I have an explanation for the Werehog transformation in general. You can trace back just about every physical change to Sonic in this form to Dark Gaia itself. It was energy feedback from releasing Dark Gaia that edgy'd Sonic in the first place. The sharp claws, teeth, and other pointed/jagged edges are present on Dark Gaia and his various spawn. The stretchy arms are present on Dark Gaia spawn, too, and relate to Dark Gaia's long stretchy tendrils. Werehog's thick, long fur relates to Dark Gaia's spectral mane. Both Werehog and Dark Gaia can produce spherical barriers for protection.
I hope Sonic turns into either Super Sonic or Dark Spine Sonic or Werehog or Excalibur Sonic (or maybe even all of the above) whenever he hears people/characters slander him! In fact, I’m thinking about making my own Sonic fanfictions whereas during every moment his own friends decide to try to stand up to him because they think he treated them unfairly (which will SO not be the case in Sonic Frontiers where thanks to Ian Flynn, everyone is in character! th-cam.com/video/a0m6n2J-Jew/w-d-xo.html)
My favourite is, if it counts, uninhibited shadow! It’s less of a form but more of a power break and I can’t help but love it! The fact shadow who has been seen to be one of the strongest characters in the franchise is keeping a lid on his full power is just cool! I know his body literally can’t handle the stress of it all for too long. But my god any scene where those rings come off are always brilliant scenes
"Any scene where those rings come off are always brilliant" Oh yeah,all the 1 scenes where his rings come off(or 2 if you want to be generous and count Sonic X...)
I really wish Shadow had more reasons to release his full power cause it's such an interesting part of him. By unlocking his rings, he releases a bunch of enery but can only do it for a short time due to there being a reason he keeps the rings on. Shadow's already pretty cracked so there hasn't really been a reason to take the rings off since 06 but man it would be cool if we ever got a moment like that again.
10:48 I play the final battle in SA1 with a mod that switches the first music with the second, so when you're closer to defeating Perfect Chaos, Open Your Heart is playing! :D It's a simple but awesome change.
Thank you for saying all that about Darkspine, it could be looked at nothing more than edgy but yeah! I miss edgy Sonic, and this form is just so badass (also Kanemaru does the aggressive Sonic voice perfectly)
An interesting and well done list. Great job here. Nice to see all these forms get some attention. Honorable mention should go to Devil Doom (Fun fact about Devil Doom: You can actually make the fight with him easier by shooting both of his wings out. He even comments that you've injured him as a result.) Once again, great list!
As a Secret rings Enjoyer I can say without a doubt while not the most iconic obviously it is easily the the best moat badass look for him. As you stated I just love the idea that he is suffering in this form. Sonic isn't a rageful guy. He is fun loving and kind, yet here after watching his friend actually die like not severely Injured she actually died in his arms. The amount of emotions in his head, unknowingly calling to the negative emotions of the Seven rings. Hell half the time it sounds like he is gritting his teeth, holding back burning pain within. And for the first and only time Sonic actually sounds like he wants to kill the villain. He is literally beating the shit out of his heart. Pushing back a fucking reality altering spirit bomb. And yet after all that he still takes control, releasing the powers of the seven world rings and doing right for the world
You're going to love the story of Sonic Frontiers, after seeing only a few leaked minor spoiler cutscenes on Kronos island, the story feels like a really good 2000's Era sonic story with better dialogue and writing with Ian Flynn taking the helm.
My personal list would probably be 1. Darkspine Sonic: has the best transformation scene in any of the games, and I love how angry and in pain he sounds during the final boss fight. I just wish we could see this form make a comeback in some way. 2. Super forms: Years ago, they would have been lower, but now I love these forms even more, especially the hedgehog trio. The golden aura, the sense of speed you get, and the feeling of triumph when beating a boss with this form. I'm very excited to see super sonic return in frontiers. 3. Metal Overlord: one of the best designs in the series. A metal dragon formed from eggman's entire army is incredible, and I wish we could see this form again as well as neo metal sonic. 4. Mephiles(2nd form): another fantastic design, and he has some of the best scenes when he fights with Team Dark. It may not be the strongest transformation, but it's definitely one of the coolest. 5. Hyper Sonic: I chose Hyper Sonic specifically because it's the one I want to see come back the most. Maybe tone down the flashing colors and make him solid white with a colorful aura, and it would be perfect. But the satisfaction with getting this form and the idea of Super Emeralds makes this transformation special for me. Honorable mentions Dark Sonic from Sonic X: I would have put him on here, but he only has one scene. And a lot of the coolest stuff we see from this is fanmade. But I would love to see this form make a comeback. Fleetway Super Sonic: Terrifying and a unique take on Super forms. But I don't know if I want to see it again.
Super Sonic is treated in games as his own individual especially in Sonic Shuffle, you can literally just play as him while someone else does Sonic, has his own animations like when winning.
I wish they showed us Black Doom turning into Devil Doom. Also, I think Mephiles and Iblis rejoining into Solaris and Dark Gaia becoming Perfect Dark Gaia should be included.
Another interesting thing about the werehog form is Sonic becomes more aggressive while he is in that form. Dark Gaia’s influence is having some effect on him, but like Chip says, Sonic’s heroic personality is so strong it prevents him from losing his mind like everyone else. He’s still the same Sonic.
I like that you credit Darkspine Sonic as the cooler one-time Sonic form! The storybook games get WAY too much hate due to their gameplay, but no one really acknowledges the story or characters.
