#sonic timeline

[sophfandoms53]

Personally i think we should talk more about Sonic Shuffle being canon to the timeline bc what

[thebeetheberry]

Whoa they just added something to the Sonic Timeline????

@evayart

[beanbagstab]

Hi there!

So, this may be a bit of a random question, but where exactly do you think Sonic CD is set in the timeline? Before Sonic 2 and 3, or after Sonic 2 and 3?

Do you think Sonic met Amy before or after he met Tails and Knuckles?

Hey!

I don't consider myself a Certified Sonic Lore Expert but I like to think that Sonic CD happens before Sonic 2 + Sonic 3 & Knuckles because I’m really attached to the idea that Sonic met Amy before he met their other friends. (I think this has been confirmed now? )

「ソニックチャンネル」ソニック ワールドストーリー

ソニック公式ポータルサイト「ソニックチャンネル」へようこそ！

I like the theory/ headcanon that Sonic was able to open up and become a more patient guy in general after meeting Amy! I think it also puts emphasis on how normal yet extraordinary Amy is in comparison to their other friends. In the sense that, despite being the most "normal" one in the group she managed to seek out run into Sonic first.

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

Learn Your Sonic Lore: ALL Sonic Game Playthroughs

Putting them in general order of release with some exceptions; Sonic Battle takes place after Heroes (and probably ShTH?) so it's there. I'm

Updated the Sonic Lore playlist; replaced deleted videos, swapped out the Final Horizons vid for a shorter version, added Sonadow Gens and the songs to denote where the Knux show and Sonic Movie 3 released.

[tpbandit05]

So when Sega released their official Sonic Timeline chart, It just made everything more confusing than it should have. So this is my attempt on fixing it. I did include the Riders or the other racing games because it doesn’t really have that much impact on the lore. Although I may update and change some things a bit more in the future, but Idk. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Also sorry for the low image quality 😅.

[randomthefox]

Personally I have the feeling that the Sonic characters ages are just what they represent to them as you have talked about (awesome analysis by the way! I had no idea Silver was 14 and it makes perfect sense with his character)

So, to me, they're not meant to age necessarily, we're supposed to have a glimpse of them as magical beings, we can't apply our logic to them, they just are what they are forever.

To me, if Sonic stops being a teenager or Tails a kid then their characters wouldn't feel quite as perfect (though I also am into cubs so the Sonic cast keeping their ages intact is important to me -//-)

As to Eggman, I have no idea how anyone could think he's 30? He's a super old man for sure! As a kid I always saw him as some sort of evil Santa so I stayed with that perspective

There's development documents showing that while creating Silver they were thinking of making him somewhere in the range of 13 - 15, so it seems they eventually settled on 14. He was listed as that age on their sonic channel profiles before they updated them to remove the ages.

and yeah, the ages aren't really meant to be taken literally they're just informative. I pointed out in another post about MOSTH that there is no known calendar system in the world of Sonic, the way they measure and chart the passage of time and the relation that has to their "age" is clearly very different compared to our standards in real life. Sonic was 15 before the events of Sonic Generations wherein he had a birthday, and he was 15 afterwards. There is no reason to assume that a year in the world of Sonic is 365 days of 24 hours.

There is actually a very old japanese webpage from when Sonic Advance 2 came out where they introduce Cream, and they say something very particular about her age being listed as 6 years old

●テイルスより幼くて、人間でいうと6歳くらい?

●Younger than Tails, so around 6 years-old in human terms?

The characters 人間 "Ningen" is the japanese word for human. It is very directly stating that the label of six years old we're using for Cream is just a human standard - which implies that they, not being human, wouldn't age or chart aging the same way humans do.

Obviously this is a defunct and incredibly obscure web page so I don't expect anyone to know about it or abide by it BUT IT'S STILL VERY INTERESTING TO ME when it comes to the topic of the characters ages. It feels like any confusion people have about this originates from them imposing our own real life standards of age onto these fictional characters, who very clearly do not follow that standard under even the most casual of appraisals. I think that terminology "in human terms" is spot on. Sonic is 15 in human terms. That doesn't literally mean that he has been alive for 15 astral cycles of the planet rotating around the sun.

