What is Split timeline theory? 

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In all fairness, EGGMAN could be the variable here. Modern Eggman abducted Classic specifically to help him with his plan (which makes no sense because Classic Eggman should be LESS smart???) But they had to choose what locations to rip from time, so Classic Eggman could have learned a lot more than Classic Sonic and Tails did

Its so weird how the concept of modern and classic sonic change from being from the past to becoming this complicated dimension stuff. I'm not sure whether to hate it or like it.

It was just a mistranslation. Forces is a mess in many ways and has more of those. The line "Tails just lost it" should be "Tails went missing". In japanese, they say "isekai" which can mean from another world or dimension. In this case, it meant "from another time".

I like to think there's 1.5 timelines between Modern and Classic Sonic. It's like Doctor Who, namely Out of Time, where the 10th Doctor doesn't remember the 4th Doctor's experiences until they happened during the story. So, Modern Sonic did experience Mania, but he also didn't because he and Classic Sonic were out of sync like the 10th and 4th Doctor.

Imo I feel like they shouldve gone with the split timeline theory. Making it so Classic Sonic is literally the same as Modern Sonic even after Gens and Forces is weird when theres so many plotholes. Now I dont want them to be like classic is a diffrent dimesion or something stupid, just that classic is indeed Sonic from the past but ever since Gens the timelime split so now the classic we see nowadays is in his own unique timeline, letting him be free without worrying about canon.

honestly, I kinda wish they went for the timeline split idea. I feel like it gives the story some extra complexity, and I always found it fascinating to see how games/media manage to keep the timelines relevant in ways that not only involve them as a pieces to the major canon, but as individual, minor canonical stories as well.

A couple of things: One, in fiction, terms like alternate timeline and alternate dimension are used interchangeably. Your definition of timelines and dimensions aren't mutually exclusive and there's no reason why an alternate timeline couldn't be considered a separate dimension. Also, it is not Classic Sonic's knowledge of the future that caused the split in the timeline, it's Eggman messing with time. After all, modern Sonic and Tails do not remember the events of Generations from Classic Sonic and Tails' perspective, even though they would if they are the exact same. Secondly, that isn't the Q&A in which Iizuka confirmed the split timeline, it was a different one. He was specifically asked about the "another dimension" thing and while the Q&A gets a little muddled, you can hear Iizuka say "timelines" in English and his translator says something to the effect of "modern Sonic's history is the same, but Classic Sonic is his own thing." I believe Ian Flynn also said recently on his podcast that an alternate timeline was indeed the original intention going forward. Things like TailsTube and the Sonic Superstars interview are simply retcons and not proof that this concept never existed to begin with. Lastly, I want to point out that Classic Sonic is already a teenager. Modern redesigns are just that: redesigns. Sonic never went through a physical change from Classic to modern designs.

Best way I personally can see how this story even fits is there’s 3 timelines. Timeline A ends with 06 Timeline B continues pass 06 and ends with Generations Timeline C is mania sonic which was classic sonic from generation and now we’re just watching a modern sonic from a different dimension who met the classic sonic we know.

I think it would’ve made sense if Classic Sonic Classic Tails after Generations would cause another timeline where they have different adventures cause they have knowledge of characters they’re gonna meet, like Shadow. If Classic Sonic from Generations knew Shadow, and grew up to be Modern Sonic, he’d try to convince Shadow to be a good guy. He’d already know Cream in Advance 2, know Blaze and the Sol Emeralds in Ruse 1, ect ect. Events might have played out differently if he did free up as Modern Sonic. So personally I welcome separate or a new timeline branch while the Modern cast is unaffected.

That fact that sega Figured out a way to create two of the same character and then sell us both games without us being confused is pure genius

I agree but the timeline theory just makes more sense. If they went with that, then they could make as many classic games and contradictions as they want without fans getting skeptical when there's like 20 classic games at some point. Not everything has to remain one universe that's why we have things like spider-verse. And don't even get me started on sonic prime.

No offense but it was no reason for this video as tails said the other dimensions can be timelines

Okay i genuinely liked the bit where you started zooming out to every editing software.