List of my favourite transformations; 1. Super forms 2. Hyper forms 3. Werehog 4. Darkspine Sonic 5. Dark Super Sonic 6. Burning Blaze 7. Perfect Chaos 8. Metal Madness/Overlord 9. Excalibur Sonic 10. Mephiles (2nd form)
Super Sonic in 06 is my time favourite version of Super Sonic just looking at him he just looks like a God and Hyper Sonic is my favourite form. You have to see Dark Super Sonic in Sonic X it's just as awesome and as badass as Darkspine Sonic.
Wow, those are great picks. :) I would also mention Eggman's transformation when he himself use the Chaos Emeralds (both from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog & Sonic 2 Film) to be powerful! Even Metal Sonic use Dark Emeralds in the Triple Trouble fan remake to change into Dark Metal as I was surprised that Metal is the true final boss! I say Scourge, Lara-Su & Nicole gotten super forms in the Archie Comics.
I'd like to point out that unlike the light forms of Sonic such as Super Sonic and Excalibur Sonic, which are both formed by positive powers(radiance, friendship, love, hope, and the will to protect all that is good and innocent), his dark forms like Darkspine Sonic and the Werehog are formed unwillingly and painfully by negative powers(rage, sadness, hatred, and some energy from Dark Gaia, respectively).
My favorite Sonic transformations: 10. Perfect Chaos 9. Mephelis 2nd form 8. Gaia Colossus 7. Perfect Dark Gaia 6. Metal Overlord 5.Super Sonic 4.Burning Blaze 3. Alf wa Layla wa Layla 2. Darkspine Sonic 1. Werehog That's my list
The absolute best Super moment has to be 06 post kiss (I know, we're tired of hearing about it. Just needed to make the very important distinction. Sonic, revived and golden passes on his power to Shadow and Silver. Silver probably doesn't know what this power is but doesn't care. All that matters to him is saving the future. After transforming, the three hedgehogs fly off in order to stop the wrecker of the past, present and future Solaris. Absolutely epic.
The fact that Sega brought hyper forms back for the genesis games getting re-released, along with the fact that mania had super mighty and super ray, there probably is some hope of more characters going super or possibly even hyper. I mean, it does look like we finally get the origin of the Emeralds (master emerald included) in Sonic Frontiers.
Fun Fact: The Chaos Emeralds and Chaos Energy in general give life and energy *too all living things*, so really, ANYONE can go use the Emeralds' power, if they know how to use it
The interesting thing about Excalibur Sonic is that it’s not even a transformation. It’s just normal sonic but in gold armor. It’s Claiburn who transforms.
Oh wow, someone actually used my ideas for Chaos 3 and 5 (the ones pictured at 11:13) in a video XD I'm warahi over on DeviantArt ^_^ Always thought of Chaos's pond-fight as being more of a Shark than Jellyfish myself.
I would like to make an honorable mention to a form I think mostly everyone would mention, but couldn't do this being exclusive to a show. That form being Dark Sonic from Sonic X: This form is akin to that of what Darkspine Sonic is but uses elements of the super form, so in a way, you could call it hybrid. However, this form debutted before secret rings was even a thing, so this was new to us all when it came. This form, at the time, was a form unlike any other, and it definitely did not dissapoint. It started off with sonic going towards the metarrex base and entering a room full of fake chaos emeralds, all of which give him a massive chill down his spine, as this happens, the leader of the metarrex shows up and taunts sonic, showing that he has two of his friends hostage and in danger of being hurt or worse, before getting them out of Sonic's sight, almost like he was about kill them right before him. The Leader then proposes a challenge to sonic to test his abilities against his robots, one to test his speed and the other his strenght. And during this, sonic is letting his emotions get the better of him, with the fake emeralds now beginning to influence sonic in a way similar to the regular one's, the result being Sonic's fur turning into a dark blue color with a dark aura slowly surrounding him, from here on out, you can even hear sonic's anger and rage present in him. Despite that, he complied with the leader's options, and dashed on forward to the robots, destroying them in their respective expertise, destroying silver by blitzing him completely and ripping him apart, and Gold by mercilessly beating him down and giving the robot plenty of dents into it's armor. But that was far from over... Once he had done that, we not only witnessed his power in this form but we see him further progress in it as compared to before, he now looks like a negative super form, his quils are akin to that of his super form, his skin was completely dark and his eyes lose the green pupils that we had grown to know from sonic, not only that, but in that moment, he speaks in a rather... Sadistic tone, like the influence of the emeralds were slowly corrupting him. But it was then that someone else stepped in and calmed the hedgehog down, and who better to do so than the one person who has fought him the most, Eggman. Eggman tells sonic that he is dissapointed in him for going this route and this isn't like him, that despite it all, he should learn to calm himself down before he ends up hurting someone else he likes, and as sonic is listening to him, he is slowly reverting back to his base form and by the end of it all, he is looking down to the ground, realizing what Eggman is saying to him before getting the good news that both Chris and Cosmo are indeed okay. From that moment forward, we never once saw this form again, but the impact it had and it's introduction were immense, immense to the point that even to this day, people constantly mention it and even wish it could come back. Like I mentioned before, we eventually saw something similar to this in the form of Darkspine Sonic but it's clear that the two forms are different in the end, from their impact in the series to how well they were utilized, but in the end, this form holds not only a special place in people's hearts, but a solid reminder of what happens when you push sonic to his limits and beyond that.
