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Fridge Logic in Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM).

Fridge Brilliance:

• The chemical in the metal-eating balloons that appear in "The Doomsday Project" might have been harvested from the plants that appear in "Sonic Past Cool".
• This series averts The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized because of the Robians; even though it would be more effective for the Freedom Fighters to destroy Robotnik's factories and generators, they can't do that without risking killing their own people in the process. And Robotnik probably knows this — it may even be why he decided to keep the Roboticizer instead of just creating an army of killer robots and exterminating all Mobians.
• As much as Robotnik's polluted territories seem a typical anvilicious Green Aesop, there's actually a very real, very pragmatic reason it's like that! Robotnik's end goal is to replace all organic life on the planet with machinery, up to and including the native population. And robots don't need a healthy environment. Radioactive waste everywhere, smog-choked skies, toxic water, none of this matters to a sufficiently robust mechanical lifeform. However, Robotnik's still-organic enemies are vulnerable to such depletions of their natural environment. Thusly, Robotnik deliberately pollutes with his factories as a form of biological warfare; as the environment gets worse and worse, the Freedom Fighters get weaker from lack of food, lack of drinkable water, poisoning, poor air, etc., whilst his mechanical armies march on unhindered.
  • The thing about radiation is debatable, as radiation causes damage to electronics, requiring the use of "radiation-hardened" components in machinery intended for use in high-radiation environments.
• Julian Robotnik is named after Julius Brutus!
• Adding to the above example of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog preceding Sonic SatAM. Why was Tails Demoted to Extra? Sonic was sick of Tails getting kidnapped by Robotnik, and the Freedom Fighters knew Robotnik would be dangerous enough to roboticize Tails if he ever got the chance.
  • What's interesting about this is that it also mirrors the reason why Amy in the Archie comic version was rejected a membership of a Freedom Fighter there as well. Plus in one episode of Season 2, there was the fact that Tails teamed up with Sonic to successfully thwart Robotnik's scheme. That shows that Tails was just simply growing into the Child Prodigy he would later be known as in the remainder of the franchise, and had this show continued, he definitely would have had much more screentime in the future.
• Sonic's hatred of Antoine to the point of seriously considering leaving him at Robotnik's (non-existent) mercy seems cold, but he does have a reason for it. In "Sonic Boom", Antoine's bumbling gets Cat captured, tortured, and finally roboticized. It's likely Sonic has written him off as a liability and a danger to his team as a result, especially since he and Cat were rather close.

Fridge Horror:

• What happened to Knuckles? Unless he isn't a part of the SatAM universe, the question stands. He is never seen as a robot, he is never referenced, and he seems to just not exist.
  • He was supposed to appear in the third season (and a possible fourth), before it got cancelled.
• So for the majority of the first season we see that Robotnik has a robotic pet bird named Cluck. The fridge horror comes in when you realize that Robotnik has a huge knack for roboticizing animals...
  • Also, what happened to said bird in the second season? Knowing Robotnik, it's entirely possible that he killed him, either out of rage or just for no reason at all.
  • The second one seems unlikely considering that Cluck was the only thing that Robotnik seemed to care for, although that might just make it WORSE
• The effects of Robotization are disturbing enough but it gets even scarier when you wonder if the victims are aware if their actions or not.
  • Wonder, nothing. Uncle Chuck outright confirms it.
  • Oh, Crap! .
    • To his credit, he doesn't seem all that traumatized by the ordeal as he explains it.
  • Here's something else: in Blast to the Past, Chuck mentions there were test subjects for the roboticizer. Where did they go, and did these subjects inspire Robotnik's interest in the roboticizer?
• The robot double from "Sonic and Sally" could very well have been a roboticized Mobian!
• The robot double flirted with Sonic and kissed him, which is harassment. Later in the Finale, Sally behaves in a similar way. However he becomes uncomfortable and runs away while Sally is amused. He probably thought about what happened with the Robot.
• One of the early episodes had Robotnik capture an elderly Freedom Fighter known as Cat. By the end of the episode, Cat disappears. Because he is never seen again and he doesn't seem to have been roboticized, one can assume that Robotnik killed him.
  • Robotnik menacingly tells Cat he has "marvellous machines of all kinds, machines that can do things you would not believe!", which implies that Cat could have been tortured to death without even making it as far as the roboticizer.
• There don't seem to be any humans aside from Snively and Robotnik. While it was planned for Mobius to be Earth After the End, Robotnik's backstory means that they weren't all wiped out. Did Robotnik kill them? Or is this the reason his SWATbots resemble people?
  • Adding fuel to the fire, if they are roboticized humans, then throughout the entire series Sonic and the Freedom Fighters have been killing, dismembering , and even WEARING humans!
    • In their defence, they probably don't know that they're humans, given that the main cast were very young when Robotnik took over. Which is still just as scary.
  • According to commentary from Ben Hurst, the planned secret origins for Robotnik and Snively were that they originally escaped from a human space colony that they accidentally destroyed in trying to conquer, only to find themselves on Mobius — actually Earth, over a thousand years after they left it. So there were no humans around when they arrived. Which doesn't really make things any better...
• What if Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic SatAM are both canon, and AoStH takes place first? That means that at some point, Robotnik transitions from a bumbling, incompetent Manchild to the Not-So-Harmless Villain of SatAM. Makes you wonder what happened to Scratch and Grounder, too.
  • In the 2-part episode "Blast to the Past", Robotnik is the same way in the past when Sonic and all the other Freedom Fighters are kids than he is in the show's present as opposed to his AoStH form so this confirms that the two shows have different continuities.
  • Sonic botches the time travel by getting distracted over food, landing him and Sally on the day of Robotnik's coup instead of the week before like Sally planned. In a way, the war and everything that's happened is Sonic's fault.
• In "No Brainer", Robotnik exits the scene early on and leaves Snively to take care of things, under threat of vicious beating and possible murder if he doesn't do a good job. While that's unfortunate enough, Robotnik's reason for leaving is that there is a 'little freedom fighter uprising on the northern frontier' that he's off to, in his words, eradicate. He returns less than a week later.
• Dulcy's non-sequiturs about her mom become tragic when you learn she's nearly the Last of Her Kind.
• Chili dogs come from pigs. Sonic has a pig in his team of freedom fighters, and pigs lived in Mobotropolis.
  • Unless they're veggie dogs.
    • There are non-anthropomorphic animals on Mobius as well.
• Speaking of eating meat, Robotnik and Snively have to eat and drink to keep themselves alive. Robotnik is obsessed with destroying plants and wildlife. No plants means no food...unless you eat the animals. It could be possible Robotnik kills and eat some of the captured animals instead of roboticizing them.
  • Alternatively, he simply prefers the taste of synthetic food manufactured in factories.

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