How Sonic INSPIRED his friends and SAVED his world

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Sonic the Hedgehog, a character who has permanently embedded himself into my heart.
I hope that he's done the same for you.
Today we talk about how Sonic saves his world, even if indirectly sometimes.
His attitude and principles permeate the Sonic universe and influence almost everything and everyone within it.
Let's talk about how Sonic changes what's around him just by being himself.
It's my passion to explore the psychology of video game characters to better understand the life we've been given, and if you wanna come along for that journey, then I suggest to stick around for the fun!
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[@akathesk]

I always thought "if you have time to worry then run" was a bit of a mistranslation. The intention behind it seems more to me like "The things you're most afraid of is what you need to take on. and not just walk, run towards it!"

[@_thejuicebox]

Yes, precisely! Or to be more simple, "run" means just to "take action", which often means running for our blue hedgehog boy.

[@gamersread2405]

I always interpreted it as this, if you have time to worry, you should spend that time on doing something productive or something that means a lot to you, which, in Sonic’s case, is running

[@MegaVGmaster]

Growing up i always looked up to sonic. I never gave up, helped others, and even stood up to bullies. My friends tend to compare me to him. They say i have a strong influence on them. It's a nice feeling but i don't see it. I just enjoy being myself. Ive struggled with that in recent years. My friends had my back tho and ive been holding strong since. For the longest time i had the hardest time leaning on them for supporr because i was always use to being the rock.

[@yungmuney5903]

This is why people who say "Sonic has no philosophy" piss me off. It makes 0 sense if you think about it for 5 seconds on what that actually means.

[@sancteam]

It's not that sonic has a philosophy, he has an anti philosophy. He doesn't like to think or ponder too long about things. He doesn't have or engage with actual philosophy but it's his simple nuance that gives his a sense of philosophy. If you are looking for a character like sonic who actually has more of an actual philosophy on life, probably check out snufkin from the moomin series. He's more of a character who actually lives by a code and philosophy

[@hyperfixatedd]

Another great video! Never stopped to think how, narratively, Sonic is very much an amplifier for other character's arcs to unfold Sonic is my friend and I'm happy he's other people's friends too

[@KingdomHeartsBrawler]

The thing with the Emeralds is that, initially, it seemed as if each location Sonic went to actually had its own set. The idea of there only being one universal set of seven Chaos Emeralds wasn't firmly established until Sonic Adventure.

[@_thejuicebox]

Yeah, it seems like it was changed retroactively and I never hear it being mentioned.

[@artlibris3754]

Thank you so much for bringing up the idea that Sonic has a Flat Character Arc! As a writer in my spare time, I can safely say that a lot of general writing discourse online seems to misunderstand the nature of Flat Characters Arcs, since the word "Flat" implies that these characters are poorly written and/or not fully realized, when they really are, but just happen to have found their "inner truth" off-screen beforehand and use that truth to help others find similar truths in their own lives. Like you've said in the video, Sonic doesn't have to learn any of the inspiring life lessons that we love him for over the course of the games; he instead teaches them to every character he meets along the way, simply by living his life according to them. Through Sonic, Tails learns to be brave (Sonic 2/SA1/SA2), Knuckles learns to work with others (Sonic 3&K/SA1), Amy learns to stand up for herself (SA1), etc. This even sends chain reactions throughout the games, such as Gamma learning to stand up to his own creator to free his "brothers" (SA1), and Shadow facing his painful past to remember his true promise to Maria (SA2), both thanks to Amy. This chain reaction even extends to us as the players, inspiring us to live our best lives here in the real world! And all this from a cartoon hedgehog in a platforming video game! Thanks again for the video!

[@_thejuicebox]

Well said!! Happy you enjoyed it ✨ Hope you enjoy the Gamma and Tails videos too, more to come in the future!

[@thesoniczone11]

Don't just sit there and waste your precious time. When you want to do something, do it right away. Do it when you can. It's the only way to live a life without regrets.

[@Ex-Tar]

That “nature vs artificiality” idea is SO SMART, ur genius man I met ur channel for Doki doki’s videos, and then I found out u has a FUCKING SONIC VIDEO, that’s so cool

[@_thejuicebox]

More to come!! ^^

[@agaldoo]

You can even see this in his own song "It doesnt matter"

[@_thejuicebox]

Mhm!

[@iggyminious]

Indeed, killing Eggman would go against Sonic's inner truth. Because said inner truth is that he already died from a heat stroke a long time ago :)

[@_thejuicebox]

Very true :)

[@thegoofygoober]

Wow your channel has grown! Love your videos, keep up the fire character analysis’ bro 🩷

[@Shinrius]

More reason for me to say that he his my favorite video game character

[@kez1z]

While I agree that Sonic is static & influences the world around him, I feel like the Shadow one is a stretch since Shadow himself lacked agency in SA2. For the whole story, his only goal was to fulfill Maria's wish & that didn't change up to his "demise". The only thing that changes is the content of Maria's wish. Shadow was fully willing to destroy the world if, Maria really asked for that. Shadow, in SA2, sought to give his life meaning by fulfilling Maria's wish. To the point that when confronted with the possibility that his memories might be fake, he still chooses to believe in the Shadow, that Maria believed in. The one in his memories. His lack of agency being his fatal flaw that causes his "demise". In terms of growth, he only grows to respect Sonic, but nothing about Shadow himself changes in this story. In fact, Sonic has never really inspired Shadow. He can challenge how Shadow views himself but that rarely happens, if at all.

