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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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In 2022, Logan McPherson, the director of the animated series Sonic Prime, stated that the show is canon to the games, drawing upon their existing mythology. Ian Flynn would further support this claim, revealing that he knew when exactly in the series timeline the show took place in, but would not reveal it until after the show ends, while noting that something happens in the show to make it clear that it is indeed canon to the games. In 2024, after the release of Sonic Prime's third and final season, Ian Flynn finally confirmed the show's status in the overall Sonic timeline: aside from taking place sometime after the events of Sonic Advance 3, the show's placement is considered moot due to the ending Spoiler:having the show wipe itself out. In response to complaints regarding this outcome, Flynn claimed that its placement in the canon was intentionally vague, and the show being canon to the games at all was not his decision due to only being involved in the animated series as a consultant.

This makes Sonic Prime the first television series based on the Sonic franchise to be considered canon to the mainline series.
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Fate/Grand Order
Fate/Grand Order (2015)
subdirectory_arrow_right Fate/Stay Night (Game), Fate (Franchise)
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Attachment The "Fate/Unpublished Material" and "Fate/Side Material" booklets reveal an unused character for Fate/Stay Night. "Tachie", otherwise known as "Galahad", "Shielder", or "Stray Servant" was planned as an alternate Heroine Servant the player could have chosen instead of Saber. She was scrapped from the game as to keep the story manageable.

This character was also planned for the animated adaptation of Fate/Stay Night by Studio Deen, but was scrapped in favor of an adaptation of the "Fate" Route. An animated movie featuring Tachie was also considered, but also abandoned.

This unused character was later revisited and inspired the design for Mash Kyrielight, a seperate Shielder Servant and primary heroine of Fate/Grand Order.
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Adaptation, Artwork/Illustration, Character Design, Early Idea, Inspiration, Multimedia Adaptation, Removed Feature, Similarities, Unused Character
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Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong (1981)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment In 1983, an album was released on vinyl by Kid Stuff Records titled Donkey Kong (alternatively called Donkey Kong Goes Home), retelling the story of the video game of the same name. It is notable for not only potentially being the first time Mario was voiced (having an unknown release date in 1983, which was also the debut year of Saturday Supercade), but also giving Mario a stereotypical Italian accent with an "-a-" verbal tic as opposed to the gruff Italian-American accent that would be used in multimedia projects for the rest of the 80s (including Saturday Supercade), predating Charles Martinet's debut as Mario in Mario Teaches Typing by 8 years. According to Kid Stuff Mario voice actor Pat McBride, the reasoning for this voice direction was

"He was Mario, he had that Italian background, we knew what his occupation was, and we knew he was a really good guy, in my brain, if there were kids in the neighborhood, he’d always pat them on the head and say hi. He’d look out for everyone, so he became the real good guy."

Nintendo never gave the team behind Donkey Kong Goes Home any form of guidance for the project, and did not give any word - positive or negative - about the finished album beyond approving it.
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Coincidence, Merchandise, Multimedia Adaptation, Voice Acting
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Franchise: Five Nights at Freddy's
subdirectory_arrow_right Chuck E. Cheese (Franchise)
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Attachment Throughout October 2023, children's entertainment restaurant Chuck E. Cheese held a promotion titled "Five Nights of Fun", coinciding with the release of a movie based on Five Nights at Freddy's, a horror game franchise inspired by Chuck E. Cheese and littered with references to the company's history. The marketing for FNOF directly pastiches the poster for the FNAF movie and refers to the purple-furred character Mr. Munch as a "purple guy", referencing the overarching villain of the game series.

Despite the obvious parody, an alleged internal document was posted online by a former employee, who had left Chuck E. Cheese days prior to the promotion coming under scrutiny, informing employees that they should feign ignorance of FNAF during the promotion if asked by children or their parents. One example of terminology provided is:

SAY THIS
Oh, is there a movie coming out...? That's news to me! We're celebrating Five Nights of Fun in a row this October!

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Yeah, they wanted to combat that idea of that people think that we are like that place they have in the movie... so they did this
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Advertisement/Commercial, Multimedia Adaptation, Real Life, Reference, Rumor, Suggested
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Sonic Heroes
Sonic Heroes (2003)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sonic Skateboard (Game), Amy & Rouge Tennis (Game), Cream Flower Catch (Game), Tails Soccer (Game), Knuckles Baseball (Game), Shadow Basketball (Game), McDonald's (Franchise), McDonald's (Collection), McDonald's Sega Mini Video Games 2 Promotion (Collection)
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In 2004, a commercial for Sonic Heroes McDonald's Happy Meal LCD games was aired in Pakistan - this advert would become infamous abroad for the low quality of its CGI animation, with inexpressive and off-model Sonic characters playing sports. In particular, the segment for Amy & Rouge Tennis (incorrectly called "Rogue & Amy Tennis" by the narrator) features a version of Rouge the Bat who is unclothed and resembles a mouse, and the segment for Tails Soccer has a one-tailed Tails performing an own-goal.

