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The following content are media from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe that appeared throughout the Super Smash Bros. franchise, starting in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The latest game represented in this universe is Sonic Forces, released on November 7, 2017.

Media with elements appearing in the Super Smash Bros. series

Sonic the Hedgehog

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic the Hedgehog appears as a playable character.
    •   Sonic's dash attack in Brawl, and the spinning portion of it in Smash 4, is based on the Spin Attack that debuted in this game.
    •   A spring, an object that first appeared in this game, is incorporated into Sonic's moveset as his up special move, Spring Jump.
    •   Chaos Emeralds appear on both Sonic's Final Smash, and a single one appears in one of his victory poses.
    •   Many of Sonic's animations and sound effects are based on this game.
  • Stages:
    •   Green Hill Zone, which first appeared in this game, appears as a stage in Brawl, Smash for 3DS and Ultimate.
  • Stage elements:
  • Trophies:
    •   Dr. Eggman appears as a trophy in Brawl and Smash 4.
    •   The animals, under the name of Fauna of Windy Hill Zone, appear as a trophy.
  • Stickers:
    •   Sonic's artwork from the Japanese and North American versions of this game appear as stickers.
    •   Dr. Eggman appears as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Dr. Eggman appears as a spirit.
  • Music:

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)

  • Playable characters:
    •   Tails is the basis of a downloadable costume for the Mii Gunners in both Smash 4 and Ultimate.
    •   The cuffs on Sonic's purple costume in Smash 4 and Ultimate resemble the purple Chaos Emerald, which first appeared in this game.
  • Stage elements:
    •   Tails, who originated in this title, appears in the background of Green Hill Zone.
  • Trophies:
    •   Tails appears as a trophy in Brawl and Smash 4.
  • Stickers:
    •   Tails appears as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Tails appears as a spirit.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit)

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's skidding animation comes from this game.
    •   Sonic's side and down special move, Spin Dash and Spin Charge respectively, come from this game.
    •   Super Sonic, Sonic's Final Smash, first appeared in this game.
    •   The cuffs on Sonic's red costume is based on the thumbs up that appears in this game's special stages.
    •   One of Sonic’s victory poses is based on the SEGA start-up screen from this game.
  • Stickers:
    •   Super Sonic appears as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Super Sonic appears as a spirit.
  • Music:

Sonic the Hedgehog (1992-94 manga)

  • Trophies:
  • Stickers:
    •   Amy Rose and Charmy Bee appear as stickers.
  • Spirits:
    •   Amy Rose and Charmy Bee appear as spirits.

Sonic the Hedgehog CD

  • Playable characters:
    •   The way Sonic's Spin Dash works in Smash is similar to the Spin Dash from this game.
    •   The Super Peel Out serves as Sonic's running animation and his side taunt.
  • Trophies:
  • Stickers:
    •   Metal Sonic appears as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Metal Sonic appears as a spirit.
  • Music:

Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's edge hanging and edge attack animations resemble the Cliffhanger Flip from this game.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

  • Playable characters:
  • Stage elements:
    •   Knuckles appears in the background of the Green Hill Zone stage in Brawl, Smash for 3DS, and Ultimate.
  • Assist Trophies:
    •   Knuckles appears as an Assist Trophy in Ultimate.
  • Trophies:
    •   Knuckles appears as a trophy in Brawl and Smash 4.
  • Stickers:
    •   Knuckles appears as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Knuckles appears as a spirit.
  • Music:

Sonic & Knuckles

  • Playable characters:
    •   The controls of Super Sonic are similar to how he controls in the true final boss of this game.
  • Enemies:
  • Trophies:
    •   Eggrobo appears as a trophy.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

  • Playable characters:
    •   The sparks that appear around Super Sonic are similar to those that appear around Hyper Sonic.

Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2

  • Playable characters:
    •   The cuffs on Sonic's green costume is based on the thumbs up that appears in this game's special stages.

Knuckles' Chaotix

Sonic the Fighters

  • Playable characters:
    •   Many elements from this game are used for Sonic's moveset in Brawl onward. This includes his jab, tilts, aerials, smash attacks and the ability to wall jump.
  • Assist Trophies:
    •   Knuckles' punch-punch-uppercut combo resembles a combo from this game.

