And he was a staple of indie comic fans for years before 4chan found out about him and made him a meme. A meme that they literally stole from Gaia Online, who were using the Feels Good Man panel first.
The spring represents the pent-up rage of the masses, accumulated within the society through oppression much like the way a spring accumulates the energy of compression. The spring, and the masses, must either release that energy in a controlled fashion - or the system built on the oppression of the masses will break down.
I know this is a joke and all, but your interpretation is *basically* the canon plot of the Sonic cartoon and comic. Like, he is literally called a "freedom fighter", and at one point they *do* kill Robotnik. He is not the *only* Hedgehog left though.
Not to be confused with the plot of the other Sonic cartoon, which is really just about a guy who wants a decent chilli dog. Except that time Robotnik collected all the chaos emeralds and turned into a gigantic, super muscular djinn.
While the text of hbomberguy's videos is scripted and directed to be absurdist and surreal, he always presents his thesis directly so as to avoid misinterpretations through the uncritical lens of Poe's Law. In this specific video, he presents an honest, albeit absurdist and surreal, interpretation of the themes and motifs present in Sonic the Hedgehog. The comedy of the video is derived not from the central thesis of the video, that Sonic the Hedgehog thematically represents an anti-capitalist revolution, but rather, from the method by which hbomberguy presents his thesis, using obviously bad cosplay of him in naked, or semi-naked, undress and the 'camp' of his video direction which mirrors low budget productions such as early doctor who or the silver age horror genre's B-filmography. So, how he says things is a joke (the purpose of which I've yet to totally suss out (I think it's either a pointed criticism of the rampant intellectualism of academia, homage to some inspirational texts similar to the ones listed above, andor a reflection on what he thinks is funny by virtue of belonging to the internet culture where the chief forms of emergent humor are neoneo-dadaism and neo-nihilism; but it could be any, all, or none of these things)); but, what he is saying is a sincere critique. In conclusion, to answer your simple yes or no question: "yes, but.... no?"
Basaltq nah, most consider post-modernism dead after it flew straight into a building on 11 September 2001. After that, there are various cultural movements: post-post-modernism was short lived. We're currently what will probably be considered by historians to be about three major competing schools: contemporary futurism, resurgent neo-dadaism (or neoneodada if your hip), and neo-nihilism. hbomberguy's channel falls squarely with the neoneodadaists.
Okay, I'm _99% sure_ this was meant to be comedic, but I can't help but agree with the points that've been made here - up to, and including, the _loop-dee-loop_ point. (Seriously, how the hell did _that_ one work so well?) Nicely done.
Knuckles' and Sonic's relationship is pretty deep if you think about it. You see, Sonic loves chili dogs, but Knuckles is an enchilada. That's why they don't get along. It's heart-breaking, really.
Help my oppressor is rationalizing and minimizing my suffering with sarcasm. Fuck, it's just gas lighting in disguise. You know what's really traumatizing? When we realize that we rationalize all the things that we do to others and what we do to survive, in order to escape the unavoidable guilt associated with having to endlessly kill other life just to survive. It's like, we make our own hell for ourselves!
Maybe that's what a pursuit of happiness really is at the core of the world. Maybe we're just hoping for a few moments of bliss amidst this landscape of absolute suffering, to make it more worth living. And as we get older we become desensitized to what brought us pleasure before - leading to us eventually losing more and more reasons to live anyway. At least until we reset our brains some day, so we can actually feel like anything's new again! And here's an interesting question I keep on asking myself every single day, is what I want really even going to make me happy or feel any better? Would I suddenly feel some sense of elation if I just woke up tomorrow and I never had to face the same problems as I had the day before? Would I feel terrified beyond my comprehension at the fact that my entire reality could just arbitrarily shift from that understanding I have of the world into another world? Doesn't that bring into question whether or not something stupendously powerful over me had to exist which could even do that kind of thing? Is that why people are always so defensive of the way that they think things are, because they think that they're safe from the world and that creeping realization that they're going to fucking die one day or someone might kill them? I don't know! Maybe it's just me! Maybe that's why I got diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia, because that is the very definition of a delusional belief that is characteristic of the condition! Because I really think people are out to get me!
Mario is simply a monarchist fighting against rival monarchist state while he may seek to end the oppression of his people by the koopas, they are still bound into feudalism under peach, and mario so isn't really revolutionary in this sense and while sonic is certainly insurrectionist, we don't really know his plans for a world without eggman he could be anarchist and even primitivist, but even though it seems more unlikely we can't rule out a more centralized economy, or even a merely tempered capitalistic society
@@doorhanger9317 Well if you look at the early levels you notice a strange sort of order which cannot be observed naturally. The loops for example are obviously not natural which implies he at least belonged to some sort of society which was able to majorly alter the landscape. Through this I doubt he came from primitivism or anarchism. Seeing as the imagery at the end of the game is similar to the start of the game they most likely returned to their original system. It does still beg the question what did they start with? Most likely the small animals are not equals to the anthropomorphic animals because they act as a background to Sonic. This could imply that Sonic as the focus of the game doesn't truly care about them that much. I would even hazard a guess that his society is truly an oligarchy where the anthropomorphic animals are the leaders and the small animals are working class. That would explain the focus on certain animals and their obviously higher strength, stronger character, and higher intelligence. As the leading class they would have access to better schools and necessities which leads to the differences. Edit: His title of The Hedgehog could come from him being the leader of the hedgehogs instead of him being the only hedgehog.
