At the end of the game, Sonic tells Sonic that he's 'gonna have a great future.' This is, in fact, true, because everything fan-made, from Ultimate Flash Sonic to things I shouldn't go into detail to every Sonic video on Youtube, NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO SONIC (at least in Sega's universe). This means that the only things that actually happened to the fictional blue hedgehog Sonic are in the games and the Olympic Games trailers. This also means that to blue hedgehogs, death by lasers is enjoyable. You should try it some time.
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