Headscratchers / Sonic and the Black Knight

• Sonic says "What good is a world that goes on forever?". The world he is referring to is the world of Camelot. What bugs me is that he saves his world (and if you count X, ours.) from its end countless times. I am starting to think Sonic is becoming a hypocrite.
  • Of course, Sonic's also never had to overrun it all with evil minions to do so...
  • Merlina didn't want the world of Camelot to end, but the way she wants to do it is hardly a utopian method (freezing everything exactly as it is forever and ever, with her as a dark ruler over all). The way Sonic says it isn't the best, but what he means is on the money.
    • Yeah, I think it's more or less, "What good is a world that never changes?". But for there to be change, there has to be beginnings and endings. What he said was more or less right, but just phrased strangely.
  • I think what he meant is that the world will come to its natural end at some point and it wasn't right to force it to go on forever. But he's also not just gonna sit back and eat chili dogs while bad guys try to blow the world up, because that's destroying the world before its natural end. Basically, forcing a world to last forever is wrong, but blowing it up isn't any better.
  • Remember that the world was a storybook, and Sonic knew that, but the characters obviously didn't. What he WANTED to say was "What good is a story that doesn't end", but he couldn't say that because he would either literally break the fourth wall, or Merlina just wouldn't understand what he meant, so he had to say "world" instead to get his point across.
  • Another possibility is that Sonic was thinking of Camelot as being a moment in the past. If Merlina wanted to preserve Camelot forever, she'd be forsaking the potential of a future. Even if it isn't Sonic's world, it'd presumably be some sort of equivalent, so he could probably sympathize with that.
• How does Merlina even know Camelot's fate? She never shows she can travel out of the book like Sharah could (instead summoning Sonic into it), Merlin from all evidence wasn't aware of living in a storybook (with him creating Arthur to bring unity to the kingdom, not out of awareness of a grand narrative), she doesn't mention Camelot being from a myth and her Motive Rant frames her actions as trying to prevent Camelot's fall rather than stop a story from ending (which can overlap, admittedly). Not even Shahra and Erazor knew how their story ends.
  • She may be more speaking of the innate inevitability of an end, rather than a certain specific knowledge. Plants and trees wither, animals age and die, fires burn down to ash... all things end. She may simply assume/know that Camelot will be no different
  • The Encyclo-speed-ia clarifies that she wants to prevent the fall of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table specifically. As for how she knows, well, she IS a wizard. Maybe she has the power to peer into the future.
• So Sonic is the true King Arthur of the World of Camelot. Cool! But then he immediately leaves to be confronted by Amy in the game's ending... so who's ruling Camelot now? The Knights of the Round Table altogether?
  • In real-world myth, Arthur passed the crown to his relative Constantine after being mortally wounded by Mordred. Then he was buried, though there are legends he'll return for the crown when England is in its most peril. Maybe Sonic did the same, passing his crown to a Constantine and leaving with the promise to return if they ever need him? Who Constantine might be in this world is anyone's guess.