Everything @@doorhanger9317 said, except the ending because he seems to think markets are capitalism, without understanding that a socialist state and a society composed of communes CAN exist, produce and trade without capitalism.
In-depth lore analysis of Minesweeper, please. The harsh themes of loss and cruelty are offset by the bare, sterilized setting and juxtaposed by the inherent jolliness of the protagonist smiley... I'd be curious to hear your thoughts as to how the world of Minesweeper came to be so.
Art Souls There are lessons to be gleaned from Minesweeper, too. For instance, if there are a bunch of red flags around something, it's probably fine. And when there is absolutely no right choice, just two remaining options, rather than risking it all on chance, you should walk away and leave the situation in purgatory.
This continues to be in my top ten favorite videos on the Internet. "If they have a heart between them, they stole it from a child" is still one of the funniest lines ever in a sonic game analysis
Good video, but you missed something very important... So, as most of us with an interest in science are aware, the concepts of space and time are deeply linked (to the point where it is often considered, singularly, "spacetime"). This means that the faster you traverse physical space the slower you move temporally. You move faster, you live longer. So if you wish to extend your lifespan.... You gotta go fast. Hedgehogs generally live short lives, but through excessive speed Sonic has managed to avoid this fate. He is *literally* running from his own mortality.
Mostly this was hilarious, but I'm actually really satisfied that someone finally came up with a plausible explanation for why the last level is just a lazy copy-paste of one of the earlier water levels.
Someone in The Amazing Atheist's comments section didn't pick up on the deeply satirical elements in this video. I think this perfectly epitomises his viewership.
Honestly, as a lifelong Sonic fan? I can safely say that satire or not, this... can function as a pretty legitimate reading of the game. And you know how I know? Check the Archie comics. Or Sonic SatAM. Hbomb set out to make an extreme artist's interpretation of the game beyond what the creators ever intended for a simple cartoon platformer, but sans any kind of authorial intent? This actually makes a shocking amount of sense even with the exaggerated lens of likening Sonic to Chaplin and violent revolutionaries - so much so, that actual canon continuities clued into his ideas about a decade before he had them.
Just had a truly stupid idea Maybe Sonic is a common name, so you have to add "the Hedgehog" Maybe somewhere there's a Sonic the Badger, or Sonic the Herring, or Sonic the European Swallow
Fun Fact: Sonic the Herring went through a major re-work, literally just months before launch, and ended up as a little title called Ecco the Dolphin. See, the more you know =D
This is, no joke, the main theory for where surnames actually come from. There were so many Johns and Marys and auch people had to be like "John, y'know, the Smith" or "Mary, y'know, who lives by the Hill" or "Joseph, y'know, Stephen's son"
Later, Sonic finds out that there are other hedgehogs who survived. But by the time he meets Amy, he has been through six games of lonely war. There's no way he can have a meaningful relationship after that. All he can do is keep running.
In both the Anime, Archie and IDW comics you can see this play out with Sonic constantly pushing her affections away. He knows he must be a lone-werehog.
Absolutely, the name "Eggman" is superior, because of the simple fact that in Polish, "robotnik" means "labourer", and the word "robot" was coined from the word "robota" meaning work, and yet Dr. Robotnik represents the bourgeois class. Unless this is a very subtle commentary on the incorporation of revolutionary movements into bourgeois propaganda.
This video was great on so many levels. The premise, the execution. That costume is so wonderfully bad. This is....actually *really* great. I think this is one of my favorite videos you've made.
I cant tell if this is entirely a piss take or if theres a nugget of seriousness here. sonic is canonically pretty anti-capitalist, later on in other games and media he expresses disdain for police forces, and at one point Knuckles scoffs at the idea of owning property. it's got a surprising level of interesting commentary in it...
This was brilliant. One might be (not) surprised, but I have very similar thoughts about Sonic. I have audio tape recordings of me as a child talking about Sonic for literally hours (and I'm still doing it right now as a comment on a video of someone else taking this way too seriously holy shit what is wrong with me oh right I played Sonic while I was little and am still in existential freefall from it). There was embellishment here, though it wasn't massive and was mainly for comedic effect. The core of what you're asserting, I feel, is logically sound. My thoughts always centered around environmentalism - however, they reach about the same conclusion. The segment where you talked about level progression from the natural into the futuristic-yet-industrial horror show is what always had me on that. Your inference of metaphor from the progressively more repetitive level design of the first game is so clever - if only it could be reconned. The thing I must particularly say is so good is that you were able to take all of this abstract and make it tangible. The original Sonic series' lore is *entirely* abstract and *only* inferrable from context. There is no storytelling, even in "cutscenes" in the later titles, which only serve as vehicles to heighten the stakes with rising actions and to establish Knuckles as particularly proud that he trips up an outsider in any way - insular, much? Sonic is enviro/cyberpunk *as hell*. Capitalism is going to destroy everything that's good and empower the worst among us (he says as if it hasn't already happened). They will use (have used) that power to instill conformity by imprisoning our natural "soul" or "essence" in arbitrary bullshit we never actually said we needed. I've never been able to properly say - or even internally unify - all the things I've thought about the original series of games due to the overly abstract nature. You've went so far beyond doing that. This is excellence on every possible level.
