Go to nordvpn.com/thepjshow to get the two year plan with an exclusive deal, PLUS 1 bonus month on top! It’s risk free with NordVPN’s 30 day money back guarantee! So, what did all of you guys think of Blaze as a character? Do you agree with me? Disagree? Leave comments below as I do my best to read and respond to as many as possible! As always, thanks for watching the video! Update: Many people are asking why I haven't spoken about Blaze in the Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog game, and the simple answer is that I still have not played the game. I haven't had the chance. But I do plan to play it for a video, as well as give it a dedicated analysis video. I also just wanted to say that I, along with many other Sonictuber's, made a special appearance in AceCardGaming's latest video. So why not go and check that out after you've watched this? It will be worth it. Link: th-cam.com/video/TZZYeK9a4uk/w-d-xo.html
This isnt about blaze but in shadow the hedghog Shadow is written really well in japanese which is the cannon versions for mostly all the sonic games I recomend watching Pariah695 video about it he shows and proves shadow was not ruined
@@Omabatfartsbruh I absolutely LOVE the Yakuza series. Hell, I just spent a good chunk of change getting the collector's edition of Yakuza 6. I could talk about the sheer brilliance of the series for hours on end and one video that I'm still planning out is my video on Yakuza 0.
Kinda hard to believe that there is actually a Sonic character that stayed pretty consistent and didn't suffer any character degradation. Although her fear of heights contradicts her ability to fly lol.
I think it was because of the lack of oxygen, she needs oxygen to keep her pyrokenesis going and she uses that to fly… so as long as she isn’t SUPER high up then she isn’t afraid.
@@CyberFunk626 She's capable of using her flames underwater and in space plus it's not game mechanics since she's canonically defeated bosses that can only be fought underwater or in space/high attitude. Her flames function more like plasma tbh if you want to make it scientific (even tho Sonic characters break real life physics daily) also her fear of heights is obviously a contrast to Sonic's fear of water/drowning.
That's the thing with phobias. A phobia is a powerful, _irrational_ fear of something. Even if you _know_ you're not in danger, you can't help but be afraid of it. Blaze's acrophobia is strong enough that her ability to fly can't just negate it. It's like having arachnophobia, but living in a part of the world where there are no spiders. Just the idea that there _might_ be a spider even though you _know_ there isn't is still enough to trigger that fear.
@@lynxfresh5214 all I can say is this: In space she must use her own oxygen or the power of the sol emeralds in order to use her flame, or she is close enough to the atmosphere to have some oxygen to fight. People have this misconception that there is no oxygen underwater which is false. Fish still breathe oxygen, it’s just filtered through the water. So Blaze could probably use the oxygen in the water to use her flames.
to me Blaze was the best character since Shadow, I love that she's closed off compared to the other characters. Her barely appearing in the 2010s was more of a blessing than anything, now that we have writers who actually care about these characters I'd love to see her in future games.
For Blaze to work again now she would have to actually have some major involvement in the game comsidering her lore instead of being kind of a forgettable side character that could be replaced with any character.
@@islandboy9381to be fair, they could do something like how they did with the Urban Warfare arc in the IDW comics, where she was taking a vacation in Sonic’s world but then a whole bunch of stuff happened so she had to help out, could do something similar in the games
This is a common thing with characters who aren't Sonic , Amy, Tails, or Knuckles. Sega just plays it too safe by only giving the spotlight to the 4 characters I have listed. Even when they bring back certain characters they end up being underutilized.
eventually in the future, there is a chance we may get a sonic game that features EVERY single sonic character that has appeared in every mainline game, and it is gonna be great...... or bad i really cannot predict this franchise sometimes
Hopefully they start giving other characters more time to shine. With the 3rd Sonic movie coming out and how season 2 of Sonic Prime is looking, I think Shadow will be the first character out of the primary 4 to get that long awaited spotlight. I know it's copium but I've stuck with this little blue fucker and this roller coaster of a franchise for this long so fuck it.
Blame the hate bandwagon and "sOnIcs StuPiD fRiEnDs" meme for Sega's actions towards the extended cast (as well as Sega's infamous business decisions when it comes to Sonic), the best you can do is yell louder the detractors (possibly silence them too) and hope Sega gets the message clearly.
@@SonicSwift99they had plans for games featuring the other characters, but the fanbase complained that they wanted only Sonic, so that's what we've been getting since Unleashed
One more thing to note about the idw comics is that in the 2022 annual, we actually get an interation between blaze and knuckles. And this interaction is frankly one of the best conversations in the comic run, as blaze opens up to knuckles about her conflictions with bieng the guardian of the sol emeralds. And knuckles, with all of his experience dealing with the master emerald, comforts her by showing that all of her work to defend her deminsion really does pay off, and that she should take some time for rest every now and then. The art is absolutely beautiful and the dialogue is yet another reason as to why I absolutely love this era of Ian Flynn writing.
One thing I especially liked about Blaze is that, as a pyromancer, they didn't go the typical cliche route of giving her an explosive personality that fuels her fire powers. I like that her being so calm, cool, and collected is antithetical to what you'd expect out of someone who wields fire, but when you consider her backstory, and how fire does, it makes sense. ;)
Also her character design is mainly cold colors except for her eyes which are sometimes portrayed more or less orange than yellow. Also from her design, they did very well at keep her fully modest outfit instead of the preliminar baggy clothes and crop top. Her design is so simple yet great
@@lune_xoy Indeed it is. Her design really cleverly shows that, in spite of fire's inherent destructive nature, there is a genuine elegant beauty to it when it's controlled.
@@ghostprince4284 Very true. I feel like Azula is just about what you'd get if Blaze was evil. Ngl, I'd kinda like to see an A.U. take on that concept.
A lack of appearances (while not great either) is certainly preferable than outright character assassination. i did like the IDW annual story of Blaze coming to Angel Island to ask Knuckles for advice, guardian to guardian. Something Rush should have done. Plus it provided an excuse to bring Blaze back to the story for the recent comic arc.
Exactly, we can’t rule out blaze. Something I think that swag should do is a game all about silver and blaze. That would bring things up. It’s not like Sega has forgotten her, since she was in Murder of Sonic, they just need to know what to do with the character. Ha beat that the pj show.
@@CyberFunk626They were probably talking about Pontac and Graff from the 2010's, because she was the most "well-written" character during this time period.
We were probably supposed to & then we got the Colors Era instead. Would have been cool if we got Sonic Rush 3 & an actual Blaze game instead of Colors DS (even though that was the better version) & Sonic 4 respectively.
She's playable in Sonic Rush Adventures (she's even a straight upgrade to Sonic because she's immune to fire hazards in stages), but yeah, the story isn't really about her.
The director of Frontiers confirmed on a reply to someone who wants to play with Blaze and Espio that they plan to add more playable characters in the future so there is hope.
Blaze's backstory is one of the sins from the hellfire development period of 06. They originally were going to have a proper tie in for 06 referring back to Blaze from Rush, but it was one of the many things dropped during development. The fanbase typically headcanons her lore into 06 happened first, but since 06 gets a factory reset, Blaze instead gets born into the Sol dimension and life continues.
My headcanon is that Blaze went traveling to visit Cream & got caught up in the Iblis event at that moment & was blasted into the future with Amnesia where she became close to Silver.
Or the true cannon is that 06 was a total blunder and Blaze was shoe horned into the story to give silver a friend.... rush and rush adventure are her story...
@@clappinmonkey0944There's records of them saying they wanted to tie in Rush to '06. Blaze was "shoehorned in" the same way Sonic was shoehorned in a knock off Final Fantasy game: the team was working on an rpg project and were told they had to do the next Sonic game for his anniversary. Thus they took what they had and salvaged what could possibly be used for Sonic. The team wanted to do an ambitious story but development went from bad to worse at every turn of events. And that's even before the team got cut in half so they could make a game to release on the Wii. If you ever dig into history, you'll find out the truth of '06. It should've been the greatest Sonic game of all time, and the way it turned out is a true tragedy to the series.
@amandaslough125 What they intended to do and what the actual outcome was are 2 very different things.. in the end 06 as it manifested and stands had no reason to have Blaze in it other than to give silver a buddy... it brings up nothing of the SOL demension/emeralds or Blazes royalty and super form.. honestly, it's a complete disrespect to her character, demoting her to nothing but a big sister figure for a whiny future hedgehog from a separate demension from her own....
We've gotten to the point that a fan favourite character getting briefly mentioned is noteworthy, we Sonic fans have one of the biggest cases of sunken costs I've ever seen lol!
@@Maryweatherinseason Even as a sonic fan I still feel more bad for you guys, hope there's some good news coming in the future for Rayman as a franchise 🙏😔
She deserves so much more than Sega ever has done with her, she’s the very first Sonic Character I ever knew, before even sonic himself, I remember her as far back as when I was just 4, when I was watching my dad play her storyline in sonic Rush, I’ve played Sonic Rush for 11 years just trying to beat the game and getting destroyed by the Egg King, and I will always hold her close as the one character who fought against the Egg King, the being that taught me to never give up, and Blaze taught me that I should never have to fight alone, I hope Sega brings her back someday, and give her more potential than anyone ever could, May she continue to Rush through the world of Sonic, in a blazing rush of an adventure…
Agreed plus she was the first female character to not only rival Sonic in power but also get a super form too, she's by far the least deserving character that should be a cheerleader (She's a fricking princess that actually does her job for crying out loud).
Sonic Rush came out in 2005 add 11 years & it seems you are living in the year 2026. How were Sonic Movies 3 & 4 timetraveler? Blaze was awesome & should have gotten her own games during the 2010s.
Characters like Blaze and even Silver are characters that I have a problem with, not because they are not good characters, but it’s the fact that we rarely get to see them. Blaze is a princess from another dimension and Silver is from the future so it’s difficult to logically bring them into the story. I know that Silver was in Forces and his character got misrepresented there, but since that isn’t near the misrepresentation characters like Shadow or Tails had in the past couple years, he’s still salvageable (that feels like a weird way to say). And Blaze’s character hasn’t been ruined, but it’s hard to bring them into a story due to them being separated to such a large degree from the rest of the cast. I do love the characters, but I just hope that they do have more prominent roles in future games.
I saw a theory years ago that stated that Blaze's role in 06 is actually an imaginary friend for Silver, he's so isolated that he imagined up a friend. I think that's possibly the best explanation - if you look at the cutscenes you'll notice that no one ever interacts with her except Silver. everything she does is to help Silver, she's only there to act as his moral guidance and she's a lot more emotionally mature if that's the right term, she's just not the same character. obviously this wasn't their intention, it was just bad writing, but it's a good retroactive justification at least
Well they didn't want Blaze to actually encounter anyone she met in Rush probably because they didn't have any of those encounters thought up when making 06, leaving Silver & Mephiles as the 2 Characters who aren't random human NPCs that she talks to most. The game had severely rushed writing rather than bad writing, with Shadow's Story being a masterpiece. They obviously only had a week at most to actually come up with the story & scripts & I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to 1 or 2 Days of writing before it had to be finalized.
Blaze is in my opinion the best female Sonic character. Excluding the Archie/DiC universe characters, she is the first tomboy, a princess, no less, in the series, which makes her probably inspired by Sally Acorn, and she was also Daisy's counterpart in the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series. Her debut in the Sonic Rush games really gave quite an impression as she was shown to be a badass who takes no guff from the likes of Eggman and Eggman Nega, and her going toe to toe with Sonic in the Dead Line boss fight really demonstrates that she's a very strong and skilled fighter. That said, I really hated what Sega did to Blaze cause she wasn't just underutilised, she was reduced to being a background character and having even less backbone than Amy, and I think a lot of that has to do with Sonic 06, because since that game, she's only seen as just another typical Sonic girl, and being Silver's "sidekick," and I use that term loosely, because it opens up so many plotholes like how they even met when she is from the Sol Dimension while Silver is from the future of Sonic's world, and putting them together almost every time in post games opens up the can of worms of whether 06 really happened or not. Some may theorise that the events of 06 took place before Sonic Rush, but I don't buy that, and retconning Eggman Nega to make him be from Silver's timeline really felt like a cop-out to explain Silver and Blaze's "friendship," which serves as no other purpose than to pander to the Silvaze shippers, who are really just a small fringe in the Sonic fandom. No offense to anyone who has no problem with Silver and Blaze as just friends, but either way, everything behind it just makes their interactions feel so forced and it overshadowed Blaze's other meaningful friendships with Sonic, Cream, and even Marine. All in all, Blaze is a character with so much potential, but was done dirty thanks to Sega's poor business practices and decisions and an obnoxious vocal minority who only want to see romance.
I full agree with you here. The pairing between Blaze and Silver is the most forced thing ever. Their relationship had no business being what it is. Blaze is more closer to Sonic than she should ever be with Silver.
@@godfrey4461 That makes me happy to see that there is still some common sense and decency in the Sonic fandom, because I've been harassed by Silvaze shippers just because I criticise the ship and prefer Blaze being paired up with other characters. They're all toxic, entitled, immature little manchildren who think their word is absolute and cannot be challenged, and they're the reason why the Sonic fandom has been reduced to a circus. It's disgraceful, really.