I would say one of my favorite transformation is something that's not in the games (and would love to see happen at some point) and comes from one episode of Sonic X (and is the inspiration of Darkspine Sonic) is Dark Sonic as the fanbase calls the transformation. The reasoning of that form existing is fascinating as it shows Sonic understandably angry when he sees his friends hurt and scared, causing him to lose himself and go into a bit of blind rage and fury, again inspiration for Darkspine Sonic as Dark Sonic was shown in 2006 according to the Sonic Wiki. Plus, seeing Sonic going Dark Sonic mode reminds me of Dark Jak from the Jak and Daxter sequels and Dark Spyro in the Legend of Spyro trilogy. Since Sonic has been getting the job done with positive Chaos Energy with Super Sonic for a lot of the time, why not do something like Secret of Rings did by using Negative Energy.
you can blame sonic team for a lack of hyper forms, the mania team wanted to implement them but got rejected by the current head, they used those special stages in encour mode later down the line.
12:18 If Sonic Unleashed ever comes to PC, I hope someone makes a mod to disable that music, so we can fight the monsters while still listening to the great soundtrack. If there's a remake like with Sonic Colors, the option to disable it would be good, however, I don't like what they did with Colors, at least in terms of graphics. I would be happy with only a port. But I commend SEGA if they change my mind.
When I see Excalibur Sonic, this one quote comes to mind "Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns but by the blade of knights mankind was given hope"
Welcome back friend. Right on time. Sonic Frontiers is almost here. Who knows? Maybe we will see a new transformation in that game. We can only hope!!!
Unpopular opinion: two many people can go super already I don’t want any more of the characters to gain that power. The more people who can do it the less special it is.
Imma just shill fanfiction for a moment here and say that the Sonic Holograph series has some _great_ transformations. We have Shining Sonic basically putting the "super power of teamwork" to use as a source of power and also _functioning_ very interestingly, with it taking in the energy that fuels it from the environment to become essentially self-sustaining. Then we have Sacred Sonic: an expansion on the idea of Excalibur Sonic, making it more than just a suit of armor to go with Excalibur and giving it different "styles" depending on the weapon in use. Plus, the vest on the style in use there is drippy as heck. There's also Blaze's different seasonal forms, which all embody different aspects of Blaze's personality and make for some extremely fun shenanigans, along with some rather creative abilities to represent the seasons (Summer Blaze is based on Japanese summer festivals, how much more unique can you get for a summer form). And finally (for now), we have Nova Shadow, which is just, like... _so damn cool._ The purple with white stripes, the sparkling stars all over him, the actual moment in which is happens, all of it is just pure concentrated awesome! The jacket he gets during his introductory part of Holograph helps too. Such swag.
I gotta be honest I like this all and I totally called darkspine being top five but meh I’m just a bit saddened it couldn’t be higher up but it’s whatevs
@@AwesomeGamer-om4hm That makes sense but i honestly wouldn't care if we only get one of the two,i just want to see him turn super(though now that you've mentioned,i kinda prefer the Giant mech idea over him just turning yellow Lmao)...
My favorite Form is Mephiles Monstrous Form when he empowering up with his Darkness by fusing His Shadow minion creating a giant body to control, shooting laser out from his eyes & making multiple copies out of himself. His Monstrous Form design looks so dope.
Oh yeah definitely, was my favorite form at the time but now it's Solaris specifically in Phase 1, I just can tell there's influence of Mephiles and just being a false form with just solid stuff on him hiding the true form underneath is clearly symbolic of Mephiles not being a true/real form.
Correction that's actually mephiles third form, his first and original form was the purple black smock he takes when shadow beats him and when shadow sealed him away in the past, Speaking of shadow he's a interesting case in tarms of forms, he has. Super dark and hero, and the chaos boost counts as a form for some reason? Super shadow is from sa2 and o6 and shadow the hedgehog Hero shadow and dark shadow are only in his game and the chaos boost is only in o6, Hero and dark shadow are strange forms, hero shadow=thoughts of justice, invincibility, harness the energy of the chaos emeralds, large boost in speed, positive/light chaos energy, releases shadows inner spirit, can fuse with super shadow and is the opposite of dark shadow Dark shadow=thoughts of vengeance/evil, invincibility, harness the energy of a chaos emerald large boost in power, releases shadows inner chaos, negative/dark chaos energy, can fuse/currept super shadow and is the opposite of hero shadow, though shown in the final stage hero and dark are still active even when shadow has no emeralds with him
My favorite transformations are °Dark Sonic (Season 3 of Sonic X)° °Sonic's transforming into the Werehog (Intro of Sonic Unleashed)° °Excalibur transformation (Sonic and the Black Knight)° °Mephiles' crystalized demonic form (Sonic 06)° °Sonic, Silver, and Shadow going Super Blondes together for the first time (Sonic 06)° °Sonic and Shadow transforming in Super Hedgehogs (Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic X)° °Shadow going Super to defeat Black Doom once and for all (SHTH 05)°
@@charactersin-depth3472 Well you've gotta watch it it's great and watch in sub it's better in sub trust me it's great and did you see the showdown trailer for Frontiers if you haven't yet watch it it's amazing.
@@charactersin-depth3472 Don’t blame you, Dark Sonic in Sonic X was a complete Big Lipped Alligator Moment that was in one episode for like two minutes and never went anywhere.