+Peter Coffin maybe the ultimate message behind why the newer Sonic games are so fucking terrible is that capitalism killed the series as well as everything else we love - I mean, that's probably not what it is at all and it's probably just down to bad programming but... you know, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, someone who hated the calling out of their marketing practices offering a narrative built from evidence that only specifically proves that the person I was "with" at the time was not who they said they are (literally nothing more) combined with their own assertions is definitely proof. k
The thing is the game was always sort of an eco-warrior, anti unchecked capitalism thing since it was a sentient animal versus a warmongering industrialist. It even talks abut how the Chaos Emeralds hold sacred power but are being turned into bombs etc. which does sound a lot like how western imperialism brings about apparently religious fueled terrorism. The SatAM show made some of these themes more blatant. In Sonic Adventure the theme was more about Provoking nature, I guess, as a sort of metaphor for Global Warming(fighting in a flooded city etc.). In Sonic Adventure 2 you're literally fighting the military, and the military's treatment of Dr. Gerald is responsible for the events of the game, and likely Robotnik being evil in the first place. Again we have the element of stealing/appropriating the sacred with Dr. Gerald using the Chaso Emeralds and culture of the Echidnas to try and create an "ultimate lifeform". Is he responsible for all the anthros existing? They never really delve into it but maybe.
Also hopefully(!!!!!) you'll do a vid on sonic 2 where tails serves as a coerced and eventually supporter to sonics brand of terrorism. With Tails as the secret player 2 serves as how the game becomes a form of terrorist indoctrination to younger kids?
And perhaps with Tails' miraculous ability to come back to life after being dealt a killing blow signifies something about sonic, how all these Tails are different individuals that he has recruited to his cause but he views them all identically, just tools and pawns in his quest, expendable as long as they ultimately assist him in in quest to destroy capitalism.
I've... seen this you people wouldn't believe. Attack bots on fire off the shoulder of Metropolis. I've watched c-emeralds glitter in the darkness over Springbox Zone Gate. All those... moments will be lost in time... like... rings... in rain.
But that's just a theory! A game theor- Huh? No, Mr. Mailman, I'm in the middle of a comment. A cease and desist letter? Excuse me, I have to take care of this.
I think the best thing about this video is I watched it before really knowing who hbomberguy was, so this was my first impression of him. And after watching basically his entire catalog, it's still my impression.
Holy crap, you're actually spot-on with the loop-de-loop thing - Green Hill has 3 loops, one per Act, while Star Light has a whopping 15 across its three Acts. These are also the only two stages in the game to actually use them.
7:57 "...who will probably need years of therapy to undo the horrors of being trapped in a machine and forced to watch it destroy their entire family..." This sounds like my time in Defence. Your analysis has resonated more deeply than I had anticipated.
As far as your point on the mona Lisa goes, it actually got famous by being printed in newspapers all over the world. It was stolen in 1911 and an image of the Mona Lisa was posted everywhere. Before 1911 it was not a particularly famous piece.
"Sonic the Hedgehog is a surprisingly morally complex story about the importance of extra-judicial murder". That killed me so hard I spit out my yogurt
This live reenactment of the game's events is way ahead of its time. From all the way back in 2016, hbomberguy somehow near-perfectly predicted the disturbing realism of the new Sonic the Hedgehog movie's chosen aesthetic for our blue ecoterrorist. It's as if all this time he was trying to tell us: "this is not a game anymore."
Why is Tails relegated to the servant position when he can fly? Why must those who soar bow to those who still walk the earth below? Please an Ayn Rand analysis of Sonic 2.
I've been avoiding this video for a long time. But I guess now there is no more reason to postpone the inevitable. Sorry, I'm just taking a moment to reflect on a piece of me I may never see again. Here goes.
You'd think that over time, this would just get funnier. But with the humanoid CGI Sonic imagery we've seen of late, I don't think I'll ever be able to watch this video the same way again.
Thank you for this Harris, I laughed so hard I cried, my side's hurt, and I'm pretty sure my sides will be sore tomorrow. I don't know if I've laughed so hard at something in my life. The whole "fight scene" gets me every time, and my partner says, "now I know what to put on to cheer you up." This was truly special, thank you.
I have just realised something. This isnt Serious Lore analysis as comes after this. This stars Harris Bomberguy and not Hareton Splimbey. He calls himself Hbomberguy at the start. So this means the first SLA wasnt presented by Hareton and thats why he is so confused and seemingly opposed to covering sonic 2 because he hasnt done sonic 1. Also the title is Serious Sonic Lore Analysis and not Serious Lore Analysis: Sonic the Hedgehog. Either this is the first SLA and Bomberguy was replaced by Hareton or this is a completely different series and maybe even reality.
This video is a masterpiece. Satire or not, the analysis and presentation in this video are just absolutely unmatched. The script, the essay like structure it takes on, the tasteful wording. That shit looking like a nice, big, phat, juicy, hamburger when you add it up, layer by layer, bun, condiments, patty, toppings, bun, and BOOM you got yourself a fucking 5/5 filet mignon w/ lambsauce and a brew on the side. Hit me with the second one already comon SONIC 2 BABY LETS DO ITTTTT!!!
I like how a video from this long ago somehow manages to capture the "first design" Sonic film premier better than anything. Starting at 2:03 if you don't believe me. See? I'm not even kidding. He could just repost that as performance art that portrays what it was like and anyone who hasn't seen this video would buy it. XD
Welcome to Game Theory, the cringiest show on the internet! Is Dr. Robotnik the father of Nelson from the Simpsons? Does Sonic take place in World War 1? And is Sonic Heroes' plot based of real events about a cannibalistic cult who ate children? yeh But hey that's just a theory, A GAME FAIRY!!!!!
well now i wanna make a youtube show called Game Fieri, a show about adding bacon and grease and bacon grease to your favorite mindless consumerist interactive storytelling discs and downloads
I just rewatched this for the first time in a while, and it never occurred to me how much Brian David Gilbert's Unraveled series is riffing on this style and concept. Still love his stuff tho.
