He often (at least in SatAM– I’m not as knowledgeable on Archie canon) needs help understanding English words and asks for translations or butchers pronunciation. His original surname, Depardieu, is a French surname– I don’t believe D’Coolette is a real surname but it is supposed to sound French with the “d’” structure.Īntoine speaks in an exaggerated French accent, which is spelled phonetically in the comics so that it can still come across. Metal Sonic is a robot but as he’s supposed to be near identical to Sonic, I think we can put Metal under the same coding (no pun intended).Īntoine Depardieu/D’Coolette the Coyote – FrenchĪntoine is very very obviously coded as French, first in the SatAM television show he debuted in and then in the Archie comics. Sonic’s newest VA for Sonic Prime, Devon Mack, is also Black!Įdit : noticed that in Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic is reading the Arabian Nights in Arabic, which is the official language of Egypt as well as several other African and Southwest Asian countries!Īs we’ve established Sonic is Egyptian, I think we can also safely assume that his bio fam is as well– Sonia and Manic were in that Underground episode after all, and as Underground doesn’t seem to give them a father I think we can safely assume that the royal lineage is through Aleena. The 60s Disco Era, which was suuuper associated with African-Americans.įinally (so far), Sonic’s first english voice actor was Jaleel White for the first three television shows, who is Black he set the standard for english!Sonic’s voice and what he should sound like. Style), he tries out what looks like a Flat Top haircut and NaturalĪfro in the latter, he specifically strikes a pose very reminiscent of With his quillstyle and is seen experimenting with different styles.īefore he settles on the mohawk (very much resembling his AoSTH-SatAM

Then in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022), there’s a scene where Sonic messes And pointed out that his design is most likely based on an African Pygmy Hedgehog, which live in “west, central and east Africa.” So, in two different adaptations Sonic has been given explicit African also pointed out to me that Sonic Adventure 2 has a lot of hedgehogs all over the pyramid locations, and pointed out that his shoes are based off of Michael Jackson’s shoes in the music video for “Bad ” Jackson is a very celebrated African-American musician. Heiroglyphs, with a mummy behind them, Amon-Rapi is literally dressed asĪ pharaoh wearing a variation on a Khepresh, his name is obviously a play on Amun-Ra… yeah, they’re Egyptian. In this pic, they can be seen posing in front of a wall containing

Very clearly from Ancient Egypt and looks like Sonic. Which is protected by one of their ancestors, Aman-Rapi, who is again They use the book to find directions to a magic scroll He also looks exactly like Sonic.Īnd SPEAKING OF enchanted mummy hedgehogs! In the Sonic Underground episodeġx22, “Mummy Dearest,” Sonic is AGAIN explicitly given ancient egyptianĪncestry, when he and his siblings find a book talking about theirįamily history. Sonic a chaos emerald to kick Robotnik’s ass. Later in the episode they end up inside a pyramid and meet yetĪnother ancestor of theirs, who is an enchanted mummy hedgehog. Masonic is specifically designed to look almost exactly like Sonic.

Great-great+ grandparents and live in ancient Egypt. To stop him and we meet Masonic and Penelope who are Sonic’s Scheme,” Robotnik goes back in time to try and prevent Sonic from everĮxisting by keeping his ancestors from meeting. In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog 1x50, “Robotnik’s Pyramid We’re gonna start with Sonic the Hedgehog himself– who is very much coded as Black, specifically of Egyptian descent. We are going to start with Sonic himself, and then do the rest in alphabetical order! Let’s go!

If I accidentally said anything offensive, please let me know so I can correct it!.

I am going to say: some of these may seem pretty obvious, but at the same time I’ve seen people miss them, so I’ll be including both the “obvious” and “obscure” coding.

Despite the fact that a good chunk of Sonic characters are anthropomorphized animals, a large amount of them have been given explicit or implicit coding that aligns with cultures that we see on Earth! I’ve found it hard to find a detailed list of it all online, so… I made one!

Which sonic character are you