I would love Shadow and Blaze team up, since they both fit together so well! Both are introverted persons with fate of the world on their shoulders, combined with Shadow's quiet nature and knowledge of the rough past, and Blaze's stoicism and fight experience THEY'RE PERFECT TEAM! Tho I know they had meet in Archie Comics (and Shadow even apologizes to her and admits he was wrong....that's rare for Shadow nowdays) if I remember correctly, but I want another story with these two together.
Blaze is a character with a lot of potential still. It would be cool if we got another game that took place in her dimension since not much is known about it. Maybe even go into how the Sol Emeralds are connected to the Chaos Emeralds and heck, maybe even the Master Emerald. At least she’s still relevant in IDW. There’s even a short story where she goes to Knuckles for advice since she knows that he has a similar job to hers. Maybe now with SEGA becoming more experimental again, she’ll return in a future game. Also congrats on graduating.
I think what happened in 06 is that Blaze got sent to Sonic's dimension but kept that fact a secret from Silver. When she was asking Silver to seal her in another dimension, she was really asking Silver to send her home. But yeah, idk how characters remember the events of 06 when technically none of it happened.
I personally like to think that Solaris's destruction created the Sol Dimension and that Blaze was placed there as a side effect of reality rewriting itself.
To be honest about Sonic 06 being canon, it feels like the writers have written an entirely different Sonic 06 story and made that canon, we may never know.
@@ataladin87 Well, seems like Maekawa is full of shit because there is no reason for that to happen in both the 06 setting where she just dies and the normal timeline, where she wouldn't have to be sent there. Maekawa is clearly spewing nonsense out of his ass. She is just from the Sol Dimension and that is where she becomes, seeing as she is the one who is the princess, meaning there was already a royal family and she was part of it from the beginning. 06 is just an embarrassment that killed itself in the ending.
What ataladin said. There is a tumblr post from spiritsonic going into detail "clearing up the confusion in the fanbase regarding 06" especially with how Blaze and Silver being partners that are separated is likely based off a famous japanese story they say from one of Silver's Sonic Channel backgrounds.
If you’re wondering what the whole thing with 06 was, it’s the writers who worked on it were not the ones who wrote Rush and so the writers when given the idea of using Blaze were unaware she had pre-established lore and just made up a different origin for her.
I think we can all agree on how wasted Amy and Knuckles were in the Sonic Rush scenes. What annoys me the most is that it contradicts their personalities (In SA1, Amy promised to help all the people she could without the need to call Sonic for help, that is, to be independent, while in the game she continues with that joke "if you need help, call Sonic!". And Knuckles shouldn't be on earth to begin with)
I can relate to Blaze so much due to her introverted nature. She manages to overcome her anxiety and distrust for others and slowly open up. Now that she knows Sonic and co. so well she can socialize with them no problem. Vid title is kinda misleading. She’s not “destroyed,” more like forgotten, neglected, cast to the wayside. It’s a real shame. I love her character so much.
I personally think that the confusion in Sonic Generations is that Blaze is from the Sol Dimension, but gets back the memories of an alternate timeline when it collides with the current one. I also believe that this is how Silver was pulled into the main timeline after he was erased in 06. He was pulled in because he had a battle with Sonic that the Time Eater felt like revisiting and so screwed with the timeline even more, which unintentionally reminded Blaze of her experiences in this alternate timeline, kind of like post-super genesis wave Archie Sonic.
Honestly my favourite version of Blaze is probably the Archie comics version, In the Sonic Universe comics I loved how she was written and interacted with most of team Rose and Team Dark, she formed a friendship with Shadow in the beginning mini arc and helped him in defeating Metal Sonic when they were transported into the Sol Dimension and showed a lot of independence when chasing for a stolen Sol Emerald and how much of a loner was displayed when she refused help from Amy and Cream. I’m enjoying what they’re doing with her in the IDW run at the moment, although I’m several issues behind, like how she decided to go to Cream’s house on free time to just talk and hangout.
Ironically I think the whole Sonic getting sent to the Sol Dimension and losing his memories after he used a major power source could actually be some set up to the whole 06 Origin theory you mentioned. Perhaps because it’s a separate dimension, Blaze wasn’t completely affected by the time reset and only lost her memories which would allow her to start to remember crisis city in generations while still being the Sol Princess.
I really thought I was the only one seeing how badly Blazes character has been getting killed off. Ever since Rush, she has always been my favorite character and it sucks to see her be destroyed like this
I played Sonic Rush and Rush Adventure when I was a lot younger and enjoyed Blaze for basically standing shoulder to shoulder with Sonic in those games. She had to grow in the first game but definitely proved herself and gets a sick transformation sequence that holds up today. And it was cathartic to finally see her show up kind of out of nowhere in Rush Adventure when most were waiting for her to appear, since she's in the opening of the game and everything. Not to mention she immediately reaffirms that she's as capable as Sonic, and from then on you can select her at the start of every level. Though when I played these games as a kid, I think I still stuck with Sonic the whole game through. My perspective has shifted as i got older and since revisiting both Rush games last year, and playing them again this year, I can firmly say Blaze is my favorite Sonic character. i picked her all throughout my playtime in Rush Adventure once I could play as her. She feels so well-realized in both of her games (thankfully I never suffered through Sonic 06 only to have her character sidelined until the very end) . Blaze was probably one of the first depictions I saw in a game of a female character being equally competent as the "male default". That wasn't really the norm back in the early 2000's, so I'd say it was fairly commendable to see a strong and flawed female character go through a satisfying character arc and maintain relevance over the course of two games, Sonic games on the DS, of all things. The game doesn't have to draw specific attention to the fact that Blaze is a girl, either, she's just Blaze the Cat doing her thing, and I love that. So bring her back Sonic Team! Let her actually do stuff again like she used to, even just for one game.
I like how Blaze was designed to be like an alternate version of sonic, with how popular the multiverse is right now, this is a good time for Sonic team to bring her back as a main character for a game
Blaze isn't "forgotten" she's jus not overutilized like MOST other characters & that's a good thing imo. It harkens back to how they originally wanted to handle most of the characters till plans changed & they jus shoved everyone everywhere wit no rhyme or reason & it means when she or anyone else is used after not bein around sonic for a while there's full confidence in there bein a PROPER reason that is necessary for whatever narrative they wish to tell without compromise of the bloat of unnecessary characters jus bein there takin up time, space, & attention that can create an unfocused mess cus they were never accounted for beyond "put them in cus ppl jus WANT them around no matter wut". I like this especially cus I feel similar to shadow she's 1 of the few characters NOT utterly ruined in the games. An issue we're still dealin wit in Frontiers
True, it's best not to overuse the entire cast of characters, because there comes a point where it doesn't make sense in any story they make up and that was one of the main problems with the story of Sonic 06, it had many characters but the vast majority were fillers in the plot.
According to the IDW comics she gets sent to certain points in time in Sonic's world mostly when they find it necessary so they sent her too the future to help protect it and as for her memories, my guess is when Iblis went into her and she was lost, him being part of a time God might have somehow been able to prevent her amnesia before he was completely lost or something
Shadow the hedgehog has always been a childhood favorite character of mine (and always will be) but Blaze has also always been a close 2nd for me. This video has actually helped me fully realize some similarities between the two. Well, similar-ish. They both start off rather distant from people but later learn to become, sort of, more open with others. They both start off being against Sonic when they meet him. While Shadow was more antagonistic towards him, Blaze was just trying to do her own thing by any means. I don't know, calling these similarities might be a bit of a stretch but that's just how it always felt to me. Either way, They're both super badass and I absolutely adore both Shadow and Blaze!
Brilliant analysis, summarizes my feelings exactly! Also quick note, Sonic briefly mentions Blaze in Sonic Frontiers saying: "What I wouldn't give to have Blaze's help right about now" Really hope Blaze will be playable in the next big game after Frontiers.
In my head it went like this: The Sol emeralds sensed some type of "danger" in sonics dimension & wanted to stop it. I believe there R other instances but the Sol/Chaos emeralds R both shown/implied in Rush Adventure to have a "will" of some kind of their own. Blaze has a similar connection to the sol emeralds as knuckles does the M.E. since she is their "guardian". The Sol emeralds felt it necessary to help deal wit this & so told Blaze & as showcased in other games & IDW attempted to transport blaze to sonics dimension as that is somethin they can do freely. This is where some of my own conjecture comes in & cus of how unclear 06 makes things(since it wasn't finished) it could be diff for others, but somethin(I assume mephiles personally cus of his abilities) tampered wit the transport midway & caused blaze to end up in the future on accident & made her lose her memories(this is def a big "my conjecture" part lol). She meets silver & they grow a bond fightin iblis as she learns bout the world wit only a few of her memories retained(or even attained after lol). The rest of the story goes bout the same & she either A. is sent to another dimension or b. dies by the end(idrk but it's not like this part matters much) & everythin gets reset to be (mostly) non-existent. This is y when she hears of a "blue hedgehog" she seems more oddly curious as if "that sounds familiar but idk y" & she never acts as tho she's in any way familiar wit Sonics present time or himself. Granted she's in a VERY diff location than in the 1st Rush & sonic never acts familiar either when she's right there in some cutscenes but this jus goes to show how unfinished the game is in so many ways regardless of whether or not I'm right cus it's all so unclear in the end & they've never gone back to explain. Tho I'm unsure if the sol emeralds can also deal in space-time like the chaos emeralds even if they're a dimensional counterpart cus it's never been a thing in any media (not necessarily canon but) related to the main sonic timeline whether it be stuff like Rush or IDW which is y I brought mephiles tamperin instead tho both could be true now that I think bout it lol.
Blaze deserve her own classic version video game for herself. There is so much untapped potential for this character to be spotlighted a bit more. She is like knuckles, but a bit more protective of her own world.
So here’s my head canon on how blaze is in 06 blaze is still the princess of the soul realm but was transported to Silver’s future she decided to help him and was there for a while and became best friends with him but still always looked for a way to get back home, after the events of 06 which got retconned she was back at the soul realm where she then transported to Sonic’s world which leads to the events of rush
Something that I noticed is that when Blaze absorbs Iblis, she kind of looks like Burning Blaze, and that makes me think that Iblis ends up turning INTO the Sol Emeralds. Also, there are tons of unused voice lines for Blaze in 06 that suggest she would accompany someone, presumably Silver, a lot more than she did. It's possible, and likely probable, that this was cut because 06 was notoriously time crunched.
*Fixing Rush scenes:* I just imagine a scene from Cream introducing Blaze to Amy and, desperate, the kid says that Amy must look for Sonic to resolve this conflict that could basically destroy the Earth. Amy, in the role of the older sister (as in Heroes), tells Cream not to worry, that everything will be fine and that together they'll solve it out, adding that they won't look for Sonic, saying to herself "No, I'm not going to look for Sonic, maybe I'm too weak and need him, but I want to solve this problem by myself. as I promised (SA1)" She would also be somewhat hostile when seeing Blaze, thinking that she might be a threat, but then she would understand Blaze, and tells her to let her help, but she refuses (lots of creative scenes can come from that). In the case of Knuckles, again, he should be on Angel Island, maybe a scene of Knuck could be shown worried because he felt the presence of emerald energy on the ground and that's why he went down, but I still think no, he shouldn't be there. Instead of him another character could appear, what do I know? Why not Espio? The idea sounds stupid, however if you think about it, there are parallel characteristics in those two characters (they spin when jumping, they are fast, they are serious, and much more) and it could form some fun interactions. Espio would meet up with Cream and he would explain that the rest of the team went on vacation and he is seeing new challenges for himself. He then meets Blaze and he explains the importance of teamwork etc. There would even be funny scenes like Blaze getting hostile towards Espio and he uses his sarcasm to tease or humiliate her (as a joke, but not over the top either, and he does it on purpose to calm Blaze down and because, obviously, defense is needed)and Blaze would get even angrier (that would also make her think about the value of tolerance and that there are friends of all personality types). See the crazy ideas that can be done with Sonic's friends?
Blaze the Cat is perhaps my most favorite character from Sonic. I’ve always loved cats and thought Blaze was very pretty! I for one would love to see a Sonic Rush 3 or a spin off game starring Blaze! At least Blaze was well portrayed in the IDW comics, and she even had empathetic bonding with Knuckles, who guards a powerful treasure like she does. I would be stupid excited if I saw Blaze in a post credits scene in the Sonic 3 movie, and have her be in the fourth film voiced by Mae Whitman (Katara and Amity Blight). In the Sonic cinematic universe, I could be Blaze ending up on Earth yearning to cure herself from her fire powers. But Sonic tries to convince her to see her powers as a gift than a curse, since he learned to accept his super speed powers. Blaze really deserves better these days!
Blaze is my favorite Sonic Character and also one of my general favorite chars. I'm almost like her when it comes to the behavior. I also like it that she is afraid of heights which is normally no issue for a cat but that's something where she's more sympathetic to me than she already is. If there are some real life issues coming I would mostly act like her. And I don't care if it's good for me, for her or no one I really love Blaze and I hope that she gets a major appearance in a Sonic Jump'n'Run game back.