As far as Eggman goes whether or not he ages by our real life human standards is another question. I am NOT using this hypothetical to imply that Eggman is from the "human world" and is visiting the "sonic world" but consider this idea: let's say it were possible for human beings to live on the planet Mercury, let's say we colonized Mercury and lived upon it. It takes the planet Mercury 88 days to rotate around the sun, a Mercurian "year" is 88 days. So if you were born on Mercury and were 32 years old by Earth standards, you would actually be 128 years old by Mercury standards - you would have been alive for 128 Mercurian years. (I think that's how the math would work out anyway, you get my point though).

Given that, and given the likelyhood that the passage of time in the world of Sonic is not one to one with how we measure the passage of time in real life, it truly is impossible to say how old Eggman really is or should be considered to be. His age has ALWAYS been listed as "unknown" after all. Probably not for the reason I'm suggesting, but still, it is notable that Eggman's age has NEVER been officially documented like the other characters have. We probably cannot possibly know what frame of reference we should be measuring his age as.

For the sake of convenience, and considering he is human, if we were to measure his age by our standards of one year being equal to 365 days of 24 hours each and given the assumption that Eggman's lifespan would be equivalent to our real life average lifespans - it is very clear that even from the very first game Eggman was always intended to be well beyond middle aged. His design was inspired by United States President Teddy Roosevelt, who was 51 by the time he left the presidential office. By that notion, I think we can safely assume Eggman was AT MINIMUM somewhere in the range of being 50 years old even at the beginning of the series in Sonic 1. And it would be reasonable to say that he has aged and gotten even older since then, even if it isn't literally 35 earth years worth of age.

All that being said - the characters ages probably don't warrant THIS much thought being put into them lol. I'm just completely insane when it comes to Sonic and all these thoughts and extrapolations and dissecting nuances come naturally to my mind without effort. I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else to follow along with this train of thought. In the most simple of terms, your conclusion that the characters are just magical cartoon characters who do not have literal ages is the correct one. The ages the characters were originally listed as having is meant to give us an idea of their personality temperament relation to one another and maturity level. They were never meant to be taken at face value, as so many people did and still do.

But they are still informative in regards to what they mean ABOUT the character from a creative design perspective, which is why I still bring them up when discussing the characters whenever it's relevant.

[orbitingrook]

My Sonic Timeline Part 1 (Version 1)

3000 Years ago

SONIC PICT July 2021 – Someday, I’m sure…

50 Years ago

SONIC PICT July 2020 – It’s that star and that one!

SONIC PICT February 2022 – We finished it, teacher!

15+ Years ago

Dynamite Düx (Arcade) (Has Bean's father and uncle, Bin and Pin as the protags, the Arcade version is canon because Pin is absent in the Master System version)

Sonic Origins

Tails Adventure (Takes place before Tails met Sonic)

SONIC PICT January 2023 – Now it’ll be even better! (Chronological debut of Froggy)

Sonic 1

Sonic CD (Debut of Amy and Metal Sonic)

SONIC PICT February 2023 – With all her love…

Sonic 2 (Sonic meets Tails, Debut of Mecha Sonic Mark I, the Death Egg, Death Egg Robot and Super Sonic)

Sonic 3 and Knuckles + SONIC PICT July 2023 – Big Catch Greeting Card from a Genius?! (Debut of Knuckles, the Master Emerald and Mecha Sonic Mark II, PICT takes place before Ice Cap)

Knuckles's Story of Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Debut of Super Knuckles and Super Mecha Sonic)

Sonic 2 (8-Bit) (Debut of Silver Sonic and the Master Robots)

Sonic Labyrinth and Tails Sky Patrol (Both take place at the same time, they also feature the debut of Eggmanland and the Witchcarters)

Sonic Chaos

Sonic Drift

Sonic Triple Trouble (Debut of Fang)

Sonic Drift 2

Sonic Spinball (Only canon appearance of Planet Mobius, Was non canon but got canonized)

Sonic Blast

Current Classic Era

Sonic 3D Blast (Origin of the Flickys, Confirmed to take place after Spinball)

Sonic R (Confirmed to take place after 3D Blast, Debut of Tails Doll and Metal Knuckles)

SegaSonic the Hedgehog (Confirmed to take place after Sonic R, Debut of Mighty and Ray)

Knuckles Chaotix and SONIC PICT May 2023 – Botanical Early Afternoon (Debut of Team Chaotix, PICT takes place during Botanic Base)

Sonic the Fighters (Debut of Bean, Bark, Honey and the "8th Chaos Emerald")

Sonic Mania (Debut of the Hard Boiled Heavies and the Phantom Ruby)

Sonic Mania Adventures (Was non canon but got canonized to take place during Encore's Mode's Angel Island Zone)

Sonic Mania Plus's Encore Mode

SONIC PICT November 2023 – Let’s hang out together again!

