Big the Cat (Sonic Chronicles)

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Alternate Continuity	Sonic Chronicles - Archie Comics

“	Is your name Froggy? No, your name is Sonic. So-nic!	„
	~ Big when Sonic asks if he was talking to him,

Background

Big the Cat is a giant cat who lives in a hut in the Mystic Ruins, and he spends his days fishing with his best friend Froggy. He's a little slow-witted, but doesn't pretend to be otherwise, and he always does right by his friends. He's enjoyed the peace and tranquility of the past few years, so he is apprehensive about having to leave his home on another adventure

General Information

Name: Big the Cat

Origin: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Gender: Male

Age: Unknown (The official Sonic ages aren't confirmed)

Classification: Animal

Species: Anthropomorphic Cat

Occupation: Fisherman

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Like his canon counterpart)

Codex Statistics

Grade: A

Tier: 8-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City Block level (Potency) (The events of Sonic Heroes have happened in the Sonic Chronicles continuity. Could fight and defeat Sonic the Hedgehog while he was holding back. Sonic, alongside Tails and Knuckles, destroyed a large metal base of this size. Can fight alongside Sonic)

Durability: City Block level, rings makes him incredibly difficult to kill

Striking Strength: City Block Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Class M (Contributed 1/4th of effort into stopping a train, which weigh around 4000 to 20000 tons. Can overpower an alligator attempting to close their mouth who have a bite force of over 13000 newtons. As a power type, he is considered physically superior to his teammate Amy Rose)

Travel Speed: Hypersonic (Big is seen as one of the slowest character within the series, though he is able to keep up with Amy Rose who can keep up with Sonic)

Attack Speed: Hypersonic

Reaction Speed: Hypersonic

Stamina: Superhuman (The entirety of Sonic Heroes takes place in three days team Rose can go through all of their stages and obstacles without showing any signs of tiring)

Range: Standard Melee, Tens of Meters with his fishing rod

Intelligence: Below Average Intelligence academically (Big is described as a slow thinker an rather dimwitted), Gifted at driving (Big was able to fly Tails' plane despite claiming he doesn't know the first thing about how to fly one along with being able to skillfully drive a car)

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Powers and Techniques

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• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
• Human Achievements (Big is a skilled fisherman, being able to use his skills to fish Froggy out of Chaos 6)
• Enhanced Senses (Big can smell Froggy)
• Weapon Mastery
  • Rod Mastery: Big can skillfully use his fishing rod in combat.
• Vehicular Mastery
  • Air Vehicles: Big was able to fly Tails' plane.
  • Land Vehicles: Big can skillfully drive a car.
• Limited Acausality
  • Future or Past Defiance: The future in Sonic is essentially unwritten and constantly changing with events Sonic and co. do in the present affecting the future.
• Impact Resistance
  • Standard Impact Resistance: Can recover from being flattened.
• Non-Standard Interaction
  • Metaphysical Interaction: Sonic characters can harm and interact with ghosts.
• Spin Dash (Big can perform a spin dash)
• Homing Attack (Big can perform the homing attack)
• Status Effect Inducement (Big can induce the Distracted status effect with Battering Ram and Big can induce the Stunned status effect with Lure Whip)
• Healing (With Feel No Pain lets Big regenerate up to 50% for a few rounds, regenerating from stab wounds and such)
• Social Influencing and Damage Reduction (With Taunt Big attracts one foe's attention away from his friends and induce the Fortified status effect onto himself, which reduces incoming damage)
• Summoning and Undodgeable Attacks and (With Froggy Rain, Big asks Froggy to summon his friends, who will then drop down on the opponents. This move is unavoidable and damages all enemies present)
• Shockwave Generation and Aura (Big can cause shock waves with Body Press which gives off a purple aura)
• Fire Manipulation (With Big Fishing, Big swings a burning, oversized red lure around in a circle)
• Poison Manipulation (With Froggy Poison Big sends Froggy to kiss his opponents, damaging and poisoning them).