Missed Opportunity to call the Sonic '06 Sacrifice of Blaze as "Schrodinger's Cat", since due to writing and logic, we can assume these are two different Canons/Interpretations of the same character. If Silver would successfully seal Blaze with Iblis Trigger into another dimension, she would experience time differently due to relativity... Time is **Relative** She would persist forward, yet everyone else would be stuck in the past, in Cycle Of Solaris... The Cycle of Solaris eventually is broken, the events get retconned, **but here is a catch** It did happen, **Once** There are at least two options: >>>We could accept that it happened in the past, Blaze perishes within _one timeline and dimension_ , Solaris is defeated, and since events never happen, She lives. Valid Or giant *IF* condition: >>>Silver is successful, Blaze is transferred, her continuity... continues on to the future. Solaris is defeated, her sacrifice is undone, She lives... ...AND she still alive in another dimension. Cat is ded and alive, then Alive/Alive. That is a PARADOX It doesn't mean her origin story, it means TWO CANON VERSIONS. Sonic Rush Blaze is her own story and experiences, and Sonic '06 can't change that Just like Sonic Rush doesn't have any impact on Sonic '06 Blaze as a character Sir Percival is her own Arthurian equivalent with no impact to others, only to Sonic. Now the question would be, _how would existence of Ignis Blaze impact the future of modern Sonic canon?_ Ignis Scintilla ---> The Inciting Incident before a dumbster-fire
I just wanna see her and Sonic actually talking together again, the last time they properly talked to one another was technically 09 with Black Knight, but if you don't count Blaze as Percival then the last time they properly interacted was 06 (or maybe 2010 with Colours DS but I might be wrong).
I just wanted to let you know how thankful I am for your Sonic videos. You are easily my favorite Sonic creator here on TH-cam. I recently just started getting into the Sonic franchise and had no clue where to start and was honestly thinking of dropping getting into Sonic altogether. But then I found your channel and instantly got hooked on each of these amazing characters. Thank you again
I feel like we need an episode like this for Cream the Rabbit now after this one on how she was basically forgotten in recent sonic games, also great job
Same. I feel like she’s sweet and caring normally but hides a tough as nails interior. Like Blaze, she’s not afraid to kick butt when the occasion calls for it.
I think that 06 does take place before Rush, but once the game was erased, it also changed the timeline and made her from another dimension. The Time Eater just pulled in Crisis City from a dead timeline.
I imagine the reason for her appearance in Generations is because of her friendship with Sonic, though she could definitely have used a bit more of an active role. As for the inconsistencies, I think I can give a logical reasoning. Blaze was always from the Sol dimension, but travelled to the future of the Chaos dimension, meeting Silver there, and stuck around with him for a while, though this is still spitting on Blaze's character's boots, seeing as though she's not one to shirk her duties.
I feel like Blaze secretly knows Sonic in 06. Hinted by the cutscene before you start wave ocean as her as well as her dialogue when the stage starts. Plus she knows the chaos emeralds when she and silver find one after the egg Genesis boss.
Altho it wouldnt make sense for her to know him and not try to tell Silver about it, like for all intent and purposes, Silver was gonna kill him and she would be like "yeah whatevs"
There was a missed opportunity in Sonic Generations for 3DS, to replace the rival bosses with ones from the handheld game. Fang The Hunter could've replaced Metal Sonic, Gemerl in place of Shadow, and Blaze in favour of Silver. They could've represented 3 generations of Sonic on handheld, it was perfect. Instead, they did the bare minimum by having different zones from the same exact games as the console version, and one stage from Rush.
Blaze is hands down one of the best Sonic characters ever. Also a fantastic female character too. There’s so much to love about her and what makes her so great. I hope she (and the others) become playable again without the character assassination. She is deserves her own spin-off games. Give her Rush gameplay and set the game in the Sol dimension where there’s a lot of creative potential. She’s a hero like Sonic but in her own way. A lot of the characters deserve better but it looks like that’s going to take time. The success of Frontiers gives us some hope.
Honestly I think it just has a lot to do with the fact that Sega kept hearing all the criticism about how they keep adding more and more new characters and more and more playable characters and they want to go back to basics by just having you play a Sonic and focus on one character. I mean you could clearly tell that with all the games they released throughout the 2010s into today. There were of course some exceptions of course
I think I got it. Since sonic rush blaze is from another dimension, sonic 06 blaze is this dimension’s version of blaze. They both exist, they just live in separate places at separate times.
You should also see her appearences in the Archie comics! Sonoc Universe volume 1 has her being amazing with Marine, defending her from Shadow. It's amazing and i love her in that series as well.
@@iceman92211 news flash, Sonic is a wester franchise, it just happens to be owned by a Japanese company lol. It's always been run by westerners. Sonic 2 and 3&K were developed in the US as well as Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, and those are some of the highest rated games of all time.
@@NottJoeyOfficial actually, the games might be made in USA but they are actually made by the Japanese so there’s a difference between countries and people.
On the Sonic 06 Blaze insanity, I believe she is still in fact from the Sol dimension, but wound up trapped in Sonic's dimension and in the future, sticking with Silver for... Reasons. As for her recollection of Sonic, the way she said "blue hedgehog..." suggests she DOES remember him, but some time passed since Rush and the memory has faded, but the effects remained.
If you assume Color theory is in play then Blaze being Purple makes perfect sense. Sonic is the Protagonist, and Knuckles is a Guardian. So Naturally Blaze is both.
Can’t believe this was released on my birthday!! Honestly before I watched this I didn’t know what to think of her character, but now she might be one my most favorites. I think the fact that she has fire powers are really cool, and when you talked about her childhood I kinda thought of tails of all characters, both were bullied at a young age but they turned out so different. I’m also glad that she wasn’t really butchered just underused.
A theory I adhere to when talking about Blaze between 06 and Rush is that 06 does come before Rush, and Blaze does sacrifice herself by sealing herself in another dimension, but since the main world was retconned by the ending of 06, Iblis gets erased, leaving Blaze alone in the Sol Dimension. Since she's from the other dimension (where the mainline Sonic games take place, I'll call it Main Dimension), she is affected by the timeline reset, and forgets everything that happened in the Main Dimension, leaving her trapped in the Sol Dimension. Here's when things become more headcanon rather than anything else, but I like to think, that her pyrokinetics were a result of having Iblis trapped inside of her, and being sent to the Sol Dimension. Since she arrived at the Sol Dimension WITH her powers, that was her "default state" there. Since Iblis got erased, she was "changed" in that dimension, which tried to correct that change. If the Sol Dimension actually changed as a result of that, you could have your cake (make 06 the actual backstory) and eat it (make Rush canon as well). That's what I think 06 was trying to do, and it kinda came out wrong because of what happened with that game. Good luck reading this lol.
The Sol Gems have the ability to find your match , soul mate , or kindred spirit. Nega wanted a mental equal in his heart , and saw Eggman as a threat. lol When Blaze had opened up , it could sense her desire for companionship. And using the temporal weakness as an opening , found Silver to make a good match.
Blaze is definitely somewhere in my top 5 characters. I really enjoy her arc in Sonic Rush. I'm very mixed on her inclusion in 06. I do mostly like how she's portrayed. My main issue is that she isn't suspicious of Mephiles. People give poor Silver undeserved grief for falling for his deceit, but hardly anyone talks about Blaze, the one shown to be more level-headed, doesn't suspect a thing. I know she wanted the future to be fixed as much as Silver did, but that just felt out of character for her. I haven't played Rush Adventure yet, but I like her portrayal there from what I've seen in videos. She's been getting some attention this year with her inclusion in The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and her first action figure in a decade. I sure hope this means they plan to include her in future games. From what I've heard, Frontiers' ending left it open for less utilized characters like her to possibly show up in future games.
Guess I am happy Blaze does still get those few appearances that she does, because she easily could've been yet another character that got shadow realmed entirely. But man... it sucks how she's the best female Sonic character imo, but is held back by how little she's used overall. I think there's still potential with her. Great video.
I agree they should never put Blaze with Silver he could have have someone else with him in his future. Should have left Blaze to be in the sol dimension.
blaze was a good chunk of the cast rolled into one, she's got the speed (and shoes) of sonic and practically is his alt dimensional counterpart was bullied for her fire powers like tails for his extra tail is a guardian of the sol emeralds like knuckles is for the master emerald is anti social at first like shadow isn't afraid to show her girly side like rogue/amy
Blaze is so pretty and beautiful not to mention adorable when she smiles and shows off her adorable cat fangs with her ponytail making her look all the more adorable. She is also a badass as well.
As for Marine character, Sega Hates the character due to it was during the 4Kids voice era and bad writing was involved. They trying have this character forgotten forever, They never gave her a voice. In the end of Rush Adventures Marine said she promise to Blaze that she will mature and grow up and be a ship/Bout builder on her own. Sega did nothing with that. Her character in IDW has improved her a lot, being very supportive towards Blaze.
Asking for more Blaze is one Hell of a monkey paw's wish. Look at Metal: There was a time he sat out a few years, and now he's pretty much always around, but as nothing more than a glorified attack dog that should be traded out for any other badnik. Blaze is honestly blessed to have made it through the years largely intact.
Metal Sonic was a huge race battle in Sonic CD & appeared in hologram form in every past stage. He was the final boss of Knuckles Chaotix, was the Penultimate Boss of Sonic the Fighters which even gave him a new form, was the focus of Sonic OVA, & was even fought in Triple Trouble. He was also raced to unlock in Sonic R along with 3 other Robot doupelgangers after finishining in at least 3rd after gathering all 5 Sonic Tokens in a single race, Resort Island in his case. He was a playable racer in Drift 2 from the start & that was just what he did in the 90s before being a cameo in Sonic Adventure. If you played Sonic 1&2 for Genesis you'll recognize Eggman almost always being fought piloting something, at least Sonic 2 (8-bit) & 3K had him delegate random robots he built as the normal. Metal Sonic was always supposed to fulfill the Doppelganger rival role of course the only game where he abuses his presence is Sonic 4 Ep2. Metal Sonic turning into a kaiju in Heroes wasn't even the 1st time he did that with Team Chaotix originating from that game where Metal turned into the massive Red Metal Sonic Kai. Trust me Metal Sonic remains intact after all these years with the 2000s being the decade he was probably least used although at least you could play as him in Adventure 2's 2P Battles.
@@WaterKirby1994 Honestly, you're just making realize he's only gotten to shine in like four games, and is otherwise just around for the sake of being there. Forces is by far the worst case of that, considering he's narratively as worthless as the other phantom villains. Again, Metal needs a vacation, and literally any of the dozen other robo-Sonics need to take over for a bit. Mecha Sonic made a bit of a comic comeback, and he was better in it than Metal's been in years.
@@Umbra_Ursus Which 4 games? CD, Knuckles Chaotix, Sonic the Fighters, & Sonic Heroes? Metal Sonic actually had his role extended in Triple Trouble 16-Bit even though it's a fangame & technically Metal became Mecha in SMBZ. Back to official games in the 2000s Metal Sonic was the Final Round Opponent in Pinball Party's Tournament, & had a significant role in Rivals 2, as well as being added as playable in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Crossover. You could argue Eggman needed the same as he was the main villain in most of the 2010s games, yet he got the break he needed in Frontiers which didn't feature Metal Sonic. Back in the 2000s we had a large cast of villains (Eggman Nega, Black Doom, Mephiles, Captain Whisker, Erazor Djinn, & Merlina) & I'm all for bringing back Captain Whisker or Mecha Knuckles, or even the unused Sonic Robot from Adventure. An upcoming game is bringing back Fang the Sniper!
@@WaterKirby1994 I don't tend to count fan or side games: Fan games can do anything, and that means they don't have SEGA breathing down their necks. Pretty sure that's what lead to '06 being the mess it was. Side games are... I mean, yeah, can be fun, but not much point in counting crossover things that're purely for fun. And yes, those 4. I'd probably tack on whichever Free Riders had him get his rematch with Sonic, and Rivals 2 for having a mostly wasted team up with Shadow, but those were kinda shrimpy next to the others. For reference, shining moments by my count are ones that make use of Metal as himself: Triple Trouble? No idea why he was there. Rivals 1? Wasn't he just a glorified minion? Boom? Again, why not just use another robot if he's just gonna be an attack dog? Forces is bad all-round, but again, using Mecha or even Rocket Metal would have made more sense. And well I agree Robotnik needs a serious break, unlike Metal, he's at least kept up his personality of being a bombastic egomaniac. Metal's at the point where there's no reason to keep using him over a generic badnik.
@@Umbra_Ursus Metal Sonic fits "The Dragon" trope usually & technically Rocket Metal is an underutilized form of his that we only see in the cutscenes of Sonic the Fighters, & the unused fighter data he has. I'm all for seeing the Rocket Metal form get used again same for Neo Metal who was 1st named in 1 of the Rivals games. Heroes called him Mystery Monster until he was confirmed as "Metal Sonic" in the Last Story. Metal Sonic's heavy usage during the 2010s comes from him being part of the Classic Crew mainstays of the series like Team Sonic, Amy Rose, & Eggman. He was the Classic Era Rival Boss in Generations for good reason he's just that iconic! The early 2000s made an attempt to replace Metal with Shadow while upgrading Metal into an Eggman replacement although it didn't work. Eggman Nega was then created to be a much more sinister Eggman who doesn't raise chao in his spare time. While I will grant the Hardboiled Heavies were special & worthy of returning, generic badniks don't have the charisma to replace Metal Sonic. Does anyone take Scratch or Grounder as competent opponents for Sonic & his friends? Archie Comics & its related animated series had Snively, however despite the chances he was given he just wasn't that popular. He was easily outshone by other comic villains who Sega can't use for legal reasons. I would greatly enjoy to see 2P Shadow Androids, Mecha Knuckles, & Mecha Sonic return although Sonic Team just wants to play it safe with Metal Sonic. I always hoped for more of Sonic's friends to get robot counterparts although Just Sonic takes away the impact from that. I'm not sure if you remember the days of E-Series Robots being monsters of the week, although those felt a step above mere Badniks.
