I've always been fascinated with (games-verse) Amy's car collection, because unless I'm wrong, I believe she's the character with the highest number of unique vehicles in her possession other than Eggman? I'd have to double-check, but I think she really does have more than Tails, or at least equal to. This has actually led me to have the headcanon that she's a real car-person, and genuinely collects them, and though we never see it, she actually spends time working on them. She can't build one like Tails, but if you break down on the road, she'll have you sorted straight away. And if you get her started in a conversation about vintage models, you aren't getting out of that conversation for another six hours. It's a real shame SEGA haven't incorporated that into her character, because I think it'd be really cool. But... I'll just continue to headcanon it myself in the meantime.
I'm definitely adding this to my list of "If you X bring up around Y, you enter an unskippable cutscene" headcanons for Sonic. (Planes for Tails, Guns for Shadow, Archeology for Knuckles, Gems/Geology for Rouge, and now Cars for Amy)
I like the detail that Metal Sonic's car doesn't even have a seat or a steering wheel, just cables he connects to. It's like the car is some experimental add-on to his body, rather than an actual vehicle.
My headcanon is that Amy is a rich city girl who loves a lot of childish stuff cause she's used to it, hence why she has a toy hammer for a weapon. The same reason why she had Breeze made.
@@masterfarr8265 I'll always find it amusing how in a franchise about bipedal talking cartoon animals with superpowers seemingly living alongside humans in their (often surreal or futuristic looking) cities, even going as far as having jobs, owning apartments and driving cars, the main thing people consistently focus on and find weird about them is "wait, they're not old enough to do any of that!". In any case, I think they recently erased any mention of ages from the characters' bios on one of the most important official japanese Sonic websites, which many have taken as decanonizing the ages for the characters altogether.
Jeez, Amy really know her way around sentiment machines. Gamma (Mr. Robot), Emerl and now Breeze. I like how Amy was basically the “Do anything you want within reason” character. Even if it made it harder flesh out Classic Amy’s identity, I let this girl do a lot of cool and wacky things, and if they want to the IDW comics could flesh out Breeze as a character, their already doing that with Classic Amy. BringBackBreeze🚙
She's a proficient medium who owns a number of magic hammers that manifest & de-manifest out of & into thin air and create heart shockwaves upon impact. Perhaps she bought a regular car and made friends with a spirit who possesses the car whenever he feels like it, and she casted a spell to give the car a mouth.
Small correction, modern Amy is driving the car that appears in Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed. That car has the eyelashes and we see her fly with it in the IDW comics. But yeah, would be nice to see Breeze again.
There's a bunch of robots made by Robotnik that have sentience, like Scratch and Grounder. Maybe Breeze escaped and made a life of his own, who knows? Would love to see him in a modern game.
Imagine if all the cars in Sonic Drift 1 & 2 had eyes. That would’ve been a very freaky concept. Also, I would like to say thank you for your Entire Fleetway STC story video. It really made me feel happy watching you talk about these comics from the 90’s and I enjoy them a lot. My favourite villains would be The Brotherhood of Metallix, Commander Brutus and Fleetway Super Sonic.
Honestly I get the feeling that during Amy's collective years of off-screen time throughout the games' history she's been doing things that are worthy of their own spin-off series. She keeps on stumbling across all this crazy paranormal shit. WHY does she have a magical hammer? WHERE did she get a SENTIENT CAR!? Just HOW accurate are her fortune telling abilities?? These are the questions we need answers to, Sega!
It’s a shame 90s Amy always gets put in the “damsel in distress”category, when she it seemed like she was actually shaping up to be a cool character! Also, I’d like to think Breeze was built by Tails!
@@kylebartlett9683That's not what lost media means. Not that Breeze is lost media regardless, but still you do seem to have your definitions mixed up.
I like to think he taught Amy how to drive after drift 2 and got a job. He lived with Amy for a few years before taking over successful train business in station Square.
I like to head canon that the car uses similar technology to Badniks. I mean if we look at her classic appearances in the IDW comics we actually see that she recycled some of the badniks from Sonic cd to make some makeshift house appliances, so I don’t think it’s that implausible to think that she could’ve hooked up some sort of badnik AI so her car could have auto pilot, with a little bit of help from Tails
My headcanon is that Breeze is a car Batnik and he recruits her to help take down his car-brothers in off-screen vehicular race-battles, the last one causing Breeze to break apart, wherein a Flicky flies out to join its siblings while Amy watches in awe
It makes sense that Amy needs a living car in the classic era because she's just too young to drive a car. Tails can drive because of his 300 IQ. and sonic probably because he is used to the speed of driving because he is the fastest thing alive, and probably because he can also fly a plane because the tornado was originally his before he gave it tails so a car is super easy for sonic
As an avid car fan, I want to point out that Tail's car is moreso based on the Caterham Seven, I believe that it is a rebadged version of the car(Lotus Seven), so it is technically the car you pointed out, there is a picture in Sonic CD of Tails next to one and it exists in the Sega GT racing series which is where I learned of the car
Even though the 'Classic' universe is now mute despite that not being case back during the early-mid 90s era of Sonic, I do wonder what kind of voice Breeze would have. Never actually knew this little nugget of information regardless.
