“It didn’t make any sense.”
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As more characters sign up with the Sonic the Hedgehog motion picture series, fans have actually wondered when their preferred huge feline – Big the Cat – will appear.
Talking to IGN together with the launch of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the film series’ composing duo Pat Casey and Josh Miller exposed a Big the Cat cameo had really been composed for the previous movie – just to be left on the cutting space flooring.
(There’s no spoilers here for the brand-new motion picture, we must include.)
In Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Big the Cat would have turned up in skeletal type as Sonic went through a cavern. Within it, audiences would have gotten a fast look at Big’s decayed body. Dark.
Still, confusingly, this may not have actually been the Big the Cat fans understand and like, the duo continued – which possibly is why the series never ever made it on screen.
“In one draft of Sonic 2, when they’re going through the snowy mountains to the cavern, we had a bit, since Sonic 2 was sort of an Indiana Jones,” Casey stated.
“Indiana Jones, it’s a trope that eventually a skeleton pops out at you and terrifies you. We were going to do that, however with a skeleton of a, I would state, a Big the Cat, not always-”
“Not always the Big the Cat,” Miller inserted.
“But we wound up sufficing,” Casey concluded. “It didn’t make any sense.”
No Big the Cat. On the advantage, for fans of the character, no dead Big the Cat either.
Fans have actually formerly commemorated whenever Big has actually turned up for many years – in Sonic Frontiers, Sonic Racing, Sonic Prime and even Lego Dimensions.
“Sega and Paramount more carefully line up video game and movie worlds for a genuine Sonic romp with included Keanu cool,” Ed composed in Eurogamer’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie evaluation.
What’s next for the Sonic movies after Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s post-credits scene? Eurogamer’s resident Sonic fan Ed has a spoilery guide.
