Key Takeaways
- Sonic fans were alarmed to discover the hedgehog might have finally found a home.
- Sega has previously confirmed Sonic doesn’t have a home, and fans seem to want it to stay that way.
- Sonic’s lore manager has stepped in to confirm the bio claiming the hedgehog has a home is incorrect
Sonic fans tend to be a pretty odd bunch and I’m allowed to say that because I’m one of them. If my word alone isn’t enough to convince you, then perhaps the rather odd reaction from fans to discovering the Blue Blur isn’t homeless anymore might sway you. Spoiler: they weren’t happy about it.
This all started with what many would label a pretty innocuous entry in the newly released 2025 Sonic the Hedgehog annual. In Sonic’s bio, it notes that the hedgehog lives in Green Hill Zone. To most, that probably goes without saying. It’s the first level in the original Sonic game, an area that has been revisited countless times, and it’s even where Sonic spends his childhood in the live-action movie.
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However, it’s not so much the area Sega chose for Sonic to reside in that has irked some of his more hardcore fans, but the insinuation that their hero lives anywhere at all. Since Sonic’s house has never been shown in any of the games, it was assumed that he doesn’t have a home to go to. That was officially confirmed in 2023 when Tails and Amy admitted Sonic is homeless, noting that he travels non-stop and sets up camp wherever he needs to stop.
Sonic Is Still Homeless
The Rumors Aren’t True
Quite sad if you think about it too much, and you’d have thought fans would have been relieved to discover he has finally found a place to call home. Quite the contrary as reactions to the annual entry claiming Sonic has an address were so vociferous, the Blue Blur’s associate lore manager Chris Hernandez felt compelled to step in and make things right.
Hernandez has reassured Sonic fans that the information in the new annual is a mistake and that Sonic is still a drifter. In fact, the lore manager claims this was a mistake noticed internally early on in the annual-making process, but somehow, an earlier, incorrect draft is the one that made it to print.
What’s that? Sonic has an associate lore manager? Well, yes, of course he does, and clearly it’s a job that needs to exist as there are a lot of you out there who take Sonic’s lore very seriously. Sega advertised for the job in 2022 and clearly, Hernandez was the right person for the job. I love Sonic, but I wouldn’t like to be the one in charge of figuring out the series’ lore and where everything falls on what is a very messy multiversal timeline, particularly with a fanbase unwilling to accept revisions, even if those revisions would greatly improve Sonic’s life.
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