As someone who never got to play any of the games and never took time to actually learn the sonic franchise despite always WANTING to, I appreciate this video! It definitely helped me understand lots that I was missing and is a great introduction to the games. I want to dive deeper into the sonic franchise and this was a great way to help me not get lost for when I do learn more. Thank you!
Finally someone who understands that multiverse theory isn't the only way to do time travel and that Sonic hasn't used that theory from its very inception instead of clinging to a theory that has been officially debunked. I seriously want to thank you for this, since the end of the Meta Era and the recommitment to the continuity I was excited to see people discuss the timeline again. Especially thanks to getting set in stone placements and hints for other games. I do want to set the record straight on one thing you got wrong though. Chaos and TIkal did not go to the afterlife, they instead flew back to Angel Island, which is why Chaos appears in Battle (seeing Emeral as great threat to everyone) and both appear in Knuckles prologue animation for Frontiers silently watching the guardian. While not a correction Sonic also straight up kills Erazor by dunking his lamp into lava in Secret Rings after the credits. Out everyone Sonic has faced Erazor must be the one Sonic really despised considering his normal attitude.
@@Stario-10K Nope, just back to Angel Island. Battle explains that Chaos that the mutated Chao will only get involved when it deems the situation to be utterly dire which so far has only happened two times, once with the already mentioned Emeral and secondly if Ian is to believed, Chaos is the one that held the Earth's water in place during the time the planet was shattered in Sonic Unleashed.
Sonic 06 and CD use Back to the Future time travel. Changes they make will rewrite their past. Sonic Generations is a little murkier because of Forces saying that Classic is from an Alternate Dimension. But Gerald's statement in Shadow Generations could imply that when beating the Time Eater that all discrepancies repair themselves, thus being the same timeline. So 2/3 time travel methods are canonically single timeline and 1 is maybe multiverse.
@@Celtic1020 Multiple offical sources have repeatedly stated that Forces was one of its many, many errors. With Tailstube dedicating 2 episodes to debunking it. So its 3/3.
Thank you for making this video!! I have never played the Sonic games, and rarely ever heard about Sonic (because the only video game I ever played as kid is Nintendogs lol) but with the recent live action Sonic movies, I’m becoming more and more of a Sonic fan! So with the third movie coming out, I thought to myself that I should research more about the characters of the Sonic games and their stories. And as I was wanting to know the whole Sonic story, I clicked on your video, and I think you did a great job at explaining the timeline! 😊 Keep up the great work! 🎉
Little correction Gerald altered Shadow memeries that is why he think that she wanted him to destroy humanity (by Japenease language) and at the end Shadow unlock the true memery of the promise that he promise
u missed the timeline where eggman pisses on the moon🤣 anywho, thanks for explaining!! i’ve always been a sonic fan since a youngster, but never really knew the story.
So a thing worth note when discussing the timeline is that Sonic 06 and CD use "Back to the Future" time travel. Changes they make will rewrite their past. Sonic Generations is a little murkier because of Forces saying that Classic is from an Alternate Dimension. But Gerald's statement in Shadow Generations could imply that when beating the Time Eater that all discrepancies repair themselves, thus being the same timeline. So 2/3 time travel methods are canonically single timeline and 1 is maybe multiverse.
Personally I think Mania is part of a seperate timeline created by the events of Generations. Thus why Tails says he's from "another dimention" instead of the past.
The Classic & Dreamcast Eras are the 2 Best Eras to remember. The Dark Era was pretty underrated at the time, but there are games from that Era we enjoyed playing. Which brings us to the Modern Era. Glad it saved its franchise with the likes of Colors, Generations, Mania, & Frontiers.
I’m writing an entire remake of the Sonic lore and I wanted to re-familiarize myself with the canon lore first and so I watched this video and it helped, thanks
Well considering that after the Twitter takeover 6 or 7 I believe for sonic superstars, that seems to be no longer the case since the modern crew has memories of visiting the islands
So I see you mentioned remaking this in the comments, so if possible, may I suggest adding the Rivals games onto the next timeline video? Since due to the whole 06 being erased from the timeline thing, they're most likely the currently canon introduction to Silver. Also, and this is a bit of a personal gripe I have with it, but while I understand being dismissive of 06 and Forces because of their quality, I also think this also kinda hurts the video's usefulness as something to introduce someone new to the series to the lore. I'm saying this because I think it would be perfect for it otherwise.