Sonic 3D Blast

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's walking animation at medium speed is similar to his running animation in this game.
    •   Before the Homing Attack, Sonic had a similar move while Equipment with the Gold Shield.

Sonic Jam

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's walking animation at slowest speed is nearly identical to his walking animation from this compilation's "Sonic World" feature.

Sonic R

Sonic Adventure

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's neutral special move, Homing Attack, originated in this game, though it shares similarity with the one from Sonic 3D Blast. Its more curved movement in Smash is also similar to the Light Speed Attack.
    •   Sonic's up taunt is based on artwork of him for this game.
    •   The pattern on Sonic's springs resembles the springs from this game.
    •   One of Sonic’s Japanese victory quotes is sourced from this game.
    •   The cuffs on Sonic's cyan costume resembles the Crystal Ring power-up from this game.
  • Assist Trophies:
    •   Knuckles' ability to burrow originates from this game.
  • Trophies:
  • Stickers:
    •   Big the Cat, Tikal, Chaos, Chao and Gamma appear as stickers.
  • Spirits:
  • Music:

Sonic Underground

  • Playable characters:
    •   This show served as the origin of Sonic's Spanish voice actor in Smash 4 and Ultimate, Jonatán López.

Sonic Adventure 2

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's pose when he stops after an initial dash resembles his grinding animation from this game.
    •   One of Sonic's victory quotes originates from this game, where he would say it after getting an B-Rank in his stages.
    •   One of Sonic's custom moves for the Spin Dash, Burning Spin Dash, resembles the Fire Somersault move from this game.
  • Assist Trophies:
  • Trophies:
  • Spirits:
  • Music:
    •   "Live & Learn": The main theme, written and performed by Crush 40, sourced from this game.
    •   "Escape from the City": The theme of the first level from the Hero Campaign, City Escape, performed by Ted Poley and Tony Harnell, sourced from this game.

Sonic Advance

  • Playable characters:
    •   One of Sonic's victory poses ends with him doing his pose from his artwork from this game.

Sonic Mega Collection

  • Trophies:
  • Stickers:
    •   Cream and Cheese first cameo here before their proper debut in Sonic Advance 2.
  • Spirits:
    •   Cream and Cheese first cameo here before their proper debut in Sonic Advance 2.

Sonic Advance 2

  • Trophies:
    •   Cream and Cheese appear as a trophy in Brawl and Smash 4.
  • Stickers:
    •   Cream and Cheese appear as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Cream and Cheese appear as a spirit.

Sonic X

  • Playable characters:
  • Assist Trophies:
    •   Jason Griffith voiced Shadow for the first time in this anime.
  • Trophies:

Sonic Battle

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's down aerial is very similar to the Sonic Rocket, one of his moves in this game.
    •   Sonic performs the Sonic Flare, a breakdancing kick from this game, in one of his victory poses.
  • Stickers:

Sonic Heroes

  • Playable characters:
    •   One of Sonic's Japanese victory quotes originates from this game.
  • Assist Trophies:
    •   This was the first game where Knuckles did the Homing Attack.
  • Trophies:
  • Stickers:
    •   Omega appears as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Omega appears as a spirit.
  • Music:
    •   "Sonic Heroes": The main theme, written and preformed by Crush 40, sourced from this game.

Sonic Advance 3

  • Playable characters:
    •   The latter half of Sonic's up air resembles part of one of his stage clear animations.

Sonic Channel

  • Stickers:
    •   The Japanese official site provides the artwork for all stickers (barring Classic Sonic, Shahra, and Erazor Djinn).
  • Spirits:
    •   The Japanese official site provides the artwork for all spirits for Super Sonic, the Chaotix, Big the Cat, Chao, Super Shadow, Cream & Cheese, Omega, Blaze the Cat, and Jet the Hawk.

