History WesternAnimation / SonicPrime

Due to its Canada-based production, the series does not reprise the voice actors from the video games. The title character himself is voiced by Creator/DevenMack. Other cast members include Creator/AshleighBall as Tails, Creator/ShannonChanKent as Amy, Creator/BrianDrummond as Dr. Eggman, Adam Nurada and Creator/VincentTong as Knuckles and his alternate versions, respectively, Ian Hanlin as Shadow and Big, and Creator/KazumiEvans as Rouge.

** Dr. Done-It's penchant for [[IAmNotWeasel referring to Sonic as a rabbit]] (among other rodents, ''except'' hedgehogs) may be a reference to the fact that Sonic was originally conceived as a rabbit before they changed him into a hedgehog.

** [[spoiler:"Avoid The Void": Shadow briefly stole Sonic's tech given by Nine in the first season, and so attempted to enter the Boscage Maze Shatterspace all by himself. However, he [[InstantlyProvenWrong fails]] due to not possessing any of the Prism Energy like Sonic. He doesn't realize it until after the attempt failed and he realized something about Sonic.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sonic and Shadow manage to restore Green Hill and foil Eggman's ploy 20 seconds before Sonic ended up screwing everything by accident, and Shadow warps the Paradox Prism away so no one can wreck the universes again. However, Sonic (and Shadow) can't ever go back into the Shatterverse, barring the way to seeing all the other counterparts. The Council of Five is still out there (or at least floating in the Shatterverse). It's also unclear how the rest of the universes are faring, and Nine clearly regrets being alone in the Grim after Sonic got through him.]]

** [[spoiler:Sonic in season 1 saves Nine from bring killed by a mechanical, spin dashed through the powered up mechs, then thought Knucks, Rebel and Nine to spindah themselves, which they quickly get the hang of. Later, he had Thorn make peace with the scavengers by having them talk about their problems , which had them discover the errors of their way, settle their differences and they started working together in protecting the jungle. In season 2, Sonic save shadow from death in the void. later on, from Nine fusing energy from the prism to Sonic, he became Prism Sonic and saved Shadow from Dr. Deep and Dr. Babble by defeating them, then from more prism fused to him from nine, he took down an titan of Eggman from the inside. In season 3, Sonic protected his friends and the Chaos council from Nine's attacks by feeding power to their shatter drive and dome. The dome activated a shield. afterwards, he rescued the remaining No Place pirates with assistance from Rusty Rose, Black Rose, Dr. deep and Dr. Done it. In the finale episode, Sonic brought Nine to distract him from his comrade so they could crash into his base. He;d had Nine seen the damage he done to the shatter verse then assisted him to restore it by selflessly sacrificing himself. In the restored Greenhill Zone he and his real friends, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose and Rouge worked together as a team to make Eggman unhand the paradox prism and forced him away from it, defeating him before came to aid by teleporting himself away with the paradox prism from Eggmman.]]

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:When Nine sics his robots on his counterparts, Mangey and Sails, the latter two seemingly pull a [[TakingYouWithMe suicide-bombing]]. However, they reappear unscathed a couple episodes later.]]

[[spoiler:Nine, already PowerHigh throughout Season 3, comes down ''hard'' towards its end as Sonic's AllianceOfAlternates wipes out his robot army and then corners him. Sonic eventually snaps him out of it, resulting in Nine's HeelFaceTurn.]]

A second season released on [[https://twitter.com/wildbrainstudio/status/1658862067850391553?s=46&t=ivKM_-e99qBlqZOw7sJApg July 13, 2023.]] The third and [[GrandFinale final]] season was released on January 11, 2024.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Sonic's protectiveness of Tails is on full display in the first episode.

** [[spoiler:In "Situation: Grim", Sonic returns to New Yoke just when the Chaos Council has the resistence cornered. Nine also shows up moments later to save all of them with Sonic keeping mechas off him, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished though he gets captured as a result]].]]

** The New Yoke universe version of Tails, Nine, has seven mechanical prosthetic tails (alongside the usual two main tails,) that double as CombatTentacles.

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Subverted several times:

** Nine briefly encounters his own dimensional counterparts, Mangey and Sails, in "Cracking Down", and later Prime!Tails in "Ghost of a Chance". However, his encounters with the former two incur only bewilderment, while Prime!Tails' ghost is unable to see Nine and in turn just [[OtherMeAnnoysMe bothers him]].