I kinda disagree with the darkspine take since this form looks the most like something you'd see in fanmade media Also the werehog is the worst form Mephiles second form is indeed peak and my fav transformation is Dark Sonic, in the sub you can feel a difference of emotions in his voice
He literally said that the werehog isn't liked by many so of course you aren't gonna like it and darkspine i would disagree as well as I dont see any problems with it but I respect ya opinion
@@hackerninjaexe5791 I do have my own opinions that arent agreed by the majority Im just saying yeah, the form is the worst As for darkspine It is mostly the design, I mean in concept its literally pretty much copying dark sonic as in using the negative energy tho Sonic X showed that that isnt the way and Sonic would've just become like Shadow as Eggman said. I do like that darkspine got fire powers but like, what makes burning blaze so special then?
@@knuckson8304 Dark Spine Sonic's design just makes me think of a race car or something, rather than something from the Arabian Knights. As for the Werehog.... it's just not for me. Most people tend to like the idea of Sonic turning into a stretchy armed werewolf but hated the gameplay. For me it was the other way around; I didn't really mind the gameplay (although the music got annoying and the levels dragged on for way too long), but I couldn't stand the idea itself. Not only was it giving Sonic powers and abilities that just did not suit his personality at all, it literally felt like Sega were trying to come up with a cheap alternative to playing as Sonic's "stupid" friends, as if they could use the excuse "well, at least you're always playing as Sonic, so that makes it good, am I right?" Seriously, with some tweaks it could've been a great gameplay style for Knuckles, and the story could've been about Sonic and Knuckles traveling the world to restore power to the Chaos Emeralds, with a story that focuses on strengthening their friendship (sorry, but I just couldn't stand Chip!) Call it "Sonic & Knuckles' World Adventure!" But nope, we can't have that "cos Sonic's lame-o friends, am I right?" Give me a break!
@@charactersin-depth3472 i know along with how they want shadow written and team dark no longer a thing. It’s really stupid. Sonic does not have to be the hero of every story.
@@mr.incredivenom Think of DBZ or DBS. Could you really imagine anybody carrying the story the way Goku does? It's the same with Sonic plus the franchise is named after him so there's that too.
@@ablosch2452 most of the forms are explained in the story like the world rings, the rings sonic absord are fire wind och darkness and the rings are filled with emotions the user is feeling. Super sonic is explained with the chaos emeralds. Deus ex machina is when a ability or form comes out of nowhere to move the plot forward
Hot take: I'm not a fan of the Super and Hyper forms. Mainly because there just recolors of characters. The Dragon Ball problems. Unoriginal if you ask me
I have an explanation for the Werehog transformation in general. You can trace back just about every physical change to Sonic in this form to Dark Gaia itself. It was energy feedback from releasing Dark Gaia that edgy'd Sonic in the first place.
The sharp claws, teeth, and other pointed/jagged edges are present on Dark Gaia and his various spawn. The stretchy arms are present on Dark Gaia spawn, too, and relate to Dark Gaia's long stretchy tendrils. Werehog's thick, long fur relates to Dark Gaia's spectral mane. Both Werehog and Dark Gaia can produce spherical barriers for protection.
I hope Sonic turns into either Super Sonic or Dark Spine Sonic or Werehog or Excalibur Sonic (or maybe even all of the above) whenever he hears people/characters slander him! In fact, I’m thinking about making my own Sonic fanfictions whereas during every moment his own friends decide to try to stand up to him because they think he treated them unfairly (which will SO not be the case in Sonic Frontiers where thanks to Ian Flynn, everyone is in character! th-cam.com/video/a0m6n2J-Jew/w-d-xo.html)
My favourite is, if it counts, uninhibited shadow!
It’s less of a form but more of a power break and I can’t help but love it!
The fact shadow who has been seen to be one of the strongest characters in the franchise is keeping a lid on his full power is just cool!
I know his body literally can’t handle the stress of it all for too long.
But my god any scene where those rings come off are always brilliant scenes
"Any scene where those rings come off are always brilliant"
Oh yeah,all the 1 scenes where his rings come off(or 2 if you want to be generous and count Sonic X...)
Being able to finally use that power up during gameplay in P-06 was pretty awesome
@@keeganstormblade5456 Yeah,just a shame It's not official
I really wish Shadow had more reasons to release his full power cause it's such an interesting part of him. By unlocking his rings, he releases a bunch of enery but can only do it for a short time due to there being a reason he keeps the rings on. Shadow's already pretty cracked so there hasn't really been a reason to take the rings off since 06 but man it would be cool if we ever got a moment like that again.
@@castform7 Yeah it would as much as i hate 06,that scene at the end of his story was RAW 🔥
10:48 I play the final battle in SA1 with a mod that switches the first music with the second, so when you're closer to defeating Perfect Chaos, Open Your Heart is playing! :D
It's a simple but awesome change.
I gotta try that! What's the mod called?
@@charactersin-depth3472 My reply must have gotten deleted, but in case you didn't see it, the mod is called "Perfect Chaos Music Swap".
@@TiagoMonteiroArt Thanks
I never realized how Similar Darkspine Sonic is to Sonic X’s Dark Sonic.
Darkspine came first
@@ducestat06savage99 No it didn't lmao
@@MarjanAmbroze oh
@@ducestat06savage99 darkspine was 2007. Dark Sonic was 2006.
So I'm not the only one who thinks that lol.