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Colds (Can run around inside of an ice cavern with no issues)
  • Vacuum Manipulation (Resisted being pulled into a mysterious hole causing a massively powerful vacuum)

• Invulnerability (They allow one to survive lethal attacks from far stronger foes)

• Energy Boost, Statistics Amplification, Healing, and Energy Absorption (They can restore one's energy for one's abilities and Super/Hyper form)

• Transformation
  • Partial Transformation: With all seven chaos emeralds, one can unlock the Super Form and Hyper form with super emeralds.
• Healing (Chaos Emeralds can heal you when you're knocked out. Shadow can use chaos control in order to heal himself)
• Empowerment (Chaos Energy is enriched and increased in ability by the heart and its emotions, along with positive/negative thoughts)
• Duplication (Mephiles used two of the Chaos Emeralds to create dozens of clones of himself)
• Intangibility
  • Spatial: With chaos burst, Shadow himself uses this to hide in distorted space, when emerging from the distorted space, the user briefly creates a small white and purple bubble around himself that damages any opponents that makes contact with it, as well as launching them for multiple hits.
• Fusionism (Noted that Mephiles would use the chaos emeralds to become one with Iblis)
• Forcefield Creation & Damage Transferal (Can power one's guarding through the use of chaos control, creating a spherical field, which is signified by a purple pulse emerging from and moving around the user that can block any incoming attacks. Half of the received damage is transferred to the Ichikoro Gauge)
• BFR and Sealing (Chaos Control can be used to send others into separate dimensions. Chaos Control can also be used to send someone into a distorted space momentarily)
• Resurrection (Granted Elise's wish and brought Sonic back to life)
• Air Manipulation (Used the power of a single chaos emerald to push back Team Dark)
• Energy Manipulation & Electricity Manipulation (With Chaos Spear, a technique where the user channels raw chaos energy as a form of electricity into a spear-shaped energy construct and then fires it as an energy bolt, one can fire multiple bolts with it or charge it to shoot a larger more powerful energy bolt)
• Explosion Manipulation (With Chaos Blast, is an explosion of highly powerful chaos energy that damages all that is within 10-20 yards)
• Space-Time Manipulation
  • 3+1-D: Chaos Emeralds can control time and space.
    • Teleportation, Portal Creation, Time Slow, and Time Stop
      • 1-T: Chaos Control is typically used for, the application of quickly dashing and warping through space to appear in areas instantly and stopping time.
• Spatial Manipulation
  • 3-D: Chaos Control can be used to distort space itself and can create an area of distorted space. Shadow can use chaos nightmare and chaos upper to grinds his fists to distort space, to attack and knock opponents away.
• Limited Magnetism Manipulation (Chaos Emeralds attract each other)
• Plant Manipulation (The Chaos Emeralds did this on their own)

• Martial Arts (With Nocturne Blade, is infused with the ultimate martial skills)
• Accelerated Development
  • Other
    • Combat Abilities: With Prune Juice, improves combat abilities.
• Regeneration
  • Type: Regenerative Health
  • Source: External Regeneration
  • Capabilities: With Refresher, regenerates 5% of maximum health per round, regenerating from stab wounds and such.
• Precognition
  • Premonitions: With Psychic Water, a rare concoction capable of providing heightened premonition for short periods.
• Teleportation (With the voxai teleporter)
• Statistics Amplification (With boxing gloves, increases power and attack by +1. With cloth gloves, increases attack by +1. With cursed gloves, increases power by +6 but lowers defense and attack by -2. With golden gloves, increases power by +1 and attack/defense by +2. With gritty gloves, increases power and armor by +2, but decreases defense by -2. With lucky gloves, increases attack by +1 and luck by +2. With mirror gloves, increases attack and defense by +1. With polymer gloves, increases power and armor by +1. With power gloves, increases power by +5, but decreases attack by -2. With rubber gloves, increases power and attack by +2, and defense by +1. With sparkly gloves, increases power by +3 and attack by +1. With Work Gloves, increases power by +1. With alloy slippers, increases armor by +3 and defense by +1. With light slippers, increases armor and defense by +1. With Nimble Slippers, increases armor by +1 and defense by +2. With spiked slippers, increases armor by +1 and power by +2. With tough slippers, increases armor by +4, but reduces defense by -2. With Chao Print Dress, increases by power +2. With Kron Hammer, increases power by +10. With nocturne blade, increases attack by +4. With clover juice, increases luck by +10. With iron tonic, made with medicine capable of toughening the skin for short periods. With POW candy, increases POW points by +5. With POW drink, increases POW points by +50. With POW Gum, increases POW points by +10. With rock salt, a rare earth extract capable of raising one's raw strength for short periods. With speed bar, made with medicine capable of boosting one's reflexes for short periods of time, increasing speed by +10)
• Purification (With antidote, curative elixir that removes all bad status effects. With cure all spray, does the same effect as the antidote, but to all party members)
• Healing (With health leaf, restores health by +100 HP. With Health Root, restores health by +250 HP. With health seed, restores health by +50 HP. With med emitter, an alien device that produces an energy pulse that heals all party members by +250 HP. With Revival Ring, a ring with the power to put the fallen back on their feet. With Ring of Life, a ring with the power to put the fallen back into fighting shape)
• Power Bestowal (With Refresher Wave, an alien device that produces an energy pulse that invigorates all party members)
• Restoration (With refresher, recovers 1 POW point at the end of each round)
• Limited Statistics Reduction (With bug spray, a potent pesticide for pesky critters of the insect variety)
• Limited Radar Sensing (With Eggman Detector, a device that detects Eggman's electronic signature)
• Forcefield Negation (With pattern generator, a device that generates code patterns that interfere with energy fields)
• Earth Manipulation (With Earth Ring, gives the earth elemental damage to basic attacks)
• Ice Manipulation (With Ice Ring, infuses the power of subzero colds into basic attacks, giving them ice elemental damage)
• Lightning Manipulation (With lightning ring, infused with the power of raw lightning, giving basic attacks lightning elemental damage)
• Water Manipulation (With the water ring, a ring infused with the power of tidal fury giving water elemental damage to basic attacks)
• Wind Manipulation (With the wind ring, a ring infused with the power of a hurricane giving wind elemental damage to basic attacks)
• Fear Manipulation (With the Spooky Charm, causes fear in enemies, causing them to flee)
• Forcefield Creation (With Zoah Shield, an energy shield infused with invulnerability)
• Resistance Manipulation (With immunity booster, can grant immunities to oneself for a short period of time).

