Sonic's World


 * For the equivalent in the games also referred to as "Sonic's world", see Earth. For the version of this planet before the Super Genesis Wave, see Mobius (Archie).

Sonic's World is the main setting of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It is the home planet of the anthropomorphic animal species and humans. Much of the world is governed by the United Federation which is led by the President. Other territories are under the control of the Eggman Empire. However, even territories that are not completely under the Eggman Empire have bases stationed within them which are run by Egg Bosses.

Before the Super Genesis Wave

 * In the beginning of time, the planet came into existence. Following a constant cycle, Dark Gaia awakens once every ten thousand years to destroy the planet and the Light Gaia then restores it. The two of them would then return to sleep in the planet's core until they can awaken to continue the cycle.
 * Roughly 4,000 years ago: The Knuckles Clan, sought to take the mysterious Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds and harness their power. Their attempted raid angered the gems' guardian, Chaos, who, in a fit of rage, did away with the tribesmen. With Chaos dangerously enraged, Tikal sealed herself with Chaos into the Master Emerald, and the resulting burst of energy caused the land to rise from the ground, becoming Angel Island.
 * Fifty years ago: Aboard the Space Colony ARK, Professor Gerald Robotnik was forced by the President of that time to create the "Ultimate Life Form". Aided by the alien warlord Black Doom, they created Shadow the Hedgehog.
 * Dr. Ellidy's daughter Nikki passes away, prompting him to create a computer program to try and replicate her. The end result is a small, handheld computer.
 * Gerald's grandson, Dr. Eggman, becomes King Acorn's trusted advisor. A young Sally Acorn grows up in Mobotropolis with her father and Rosie Woodchuck. Dr. Ellidy retires from the kingdom and gives Sally his computer, whom she names "NICOLE". A young Antoine D'Coolette comes to Mobotropolis as part of an apprentice exchange program, with the intention of becoming a royal guard. Meanwhile, in Artika, a young Rotor the Walrus runs away from home for a better life after constant abuse from his father.
 * Dr. Eggman's coup d'état takes place, with Dr. Eggman banishing King Acorn and the royal wizard Walter Naugus into the Special Zone. Sally, Antoine and the other children are spirited away to Knothole Village by Professor Charles the Hedgehog and Rosie Woodchuck. Rotor has the misfortune of arriving in the city during the invasion, but quickly retreats to Knothole with everyone else.
 * Bunnie has half of her limbs replaced by cybernetic parts by Uncle Chuck, in order to save her life from an injury sustained during Eggman's first attack. She is rechristened "Bunnie the Rabbot".
 * With the aid of Dr. Julian Snively, Eggman tricks the guardian Knuckles the Echidna into revealing the location of the Master Emerald when the Death Egg crashed down on Angel Island.
 * On one occasion, Eggman kidnapped Tails and held him for ransom. During his quest, Sonic the Hedgehog ran afoul with the Super Special Sonic Search &amp; Smash Squad and rescued Breezie, who later betrayed him.
 * At some point, a young Amy Rose was kidnapped by Metal Sonic and held captive on Little Planet, only to be rescued by Sonic later on.
 * An Eggman plot involving the Egg Carrier, the Final Egg and Chaos being released from the Master Emerald takes place. It culminates in Perfect Chaos ravaging Station Square. It was during this time that Amy ran afoul of ZERO and Tails saved the city from a missile attack.
 * Shadow the Hedgehog is awakened.
 * Angel Island falls into the ocean, isolating Relic the Pika from the surface world below.
 * Metal Sonic is resurrected as "Neo Metal Sonic" and takes on the identity of Dr. Eggman, helping Breezie construct her casino empire in exchange for making it a deathtrap for Sonic and his friends. Later, Sonic and several other heroes, including the Chaotix, do battle against Metal Sonic's new form, Metal Overlord.
 * Emerl is activated, destroyed, rebuilt as Gemerl and rescued; now acting as a companion to Cream and Cheese.
 * The Black Arms invade the planet and are defeated thanks to Shadow the Hedgehog, with the Black Comet destroyed by the Eclipse Cannon. During the conflict, Commander Abraham Tower finally overcame his long-held hatred of Shadow.
 * An incident involving evil management at MeteorTech happens.
 * Sonic and Tails go on an adventure to rescue the Wisps. Silver the Hedgehog was also involved in said adventure.
 * Bunnie and Antoine marry.
 * A mishap involving Dr. Eggman's scheme to control a mysterious entity known as the Time Eater happens, trapping the doctor in the White Space. He comes into contact with Dr. Wily, an evil scientist from an alternate reality through the power of the blue Chaos Emerald, that ended up in Wily's universe. The two construct the Skull Egg Zone so that they can meet in person and built the Wily Egg.
 * Naugus imprisons King Acorn and forces Nicole to create a ring to restore his magic.
 * Rotor and Tails construct the Sky Patrol airship in the Mystic Ruins.
 * Antoine is sent to Knothole to watch over Uncle Chuck.
 * Bunnie is sent on an undercover mission to the Metropolis Zone.
 * Sally heads to Artika to infiltrate the Death Egg.
 * Dr. Eggman sends the Tails Doll to attack Mobotropolis. Sonic and Tails return from an adventure to rescue King Acorn as well as to follow-up on NICOLE, only to find the Tails Doll attacking New Mobotropolis.
 * Amy, Cream, Cheese, Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear are summoned to the Sol Zone by the power of the Sol Emeralds.
 * As these events unfold, Eggman and Wily launch the second Genesis Wave on their zones. With Sonic's World reset once again, the events of Worlds Collide take place: Sonic the Hedgehog and the hero of Dr. Wily's universe, Mega Man, team up in an adventure that takes them to the Skull Egg Zone, being pitted against the Roboticized Masters Dr. Wily's time-cloned Robot Masters, and many more. The Doctors attempt to use all seven Chaos Emerald to launch the "Super Genesis Wave", which will completely alter their respective worlds to the Doctors liking, with no limitations. Using the emeralds power to access their super forms, Sonic and Mega Man both attempt to reverse the wave. Super Armor Mega Man successfully restores his world to normal, while Super Sonic's attempt to restore Sonic's World is disrupted by Dr. Eggman, resulting in reality being shattered, creating the Genesis Portals.