Finally, someone who understands.
Yes! Sonic is finally part of the SJW conspiracy!
They took Pepe the frog from us
So we're talking Sonic the Hedgehog from them
And he was a staple of indie comic fans for years before 4chan found out about him and made him a meme.
A meme that they literally stole from Gaia Online, who were using the Feels Good Man panel first.
Richard The Lionheart 4chan cares enough to steal their memes. :P
Praised be Sonic.
6:18 The spring is a metaphor for capitalism bringing about the conditions of its own demise.
Too Deep For Me
Hell yeah
The capitalist will place the very spring you use to enter the final boss battle
--Yolo Lenin
The spring represents the pent-up rage of the masses, accumulated within the society through oppression much like the way a spring accumulates the energy of compression.
The spring, and the masses, must either release that energy in a controlled fashion - or the system built on the oppression of the masses will break down.
Good god. I used to be a fucking idiot.
That costume must have taken minutes to put together.
What if i wasn't *actually* toguether?
Wait... Costume???? **Dun Dun Dunnnnnn**
that was no costume
As Devilman costumes go, it was one of the better ones.
minutes well-spent, I'll say
I know this is a joke and all, but your interpretation is *basically* the canon plot of the Sonic cartoon and comic. Like, he is literally called a "freedom fighter", and at one point they *do* kill Robotnik. He is not the *only* Hedgehog left though.
Not to be confused with the plot of the other Sonic cartoon, which is really just about a guy who wants a decent chilli dog. Except that time Robotnik collected all the chaos emeralds and turned into a gigantic, super muscular djinn.
So this IS a joke?
While the text of hbomberguy's videos is scripted and directed to be absurdist and surreal, he always presents his thesis directly so as to avoid misinterpretations through the uncritical lens of Poe's Law.
In this specific video, he presents an honest, albeit absurdist and surreal, interpretation of the themes and motifs present in Sonic the Hedgehog. The comedy of the video is derived not from the central thesis of the video, that Sonic the Hedgehog thematically represents an anti-capitalist revolution, but rather, from the method by which hbomberguy presents his thesis, using obviously bad cosplay of him in naked, or semi-naked, undress and the 'camp' of his video direction which mirrors low budget productions such as early doctor who or the silver age horror genre's B-filmography.
So, how he says things is a joke (the purpose of which I've yet to totally suss out (I think it's either a pointed criticism of the rampant intellectualism of academia, homage to some inspirational texts similar to the ones listed above, andor a reflection on what he thinks is funny by virtue of belonging to the internet culture where the chief forms of emergent humor are neoneo-dadaism and neo-nihilism; but it could be any, all, or none of these things)); but, what he is saying is a sincere critique.
In conclusion, to answer your simple yes or no question: "yes, but.... no?"
Maybe he did that on purpose?
Really impedes the furry art you can draw when there’s only one hedgehog
Sonic is an environmentalist antifascist and that is why he has been my favorite video game mascot for my entire life.
thats not actually too different from what the actual sonic bible says
Dreamyblue Pie/cupcake it's not that different from almost all Sonic media except the movie where Sonic is a fucking cop loving narc
sonic 06
prof fascism has won
He also hates the military
@@dreamybluepiecupcake7072
EITHER SONIC IS A GOD OR COULD KILL GOD AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
7 years and I'm still hyped for that sonic 2 lore analysis video.
It must be soon
Aaany day now…
Aaaaany day now…
Any day now…….😅
@@DrSpaceman42 Any...day....now
It feels like every video of Hbomberguy's is an April Fool's episode.
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Basaltq
nah, most consider post-modernism dead after it flew straight into a building on 11 September 2001. After that, there are various cultural movements: post-post-modernism was short lived.
We're currently what will probably be considered by historians to be about three major competing schools: contemporary futurism, resurgent neo-dadaism (or neoneodada if your hip), and neo-nihilism. hbomberguy's channel falls squarely with the neoneodadaists.
And then his last April Fool's video was kind of sincere...
Okay, I'm _99% sure_ this was meant to be comedic, but I can't help but agree with the points that've been made here - up to, and including, the _loop-dee-loop_ point. (Seriously, how the hell did _that_ one work so well?)
Nicely done.
Every penny of someone's $2 donation went into that costume.
Matthew Craig And not a single penny more, by the looks of it.
I hope it was mine!
Apart from the buck fifty he spent on a snack
Knuckles' and Sonic's relationship is pretty deep if you think about it. You see, Sonic loves chili dogs, but Knuckles is an enchilada. That's why they don't get along. It's heart-breaking, really.
*echidna?
@Slaughter Round Enchilada.
@@invencsibel burrito
@@rndmcmmnt chimichanga
No you're an enchilada >:(
Oh my God, flashbacks to grad school. There should have been a trigger warning.
hi i love you
Ayyyyy Contra
Help my oppressor is rationalizing and minimizing my suffering with sarcasm. Fuck, it's just gas lighting in disguise. You know what's really traumatizing? When we realize that we rationalize all the things that we do to others and what we do to survive, in order to escape the unavoidable guilt associated with having to endlessly kill other life just to survive.
It's like, we make our own hell for ourselves!
