Unused Elemental Shields from Sonic 3 (Comprehensive)

Learn about these unused shield abilities from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. There are more than 10 unused shields. As well as several unused abilities from Sonic 1, Sonic Heroes and Sonic Adventure.
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[@WillieCorley]

I wonder if a Sonic fangame will ever implement most of these scrapped shields? It's interesting how some of the scrapped shields resemble shields that were added to Sonic Time Twisted.

[@joaopedropinheiro3904]

thats like reverse clickbait, i came for the unused shield and gained so much more

[@sajedchoudhury2057]

The Sonic Sneezing sprite animation is from a lost/forgotten concept of Sonic sneezing whenever there is danger essentially a Sonic Sense. The ability is shown in the Sonic CD Opening where Sonic Sneezes before avoiding falling rocks. I believe presumably the sprite animation was to be used before a Boss appeared.

[@thedailysonic4278]

I feel like the Magnet Shield could've definitely been a thing, due to the fact that your literally able to stick to metal in Sonic Mania with the Lightning Shield.

[@babykoops6465]

Mentioning Knuckles' ability to dig and his circle spinning arms but not Sonic Underground is insane. Nice video though

[@shangothrax]

That heavy shield might have been useful for the infamous Carnival night Act 2 barrel...

[@KelvinShadewing]

The block shield ended up appearing in Jazz Jackrabbit as a diamond shield that gains a diamond each time you break the monitor, and will damage enemies that collide with you.

[@Fafr]

Oh hey, overdelivery? Certainly a nice surprise to get more than the title promises, definitely a good move. Really nice video, didn't know about most of these, glad to have some light shed on them

[@voidrocksdaplace]

Nice video also heres a fun fact: in sonic cds opening if you slow down the part where he stops and looks up you can see him sneezing, this is because sonic could sneeze to sense danger (like the boulders falling on him) i think this is likely what the unused sneezing ability would of been used for, kinda like the sonic 2 rebound ability

[@Some_Cat_]

Actually Mighty could wall jump in Knuckle's Chaotic and Sonic could do it in Unleashed.

[@CometStarfalldoesstuff]

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[@denraimei32]

The fact they're are two different versions of the three final shields makes me think there were plans of an upgrade system.

[@silveramyknux241]

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[@SurfRay]

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[@Sonictheoofhog4]

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[@lPsychoMax]

That prototype mole Knuckles would be perfect for sonicteam to reuse later as a new character.

[@Occazio6]

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[@silveramyknux241]

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[@whact]

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