Sonic: Night of the Werehog

Sonic: Night of the Werehog is a 3D animated short by Sega based on Sonic Unleashed, which Sonic and Chip enter a classic haunted house that is haunted by 3 ghosts, 2 trying to win the affection of one ghost girl through photographing their scares. However the ghosts didn't expect the brave Sonic to be a werehog.

Plot
The short opens with two boys entering a haunted house while a rain storm comes down outside. As they explore the house, they are unknowingly watched by two Ghost Photographers, a tall slim one wearing a bandanna and a short fat one wearing a bow tie, and they take their photos the moment they scare them. Once they take their photos, they return to a female Ghost with long purple hair and present her their photos. In her room are various pictures of frightened people that the Ghost Photographers have taken photo of (marked each specifically with their special marks of a bandana and bow tie). Ultimately, the Girl Ghost chooses the Bandana Ghost's picture and kisses him. Just as the Bow Tie Ghost feels defeated, another knock comes at the door and he grins.

This time, Sonic and Chip enter the house together with Chip frightened by the surroundings while Sonic is interested in some things. The Bow Tie Ghost scares Chip when he passes by a mirror with a freaky reflection of himself and when he shows his taken photo, the Girl Ghost kisses him twice, seemingly taken a liking to Chip. Soon enough, the Ghost Photographers pop up everywhere Sonic and Chip go, scaring Chip and then getting his photos (one moment included Sonic teasingly scaring Chip, causing him to faint). The Girl Ghost was affected while looking at Chip's various photos until she was dismayed upon finding three of their taken photos showing Sonic, enraged they took photos of a fearless Sonic (three pictures show him holding a book, yawning and making a face at the camera).

Annoyed by Sonic, the two Ghost photographer come after Sonic and Chip in knight armor. As Chip cowers in fear, Sonic starts shuddering and collapses to his hands and knees. The full moon is revealed behind the clouds in an open window and Sonic undergoes his transformation into the Werehog. Once Sonic transforms, he scares both Ghosts into fleeing the scene. But when they return to the Girl Ghost, she was laughing uncontrollably because their cameras took their own scared faces by accident. Both Ghosts decide to team up, from absolute anger, and form a green glowing Minotaur-like Ghost to attack Sonic.

While Sonic uses his Werehog powers, the Minotaur Ghost gains the upper hand since it becomes invisible and unable to be struck by the Werehog's stretching punches. But as they fight, Chip discovers that Sonic can see the Minotaur Ghost by taking its photo. But even with the camera at his disposal, Sonic is unable to fight since he needs time for the photos to develop (three he has taken have the Minotaur Ghost making the same poses as when they took his photos).

Ultimately, the Werehog is tackled into a wall after losing his temper and attacking wildly. As Sonic lays unconscious on the ground, the Minotaur Ghost proceeds to take his photo. But this is the two Ghosts being greedy again, as they separate back to their previous forms with their bodies connected by the Minotaur's legs when fighting over the camera. As they fought over the camera and who take the photo, Sonic reawakens and attacks them by knocking them down and swinging them around by their legs before sending them flying out of the roof with a powerful punch. Since the camera went off just before Sonic sends the final blow, the Girl Ghost found the taken photo is of Sonic as the Werehog.

After seeing it, she falls in love with the Werehog and sees Chip as her way of getting closer. When day comes the following morning, Sonic exits the mansion as the Werehog followed a Chip-impersonating Girl Ghost (the Girl Ghost's heart mark can be seen on his face). She offers Sonic for a photo with him (her) and he agrees, while the real Chip is tied up in a chair in the mansion with the Bow Tie and Bandana Ghosts watching the Girl Ghost interacts with Sonic. When the photo was taken and developed, the Girl Ghost is shown in her Ghost Form. After the credits rolled, Sonic and the Girl Ghost departs together as the other Ghosts watches them and sadly sighed at Chip, struggling to escape. This can be questioned if Sonic really knew if the Chip who accompaning him was the real Chip or an impostor.

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Characters

 * Kid 1
 * Kid 2
 * Sonic the Hedgehog/Sonic the Werehog
 * Chip
 * Bandana Ghost
 * Bow Tie Ghost
 * Girl Ghost

Trivia

 * At the end, Sonic still remains the Werehog despite the sun being clearly seen above him. Though some may think that according to Sonic Unleashed, WereSonic changes back to Sonic whenever he comes in contact with light, this is not true, because if you pay attention and look closely whenever a cutscene shows Sonic reverting, you will see that the sun has not fully risen yet. The sun must fully rise or fall for Sonic to transform. However, this breaks traditional werewolf curses.
 * This short has no dialogue throughout the entire time, except for when Sonic says "Whoa" when he enters the mansion and "Oops." after scaring Chip for the tenth time and causing him to faint.
 * On Sonic Unleashed the two ghost photographers have also appeared in Spagonia and Adabat on the missions "Tower Terror" and "Fright Fight."
 * On Sonic Unleashed the ghost's cameras can also be seen in the scene were Sonic and Chip visit Eggmanland and Chip tries to take a picture.
 * The two ghosts bear a resemblence to Stretch and Fatso from the Casper movies.
 * Chip's personality in this special goes against his personality in Sonic Unleashed, as he's more brave towards enemies. Chip is a complete coward in this short and is easily scared when the game's Chip is not.
 * Through the whole short, Chip acts like Luigi from Nintendo's "Mario" series, as both are afraid of ghosts.
 * The Girl Ghost looks similar to NiGHTS.
 * "Sonic: Night of the Werehog" story is similar to "Luigi's Mansion", except Sonic was not lured to the mansion like Luigi was.
 * During the premiere, Comcast cable systems showed Night of the Werehog in its Video On Demand Service.