SONIC PICT June 2023 – Birthday Gig!

Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Special 

Sonic the Hedgehog Free Comic Book Day 2021

Sonic the Hedgehog: Tails' 30th Anniversary Special 

Sonic the Hedgehog: Amy's 30th Anniversary Special

Fang the Hunter Mini Series (Chronological Debut of the Warp Topaz)

Sonic Superstars: Fang's Big Break

SONIC PICT October 2023 – Happy Pancake Halloween!

Sonic Superstars: Trio of Trouble

Sonic Superstars Start Book

Sonic Superstars

SONIC PICT August 2024 – Color of Summer ★ Hiking to Escape the Heat!

Sonic the Hedgehog: Knuckles' 30th Anniversary Special

2000s Modern Era

Sonic 4: Episode I

Sonic 4: Episode Metal

Sonic 4: Episode II (I put Sonic 4 as canon due to White Park and the game's Badniks coming back)

Sonic Advance (Tails uses the Tornado 1 so I'm placing it before Adventure, Debut of Mecha Knuckles)

Sonic Adventure and SONIC PICT August 2022 – On a hot day, this is the only way to go! (Debut of Big, the Tornado 2 and the E-Series, the PICT takes place during Sonic's Red Mountain)

SONIC PICT February 2021 – Zzz… hrm… ribbit-ribbit…

SONIC PICT April 2020 – All right! I found ’em!

Sonic Shuffle

SONIC PICT March 2020 – I wonder if you’ll be pleased…?

Sonic Adventure 2 (Debut of Shadow, Rouge and G.U.N)

SONIC PICT April 2023 – First-Rate Brilliance

SONIC PICT May 2024 – Not like that! Like this!

SONIC PICT January 2020 – A Naughty Adult Chao?

SONIC PICT March 2024 – Fine spring day, cherry blossom viewing feast, treat for the palate

Sonic Advance 2 (Debut of Cream)

SONIC PICT February 2024 – So excited…!

Sonic Heroes (Debut of Omega)

SONIC PICT November 2021 – If you’re looking for someone, leave it to me!

SONIC PICT October 2019 – YOU SCREAM, CREAM!?

SONIC PICT October 2020 – I’ll play a prank on you! ♪

SONIC PICT October 2021 – Trick or Trick?!

SONIC PICT October 2024 – “Does not compute…”

Shadow 05 (Expert Mode confirms Shadow canonically does the Hero Mission in Cryptic Castle and makes it to Cosmic Fall, Debut of Abraham Tower and Black Doom)

Shadow 05's Expert Mode (Shadow gets placed in a simulation for GUN training)

Sonic Battle and SONIC PICT May 2022 – Maiden Straight! (Rouge mentions Omega and Shadow has most of his memories, Debut of Emerl, the PICT takes place during Amy's Story)

Sonic Advance 3 (Debut of Gemerl)

SONIC PICT May 2020 – To my beloved mom…!

World Grand Prix

SONIC PICT March 2022 – To a New Stage!

Sonic Riders (Debut of the Babylon Rogues)

SONIC PICT September 2024 – Is this it? …What are these?

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity

SONIC PICT August 2020 – A Green Gale Blowing Through

Sonic Free Riders (In Zero Gravity, Sonic tells Jet's he'll see him in the next Grand Prix)

Jet & Shadow

06 Timeline

SONIC PICT September 2022 – A Brief Rest (Takes place before 06 Silver met Blaze)

Sonic 06 (Game was intended to be a prequel to Rush, Debut of 06 Blaze, Elise, 06 Sonic Man and Mephiles)

SONIC PICT August 2021 – Fire Flower Scenery in the City of Water (During the game)

SONIC PICT March 2023 – I’ve got something for you! (During of the 06 Town Mission)

Post 06

Sonic Rivals (Silver's first canon appearance, retconned debut of Eggman Nega)

Sonic Rivals 2 (Silver and Espio become friends, Debut of Metal Sonic 3.0)

Sonic and the Secret Rings and it's tie-in comic, Sand, Spirits and Sonic Speed (Comic takes place during Pirate Storm)

SONIC PICT April 2021 – That means the treasure is…

Sonic Rush (Debut of Blaze)

Sonic Rush Adventure and SONIC PICT July 2022 – The Princess’s Elegant Evening Cool (Debut of Marine, the Sonic PICT takes place during Coral Cave)

SONIC PICT August 2023 – Coral Adventure

SONIC PICT November 2020 – Indian Summer at the Sol Empire

Shattered Earth

SONIC PICT April 2022 – Bon appétit!