Thank you for saying all that about Darkspine, it could be looked at nothing more than edgy but yeah! I miss edgy Sonic, and this form is just so badass (also Kanemaru does the aggressive Sonic voice perfectly)
An interesting and well done list. Great job here. Nice to see all these forms get some attention. Honorable mention should go to Devil Doom (Fun fact about Devil Doom: You can actually make the fight with him easier by shooting both of his wings out. He even comments that you've injured him as a result.) Once again, great list!
As a Secret rings Enjoyer I can say without a doubt while not the most iconic obviously it is easily the the best moat badass look for him.
As you stated I just love the idea that he is suffering in this form. Sonic isn't a rageful guy. He is fun loving and kind, yet here after watching his friend actually die like not severely Injured she actually died in his arms. The amount of emotions in his head, unknowingly calling to the negative emotions of the Seven rings. Hell half the time it sounds like he is gritting his teeth, holding back burning pain within. And for the first and only time Sonic actually sounds like he wants to kill the villain. He is literally beating the shit out of his heart. Pushing back a fucking reality altering spirit bomb. And yet after all that he still takes control, releasing the powers of the seven world rings and doing right for the world
You're going to love the story of Sonic Frontiers, after seeing only a few leaked minor spoiler cutscenes on Kronos island, the story feels like a really good 2000's Era sonic story with better dialogue and writing with Ian Flynn taking the helm.
My personal list would probably be
1. Darkspine Sonic: has the best transformation scene in any of the games, and I love how angry and in pain he sounds during the final boss fight. I just wish we could see this form make a comeback in some way.
2. Super forms: Years ago, they would have been lower, but now I love these forms even more, especially the hedgehog trio. The golden aura, the sense of speed you get, and the feeling of triumph when beating a boss with this form. I'm very excited to see super sonic return in frontiers.
3. Metal Overlord: one of the best designs in the series. A metal dragon formed from eggman's entire army is incredible, and I wish we could see this form again as well as neo metal sonic.
4. Mephiles(2nd form): another fantastic design, and he has some of the best scenes when he fights with Team Dark. It may not be the strongest transformation, but it's definitely one of the coolest.
5. Hyper Sonic: I chose Hyper Sonic specifically because it's the one I want to see come back the most. Maybe tone down the flashing colors and make him solid white with a colorful aura, and it would be perfect. But the satisfaction with getting this form and the idea of Super Emeralds makes this transformation special for me.
Honorable mentions
Dark Sonic from Sonic X: I would have put him on here, but he only has one scene. And a lot of the coolest stuff we see from this is fanmade. But I would love to see this form make a comeback.
Fleetway Super Sonic: Terrifying and a unique take on Super forms. But I don't know if I want to see it again.
Super Sonic is treated in games as his own individual especially in Sonic Shuffle, you can literally just play as him while someone else does Sonic, has his own animations like when winning.
Love this list dude! Seeing all these forms again gave me a nostalgia blast!
Right?!
I wish they showed us Black Doom turning into Devil Doom. Also, I think Mephiles and Iblis rejoining into Solaris and Dark Gaia becoming Perfect Dark Gaia should be included.
Another interesting thing about the werehog form is Sonic becomes more aggressive while he is in that form. Dark Gaia’s influence is having some effect on him, but like Chip says, Sonic’s heroic personality is so strong it prevents him from losing his mind like everyone else. He’s still the same Sonic.
I like that you credit Darkspine Sonic as the cooler one-time Sonic form! The storybook games get WAY too much hate due to their gameplay, but no one really acknowledges the story or characters.
List of my favourite transformations;
1. Super forms
2. Hyper forms
3. Werehog
4. Darkspine Sonic
5. Dark Super Sonic
6. Burning Blaze
7. Perfect Chaos
8. Metal Madness/Overlord
9. Excalibur Sonic
10. Mephiles (2nd form)
Darkspine Sonic is so dramatic and insane figuratively and literally, that's why I love him.
A fellow Darkspine enjoyer. Exquisite taste.
Super Sonic in 06 is my time favourite version of Super Sonic just looking at him he just looks like a God and Hyper Sonic is my favourite form. You have to see Dark Super Sonic in Sonic X it's just as awesome and as badass as Darkspine Sonic.
Wow, those are great picks. :)
I would also mention Eggman's transformation when he himself use the Chaos Emeralds (both from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog & Sonic 2 Film) to be powerful! Even Metal Sonic use Dark Emeralds in the Triple Trouble fan remake to change into Dark Metal as I was surprised that Metal is the true final boss!
I say Scourge, Lara-Su & Nicole gotten super forms in the Archie Comics.
I'd like to point out that unlike the light forms of Sonic such as Super Sonic and Excalibur Sonic, which are both formed by positive powers(radiance, friendship, love, hope, and the will to protect all that is good and innocent), his dark forms like Darkspine Sonic and the Werehog are formed unwillingly and painfully by negative powers(rage, sadness, hatred, and some energy from Dark Gaia, respectively).
My favorite Sonic transformations:
10. Perfect Chaos
9. Mephelis 2nd form
8. Gaia Colossus
7. Perfect Dark Gaia
6. Metal Overlord
5.Super Sonic
4.Burning Blaze
3. Alf wa Layla wa Layla
2. Darkspine Sonic
1. Werehog
That's my list
The best part about Dark spine Sonic is how it was triggered like an actual super Saiyan transformation
The absolute best Super moment has to be 06 post kiss (I know, we're tired of hearing about it. Just needed to make the very important distinction. Sonic, revived and golden passes on his power to Shadow and Silver. Silver probably doesn't know what this power is but doesn't care. All that matters to him is saving the future. After transforming, the three hedgehogs fly off in order to stop the wrecker of the past, present and future Solaris. Absolutely epic.