Thanks for the suggestion and constructive criticism! I do plan on adding 06 and Forces into part 2 and going through them properly this time. Not adding 06 and Forces more thoroughly wasn't just for comedic purposes, it was also because this project was taking me weeks to finish 😅 I also plan on adding the Rivals games! I want to do them justice however, so I plan on playing through them first. There's plenty I need to add to a part 2, so this will take... quite a bit of time to make, but it's on the to-do!
Every time whenever there a new Sonic game have released, it gives me a thought that a new game has been added to the timeline after the game that has been released in the present timeline like the new game, Sonic Dream Team for example, it takes place a month later after the incident of Starfall islands (Sonic Frontiers) according to the writer Ian Flynn. 😀🤔
Watching the Sonic and the Secret Rings section kind of made me think of a crossover game with Shang Chi and the 10 rings. Conceptually, I feel like that could be kind of fun.
8:21 it just clicked into my brain that chaos is the last of the ancients he is the last of his race just as knuckles is the last of his a direct link between knuckles and the ancients was Tikal very interesting now that I think about it
SPOILER FOR NOT WACTHED THE VIDEO OR PLAYED THE GAMES, I've been thinking for a while, if the events of 06 technically never happened, it's possible that the rush series never happened, as it could be in 06 never happened, Blaze never ended up in the dimension of the Sol Emeralds, unless someone else has a better explanation, & I won't accept the 06 Blaze being a descendant of the one from Rush, that doesn't fit [not with me anyway], plus I heard a rumour that there originally going to be 3 books in the storybook series, but with the negative reviews of the other 2 [partially because of them being hard with the Wii controls] the 3rd was cancelled, also doesn't Unleashed make it seem like the Emeralds were originally from Earth, but from what I can tell, Frontiers makes it seem they come for the original world of the Ancients [in my opinion]
That 06 idea seems like a good idea for a theory video... And yes! The storybook series was originally intended to be a trilogy. As for Unleashed and the emeralds, I imagine a few things... However, an idea I've cooked up that I personally think interesting, is that idea that Dark Gaia is ACTUALLY a manifestation of ''The End'' after corrupting the emeralds in the past events of Frontiers. The past segment of Frontiers is so ancient, that any living scripture or documents that exist of Gaia would believe it's always been on Earth. The same could go for the Emeralds since they would have arrived at the same time.
@@GerfdasGamingI'd like to add that after one of the Ancient flashbacks in Chaos Island, Tails directly compares The End's power to Dark Gaia's. Also they share a black and purple color scheme, but then again, so does Mephiles and the Time Eater... all of which share the goal of erasing existence itself... and Eggman just found the Time Eater floating through space... and it's also weak to the power of the Chaos Emeralds... huh.
It really shame 06 bound to be remembered as worst Sonic game. Because game does have great writing (minus some stuff). It gave us such great characters like Silver and Mephilis. A hopeful hero who never content with hopelessness. A vile treacherous fiend in form of Mephiles who is straight up Satan. He alongside Black Doom most ruthless villains in the series.
FOR REAL! The bad part of 06 was mainly Sonic's story. I liked Silver's story alot, Mephiles was actually a fantastic villain people like to hate on but honestly he was really good! And the Shadow stuff with team dark and all made me really like them more i think it had SO much potential! it was just poorly executed in glitchy gameplay and the whole sonic love story stuff 😭😭
He was initially introduced in 06, and introduced once again in Sonic Rivals. I'll be covering those in a part 2! (When I can eventually get to it lol)
This isnt the full timeline. You forgot about murder of sonic, sonic dream team, the idw comics, the riders games, team sonic racing, the advanced games etc
Dream team wasn't out at the time I made this. The side games are questionably canon at best. However, I plan on releasing an updated timeline that includes IDW and some other games later this year.
W timeline video but 2 questions tho? Why do people hate sonic forces its like generations but with war And are sonics other transformations like fleetway dark and super dark canon?
Thank you! Forces is usually disliked due to some of it's writing, and the level design. Some levels were just straight up hallways. As for those transformations, if they didn't appear in the games, they aren't canon. (Though, Dark Sonic COULD be possible!)
