Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog tells the story of the world’s speediest hedgehog as he embraces his new home on Earth. In this live-action adventure comedy, Sonic and his new best friend team up to defend the planet from the evil genius Dr. Robotnik and his plans for world domination.
This movie contains 22 potentially triggering events.
The specifics aren’t explained but Sonic doesn’t have parents (at least at the beginning) and is later pushed through a portal by his caretaker to save his life, and then proceeds to spend the next ten years completely fending for himself in a strange world
There's something reminiscent of gaslighting: Even though Sonic is aware that the one man who has seen him is considered crazy by the townspeople for talking about "The Blue Devil", he not only lets the situation go on, he even has fun with it, sort of teasing the man when no one else is around. In Sonic's defense, he can't reveal himself to the "non-believers", because he's afraid of the possible consequences. And fortunately, the man doesn't seem to be questioning his own sanity. But still it seems to me to be gaslighting-ish to participate in a situation in which someone's correct perception of reality leads to others considering them "crazy".
Played comedically, but the sister of one of the humans is tied to a chair to get her out of the way of the heroes so they can go save the world, borrowing her car. She is later seen still tied up, asking the kids in the room to untie her.
No, but when someone dances to music in one scene, he puts on a holographic background of a dinosaur walking up, and he ducks his head down just as it bites down, making it appear his head was bitten off, until he turns around and lifts his head up.
No, but we see the childlike Sonic's small lifeless body more than once, people around him reacting with worry or sadness. These scenes are very reminiscent of situations in which a child is dying or has died.
In the prologue Longclaw (Sonic’s adopted mother) let’s herself be attacked by the tribe of Echidnas as a distraction while Sonic gets himself to safety. It’s heavily implied ,but not confirmed, that she might have died in the process
Someone accidentally electrocutes himself sticking something in his mouth for a split second (head twitches and silly vocallization), but appears fine afterward, then silently offers the same to someone else. Like a D battery on the tongue kind of joke.
One of the final scenes of the film shows Robotnik stranded on another planet after Sonic defeats him. Although he declares to himself that he's still sane, his actions show otherwise.
A woman is tied up in/to a chair for a considerable length of time. Three characters are caught between armed drones and a wall on a small, fence-less platform very high above the ground (the roof of part of a highrise) - people with vertigo should skip this scene.
Tom's cover for getting to the roof of the skyscraper is that there's a jumper on the roof. He says if they don't intervene, there will be a "human pancake"
There's Sonic's blue lightning as it appears in the trailers. There's also one scene where Robotnik is dancing in his lab, the camera is spinning and the lights are flashing.
Sonic calls a Black woman “pretzel lady.” This is because she does yoga, not because of her skin color, but the line could sound problematic out of context.
Government figures in a private conference refer to Robotnik as a "psychological flat tire" and "crazy", though he's actually an insensitive jerk. After hearing Tom's story, his sister-in-law tells his wife he's gone crazy, she should leave him, and no one would blame her for it. Tom calls Robotnik a "wack job". Sonic calls Robotnik "psychotic".
No, but there's a long car chase scene in which someone might very easily be hit by a car any second, seeing as they're on the outside of the chased car during part of the scene.
There is only mention of "plutonium" in the form of a question that is disproven, but plenty of other types of explosions, including a mysterious electricity-filled one that had a large bubble-like shockwave, which could trigger some.
A fish drowned. (I wasn't the person who upvoted, FYI, but no air-breathing people/animal drownings occured.) Half joke. But the fish was alive, dropped, and abandoned far from water, where it most-likely died from lack of water.
Realistic guns feature in some scenes but are not fired. A tranquilliser gun is fired and hits a target. Robotnik uses drones fitted with machine guns and rocket launchers and in one scene they're used to shoot up a room in a house, but nobody is injured by them.
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