Maybe that's what a pursuit of happiness really is at the core of the world. Maybe we're just hoping for a few moments of bliss amidst this landscape of absolute suffering, to make it more worth living. And as we get older we become desensitized to what brought us pleasure before - leading to us eventually losing more and more reasons to live anyway. At least until we reset our brains some day, so we can actually feel like anything's new again!
And here's an interesting question I keep on asking myself every single day, is what I want really even going to make me happy or feel any better? Would I suddenly feel some sense of elation if I just woke up tomorrow and I never had to face the same problems as I had the day before? Would I feel terrified beyond my comprehension at the fact that my entire reality could just arbitrarily shift from that understanding I have of the world into another world? Doesn't that bring into question whether or not something stupendously powerful over me had to exist which could even do that kind of thing?
Is that why people are always so defensive of the way that they think things are, because they think that they're safe from the world and that creeping realization that they're going to fucking die one day or someone might kill them? I don't know! Maybe it's just me! Maybe that's why I got diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia, because that is the very definition of a delusional belief that is characteristic of the condition! Because I really think people are out to get me!
ContraPoints no one care about your childhood or pdsa or what ever
Mario = Vanguardist Revolution
Sonic = Insurrectionist Anarchism
Mario is simply a monarchist fighting against rival monarchist state
while he may seek to end the oppression of his people by the koopas, they are still bound into feudalism under peach, and mario so isn't really revolutionary in this sense
and while sonic is certainly insurrectionist, we don't really know his plans for a world without eggman
he could be anarchist and even primitivist, but even though it seems more unlikely we can't rule out a more centralized economy, or even a merely tempered capitalistic society
@@doorhanger9317 Well if you look at the early levels you notice a strange sort of order which cannot be observed naturally. The loops for example are obviously not natural which implies he at least belonged to some sort of society which was able to majorly alter the landscape. Through this I doubt he came from primitivism or anarchism. Seeing as the imagery at the end of the game is similar to the start of the game they most likely returned to their original system. It does still beg the question what did they start with? Most likely the small animals are not equals to the anthropomorphic animals because they act as a background to Sonic. This could imply that Sonic as the focus of the game doesn't truly care about them that much. I would even hazard a guess that his society is truly an oligarchy where the anthropomorphic animals are the leaders and the small animals are working class. That would explain the focus on certain animals and their obviously higher strength, stronger character, and higher intelligence. As the leading class they would have access to better schools and necessities which leads to the differences.
Edit: His title of The Hedgehog could come from him being the leader of the hedgehogs instead of him being the only hedgehog.
I really want to like, but damn, that like count
doorhanger93 anprim sonic lets fucking gooooooo
Everything @@doorhanger9317 said, except the ending because he seems to think markets are capitalism, without understanding that a socialist state and a society composed of communes CAN exist, produce and trade without capitalism.
In-depth lore analysis of Minesweeper, please. The harsh themes of loss and cruelty are offset by the bare, sterilized setting and juxtaposed by the inherent jolliness of the protagonist smiley... I'd be curious to hear your thoughts as to how the world of Minesweeper came to be so.
Art Souls There are lessons to be gleaned from Minesweeper, too. For instance, if there are a bunch of red flags around something, it's probably fine. And when there is absolutely no right choice, just two remaining options, rather than risking it all on chance, you should walk away and leave the situation in purgatory.
H A R S H
T H E M E S
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L O S S,
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Hehehehehehehe
I swept *all* the mines *puts on shades*.
this comment is gold
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Sonic 2? Maybe you'll be able to answer why Sonic is best friends with a species infamous for eating hedgehogs on a regular basis.
it's a representation of the breaking down of barriers, and love for one's enemies. The realization that we are all one Brotherhood of Man.
Same reason anyone keeps a pup around really
it's because all animals should unite against humanity, duh.
thats easy.
its tails THE fox
so its the last fox.
former enemies came together
SupahFly he's also a mutant fox
This continues to be in my top ten favorite videos on the Internet. "If they have a heart between them, they stole it from a child" is still one of the funniest lines ever in a sonic game analysis
Good video, but you missed something very important...
So, as most of us with an interest in science are aware, the concepts of space and time are deeply linked (to the point where it is often considered, singularly, "spacetime"). This means that the faster you traverse physical space the slower you move temporally.
You move faster, you live longer. So if you wish to extend your lifespan....
You gotta go fast. Hedgehogs generally live short lives, but through excessive speed Sonic has managed to avoid this fate. He is *literally* running from his own mortality.
Mostly this was hilarious, but I'm actually really satisfied that someone finally came up with a plausible explanation for why the last level is just a lazy copy-paste of one of the earlier water levels.
Someone in The Amazing Atheist's comments section didn't pick up on the deeply satirical elements in this video. I think this perfectly epitomises his viewership.
Yes.
The Caped Mechanist Yeah, except this is satire. This video a fine example of doing it right, when Leafy and Co. have butchered the term to no end
Honestly, as a lifelong Sonic fan? I can safely say that satire or not, this... can function as a pretty legitimate reading of the game. And you know how I know? Check the Archie comics. Or Sonic SatAM. Hbomb set out to make an extreme artist's interpretation of the game beyond what the creators ever intended for a simple cartoon platformer, but sans any kind of authorial intent? This actually makes a shocking amount of sense even with the exaggerated lens of likening Sonic to Chaplin and violent revolutionaries - so much so, that actual canon continuities clued into his ideas about a decade before he had them.
