, I played Sonic Battle all the time in 4th Grade. 🙂

Giving Sonic a human sidekick was never a good idea.

chris is the representation of diehard sonic fans

The cop that worked with Rouge was bad asf.

Hey you gotta admit the American theme is awesome

Sonic Says: Always wear a condom.

@12:57-.-Imagine sonic (or shadow) saying this exact line.

Ah, 4Kids. The sole reason for some of my favorite shows having terminal cancer. Good times, good times.

Also Chris's grandpa is literally Rick.

Over 11 minutes before “gotta go fast” smh

I have two *very* specific memories of watching this show when I was younger: • It always bothered me how Sonic only had 3 spines on his head instead of 6. • At a Christmas Party I went to with my family when I was really young, I remember seeing the Boo episode, and possessed Amy absolutely terrified me.