While there is no Classic Universe, (thats a misconception of this video, many offical sources like Tailstube state the Classic versions are just younger versions of the cast) the mute thing isn't a strict rule it seems. Tails for instance was able to speak in Generations, while the whole cast was able to speak in IDW. (which is also in the game's continuity, something Johnny Vector was also wrong about) So there is a bit of hope for nailing that down, though it seems that the current people involved are more interested in getting SEGA to let the Battle Bird Armada come back.
@@TheSwordsman100 In the game canon (Japanese and English) Classic Sonic is from a different dimension. Sega can retcon that later, but thats on a game by game basis.
@@Mario_GamerZ No he is not, Tailstube, the offical lore team, the offical podcast, Ian Flynn's podcast ALL state otherwise. With Tailstube in particular dedicating two whole episodes into clearing up this misconception.
The pink cabriolet in the games looks like a Citroen 2cv while in the comics it looks like a convertible VW Beetle. Not to mention the campervan in the comics is a 70's VW Bus. Amy swapped from French cars to German.
The car looks like it came straight from the 2010's games like Colors or Lost World, when SEGA was trying to turn the Sonic series into yet another kid-friendly, cutsey and cartoony platformer series.
Random headcannon i just made up: Breeze was a concept car dr.robotnik created to test his mechanic skills,he was abandoned by the foul doctor after he started making badniks, but amy came around and brought him to safety.
It's almost like Breeze could be a Badnik of some sorts or it's own setient being. Too bad it disappeared after the Adventure Era kicked in, I would've liked to see it return in the Sonic & Sega All Stars Duology.
So we see a mechanism to turn living things into machines in Sonic, so its my head cannon that breese was a forrest critter that wanted to be a car, so Sonic and his friends used Eggmans tech to make him a car without wiping his mind. He's got a heart, still inside there, he's fine and can change back at anytime
Wait, was it maybe because Amy was supposed to be a lot younger in the classic Sonic days?? It would make sense then that she'd have to have a car that drives itself, cuz they wouldnt want a little kid driving when so many of the vehicles were based on real cars. But then they give her the convertible in Sonic R, so maybe im way off base.
This is indeed the case, this video sadly has a lot of misinformation. There is no separate universes, as explained by Tailstube Classic Sonic and the like are all just younger versions of the cast. IDW is also canon to the games and not it's own universe.
@@TheSwordsman100 Actually, in modern Sonic canon they are from a different dimansion. Ever since Sonic Forces, which is where all the modern canon comes from, Classic Sonic is a dimension that isn't from Modern Sonic's past but rather a different dimension all together. Sega is weird. IDW however is canonical, and there is only one total Sonic canon now. It is a bad timeline where it's the Sonic Forces canon, but hey, at least they're consistently meh now.
It's because Game Gear games were not considered important. Sonic 2 Game Gear has a different story. Sonic Triple Trouble doesn't follow Sonic 3's story even though it features Knuckles. Its a Spinoff game
Gee, somehow it had never occurred to me that Breeze is very blatantly just Benny The Cab from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Then again, I've never played Sonic Drift or its sequel... Great video! Always nice to see these obscure characters get acknowledged!
“Classic universe”. Actually, you might not be aware, SEGA has discarded the whole “Classic Sonic’s timeline is another universe” and the two dimensions are one singular timeline once again, so that means Breeze is out there in the Modern era. Anyways, this was such a fun, informative Sonic history vid.
Iizuka has long said that games will discard and retcon depending on writer or what fits a particular game's universe. Classic Sonic may be from another timeline if another game/writer says so. Thats also how Iizuka explained Sonic and Blaze not remembering each other in Sonic 06 after Sonic Rush. Sonic Frontiers is from a period where games are linked, but the possibility exists of another game retconning that again. Sonic Forces is still a game where Sonic "verbally" stated Classic is from another dimension. Frontiers has a different writer and Sega will probably add more contradictions in the future. After all, how else can we explain Eggman's change from goofy to serious. Different writers doing different takes
@@Mario_GamerZ Forces is still canon, yes, but the idea that Classic Sonic is from another dimension has been abandoned by SEGA. Classic Sonic is Sonic from the past again.
This may be biased, as I'm a big fan of sentient objects/machines, but I kinda wish they leaned more into sentient cars with Sonic Drift! Yes, this would've made Breeze less special, but I think giving each car a personality that contrasted or complimented their driver would've been really cool! This could've been explained as Robotnik trying to sabotage the vehicles by installing AI that serves his wishes, but instead they gained sentience and rebelled (besides his Egg Mobile, which could be the only non-sentient one or have a AI as well). BTW, anyone else curious to see what a modern Breeze would look like? I'd imagine he'd look kinda like Sonic's Speed Star from TSR.
Upon reading the title i thought the video was going to be about how Classic Amy's nose is long like Sonic's but Modern Amy's nose is short like Tails lmao
My head-cannon is that Tails designed and built all the vehicles for (at the very least) Sonic and his other friends in the Drift series. Tails and Sonic are both capable pilots, and capable drivers by proxy, but Amy being so young and most likely incapable of driving, Tails built a car that could basically drive itself. By Sonic R, Amy could drive somewhat, so she used an actual car.
When playing as Amy in TSR, I have the car with a paint job closely resembling Breeze, so at least the "bar of soap" has a bit more personality. Breeze is such a silly, goofy idea. It's wacky whenever Sonic takes inspiration from Western animation, especially when tapping into the cartoonier side of things.