The fact that Sega brought hyper forms back for the genesis games getting re-released, along with the fact that mania had super mighty and super ray, there probably is some hope of more characters going super or possibly even hyper.
I mean, it does look like we finally get the origin of the Emeralds (master emerald included) in Sonic Frontiers.
honestly, I don't know why, but it feels so GOOD to control the were hog in unleashed! definitely my favourite non-super form
Fun Fact: The Chaos Emeralds and Chaos Energy in general give life and energy *too all living things*, so really, ANYONE can go use the Emeralds' power, if they know how to use it
The interesting thing about Excalibur Sonic is that it’s not even a transformation. It’s just normal sonic but in gold armor. It’s Claiburn who transforms.
That’s a great list👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Oh wow, someone actually used my ideas for Chaos 3 and 5 (the ones pictured at 11:13) in a video XD I'm warahi over on DeviantArt ^_^ Always thought of Chaos's pond-fight as being more of a Shark than Jellyfish myself.
They look rad, by the way. You've got a lot of creativity.
@@charactersin-depth3472 lol thanks :D I'm always making something ^_-
6:44 Hot take: Darkspine Sonic could look cooler
I never thought the day would come when I could really worship Super Eggman in the second movie.
I love the Werehog form!!! Glad to see it get some love
the secret rings transformation does look intresting.
the black knight form has to be my favorite it looks so badass!
7:48
I am actually going to die
werehog arms are part of dark Gaia powers
dark Gaia minions can extend their limbs too just like sonic...
(pay more attention people)
I would like to make an honorable mention to a form I think mostly everyone would mention, but couldn't do this being exclusive to a show.
That form being Dark Sonic from Sonic X:
This form is akin to that of what Darkspine Sonic is but uses elements of the super form, so in a way, you could call it hybrid.
However, this form debutted before secret rings was even a thing, so this was new to us all when it came.
This form, at the time, was a form unlike any other, and it definitely did not dissapoint.
It started off with sonic going towards the metarrex base and entering a room full of fake chaos emeralds, all of which give him a massive chill down his spine, as this happens, the leader of the metarrex shows up and taunts sonic, showing that he has two of his friends hostage and in danger of being hurt or worse, before getting them out of Sonic's sight, almost like he was about kill them right before him.
The Leader then proposes a challenge to sonic to test his abilities against his robots, one to test his speed and the other his strenght.
And during this, sonic is letting his emotions get the better of him, with the fake emeralds now beginning to influence sonic in a way similar to the regular one's, the result being Sonic's fur turning into a dark blue color with a dark aura slowly surrounding him, from here on out, you can even hear sonic's anger and rage present in him.
Despite that, he complied with the leader's options, and dashed on forward to the robots, destroying them in their respective expertise, destroying silver by blitzing him completely and ripping him apart, and Gold by mercilessly beating him down and giving the robot plenty of dents into it's armor.
But that was far from over...
Once he had done that, we not only witnessed his power in this form but we see him further progress in it as compared to before, he now looks like a negative super form, his quils are akin to that of his super form, his skin was completely dark and his eyes lose the green pupils that we had grown to know from sonic, not only that, but in that moment, he speaks in a rather... Sadistic tone, like the influence of the emeralds were slowly corrupting him.
But it was then that someone else stepped in and calmed the hedgehog down, and who better to do so than the one person who has fought him the most, Eggman.
Eggman tells sonic that he is dissapointed in him for going this route and this isn't like him, that despite it all, he should learn to calm himself down before he ends up hurting someone else he likes, and as sonic is listening to him, he is slowly reverting back to his base form and by the end of it all, he is looking down to the ground, realizing what Eggman is saying to him before getting the good news that both Chris and Cosmo are indeed okay.
From that moment forward, we never once saw this form again, but the impact it had and it's introduction were immense, immense to the point that even to this day, people constantly mention it and even wish it could come back.
Like I mentioned before, we eventually saw something similar to this in the form of Darkspine Sonic but it's clear that the two forms are different in the end, from their impact in the series to how well they were utilized, but in the end, this form holds not only a special place in people's hearts, but a solid reminder of what happens when you push sonic to his limits and beyond that.
2:44 Memphis Tennesse, the japanese who's also half lizard
I gotta wonder what Dark Spine Sonic would have been if he'd had the power of all seven rings instead of only three.
More like what would had happened if he had the powers of the positive world rings
You can see he uses all the Rings to revert reality or get rid of the one Erazor made so we know there is nothing.
I would say one of my favorite transformation is something that's not in the games (and would love to see happen at some point) and comes from one episode of Sonic X (and is the inspiration of Darkspine Sonic) is Dark Sonic as the fanbase calls the transformation.
The reasoning of that form existing is fascinating as it shows Sonic understandably angry when he sees his friends hurt and scared, causing him to lose himself and go into a bit of blind rage and fury, again inspiration for Darkspine Sonic as Dark Sonic was shown in 2006 according to the Sonic Wiki. Plus, seeing Sonic going Dark Sonic mode reminds me of Dark Jak from the Jak and Daxter sequels and Dark Spyro in the Legend of Spyro trilogy. Since Sonic has been getting the job done with positive Chaos Energy with Super Sonic for a lot of the time, why not do something like Secret of Rings did by using Negative Energy.