Shadow the Hedgehog

  • Playable characters:
    •   Jason Griffith voiced Sonic for the first time in a video game in both this game and Sonic Rush, which released on the same day.
    •   Sonic's model has been tweaked to look closer to the design that first appeared in this game's cutscenes and renders before becoming his standard design as of Sonic Unleashed with a few tweaks.
  • Assist Trophies:
    •   Jason Griffith voiced Shadow for the first time in a video game here.
    •   The pose that Shadow does after performing Chaos Control, in his Brawl trophy, as well as in his renders from Brawl and Ultimate originates from a render of this game.

Sonic Rush

Sonic Rush Original Groove Rush

  • Music:

Sonic Riders

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's down tilt is nearly identical to the Foot Sweep, one of Sonic's moves in this game.
    •   The cuffs on Sonic's yellow costume resemble Silver the Hedgehog's bracelets.
    •   The coloration of Sonic's white costume in Smash 4 onward resembles Silver.
  • Stage elements:
    •   Silver appears in the background of the Green Hill Zone stage.
  • Trophies:
    •   Silver appears as a trophy in Brawl and Smash 4.
  • Stickers:
    •   Silver appears as a sticker.
  • Spirits:
    •   Silver appears as a spirit.
  • Music:

Sonic Rivals

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic's lying-on-the-ground animation is similar to his death animation from this game.
  • Trophies:
    •   Shadow's pose as a trophy is based on his render for this game.

Sonic and the Secret Rings

  • Playable characters:
    •   Sonic’s design in Brawl is sourced from this game.
    •   The Homing Attack in Ultimate includes a reticle, a feature which was introduced in this game.
  • Stickers:
  • Music:

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity

  • Playable characters:
    •   The cuffs on Sonic's white costume in Smash 4 and Ultimate resemble the Arks of the Cosmos from this game.

Sonic Unleashed

  • Playable characters:
    •   One of Sonic's custom moves for the Homing Attack, Stomp, is a reference to a move of the same name from this game.
    •   Sonic's air dodge animation is based on his animation while jumping from one grind rail to another in this game.
  • Spirits:
    •   Sonic the Werehog appears as a spirit.
  • Music:

Sonic and the Black Knight

  • Music:

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

  • Spirits:
    •   Dry Bowser and Silver's spirits use their artwork for this game.

Sonic Free Riders

Sonic Colors

  • Music:
    •   "Reach for the Stars": The main theme for the game, performed by Cash Cash's Jean Paul Makhlouf, sourced from this game

Sonic Generations

  • Playable characters:
    •   Several of Sonic's English voice clips are recycled from the game. The game is also the origin of Sonic's Italian voice actor, Renato Novara.
    •   The coloration of Sonic's cyan costume resembles Classic Sonic's appearance in this game.
    •   The design of the reticle included in Homing Attack in Ultimate is sourced from the Nintendo 3DS version of this game.
  • Enemies:
    •   Eggrobo's design is sourced from this game.
  • Music:

Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games

  • Playable characters:
    •   Several of Sonic's English voice clips are recycled from this game.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

  • Playable characters:
    •   A few of Sonic's voice clips are reused from this game.
  • Spirits:
    •   Amy's spirit uses her artwork for this game.

Sonic Lost World

  • Stages:
    •   Windy Hill Zone, the first Zone in this game, appears as a stage in both Smash for Wii U and Ultimate.
  • Trophies:
    •   Fauna of Windy Hill Zone and the Deadly Six appear as trophies.
  • Spirits:
    •   Dr. Eggman and Tails's spirits use their artwork for this game.
    •   Sonic's fighter spirit uses his artwork from this game.
  • Music:

Sonic Runners

  • Spirits:
    •   A Hero Chao and Rouge's spirits use their artwork for this game.

Sonic Mania

Sonic Forces

  • Spirits:
    •   Metal Sonic, Knuckles, Chaos, and Shadow's spirits use their artwork for this game.
    •   Infinite appears as a spirit.
  • Music:


  Sonic the Hedgehog universe
Fighter Sonic (SSBB · SSB4 · SSBU)
Assist Trophies Shadow · Knuckles
Stages Green Hill Zone · Windy Hill Zone
Enemy Eggrobo
Other Characters Tails
Trophies, Stickers and Spirits Trophies (SSBB · SSB4) · Stickers · Spirits
Music Brawl · SSB4 · Ultimate

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