"What if Breeze has a cold twisted heart" I will not allow this slander, Breeze is my friend and a gentleman & a scholar (jk) Joking aside, this was a fun little rundown on Breeze! I've always genuinely liked him as a cute little friend to Amy
The Cyclone is not based on the F40… but the 1993-2002 Chevrolet Camaro and the Whirlwind is based on the old Lotus 7. In Sonic Drift 2 the Blue Devil is clearly based on the Batman Forever Batmobile.
I always found it interesting what SEGA Japan was trying to make Sonic Mainstays before the Saturn and Dreamcast completely stomped that out from 1997-1999 No Fang, No Breeze. Heroes tried to bring back some of that with the bright colorful stages that slowly got a little darker along with Metal Sonic and Rebooted Chaotix before that gradually dissapeared by 06 (besides Metal but he does not matter anymore) I never thought you'd make me interested in Japanese Classic Amy
I reckon Breeze was a victim of Eggman's experiments. He found a friend in Amy but ultimately she wanted a car to drive herself, so she got the red "corvette". Breeze should be brought back as a driverless playable character in more games imho. Tails could do some mods too.
Okay, hear me out. Sonic. Was originally going to have a human love interest. This was scrapped in favor for Amy. But Amy . . . has a sentient, toon car, in the style of vintage cars. And Knuckles is a lawful good but brutish and even fumbling character that begrudgingly works with the spaztic hyperactive hijinks of Sonic, AND . . . he gets a cool hat in the OVA film. Fuckin' Who Framed Roger Rabbit baby!!!
Between this sentient car, and the scrapped ideas from Sonic 1's concept art, specifically Sonic's human girlfriend Madonna and the rabbit design they had, I can imagine an alternate universe where Sonic was originally a video game adaptation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Amy being a car collector would be an interesting thing to make canon to her character [way better than the fucking cards shit they've replaced her personality with 💀] Yuji Naka has always been into sports cars, and that's part of what inspired Sonic's speed. Amy's usually been shown to be slower than Sonic, so as a Sonic fangirl it would make sense she would want to experience that speed and try to keep up to him, slowly becoming a car geek in the process. They could even still do the "girlboss" shit by having her work on her own cars with some help from Tails.
I recently also went down the rabbit hole of sonic vehicles and was struck by how many Amy had. Her IDW car is a good compromise between the different designs imo. Its modern with some girly style and keeps that bubbly look, plus eye like headlights which always points back to Breeze.
The IDW one is the one she uses in Sonic And All-Stars Racing Transformed. It can turn into a hovercraft on water and a turbofan drone-type thin in the air.
My uncle used to drive an Egg Typhoon around in the 70s. Total babe magnet, it was. Literally. It literally drew the metal on women's clothing towards it as part of one of my uncle's many diabolical schemes.
Although I personally do like her car from TSR, especially when I put on different modifications to make it look like an all-terrain jeep, I will admit it is the least interesting of the designs. One of them is a talking car, one of them can hover over water, one of them can turn into a jet and a plane,… and then the one from TSR is literally just a semi modern car. At least you get the option to customize it I suppose
The weirdest thing is that she even needs a car at all in Sonic R. She's one of the few people in their world relatively capable of keeping pace with Sonic on foot and for some reason she's in a car in the only racing game that allows characters to be on foot?
🚗🏎 Splendid little insight about Amy's vehicles! Comfy little watch and quite informative! Thank you Johnny Vector!✨ The "pink bar of soap" as you said reminds me a lot of MKWii's Wild Wing (Medium Kart), the chunky design with smooth surface is more aesthetic than skill/speed🏁 As for the "girlie" varnish, maybe because Amy likes to stand out from Monster Trucks and Corvettes?
Sega typically ignores obscure Sonic characters and media. It's usually fans that bring it back like Sonic Mania bringing back Mighty and Ray the Squirrel.
Bit of a stretch, but with Blaze being compared as an alternate Sonic, Breeze might be sideline so we don't have fans calling him Car-Sonic. That paint job is just telling. That, or we may also be looking at a "good-Metal Sonic" too, could go either way.
He is not relegated to the "Classic Universe", such a concept and the corresponding "Modern Universe" is a misconception that simply does not exist. Many, many, many, many offical sources like Tailstube have clarified that that the Classic Era is just the past where the cast was younger. Also IDW is canon to the games and so is not a sperate continuity.
@@Mario_GamerZ Again there is no separate universe and this is a further misunderstanding of what he meant, just like how people thought he meant the two worlds literally, when he was talking about two cultures. Mighty and Ray still exist but are not allowed to older designs yet due to marketing. Trip is in the same boat, which is why Sonic and friends are allowed to still mention all 3 in Remember When and say that they are meeting up with a older Trip later but you don't see Trip in "Remember When?".
Benny the cab was a reference to Herbie lol. This video saying that Breeze is a Benny reference, rather than a Herbie reference, is like saying that a yellow martial arts jumpsuit is a Kill Bill reference rather than a Bruce Lee one.
A Monster Truck actually feels like such an obvious choice to give Amy Rose. It's like... the giant piko hammer of cars. I'm shocked they haven't used that for her yet. Imagine a big Monster Truck with the eyelash headlights and other cute accessories
Well Amy seems to have hidden magical powers so might be why, she probably made the car alive. In Sonic Superstars her music theme in her level kind of hints her magical abilities, though kind of easy to not notice. If you look at the games even the 3D games she seems to have magical powers but it is very subtle and easy to miss. That or can be over looked as gameplay mechanics.