** Rusty Rose and Black Rose have this dynamic at first, both before and after [[spoiler:the former's HeelFaceTurn. By the end of Season 2, though, they've befriended each other and partnered up]].

** Renegade Knucks and Knuckles the Dread more or less dislike each other from the start. After [[EnemyMine temporarily cooperating to beat Chaos Sonic]], Knucks tussles with his pirate counterpart so Sonic and Nine can escape with the Prism shards.

*** [[spoiler:Averted with Mangey and Sails as well as the alternate Rouges and Bigs, who all get along well from the start.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Nine in the last two episodes of Season 3. Luckily, Sonic is able to [[HeelFaceTurn pull him back from the brink]]]].

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Wielders of the Paradox Prism are ''very'' likely to be corrupted when using its powers. Just ''one shard'' by itself is strong enough to drive someone insane. [[spoiler:[[WomenAreWiser Thorn, with Sonic's help,]] [[HeelRealization is able to recognize the danger and turn back]], but Dread's lifelong obsession with one of the shards causes him to undergo major SanitySlippage when he acquires it, and the Chaos Council pay no heed to the damage their misuse of three shards causes to the fabric of reality. Later still, Nine manages to recombine the Prism and goes on one ''hell'' of a PowerHigh, even with the Prism's energy supply diminished, and worsens the damage the Chaos Council causes when he tries to fulfill his own ambitions.]]

-->'''Sonic:''' Everyone, STOP! This ISN'T the solution! (...) In a few minutes, there won't be ANYTHING left to fight over!\\

The series debuted on Netflix on December 15, 2022, with the first episode premiering early on December 10, 2022, on ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'', specifically on ''VideoGame/SonicSpeedSimulator''.

* InconsistentSpelling: Is the city from the dystopian universe called New Yoke or New Yolk? Even the official Netflix subtitles for Season 1 can't agree on this one, with earlier episodes using the former but later episodes using the latter. ''VideoGame/SonicSpeedSimulator'', an officially licensed ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' game, spells it as "New Yoke". Season 2 onwards have it spelled as "New Yoke."

--->'''Nine:''' [[spoiler:[[ThereCanBeOnlyOne There is only]] ''[[ThereCanBeOnlyOne one]]'' [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne]]

* HairTriggerTemper: The FatalFlaw of Nine and Thorn. {{Downplayed}} with Shadow. Their [[ConflictBall predisposition towards fighting instead of discussion]] causes them to end up making their respective problems worse: [[spoiler:Shadow’s habit of solving problems with his fists starts the whole conflict when he attacks Sonic after receiving the vision of the portal Sonic creates in New Yoke, instead of just telling him what he saw. Later, he spends the second half of "Avoid the Void" fighting with Sonic for his tech, believing they'll let him access the Shatterspaces freely. However, he's proven wrong when the portal to Boscage Maze rejects him anyway, briefly rendering him unconscious and sending him rocketing towards the black hole at the bottom of the Shatterverse. Thorn, meanwhile, unknowingly decimates the very jungle she's trying to protect by depriving it of sunlight in her Prism shard-induced fury, and Nine waves away Sonic's warnings that his abuse of the incomplete Prism is destroying their reality as they know it, still mad at the hedgehog after their earlier fallout and believing that he's just lying to him. When finally snapped out of their frenzies, Nine and Thorn are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply ashamed]] at having let their anger make them so irrational, while Shadow, having figured out that it's Sonic's Prism energy that lets him go into the Shatterspaces, humbly (if begrudgingly) swallows his pride and accepts Sonic’s help after his rival saves him, working with him to restore their home for the rest of the show without any further issue (some snide comments notwithstanding)]].

* LeeroyJenkins: A major conflict for this series is that Sonic doesn't listen to his friend's warnings and fears, and chooses to heroically but impulsively speed ahead instead. Eggman takes advantage of this flaw to help himself dig up the Paradox Prism, and later, Sonic ends up starting up the whole conflict because he charges into and destroys the Paradox Prism to keep Eggman from getting it.
* MechaMooks: The Egg-forcers are the seemingly endless muscle of the Chaos Council, capable of flight and armed with {{Shoulder Cannon}}s.

