The character in the movie is around 12 or 13 years old in the first movie, but Sonic is 15 or 16 in the earliest video games. This results in reasonable differences in skill and maturity levels.

Some fans were therefore relieved to hear Sonic had settled down, while others were in an uproar, forcing the hand of Chris Hernandez, Sega's associate manager of Sonic the Hedgehog lore, who ...