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Green Hill Zone[2] is a location that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series produced by Paramount Pictures and its spin-offs. It is a tropical region on Sonic's island where Sonic and Longclaw used to live.
Description[]
The landscape in Green Hill Zone, from Sonic the Hedgehog (film).
The landscape of Green Hill Zone consists of brown, checkerboard patterned soil with grassy hills, open fields, various mountain sides, sandy beaches, cascading waterfalls, and abstract cliff formations, such as loop-de-loops and ramps. There are also various types of flowers resembling sunflowers, palm trees, regular trees, bushes, and smaller forms of vegetation. Highly pristine, the region itself has very few known artificial constructs in it, featuring only a few wooden hanging bridges, fences, totems, bridges and Giant Owl reliefs, along with a couple of small wooden huts in the tree tops that served as Longclaw and Sonic's place of residence.
Following the fall of Longclaw in this region, the Green Hill Zone became sacred ground.[1]
History[]
Film series[]
Past[]
Sonic and Longclaw's home in Green Hill Zone, from Sonic the Hedgehog (film).
While living in Green Hill Zone, a toddler Sonic would one day return home from a run through the region in order to bring a flower to Longclaw. Soon after Sonic got home to Longclaw however, the pair were attacked by the echidna tribe. As the echidnas launched their attack, Longclaw tried to escape with Sonic, but got injured by an arrow fired by Pachacamac, thus leaving her with no choice but to open a portal to Earth with a Ring and sent Sonic through it with her remaining Rings in order to keep Sonic safe. Longclaw herself, however, remained behind in Green Hill Zone in order to keep the echidnas at bay while the Ring portal closed.
Comics[]
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill[]
After Longclaw's death, a memorial was put together in her hut. Green Hill Zone soon became sacred ground that no one would set foot in out of respect. In the years since its abandonment, Green Hill Zone would become somewhat dilapidated, with its loops collapsing and its manmade structures being overtaken by vegetation.[1]
Tails having arrived in Green Hill Zone, from Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill.
Roughly ten years later, Tails traveled by Ring to Green Hill Zone to visit Sonic and Longclaw's former home. Inside it, Tails scanned her memorial with the Miles Electric and picked up Sonic's chaos energy radiating from an old drawing of his. Tails then configured the Miles Electric to scan various planets for a matching energy signature, narrowing down potential planets Sonic could be on, before using a Ring to travel to Marble Zone to begin his search.[1]
Trivia[]
- Green Hill Zone is based on the Zone of the same name from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
- The town of Green Hills is represented by the sprite art of Green Hill Zone from the original Sonic the Hedgehog in the 16-bit credits scene of the film.
- Despite Sonic being forced to flee his home planet as a child and not returning since, in some trailers for Sonic the Hedgehog, he is shown running through the zone at his current age[3]. This was accomplished by reusing animation from other parts of the film and editing it into the scene.
- The Island's brown-checkered walls and grass appear on the Chao Garden restraunt's stage as decorations.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill, "Two For The Road"
- ↑ Sonic Movie Director & Ben Schwartz WATCH Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) [Commentary Highlights]. YouTube. Film FERRET Edits (11 February 2022). Retrieved on 3 April 2022.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szby7ZHLnkA