It's no secret Sega did Blaze dirty when it came to neglectfulness. In fact, the Cat deserved better than just appearing in spin-off games. Though we can be thankful that at least she wasn't ruined. *Whew* But I must say, after Ian Flynn did such an *amazing* job with Frontiers, I believe there's hope for her.
I'll be honest, I was a huge Sonic Rush fan (despite its flaws) when I was a kid. I think Blaze in that game was really well written for a sonic friend. She had this whole defrosting ice queen arc throughout the game, as she learns to trust others and make friends in Sonic's world. Plus her design parallels sonic pretty well I think. When I saw her in Black Knight, I really liked that they brought her back. Her noble-like mannerism made her rivalry with Sonic feel unique compared to the usual rivalries Shadow and Knuckles have with him. So when I learnt she was in 06 years later and that they retconned her whole backstory, I was like "bruh, you wasted a perfectly good character, and for what? Time travel shenanigans and evil fire gods?". Same with Eggman Nega! Why'd they have to make him a "descendant from the future" to Eggman, scrubbing the entire alternate reality.
Blaze has had quite a good number of appearences in animations, comic dubs and other fan made content that is arguably true to her character depending on what you watch.
To answer your question on Blaze with being in 06 and how games after like Generations and Colors DS mention her having a case of deja vu or something feeling similar there's a post over on tumble from spiritsonic called "clearing up the confusion in the fanbase regarding 06" and they even mention how Sonic Runners playable Silver's description mentions their relationship as partners from 06 and that their parting ways in 06 is based off a famous japanese story of "lonely Princess Orihime and Hikoboshi, two lovers who get separated across space on opposite ends of the milky way and can’t see each other anymore." therefore yes Blaze's original origin was 06 in being from the future however because she was split across space into a different dimension her now origin as we know from Rush. Sonic Team has back then made the mistake of chronological order for lore not matching like in Battle Rogue mentions how a Gamma robot looks like Omega despite the fact Battle came out BEFORE Heroes in having met Omega so that line can only make sense the other way around.
Hot take (heh!): Blaze is much better off as a foil character to others like Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow while being a big sister figure for Amy, Cream and Marine instead of being constantly paired up with Silver and used as ship/06 bait for "certain" fans (honestly they kinda drag each other down to the point many fans keep forgetting Silver and Blaze are individually on the same tier of power/urgency as Sonic I.e; they're capable of saving the day by themselves if needs be). It was actually refreshing to see a princess that kicks butt and yet isn't afraid to show her vulnerable side in a popluar franchise instead of being a damsel in distress, a shallow love interest/trophy wife, a exposition machine or all the above.
I loved how Team Vector was in TSR. They deserve to win canonically, as they have an arc. They are learning to trust each other. While they have ulterior goals, it isn't at the expense of the others. Interestingly, the Team that is "Group together the students who couldn't find partners" made a strong team. It's also why I consider Blaze and Silver honorary Chaotix. They'll never join officially, if at all. I can see them willingly partnering up and helping them. Close to what Creams family is. It's also lovely to see the odd friendships pop up. I would have never considered Vector and Blaze to be friends or even colleagues before. I do like how they interact and respect each other. When Blaze calls him out on hiding something, Vector tells her while praising her for seeing through him with little fuss. With Creams family becoming closer to the Chaotix, and Vectilla barely edging towards Canon. I would love to see Blaze become part of this strange family dynamic.
My interpretation of Blaze being both in the future and the Sol dimension is the following: -Blaze is part of the future -06's events happen -Blaze "absorbs" Iblis and is, indeed, sent to another dimension, that is the Sol dimension or what the Sol dimension was at that time -The "reset" of erasing Solaris happens, so Iblis doesn't exist and any event with them didn't matter -Blaze, as she was sent to another dimension in such a way, she was "bound" to that dimension -The events of the future happen without Iblis nor Blaze, as she was "reset" while not being bound to that dimension anymore -Now Blaze's life is only the Sol dimension, her life was changed to be part of that dimension That is it, the basis for this is that the way she was sent to another dimension was not as a simple travel, but as a "seal" that tied her to that other dimension rather than her original one. This is how she can be princess of the Sol dimension and, once it was restored by the Time Eater, remember Crisis City
Blaze is not only my favorite Sonic character, but one of my favorite characters of all time! I just wish Sega would do more with her. Besides making her playable again, she should be in Sonic animations, merch, etc. She gets overlooked too much, along with a few others. Sega, it's time to stop playing safe!
Blaze was actually featured in the last comic arc. In an earlier story, she was urged to take a vacation by Marine and Knuckles (of ALL people) and after some hesitation accepted. Her being in Sonic's world made her available to help out when Sonic and friends had to thwart Eggman's latest nonsense
Potential badage for the canon contradicts: More than one Blaze. Rush Blaze is post-06 not despite the reset, but because of. And her memories are a bit scrambley because the reset was Less Than Perfect, partly because of the fact her non-06 life shoved her into Sol dimension, which screwed with time in a few ways itself, and partly because in the retconned 06 canon she died, and reality isn't 100% sure on how to handle a Dead's Deathing becoming decanonized even in most ideal circumstances, which Blaze is Not.
I agree with this perhaps Solaris's defeat rewrote her history or even created the Sol Dimension. Think about it, Sol means sun and Solaris is a sun God. Perhaps Solaris being wiped from reality created a dimension with its own history.
I don’t know if this will be seen or not, but I wanted to suggest a video idea. Could you make a video about the evolution of chao in the Sonic Universe? You can throw Omochao in with them, of course. They are such a prominent species that is so often overlooked in the games. I love your work, and I hope you continue what you do!
She will not be forgotten by the fanbase, but the general audience will not know anything about her, unless she appeared in a new TV show or a movie or a new game.
The funny thing about Blaze in 06 she actually feels faster then Sonic in it ignoring the God Awful Mach Speed Levels Sonic has to go through and she is more controllable then the rest of the playable characters.
Blaze was basically a dimensional counterpart of Sonic (kinda like Rivet and Ratchet) but now... She's just "hey I'm a girl character lol" all the spotlight is for Silver. Even when HER appearance makes more sense. Because she's from ANOTHER DIMENSION unlike Silver who's from an ALTERNATIVE TIMELINE. They just pulled out a Mirai Trunks in DBS "Hey this character is cool, let's keep it"
I just realised flanderization is quite common in Sonic media. Tails: Help me Sonic! Amy: I love Sonic! Eggman: I hate Sonic! Shadow: I'm better than Sonic! Knuckles: Master Emerald! Meanwhile Blaze is the last person I'd expect to have this, since her cold princessy attitude can't really be simplified to a single trait. Flanderization for Blaze would probably be her leaning more towards her high and mighty holier than thou royal status, which just doesn't fit for her.
Nah… it wasn’t so much with her being “forgotten”, it’s the fact that 2006 was the game that DESTROYED her, 100%. Aside from being completely worthless to Silver and the story as a whole, she was completely devoid of any personality. She goes from a badass introverted princess to a soulless mentor figure. She was SO worthless in 06, even the writers wrote her out before the final story. The worst part is that she could’ve easily had Elise’s role (and done it better). 06 was LITERALLY meant to reboot the franchise for fucks sake! Why make a human princess who has a latent flame in her soul, struggles with her duties, is introverted as hell, and has the her kingdom called “SOLeanna”, when Blaze is RIGHT FUCKING THERE?! Having her in Sonic 06 means they had to rewrite her anyway which only rubs even more salt to the wound. In fact, they fuck this character HARD, in 3D. Even if she played fine in 06, she only had 2 small sections and one stage In the beginning of Silver’s story. She got reduced to 1 section in Very Hard Mode, and while she gets 2 sections in Team Attack Amigo, that was Xbox 360 exclusive. Sonic and the Black Knight, everything about her in that game was slow and clunky from her Fire Spin, double jump, and air lunge… plus her canonical stage “The Cauldron” is ASS! You think you had it bad with Tails being scared, Knuckles being an idiot, or Shadow being arrogant as hell, us Blaze fans have it WAY worse, because outside of the Rush Duo-logy, she got screwed in the ass in the only two 3D games she was ever in (just the campaign). Fuck 2006’s Story!
Maybe Blaze just went into the future of the main sonic dimension, and saw it being trashed and she was like “Oh Shit” and then she saw Silver and felt bad so she just met him everyday for sometime, away from the Sol Dimension when she had free time since Silver was all alone, although this would’ve had to happen when Silver was young. THEN AGAIN i’m not sure why she wouldn’t just take Silver out of Crisis City and basically raise him as a younger brother in the Sol Dimension
Sega messed up in the whole storyline of 06, but overall she's a great a character and deserves her own game in my opinion!!! there's so much potential
They need to make another game for blaze and sonic or a game for blaze,sonic and shadow. Blaze being the bridge would be nice to see and them all getting a new form. I feel like she’d get along with shadow and dismiss him insulting sonic and stop sonic from rushing in. Amy and knuckles won’t have any reason to be in a game like this. Maybe they each have their buddies(shadow with rouge ig) and have separate stories that link up but don’t pull a sonic 06.
My theory for her remembering Crisis City is through a couple of mental gymnastics. Lego Dimensions has Sonic make an 06 reference, implying some recollection of the game's events. Perhaps Blaze went to Sonic's dimension to help against the Iblis threat sometime in the future, and since everyone somewhat remembered 06, she recognized Crisis City when Generations happened. This doesn't explain why she doesn't recognize Sonic in 06, but at least that fixes the continuity a little.
Solaris made a second reality and Sonic remembers everything, Elise doesn't but when that gust of wind is made by Sonic, she sort of remembers him but Solaris made sure she does the Festival because she has to.
Soo something I think the person who made this forgot/may have not known When talking dimensions, this is outside time. Meaning, blaze her self could have been sent there and that could have kept her alive and going throw it while the events were changed, to show this, A character like the reverse flash might be a good example to what I am talking about and how the negative speed force keeps the guy alive despite not existing Edit: another thing missed, if she died and got transported to the other dimension. There a chance that reaction to the timeline in the og world being destroyed could have caused a memory fracture. Basically. She would remember some things, but wouldn't keep everything. On top of that. This is most likely what what happened and has just been poorly explained
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So, what did all of you guys think of Blaze as a character? Do you agree with me? Disagree? Leave comments below as I do my best to read and respond to as many as possible! As always, thanks for watching the video!
Update: Many people are asking why I haven't spoken about Blaze in the Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog game, and the simple answer is that I still have not played the game. I haven't had the chance. But I do plan to play it for a video, as well as give it a dedicated analysis video.
I also just wanted to say that I, along with many other Sonictuber's, made a special appearance in AceCardGaming's latest video. So why not go and check that out after you've watched this? It will be worth it. Link: th-cam.com/video/TZZYeK9a4uk/w-d-xo.html
Blaze's concept is amazing on it's own, but made even better with good writing.
y'know how you have majima in your channel banner
what are your thoughts on yakuza?
What's your next character analysis gonna be about?
This isnt about blaze but in shadow the hedghog Shadow is written really well in japanese which is the cannon versions for mostly all the sonic games I recomend watching Pariah695 video about it he shows and proves shadow was not ruined
@@Omabatfartsbruh I absolutely LOVE the Yakuza series. Hell, I just spent a good chunk of change getting the collector's edition of Yakuza 6. I could talk about the sheer brilliance of the series for hours on end and one video that I'm still planning out is my video on Yakuza 0.
Blaze was also in Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. Where she was handled great and being kind of paired with Rouge instead of Silver was cool to see.
Ah, I still haven't played the game cause I've been too busy. But I plan to play it for a video and give it a separate analysis video
Oh man, I loved Blaze in that game.
@@jwroot I love blaze in general lol
Loved her interactions with rouge.
@@katieee_llyn I wish the option to pretend to be her husband to distract the guard was the actual answer
Kinda hard to believe that there is actually a Sonic character that stayed pretty consistent and didn't suffer any character degradation. Although her fear of heights contradicts her ability to fly lol.
I think it was because of the lack of oxygen, she needs oxygen to keep her pyrokenesis going and she uses that to fly… so as long as she isn’t SUPER high up then she isn’t afraid.
@@CyberFunk626 She's capable of using her flames underwater and in space plus it's not game mechanics since she's canonically defeated bosses that can only be fought underwater or in space/high attitude.
Her flames function more like plasma tbh if you want to make it scientific (even tho Sonic characters break real life physics daily) also her fear of heights is obviously a contrast to Sonic's fear of water/drowning.
That's the thing with phobias. A phobia is a powerful, _irrational_ fear of something. Even if you _know_ you're not in danger, you can't help but be afraid of it. Blaze's acrophobia is strong enough that her ability to fly can't just negate it.
It's like having arachnophobia, but living in a part of the world where there are no spiders. Just the idea that there _might_ be a spider even though you _know_ there isn't is still enough to trigger that fear.
@@lynxfresh5214 all I can say is this:
In space she must use her own oxygen or the power of the sol emeralds in order to use her flame, or she is close enough to the atmosphere to have some oxygen to fight.