@@rubenlohata5263 No problem! I plan on making a part 2 to this, it's just going to take some time as I have some other projects I'm working on. It's on the list though!
Sonic generations should take place in 2 locals of the timeline, after knuckles chaotix and before sonic adventure and after sonic colors and before lost world, since classic sonic is also in the game, forces is in 2 places in timeline as well and it is after mania and before adventure and after lost world and before frontiers
Yup! Metal Sonic made his debut in CD back in 93. ''Sonic Boom'' was initally the used as the opening track for the game's American release. Later on in the mid 2010's the Sonic Boom series would start with the game, then the show. But, the ''Sonic Boom'' name, was used in CD first!
Yup! I plan on making an update to this with some things I missed + the new IDW comics (They're canon now) and SXS when it comes out. I'm just waiting for the end of the year so I can do it all at once rather than like 20 updates.
This isn't a timeline its a game order. A timeline involves listing the EVENTS in chronological order not just the games and it requires that you give reason for why you placed the events where you placed them.
You should have at least talked about the story of Shadow even if it was a race that ended with one of my favorite lines and speeches from Shadow in the entire series okay
I may make an actual Sonic 06 video in the future! It's just not on my to-do list atm. While I don't enjoy the game myself, if enough people want it I don't see why not.@@Abi-e9c
@@hallmanfamily2470 Sonic & Knuckles is included with Sonic 3. Originally, they released separately, but since then, they're almost always packaged together. I was essentially saying that they'e the same game (Although, more technically, knuckles is just an expansion of 3).👍
As someone who never got to play any of the games and never took time to actually learn the sonic franchise despite always WANTING to, I appreciate this video! It definitely helped me understand lots that I was missing and is a great introduction to the games. I want to dive deeper into the sonic franchise and this was a great way to help me not get lost for when I do learn more. Thank you!
Yo that Sonic Unleashed intro cutscene was movie level
It's what the Sonic movies should've been like fr
Finally someone who understands that multiverse theory isn't the only way to do time travel and that Sonic hasn't used that theory from its very inception instead of clinging to a theory that has been officially debunked. I seriously want to thank you for this, since the end of the Meta Era and the recommitment to the continuity I was excited to see people discuss the timeline again. Especially thanks to getting set in stone placements and hints for other games. I do want to set the record straight on one thing you got wrong though. Chaos and TIkal did not go to the afterlife, they instead flew back to Angel Island, which is why Chaos appears in Battle (seeing Emeral as great threat to everyone) and both appear in Knuckles prologue animation for Frontiers silently watching the guardian. While not a correction Sonic also straight up kills Erazor by dunking his lamp into lava in Secret Rings after the credits. Out everyone Sonic has faced Erazor must be the one Sonic really despised considering his normal attitude.
Wait Chaos and Tikal didn’t go to the afterlife?
@@Stario-10K
Nope, just back to Angel Island. Battle explains that Chaos that the mutated Chao will only get involved when it deems the situation to be utterly dire which so far has only happened two times, once with the already mentioned Emeral and secondly if Ian is to believed, Chaos is the one that held the Earth's water in place during the time the planet was shattered in Sonic Unleashed.
Sonic 06 and CD use Back to the Future time travel. Changes they make will rewrite their past. Sonic Generations is a little murkier because of Forces saying that Classic is from an Alternate Dimension. But Gerald's statement in Shadow Generations could imply that when beating the Time Eater that all discrepancies repair themselves, thus being the same timeline. So 2/3 time travel methods are canonically single timeline and 1 is maybe multiverse.
@@Celtic1020
Multiple offical sources have repeatedly stated that Forces was one of its many, many errors. With Tailstube dedicating 2 episodes to debunking it. So its 3/3.