Countdown to Chaos

 * Note: From the readers point of view, this picks up from where Mobius' original timeline ended.


 * Sonic blanks out, then awakens again with memories of Worlds Collide and of the old timeline. Tails memories of the old timeline also return after touching NICOLE. With the Tails Doll defeated, and Naugus out of the way (who exited Castle Acorn in a blind horror after his own memories of the old timeline returned), Sonic and Tails freed King Acorn from his imprisonment, before setting out to round up the New Freedom Fighters, and to defragment Nicole by using her to restore the Freedom Fighters memories. Elsewhere, Eggman, Orbot and Cubot, also having returned from the events of Worlds Collide, crash-land in the Efrika Plains. The group begin to get back to the Death Egg to find out what is happening to their world.
 * Sonic and Tails venture to the Mystic Ruins where they meet Big the Cat and reunited with Rotor, who has his memories of the old world return after touching. Providing the duo with their next lead, they set out to Knothole Village. Back in the Efrika plains, Eggman and his lackeys run into the Efrika Egg Army, led by Axel the Water Buffalo.
 * Sonic and Tails reunited with Uncle Chuck and Antoine in the Wood Zone, meeting Ben Muttski in the process. Antoine has his memories restored. Antoine gives Sonic and Tails the location of where Bunnie is. Meanwhile, Eggman arrives in Avalon and gains the aid of Lord Mordred Hood, before storming a G.U.N. Base before leaving.
 * Sonic and Tails meet Bunnie in the Metropolis Zone and obtain a shield generator for the Sky Patrol. Meanwhile Eggman meets with Tundra the Walrus and obtains transportation back to the Death Egg Mark 2.
 * Amy Rose and Cream return to Mobotropolis in time to help rescue Sally from a chasing Metal Sonic. Sonic and Tails return to defeat the robot. Both girls regain their memories in time for a horrible revelation: the Super Genesis Wave has caused the multiverse to collapse on itself (and then recreated) and Sonic's World, unable to contain the energies from it, shatters into pieces.

