Sonic and shadow the hedgehog as gay humans

Right, right I forgot that I said I'd do this to GitzyRulz while we were chatting the other night. So, much like my previous post on "Why People Hate Chris", I once again did what I like to call stumbling-over-a-huge-but-ignored-plot-point-in-a-character's-development. Or just accidentally discovering something that blows my friends' minds away.

On June 23rd, , just four weeks before we were born, SEGA released the original Sonic game for the Mega Drive, kicking off a thirty one year long marathon sprint with no end in sight. But having grown up with the series since the mids, we wanted to merge our love of the franchise with Pride month and have a closer look at something that many people might not even have realized existed, namely…. So what we want to do in this video is present three major characters that have been portrayed, or at the very least read by fans, as queer from official Sonic media and explain the context that said queerness appears within. Throughout these games Sonic never actually has a love interest.

What happened is when movies were new, and attaching music to characters in a particular way moved out of the Musical and into just telling stories , a sort of language of music got started. We already had it that brass music sounded powerful and forceful and heroic — something that John Phillip Sousa sort of ran into the ground as a theme. By comparison, strings sounded delicate and Not Like Brass, so the formed an obvious counterpart for the fragile and the frail. Anyway, this means that when we reach back into earlier, pre-movie theatrics, though, we still now see that same coding.

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