Eh depends on which game
Like generations is both
I leave you with the wise words of Chip continue shining Sonic may your spark never go out my friend because remember your possibilities are endless
Thank you for making this video!! I have never played the Sonic games, and rarely ever heard about Sonic (because the only video game I ever played as kid is Nintendogs lol) but with the recent live action Sonic movies, I’m becoming more and more of a Sonic fan! So with the third movie coming out, I thought to myself that I should research more about the characters of the Sonic games and their stories. And as I was wanting to know the whole Sonic story, I clicked on your video, and I think you did a great job at explaining the timeline! 😊 Keep up the great work! 🎉
No problem! I'm glad this video could help get you into the series a bit more! Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Before anyone thinks sonic lore isn't all that don't forget there's an official sonic bible
Now we just need a sonic church with Eggman as the pastor
there’s a what now 😭 🙏
😭😭
Little correction Gerald altered Shadow memeries that is why he think that she wanted him to destroy humanity (by Japenease language) and at the end Shadow unlock the true memery of the promise that he promise
Jesus Christ you deserve way WAY more subs bro amazing vid
Thank you!
Thanks for not skipping the SA1 opening, it's too awesome, plus it's a sin. 😂
u missed the timeline where eggman pisses on the moon🤣 anywho, thanks for explaining!! i’ve always been a sonic fan since a youngster, but never really knew the story.
So a thing worth note when discussing the timeline is that Sonic 06 and CD use "Back to the Future" time travel. Changes they make will rewrite their past. Sonic Generations is a little murkier because of Forces saying that Classic is from an Alternate Dimension. But Gerald's statement in Shadow Generations could imply that when beating the Time Eater that all discrepancies repair themselves, thus being the same timeline. So 2/3 time travel methods are canonically single timeline and 1 is maybe multiverse.
I thought NO one would cover the ENTIRE timeline of the ENTIRE Sonic franchise. I was wrong, THANK YOU SO MUCH, Gerfdas Gaming!
You are hilarious 😂😭21:50 was perfect
I cant hear the word "Elise" without feeling a shiver down my back...
Personally I think Mania is part of a seperate timeline created by the events of Generations. Thus why Tails says he's from "another dimention" instead of the past.
this video is amazing omg
The Classic & Dreamcast Eras are the 2 Best Eras to remember. The Dark Era was pretty underrated at the time, but there are games from that Era we enjoyed playing. Which brings us to the Modern Era. Glad it saved its franchise with the likes of Colors, Generations, Mania, & Frontiers.
The Sonic 06 section has me in tearas omg
I’m writing an entire remake of the Sonic lore and I wanted to re-familiarize myself with the canon lore first and so I watched this video and it helped, thanks
At 1:50 my brain immediately went "OF COURSE"
Even in 2025 i cant escape the nostalgia crittic
5:04 I'd argue that Mania and all future Classic Sonic games split from the main timeline because of Sonic Generations.
Well considering that after the Twitter takeover 6 or 7 I believe for sonic superstars, that seems to be no longer the case since the modern crew has memories of visiting the islands
@@unknownmxn7683maybe these memories are being “created” because of this, if you know what I mean
So I see you mentioned remaking this in the comments, so if possible, may I suggest adding the Rivals games onto the next timeline video? Since due to the whole 06 being erased from the timeline thing, they're most likely the currently canon introduction to Silver.
Also, and this is a bit of a personal gripe I have with it, but while I understand being dismissive of 06 and Forces because of their quality, I also think this also kinda hurts the video's usefulness as something to introduce someone new to the series to the lore. I'm saying this because I think it would be perfect for it otherwise.
Thanks for the suggestion and constructive criticism! I do plan on adding 06 and Forces into part 2 and going through them properly this time. Not adding 06 and Forces more thoroughly wasn't just for comedic purposes, it was also because this project was taking me weeks to finish 😅
I also plan on adding the Rivals games! I want to do them justice however, so I plan on playing through them first. There's plenty I need to add to a part 2, so this will take... quite a bit of time to make, but it's on the to-do!
I subed w videos bro
I am SO glad you put Sonic Rush and Battle and other games many other "Sonic Timeline" video ignore.
Dude, that sonic Russia, 2 was fire for me that is for sure
Every time whenever there a new Sonic game have released, it gives me a thought that a new game has been added to the timeline after the game that has been released in the present timeline like the new game, Sonic Dream Team for example, it takes place a month later after the incident of Starfall islands (Sonic Frontiers) according to the writer Ian Flynn. 😀🤔
Watching the Sonic and the Secret Rings section kind of made me think of a crossover game with Shang Chi and the 10 rings. Conceptually, I feel like that could be kind of fun.