• Resistance to
  • Status Effect Inducement (With the Immunity Idol, makes one immune to afflictions)

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Equipment

This dropdown contains the equipment for Big.

Gloves Name Character Description Effect Boxing Gloves All excluding robots Super tough gloves provide the maximum fighting edge. Slightly increases damage. Power +1 Attack +1 Cloth Gloves All excluding robots Casual, stylish and comfortable. Attack +1 Cursed Gloves All excluding robots A prototype combat glove. Tough to control, but very powerful. Very greatly increases damage. Power +6 Defense -2 Attack -2 Golden Gloves All excluding robots A master crafted combat glove without peer, a rare artifact. Slightly increases damage. Power +1 Attack +2 Defense +2 Gritty Gloves All excluding robots All-around tough gloves for tough customers. Moderately increases armor, moderately increases damage. Power +2 Armor +2 Defense -2 Lucky Gloves All excluding robots Durable, yet agile gloves soaked in clover juice. Attack +1 Luck +2 Mirror Gloves All excluding robots Made with flexible metal, these shiny gloves boost combat prowess. Moderately increases damage. Attack +1 Defense +1 Polymer Gloves All excluding robots Gloves made with durable polymers. Slightly increases damage and armor. Power +1 Armor +1 Power Gloves All excluding robots Infused with power, these gloves hit hard but can be tricky to handle. Greatly increases damage but reduces attack. Power +5 Attack -2 Rubber Gloves All excluding robots Light and smooth gloves for faster reaction. Moderately increases damage. Power +2 Attack +2 Defence +1 Sparkly Gloves All excluding robots Light and dazzling, these gloves tingle with energy. Greatly increases damage. Power +3 Attack +1 Work Gloves All excluding robots More durable gloves to pack extra punch. Slightly increases damage. Power +1 Shoes Name Character Description Effect Alloy Slippers Amy, Big, Cream Modern footwear made from very durable material. Moderately increases armor. Armor +3 Defense +1 Light Slippers Amy, Big, Cream Casual, stylish and comfortable. Slightly increases armor Armor 1 Defense +1 Nimble Slippers Amy, Big, Cream Light, agile slippers for quick feet. Slightly increases armor. Armor+1 Defense +2 Spiked Slippers Amy, Big and Cream Aggressively styled footwear. Slightly increases armor. Armor +1 Power +2 Tough Slippers Amy, Big, Cream Heavy duty slippers for outdoor use. Greatly increases armor but reduces defense. Armor +4 Defense -2 Accessories Accessories are equipment that can provide a variety of different effects, such as increasing stats or providing buffs. Name Character Description Effect Angel Amulet All A mystical amulet with the inexhaustible power to put the fallen back on their feet. Automatic revive with 1 HP, once during a battle Earth Ring All A ring infused with earthquake force. Earth damage to basic attacks Economizer All A wrist device able to boost its wearer's energy levels. Lowers PP cost of all POW Moves by 1. Reduces the PP cost of POW Moves by 1 Ice Ring All A ring infused with the power of subzero cold. Gives Ice damage to basic attacks. Adds Ice damage to basic attacks Immunity Idol All A mystical charm with the inexhaustible ability to make one immune to afflictions. Causes characters to become immune to negative status effects Kron Hammer All A rock hammer infused with ultimate combat power. Very greatly increases damage. Power +10 Lightning Ring All A ring infused with the power of raw lightning. Gives lightning to basic attacks. Adds Lightning damage to basic attacks Nocturne Blade All A blade infused with ultimate martial skill. Attack +4 Refresher All A medical kit that recovers 1 POW Point at the end of each round of combat. Regenerates 1 PP for the wielder at the end of each round Replenisher All A wrist device able to regenerate the wearer's health over time. Regenerates 5% of maximum HP per round. Regenerates 5% of maximum HP at the start of each round Spooky Charm All A mystical charm likely to cause fear in one's enemies. Foes flee more often. Increases probability of enemies attempting to flee Voxai Teleporter All A teleporter infused with ultimate agility. Defense +4 