People have this misconception that there is no oxygen underwater which is false. Fish still breathe oxygen, it’s just filtered through the water. So Blaze could probably use the oxygen in the water to use her flames.
@@thirst8015She’s not a fish bro lol
to me Blaze was the best character since Shadow, I love that she's closed off compared to the other characters.
Her barely appearing in the 2010s was more of a blessing than anything, now that we have writers who actually care about these characters I'd love to see her in future games.
For Blaze to work again now she would have to actually have some major involvement in the game comsidering her lore instead of being kind of a forgettable side character that could be replaced with any character.
@@islandboy9381to be fair, they could do something like how they did with the Urban Warfare arc in the IDW comics, where she was taking a vacation in Sonic’s world but then a whole bunch of stuff happened so she had to help out, could do something similar in the games
This is a common thing with characters who aren't Sonic , Amy, Tails, or Knuckles. Sega just plays it too safe by only giving the spotlight to the 4 characters I have listed. Even when they bring back certain characters they end up being underutilized.
eventually in the future, there is a chance we may get a sonic game that features EVERY single sonic character that has appeared in every mainline game, and it is gonna be great......
or bad i really cannot predict this franchise sometimes
Hopefully they start giving other characters more time to shine. With the 3rd Sonic movie coming out and how season 2 of Sonic Prime is looking, I think Shadow will be the first character out of the primary 4 to get that long awaited spotlight. I know it's copium but I've stuck with this little blue fucker and this roller coaster of a franchise for this long so fuck it.
Blame the hate bandwagon and "sOnIcs StuPiD fRiEnDs" meme for Sega's actions towards the extended cast (as well as Sega's infamous business decisions when it comes to Sonic), the best you can do is yell louder the detractors (possibly silence them too) and hope Sega gets the message clearly.
@@kaxcommentssomethingREALthis will never happen sadly unless it's a huge anniversary game like generations
@@SonicSwift99they had plans for games featuring the other characters, but the fanbase complained that they wanted only Sonic, so that's what we've been getting since Unleashed
One more thing to note about the idw comics is that in the 2022 annual, we actually get an interation between blaze and knuckles. And this interaction is frankly one of the best conversations in the comic run, as blaze opens up to knuckles about her conflictions with bieng the guardian of the sol emeralds. And knuckles, with all of his experience dealing with the master emerald, comforts her by showing that all of her work to defend her deminsion really does pay off, and that she should take some time for rest every now and then. The art is absolutely beautiful and the dialogue is yet another reason as to why I absolutely love this era of Ian Flynn writing.
It was a long time coming but was worth it.
One thing I especially liked about Blaze is that, as a pyromancer, they didn't go the typical cliche route of giving her an explosive personality that fuels her fire powers. I like that her being so calm, cool, and collected is antithetical to what you'd expect out of someone who wields fire, but when you consider her backstory, and how fire does, it makes sense. ;)
Also her character design is mainly cold colors except for her eyes which are sometimes portrayed more or less orange than yellow. Also from her design, they did very well at keep her fully modest outfit instead of the preliminar baggy clothes and crop top. Her design is so simple yet great
@@lune_xoy Indeed it is. Her design really cleverly shows that, in spite of fire's inherent destructive nature, there is a genuine elegant beauty to it when it's controlled.
Azula From The Last Airbender Was Like That Too. Calm,Badass,Deadly And Down Right Evil.
@@ghostprince4284 Very true. I feel like Azula is just about what you'd get if Blaze was evil. Ngl, I'd kinda like to see an A.U. take on that concept.
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A lack of appearances (while not great either) is certainly preferable than outright character assassination.
i did like the IDW annual story of Blaze coming to Angel Island to ask Knuckles for advice, guardian to guardian. Something Rush should have done. Plus it provided an excuse to bring Blaze back to the story for the recent comic arc.
Thank God those idiots didn't murder Blaze's character with their terrible writing.
Exactly, we can’t rule out blaze. Something I think that swag should do is a game all about silver and blaze. That would bring things up. It’s not like Sega has forgotten her, since she was in Murder of Sonic, they just need to know what to do with the character. Ha beat that the pj show.
@@chadgorosaurus4898You did read the IDW comics right-
@@CyberFunk626 I'm not talking about the comics I'm talking about the games
@@CyberFunk626They were probably talking about Pontac and Graff from the 2010's, because she was the most "well-written" character during this time period.
Blaze is the character I would love to see a spin-off game for. Basically sonic gameplay but she also has fire powers.
We were probably supposed to & then we got the Colors Era instead. Would have been cool if we got Sonic Rush 3 & an actual Blaze game instead of Colors DS (even though that was the better version) & Sonic 4 respectively.
She’s been in nothing but spin offs she needs her own game and to be her own character again.
She's playable in Sonic Rush Adventures (she's even a straight upgrade to Sonic because she's immune to fire hazards in stages), but yeah, the story isn't really about her.
The director of Frontiers confirmed on a reply to someone who wants to play with Blaze and Espio that they plan to add more playable characters in the future so there is hope.
I hope this is true, but I need to see it first!
Really? Wow. That's exciting. I'm guessing they won't have any story relevance.
YAY! :D
@@djdrizzy9139 Same :3
Can ya send the link to that source for me first please? Die-hard Blaze fan here. X3
Video Idea: The Best Sonic Villain that isn't Eggman
@SonicmidI'd say starline is a good choice as well
@@babyninja1800So does Snively, Enerjak, Naugus, Scourge, Finitevus, Mogul, Lien-Da, Anti-Sally Alicia Acorn
@@MaskOnDrawz Villains from 2 American Sonic media known as Archie and Sonic Saturday Morning (Most Serious Sonic cartoon)
I think he already covered Mephiles
> th-cam.com/video/bMrkCsVt-mg/w-d-xo.html
@Sonicmidnah it's sega.
Blaze's backstory is one of the sins from the hellfire development period of 06. They originally were going to have a proper tie in for 06 referring back to Blaze from Rush, but it was one of the many things dropped during development.
The fanbase typically headcanons her lore into 06 happened first, but since 06 gets a factory reset, Blaze instead gets born into the Sol dimension and life continues.
My headcanon is that Blaze went traveling to visit Cream & got caught up in the Iblis event at that moment & was blasted into the future with Amnesia where she became close to Silver.
You know what? Sonic the Hedgehog as an interquel to Rush, should’ve fleshed out more of Blaze’s homeworld through Soleanna, as l would suspect.
Or the true cannon is that 06 was a total blunder and Blaze was shoe horned into the story to give silver a friend.... rush and rush adventure are her story...
@@clappinmonkey0944There's records of them saying they wanted to tie in Rush to '06. Blaze was "shoehorned in" the same way Sonic was shoehorned in a knock off Final Fantasy game: the team was working on an rpg project and were told they had to do the next Sonic game for his anniversary. Thus they took what they had and salvaged what could possibly be used for Sonic. The team wanted to do an ambitious story but development went from bad to worse at every turn of events. And that's even before the team got cut in half so they could make a game to release on the Wii.
If you ever dig into history, you'll find out the truth of '06. It should've been the greatest Sonic game of all time, and the way it turned out is a true tragedy to the series.
@amandaslough125 What they intended to do and what the actual outcome was are 2 very different things.. in the end 06 as it manifested and stands had no reason to have Blaze in it other than to give silver a buddy... it brings up nothing of the SOL demension/emeralds or Blazes royalty and super form.. honestly, it's a complete disrespect to her character, demoting her to nothing but a big sister figure for a whiny future hedgehog from a separate demension from her own....
I mean, She was Mentioned in Frontiers, this means the writers might be returning back to her
We've gotten to the point that a fan favourite character getting briefly mentioned is noteworthy, we Sonic fans have one of the biggest cases of sunken costs I've ever seen lol!
@@lynxfresh5214 Lol sounds like us Rayman fans too
@@Maryweatherinseason Even as a sonic fan I still feel more bad for you guys, hope there's some good news coming in the future for Rayman as a franchise 🙏😔
She deserves so much more than Sega ever has done with her, she’s the very first Sonic Character I ever knew, before even sonic himself, I remember her as far back as when I was just 4, when I was watching my dad play her storyline in sonic Rush, I’ve played Sonic Rush for 11 years just trying to beat the game and getting destroyed by the Egg King, and I will always hold her close as the one character who fought against the Egg King, the being that taught me to never give up, and Blaze taught me that I should never have to fight alone, I hope Sega brings her back someday, and give her more potential than anyone ever could, May she continue to Rush through the world of Sonic, in a blazing rush of an adventure…
Agreed plus she was the first female character to not only rival Sonic in power but also get a super form too, she's by far the least deserving character that should be a cheerleader (She's a fricking princess that actually does her job for crying out loud).
Sonic Rush came out in 2005 add 11 years & it seems you are living in the year 2026. How were Sonic Movies 3 & 4 timetraveler? Blaze was awesome & should have gotten her own games during the 2010s.
@@WaterKirby1994that would be 2016 not 2026 😂
Characters like Blaze and even Silver are characters that I have a problem with, not because they are not good characters, but it’s the fact that we rarely get to see them. Blaze is a princess from another dimension and Silver is from the future so it’s difficult to logically bring them into the story. I know that Silver was in Forces and his character got misrepresented there, but since that isn’t near the misrepresentation characters like Shadow or Tails had in the past couple years, he’s still salvageable (that feels like a weird way to say). And Blaze’s character hasn’t been ruined, but it’s hard to bring them into a story due to them being separated to such a large degree from the rest of the cast. I do love the characters, but I just hope that they do have more prominent roles in future games.
I saw a theory years ago that stated that Blaze's role in 06 is actually an imaginary friend for Silver, he's so isolated that he imagined up a friend. I think that's possibly the best explanation - if you look at the cutscenes you'll notice that no one ever interacts with her except Silver. everything she does is to help Silver, she's only there to act as his moral guidance and she's a lot more emotionally mature if that's the right term, she's just not the same character. obviously this wasn't their intention, it was just bad writing, but it's a good retroactive justification at least
Well they didn't want Blaze to actually encounter anyone she met in Rush probably because they didn't have any of those encounters thought up when making 06, leaving Silver & Mephiles as the 2 Characters who aren't random human NPCs that she talks to most. The game had severely rushed writing rather than bad writing, with Shadow's Story being a masterpiece. They obviously only had a week at most to actually come up with the story & scripts & I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to 1 or 2 Days of writing before it had to be finalized.
@@WaterKirby1994 but if you look at the cutscenes, she never speaks to Mephiles or vice versa either. she ONLY interacts with Silver
Blaze is in my opinion the best female Sonic character. Excluding the Archie/DiC universe characters, she is the first tomboy, a princess, no less, in the series, which makes her probably inspired by Sally Acorn, and she was also Daisy's counterpart in the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series. Her debut in the Sonic Rush games really gave quite an impression as she was shown to be a badass who takes no guff from the likes of Eggman and Eggman Nega, and her going toe to toe with Sonic in the Dead Line boss fight really demonstrates that she's a very strong and skilled fighter. That said, I really hated what Sega did to Blaze cause she wasn't just underutilised, she was reduced to being a background character and having even less backbone than Amy, and I think a lot of that has to do with Sonic 06, because since that game, she's only seen as just another typical Sonic girl, and being Silver's "sidekick," and I use that term loosely, because it opens up so many plotholes like how they even met when she is from the Sol Dimension while Silver is from the future of Sonic's world, and putting them together almost every time in post games opens up the can of worms of whether 06 really happened or not. Some may theorise that the events of 06 took place before Sonic Rush, but I don't buy that, and retconning Eggman Nega to make him be from Silver's timeline really felt like a cop-out to explain Silver and Blaze's "friendship," which serves as no other purpose than to pander to the Silvaze shippers, who are really just a small fringe in the Sonic fandom. No offense to anyone who has no problem with Silver and Blaze as just friends, but either way, everything behind it just makes their interactions feel so forced and it overshadowed Blaze's other meaningful friendships with Sonic, Cream, and even Marine. All in all, Blaze is a character with so much potential, but was done dirty thanks to Sega's poor business practices and decisions and an obnoxious vocal minority who only want to see romance.
I full agree with you here. The pairing between Blaze and Silver is the most forced thing ever. Their relationship had no business being what it is. Blaze is more closer to Sonic than she should ever be with Silver.
@@godfrey4461 That makes me happy to see that there is still some common sense and decency in the Sonic fandom, because I've been harassed by Silvaze shippers just because I criticise the ship and prefer Blaze being paired up with other characters. They're all toxic, entitled, immature little manchildren who think their word is absolute and cannot be challenged, and they're the reason why the Sonic fandom has been reduced to a circus. It's disgraceful, really.
Excuse me, but why are you saying Blaze is inspired by Sally ?
I would love Shadow and Blaze team up, since they both fit together so well! Both are introverted persons with fate of the world on their shoulders, combined with Shadow's quiet nature and knowledge of the rough past, and Blaze's stoicism and fight experience THEY'RE PERFECT TEAM! Tho I know they had meet in Archie Comics (and Shadow even apologizes to her and admits he was wrong....that's rare for Shadow nowdays) if I remember correctly, but I want another story with these two together.
Blaze is a character with a lot of potential still. It would be cool if we got another game that took place in her dimension since not much is known about it. Maybe even go into how the Sol Emeralds are connected to the Chaos Emeralds and heck, maybe even the Master Emerald.