Anyone else catching up on Sonic lore after seeing the Sonic 3 trailer???
exactly what im doing
I seriously love this guys humor and how he explained the stories-
8:21 it just clicked into my brain that chaos is the last of the ancients he is the last of his race just as knuckles is the last of his a direct link between knuckles and the ancients was Tikal very interesting now that I think about it
I love this video
Just want to point out sonic CD had the dopest intro song
I played most of these game growing up as a child
This guy clearly loves Unleashed, i love unleashed too
The soundtrack goes crazy
This makes me appreciate every sonic game even the shitty ones
did i miss something? where does silver fit into all this
I’m pretty sure in rivals that’s where silver meets sonic for the second first time
SPOILER FOR NOT WACTHED THE VIDEO OR PLAYED THE GAMES, I've been thinking for a while, if the events of 06 technically never happened, it's possible that the rush series never happened, as it could be in 06 never happened, Blaze never ended up in the dimension of the Sol Emeralds, unless someone else has a better explanation, & I won't accept the 06 Blaze being a descendant of the one from Rush, that doesn't fit [not with me anyway], plus I heard a rumour that there originally going to be 3 books in the storybook series, but with the negative reviews of the other 2 [partially because of them being hard with the Wii controls] the 3rd was cancelled, also doesn't Unleashed make it seem like the Emeralds were originally from Earth, but from what I can tell, Frontiers makes it seem they come for the original world of the Ancients [in my opinion]
That 06 idea seems like a good idea for a theory video... And yes! The storybook series was originally intended to be a trilogy. As for Unleashed and the emeralds, I imagine a few things... However, an idea I've cooked up that I personally think interesting, is that idea that Dark Gaia is ACTUALLY a manifestation of ''The End'' after corrupting the emeralds in the past events of Frontiers. The past segment of Frontiers is so ancient, that any living scripture or documents that exist of Gaia would believe it's always been on Earth. The same could go for the Emeralds since they would have arrived at the same time.
@@GerfdasGamingI'd like to add that after one of the Ancient flashbacks in Chaos Island, Tails directly compares The End's power to Dark Gaia's. Also they share a black and purple color scheme, but then again, so does Mephiles and the Time Eater... all of which share the goal of erasing existence itself... and Eggman just found the Time Eater floating through space... and it's also weak to the power of the Chaos Emeralds... huh.
U good bro
underrated
ahhh man i loved that 2006 game 😂🙏
It really shame 06 bound to be remembered as worst Sonic game.
Because game does have great writing (minus some stuff).
It gave us such great characters like Silver and Mephilis. A hopeful hero who never content with hopelessness. A vile treacherous fiend in form of Mephiles who is straight up Satan. He alongside Black Doom most ruthless villains in the series.
FOR REAL! The bad part of 06 was mainly Sonic's story. I liked Silver's story alot, Mephiles was actually a fantastic villain people like to hate on but honestly he was really good! And the Shadow stuff with team dark and all made me really like them more i think it had SO much potential! it was just poorly executed in glitchy gameplay and the whole sonic love story stuff 😭😭
Did you forget The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog or was it apart of the spin off section along with 3d blast?
I'm almost entirely sure it's a spin-off
Im a new Sonic fan but Im wondering where Silver comes in? Is he only in the sport games or is he in the actual lore?? :
He was initially introduced in 06, and introduced once again in Sonic Rivals. I'll be covering those in a part 2! (When I can eventually get to it lol)
@GerfdasGaming ooh nice! I'll be waiting for part 2 :>
What is the theme at 18:27
That would be ''Cosmic Fall'' from Shadow the Hedgehog.
This isnt the full timeline. You forgot about murder of sonic, sonic dream team, the idw comics, the riders games, team sonic racing, the advanced games etc
Dream team wasn't out at the time I made this. The side games are questionably canon at best. However, I plan on releasing an updated timeline that includes IDW and some other games later this year.
he swiped sonic 06 under the rug
🤣 Fear not, it'll be in part 2!
21:36 to 21:51
Man I can’t remember what happened throughout that whole time
Ahh I should’ve seen the rest (the silverim meme hey it’s no use
W timeline video but 2 questions tho?