Oh, you mean the fact that Amy has a car with eyes and a mouth that may be alive. Yeah, that was a thing. 0:04 - I was actually quite a fan of Sonic Drift 2. Never played the original game though. 0:28 - I feel Sonic and Co in cars makes sense from a balancing perspective, especially when it comes to crossover games like Sega All-Stars. It's funny you bring up Mario Kart, as whilst it was the first, one could argue that Mario without a jumping aspect feels a tad generic as well. Admittedly, Super Mario Kart did have jumping, but they proceeded to tone it down as the games went on. 2:04 - Funny how we're talking about the world of sentient animal humanoids strong enough to smash through metal and run super fast but the living car is the odd one. I suppose it's like how Eggman, as the one human for a long time, rather sticks out. 3:40 - I mean, Breeze does have a very fleshy tongue there. He is potentially organic on the inside. 4:43 - My memory is playing tricks on me; I always remembered Amy driving Breeze in Sonic R as well. 6:46 - Honestly, I think that was the intention. Pink to the extreme. 7:15 - Agreed, Breeze does have the most character, helped by literally being a character. Although, if they wanted to have Amy avoid the allegations of being assisted in her races, perhaps Breeze could just be his own separate character in future racing games. 8:44 - To be fair, this surprising Amy element continued in some of the post-classic era with stuff like Amy being able to freeze time in Sonic Adventure 2 or turn invisible in Sonic 2006.
I honestly like her Sonic R vehicle best as it goes well colour wise. As charming as Breeze is, there's far too much colour clash going on, Amy already has pretty bright pink, green, red and orange.
Y'know, it makes sense Amy of all people would have a sentient car. She's incredibly empathetic and thoughtful of others, so perhaps Breeze is just doing what she would anyway Might even be a combination of good understanding and a psychic link, and her tarot knowledge only being unusual for a little girl is a fun bit of culture shock apparently
To be fair that version of Amy is 8 years old so she wouldn’t be able to drive anyway. It’s even weirder how the Classic version of Tails is around four years old and he flies a friggin plane.
when i was a kid in the 90's i remember thinking amy was a bad character because she was just pink sonic with a dress and that every other character including the freedom fighters was more creative looking
My theory is that Tails created Breeze for Amy as a Sentient Robotic Car Being with Artificial Intellingence and Artificial Sentience, allowing Breeze to communicate with the Sonic franchise cast and become another character in the roster, hence his full canonical name: Breeze The RoboCar A.K.A Breeze the CarDroid A.K.A Breeze The RoboVehicle.
Breeze could also be a Badnik, so there might be an animal still trapped inside!!!
But did you notice Sonic's car also looks like one of his trainers?
Larry ....you sly son of a bitch, where you been all this time 😂
I always find you in the most random comments sections
Do you mean badnik?
"Botnik"
@@DarkElfDiva thats the one!
I've always been fascinated with (games-verse) Amy's car collection, because unless I'm wrong, I believe she's the character with the highest number of unique vehicles in her possession other than Eggman? I'd have to double-check, but I think she really does have more than Tails, or at least equal to. This has actually led me to have the headcanon that she's a real car-person, and genuinely collects them, and though we never see it, she actually spends time working on them. She can't build one like Tails, but if you break down on the road, she'll have you sorted straight away. And if you get her started in a conversation about vintage models, you aren't getting out of that conversation for another six hours.
It's a real shame SEGA haven't incorporated that into her character, because I think it'd be really cool. But... I'll just continue to headcanon it myself in the meantime.
Now two people hold the same headcannon
@@TheUltimateHumanBeing No... three 👈
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I'm definitely adding this to my list of "If you X bring up around Y, you enter an unskippable cutscene" headcanons for Sonic. (Planes for Tails, Guns for Shadow, Archeology for Knuckles, Gems/Geology for Rouge, and now Cars for Amy)
Amy: Time to change your coolant!
Breeze: *Expression of absolute terror*
Imagine if every couple months the doctors had to completely drain you of your blood or lymph and replace it with new fluids.
man poor breeze he went through some shit
I like the detail that Metal Sonic's car doesn't even have a seat or a steering wheel, just cables he connects to. It's like the car is some experimental add-on to his body, rather than an actual vehicle.
Excellent bit of worldbuilding. Figures Metal would just be sending direct, precise inputs. Kind of like a TAS, or at least that's my interpretation
Quite fitting for Sega really
an add-on just like the five million ones they made for the genesis
My headcanon is that Amy is a rich city girl who loves a lot of childish stuff cause she's used to it, hence why she has a toy hammer for a weapon.
The same reason why she had Breeze made.
Amy is 12 though she is a child.
@@masterfarr8265 I'll always find it amusing how in a franchise about bipedal talking cartoon animals with superpowers seemingly living alongside humans in their (often surreal or futuristic looking) cities, even going as far as having jobs, owning apartments and driving cars, the main thing people consistently focus on and find weird about them is "wait, they're not old enough to do any of that!".
In any case, I think they recently erased any mention of ages from the characters' bios on one of the most important official japanese Sonic websites, which many have taken as decanonizing the ages for the characters altogether.