Water Ring All A ring infused with the power of tidal fury. Gives Water damage to basic attacks Wind Ring All A ring infused with the power of a hurricane. Gives Wind damage to basic attacks Zoah Shield All An energy shield infused with invulnerability. Greatly increases armor. Armor enhanced Consumables Name Description Effect Antidote A curative elixir that removes all bad status effects from one team member. N/A Bug Spray A potent pesticide for pesky critters of the insect variety. Weakens insects Clover Juice Made with an extract capable of boosting ones luck for short periods. Luck +10 Crazy Beans Boosts you in unpredictable ways. Try them and see what happens! N/A Cure All Spray A large dose antidote able to remove status ailments from all team members at once. N/A Health Leaf The leaf of a plant known for its healing effects. HP +100 Health Root The root of a plant known for its healing effects. HP +250 Health Seed The seed of a plant known for its healing effects. HP +50 Immunity Booster A vaccine effective in preventing debilitating symptoms for short periods. N/A Iron Tonic Made with medicine capable of toughening the skin for short periods. Moderately increases armor. N/A Med Emitter An alien device that produces an energy pulse that heals all party members. HP +250 POW Candy A refreshing formula that invigorates mind and body. PP +5 POW Drink A refreshing formula that invigorates mind and body. PP +50 POW Gum A refreshing formula that invigorates mind and body. PP +10 Prune Juice Made with an extract guaranteed to improve combat abilities for short periods. Attack +10 Psychic Water A rare concoction capable of providing heightened premonition for short periods. Defense +10 Revival Ring A ring with the power to put the fallen back on their feet. Revives one KOed team member. HP +10% Refresher Wave An alien device that produces an energy pulse that invigorates all party members. PP +50 Ring of Life A ring with the power to put the fallen back into fighting shape. Revives one KOed team member. HP +100% Rock Salt A rare earth extract capable of raising one's raw strength for short periods. Moderately increases damage. N/A Speed Bar Made with medicine capable of boosting one's reflexes for short periods of time. Speed +10 Quest Items Name Location Description Beam Cannon Modified version of the Weapon Part A non-lethal weapon created to banish the Marauders without harming them. Chaos Emerald 1 Kron Colony One of the legendary Chaos Emeralds. Chaos Emerald 2 Zoah Colony One of the legendary Chaos Emeralds. Chaos Emerald 3 N'rrgal Colony One of the legendary Chaos Emeralds. Chaos Emerald 4 Voxai Colony Alpha One of the legendary Chaos Emeralds. Chaos Emerald 5 Voxai Colony Alpha One of the legendary Chaos Emeralds. Chaos Emerald 6 Nocturne One of the legendary Chaos Emeralds. Chaos Emerald 7 Nocturne One of the legendary Chaos Emeralds. Communicator Green Hill Zone Central City A device used by the Marauders to keep in touch with their base. Eggman Detector Modified version of the scanner A device that detects Eggman's electronic signature. Eggman Device Green Hill Zone A device built by Eggman. It doesn't seem to do anything. GUN Official Blue Ridge Zone "Please, no time to talk. I must return to Station Square. I'm very important, you know!" Little Boy Green Hill Zone "Thanks so much for saving me, Sonic! Please take me home to Central City!" Nocturnus Tech Kron Colony Zoah Colony N'rrgal Colony A piece of Nocturnus Clan technology so advanced that even Tails can't figure out its function. Pattern Generator Upgraded from the Eggman Device A device that generates code patterns that interfere with energy fields. Precursor Tablet Kron Colony A stone tablet covered in strange writing. Prized Stapler Salesman Sal in Green Hill Zone A stunningly beautiful device, when you really look at it. Timothy Blue Ridge Zone "My dad isn't really crazy, just old. He'll be glad to see me, I know." Weapon Part Metropolis A part needed for Eggman and Tails to create their ultimate weapon! N'rrgal Shipment N'rrgal Colony A crate filled with N'rrgal Sweat. Ew! Kron Payment Kron Colony The payment for the N'rrgal Sweat delivery, addressed to the N'rrgal Trader.