Why do people hate sonic forces its like generations but with war
And are sonics other transformations like fleetway dark and super dark canon?
Thank you! Forces is usually disliked due to some of it's writing, and the level design. Some levels were just straight up hallways. As for those transformations, if they didn't appear in the games, they aren't canon. (Though, Dark Sonic COULD be possible!)
@@GerfdasGaming yo thank you for responding i hope you make a updated storyline with superstars included
@@rubenlohata5263 No problem! I plan on making a part 2 to this, it's just going to take some time as I have some other projects I'm working on. It's on the list though!
i am long time sonic fan
Eg- egg man who now?
You forgot Sonic Riders series.
Wait, was sonic 4 included in this
Nah, there's also a few others I missed. I plan on making a part 2 though with everything included!
I love spinball
Why is Rush Adventure after Black Knight? And where's the Rivals games?
Sonic generations should take place in 2 locals of the timeline, after knuckles chaotix and before sonic adventure and after sonic colors and before lost world, since classic sonic is also in the game, forces is in 2 places in timeline as well and it is after mania and before adventure and after lost world and before frontiers
Wait… metal sonic was a thing since 1993? I thought the sonic boom song had a game or tv show called sonic boom from back then??
Yup! Metal Sonic made his debut in CD back in 93. ''Sonic Boom'' was initally the used as the opening track for the game's American release. Later on in the mid 2010's the Sonic Boom series would start with the game, then the show. But, the ''Sonic Boom'' name, was used in CD first!
@@GerfdasGaming that’s really cool! Thanks for replying to me, I appreciate it!
@@Miracle7Seven No problem. Thank you for watching!
Are you gonna revise this when Sonic X Shadow Generations?
Yup! I plan on making an update to this with some things I missed + the new IDW comics (They're canon now) and SXS when it comes out. I'm just waiting for the end of the year so I can do it all at once rather than like 20 updates.
Is starts out with the anchents if we where going in coronigal order
So where does Sonic riders fit into the timeline because as of sonic frontiers that game is now cannon
Part 2 of the timeline should be out by either late January or Febuary
bro why you are rush
I prefer the name ''Rush Adventure'' thank you very much
Sonic 06 and Sonic Forces were not that bad, and you forgot about Sonic Superstars. Great video though 😉👍
superstars wasn’t out at the time
honestly, id pine for someone if they saved me from an evil genius' evil robot clone of said someone
Hate that you skipped the Sonic 6
Epic 🦔
Even though sonic forces wasent that good it had a pretty good level in shadow generations
Dude, Sunset Heights in Gens was awesome! Probably one of my favorite levels from it.
You forget about sonic and the black knight
33:41
This isn't a timeline its a game order. A timeline involves listing the EVENTS in chronological order not just the games and it requires that you give reason for why you placed the events where you placed them.
...what about Sonic 06?
Shhhh...
We don’t talk about that… thing…
You should have at least talked about the story of Shadow even if it was a race that ended with one of my favorite lines and speeches from Shadow in the entire series okay
I may make an actual Sonic 06 video in the future! It's just not on my to-do list atm. While I don't enjoy the game myself, if enough people want it I don't see why not.@@Abi-e9c
@@Pokechrome what thing? a video game? lol
Bro forgot sms sonic 2
IT’S NO USE
Don’t make fun of me, but hear me out 😳
Where’s Sonic & Knuckles?
Sonic 3
@@GerfdasGaming What do you mean?
@@hallmanfamily2470 Sonic & Knuckles is included with Sonic 3. Originally, they released separately, but since then, they're almost always packaged together. I was essentially saying that they'e the same game (Although, more technically, knuckles is just an expansion of 3).👍
I would have done 06
Don't worry, 06 is coming. I'm releasing a part 2 early next year 👍
awesome timeline video but thumbs down for skipping the greatest game in the series >:( i will NEVER stop defending 06
Ha! Fair enough. I plan on making a video on it in the future, so stay tuned for that 👍
I fucking hate when people put entire unedited cutscenes into videos like this. It's lazy and pads out the already long video.
When pluralizing a proper noun, you don't change the spelling. If you have more than one Dr. Eggman, then you have multiple "Dr. Eggmans"
Bro forgot a lot of important games
Jesus how low energy can you be?