It would be legit seeing Sonic (in his Dark form) loose his s*** at Eggman and/or any other villains who dare to harm his friends in the games!
you can blame sonic team for a lack of hyper forms, the mania team wanted to implement them but got rejected by the current head, they used those special stages in encour mode later down the line.
12:18 If Sonic Unleashed ever comes to PC, I hope someone makes a mod to disable that music, so we can fight the monsters while still listening to the great soundtrack.
If there's a remake like with Sonic Colors, the option to disable it would be good, however, I don't like what they did with Colors, at least in terms of graphics. I would be happy with only a port. But I commend SEGA if they change my mind.
When I see Excalibur Sonic, this one quote comes to mind
"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns but by the blade of knights mankind was given hope"
Why give big a super form hes all ready perfect
Welcome back friend. Right on time. Sonic Frontiers is almost here. Who knows? Maybe we will see a new transformation in that game. We can only hope!!!
Your Back! Hi again! And Hyper is the best!
After Frontiers, the super form has every right to be at Number One.
Unpopular opinion: two many people can go super already I don’t want any more of the characters to gain that power.
The more people who can do it the less special it is.
Imma just shill fanfiction for a moment here and say that the Sonic Holograph series has some _great_ transformations.
We have Shining Sonic basically putting the "super power of teamwork" to use as a source of power and also _functioning_ very interestingly, with it taking in the energy that fuels it from the environment to become essentially self-sustaining.
Then we have Sacred Sonic: an expansion on the idea of Excalibur Sonic, making it more than just a suit of armor to go with Excalibur and giving it different "styles" depending on the weapon in use. Plus, the vest on the style in use there is drippy as heck.
There's also Blaze's different seasonal forms, which all embody different aspects of Blaze's personality and make for some extremely fun shenanigans, along with some rather creative abilities to represent the seasons (Summer Blaze is based on Japanese summer festivals, how much more unique can you get for a summer form).
And finally (for now), we have Nova Shadow, which is just, like... _so damn cool._ The purple with white stripes, the sparkling stars all over him, the actual moment in which is happens, all of it is just pure concentrated awesome! The jacket he gets during his introductory part of Holograph helps too. Such swag.
I never minded the funny Unleashed trumpets.
I gotta be honest I like this all and I totally called darkspine being top five but meh I’m just a bit saddened it couldn’t be higher up but it’s whatevs
One sonic 06 transformation yeah Scared the Jesus out of me
Great list
Broke:"Give us Super Amy,Super Big,
Super Rouge,Super Cream,
Super Chaotix..."
Woke:SUPER OMEGA!
Well, since Metal Sonic's own transformations include Kai, Overlord, and Giga, I reckon Omega would turn into a Zord-sized mecha.
@@AwesomeGamer-om4hm That makes sense but i honestly wouldn't care if we only get one of the two,i just want to see him turn super(though now that you've mentioned,i kinda prefer the Giant mech idea over him just turning yellow Lmao)...
My favorite Form is Mephiles Monstrous Form when he empowering up with his Darkness by fusing His Shadow minion creating a giant body to control, shooting laser out from his eyes & making multiple copies out of himself. His Monstrous Form design looks so dope.
Oh yeah definitely, was my favorite form at the time but now it's Solaris specifically in Phase 1, I just can tell there's influence of Mephiles and just being a false form with just solid stuff on him hiding the true form underneath is clearly symbolic of Mephiles not being a true/real form.
@@artistanthony1007 you mean his original form when Mephiles is nothing more than a black oily puddle surrounding with purple smoke.
Correction that's actually mephiles third form, his first and original form was the purple black smock he takes when shadow beats him and when shadow sealed him away in the past,
Speaking of shadow he's a interesting case in tarms of forms, he has. Super dark and hero, and the chaos boost counts as a form for some reason?
Super shadow is from sa2 and o6 and shadow the hedgehog
Hero shadow and dark shadow are only in his game and the chaos boost is only in o6,
Hero and dark shadow are strange forms,
hero shadow=thoughts of justice, invincibility, harness the energy of the chaos emeralds, large boost in speed, positive/light chaos energy, releases shadows inner spirit, can fuse with super shadow and is the opposite of dark shadow
Dark shadow=thoughts of vengeance/evil, invincibility, harness the energy of a chaos emerald large boost in power, releases shadows inner chaos, negative/dark chaos energy, can fuse/currept super shadow and is the opposite of hero shadow, though shown in the final stage hero and dark are still active even when shadow has no emeralds with him
took me to long to realize this is just transformations in sonic and not just sonic transformations (super, darkspine etc)
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Amazing video bro. But you definitely do Iblis sure he's a mindless creature wrecking around Silver's Future but he has 4 interesting Forms.
my problem for the werehog is probably skill issue but can we lower the fight amount cause there are parts where it seems really frustrating
The fighting is not even frustrating when you upgrade him and get new combos while experimenting with them.
I’m gonna call super tails respectfully by his super form in the original game
My favorite transformations are
°Dark Sonic (Season 3 of Sonic X)°
°Sonic's transforming into the Werehog (Intro of Sonic Unleashed)°
°Excalibur transformation (Sonic and the Black Knight)°
°Mephiles' crystalized demonic form (Sonic 06)°
°Sonic, Silver, and Shadow going Super Blondes together for the first time (Sonic 06)°
°Sonic and Shadow transforming in Super Hedgehogs (Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic X)°
°Shadow going Super to defeat Black Doom once and for all (SHTH 05)°
Great video and Darkspine is awesome but did you know about Dark Super Sonic from Sonic X it's also awesome.