FINALLY! That line Tails said always bothered me. I used to think that for modern Sonic his timeline just started in Sonic Adventure and for Classic Sonic, Sonic 1 (bear in mind back in 2018 I was not as educated about Sonic despite being a fan). I am glad someone addressed this issue, but to be honest despite the timeline split I feel that Tails saying "from another world" in the Japanese version makes more sense than "from another Dimension" because another world feels like the timeline split created another world where events play differently, but not another dimension. It''s a bit complicated.

honestly, my idea of Classic Sonic existing can be explained by the events of Sonic Generations; basically the old design of Classic Sonic is modern sonic in his younger years. but they can justify the Mania Sonic being the result of generations. so the timeline is a puddle. the Mania universe essentially has characters that exist within the modern universe, and possibly could take aspects from pieces of media SEGA no longer considers canon. So Main Sonic has never met Fang the Hunter, thus the events of Sonic Drift, Fighters and Chaotix never occured. however Mania Sonic became something of a classical NSMB universe, such as taking elements from Origins such as Classic Amy's moveset and possibly Ray/Mighty's characterization from Segasonic the Hedgehog and Chaotix (for Knuckles), though it doesn't mean Origins ties into Superstars. i'm a little curious if the plot of Shadow x Sonic generations would have Black Doom realize that he's an echo of time and has read Shadow's mind (due to being part black arms). also, Classic Robotnik/Eggman would have to had found a way out of time like his modern counterpart. Also phantom ruby usage probably pulled infinite potential from other realities as a reference, like Metal Sonic's new form in Mania Plus. devs did mention that Bean/Bark/Fang in Mania was stated to be the real deal when shooting your plane down, but the heavy magician just simply assumed their forms during the boss fight. probably shook that reality's timeline by now. heck, classic eggman probably got ideas/knowledge from his modern counterpart. Sonic the Fighters though? i can't see that happening in a Mania/Superstars universe, since they'd have to explain things like the extra chaos emeralds and also Espio. definitely assuming the Chaotix (outside of Mighty) are considered off limits and covered in shadow to maintain brand consistency. shame they'd probably absolutely would not go with the obtaining knowedge viewpoint for classic eggman; i don't think eggman was aware of Metal Sonic's abilities fully until stuff like Heroes and Colors Ultimate. not the ability to utilize energy (since even Mecha Sonic could use the master emerald in 3), but more like utilizing wisp energy (Colors Ultimate) and scanning bio information during Heroes. So i could totally see a classic eggman impeding on metal, or at least keep a tighter leash over him to prevent a betrayal arc.

If you think about it if in Sonic Forces Modern and Classic are the same person, Sonic could have stopped Eggman from taking over with the knowledge

So if Sonic comes from the past (Sonic Mania) to the future (Sonic Forces) with the help of the Phantom Ruby, that means that the Ruby has the power to time travel. But this is not used in Forces to stop the war, or in the IDW Comics by Dr. Starline. It is only used for teleportation, and a few other minor uses. So, maybe to not mess up Sonic Forces' storyline, they said that "Classic Sonic came from another dimension" because they meant for the Ruby to only have dimension manipulating powers, not time powers.

I don't know why so many fans had a hard time grasping this but Classic and Modern were supposed to take place in different continuities (which explains why they both have different art styles and lack characters that the other has) with the events of Sonic 1, CD, 2 and 3 happening in broad strokes in the Modern continuity. Timeline theory also makes sense because why would Classic Eggman repeat the exact same stuff he knew failed Sonic Generations? Why would Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Eggman have no recollection of the Phantom Ruby? Where's Mighty and Ray been all this time?

Eggman Nega is from another dimension in the Rush series, yet he’s from the future in the Rivals series. Seeing as how they have been consistent with their inconsistencies, it almost feels intentional. I believe in the split timeline. It’d be cool if they go into how all of this is happening, maybe involve Little Planet and the Time Stones?

The term "dimension" can still be used interchangeably with "timeline" in this case, given one of the definitions of "dimension" being another realm that's similar but separate and not connected. The problem is you're thinking of time linearly, thinking Mania-verse is just a split timeline moving forwards from wherever in the original timeline Classic was ripped from. However the very action of being placed back to his original time would create this new timeline that spans forwards (obviously) AND backwards. Essentially making two parallel timelines with exactly the same history up to the point of Classic getting snatched up. Seeing as the new timeline of the Mania-verese would have events drastically different from the event of the Classic era of the regular verese we know, said differences (along with the afformentioned copy of the history of the original timeline) would make it different enough AND technically separate to be considered another dimension. As for Tails referring Classic as being from another dimension as opposed to the past, Tails is smart. He saw Classic go back to his timeline, and there's a good chnace he knows or at least hypothesizes how time travel works in the universe, so would know for a fact (much like the audience) the Classic Sonic and by extension Classic Robotnik would do things differently and end up creating the new branch timeline.