SONIC PICT July 2024 – If only I could make these emotions into data, too!

Sonic Unleashed

Night of the Werehog (takes place before the town missions, Tower Terror and Jungle Fright)

SONIC PICT February 2020 – With all her heart… (Take place after Spagonia)

SONIC PICT March 2021 – Spring in full bloom, dancing in the night sky (During the game)

SONIC PICT June 2022 – Let’s make it your birthday too! (During the game)

Amy & Professor Pickle

Camelot

Sonic and the Black Knight (In Unleashed, Sonic has the option to go on a date with Amy)

Sonic and Merlina (During Misty Lake)

SONIC PICT April 2024 – Travel preparations livening up the castle town

Egg Planet Park

Sonic Colors Comics

SONIC PICT September 2020 – How unusually thoughtful!

Sonic Colors Ultimate + Sonic Colors DS (Both the Ultimate and DS version are canon, Ultimate introduces the Jade Ghost Wisp and the DS version introduces the Mother Wisp, Red Burst Wisp and Violet Void Wisp, along with having Silver and Blaze canonically meet for the first time, Debut of Orbot and Cubot)

SONIC PICT September 2019 – Chili dogs are the best wherever he goes?! (Takes place during Sweet Mountain)

Rise of the Wisps (Takes place during Sweet Mountain)

White Space and Shatterverse

Fang & Trip

SONIC PICT December 2023 – Sky-Blue Shoes

Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings

SONIC PICT September 2021 – Agent Under the Moon (Takes place before the second episode)

Sonic X Shadow Generations + Sonic x Shadow Generations X Chao (A three stories happen at the same time)

SONIC PICT June 2024 – Put this one and that one on top of it! (During the game)

SONIC PICT November 2024 – “Look! It’s shallow here!” (Takes place after Sunset Heights)

Super Sonic and Doom Wing Shadow (During the game)

Shadow & Rouge

Sonic Prime (Orbot and Cubot's existence place this after Colors and Gens, Sonic mentions how he "never saw Tails so upset" so I'm placing it before Lost World)

Lost Hex

Sonic Lost World (Debut of the Deadly Six, the 3DS version has exclusive Wisps but otherwise has the same plot)

SONIC PICT January 2021 – Just gotta tighten this here… (Canon Debut of Cosmo)

Zazz & Espio

SONIC PICT December 2019 – Cutting through the aurora night sky…

Eggman War

Sonic Forces: Rise of Infinite (Debut of Infinite)

Sonic Force: Stress Test

Sonic Forces: Looming Shadow

Sonic Forces: Episode Shadow

Sonic Forces + Sonic Forces: Moment of Truth (Moment of Truth takes place before Spaceport, Debut of the Avatar and the Resistance)

SONIC PICT May 2021 – With her favorite raincoat…

IDW Sonic 1-12 (Debut of Lanolin, Tangle, Whisper and Starline)

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2019 (Debut of Jewel)

[copwef]

Parent shadow AU: Timeline.

(Not 100% accurate but it'll do for now)

This is a rough estimate of the timeline leading up to the present day/start of the story/ First ARC in 2004!

The space colony ARC incident happened on January seventh 1951.

Eggman leads a full scale attack on G.U.N, where eggman destroys all their satellites and space stations, including space colony ark. He then fires one at the G.U.N facility holding shadow. Who survives and finds a four year old sonic that same day. Deciding to raise him. -January seventh, 1982

Sonic, who is now 10, gets separated from shadow and attacked by badniks. He is saved by Sally Acorn, who is 46 at the time, and her adopted son Miles(Tails) who is 13. Shadow finds them and they all become friends. Deciding it's best to stick together. -1988

One year later, after coming across an abandoned underground G.U.N base that's still functional and off eggman's radar, they officially form the Freedom fighters. They recruit people from far and wide, gathering an army of roughly 57 people. (Sonic is now 11, Sally is 47, and Tails is 14). -1999

For five years the freedom fighters train and lay low, going on missions that eventually get them on eggman's radar. Sonic, now sixteen, goes on missions with his father(Shadow) and a 19 year old Tails. Sally is 52.-2004