Jeez, Amy really know her way around sentiment machines. Gamma (Mr. Robot), Emerl and now Breeze. I like how Amy was basically the “Do anything you want within reason” character. Even if it made it harder flesh out Classic Amy’s identity, I let this girl do a lot of cool and wacky things, and if they want to the IDW comics could flesh out Breeze as a character, their already doing that with Classic Amy.
BringBackBreeze🚙
She's a proficient medium who owns a number of magic hammers that manifest & de-manifest out of & into thin air and create heart shockwaves upon impact. Perhaps she bought a regular car and made friends with a spirit who possesses the car whenever he feels like it, and she casted a spell to give the car a mouth.
I see the Benny resemblance, but Breeze might also be inspired by Herbie the Love Bug.
Yeah, I get major Herbie vibes
Making it even more fun that the Cabrio she drives later on looks a lot like a beetle as well.
Small correction, modern Amy is driving the car that appears in Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed. That car has the eyelashes and we see her fly with it in the IDW comics.
But yeah, would be nice to see Breeze again.
Alt Title: The Breeze Story ▸ The Sentient Car?!
A 40 minutes video essay
just another forgotten classic sonic era character
There's a bunch of robots made by Robotnik that have sentience, like Scratch and Grounder. Maybe Breeze escaped and made a life of his own, who knows? Would love to see him in a modern game.
Eggman also made the E100 series. Gamma, Beta & Omega are standouts.
Imagine if all the cars in Sonic Drift 1 & 2 had eyes. That would’ve been a very freaky concept.
Also, I would like to say thank you for your Entire Fleetway STC story video. It really made me feel happy watching you talk about these comics from the 90’s and I enjoy them a lot. My favourite villains would be The Brotherhood of Metallix, Commander Brutus and Fleetway Super Sonic.
Honestly I get the feeling that during Amy's collective years of off-screen time throughout the games' history she's been doing things that are worthy of their own spin-off series.
She keeps on stumbling across all this crazy paranormal shit. WHY does she have a magical hammer? WHERE did she get a SENTIENT CAR!? Just HOW accurate are her fortune telling abilities?? These are the questions we need answers to, Sega!
When sonic has blue arms everyone loses their minds, but when Amy does nobody panics
When did Amy have blue arms?
I wonder what happened to Breezie after the Adventure era kicked in...
She popped up in Archie near the end there. Dunno where she is now.
@@DarkElfDiva oh!
That's a different Breezie entirely. The one in Archie is a reimagining of the hedgehog character from the AoStH cartoon
She got the Worthless Treatment..
@DB87_Official a brave little toaster reference! Classy! 😎
Breeze deserved better
It’s a shame 90s Amy always gets put in the “damsel in distress”category, when she it seemed like she was actually shaping up to be a cool character! Also, I’d like to think Breeze was built by Tails!
breeze is lost media
edit: guys it’s a joke, the sunshine feeler makes lost media videos
@@Change51This video literally shows that Breeze was in a recent comic
@@Change51But I'm looking right at them. Doesn't look very lost to me.
@@kylebartlett9683That's not what lost media means. Not that Breeze is lost media regardless, but still you do seem to have your definitions mixed up.
@@HOTD108_ either way it's still not lost media since as you said we have access to it
I like to think he taught Amy how to drive after drift 2 and got a job. He lived with Amy for a few years before taking over successful train business in station Square.
I like to head canon that the car uses similar technology to Badniks. I mean if we look at her classic appearances in the IDW comics we actually see that she recycled some of the badniks from Sonic cd to make some makeshift house appliances, so I don’t think it’s that implausible to think that she could’ve hooked up some sort of badnik AI so her car could have auto pilot, with a little bit of help from Tails
My headcanon is that Breeze is a car Batnik and he recruits her to help take down his car-brothers in off-screen vehicular race-battles, the last one causing Breeze to break apart, wherein a Flicky flies out to join its siblings while Amy watches in awe
It makes sense that Amy needs a living car in the classic era because she's just too young to drive a car. Tails can drive because of his 300 IQ. and sonic probably because he is used to the speed of driving because he is the fastest thing alive, and probably because he can also fly a plane because the tornado was originally his before he gave it tails so a car is super easy for sonic
You are using too much logic. Amy owns an apartment in Station Square despite being 12 at the time.
8:28 This made me realize Amy works way better as a wildcard type of character rather than a girly girl
As an avid car fan, I want to point out that Tail's car is moreso based on the Caterham Seven, I believe that it is a rebadged version of the car(Lotus Seven), so it is technically the car you pointed out,
there is a picture in Sonic CD of Tails next to one and it exists in the Sega GT racing series which is where I learned of the car
Even though the 'Classic' universe is now mute despite that not being case back during the early-mid 90s era of Sonic, I do wonder what kind of voice Breeze would have. Never actually knew this little nugget of information regardless.
While there is no Classic Universe, (thats a misconception of this video, many offical sources like Tailstube state the Classic versions are just younger versions of the cast) the mute thing isn't a strict rule it seems. Tails for instance was able to speak in Generations, while the whole cast was able to speak in IDW. (which is also in the game's continuity, something Johnny Vector was also wrong about) So there is a bit of hope for nailing that down, though it seems that the current people involved are more interested in getting SEGA to let the Battle Bird Armada come back.
@@TheSwordsman100 In the game canon (Japanese and English) Classic Sonic is from a different dimension. Sega can retcon that later, but thats on a game by game basis.
@@Mario_GamerZ
No he is not, Tailstube, the offical lore team, the offical podcast, Ian Flynn's podcast ALL state otherwise. With Tailstube in particular dedicating two whole episodes into clearing up this misconception.