A bag filled with fresh, local produce.
Isnt that what _"analysis"_ is about? Overthinking everything to an absurd degree?
@A bag filled with fresh, local produce.
death of the author biatch
Just had a truly stupid idea
Maybe Sonic is a common name, so you have to add "the Hedgehog"
Maybe somewhere there's a Sonic the Badger, or Sonic the Herring, or Sonic the European Swallow
What of Sonic the African Swallow?
BiPaganMan or maybe it's a very common name he chose to represent the whole sum of the animals.Like John smith in humans.
@@corvuscallosum5079 Laden or Unladen Sonic?
Fun Fact: Sonic the Herring went through a major re-work, literally just months before launch, and ended up as a little title called Ecco the Dolphin. See, the more you know =D
This is, no joke, the main theory for where surnames actually come from. There were so many Johns and Marys and auch people had to be like "John, y'know, the Smith" or "Mary, y'know, who lives by the Hill" or "Joseph, y'know, Stephen's son"
Later, Sonic finds out that there are other hedgehogs who survived. But by the time he meets Amy, he has been through six games of lonely war.
There's no way he can have a meaningful relationship after that. All he can do is keep running.
Matthew Campbell Also Amy is like too young for him
In both the Anime, Archie and IDW comics you can see this play out with Sonic constantly pushing her affections away. He knows he must be a lone-werehog.
Absolutely, the name "Eggman" is superior, because of the simple fact that in Polish, "robotnik" means "labourer", and the word "robot" was coined from the word "robota" meaning work, and yet Dr. Robotnik represents the bourgeois class.
Unless this is a very subtle commentary on the incorporation of revolutionary movements into bourgeois propaganda.
This video was great on so many levels. The premise, the execution. That costume is so wonderfully bad. This is....actually *really* great. I think this is one of my favorite videos you've made.
P Ferreira Yes....? We can't exactly compare it to his future videos. XP
As a person with a crushing amount of debt from an art degree, I deem this as art, Mr. Harris Bomberguy.
tag yourself, I'm the unpayable amounts of debt.
An year late, but I'm HSonicMan.
i shit you not i thought these exact words while scrolling through the comments before i got to yours
none of us are original
I'm insurrectionary ecoanarchist with face paint and graffiti
I am the egg dictator
Sonic will never be fast enough to outrun his sins.
It's official, Sonic is okay with punching Nazis.
Who isn't?
Mac Mcskullface idiots who think they’re smarter then everyone else
Not just them...)))
@@OrgaNik_Music alt righters
People who convince themselves that they’re not Nazis and are just doin it for MURCA
I cant tell if this is entirely a piss take or if theres a nugget of seriousness here.
sonic is canonically pretty anti-capitalist, later on in other games and media he expresses disdain for police forces, and at one point Knuckles scoffs at the idea of owning property.
it's got a surprising level of interesting commentary in it...
It's both.
Sonic isn’t anti-capitalist, and the Knuckles thing is fake
@@haydentcem you wouldn't think so, since SEGA has actually banned currency from being a part of the Sonic universe!
@@uraynuke sounds fake
@@haydentcem it ain't! Ian Flynn™ has talked about this before! it is why Shadow cannot be anything but edgy nowadays, too.
I still watch this masterpiece again from time to time. It’s a laser-focussed piece of insight.
This is the single greatest thing ever seen on TH-cam.
chrisiousity nooooooooooo
"It is right to rebel against reactionaries." - Sonic "the Hedgehog" Robisstalin
Sonic the Herzog might actually be the best pun I've ever heard
"now you can share my degree, *AND MY UNPAYABLE AMOUNT OF DEBT!!*" I lol
If you think about it, that second part is him asking for people to sign up for his patreon
This was brilliant. One might be (not) surprised, but I have very similar thoughts about Sonic. I have audio tape recordings of me as a child talking about Sonic for literally hours (and I'm still doing it right now as a comment on a video of someone else taking this way too seriously holy shit what is wrong with me oh right I played Sonic while I was little and am still in existential freefall from it). There was embellishment here, though it wasn't massive and was mainly for comedic effect. The core of what you're asserting, I feel, is logically sound.
My thoughts always centered around environmentalism - however, they reach about the same conclusion. The segment where you talked about level progression from the natural into the futuristic-yet-industrial horror show is what always had me on that. Your inference of metaphor from the progressively more repetitive level design of the first game is so clever - if only it could be reconned.
The thing I must particularly say is so good is that you were able to take all of this abstract and make it tangible. The original Sonic series' lore is *entirely* abstract and *only* inferrable from context. There is no storytelling, even in "cutscenes" in the later titles, which only serve as vehicles to heighten the stakes with rising actions and to establish Knuckles as particularly proud that he trips up an outsider in any way - insular, much?
Sonic is enviro/cyberpunk *as hell*. Capitalism is going to destroy everything that's good and empower the worst among us (he says as if it hasn't already happened). They will use (have used) that power to instill conformity by imprisoning our natural "soul" or "essence" in arbitrary bullshit we never actually said we needed. I've never been able to properly say - or even internally unify - all the things I've thought about the original series of games due to the overly abstract nature. You've went so far beyond doing that. This is excellence on every possible level.
+Peter Coffin maybe the ultimate message behind why the newer Sonic games are so fucking terrible is that capitalism killed the series as well as everything else we love - I mean, that's probably not what it is at all and it's probably just down to bad programming but... you know, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Aren't you the guy who made a fake Asian girlfriend and got caught?
