Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24074103-20131121013359/@comment-679780-20131122050600

To some degrees it is difficult to tell what is chaos power and what is not.

For example, if the old canon still holds water (which I think it does) it is said that Sonic became blue after he overloaded a treadmill made especially for Sonic. If I recall the treadmill was made with cobalt and that when it exploded, partially the reason why that shade of blue as well as the metal known to be used in high-speed technology like jet planes. I know this quote of mine need citation, I can't remember where I picked that up other than vehicles but I think since Dr. Robotniks laboratory was powered by chaos energy, this blurs the line wherever Sonic's transformation was "natural" (I use term in a sense of cartoon physics) or chaos related. However Dr. Robotnik/Kintobor became Dr. Eggman/Robotnik afte a lab accident with a surge of chaos energy and an egg he was going to dispose of. The surge of energy pretty much fused the egg to his DNA. Yes Dr. Eggman is still regarded as a human, just the reason his egg like appearance is because his DNA consist slightly of a chickens gone-off egg.

But of course the early canon is disregarded and Sega's Sonic is considered always blue and fast just as Dr. Eggman has always been eggshaped but his DNA 100% human with no genetic tampering.