** Upon arriving in Ghost Hill with Sonic and Shadow, Nine comes across Prime!Tails' phantom and is mildly disgusted by his optimism and cheerfulness.
--->'''Tails:''' (''[[BrokenRecord repeated line]], directed at Sonic'') As long as I'm around, you'll ''always'' have a wingman!\\
'''Nine:''' ''This'' is the friend Sonic thought was like me? [[spoiler:We're ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} nothing]]'' alike.]]

** Due to a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter on Sonic's part, he never tells Nine about his and Shadow's plan to fix the world (he thought Nine would be on board with it because he's one of Tails' counterparts), nor does he clarify whether he wants Green Hill or its netherworld state, Ghost Hill, restored, which gives Nine false impressions. [[spoiler:When they finally learn each other's intent, Sonic further botches things with a FreudianSlip about whether or not Nine is a real person; Nine hits his RageBreakingPoint on that note and betrays the hedgehogs, stealing the ''entire'' Prism on his way out.]]

* SimpletonVoice: Averted. A teaser clip featuring Big the Cat shows that, unlike previous versions, this version lacks the dopey-sounding drawl in his voice. His voice is still ''very'' deep, though.

** Nine angrily introduces himself in this manner after Sonic mistakes him for mainverse Tails and [[BerserkButton calls him that]].

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Wielders of the Paradox Prism are ''very'' likely to be corrupted when using its powers. Just one shard by itself is strong enough to drive someone insane. [[spoiler:[[WomenAreWiser Thorn, with Sonic's help,]] [[HeelRealization is able to recognize the danger and turn back]], but Dread's lifelong obsession with one of the shards causes him to undergo major SanitySlippage when he acquires it, and the Chaos Council pay no heed to the damage their misuse of three shards causes to the fabric of reality. Later still, Nine manages to recombine the Prism and goes on one ''hell'' of a power high, even with the Prism's energy supply is diminished, and worsens the damage the Chaos Council causes when tries to fulfill his own ambitions.]]

** The iconic line "[[Anime/SonicX Gotta go fast!]]" is uttered by Sonic while checking out his new Resistance gear.

** During season 2, Sonic remarks "Gotta Go Fast", which is the title of the intro of the English dub of ''Anime/SonicX''.

** "Ghost of Chance" ends with [[spoiler:Nine stealing all the Prism Shards collected throughout the first two seasons of Sonic trying to fix reality.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Wielders of the Paradox Prism are ''very'' likely to be corrupted when using its powers. Just one shard by itself is strong enough to drive someone insane. [[spoiler:[[WomenAreWiser Thorn, with Sonic's help,]] [[HeelRealization is able to recognize the danger and turn back]], but Dread's lifelong obsession with one of the shards causes him to undergo major SanitySlippage when he acquires it, and the Chaos Council pay no heed to the damage their misuse of three shards causes to the fabric of reality. Later still, Nine manages to recombine the Prism and goes on one ''hell'' of a power high, even with the Prism's diminished, and worsens the damage the Chaos Council causes when tries to fulfill his own ambitions.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Possessing just ''one'' Prism shard--let alone the whole thing--can drive its holder mad with power. [[spoiler:[[WomenAreWiser Thorn, with Sonic's help,]] [[HeelRealization is able to recognize the danger and turn back]], but Dread's lifelong obsession with one of the shards causes him to undergo major SanitySlippage when he acquires it, and the Chaos Council pay no heed to the damage their misuse of three shards causes to the fabric of reality. Later still, Nine steals the full Prism and goes on one ''hell'' of a power high.]]

* HairTriggerTemper: The FatalFlaw of Nine and Thorn. {{Downplayed}} with Shadow. Their [[ConflictBall predisposition towards fighting instead of discussion]] causes them to end up making their respective problems worse: [[spoiler:Shadow’s habit of solving problems with his fists starts the whole conflict when he attacks Sonic after receiving the vision of the portal Sonic creates in New Yoke, instead of just telling him what he saw. Later, he spends the second half of "Avoid the Void" fighting with Sonic for his tech, believing they'll let him access the Shatterspaces freely. However, he's proven wrong when the portal rejects him as before, briefly rendering him unconscious and sending him rocketing towards the black hole at the bottom of the Shatterverse. Thorn, meanwhile, unknowingly decimates the very jungle she's trying to protect by depriving it of sunlight in her Prism shard-induced fury, and Nine waves away Sonic's warnings that his abuse of the incomplete Prism is destroying their reality as they know it, still mad at the hedgehog after their earlier fallout and believing that he's just lying to him. When finally snapped out of their frenzies, Nine and Thorn are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply ashamed]] at having let their anger make them so irrational, while Shadow, having figured out that it's the Prism energy inside Sonic that grants him access to the Shatterspaces, humbly (if begrudgingly) swallows his pride and accepts Sonic’s help after his rival saves him, working with him to restore their home for the rest of the show without any further issue (some snide comments notwithstanding)]].

