Green Hill Zone

Green Hill Zone
File:SonicSymbol.png
Universe	Sonic
Appears in	SSBB
Availability	Unlockable
Crate type	Presents
Tournament legality Brawl Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned

Green Hill Zone is the stage that represents Sonic the Hedgehog in the game. It is unlocked after Sonic himself is unlocked. The midsection is a half-pipe that crumbles away if it attacked too much during the course of the fight. There are also checkpoint lampposts that can be hit to spin around to hurt other players once they are blue. These only deal 10% damage, but has decent knockback with KO capabilities. In the background is a giant shuttle loop with a 1-Up video monitor above it. The background also consists of various other parts of the Green Hill Zone.

Origin

Green Hill Zone as it originally appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog.

This stage is from Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). Green Hill Zone is the first stage in Sonic the Hedgehog. The shuttle loop seen in the background first appeared in Green Hill Zone and has appeared in some form in almost every Sonic game. This stage also does have some similarities to the Green Hill Zone in Sonic Adventure 2, which has the stage rendered in 3D. An item box can be seen on the top of the loop. In Sonic the Hedgehog, item boxes were containers that contained certain items. On top of the shuttle loop is a Power Up TV, which is essentially the equivalent of the Mario franchise's ? Block. This particular TV has a picture of Sonic on it; this would give you an extra life. This stage has many elements from Sonic the Hedgehog in the background, such as flowers, rings, spikes, palm trees, etc. In Sonic the Hedgehog there are cliffs that crumble down if the player jumps on them. In this stage, the center of the stage can crumble. The signpost that appears in this level is a reference to the checkpoints in Sonic games, which rotate as the player runs by them and return him to that spot should they die while having remaining lives.

Miles "Tails" Prower first appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and is one of Sonic's friends. Knuckles is also one of Sonic's friends, but he is also a rival of Sonic who first appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Silver the Hedgehog debuted in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and is also one of Sonic's friends. Tails, Knuckles, and Silver will occasionally run through the shuttle loop in the background of this stage.

Tournaments

On March 17th 2009, the SBR announced that the stage should be banned, as opposed to its former status as a counterpick. Many players take issue with Green Hill Zone for its extremely campy nature. The most effective strategy when fighting here is to camp the signposts, which have significant defensive power for an already highly defensive game, and this can severely elongate the flow of the match. Furthermore, both sides of the stage have permanent walk-off edges, favoring chain-grabs or simply camping the edge. For these reasons, this stage is frequently banned in tournament-level play.

Songs in My Music

• Green Hill Zone
• Angel Island Zone
• Scrap Brain Zone
• Emerald Hill Zone
• Sonic Boom
• Super Sonic Racing
• Open Your Heart
• Live and Learn
• Sonic Heroes
• Right There, Ride On
• HIS WORLD (Instrumental)
• Seven Rings in Hand

Songs in bold must be unlocked

Unlock criteria

Unlock Sonic.

Trivia

(From right to left) Tails, Silver and Knuckles running in the background

• When playing as Pokémon Trainer, he appears on top of the loop.
• Sometimes, the bridge will slow down an attack like Spin Dash or Wario Bike.
• A mistake currently exists in the Spanish version of the DOJO!! of this stage's page: instead of displaying the Sonic universe icon, Sonic's head's silhouette, it has the symbol of the Mario universe, which is a mushroom.^[1]
• The songs Green Hill Zone, Emerald Hill Zone and Scrap Brain Zone are the only unchanged 16-bit songs in Brawl.
• Green Hill Zone is the only stage to have only one remixed theme.
• The stage was most likely made from Green Hill Zone from Sonic Adventure 2, but the grass is a lighter color.
• When a section of the stage regenerates, if a player is below the regenerated ground, they will fall through the ground.

External links

• DOJO!! Update
• Green Hill Zone in action
• Serebii.net's Page on Green Hill Zone (stage)