+M Fitzburger Aren't you the guy who spreads lies about people for the crime of thinking gamergate was stupid as fuck?
Yes, someone who hated the calling out of their marketing practices offering a narrative built from evidence that only specifically proves that the person I was "with" at the time was not who they said they are (literally nothing more) combined with their own assertions is definitely proof. k
Peter Coffin kek
Harris The Bomberguy: The last Bomberguy left! And this is his fate.
Its hilarious how this is basically the same plot as Sonic SatAM.
I like how Harry calls Mario a "war criminal" because several years later Brian David Gilbert proved that Mario really is a war criminal.
harry had the guts to call mario out on it before it was cool. what a chad
But BDG and HbomberGuy might disagree on Sonic Lore tho.
...Are you taking the piss out of Game Theory? XD
It's not the first time.
@@QuickQuips the lore i missed...
The thing is the game was always sort of an eco-warrior, anti unchecked capitalism thing since it was a sentient animal versus a warmongering industrialist. It even talks abut how the Chaos Emeralds hold sacred power but are being turned into bombs etc. which does sound a lot like how western imperialism brings about apparently religious fueled terrorism. The SatAM show made some of these themes more blatant. In Sonic Adventure the theme was more about Provoking nature, I guess, as a sort of metaphor for Global Warming(fighting in a flooded city etc.). In Sonic Adventure 2 you're literally fighting the military, and the military's treatment of Dr. Gerald is responsible for the events of the game, and likely Robotnik being evil in the first place.
Again we have the element of stealing/appropriating the sacred with Dr. Gerald using the Chaso Emeralds and culture of the Echidnas to try and create an "ultimate lifeform". Is he responsible for all the anthros existing? They never really delve into it but maybe.
What an amazing, philosophical, antithesis-to-game-theory analysis of sonic the hedgehog.
This is the sonic analysis that we deserved... And needed.
Also hopefully(!!!!!) you'll do a vid on sonic 2 where tails serves as a coerced and eventually supporter to sonics brand of terrorism. With Tails as the secret player 2 serves as how the game becomes a form of terrorist indoctrination to younger kids?
And perhaps with Tails' miraculous ability to come back to life after being dealt a killing blow signifies something about sonic, how all these Tails are different individuals that he has recruited to his cause but he views them all identically, just tools and pawns in his quest, expendable as long as they ultimately assist him in in quest to destroy capitalism.
HotChocletyLez spoiler: tails IS the void
Still can't believe Tommy Tamirico was the first American to work on this piece of ART. His mother must be so proud
The pun "Sonic the Herzog" speaks to me on a viscerally personal level.
He's going to go home and eat his red shoes after murdering a doctor.
I've... seen this you people wouldn't believe. Attack bots on fire off the shoulder of Metropolis. I've watched c-emeralds glitter in the darkness over Springbox Zone Gate. All those... moments will be lost in time... like... rings... in rain.
sonic: Time to die. (Jumps up spread eagle and falls through the ground to his death.)
Decker: Yo what the fuck
I saw it in the thumbnail but that costume reveal came for my kidneys and tore them right out I'm deceased
But that's just a theory! A game theor-
Huh?
No, Mr. Mailman, I'm in the middle of a comment.
A cease and desist letter?
Excuse me, I have to take care of this.
It's really hard to tell where the analysis ends and the jokes start, sometimes. This is amazing.
"After crossing the highways and miraculously not getting run over, like most actual hedgehogs I've seen on the motorway."
That one got me
I think the best thing about this video is I watched it before really knowing who hbomberguy was, so this was my first impression of him.
And after watching basically his entire catalog, it's still my impression.
I know precisely what I'm dressing as for Halloween.
Holy crap, you're actually spot-on with the loop-de-loop thing - Green Hill has 3 loops, one per Act, while Star Light has a whopping 15 across its three Acts. These are also the only two stages in the game to actually use them.
7:57 "...who will probably need years of therapy to undo the horrors of being trapped in a machine and forced to watch it destroy their entire family..."
This sounds like my time in Defence.
Your analysis has resonated more deeply than I had anticipated.
As far as your point on the mona Lisa goes, it actually got famous by being printed in newspapers all over the world. It was stolen in 1911 and an image of the Mona Lisa was posted everywhere. Before 1911 it was not a particularly famous piece.
Serious lore analysis of Nekopara, pls.
This. Please.
i want it
Oh my god do it pls
This has to happen please hbomb do it 😿😿😿😿
Please explain why pressing P is central to the themes and ideas of the series as a whole
This is the best lore analysis I have ever seen.
Sonic is an OG Anarcho-Punk, with the most sensational mowhawk the world has seen.
"Sonic the Hedgehog is a surprisingly morally complex story about the importance of extra-judicial murder". That killed me so hard I spit out my yogurt
That "costume" will give me nightmares.
Also was that intro a reference to Noah Caldwell-Gervais' intros? That seems like an obscure reference.
He is writing for Polygon so he is now a tool of the media machine.
+Jugal Noah or hbomb?
BakehousePictures Noah "The Hackfraud" Caldwell-Gervais.
"Hackfraud"?
Jugal
I'm happy for him. Being paid to talk about art is a fucking dream come true.
This live reenactment of the game's events is way ahead of its time. From all the way back in 2016, hbomberguy somehow near-perfectly predicted the disturbing realism of the new Sonic the Hedgehog movie's chosen aesthetic for our blue ecoterrorist. It's as if all this time he was trying to tell us: "this is not a game anymore."