Shattered Worlds Crisis

 * Angel Island is rattled by the shattering of the world, Chaos is pulled from the Master Emerald and into the ocean below, and Tikal instructs Knuckles to search for a "spirit" that can restore the world. Knuckles leaves Relic the Pika to guard the Master Emerald in his absence.
 * G.U.N. begins Operation: Triage to deal with the Shattered World Crisis. Meanwhile the Black Arms, now led by Black Arms, returns in the New Black Comet to consume the planet. Commander Abraham Tower sends Team Dark and Spider Troupe to the comet to destroy it with a nuclear bomb. During their mission, the group run afoul of Black Death and Eclipse the Darkling, Shadow briefly falls victim to Black Death's mind control, and Spider Troupe are captured, before being rescued. Soon, Shadow hunts down Black Death and slay him, before the nuke blow up the comet. Eclipse the Darkling, however, flees in an escape saucer.
 * The New Freedom Fighters begin a rescue operation in Station Square. Meanwhile, Eggman learns of Professor Dillon Pickle and his research of the Gaia Manuscripts. This leads to him kidnapping the professor, along with Uncle Chuck.
 * The New Freedom Fighters track the kidnapped professors to the Soleanna Forest Zone, onboard the moving Egg Train. The professors are rescued by Sonic and taken back to the Sky Patrol, leaving their research, and the Gaia Manuscripts, in the hands of Eggman.
 * While managing repairs to Casino Park following the world shattering, the 6S uncover a Chaos Emerald and bring it to Breezie. She decides to hold a fighting tournament, with the emerald as a prize.
 * After days of searching, Knuckles is attacked by Dark Gaia Creatures, before the Chaotix show up to assist him. He agrees to help in their mission from Princess Sally to find the Chaos Emeralds. After running afoul of the Hooligans, the group track down the spirit, whom Charmy names "Chip", and a Chaos Emerald in the Aquatic Mine Zone. During Knuckles absence, Eclipse the Darkling lands in the Mushroom Hill Zone. Relic and Fixit head out to investigate, only to find a alien plant on the ground.
 * The New Freedom Fighters begin their hunt for Gaia Temples and Chaos Emeralds: Sonic, Amy and Rotor are sent to Meropis to find a Gaia Temple. Down there, they gain the aide of Razor, Coral and Pearly. After fighting off Dark Gaia Creatures, the group discover that Chaos is the one keeping the oceans from draining from the shattered planet. They return to the Sky Patrol without uncovering a Gaia Temple.  Meanwhile, Sally, Tails, Antoine and Nicole successfully snag a Chaos Emerald in Crystal Cave that the Egg Army had been mining for.
 * After Knuckles and the Chaotix successfully rescue Chip from the Hooligans, he's taken to the safety of Angel Island, and the Chaotix agree to let Knuckles hold on got to the Chaos Emerald until the New Freedom Fighters have gathered the other.
 * Tracking Eclipse after his escape, Team Dark arrive on Angel Island to hunt down the alien. Knuckles reluctantly agrees to aide in their search, leaving Shadow and Relic to guard the Master Emerald, only for Eclipse himself to appear to the both of them.
 * Sonic, along with Sally and Amy, reunite with Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel in the Rocky Jungle Zone, where they team up to retrieve the grey Chaos Emerald from an Egg Army digging site. They raid the area only to be caught in an electrical field. The stress of the situation causes Sonic to finally become Sonic the Werehog. After regaining control, Sonic decides to stay to undergo training with Moss the Sloth to overcome his beastly transformation, while the Freedom Fighters try to obtain a Chaos Emerald in the Sand Hill Zone. While Sonic manages to control his primal urges, the group's mission turns out to be a failure. They group back together and continue their search.
 * Breezie selects three certain members of the New Freedom Fighters to participate in her fighting tournament, while Eggman enters the Hooligans to even the odds. Meantime, Espio sneaks Knuckles' name into the list of contenders while he and Chip were busy scouting the casino lobby for Master Emerald shards. The fight escalates till only Sonic and Knuckles are the only contenders remaining, but their match is interrupted by the untimely arrival of Metal Sonic. Before he could snatch the prize Emerald from the unsecured vault, however, he is quickly dispatched by Tails, winning the emerald in the process. As the heroes make their exit, Sally receives a distress call aboard the Sky Partol from the priest of Apotos, Gregorios.
 * While aboard the Sky Partol, Nicole relieves another distress call from her creator, Dr. Ellidy, and transmits herself to his location in the Digital World. Sally, Big, and Tails fallow suit and journey to Ellidy's abode on Isolated Island. Upon being revived, Ellidy explains that he uncovered a mysterious phenomenon known as the Red Star Rings; and while exploring its properties, a mysterious glitch appeared in the island's mainframe and tried killing him while trying to fix it. Sally later learned of Ellidy's intentions for creating Nicole and why he despised her so, only to be attacked by both Dark Gaia's minions and the mysterious entity controlling the island's badniks. With Sally and Ellidy's help, Nicole is able to fight off the rouge virus known as Phage and lock it out of the system.
 * Meanwhile, at the Blue Coast Zone, Sonic has a brief encounter with Eggman's Egg SWATs when a mysterious portal opened in the sky, unleashing the once-imprisoned Ifrit. With help from Silver the Hedgehog, who had been sent to deal with the phenomenon, they were able to lure the beast back into its fiery domain.
 * Sonic, Antoine, and Chip locate Gregorios at a local temple, where he showed them the hidden Gaia Gate and gave them a list of locations which the families possessing keys to the Gaia Temples resided. Shortly after defeating a Dark Gaia Titan that night and locating another shard of the Master Emerald, the Freedom Fighters received a call from Rouge the Bat, telling them that G.U.N. had managed to locate another Chaos Emerald in the Crystal Desert Zone.