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Notable Techniques

• Battering Ram: Battering Ram is a POW move used by Big in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. When performing this move, Big walks up in front of his target and stands still for a short moment. He then charges forwards while launching several rapid, scratching-like jabs in front of him, and slams head-on into his opponent, before retreating.

• Feel No Pain: Feel No Pain is a POW move used by Big in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. When performing this move, Big uns up in front of his enemies and does a short, but excited jump into the air, while putting his right fist up, allowing himself to get fired up about the battle. When landing, Big releases small yellow sparks around himself and moves quickly back into his team position, with yellow crosses emitting from him. From there, Big becomes so oblivious from excitement of the battle that he hardly take notice when he is attacked.

• Froggy Poison: Froggy Poison is a POW move used by Big in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. When performing this move, Big walks in front of his opponent, with Froggy on him. Big then deploys Froggy, who is send flying through midair, onto the opponent. Froggy then kisses the opponent, infecting him/her with a harmful poison, and Big retreats to his team position.

• Froggy Rain: Froggy Rain is a POW move used by Big in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. When performing this move, Big runs up in front of the opposing enemies, with Froggy in his left hand. Big then asks Froggy to summon his friends, before throwing Froggy up into the air with his left hand, and making a hasty retreat back to his party. As soon as Big is out of range, a rain of green and yellow-eyed frogs like Froggy starts falling down from above on top of the enemies.

• Lure Whip: Lure Whip is a POW move used by Big in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. When performing this move, Big moves up in front of his opponent and casts out the line on his fishing rod to catch the opponent on it. Once the opponent is caught on the line of his fishing rod, Big reels it in, resulting the opponent tripping, before Big returns to his team position.

• Taunt: Taunt is a POW move used by Big in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. When performing this move, Big runs up in front of a chosen opponent. Big then turns around and shows his buttocks to his opponent, while mockingly slapping them twice with his left hand, provoking his opponent to attack only him, before falling back to his team again and reinforcing himself for incoming attacks.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Big will use his fishing rod and body press to defeat his opponent. Along with his POW attacks.

Weaknesses: Big is rather dimwitted.

Note

• In Sonic Chronicles, "attack" and "defense" are not how powerful and durable one is, but rather, how much accuracy the user has and the level of their evasion.
• Sonic Chronicles is considered completely non-canon by Sega.

Regarding Big's Speed

There are many that wonder why Sonic and co. are rated lower here in terms of speed then other wikis; I below will explain the following reasons why:

Cyan Wisp

When Sonic first interacts with a Cyan Wisp it envelops his body and makes him move as a laser, that's outright stated to move at the speed of light, Sonic is completely shocked by the speed he gets when he uses it and it is way faster then anything he can do, they even acknowledge the Sonic Colors Ultimate Short Animation that it's far above his speed. Sonic Colors 3DS notes that the cyan laser let's Sonic fly through the air at "blinding speeds" already showcasing it's far above his regular speed.

An argument people try to make for why Sonic is comparable to the Cyan Wisp is that he caught up to it and claimed it's almost as fast as him. However, there is missing context to this, prior in the cutscene the wisp is shown in its normal body moving, when actually activating the laser there's a flash of light in the same cutscene Tails even notes the flash of light specifically is the power of the Cyan Laser with Sonic even claiming that he wants to see how fast it is. This string of dialogue showcases that the cyan laser itself is not what he caught, but the Cyan Wisp while it was still in its wisp form, which we see in Colors Ultimate that the cyan wisp will run from things without automatically turning into its laser form. Thus Sonic did not catch up with the cyan laser power of the wisp, but just the Cyan Wisp itself.

Official Statements

While many try to use official statements claiming he's the speed of light, these are always used in a hyperbolic sense.