An English-language reupload of the commercial has managed to amass over 8 million views as of 2023, and in 2015 the Sonic the Hedgehog social media pages acknowledged the commercial as being "creepy".
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Adaptation, Advertisement/Commercial, Meme, Multimedia Adaptation, Regional Difference
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Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (1992)
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Buffalo Bull was only a minor character in the Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa cartoon, serving as the village blacksmith, but was made into a playable character in the game to allow 4-player gameplay.
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Longplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUCGz4oNi8w

Final episode of the series featuring Buffalo Bull:
https://youtu.be/Nd_udCCx6dQ?t=116
Collection: Pajama Sam
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A pilot was made for a Pajama Sam television series that was pitched to PBS Kids, where Sam was aged up but inexplicably retained his onesie pajamas, and had a generic school bully as a nemesis. It supposedly had a high budget, and Humongous animator John Michaud, who revealed its existence, claims that it was fortunate it wasn't picked up.
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Cancelled Release, Multimedia Adaptation, Unreleased Content
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Donkey Kong 64
Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
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The infamous DK Rap was featured in the 2023 film "The Super Mario Bros. Movie", with the chorus portion used to chant Donkey Kong's name as he enters the Great Ring of Kong to battle Mario. Donkey Kong's voice actor Seth Rogen reacted to the DK Rap prior to the film's release, referring to it as "objectively one of the worst rap songs of all time." The original songwriter Grant Kirkhope expressed excitement upon hearing about the song's inclusion in the film, but was dismayed upon seeing that he was not credited as the song's original composer in the movie's credits.
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Multimedia Adaptation, Music, Real Life, Reference
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sonic the Hedgehog (Game), Sonic The Hedgehog (Franchise)
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Attachment The title screens of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with Sonic (a character known for his super speed) posing and waving his gloved hand inside of a ring lined with stars and a ribbon banner at the bottom, could possibly be taken from the logo of the 1981 anime adaptation of the Akira Toriyama manga "Dr. Slump" and its speedy protagonist Arale. It should also be noted that the ring surrounding Sonic has giant wings protruding from its sides, which appear to reference the angel wings on Arale's cap that also feature in the intros to the anime and some of the Dr. Slump films.

While it's not known if any Sega employees have commented on this connection, it was acknowledged in the form of a small cameo appearance where Sonic gets outrun by Arale in the 1993 sequel manga "The Brief Return of Dr. Slump".
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Cameo, Inspiration, Multimedia Adaptation, Reference, Similarities, Theory
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Franchise: Earthworm Jim
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Attachment In the 2020 graphic novel "Earthworm Jim 2: Fight the Fish!", Jim is given a shiny piece of aluminum foil, to which Jim refers to as "shiny entertainment," and Princess What-Her-Name comments on the "odd interplay of words." This is a reference to Shiny Entertainment, the company that created the Earthworm Jim series, and Interplay Entertainment, the company that bought out the Earthworm Jim series in the late 1990s.
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Easter Egg, General, Multimedia Adaptation, Reference
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Sonic X-treme
Sonic X-treme (TBA)
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Attachment Ian Flynn had stated on several occasions that, had he been given the go-ahead, he would have liked to incorporate Tiara and Gazebo Boobowski from the cancelled Sonix X-treme into the Archie Sonic comics, which were still ongoing at the time. However, during a Q&A from before the comic's cancellation, he confirmed that they would never appear in the comics, and could not disclose the legal reasons why.

Despite this, prior to Ian joining the team behind the Archie Sonic comics, Tiara did make two cameo appearances: first in Issue #134, where she was in the audience as Sonic and sally broke up, then in issue 138 as a waitress working at Uncle Chuck's diner (note that she has blonde hair and a purple top in this appearance).
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Ian Flynn confirming they would never appear:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190711225730/https://twitter.com/IanFlynnBKC/status/595667819502673920