I think tails said classic sonic was from another dimension cause he was so fed up with stress of Sonic’s loss and focus on fixing omega that he couldn’t think properly

personally i think the sonic fandom solved it with their OTHER explanation - namely, the "santiago" meme. while classic is obviously not a scandinavian terrorist in either appearance, i think the classic in forces is a fake sonic of some sort - a *phantom* if you will. and you all know which ruby is present during the events of forces forces sonic is "the same" as mania because the phantom ruby remembers what happened in mania and is essentially just replaying clips of sonic from back then. so he's basically a living sonic mania youtube poop

I think that Classic Sonic can be from another dimension, as the "real" Classic Sonic, the one that we see in the Classic games, is 16, has an attitude, a dark blue fur color, and can talk (even if we don't see him doing it often in the games). Meanwhile, this Classic Sonic is light blue, has a wide-eyed personality, doesn't talk, and is significantly younger. So he might be a different Classic Sonic from the one in the classic games, Modern Sonic's past self.

TailsTube #4 confirmed Classic is Sonic from the past. Done.

I think the line about him being from another dimension makes sense when you learn that originally, instead of the avatar stages they were going to be Sonic Boom stages. That Sonic being referred to as from another dimension would have actually made sense and I'm sure they just wanted to use dimensions as an umbrella term for the three of them. Ofc, Boom ended up being dropped from the plans

7:08 The question was again asked in a way that led the answer to be about the Split Timeline Theory in the following year's SXSW panel, the one where they also had a guy asking about a crossover between The Joker and Sonic The Hedgehog.

Already pulling the references from Modern Doctor Who, huh? XD

I have 2 theories about classic sonic. One is everything is normal until after sonic 3 before sonic mania where classic sonic goes to the future in sonic generations and remembers everything after leaving and instead of practicing the air boost modern sonic was teaching him, he formed in into the dropdash to use in sonic mania. The other is that the classic sonic from sonic generations was transported to sonic generations after sonic one and when coming back he immediately goes into his adventure on little planet in sonic cd and the time stones erased the memory of sonic generations and replaces them with visions of the future, specifically Amy tails and knuckles, which is why he goes to west side island immediately after. But that’s just a theory, a game theory. (Thanks for the iconic line matpat)

To be fair, I can totally see why people would believe in a split timeline. After all, it would be weird if classic sonic, new characters, like shadow, silver, and blaze exist, but then wouldn’t recognize them years later. And of course it would be strange that Eggman wouldn’t recognize the phantom Ruby enforces if he had already gone through the event of mania. Also, although I agree that dimensions can often be vastly different than the “main” universe, there’s also been cases infection, where a universe is created because of a split timeline. Just look at DC comics handles the Multiverse. Some universes are split off of decisions people make, while others are simply universes that work differently. Who to say the sonic Multiverse in Sonic’s franchise doesn’t work off of the same logic. Alternatively, the simplest explanation is that when tails said “you’re that sonic from another dimension” he could’ve just been referring to white space

The fact that the thumbnail is a reference to Doctor who is 🔥

Let’s all agree: We don’t talk about Sonic Forces. We don’t acknowledge it. It doens’t exist.

Think it’s easier to say that tails got it mixed up😢

A dimension is simply a measurement of space, a plane of existence as you will. An alternate timeline 100% counts as an alternate dimension, it is a unique plane of existence that exists seperately from the main one. It's no different from how Blaze has her own dimension with locales very similar to Sonic's yet they are not the same. Many of those things you just associated with being from multidimensional stories happen in alternate timelines. Alternate Sonic with alternate versions of all of his locations and locales. Superstars does not take place in the alternate dimension, it takes place in-between 3K and Adventure 1, they (and more specifically Ian Flynn) have ditched the Classic dimension because clearly it confuses people such as yourself (admittedly the fault of Forces not elaborating on the concept whatsoever).

Fantastic video. I love the detail about the issue and clarification around it. Side Note: For your chart, Silver's future isn't unknown because of the IDW Comics which are canon to the continuity. It's in the Metal Virus Saga

3:35 "Or sometimes referered to as another universe" Uh, dimension is a geometric term. Not a single official dictionary acknowledges the rampant misuse of it being a nebulous space-related term. It's not even always referring to alternate universes. It could also be higher planes of existence like DC's "Fifth dimension" where Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite come from and "pocket dimensions" aren't really universes in a traditional sense.