One comes from a Sonic Adventure interview where they note that he zooms all around at light speed, but this is in context talking about how large the levels are and how they don't think most players will notice the details as they will be zooming through the levels. They're not saying that you're literally moving through the levels at light speed, this is especially apparent with famous parts of levels such as the orca chase in Emerald Coast, the avalanche chase in Ice Cap, not running down a large building instantly in Speed Highway, getting forcibly pulled into a tornado in Windy Valley, the boulder chase in Lost World and more. If one wanted to argue that this statement isn't hyperbolic, this is a developer interview before the game officially released thus these level locales would clearly show they don't actually intend for Sonic to be running through them at light speed.

Another comes from a statement from a Sonic Unleashed guide, where it states his usual self runs around at the speed of light, however this is another hyperbolic statement. For one the guidebook is claiming Werehog Sonic is slow, this is only true in gameplay, in actual cutscenes Werehog Sonic is shown to move around fast. On top of that the very game itself also showcases scenes that go against this statement, Sonic and Chip take all day to see if anyone knows who Chip is, he notes in cutscene that he can sprint to a neighboring continent if the planet wasn't broken, he takes a bit of time to catch up to Eggman whose flying away, has to run around a building for a bit rather then instantly. On top of this Sonic Unleashed entire plot is due to the chaos emeralds being drained of their power Sonic must travel to each continent and restore the chaos emeralds power, restoring the continent back, something to where if he was as fast as the guide is claiming, wouldn't have even taken multiple days, even if the continents are broken apart. Examples can even be seen in the story, he starts a day time stage here then another daytime stage in the same area with both of these taking until night time in one city.

Another claim is from the Sonic the Hedgehog Super Interactive Annual 2014 where it claims he runs faster than the speed of light and is the fastest video game character of all time according to Guiness Book of Records. To start with, the Guiness statement seems to be a hoax, no matter where one tries to search up this claim there is no actual record currently sourced for it. Secondly, this is another hype statement that comes from a European guidebook, it's a tertiary canon that does not line up with the portrayal of Sonic's speed in the mainline canon. Due to the usage of using a known hoax for the argument and coming from a tertiary canon that's not the main source, this statement is not very usable.

Another statement comes from Takashi Iizuka claiming "We aren't aware how fast Sonic the Hedgehog is. In some games, he is able to go beyond the light barrier. We don't really know, the best way we can say it rivals the famous comic book hero, The Flash.". While this seems clear cut, there is a massive issue. This interview does not exist. If one tries to look it up and use the exact wording as shown in the picture it will only take them back to a singular blog that has a cropped screenshot of it made for the sole purpose of pushing FTL Sonic. Thus this statement is not usable until an actual legitimate source confirms the legitimacy of this interview ever existing.

Light Speed statements are even noted by Ian Flynn to be characters being arrogant and they are not actually able to move at the speed of light.

It should also be noted, Eastern media uses speed of light a lot as a method for saying "very fast" rather then literally being the speed of light. It boils down to even doujins using it as a way to claim certain things and one getting home fast.

Omega statement

The Omega statement is a pretty popular one where one attempts to use Omega stating that light speed would be surpassed, though the full context of this is somewhat ignored.

For one, in Sonic Colors DS continuity Sonic doesn't even have boost until the Wisp give it to him. So collecting wisps make him move faster.

Secondly, Omega's statement in context is talking about Sonic's immense growth and how he keeps getting faster and faster each time he's doing the challenge, where if he keeps it up then light speed will eventually be surpassed due to breaking unprecedented growths.

SPD from Unleashed

Many try to use the SPD due to the boost SPD being rated higher then the light speed dash, however the SPD isn't programmed in a lineal way. Along with this it's clear by the context of the game that it's just apart of Ludonarrative Dissonance to get players excited by seeing how high of a value they're going. For note, the light speed dash's SPD isn't even consistent which already poses a problem since light speed is a static number, it doesn't get faster or slower.

Other Speed Issues

There are a couple of plot points in various Sonic games that greatly mess with the idea that Sonic is light speed or even faster than light.

In Sonic Adventure 2 Sonic and Shadow need to escape the island before it blows up, both needing actually being worried and needing to hurry out of the forest. The time limit for this stage is 8 whole minutes.

In the plot for Team Sonic in Sonic Heroes, they have three days to stop Eggman from his plot, with the three levels you do taking two whole days before getting to Casino Park and then by Rail Canyon they only got until sunset.

In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) there are times Sonic has to enter his "super-speed speed" state, where he will not stop running and is going at top speeds.

• In Wave Ocean, it's to catch up with Eggman's airship, which flew there overnight.
• In Radical Train, it's to catch up with Elise's train that's about to crash.

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