Issue #134 of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archive), where she's standing next to Amy in the bottom row:
https://readallcomics.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-134/
Ultimate Custom Night
Ultimate Custom Night (2018)
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Attachment Twisted Wolf (a character from the Five Nights at Freddy's novel trilogy) is seen on a poster in the left hall.
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Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix (2005)
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During the end credits level, Mario/Luigi will appear in the background doing a dance that involves swinging his arms from side to side and taking a step in the direction of each swing. This could be a reference to "Do the Mario", the end credits theme to the 1989 animated series "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" during which the dance is performed by Mario, portrayed by professional wrestler Lou Albano.
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Easter Egg, Multimedia Adaptation, Reference, Similarities, Theory
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Killer7
Killer7 (2005)
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Attachment In 2006, Devil's Due Publishing began releasing a 12-issue limited series comic book adaptation of Killer7 that was written and drawn by the staff of independent company Kinetic Underground. The plot of the comic was somewhat streamlined from the plot of the game, but the writers deliberately did not spoonfeed information to readers in an effort to still stay true to the game. However, due to low sales, the comic was cancelled after six issues, four of those being properly numbered Issues #1-4, as well as a promotional Issue #0 that was released as a bonus with copies of Killer7 pre-ordered from EB Games, and a promotional Issue #½ that was only released at San Diego Comic Con 2005.
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Multimedia Adaptation, Pre-Order
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Tornado Outbreak
Tornado Outbreak (2009)
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Attachment In 2009, Loose Cannon Studios released a ten page comic that takes place before the events of the game. The comic reveals that Zephyr, Nimbus, and the army of Wind Warriors originate from Harmonium, a planet located within the Nadam Galaxy.
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General, Multimedia Adaptation
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Super Paper Mario
Super Paper Mario (2007)
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Six months after the American release of Super Paper Mario, American film director, producer, and screenwriter Seth Gordon, whose most notably worked on the 2015 film "Pixels", expressed interest in adapting a movie based on Super Paper Mario. Gordon was quoted as saying: "I'd love, really love, to adapt Super Paper Mario into a movie, a movie that would constantly switch from 2D to 3D. In five years, 3D cinema is going to be really big." Gordon however specified that he never had the chance to speak with Nintendo about his envisioned project, so his idea was eventually forgotten.
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Franchise: Spyro the Dragon
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Attachment In 2007, a computer animated feature based on The Legend of Spyro was announced. The movie would have been based on the then recent Legend of Spyro trilogy, and was originally going to be released around Christmas 2009, but was later pushed back to a different release date and was eventually cancelled. Daniel Altiere, who was a writer on the movie, stated that the movie was officially cancelled due to decisions made by ##Activision## to go in a different direction with the Spyro series, likely making reference to the Skylanders series.
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Franchise: Pac-Man
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During an interview with Namco Bandai's Mike Chang, it was confirmed that the Pac-Man in the Ghostly Adventures series is actually the son of the original Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man.
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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According to the Archie comics, Sonic the Hedgehog's real name was originally "Olgilvie Maurice Hedgehog", and was meant to act as a part of a never-used plot. However, due to one of the comic writers leaving the staff, this concept was never touched upon, and was eventually retconned as Sonic legally changing his name at an early age, leaving his actual first name a mystery.

This would later be referenced years later, where the Netflix description for the animated series "Sonic Prime" claimed that Sonic's middle name was Maurice.
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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In the continuity of Fleetway's Sonic the Hedgehog comics (known as "Sonic the Comic"), Dr. Robotnik was originally a kind human scientist named "Ovi Kintobor", who wished to rid Mobius of all evil using a device called the Retro-Orbital Chaos Compressor (or "ROCC" for short) to absorb all the negative energy on the planet, eventually using the six Chaos Emeralds as a vessel for the energy (Issue #181 would reveal that this was because the Drakon Empire had used them in the past to contain an experimental energy source known as "chaos"). However, six emeralds was not enough: he also needed the seventh Grey Emerald to stabilize the process. During this time, he met and befriended Sonic the Hedgehog, who used his impressive speed to help Kintobor in his search for the Grey Emerald, albeit to no avail (Issue #36 would reveal this was because the Grey Emerald was on the Floating Island with Knuckles). Kintobor would also run experiments on Sonic to test his speed, which eventually lead to him gaining his iconic blue form.

The day after this (according to Issue #71), when Kintobor went to go make them some food, he could only find a six month old rotten egg in the fridge. While going to add salt to the egg, he tripped on a cable and slammed his head against the ROCC's control panel, causing it to explode. Both Kintobor and the egg were bathed in chaos energy, transforming him into Ivo Robotnik, the main antagonist of the comic, and revealing that Sonic was responsible for "Creating the most vicious dictator on Mobius". All of this is revealed in Issue #8 of the comic.

Issue #71 revealed that the accident was actually caused by a time-travelling Sonic, who both placed the rotten egg in the fridge and pulled the cables loose. This was done to save the future from the Brotherhood of Metallix, who could only be stopped by Robotnik. Additionally, Issue #26 revealed that the explosion had somehow "burned" Kintobor's brainwaves onto one of the Golden Rings from which the ROCC had been built: it would later be used to construct the Kintobor Computer, an important part of the Freedom Fighters' resistance to Robotnik's rule.
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