The pink cabriolet in the games looks like a Citroen 2cv while in the comics it looks like a convertible VW Beetle. Not to mention the campervan in the comics is a 70's VW Bus. Amy swapped from French cars to German.
You could say that he was... Lost in the Breeze.
GET OFF THE STAGE!
The car looks like it came straight from the 2010's games like Colors or Lost World, when SEGA was trying to turn the Sonic series into yet another kid-friendly, cutsey and cartoony platformer series.
Luckily, since they've backed up and chose to make the "Classic Universe" just be the past... Breeze could still be around.
Sonic's car isn't actually based on any car at all - it's actually based after Sonic's shoes!
Random headcannon i just made up: Breeze was a concept car dr.robotnik created to test his mechanic skills,he was abandoned by the foul doctor after he started making badniks, but amy came around and brought him to safety.
I like it!
It's almost like Breeze could be a Badnik of some sorts or it's own setient being. Too bad it disappeared after the Adventure Era kicked in, I would've liked to see it return in the Sonic & Sega All Stars Duology.
So we see a mechanism to turn living things into machines in Sonic, so its my head cannon that breese was a forrest critter that wanted to be a car, so Sonic and his friends used Eggmans tech to make him a car without wiping his mind. He's got a heart, still inside there, he's fine and can change back at anytime
Cant wait for more great content from this channel!
Wait, was it maybe because Amy was supposed to be a lot younger in the classic Sonic days?? It would make sense then that she'd have to have a car that drives itself, cuz they wouldnt want a little kid driving when so many of the vehicles were based on real cars. But then they give her the convertible in Sonic R, so maybe im way off base.
I would ask what about Tails, since I'm not sure how much him being "the smart kid" and his car having his initials may have him exempt.
Sonic R was developed in the west while Sonic Drift was developed in Japan, so there's that.
This is indeed the case, this video sadly has a lot of misinformation. There is no separate universes, as explained by Tailstube Classic Sonic and the like are all just younger versions of the cast. IDW is also canon to the games and not it's own universe.
@@TheSwordsman100 Actually, in modern Sonic canon they are from a different dimansion. Ever since Sonic Forces, which is where all the modern canon comes from, Classic Sonic is a dimension that isn't from Modern Sonic's past but rather a different dimension all together. Sega is weird. IDW however is canonical, and there is only one total Sonic canon now. It is a bad timeline where it's the Sonic Forces canon, but hey, at least they're consistently meh now.
It's because Game Gear games were not considered important. Sonic 2 Game Gear has a different story. Sonic Triple Trouble doesn't follow Sonic 3's story even though it features Knuckles. Its a Spinoff game
Gee, somehow it had never occurred to me that Breeze is very blatantly just Benny The Cab from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Then again, I've never played Sonic Drift or its sequel...
Great video! Always nice to see these obscure characters get acknowledged!
“Classic universe”. Actually, you might not be aware, SEGA has discarded the whole “Classic Sonic’s timeline is another universe” and the two dimensions are one singular timeline once again, so that means Breeze is out there in the Modern era. Anyways, this was such a fun, informative Sonic history vid.
Iizuka has long said that games will discard and retcon depending on writer or what fits a particular game's universe. Classic Sonic may be from another timeline if another game/writer says so. Thats also how Iizuka explained Sonic and Blaze not remembering each other in Sonic 06 after Sonic Rush. Sonic Frontiers is from a period where games are linked, but the possibility exists of another game retconning that again.
Sonic Forces is still a game where Sonic "verbally" stated Classic is from another dimension. Frontiers has a different writer and Sega will probably add more contradictions in the future. After all, how else can we explain Eggman's change from goofy to serious. Different writers doing different takes
@@Mario_GamerZ Forces is still canon, yes, but the idea that Classic Sonic is from another dimension has been abandoned by SEGA. Classic Sonic is Sonic from the past again.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks Amy’s car has a face in this game and also Sonic’s car looks like his iconic shoes
Reminds me of the lead car in Motor Toon Grand Prix as well as the art style of whoever worked on the artwork for that game
This may be biased, as I'm a big fan of sentient objects/machines, but I kinda wish they leaned more into sentient cars with Sonic Drift! Yes, this would've made Breeze less special, but I think giving each car a personality that contrasted or complimented their driver would've been really cool! This could've been explained as Robotnik trying to sabotage the vehicles by installing AI that serves his wishes, but instead they gained sentience and rebelled (besides his Egg Mobile, which could be the only non-sentient one or have a AI as well).
BTW, anyone else curious to see what a modern Breeze would look like? I'd imagine he'd look kinda like Sonic's Speed Star from TSR.
Upon reading the title i thought the video was going to be about how Classic Amy's nose is long like Sonic's but Modern Amy's nose is short like Tails lmao
Green vs black eyes debate all over again
Is nose length a sexual dimorphism in the hedgehogs of the modern Sonic universe???
I will never stop adoring the relationship between Amy Rose and Breeze the CarDroid.
Amy’s my fav but I never realized she had a living car
Nice to see you back to making videos Johnny!
Welcome back!
My head-cannon is that Tails designed and built all the vehicles for (at the very least) Sonic and his other friends in the Drift series. Tails and Sonic are both capable pilots, and capable drivers by proxy, but Amy being so young and most likely incapable of driving, Tails built a car that could basically drive itself. By Sonic R, Amy could drive somewhat, so she used an actual car.
