The Insane Differences Between the Sonic Books and Movies 

Mobius wasn't actually retconed, in Japan Sonic always lived on Earth and had a far more in depth plot. However Sega of America and Europe instead of properly translating the manuals, changed everything and made the plot simpler as a result. This caused several things that was built up and forshadowed like Chaos, to feel like they came out of nowhere if you were not familiar with the true canon. Furthermore, Mobius in SatAM and Archie was just a future Earth anyway.

Fun facts: Certain scenes like Tom talking to Sonic about his feelings or Robotnik firing a beacon after a mushroom trip were actually adapted from deleted scenes from the movies!

In my own experience, novelizations are just as complex, odd and interesting as movie/show adaptations. Often I find novelizations are great places to expand on details that a movie had to skim for time as well as give insight on more characters, but in return, the pacing and some moments in the movie are usually changed or lost. Might be because novelizations are often written during the movie production/not 1 to 1 with the movie script, so things are cut or added in both. I think of them like alternate/enhanced tellings, where the main events of the movie is what happened for the most part, but the details from the novel are added on to tell the complete story. I’m really happy that a lot of the characters get more moments, especially Longclaw and Tails, both of whom I really wanted more insight on. Also, this really makes me realize that movie!Sonic really is like the childhood we never had in the games. He’s so different from what Sonic is, but you can totally see him eventually grow into the hedgehog he is today :)

I wonder if the books were based on earlier ideas for the film scripts.

This video is very underrated! I find it strange that the books took different approach than the movies.

The part where Tom talks about emotion to Sonic was supposed to be in the movie as it was available as a viewable deleted scene on the Blu-ray(?) release.

Nice video! I enjoyed learning about the differences. Knuckles mentioning mobius in the novelization was likely based off an earlier script for the film as seen on a storyboard, it got scrapped likely due to the unfortunate sega mandates. I was listening to the ghz podcast interview about the sequel, and pat casey claimed that they were planning to feature angel island were knuckles would bring robotnik with him there after encountering him on the mushroom planet, telling him that he needs the master emerald back to prevent its collapse. They were even going to feature the ice cap zone from Sonic 3&k until they replaced it with siberia. It would be cool if at least some of that made thier way into the final film

BOOKS? hUH? WHAT? the Sonic Movie(s) had BOOKS???

The difference is that one is a book and one is a movie

Man it really sounds like the books took the "Chaos is power enriched by the heart" part of Tikal's prayer and went with it lmao

Fantastic video!! But one minor criticism i have is that the AI art is very distracting ^^;;... I wouldn't mind you just using stills from the film.

In Sonic 2 Sonic sends his emotions to the map a Sonic 1 he didn't even use his emotion

I did wish there wasn’t AI art used as theres many reasons why and could easily have been replaced with scenes in the movie or concept art like you did in this but honestly this is a pretty informative vid.

THERE'S A BOOK??

00:00 Intro 1:09 Sonic 1 20:55 Sonic 2 36:58 Outro

25:15 DIFFERENCE FOR DARKNESS

commander olive garden XD

Great video, loved learning about these differences! My only, yet major, criticism is the use of AI pictures throughout the video. It's production process and usage is extremely problematic for many reasons, so it would be better if you refrain from using it again.( Or at least research why AI is so bad)

You had me at "Mobius".

I still prefer the actual films over their novels overall.

Books?

Did Ian Flynn write them?

Sonic had a book?

The AI is very distracting.. the video is otherwise interesting but the ai makes me kinda gag... pls commission artists, so many do great sonic art! or just use clips and screenshots from the movies or promotional material, even the comics. but AI is actively making me click off the video.

Cool vid Hate the ai “art”

No Rachel? No annoying character that didn't belong? I love this novel!

Ai isnt cute go off tho

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