The Internet Reacts To The Sonic Movie Redesign

Movie Sonic is back. After dying earlier this year so that we could be saved from his own sinful visage, Sonic has been reborn as a cutesy blue baby child who would not spit out a mouthful of human teeth if you reflexively punched him while recoiling in terror at the thought of how he used to look. I think he’s good, in other words. Or at least passable. The internet seems to agree.

The moment that today’s new Sonic The Hedgehog movie trailer debuted, the internet fired up its reaction engines. With a fastness, people produced commentary, jokes, heartfelt outpourings of emotion, and of course, conspiracy theories. Behold:

It’s honestly insane even LOOKING at the old Sonic design, it doesn’t even feel real anymore. It’s like we all collectively had a nightmare pic.twitter.com/a3H6OtHI3p

— Ian Mutchler (@TheFantasticIan) November 12, 2019

sonic is now officially babie I love him pic.twitter.com/yE7hCjvsS5

— ✩°｡⋆⸜(ू˙꒳˙ ) ❀ TEAM CRYSTALS (@mana_chan__) November 12, 2019

Gotta say I really love how expressive Sonic is for this new Sonic movie trailer pic.twitter.com/HBHdcobSpm

— ChikoCheez (@ChikoritaCheez) November 12, 2019

This is such a little detail but I love that they just put the Sonic logo design on the headband c: #SonicMovie pic.twitter.com/QJDcews6QU

— 𝐤𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 ❤️ (@kevinisheeereee) November 12, 2019

Friendly reminder that Sonic reading ”The Flash” is now officially canon#SonicMovie #CatchSonic pic.twitter.com/AmPUBTSkOC

— Tom Surtees 💛🚕 #TeamLand 🦋 (@TomLegend101) November 12, 2019

The Teeth Sonic couldn't hack it in this modern world. In it's ideal form would have been a physical tangible puppet made by the Jim Henson Creature Shop in a 1998 movie that somehow had the exact plot of Sonic 2006.

— Topher Florence (@topherflorence) November 12, 2019

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In my CONSIDERED opinion, the fact people are saying IT'S A CONSPIRACY, SONIC WAS ALWAYS GOING TO LOOK LIKE THIS AND THEY DID THE OLD TRAILER TO GET PRESS shows what a successful redesign the new Sonic is, and also how insanely hard the animators worked over the past few months pic.twitter.com/ZLsL6Kfope

— Ryan North 🦖 🪄 🐶 💪 4️⃣ (@ryanqnorth) November 12, 2019

guess after redesigning sonic they didn't have the money to make tails cg oh well that's understandable pic.twitter.com/9YBeNXeH7y

— Lucy lucycloudberry.bsky.social (@Cloudberry0) November 12, 2019

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THEY REFERENCED THE SONIC COMICS!!! #SonicMovie pic.twitter.com/dh1ifoCRCs

— Andrew Brown (@TheSSK_) November 12, 2019

movie sonic is so baby🥺i had to doodle him pic.twitter.com/Tfii0GKj4Y

— alex ✨ (@spacecolonie) November 12, 2019

Sonic Fans Now Drunk With Power Demand Big The Cat Be Added to the Filmhttps://t.co/wMhqkcQnOa

— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) November 12, 2019

guys if the Sonic the Hedgehog movie could pull itself together by the end of 2019, YOU CAN TOO!!!! pic.twitter.com/quNpRgrmgn

— pyre 🦕 (@pyrefiy) November 12, 2019

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Hereditary (2018) pic.twitter.com/ODf81jBOTM

— 🐶 Doggirl Harry du Bois 🐺 (@doggy_dyke) November 12, 2019

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The Sonic looks like the Sonic, but my mind mostly thinks of the animators who had to deal with such backlash and those who had to flex hard to do this.

— Harper Jay (@transgamerthink) November 12, 2019

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