* HairTriggerTemper: The FatalFlaw of Nine and Thorn. {{Downplayed}} with Shadow. Their [[ConflictBall predisposition towards fighting instead of discussion]] causes them to end up making their respective problems worse: [[spoiler:Shadow’s habit of solving problems with his fists starts the whole conflict when he attacks Sonic after receiving the vision of the portal Sonic creates in New Yoke, instead of just telling him what he saw. Later, he spends the second half of "Avoid the Void" fighting with Sonic for his tech, believing they'll let him access the Shatterspaces freely. However, he's proven wrong when the portal rejects him as before, briefly rendering him unconscious and sending him rocketing towards the black hole at the bottom of the Shatterverse. Thorn, meanwhile, unknowingly decimates the very jungle she's trying to protect by depriving it of sunlight in her Prism shard-induced fury, and Nine waves away Sonic's warnings that his abuse of the incomplete Prism is destroying their reality as they know it, still mad at the hedgehog after their earlier fallout and believing that he's just lying to him. When finally snapped out of their frenzies, Nine and Thorn are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply ashamed]] at having let their anger make them so irrational, while Shadow, having figured out that it's the Prism energy inside Sonic that grants him access to the Shatterspaces, humbly (if begrudgingly) swallows his pride and accepts Sonic’s help after his rival saves him, working with him to restore their home for the rest of the show without any further issue (some snide comments on Shadow's part notwithstanding)]].

* HairTriggerTemper: The FatalFlaw of Nine, Thorn. {{Downplayed}} with Shadow. Their [[ConflictBall predisposition towards fighting instead of discussion]] causes them to end up making their respective problems worse: [[spoiler:Shadow’s habit of solving problems with his fists starts the whole conflict when he attacks Sonic after receiving the vision of the portal Sonic creates in New Yoke, instead of just telling him what he saw. Later, after spending the second half of "Avoid the Void" fighting with Sonic for his tech, and when he tries to enter Boscage Maze with them, he ends up sending himself rocketing towards the black hole at the bottom of the Shatterverse, due to lacking Sonic's Prism energy; Thorn unknowingly decimates the very jungle she's trying to protect; and Nine waves away Sonic's warnings that his abuse of the incomplete Prism is destroying their reality as they know it, thinking the hedgehog is just lying to him. When finally snapped out of their frenzies, Nine and Thorn are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply ashamed]] at having let their anger make them so irrational, while Shadow humbly (if begrudgingly) swallows his pride, accepts Sonic’s help after his rival saves him, and becomes more cooperative in completely their goal of restoring their home, eventually succeeding]].

* HairTriggerTemper: The FatalFlaw of Nine, Thorn. {{Downplayed}} with Shadow. Their [[ConflictBall predisposition towards fighting instead of discussion]] causes them to end up making their respective problems worse: [[spoiler:Shadow’s habit of solving problems with his fists starts the whole conflict when he attacks Sonic after receiving the vision of the portal Sonic creates in New Yoke, instead of just telling him what he saw. Later, after spending the second half of "Avoid the Void" fighting with Sonic for his tech, and when he tries to enter Boscage Maze with them, he ends up sending himself rocketing towards the black hole at the bottom of the Shatterverse, due to lacking Sonic's Prism energy; Thorn unknowingly decimates the very jungle she's trying to protect; and Nine disbelieves Sonic's warnings that his abuse of the Prism is destroying reality as they know it, thinking the hedgehog is just lying to him. When finally snapped out of their frenzies, Nine and Thorn are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply ashamed]] at having let their anger make them so irrational, while Shadow humbly (if begrudgingly) swallows his pride, accepts Sonic’s help after his rival saves him, and becomes more cooperative in completely their goal of restoring their home, eventually succeeding]].

