How did sonic get his speed and color
How did sonic get his speed and color
In the video games and cartoons, he was simply born with both, but
in the British comics he was granted both in a scientific
experiment involving a chaos emerald. This same experiment is what
created sonics enemy, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.
From a design standpoint, Sonic was made blue to match the American
flag(when combine with his trademark red and white sneakers) and
was made fast to better sell segas system, which could supposedly
process information faster than other systems at the time.