The Sonic The Hedgehog spin-off show will be about Adam Pally learning to be an “Echidna warrior”
The series will star Idris Elba as Sonic's friend Knuckles
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We heard more than a year ago that Paramount was working on a TV spin-off of its Sonic The Hedgehog movies that would center around Idris Elba’s Knuckles The Echidna—introduced as an ally of Jim Carrey’s Eggman before joining the good guys in Sonic The Hedgehog 2. We didn’t know much else about the show at the time, possibly because the studio didn’t want to spoil the very important and twist-filled plot of Sonic 2 (James Marsden is… in it?), but now Variety has some pretty cool details about what to expect from Knuckles. (Hey, we’re as surprised as anyone.)
For starters, the show will star Adam Pally as the main human, reprising his role as the Adam Pally character from the Sonic movies (Variety says he was called Wade Whipple, but there’s no way to confirm that), and it will focus on Elba’s Knuckles training him in “the ways of the Echidna warrior.” So it’s Cobra Kai, but with Adam Pally and a giant red anteater thing that is good at punching and can sort of fly. If you were to completely divorce that from any Sonic The Hedgehog baggage it may have, doesn’t that sound like a really fun show?
In addition to Idris Elba (oh, right, the red anteater guy is voiced by Idris Elba) and Adam Pally, Knuckles will feature Edi Patterson, Julian Barratt, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, and Ellie Taylor. Rory McCann from Game Of Thrones (the Hound!) will have a guest star appearance, as will Tika Sumpter (who played Maddie in the movies).
It doesn’t sound like Sonic himself will show up, unless he’s just going too fast for anyone to see him, but Variety does say that the show will take place between the events of Sonic 2 and the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog 3, which is set to come out in late 2024. That means this might be required viewing to understand the future of the Sonic franchise, and it’s on you if Adam Pally shows up in Sonic 3 as a badass Echidna warrior and you don’t know how and why that happened.
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Sounds like the joke you’re trying to make is that you didn’t watch the Sonic movies, despite being a site that focuses on such things. You might think it funny because you’re trying to make the movies sound like they’re not worth your time, but it instead comes across as being bad at your job. You can do better.
Can he do better, though?
I’m not going to be mean about this. He can and has done better writing here. But this attempt at humor was disappointing.
You’re right, I’m being an asshole. I can do better, too. Thanks for that.
oh, is that what that was. Thanks, i actually needed it. I had no idea what this article was trying to say
That means this might be required viewing to understand the future of the Sonic franchise Sonic and Jeff Fowler run out with the MCU roadmap and go “too late sucker, you don’t get to complain about multiplatform franchises anymore, you already bought in to the concept, remember?”
This is really stretching my “watch everything with Julian Barratt in it” rule, but I guess that’s just life.
The real twist is that Knuckles is an anatomically accurate echidna in the show!
Variety says he was called Wade Whipple, but there’s no way to confirm thatnot gonna lie, I lol’d