And that's how Mr. Infinite lives messed up the entire franchise chronology

Remember, in a previous cutscene, Amy (I think) said that Tails had gone crazy after Sonics disappearance

I just see it as a future trunks situation. The events of Generations caused classic sonic's timeline to branch off on its own path without changing modern sonic's past because the time travel works on multiverse theory

2:57 To be fair, the multiverse model is practically the same thing as the branching time stream model. The only real difference is one is related to space and the other time. Ben 10 Omniverse even specifically uses the branching time stream model

my head canon is that classic tryna learn homing attack lead to the drop dash in mania because they both use the same input to use and in frontiers sonic suddenly knows the drop dash so this would lowkey make sense

I always thought of it as the dbz timeline as classic’s timeline were affected by the events of generations and if this never happened class I would go through adventure as history originally intended

Modern sonic doesn't remember generations ftom his past, so it never happened to him, the events of all the classic games before then are in bith timelines, but after generations there's a new timelime where sonic did experience generations when younger, they make it pretty clear when they still call the classic games events from the past after forces

0:44 sonic 4? Never heard of it! I hope it’s a good game with great physics.

What about the phantom ruby, Forces Sonic acts confused about it and its power

When dealing with any story element from anything that has gone through a translation process, always, _always,_ ask what the original text said in the language. Sometimes translators and localizers get things wrong, and that can completely upend the understanding of intended canon. Check to see the OG meaning behind “other dimension” and determine if nuance or definition was lost or changed. This PSA brought to the Sonic Fandom, with love, from the Zelda Fan Community, who is totally not in flames right now because of how poorly NoA handled Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom 😅

The most funny thing is, is the thumbnail of the video It’s both classic sonic and modern classic sonic bi-generating

My theory has always been that Classic and Modern Sonics belong to two different universes, not a split timeline. This has been my theory since Sonic Generations. The reason why Sonic and Tails speak about their counterparts as though they are their past selves is because they had similar pasts, though not exactly the same. This means that prior to Sonic Adventure, they went through events very similar to those depicted in Sonic 1, Sonic CD, Sonic 2, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles, though not exactly the same. (You could say that there is evidence of this because they way Sonic Adventure's flashback shows how Sonic met Tails is different from what is shown in the new FMV in Sonic Origins.) With this in mind, in my head-canon, the old Sonic canon is still in place for Classic Sonic, with their planet being called Mobius, Robotnik being the former Dr. Kintobor, etc. But if Sega announced that they are the past and future and not two different universes, well, I guess that's that, then. It's stupid, though. How does Sonic's eye color change? Why did everyone grow up except Tails, who is still a child? So many problems.

If it is just one timeline, does that mean Sonic teaches himself how to homing-attack/air dash?

No one was big, and now nothing's small.

Sega has a problem with the 2 concepts of timeline and dimensions. Classic Sonic is not the only mix up of it, we have Blaze and Eggman Nega 2. Curiously both roothed in a bad recepted game(with reasons) 2006 and forces.

I kinda wish so much stuff wouldn't take place between Sonic 3&K and Sonic Adventure. At least, not involving Knuckles. I think if between those two games, if Knuckles only met Sonic like once or twice, Knuckles not 100% trusting Sonic in Adventure would make a lot more sense. But then by the time they get to Heroes, they've gotten to know each other a lot more.

The reason I think there's a timeline split is because when Classic Sonic is brought into the future, goes on his adventure with Modern Sonic, and gets sent back, he should have knowledge of what's about to happen in Adventure, Adventure 2, Heroes, 06, Unleashed, and Colors, but he doesn't appear to. When you play those games, Sonic shows no knowledge of what's about to happen in those games, because he's experiencing them for the first time.

0:08 the GOAT

Ive been making sonic timelines for years, and yes, this whole timeline split thing was a massive pain since then it calls into questions what games be in what timeline since some interviews said certian games like knuckles chaotix wasnt canon since the version of the chaotix from heroes onward was a reboot of them essentially... Only for mighty to appear in mania alone with some elements from the 32x game as well so its like... "Is chaotix on 32x exclelusive to the mania timeline?" And the game gear games being kinda on the fence in that regard as well since stuff from those are also in mania. Needless to say, that (along with the 2 planets thing to explain when humans show up or not, despite how much more plotholes ot creates innthe process) was just more of a jumbled mess than it had any right to be. They trying to set the record straight now but man i could do a whole video series on trying to piece together all of this now even if we just doing one timeline again. And even then 06 would still need to be its own freaking timeline because of the blue emerald bootstrap paradox breaking everything. I swear this series is a practice in frustration...