At least she’s still relevant in IDW. There’s even a short story where she goes to Knuckles for advice since she knows that he has a similar job to hers. Maybe now with SEGA becoming more experimental again, she’ll return in a future game.
Also congrats on graduating.
I think what happened in 06 is that Blaze got sent to Sonic's dimension but kept that fact a secret from Silver. When she was asking Silver to seal her in another dimension, she was really asking Silver to send her home. But yeah, idk how characters remember the events of 06 when technically none of it happened.
Yeah I have a similar thought. In 06 Blaze knew who Sonic was but didn’t want to tell Silver for fear of Silver retaliating.
I personally like to think that Solaris's destruction created the Sol Dimension and that Blaze was placed there as a side effect of reality rewriting itself.
I used to draw her a lot, just in original drawings. I think I still have Blaze as a mermaid drawing
To be honest about Sonic 06 being canon, it feels like the writers have written an entirely different Sonic 06 story and made that canon, we may never know.
Yeah, the writers have written many versions of 06 Story prior to the release
Hearing that makes me really wish that '06 had more development time
Maekawa himself confirmed 06 to be cannon and Blaze was sent to the sol dimension by Silver.
@@ataladin87 Well, seems like Maekawa is full of shit because there is no reason for that to happen in both the 06 setting where she just dies and the normal timeline, where she wouldn't have to be sent there. Maekawa is clearly spewing nonsense out of his ass. She is just from the Sol Dimension and that is where she becomes, seeing as she is the one who is the princess, meaning there was already a royal family and she was part of it from the beginning. 06 is just an embarrassment that killed itself in the ending.
What ataladin said. There is a tumblr post from spiritsonic going into detail "clearing up the confusion in the fanbase regarding 06" especially with how Blaze and Silver being partners that are separated is likely based off a famous japanese story they say from one of Silver's Sonic Channel backgrounds.
The legend returns! I've wanted a Character Analysis on Blaze since I discovered your channel last year, thanks so much for making this!
No worries! Hope you enjoy the video!
Same
@@thepjshow Blaze was in The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. How well did you think she was portrayed there?
If you’re wondering what the whole thing with 06 was, it’s the writers who worked on it were not the ones who wrote Rush and so the writers when given the idea of using Blaze were unaware she had pre-established lore and just made up a different origin for her.
I think we can all agree on how wasted Amy and Knuckles were in the Sonic Rush scenes. What annoys me the most is that it contradicts their personalities (In SA1, Amy promised to help all the people she could without the need to call Sonic for help, that is, to be independent, while in the game she continues with that joke "if you need help, call Sonic!". And Knuckles shouldn't be on earth to begin with)
I can relate to Blaze so much due to her introverted nature. She manages to overcome her anxiety and distrust for others and slowly open up. Now that she knows Sonic and co. so well she can socialize with them no problem.
Vid title is kinda misleading. She’s not “destroyed,” more like forgotten, neglected, cast to the wayside. It’s a real shame. I love her character so much.
I personally think that the confusion in Sonic Generations is that Blaze is from the Sol Dimension, but gets back the memories of an alternate timeline when it collides with the current one. I also believe that this is how Silver was pulled into the main timeline after he was erased in 06. He was pulled in because he had a battle with Sonic that the Time Eater felt like revisiting and so screwed with the timeline even more, which unintentionally reminded Blaze of her experiences in this alternate timeline, kind of like post-super genesis wave Archie Sonic.
But silver did meet sonic again in rivals and in colors ds blaze and silver meet eachother in the park
Honestly my favourite version of Blaze is probably the Archie comics version, In the Sonic Universe comics I loved how she was written and interacted with most of team Rose and Team Dark, she formed a friendship with Shadow in the beginning mini arc and helped him in defeating Metal Sonic when they were transported into the Sol Dimension and showed a lot of independence when chasing for a stolen Sol Emerald and how much of a loner was displayed when she refused help from Amy and Cream. I’m enjoying what they’re doing with her in the IDW run at the moment, although I’m several issues behind, like how she decided to go to Cream’s house on free time to just talk and hangout.
Ironically I think the whole Sonic getting sent to the Sol Dimension and losing his memories after he used a major power source could actually be some set up to the whole 06 Origin theory you mentioned. Perhaps because it’s a separate dimension, Blaze wasn’t completely affected by the time reset and only lost her memories which would allow her to start to remember crisis city in generations while still being the Sol Princess.
I really thought I was the only one seeing how badly Blazes character has been getting killed off. Ever since Rush, she has always been my favorite character and it sucks to see her be destroyed like this
I played Sonic Rush and Rush Adventure when I was a lot younger and enjoyed Blaze for basically standing shoulder to shoulder with Sonic in those games. She had to grow in the first game but definitely proved herself and gets a sick transformation sequence that holds up today. And it was cathartic to finally see her show up kind of out of nowhere in Rush Adventure when most were waiting for her to appear, since she's in the opening of the game and everything. Not to mention she immediately reaffirms that she's as capable as Sonic, and from then on you can select her at the start of every level. Though when I played these games as a kid, I think I still stuck with Sonic the whole game through.
My perspective has shifted as i got older and since revisiting both Rush games last year, and playing them again this year, I can firmly say Blaze is my favorite Sonic character. i picked her all throughout my playtime in Rush Adventure once I could play as her. She feels so well-realized in both of her games (thankfully I never suffered through Sonic 06 only to have her character sidelined until the very end) . Blaze was probably one of the first depictions I saw in a game of a female character being equally competent as the "male default". That wasn't really the norm back in the early 2000's, so I'd say it was fairly commendable to see a strong and flawed female character go through a satisfying character arc and maintain relevance over the course of two games, Sonic games on the DS, of all things. The game doesn't have to draw specific attention to the fact that Blaze is a girl, either, she's just Blaze the Cat doing her thing, and I love that.
So bring her back Sonic Team! Let her actually do stuff again like she used to, even just for one game.
I like how Blaze was designed to be like an alternate version of sonic, with how popular the multiverse is right now, this is a good time for Sonic team to bring her back as a main character for a game
I'm a cat person and I like fire, so Blaze (and Percival) are easily my favorites. Shame I never got to play Rush
Blaze isn't "forgotten" she's jus not overutilized like MOST other characters & that's a good thing imo. It harkens back to how they originally wanted to handle most of the characters till plans changed & they jus shoved everyone everywhere wit no rhyme or reason & it means when she or anyone else is used after not bein around sonic for a while there's full confidence in there bein a PROPER reason that is necessary for whatever narrative they wish to tell without compromise of the bloat of unnecessary characters jus bein there takin up time, space, & attention that can create an unfocused mess cus they were never accounted for beyond "put them in cus ppl jus WANT them around no matter wut". I like this especially cus I feel similar to shadow she's 1 of the few characters NOT utterly ruined in the games. An issue we're still dealin wit in Frontiers
True, it's best not to overuse the entire cast of characters, because there comes a point where it doesn't make sense in any story they make up and that was one of the main problems with the story of Sonic 06, it had many characters but the vast majority were fillers in the plot.
According to the IDW comics she gets sent to certain points in time in Sonic's world mostly when they find it necessary so they sent her too the future to help protect it and as for her memories, my guess is when Iblis went into her and she was lost, him being part of a time God might have somehow been able to prevent her amnesia before he was completely lost or something
"Wrath of the 2010s" is now a permanent part of my vocab while discussing anything Sonic.
Shadow the hedgehog has always been a childhood favorite character of mine (and always will be) but Blaze has also always been a close 2nd for me. This video has actually helped me fully realize some similarities between the two. Well, similar-ish.
They both start off rather distant from people but later learn to become, sort of, more open with others.
They both start off being against Sonic when they meet him. While Shadow was more antagonistic towards him, Blaze was just trying to do her own thing by any means.
I don't know, calling these similarities might be a bit of a stretch but that's just how it always felt to me. Either way, They're both super badass and I absolutely adore both Shadow and Blaze!
Brilliant analysis, summarizes my feelings exactly! Also quick note, Sonic briefly mentions Blaze in Sonic Frontiers saying:
"What I wouldn't give to have Blaze's help right about now"
Really hope Blaze will be playable in the next big game after Frontiers.
In my head it went like this: The Sol emeralds sensed some type of "danger" in sonics dimension & wanted to stop it. I believe there R other instances but the Sol/Chaos emeralds R both shown/implied in Rush Adventure to have a "will" of some kind of their own. Blaze has a similar connection to the sol emeralds as knuckles does the M.E. since she is their "guardian". The Sol emeralds felt it necessary to help deal wit this & so told Blaze & as showcased in other games & IDW attempted to transport blaze to sonics dimension as that is somethin they can do freely. This is where some of my own conjecture comes in & cus of how unclear 06 makes things(since it wasn't finished) it could be diff for others, but somethin(I assume mephiles personally cus of his abilities) tampered wit the transport midway & caused blaze to end up in the future on accident & made her lose her memories(this is def a big "my conjecture" part lol). She meets silver & they grow a bond fightin iblis as she learns bout the world wit only a few of her memories retained(or even attained after lol). The rest of the story goes bout the same & she either A. is sent to another dimension or b. dies by the end(idrk but it's not like this part matters much) & everythin gets reset to be (mostly) non-existent. This is y when she hears of a "blue hedgehog" she seems more oddly curious as if "that sounds familiar but idk y" & she never acts as tho she's in any way familiar wit Sonics present time or himself. Granted she's in a VERY diff location than in the 1st Rush & sonic never acts familiar either when she's right there in some cutscenes but this jus goes to show how unfinished the game is in so many ways regardless of whether or not I'm right cus it's all so unclear in the end & they've never gone back to explain. Tho I'm unsure if the sol emeralds can also deal in space-time like the chaos emeralds even if they're a dimensional counterpart cus it's never been a thing in any media (not necessarily canon but) related to the main sonic timeline whether it be stuff like Rush or IDW which is y I brought mephiles tamperin instead tho both could be true now that I think bout it lol.
Blaze deserve her own classic version video game for herself. There is so much untapped potential for this character to be spotlighted a bit more. She is like knuckles, but a bit more protective of her own world.
So here’s my head canon on how blaze is in 06 blaze is still the princess of the soul realm but was transported to Silver’s future she decided to help him and was there for a while and became best friends with him but still always looked for a way to get back home, after the events of 06 which got retconned she was back at the soul realm where she then transported to Sonic’s world which leads to the events of rush
Something that I noticed is that when Blaze absorbs Iblis, she kind of looks like Burning Blaze, and that makes me think that Iblis ends up turning INTO the Sol Emeralds.
Also, there are tons of unused voice lines for Blaze in 06 that suggest she would accompany someone, presumably Silver, a lot more than she did. It's possible, and likely probable, that this was cut because 06 was notoriously time crunched.
*Fixing Rush scenes:*
I just imagine a scene from Cream introducing Blaze to Amy and, desperate, the kid says that Amy must look for Sonic to resolve this conflict that could basically destroy the Earth. Amy, in the role of the older sister (as in Heroes), tells Cream not to worry, that everything will be fine and that together they'll solve it out, adding that they won't look for Sonic, saying to herself "No, I'm not going to look for Sonic, maybe I'm too weak and need him, but I want to solve this problem by myself. as I promised (SA1)" She would also be somewhat hostile when seeing Blaze, thinking that she might be a threat, but then she would understand Blaze, and tells her to let her help, but she refuses (lots of creative scenes can come from that).
In the case of Knuckles, again, he should be on Angel Island, maybe a scene of Knuck could be shown worried because he felt the presence of emerald energy on the ground and that's why he went down, but I still think no, he shouldn't be there. Instead of him another character could appear, what do I know? Why not Espio? The idea sounds stupid, however if you think about it, there are parallel characteristics in those two characters (they spin when jumping, they are fast, they are serious, and much more) and it could form some fun interactions. Espio would meet up with Cream and he would explain that the rest of the team went on vacation and he is seeing new challenges for himself. He then meets Blaze and he explains the importance of teamwork etc. There would even be funny scenes like Blaze getting hostile towards Espio and he uses his sarcasm to tease or humiliate her (as a joke, but not over the top either, and he does it on purpose to calm Blaze down and because, obviously, defense is needed)and Blaze would get even angrier (that would also make her think about the value of tolerance and that there are friends of all personality types).
See the crazy ideas that can be done with Sonic's friends?
Blaze the Cat is perhaps my most favorite character from Sonic. I’ve always loved cats and thought Blaze was very pretty! I for one would love to see a Sonic Rush 3 or a spin off game starring Blaze! At least Blaze was well portrayed in the IDW comics, and she even had empathetic bonding with Knuckles, who guards a powerful treasure like she does.
I would be stupid excited if I saw Blaze in a post credits scene in the Sonic 3 movie, and have her be in the fourth film voiced by Mae Whitman (Katara and Amity Blight). In the Sonic cinematic universe, I could be Blaze ending up on Earth yearning to cure herself from her fire powers. But Sonic tries to convince her to see her powers as a gift than a curse, since he learned to accept his super speed powers. Blaze really deserves better these days!