Idw is canon omfg
Dude I love your videos. Thanks for posting these. They're always great on a good day or a bad day
I always saw Breeze as like Herbie, in that he can have a driver, but also has a mind of his own. Amy is basically Jim Douglas
Was Breeze built by the same company who manufactured the Magic School Bus? His eyes & mouth give that vibe.
The Red Car from R should be named "Blaze" as the Opposite of Breeze.
It's the Cyclone because Sonic's other vehicle is his plane, the Tornado.
When playing as Amy in TSR, I have the car with a paint job closely resembling Breeze, so at least the "bar of soap" has a bit more personality.
Breeze is such a silly, goofy idea. It's wacky whenever Sonic takes inspiration from Western animation, especially when tapping into the cartoonier side of things.
My first thought when looking at him if the car from the inspector gadget movie
"What if Breeze has a cold twisted heart" I will not allow this slander, Breeze is my friend and a gentleman & a scholar (jk)
Joking aside, this was a fun little rundown on Breeze! I've always genuinely liked him as a cute little friend to Amy
The Cyclone is not based on the F40… but the 1993-2002 Chevrolet Camaro and the Whirlwind is based on the old Lotus 7. In Sonic Drift 2 the Blue Devil is clearly based on the Batman Forever Batmobile.
Tails's car looks like a banana. Breeze reminds me of those Milky Way commercials lol.
Smart ol blue he took the milky way
Breeze reminded me of Putt Putt actually
Finally some deserved Breeze the car content
Finally someone talking about Breeze
I always found it interesting what SEGA Japan was trying to make Sonic Mainstays before the Saturn and Dreamcast completely stomped that out from 1997-1999
No Fang, No Breeze.
Heroes tried to bring back some of that with the bright colorful stages that slowly got a little darker along with Metal Sonic and Rebooted Chaotix before that gradually dissapeared by 06 (besides Metal but he does not matter anymore)
I never thought you'd make me interested in Japanese Classic Amy
I reckon Breeze was a victim of Eggman's experiments. He found a friend in Amy but ultimately she wanted a car to drive herself, so she got the red "corvette". Breeze should be brought back as a driverless playable character in more games imho. Tails could do some mods too.
Okay, hear me out. Sonic. Was originally going to have a human love interest. This was scrapped in favor for Amy. But Amy . . . has a sentient, toon car, in the style of vintage cars. And Knuckles is a lawful good but brutish and even fumbling character that begrudgingly works with the spaztic hyperactive hijinks of Sonic, AND . . . he gets a cool hat in the OVA film.
Fuckin' Who Framed Roger Rabbit baby!!!
Between this sentient car, and the scrapped ideas from Sonic 1's concept art, specifically Sonic's human girlfriend Madonna and the rabbit design they had, I can imagine an alternate universe where Sonic was originally a video game adaptation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Amy being a car collector would be an interesting thing to make canon to her character [way better than the fucking cards shit they've replaced her personality with 💀]
Yuji Naka has always been into sports cars, and that's part of what inspired Sonic's speed. Amy's usually been shown to be slower than Sonic, so as a Sonic fangirl it would make sense she would want to experience that speed and try to keep up to him, slowly becoming a car geek in the process. They could even still do the "girlboss" shit by having her work on her own cars with some help from Tails.
Her playing with cards was in the manual all the way back in CD. It's not a new trait, just a throwback to her original appearance
Always wondered what the deal was with Breeze back then. Really looked like straight out of some golden years cartoon lol
I recently also went down the rabbit hole of sonic vehicles and was struck by how many Amy had. Her IDW car is a good compromise between the different designs imo. Its modern with some girly style and keeps that bubbly look, plus eye like headlights which always points back to Breeze.
The IDW one is the one she uses in Sonic And All-Stars Racing Transformed. It can turn into a hovercraft on water and a turbofan drone-type thin in the air.
My uncle used to drive an Egg Typhoon around in the 70s. Total babe magnet, it was.
Literally. It literally drew the metal on women's clothing towards it as part of one of my uncle's many diabolical schemes.
Although I personally do like her car from TSR, especially when I put on different modifications to make it look like an all-terrain jeep, I will admit it is the least interesting of the designs.
One of them is a talking car, one of them can hover over water, one of them can turn into a jet and a plane,… and then the one from TSR is literally just a semi modern car.
At least you get the option to customize it I suppose
The weirdest thing is that she even needs a car at all in Sonic R. She's one of the few people in their world relatively capable of keeping pace with Sonic on foot and for some reason she's in a car in the only racing game that allows characters to be on foot?
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The "pink bar of soap" as you said reminds me a lot of MKWii's Wild Wing (Medium Kart), the chunky design with smooth surface is more aesthetic than skill/speed🏁
As for the "girlie" varnish, maybe because Amy likes to stand out from Monster Trucks and Corvettes?
I was literally about to comment his design reminds me of Benny the Cab before you mentioned that.
Sega typically ignores obscure Sonic characters and media. It's usually fans that bring it back like Sonic Mania bringing back Mighty and Ray the Squirrel.
Bit of a stretch, but with Blaze being compared as an alternate Sonic, Breeze might be sideline so we don't have fans calling him Car-Sonic. That paint job is just telling.