Tbh i didn't really mind the idea of splitting classic and modern ala Megaman. Specially since it meant certain characters from the classic era like Nack, Bean, Bark, Honey, etc could return and have some spotlight they would otherwise not have in "modern" titles. Like yeah it's a convoluted mess, but i still think it has potential if they keep going with that route.

Lets just say that tails didnt realise he said that XD

from what I understand,Its kind of a''different dimention and timeline at the same time''

i think a more interesting debate is where are the humans? first Iizuka says that the more cartoony levels (i.e Green hill, Chemical Plant etc) happen on a place called south island and the more realistic looking levels (rooftop run, speed highway etc) happen else where. But then he goes onto say that their two different worlds sooooo... idfk

Sonic has bigenerated.

I'm not a sonic fan so I don't know much of the canon but timelines and dimensions (universes) are somewhat interchangeable in some works of fiction. Marvel is a great example for this since timeline splits create separate universes like the Netflix MCU films

What if the Split timeline was the friends we made along the way

My understanding was that gens classic went on to lost world on account of featuring abilities he picked up in gens, like the homing attack and boost (while super), went on then to have his own generations, where eggman, deciding he knows better, messes with space, not time, thus the drop-dashing, sky-blue "modern-classic" sonic from another dimension.

Shadow use the time stone and fix it

Say Time Travelling exists in this Universe.

Man this theory is the only way to make it make sense. Especially since modern sonic never experienced the events of mania. I'm just gonna take this as them not understanding the differences between alternate timelines and alternate dimensions. It doesn't make sense for modern sonic to have experienced mania cus then wouldn't he have past recollection of the events in forces since he was transported there at the end of the game? And if that didn't happen in modern sonics timeline but the core events of mania did then that would still make it an alternate timeline.

I can't believe Sonic bigenerated

I love classic Sonic, I love your videos, thank you for going through all this work for a subject I genuinely would never care about otherwise considering I never invested into the Sonic games after Sonic 3 & Knuckles

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My headcanon is that Tails and Eggman accidentally said “dimension” instead of “the past”

I havent finished the video yet so if he says something abt this later sorry But a different universe is created when atleast one thing different happens from our own timeline if you were to spilt the timeline it would make a while new reality as a branch from the original

While we would all love for it to be one timeline, wouldn't it mean that Modern Sonic should have had knowledge of the Phantom Ruby/Infinite catastrophe to warn his friends one day so Forces wouldn't go as badly as it did in the first place?

My headcanon is that Modern Eggman building Time Eater caused an alternate timeline to begin. It starts out the same, all be it a little altered (the placement of some games are moved around). Then the timeline goes normal, except that Classic's will be probably have him stay Classic Sonic. I feel like him staying Classic would better because that way, if they want to make more Classic Sonic games, they don't have to say, "Oh, this game takes place between SA1 and the last" every time.

I like when your talking about different dimensions you can see sanic and Mario that’s cool. And personally I prefer classic.

eye color can change as a person ages, the front layer of melanin in sonic's eye could have just went away.

So the classic sonic and modern sonic in generations will always be the same

My theory before Sega confirmed it was when classic and modern met when they saw each other it made classic sonic timeline or when he made it into the future it made the classic timeline

How is that no one has commented how a "different dimension" can be taken literally, as in, classic sonic is in 2D

3:16 DOCTOR WHO REFERENCE LET'S F_CKING GOOOOOOO

I don’t why but I love hearing people talk about the sonic 06 timeline

I Guess with Sonic x Shadow Generation we gonna get a definitive answer of what of the 2 it's. I'm inclined that it's gonna end as simply past Sonic, mostly because all extra material of the classic is treated as such, like with Superstar that is part of modern continuity, for the Tails tube that promote it.

Huh.. There Goes My Head Cannon Of A Split In Dimentions After Sonic 2

But that's just a theory... A GAME THEORY!