Blaze is my favorite Sonic Character and also one of my general favorite chars. I'm almost like her when it comes to the behavior. I also like it that she is afraid of heights which is normally no issue for a cat but that's something where she's more sympathetic to me than she already is. If there are some real life issues coming I would mostly act like her. And I don't care if it's good for me, for her or no one I really love Blaze and I hope that she gets a major appearance in a Sonic Jump'n'Run game back.
Missed Opportunity to call the Sonic '06 Sacrifice of Blaze as "Schrodinger's Cat", since due to writing and logic, we can assume these are two different Canons/Interpretations of the same character.
If Silver would successfully seal Blaze with Iblis Trigger into another dimension, she would experience time differently due to relativity...
Time is **Relative**
She would persist forward, yet everyone else would be stuck in the past, in Cycle Of Solaris...
The Cycle of Solaris eventually is broken, the events get retconned, **but here is a catch**
It did happen, **Once**
There are at least two options:
>>>We could accept that it happened in the past, Blaze perishes within _one timeline and dimension_ , Solaris is defeated, and since events never happen, She lives. Valid
Or giant *IF* condition:
>>>Silver is successful, Blaze is transferred, her continuity... continues on to the future. Solaris is defeated, her sacrifice is undone, She lives...
...AND she still alive in another dimension. Cat is ded and alive, then Alive/Alive.
That is a PARADOX
It doesn't mean her origin story, it means TWO CANON VERSIONS.
Sonic Rush Blaze is her own story and experiences, and Sonic '06 can't change that
Just like Sonic Rush doesn't have any impact on Sonic '06 Blaze as a character
Sir Percival is her own Arthurian equivalent with no impact to others, only to Sonic.
Now the question would be, _how would existence of Ignis Blaze impact the future of modern Sonic canon?_
Ignis Scintilla ---> The Inciting Incident before a dumbster-fire
I just wanna see her and Sonic actually talking together again, the last time they properly talked to one another was technically 09 with Black Knight, but if you don't count Blaze as Percival then the last time they properly interacted was 06 (or maybe 2010 with Colours DS but I might be wrong).
I just wanted to let you know how thankful I am for your Sonic videos. You are easily my favorite Sonic creator here on TH-cam. I recently just started getting into the Sonic franchise and had no clue where to start and was honestly thinking of dropping getting into Sonic altogether. But then I found your channel and instantly got hooked on each of these amazing characters. Thank you again
I feel like we need an episode like this for Cream the Rabbit now after this one on how she was basically forgotten in recent sonic games, also great job
Same. I feel like she’s sweet and caring normally but hides a tough as nails interior. Like Blaze, she’s not afraid to kick butt when the occasion calls for it.
Not to mention she is so freaking pure, innocent, and adorable.
I think that 06 does take place before Rush, but once the game was erased, it also changed the timeline and made her from another dimension. The Time Eater just pulled in Crisis City from a dead timeline.
No, it doesn't. Bios and the original script have confirmed Blaze has ALWAYS been from another dimension, not from the future.
I imagine the reason for her appearance in Generations is because of her friendship with Sonic, though she could definitely have used a bit more of an active role. As for the inconsistencies, I think I can give a logical reasoning. Blaze was always from the Sol dimension, but travelled to the future of the Chaos dimension, meeting Silver there, and stuck around with him for a while, though this is still spitting on Blaze's character's boots, seeing as though she's not one to shirk her duties.
I feel like Blaze secretly knows Sonic in 06. Hinted by the cutscene before you start wave ocean as her as well as her dialogue when the stage starts. Plus she knows the chaos emeralds when she and silver find one after the egg Genesis boss.
Plus, there's some unused dialogue where she actually referred to Sonic by name, indicating that '06 actually took place after Sonic Rush.
There's more to the story that we'll never know due to 06 being rushed. 😔
Altho it wouldnt make sense for her to know him and not try to tell Silver about it, like for all intent and purposes, Silver was gonna kill him and she would be like "yeah whatevs"
There was a missed opportunity in Sonic Generations for 3DS, to replace the rival bosses with ones from the handheld game. Fang The Hunter could've replaced Metal Sonic, Gemerl in place of Shadow, and Blaze in favour of Silver. They could've represented 3 generations of Sonic on handheld, it was perfect. Instead, they did the bare minimum by having different zones from the same exact games as the console version, and one stage from Rush.
Blaze is hands down one of the best Sonic characters ever. Also a fantastic female character too. There’s so much to love about her and what makes her so great. I hope she (and the others) become playable again without the character assassination. She is deserves her own spin-off games. Give her Rush gameplay and set the game in the Sol dimension where there’s a lot of creative potential. She’s a hero like Sonic but in her own way. A lot of the characters deserve better but it looks like that’s going to take time. The success of Frontiers gives us some hope.
Honestly I think it just has a lot to do with the fact that Sega kept hearing all the criticism about how they keep adding more and more new characters and more and more playable characters and they want to go back to basics by just having you play a Sonic and focus on one character. I mean you could clearly tell that with all the games they released throughout the 2010s into today. There were of course some exceptions of course
I think I got it. Since sonic rush blaze is from another dimension, sonic 06 blaze is this dimension’s version of blaze. They both exist, they just live in separate places at separate times.
You should also see her appearences in the Archie comics! Sonoc Universe volume 1 has her being amazing with Marine, defending her from Shadow. It's amazing and i love her in that series as well.
Those comics are written by the Americans, so they are not correct
@@iceman92211 news flash, Sonic is a wester franchise, it just happens to be owned by a Japanese company lol. It's always been run by westerners. Sonic 2 and 3&K were developed in the US as well as Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, and those are some of the highest rated games of all time.
@@iceman92211so is a lot of sonic stuff nowadays,
@@NottJoeyOfficial actually, the games might be made in USA but they are actually made by the Japanese so there’s a difference between countries and people.
@@TheSonicBros1 no, not really
On the Sonic 06 Blaze insanity, I believe she is still in fact from the Sol dimension, but wound up trapped in Sonic's dimension and in the future, sticking with Silver for... Reasons. As for her recollection of Sonic, the way she said "blue hedgehog..." suggests she DOES remember him, but some time passed since Rush and the memory has faded, but the effects remained.
I like that interpretation a lot!
If you assume Color theory is in play then Blaze being Purple makes perfect sense. Sonic is the Protagonist, and Knuckles is a Guardian. So Naturally Blaze is both.
Can’t believe this was released on my birthday!! Honestly before I watched this I didn’t know what to think of her character, but now she might be one my most favorites. I think the fact that she has fire powers are really cool, and when you talked about her childhood I kinda thought of tails of all characters, both were bullied at a young age but they turned out so different. I’m also glad that she wasn’t really butchered just underused.
Happy (belated) Birthday!
Blaze is one of the few characters who I believe wasn’t ruined by the 2010s writers
If not the only one
I want more of blaze's appearance in mainline games again 😭
A theory I adhere to when talking about Blaze between 06 and Rush is that 06 does come before Rush, and Blaze does sacrifice herself by sealing herself in another dimension, but since the main world was retconned by the ending of 06, Iblis gets erased, leaving Blaze alone in the Sol Dimension. Since she's from the other dimension (where the mainline Sonic games take place, I'll call it Main Dimension), she is affected by the timeline reset, and forgets everything that happened in the Main Dimension, leaving her trapped in the Sol Dimension. Here's when things become more headcanon rather than anything else, but I like to think, that her pyrokinetics were a result of having Iblis trapped inside of her, and being sent to the Sol Dimension. Since she arrived at the Sol Dimension WITH her powers, that was her "default state" there. Since Iblis got erased, she was "changed" in that dimension, which tried to correct that change. If the Sol Dimension actually changed as a result of that, you could have your cake (make 06 the actual backstory) and eat it (make Rush canon as well).
That's what I think 06 was trying to do, and it kinda came out wrong because of what happened with that game.
Good luck reading this lol.
The Sol Gems have the ability to find your match , soul mate , or kindred spirit.
Nega wanted a mental equal in his heart , and saw Eggman as a threat. lol
When Blaze had opened up , it could sense her desire for companionship.
And using the temporal weakness as an opening , found Silver to make a good match.
Blaze is definitely somewhere in my top 5 characters. I really enjoy her arc in Sonic Rush. I'm very mixed on her inclusion in 06. I do mostly like how she's portrayed. My main issue is that she isn't suspicious of Mephiles. People give poor Silver undeserved grief for falling for his deceit, but hardly anyone talks about Blaze, the one shown to be more level-headed, doesn't suspect a thing. I know she wanted the future to be fixed as much as Silver did, but that just felt out of character for her. I haven't played Rush Adventure yet, but I like her portrayal there from what I've seen in videos. She's been getting some attention this year with her inclusion in The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and her first action figure in a decade. I sure hope this means they plan to include her in future games. From what I've heard, Frontiers' ending left it open for less utilized characters like her to possibly show up in future games.
Guess I am happy Blaze does still get those few appearances that she does, because she easily could've been yet another character that got shadow realmed entirely.
But man... it sucks how she's the best female Sonic character imo, but is held back by how little she's used overall. I think there's still potential with her. Great video.
What I hate is that she's usually cast as Silver's sidekick in modern games, which sucks because she's way better than Silver
I wouldn't say she's Better, who's to say silver can't be better alone too
@@wisccheese9257 The worst part is that Silver is generally better off being alone, their forced """""dynamic""""" hurts both characters.
@@m8.614 thank you, I agree as well. I blame heros for this situation. Silver in his own game and own agenda is what I need
Yeah exactly and this in my opinion is real cause of her downfall.
I agree they should never put Blaze with Silver he could have have someone else with him in his future. Should have left Blaze to be in the sol dimension.
Cream: Mr Sonic is the best, he will help you.
Also Cream: That's it Blaze, kick his ass!
blaze was a good chunk of the cast rolled into one,
she's got the speed (and shoes) of sonic and practically is his alt dimensional counterpart
was bullied for her fire powers like tails for his extra tail
is a guardian of the sol emeralds like knuckles is for the master emerald
is anti social at first like shadow
isn't afraid to show her girly side like rogue/amy
I feel like Blaze is a lot like Princess Daisy from the Mario Series. Both are great characters but are sadly neglected in main games.
Blaze is so pretty and beautiful not to mention adorable when she smiles and shows off her adorable cat fangs with her ponytail making her look all the more adorable. She is also a badass as well.
As for Marine character, Sega Hates the character due to it was during the 4Kids voice era and bad writing was involved. They trying have this character forgotten forever, They never gave her a voice.
In the end of Rush Adventures Marine said she promise to Blaze that she will mature and grow up and be a ship/Bout builder on her own. Sega did nothing with that.
Her character in IDW has improved her a lot, being very supportive towards Blaze.
With Ian Flynn as the new head writer for narrative, I’m confident that Blaze is in good hands for when she next appears in the series.
Ah A masterful character analysis as usual
I would love to see Team Chaotix done at some point.
Asking for more Blaze is one Hell of a monkey paw's wish. Look at Metal: There was a time he sat out a few years, and now he's pretty much always around, but as nothing more than a glorified attack dog that should be traded out for any other badnik. Blaze is honestly blessed to have made it through the years largely intact.
Metal Sonic was a huge race battle in Sonic CD & appeared in hologram form in every past stage. He was the final boss of Knuckles Chaotix, was the Penultimate Boss of Sonic the Fighters which even gave him a new form, was the focus of Sonic OVA, & was even fought in Triple Trouble. He was also raced to unlock in Sonic R along with 3 other Robot doupelgangers after finishining in at least 3rd after gathering all 5 Sonic Tokens in a single race, Resort Island in his case. He was a playable racer in Drift 2 from the start & that was just what he did in the 90s before being a cameo in Sonic Adventure.
If you played Sonic 1&2 for Genesis you'll recognize Eggman almost always being fought piloting something, at least Sonic 2 (8-bit) & 3K had him delegate random robots he built as the normal. Metal Sonic was always supposed to fulfill the Doppelganger rival role of course the only game where he abuses his presence is Sonic 4 Ep2. Metal Sonic turning into a kaiju in Heroes wasn't even the 1st time he did that with Team Chaotix originating from that game where Metal turned into the massive Red Metal Sonic Kai. Trust me Metal Sonic remains intact after all these years with the 2000s being the decade he was probably least used although at least you could play as him in Adventure 2's 2P Battles.
@@WaterKirby1994 Honestly, you're just making realize he's only gotten to shine in like four games, and is otherwise just around for the sake of being there. Forces is by far the worst case of that, considering he's narratively as worthless as the other phantom villains. Again, Metal needs a vacation, and literally any of the dozen other robo-Sonics need to take over for a bit. Mecha Sonic made a bit of a comic comeback, and he was better in it than Metal's been in years.
@@Umbra_Ursus Which 4 games? CD, Knuckles Chaotix, Sonic the Fighters, & Sonic Heroes? Metal Sonic actually had his role extended in Triple Trouble 16-Bit even though it's a fangame & technically Metal became Mecha in SMBZ. Back to official games in the 2000s Metal Sonic was the Final Round Opponent in Pinball Party's Tournament, & had a significant role in Rivals 2, as well as being added as playable in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Crossover.
You could argue Eggman needed the same as he was the main villain in most of the 2010s games, yet he got the break he needed in Frontiers which didn't feature Metal Sonic. Back in the 2000s we had a large cast of villains (Eggman Nega, Black Doom, Mephiles, Captain Whisker, Erazor Djinn, & Merlina) & I'm all for bringing back Captain Whisker or Mecha Knuckles, or even the unused Sonic Robot from Adventure. An upcoming game is bringing back Fang the Sniper!