Tbh, I had no idea about Dark Sonic. I didn't watch that much of Sonic X.
@@charactersin-depth3472 Well you've gotta watch it it's great and watch in sub it's better in sub trust me it's great and did you see the showdown trailer for Frontiers if you haven't yet watch it it's amazing.
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Don’t blame you, Dark Sonic in Sonic X was a complete Big Lipped Alligator Moment that was in one episode for like two minutes and never went anywhere.
@@charactersin-depth3472 fun fact darkspine is said to be stronger than super and doesn't cost rings but the draw back is you can get hurt
@Ultimate Sora He looks like he's in his Super state due to the head spikes.
Super Mecha Sonic Mk.II is here to crush you for not being in the list of Supers.
Darkspine sonic is the G.O.A.T and you can’t change my mind. 👍
you should remake this video now that we have super sonic 2 and cyber sonic
“We’re probably gonna see it in sonic unleashed ultimate”
Who’s gonna tell him? 😔
Super tails with the super emeralds made more sense
My favorite form is probably the black sonic from from sonic x
can’t wait for the new super form!
I kinda disagree with the darkspine take since this form looks the most like something you'd see in fanmade media
Also the werehog is the worst form
Mephiles second form is indeed peak and my fav transformation is Dark Sonic, in the sub you can feel a difference of emotions in his voice
He literally said that the werehog isn't liked by many so of course you aren't gonna like it and darkspine i would disagree as well as I dont see any problems with it but I respect ya opinion
@@hackerninjaexe5791 I do have my own opinions that arent agreed by the majority Im just saying yeah, the form is the worst
As for darkspine It is mostly the design, I mean in concept its literally pretty much copying dark sonic as in using the negative energy tho Sonic X showed that that isnt the way and Sonic would've just become like Shadow as Eggman said. I do like that darkspine got fire powers but like, what makes burning blaze so special then?
@@knuckson8304 Dark Spine Sonic's design just makes me think of a race car or something, rather than something from the Arabian Knights.
As for the Werehog.... it's just not for me. Most people tend to like the idea of Sonic turning into a stretchy armed werewolf but hated the gameplay. For me it was the other way around; I didn't really mind the gameplay (although the music got annoying and the levels dragged on for way too long), but I couldn't stand the idea itself. Not only was it giving Sonic powers and abilities that just did not suit his personality at all, it literally felt like Sega were trying to come up with a cheap alternative to playing as Sonic's "stupid" friends, as if they could use the excuse "well, at least you're always playing as Sonic, so that makes it good, am I right?" Seriously, with some tweaks it could've been a great gameplay style for Knuckles, and the story could've been about Sonic and Knuckles traveling the world to restore power to the Chaos Emeralds, with a story that focuses on strengthening their friendship (sorry, but I just couldn't stand Chip!) Call it "Sonic & Knuckles' World Adventure!" But nope, we can't have that "cos Sonic's lame-o friends, am I right?" Give me a break!
@@galanga21890 Dark Sonic appeared in April 7 2005 so you would be wrong, Dark Sonic existed before Darkspine
@@knuckson8304 darkspine is the middle spin of the books holding everything together that's which he has the stripe
i thought the form for knuckles and talis were called super kunx and super talis
Hey do you ever have plans to make a transformers video?
14:22 ...Super-Eggman?
None of Super Sonic's transformations hold a candle to the way it was presented in Frontiers.
Unleashed?
@@trickq5883 Okay that one too.
Unfortunately no one’s gonna get their super form as long as sega has that mandate. “Only male hedgehogs can go super”
Well, that sucks.
@@charactersin-depth3472 i know along with how they want shadow written and team dark no longer a thing. It’s really stupid. Sonic does not have to be the hero of every story.
@@mr.incredivenom Think of DBZ or DBS. Could you really imagine anybody carrying the story the way Goku does? It's the same with Sonic plus the franchise is named after him so there's that too.
Awesome video
I’d probably like the super forms more if they weren’t such a Deus Ex Machina all the time.
You sound like cinemasins. And that’s not a good thing
@@melkerwiklund7667 How is my criticism not legit?
@@ablosch2452 most of the forms are explained in the story like the world rings, the rings sonic absord are fire wind och darkness and the rings are filled with emotions the user is feeling. Super sonic is explained with the chaos emeralds. Deus ex machina is when a ability or form comes out of nowhere to move the plot forward
So question: did you see the cutscenes for frontiers yet?
Bro just said eggman nega 5:53 😮
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Shouldn't the Hyper Go Ons consider to be a transformation?
Yeah, I guess Wisp power-ups count.
Awesome!
What’s the name of the song at the end I need it please
It's credited when I start talking about #1
@@charactersin-depth3472 oh thank you so much 😊 it’s means a lot
I wonder, if you’re not a Sonic guy than what fiction are you a fan of?
He said he's not _the_ Sonic guy.
Hot take: I'm not a fan of the Super and Hyper forms. Mainly because there just recolors of characters. The Dragon Ball problems. Unoriginal if you ask me
SSJ, SSJ3, SSJ4 and SSG all look different from Goku's base form.
I didn’t finish sonic Unleash why didn’t you put spoiler warning
My bad. It's a 14 year-old game, so I figured enough time has passed. If it helps, there's more going on.
@@charactersin-depth3472 Ijust found out that it was on the Xbox a couple of weeks ago lol
Trust me, there's a whole lot to provide and make up for that small spoiler, you're not missing alot.