All these...rings...will be lost in time...like tears...in the rain
Everything comes down to existential dread and who'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Harris, please bring this series back it's comedy platinum
"Mass-producing the loopies" is a personal favoite phrase.
Why is Tails relegated to the servant position when he can fly? Why must those who soar bow to those who still walk the earth below? Please an Ayn Rand analysis of Sonic 2.
Ayn Rand? More like... stupid.
GOTEM
Sonic the Herzog is legitimately one of the funniest Sonic things I've ever heard
This combined with BDG's Sonic Bible video is all we need for a true Sonic Movie
this is my favourite era of hbomberguy
One day, Hbomber is going to meet the guy who was the model in that "kevin" child photo, and it will be quite the moment
I've been avoiding this video for a long time. But I guess now there is no more reason to postpone the inevitable. Sorry, I'm just taking a moment to reflect on a piece of me I may never see again. Here goes.
Welcome to the elite, comrade.
This can't have been released in 2016, it gives off such 2012 or earlier vibes
"A film degree? When are you going to ever use that?"
"Pretty much constantly, whether I like it or not."
Definitely one of my better subscriptions.
You'd think that over time, this would just get funnier. But with the humanoid CGI Sonic imagery we've seen of late, I don't think I'll ever be able to watch this video the same way again.
Did... you bleach your hair?
It's for a character in an upcoming video!
I suppose it isn't Boris Johnson is it?
Julian Assange?
Milo Yiannopoulos
has to be Milo
Thank you for this Harris, I laughed so hard I cried, my side's hurt, and I'm pretty sure my sides will be sore tomorrow. I don't know if I've laughed so hard at something in my life. The whole "fight scene" gets me every time, and my partner says, "now I know what to put on to cheer you up." This was truly special, thank you.
You look horrifying as Sonic.
lewis whatley what are you talking about he's beautiful
I have just realised something. This isnt Serious Lore analysis as comes after this. This stars Harris Bomberguy and not Hareton Splimbey. He calls himself Hbomberguy at the start. So this means the first SLA wasnt presented by Hareton and thats why he is so confused and seemingly opposed to covering sonic 2 because he hasnt done sonic 1. Also the title is Serious Sonic Lore Analysis and not Serious Lore Analysis: Sonic the Hedgehog.
Either this is the first SLA and Bomberguy was replaced by Hareton or this is a completely different series and maybe even reality.
This video is a masterpiece. Satire or not, the analysis and presentation in this video are just absolutely unmatched. The script, the essay like structure it takes on, the tasteful wording. That shit looking like a nice, big, phat, juicy, hamburger when you add it up, layer by layer, bun, condiments, patty, toppings, bun, and BOOM you got yourself a fucking 5/5 filet mignon w/ lambsauce and a brew on the side. Hit me with the second one already comon SONIC 2 BABY LETS DO ITTTTT!!!
6 years later and it's fun to look back at how youthful Harris was. He was young, he was hunky, his hair almost Boris-like
I like how a video from this long ago somehow manages to capture the "first design" Sonic film premier better than anything. Starting at 2:03 if you don't believe me.
See? I'm not even kidding. He could just repost that as performance art that portrays what it was like and anyone who hasn't seen this video would buy it. XD
I am enjoying greatly the fact that you used to have the Jay Cartwright trim
Paramount should've taken notes from that costume design
I was looking for this
It is my head canon that Harris didn’t have the “His World” joke in mind when he wrote that line, and thought of it while editing
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Is Dr. Robotnik the father of Nelson from the Simpsons? Does Sonic take place in World War 1? And is Sonic Heroes' plot based of real events about a cannibalistic cult who ate children?
yeh
But hey that's just a theory, A GAME FAIRY!!!!!
Does sonic 06's final boss take place in the aftermath of sandy hook?
Andrew Qiu yes
+Albert Sirup is sonic actually the creation of collective rape fantasies of Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin?
well now i wanna make a youtube show called Game Fieri, a show about adding bacon and grease and bacon grease to your favorite mindless consumerist interactive storytelling discs and downloads
"Hey! Listen!"
I’ve been slowly going through the Hbomb Archives, I’m glad that I’ve finally reached the “early Thom Yorke” hairstyle I’ve heard so much about
You have nailed the Boris Johnson hair.
Some of the best visuals ever committed to video.
Deserves millions of views.
There hasn't been good and lengthy analysis videos about Legend of Zelda lore, that would be a good topic for a video!
I just rewatched this for the first time in a while, and it never occurred to me how much Brian David Gilbert's Unraveled series is riffing on this style and concept. Still love his stuff tho.
this isn't vaatividya
or is it
no, it's actually watchable
You really went all in on the cosplay. You're an inspiration
"Sonic is the last hedgehog standing"
Amy: *am I a joke to you?*
amys a flower.
The point about the fetal position actually made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that.
Is H.Bomberguy a big fan of animated Jerry Seinfeld movies about bees or is one of his patreons a fucking hero?
Yes.
This video came out roughly when big chungus did, just a year and some days older
Say what you will, I like overanalyzing the shit out of things. It reminds me of high school english.
The bourgeoisie will place the very spring that will allow us to advance to the boss level
--Lenin the Hedgehog
Coming back to this after the trailer
Hbomb really nailed the "The Bends-era Thom Yorke" look in this video
2:17 I knew my Patreon payment was good for something!
It's fully impossible to pick a best quote from this video, there's so much pure gold. How are there not more memes?