That, or we may also be looking at a "good-Metal Sonic" too, could go either way.
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He is not relegated to the "Classic Universe", such a concept and the corresponding "Modern Universe" is a misconception that simply does not exist. Many, many, many, many offical sources like Tailstube have clarified that that the Classic Era is just the past where the cast was younger. Also IDW is canon to the games and so is not a sperate continuity.
It was IIzuka who said Mighty and Ray the Squirrel do not exist in the modern Sonic universe
@@Mario_GamerZ
Again there is no separate universe and this is a further misunderstanding of what he meant, just like how people thought he meant the two worlds literally, when he was talking about two cultures. Mighty and Ray still exist but are not allowed to older designs yet due to marketing. Trip is in the same boat, which is why Sonic and friends are allowed to still mention all 3 in Remember When and say that they are meeting up with a older Trip later but you don't see Trip in "Remember When?".
“Nack the Weasel” he’s only Nack the Weasel in the Archie comics. He’s canonically Fang the Sniper/Hunter and he’s a jerboa
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wowww great video, gonna try drift tonight cuz of this
Breeze reminds me of Captain Rock’s car from Motor Toon Grand Prix 1 & 2
Feel bad for Breeze, but I like my generic cars. Team Sonic racing cars are top tier for me, but Breeze could just be my friend
I thought of Herbie
I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
Benny the cab was a reference to Herbie lol. This video saying that Breeze is a Benny reference, rather than a Herbie reference, is like saying that a yellow martial arts jumpsuit is a Kill Bill reference rather than a Bruce Lee one.
i thought of Lighting Mcqueen lmfao
yeah same where is this in comments
"I worked for Amy. She's a fraud."
-Breeze
A Monster Truck actually feels like such an obvious choice to give Amy Rose. It's like... the giant piko hammer of cars. I'm shocked they haven't used that for her yet. Imagine a big Monster Truck with the eyelash headlights and other cute accessories
Breeze may actually be a cybertronian for all we know,let's just hope he isn't secretely a decepticon spy
... Gamma?
The way her Sonic R car hovers over water is just like Gamma, too
It's almost like a prototype for her befriending robots
Well Amy seems to have hidden magical powers so might be why, she probably made the car alive. In Sonic Superstars her music theme in her level kind of hints her magical abilities, though kind of easy to not notice. If you look at the games even the 3D games she seems to have magical powers but it is very subtle and easy to miss. That or can be over looked as gameplay mechanics.
Oh, you mean the fact that Amy has a car with eyes and a mouth that may be alive. Yeah, that was a thing.
0:04 - I was actually quite a fan of Sonic Drift 2. Never played the original game though.
0:28 - I feel Sonic and Co in cars makes sense from a balancing perspective, especially when it comes to crossover games like Sega All-Stars. It's funny you bring up Mario Kart, as whilst it was the first, one could argue that Mario without a jumping aspect feels a tad generic as well. Admittedly, Super Mario Kart did have jumping, but they proceeded to tone it down as the games went on.
2:04 - Funny how we're talking about the world of sentient animal humanoids strong enough to smash through metal and run super fast but the living car is the odd one. I suppose it's like how Eggman, as the one human for a long time, rather sticks out.
3:40 - I mean, Breeze does have a very fleshy tongue there. He is potentially organic on the inside.
4:43 - My memory is playing tricks on me; I always remembered Amy driving Breeze in Sonic R as well.
6:46 - Honestly, I think that was the intention. Pink to the extreme.
7:15 - Agreed, Breeze does have the most character, helped by literally being a character. Although, if they wanted to have Amy avoid the allegations of being assisted in her races, perhaps Breeze could just be his own separate character in future racing games.
8:44 - To be fair, this surprising Amy element continued in some of the post-classic era with stuff like Amy being able to freeze time in Sonic Adventure 2 or turn invisible in Sonic 2006.
I honestly like her Sonic R vehicle best as it goes well colour wise. As charming as Breeze is, there's far too much colour clash going on, Amy already has pretty bright pink, green, red and orange.
Y'know, it makes sense Amy of all people would have a sentient car. She's incredibly empathetic and thoughtful of others, so perhaps Breeze is just doing what she would anyway
Might even be a combination of good understanding and a psychic link, and her tarot knowledge only being unusual for a little girl is a fun bit of culture shock apparently
To be fair that version of Amy is 8 years old so she wouldn’t be able to drive anyway.
It’s even weirder how the Classic version of Tails is around four years old and he flies a friggin plane.
#justiceforbreeze
Sonics car being based on a ferrari could also be a reference to Outrun.
when i was a kid in the 90's i remember thinking amy was a bad character because she was just pink sonic with a dress
and that every other character including the freedom fighters was more creative looking
I'll never forget Breeze.
Banana car, Inverse Brum
Ha! Amy's sleek car in team sonic racing was dope. I would drive that in real life. Way better than any of her previous vehicles
I love your videos so much
My theory is that Tails created Breeze for Amy as a Sentient Robotic Car Being with Artificial Intellingence and Artificial Sentience, allowing Breeze to communicate with the Sonic franchise cast and become another character in the roster, hence his full canonical name: Breeze The RoboCar A.K.A Breeze the CarDroid A.K.A Breeze The RoboVehicle.
Nice vid
Of course the odd compared to her friends and charming character that is Amy Rose has an odd and charming car.
I always thought Sonic drove a 90s Camaro. Looks like it.