200 Years Later

 * Silver the Hedgehog investigates the Genesis Portals with the help of Professor Von Schlemmer.

Continents

 * Efrika
 * Eurish
 * Artika
 * Soumerca

Islands

 * Angel Island
 * South Island
 * Westside Island
 * Isolated Island

Main political factions

 * Eggman Empire
 * Egg Army
 * Kingdom of Acorn
 * United Federation

Cities and territories

 * Eggman Empire
 * Avalon
 * Bullet Station
 * Metropolis Zone
 * Kingdom of Acorn
 * Mobotropolis
 * Knothole Village
 * Meropis
 * United Federation
 * Apotos
 * Central City
 * Empire City
 * Shamar
 * Soleanna
 * Spagonia
 * Station Square
 * Westopolis

Zones and Areas

 * Anostos Rift
 * Azure Lake Zone
 * Aquatic Mine Zone
 * BINGO Highway
 * Casino Park
 * Blue Coast Zone
 * Casino Night Zone
 * Casino Paradise Zone
 * Casino Street Zone
 * Casinopolis
 * Carnival Night Zone
 * Chemical Plant Zone
 * Crystal Cave
 * Crystal Desert Zone
 * Emerald Coast
 * Green Hill Zone
 * Harbor Heights
 * Hydrocity Zone
 * IceCap Zone
 * Launch Base Zone
 * Lava Reef Zone
 * Marble Garden Zone
 * Metropolis Zone
 * Mushroom Hill Zone
 * Mystic Ruins
 * Pumpkin Hill Zone
 * Rail Canyon Zone
 * Red Mountain Zone
 * Rocky Jungle Zone
 * Sand Hill Zone
 * Sandopolis Zone
 * Scrambled Egg Zone
 * Sky Rail Zone
 * Sky Sanctuary Zone
 * Soleanna Forest Zone
 * Underground Zone
 * Wood Zone

Other

 * Little Planet
 * Lost Hex

Trivia

 * In the pre-Super Genesis Wave timeline, the planet was Mobius, but due to mandates preventing Sonic's World being dubbed Mobius or Earth, the term "Sonic's World" has been used since its introduction, indicating that "Sonic's World" is the new term for the planet, although it is unknown whether Mobius is still the name of the planet in universe.
 * Despite this change, other names that make reference to the planet's name, such as Mobotropolis, are still retained.
 * According to a post by Ian Flynn, only three video games have not occurred in the post-Super Genesis Wave world: Sonic Unleashed (as that is the current storyline), Sonic Lost World (which Ian says that he wants to deal with, but he can take his time to get there), and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (due to the ongoing litigation with Ken Penders and the fact that, storywise, it takes place in the future). Thus, unless contradicted in-story, it can be assumed that most of the video games are canon to the post-Super Genesis Wave world.
 * Ian Flynn has confirmed on his Twitter that the calendar system from past version of Sonic's World no longer applies to Sonic's World, nor does he have any intention of introducing a replacement calendar.