Maybe Classic Sonic can rembember Generations only when he goes to the future, while he is in his time everything that has happened in the future can be considered a sort of dream

clearly the answer is this is what doctor who was doing between his 8th and 9th regeneration, he accidentally crash landed in the sonic universe and made his tardis into a paradox machine to maintain modern and classic sonic at the same time and then left because he wanted to distract himself from the time war by doing something amusing and it's why he knows about parallel universes later on (dude trust me) (not clickbait)

It makes sense to me. Let's say you have never met your future self in 2004 and lived your life normally. 20 years later, you bulid a time machine and went back to 2004 and met your past self. The fact that you went back in time to 2004 and met your past self drastically changed the future for your then past, now alternate younger self. You created a new timeline, where past you lives a completely different life due to your interaction. But it actually changed the sec you stepped into 2004, because there shouldn't be 2 you's existing at the same time.

The problem with the first explanation is that you are using your own (and other sources) term for a timeline and a dimension, you need to remember that if a series says that they are traveling to other timelines but in reality those are dimensions or universes, they are timelines in that series. Also, you used the example of Rick and Morty, where they use dimension and timeline interchangeably. Moreover, little changes in a timeline can create other dimensions and universes in different media, like marvel. Besides that, I agree with most of this, It can easily be one timeline that just felt a little confusing after using the wrong terms and adding more games to the classic era.

I casually just ignore the "other dimension" line.

See the only difference between the two timelines in my headcanon is that Generations and Forces never occur to Classic Sonic, and Mania is Classic exclusive, with Superstars being the equivalent for classic modern

1:05 wait, can you do that in Generations as well?!

I really love the idea of classic sonic being the split timeline / different universe :) I think both sides of the series are distinct enough from one another to justify it, plus I just prefer the classic side of the series so being able to just stick with that is much nicer for me :)

I want to bring this up but where is the adventure sonic era like is he different?

If there were just one linear timeline then surely Modern Sonic would be able to remember the time when he was a kid and met his future self. But as far as I now he doesn't indicate that he knows this when they meet ub Generations, does he?

Ok, so it DBZ time travel. Got it.

Sonic fans make the BIGGEST cases for continuity and "omg is it canonnnn???" which is funny because Sonic from the beginning, has never been truly consistent in any sense. Sonic looked different every game. Were all of these just, all a bunch of different timelines too then? Almost as if the whole multiverse/timeline thing is oversaturated, and different games having different devices makes a difference. Wow.

Alt Timelines=/= alt universes, a lot people really keep getting these two mixed up, Multipletimelines are tied to saved universe. I usally theorize that it stored the 4th dimension of said universe. There is rare occasions a narrative might be a multiverse that can share timeline or a 4th dimension. In reguard to sonic im guessing when dr eggman was messing around with the time eater and sonic confronted him with the chais emeralds, with thier reality warping powers must of caused said universe to split into a seperate universe.

my take: Classic Sonic WAS Modern Sonic, but just younger. However, due to the Time Eater, the current timeline split, resulting in Mania and Superstars being on a separate branch from Frontiers and the modern IDW comics (ie Metal Virus Saga). I like to think the Phantom Ruby holds a small part of the Time Eater’s power, which is why it can wrap reality on a whim and cause people to travel between timelines. the tails line of classic being from another dimension is not canon to this. just pretend he said from “that alternate timeline” instead

A notable thing on the Japanese version referring to Classic Sonic being from another world (sekai), Forces is not the first time. In Sonic 06 and Sonic Rivals 2 (which never had a Japenese version, but was following the language Silver used in 06), Silver (and by extension Sonic and Espio) refer to Silver's time as his world. It's more meaning, it feels like a different world because everything feels different. The word can be used to mean society. It's a homophone essnetially. This issue may also be what confused fans with the human and animal worlds. He may have meant human and animal societies.

diferences of Genesis Sonic And Classic Sonic Genesis Sonic= nice deep blue quills, a bit snarky but he means well,hates oppression and cares about nature, he always does what he thinks is the right thing Classic Sonic:HE HATES YOU , HE ONLY SPEAKS SCANDINAVIAN , HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF SEVERALS HOMICIDES , NATURALLY HAS EVOLVED PAST THE NEED OF MORTALITY

What if sonic ended up how we know him now, because classic sonic did meet modern sonic during generations and forces? Classic sonic has always been optimistic and held his friends close to the point of being a flaw of his; trying to protect everyone. So what if this is because he saw his future and loved it, so he continued forward with a smile on his face because of it? I know if my future self appeared and showed me all the amazing things I did and got to see; I'd be excited for my future and optimistic! After all, before those games I always believed sonic was like the way he is because he has confidence in himself, well it still makes sense, but instead it's sonic having confidence in sonic as two versions! :D