* HairTriggerTemper: The FatalFlaw of Nine, Thorn, and to a lesser degree Shadow, which contributes to their [[ConflictBall predisposition towards fighting instead of discussion]]. Each acts as impulsively as Sonic himself in their fury, with disastrous consequences: [[spoiler:Shadow almost gets himself killed when he tries to enter a Shatterspace and fails due to lacking Sonic's Prism energy; Thorn unknowingly decimates the very jungle she's trying to protect; and Nine disbelieves Sonic's warnings that his abuse of the Prism is destroying reality as they know it, thinking the hedgehog is just lying to him. When finally snapped out of their frenzies, Nine and Thorn are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply ashamed]] at having let their anger make them so irrational, while Shadow is left humiliated after Sonic saves him.]]

** [[spoiler:Sonic in season 1 saves Nine from bring killed by a mechanical, spin dashed through the powered up mechs, then thought Knucks, Rebel and Nine to spindah themselves, which they quickly get the hang of. Later, he had Thorn make peace with the scavengers by having them talk about their problems , which had them discover the errors of their way, settle their differences and they started working together in protecting the jungle. In season 2, Sonic save shadow from death in the void. later on, from Nine fusing energy from the prism to Sonic, he became Prism Sonic and saved Shadow from Dr. Deep and Dr. Babble by defeating them, then from more prism fused to him from nine, he took down an titan of Eggman from the inside. In season 3, Sonic protected his friends and the Chaos council from Nine's attacks by feeding power to their shatter drive and dome. The dome activated a shield. afterwards, he rescued the remaining No Place pirates with assistance from Rusty Rose, Black Rose, Dr. deep and Dr. Done it. In the finale episode, Sonic brought Nine to distract him from his comrade so they could crash into his base. He;d had Nine seen the damage he done to the shatter verse then assisted him to restore it by selflessly sacrificing himself. In the restored Greenhill Zone he and his real friends, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose and Rouge worked together as a team to make Eggman unhand the paradox prism and forced him away from it, defeating him before came to aid by teleporting himself away with the paradox prism from Eggmman]].

** [[spoiler:Sonic in season 1 saves Nine from bring killed by a mechanical, spin dashed through the powered up mechs, then thought Knucks, Rebel and Nine to spindah themselves, which they quickly get the hang of. Later, he had Thorn make peace with the scavengers by having them talk about their problems , which had them discover the errors of their way, settle their differences and they started working together in protecting the jungle. In season 2, Sonic save shadow from death in the void. later on, from Nine fusing energy from the prism to Sonic, he became Prism Sonic and saved Shadow from Dr. Deep and Dr. Babble by defeating them, then from more prism fused to him from nine, he took down an titan of Eggman from the inside. In season 3, Sonic protected his friends and the Chaos council from Nine's attacks by feeding power to their shatter drive and dome. The dome activated a shield. afterwards, he rescued the remaining No Place pirates with assistance from Rusty Rose, Black Rose, Dr. deep and Dr. Done it. In the finale episode, Sonic brought Nine to distract him from his comrade so they could crash into his base. He;d had Nine seen the damage he done to the shatter verse then assisted him to restore it by selflessly sacrificing himself. In the restored Greenhill Zone he and his real friends, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose and Rouge worked together as a team to make Eggman unhand the paradox prism and forced him away from it, defeating him before came to aid by teleporting himself away with the paradox prism from Eggmman]]).

** [[spoiler:Sonic in season 1 saves Nine from bring killed by a mechanical, spin dashed through the powered up mechs, then thought Knucks, Rebel and Nine to spindah themselves, which they quickly get the hang of. Later, he had Thorn make peace with the scavengers by having them talk about their problems , which had them discover the errors of their way, settle their differences and they started working together in protecting the jungle. In season 2, Sonic save shadow from death in the void. later on, from Nine fusing energy from the prism to Sonic, he became Prism Sonic and saved Shadow from Dr. Deep and Dr. Babble by defeating them, then from more prism fused to him from nine, he took down an titan of Eggman from the inside. In season 3, Sonic protected his friends and the Chaos council from Nine's attacks by feeding power to their shatter drive and dome. The dome activated a shield. afterwards, he rescued the remaining No Place pirates with assistance from Rusty Rose, Black Rose, Dr. deep and Dr. Done it. In the finale episode, Sonic brought Nine to distract him from his comrade so they could crash into his base. He;d had Nine seen the damage he done to the shatter verse then assisted him to restore it by selflessly sacrificing himself. In the restored Greenhill Zone he and his real friends, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose and Rouge worked together as a team to make Eggman unhand the paradox and forced him away from it, defeating him before came to aid by teleporting himself away with the paradox prism from Eggmman]]).]]