@@WaterKirby1994 I don't tend to count fan or side games: Fan games can do anything, and that means they don't have SEGA breathing down their necks. Pretty sure that's what lead to '06 being the mess it was. Side games are... I mean, yeah, can be fun, but not much point in counting crossover things that're purely for fun.
And yes, those 4. I'd probably tack on whichever Free Riders had him get his rematch with Sonic, and Rivals 2 for having a mostly wasted team up with Shadow, but those were kinda shrimpy next to the others. For reference, shining moments by my count are ones that make use of Metal as himself: Triple Trouble? No idea why he was there. Rivals 1? Wasn't he just a glorified minion? Boom? Again, why not just use another robot if he's just gonna be an attack dog? Forces is bad all-round, but again, using Mecha or even Rocket Metal would have made more sense.
And well I agree Robotnik needs a serious break, unlike Metal, he's at least kept up his personality of being a bombastic egomaniac. Metal's at the point where there's no reason to keep using him over a generic badnik.
@@Umbra_Ursus Metal Sonic fits "The Dragon" trope usually & technically Rocket Metal is an underutilized form of his that we only see in the cutscenes of Sonic the Fighters, & the unused fighter data he has. I'm all for seeing the Rocket Metal form get used again same for Neo Metal who was 1st named in 1 of the Rivals games. Heroes called him Mystery Monster until he was confirmed as "Metal Sonic" in the Last Story.
Metal Sonic's heavy usage during the 2010s comes from him being part of the Classic Crew mainstays of the series like Team Sonic, Amy Rose, & Eggman. He was the Classic Era Rival Boss in Generations for good reason he's just that iconic! The early 2000s made an attempt to replace Metal with Shadow while upgrading Metal into an Eggman replacement although it didn't work. Eggman Nega was then created to be a much more sinister Eggman who doesn't raise chao in his spare time.
While I will grant the Hardboiled Heavies were special & worthy of returning, generic badniks don't have the charisma to replace Metal Sonic. Does anyone take Scratch or Grounder as competent opponents for Sonic & his friends? Archie Comics & its related animated series had Snively, however despite the chances he was given he just wasn't that popular. He was easily outshone by other comic villains who Sega can't use for legal reasons.
I would greatly enjoy to see 2P Shadow Androids, Mecha Knuckles, & Mecha Sonic return although Sonic Team just wants to play it safe with Metal Sonic. I always hoped for more of Sonic's friends to get robot counterparts although Just Sonic takes away the impact from that. I'm not sure if you remember the days of E-Series Robots being monsters of the week, although those felt a step above mere Badniks.
It's no secret Sega did Blaze dirty when it came to neglectfulness. In fact, the Cat deserved better than just appearing in spin-off games. Though we can be thankful that at least she wasn't ruined. *Whew*
But I must say, after Ian Flynn did such an *amazing* job with Frontiers, I believe there's hope for her.
I'll be honest, I was a huge Sonic Rush fan (despite its flaws) when I was a kid. I think Blaze in that game was really well written for a sonic friend. She had this whole defrosting ice queen arc throughout the game, as she learns to trust others and make friends in Sonic's world. Plus her design parallels sonic pretty well I think.
When I saw her in Black Knight, I really liked that they brought her back. Her noble-like mannerism made her rivalry with Sonic feel unique compared to the usual rivalries Shadow and Knuckles have with him.
So when I learnt she was in 06 years later and that they retconned her whole backstory, I was like "bruh, you wasted a perfectly good character, and for what? Time travel shenanigans and evil fire gods?". Same with Eggman Nega! Why'd they have to make him a "descendant from the future" to Eggman, scrubbing the entire alternate reality.
Blaze has had quite a good number of appearences in animations, comic dubs and other fan made content that is arguably true to her character depending on what you watch.
To answer your question on Blaze with being in 06 and how games after like Generations and Colors DS mention her having a case of deja vu or something feeling similar there's a post over on tumble from spiritsonic called "clearing up the confusion in the fanbase regarding 06" and they even mention how Sonic Runners playable Silver's description mentions their relationship as partners from 06 and that their parting ways in 06 is based off a famous japanese story of "lonely Princess Orihime and Hikoboshi, two lovers who get separated across space on opposite ends of the milky way and can’t see each other anymore." therefore yes Blaze's original origin was 06 in being from the future however because she was split across space into a different dimension her now origin as we know from Rush. Sonic Team has back then made the mistake of chronological order for lore not matching like in Battle Rogue mentions how a Gamma robot looks like Omega despite the fact Battle came out BEFORE Heroes in having met Omega so that line can only make sense the other way around.
Hot take (heh!): Blaze is much better off as a foil character to others like Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow while being a big sister figure for Amy, Cream and Marine instead of being constantly paired up with Silver and used as ship/06 bait for "certain" fans (honestly they kinda drag each other down to the point many fans keep forgetting Silver and Blaze are individually on the same tier of power/urgency as Sonic I.e; they're capable of saving the day by themselves if needs be).
It was actually refreshing to see a princess that kicks butt and yet isn't afraid to show her vulnerable side in a popluar franchise instead of being a damsel in distress, a shallow love interest/trophy wife, a exposition machine or all the above.
I loved how Team Vector was in TSR. They deserve to win canonically, as they have an arc. They are learning to trust each other. While they have ulterior goals, it isn't at the expense of the others. Interestingly, the Team that is "Group together the students who couldn't find partners" made a strong team. It's also why I consider Blaze and Silver honorary Chaotix. They'll never join officially, if at all. I can see them willingly partnering up and helping them. Close to what Creams family is. It's also lovely to see the odd friendships pop up. I would have never considered Vector and Blaze to be friends or even colleagues before. I do like how they interact and respect each other. When Blaze calls him out on hiding something, Vector tells her while praising her for seeing through him with little fuss. With Creams family becoming closer to the Chaotix, and Vectilla barely edging towards Canon. I would love to see Blaze become part of this strange family dynamic.
My interpretation of Blaze being both in the future and the Sol dimension is the following:
-Blaze is part of the future
-06's events happen
-Blaze "absorbs" Iblis and is, indeed, sent to another dimension, that is the Sol dimension or what the Sol dimension was at that time
-The "reset" of erasing Solaris happens, so Iblis doesn't exist and any event with them didn't matter
-Blaze, as she was sent to another dimension in such a way, she was "bound" to that dimension
-The events of the future happen without Iblis nor Blaze, as she was "reset" while not being bound to that dimension anymore
-Now Blaze's life is only the Sol dimension, her life was changed to be part of that dimension
That is it, the basis for this is that the way she was sent to another dimension was not as a simple travel, but as a "seal" that tied her to that other dimension rather than her original one. This is how she can be princess of the Sol dimension and, once it was restored by the Time Eater, remember Crisis City
“Her powers forced her to be alone” sounds like Elsa to me.
Blaze is not only my favorite Sonic character, but one of my favorite characters of all time! I just wish Sega would do more with her. Besides making her playable again, she should be in Sonic animations, merch, etc. She gets overlooked too much, along with a few others. Sega, it's time to stop playing safe!
Blaze was actually featured in the last comic arc. In an earlier story, she was urged to take a vacation by Marine and Knuckles (of ALL people) and after some hesitation accepted. Her being in Sonic's world made her available to help out when Sonic and friends had to thwart Eggman's latest nonsense
Potential badage for the canon contradicts:
More than one Blaze. Rush Blaze is post-06 not despite the reset, but because of. And her memories are a bit scrambley because the reset was Less Than Perfect, partly because of the fact her non-06 life shoved her into Sol dimension, which screwed with time in a few ways itself, and partly because in the retconned 06 canon she died, and reality isn't 100% sure on how to handle a Dead's Deathing becoming decanonized even in most ideal circumstances, which Blaze is Not.
I agree with this perhaps Solaris's defeat rewrote her history or even created the Sol Dimension. Think about it, Sol means sun and Solaris is a sun God. Perhaps Solaris being wiped from reality created a dimension with its own history.
I don’t know if this will be seen or not, but I wanted to suggest a video idea. Could you make a video about the evolution of chao in the Sonic Universe? You can throw Omochao in with them, of course. They are such a prominent species that is so often overlooked in the games.
I love your work, and I hope you continue what you do!
Blaze will never be truly forgotten in my eyes.
She will not be forgotten by the fanbase, but the general audience will not know anything about her, unless she appeared in a new TV show or a movie or a new game.
The funny thing about Blaze in 06 she actually feels faster then Sonic in it ignoring the God Awful Mach Speed Levels Sonic has to go through and she is more controllable then the rest of the playable characters.
Blaze was basically a dimensional counterpart of Sonic (kinda like Rivet and Ratchet) but now... She's just "hey I'm a girl character lol" all the spotlight is for Silver. Even when HER appearance makes more sense. Because she's from ANOTHER DIMENSION unlike Silver who's from an ALTERNATIVE TIMELINE. They just pulled out a Mirai Trunks in DBS "Hey this character is cool, let's keep it"
I just realised flanderization is quite common in Sonic media.
Tails: Help me Sonic!
Amy: I love Sonic!
Eggman: I hate Sonic!
Shadow: I'm better than Sonic!
Knuckles: Master Emerald!
Meanwhile Blaze is the last person I'd expect to have this, since her cold princessy attitude can't really be simplified to a single trait. Flanderization for Blaze would probably be her leaning more towards her high and mighty holier than thou royal status, which just doesn't fit for her.
Nah… it wasn’t so much with her being “forgotten”, it’s the fact that 2006 was the game that DESTROYED her, 100%.
Aside from being completely worthless to Silver and the story as a whole, she was completely devoid of any personality. She goes from a badass introverted princess to a soulless mentor figure. She was SO worthless in 06, even the writers wrote her out before the final story.
The worst part is that she could’ve easily had Elise’s role (and done it better). 06 was LITERALLY meant to reboot the franchise for fucks sake! Why make a human princess who has a latent flame in her soul, struggles with her duties, is introverted as hell, and has the her kingdom called “SOLeanna”, when Blaze is RIGHT FUCKING THERE?!
Having her in Sonic 06 means they had to rewrite her anyway which only rubs even more salt to the wound.
In fact, they fuck this character HARD, in 3D.
Even if she played fine in 06, she only had 2 small sections and one stage In the beginning of Silver’s story.
She got reduced to 1 section in Very Hard Mode, and while she gets 2 sections in Team Attack Amigo, that was Xbox 360 exclusive.
Sonic and the Black Knight, everything about her in that game was slow and clunky from her Fire Spin, double jump, and air lunge… plus her canonical stage “The Cauldron” is ASS!
You think you had it bad with Tails being scared, Knuckles being an idiot, or Shadow being arrogant as hell, us Blaze fans have it WAY worse, because outside of the Rush Duo-logy, she got screwed in the ass in the only two 3D games she was ever in (just the campaign).
Fuck 2006’s Story!
Maybe Blaze just went into the future of the main sonic dimension, and saw it being trashed and she was like “Oh Shit” and then she saw Silver and felt bad so she just met him everyday for sometime, away from the Sol Dimension when she had free time since Silver was all alone, although this would’ve had to happen when Silver was young. THEN AGAIN i’m not sure why she wouldn’t just take Silver out of Crisis City and basically raise him as a younger brother in the Sol Dimension
Sega messed up in the whole storyline of 06, but overall she's a great a character and deserves her own game in my opinion!!! there's so much potential
They need to make another game for blaze and sonic or a game for blaze,sonic and shadow. Blaze being the bridge would be nice to see and them all getting a new form. I feel like she’d get along with shadow and dismiss him insulting sonic and stop sonic from rushing in. Amy and knuckles won’t have any reason to be in a game like this. Maybe they each have their buddies(shadow with rouge ig) and have separate stories that link up but don’t pull a sonic 06.
My theory for her remembering Crisis City is through a couple of mental gymnastics. Lego Dimensions has Sonic make an 06 reference, implying some recollection of the game's events. Perhaps Blaze went to Sonic's dimension to help against the Iblis threat sometime in the future, and since everyone somewhat remembered 06, she recognized Crisis City when Generations happened. This doesn't explain why she doesn't recognize Sonic in 06, but at least that fixes the continuity a little.
Solaris made a second reality and Sonic remembers everything, Elise doesn't but when that gust of wind is made by Sonic, she sort of remembers him but Solaris made sure she does the Festival because she has to.
It saddens me that the last time she was playable was Sonic and the Black Knight. Truly upsetting one of their best females was left to rot...
I hope we get to see Blaze in Sonic 4. Blaze or Silver are both really good picks that can make for good character arcs in a movie setting
If Blase dimension is called Sol Dimension, does that mean the series main dimension could be called Chaos Dimension?
The name sounds awesome ngl
Soo something I think the person who made this forgot/may have not known
When talking dimensions, this is outside time. Meaning, blaze her self could have been sent there and that could have kept her alive and going throw it while the events were changed, to show this,
A character like the reverse flash might be a good example to what I am talking about and how the negative speed force keeps the guy alive despite not existing
Edit: another thing missed, if she died and got transported to the other dimension. There a chance that reaction to the timeline in the og world being destroyed could have caused a memory fracture. Basically. She would remember some things, but wouldn't keep everything. On top of that.
This is most likely what what happened and has just been poorly explained