[@_thejuicebox]

Yeah I agree, and this is something I'll be going into when I release the Shadow analysis. That's why when I brought up Shadow, I just talked about how he grew to respect Sonic and by the end it could be argued his view of himself changed.

[@jamestolbert1856]

I disagree on that point. I think Shadow learned to give humanity another chance cause even though he was following a false perception of Maria’s promise, he was still a kind person at heart and decided to give people a chance to live and be happy just like Maria was

[@Yousef77077]

I clicked on your vid off of nick’s server and I’m glad I did. I appreciate the Nathan drake mention especially in the flat character arc bit which is cool on it’s own.

[@andreimircea2254]

Amazing video and message at the end. I like how you interpreted the lore and selected the consistent bits of it all. Good job!

[@_thejuicebox]

Thank you so much!

[@lauva4597]

I saw what you did there putting "Die Young" in the 06 part. 😂❤❤

[@brianfreeman2729]

4:43 I will name him captian rubber knife.

[@Davi-bo7lf]

Hate how they make knuckles be fooled by eggman every game. It'so out of his character.

[@S.omeone618]

Sorry but if the old writers did it then it IS his character

[@LordWolfgangLive]

Yayayay Sonic Time!

[@Purplemans88]

In the classic series it’s believed that each island had its own set of emeralds and I believe that knuckles had taken Sonic’s set and gave them to Eggman and we are collecting knuckles’ set in game And afterwards knuckles returns the west side island set

[@_thejuicebox]

@@Purplemans88 Ahhh yes see this makes the most sense, just didn't see it anywhere in the manuals.

[@ShyT130]

But..One thing that don't make sense to me is the Storybooks..If he respect the life of you enemies, why he killed King Arthur ( He doesn't know about the ilusion stuff), he don't care about the consequences of your actions in Camelot (Merlina say how the story was going to End and he did nothing about it) and others situations..Some people said it's about the Western vs JP Characterizations..I don't know, what do you think? Other thing is about other interpretations of Sonic, like Movies, Shogakukan, SATAM, AOSTH, Underground and whatever..What do you think? They are valid? They can coexist?

[@jamestolbert1856]

Well America and Japan have different views on Sonic. Sega Japan see Sonic as an adventurer with a heroic spirit while Sega America sees him as a hero who loves adventure. I prefer the former

[@Kratosthegodofhope1220]

Great video I must say

[@BridghamBloom]

Juss. That’s ur character’s name. Juss the JumbledMess

[@FAILEDSTANDINGSCHOOL]

I dub the OC...Jooos. Idk if that's been taken already but to give it that extra oomph, there's three o's so it's like "Jo-osh" or something. Logic works out fine, I'm sure

[@_thejuicebox]

Ahaha our main OC is already named Joos!!!! So just that with an extra “o”?

[@kniives]

Super kami joos

[@FAILEDSTANDINGSCHOOL]

@@_thejuicebox sure, that works out

[@S.omeone618]

Why the heck does this have less than 1k views after a month

[@_thejuicebox]

I’m not sure, but if you like it, we have more Sonic content coming soon :)

[@S.omeone618]

@@_thejuicebox yeah I'm waiting for the mad scientist analysis

[@jcking2589]

Chef’s Kiss

[@AvatarAidan]

Hey, I do look nice today. LOL

[@_thejuicebox]

We love to see it ✨

[@purplek1rbl]

Attempting to stop people from saying “first” ig

[@_thejuicebox]

You attempted to stop it but you couldn’t stop yourself 🥹

[@purplek1rbl]

@@_thejuicebox has the same energy as “You were supposed to destroy the sith, not join them!”

[@plteltronix7085]

Monikas next right?

[@_thejuicebox]

Monika is next, yes. Hope you enjoyed the Sonic video!

[@plteltronix7085]

@@_thejuicebox yes, it was pretty nice. I have always liked sonic. but ive never thought about the charakters. Now u did that for me.

[@PK_FIRE-pew-pew]

Knife McNesce

[@THEFIZZLERGOESCRAZY]

But what about bad sonic and gray weird sonic

[@Goldrose257]

Sonic taught me to think and be more positive, I even began to make more jokes because of him and he also taught me to be nicer and he also made me think more positively about myself. Heck, many people remember me because I, like Sonic, have a colorful personality, I'm not trying to be charismatic or anything heck, I'm not even social but, I still leave a mark on people for some reason. I also have an attitude like him and I do have a temper despite me trying to be chill but, I am pretty hyper so yeah. I used to be and think more negative and I wasn't as nice to myself or others and I made MUCH fewer jokes but, then some stuff happened and I also got into Sonic a few years later and well, he really rubbed off on me hahahaha! 😅😅🤣🤣😂😂💙🔵🟦🔷🔹🦔