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The Mushroom Planet is a location that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series produced by Paramount Pictures and its spin-offs. It is a planet in the Earth's universe that, like its name implies, is filled with mushrooms.
Description[]
The Mushroom Planet has a muggy brown sky with a piercing sun, and it seems to possess at least two moons. The planet has a breathable atmosphere but is otherwise uninhabited by animal lifeforms. The surface of the planet shows signs of a rocky terrain with the occasional cave entrance on the surface,[1] but is otherwise covered in flora like yellow-brown moss,[1] small brownish-green bushes[1] and, of course, mushrooms in all sizes that are so dominant that they grow on top of each other. According to Sonic, the mushrooms on the Mushroom Planet are "gross" and "smelly". There is also water on the planet.
Befittingly, the planet houses a vast variety of mushroom plants: some mushrooms are edible and rich on nutrition (although ingesting certain types may leave the consumer in a temporary trance) while others have taken on the characteristics of carnivorous plants. One breed of the latter in particular are blue mushrooms with teeth sharp enough to piece the human skin that will pop out from inside their stalk when their top parts are plucked. These mushrooms can grow from a miniscule size to the size of an adult human. However, like most living things, they are vulnerable to fire.[1]
History[]
Film series[]
Past[]
As a part of Longclaw's emergency instructions, Sonic was scheduled to go into hiding on the Mushroom Planet if he was ever discovered on Earth.
Sonic the Hedgehog[]
During a battle with Dr. Robotnik on Earth, Sonic the Hedgehog and Tom Wachowski managed to banish him (along with his Eggpod) to the Mushroom Planet with the use of a Ring.
Robotnik, surviving his arrival on the planet for about 3 months, would spend his time looking for a way back to Earth. However, after spending nearly three months on the planet, Robotnik lost his grasp on his sanity. Eventually, with some remains from his Eggpod and one of Sonic's re-energized quills, Robotnik resumed scouring the Mushroom Planet with a stone he replaced Agent Stone with, confident that he would be able to return to Earth soon.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2[]
On Robotnik's 243rd day (via about 8 months) on the Mushroom Planet, he had his morning routine while drinking mushroom coffee. Soon after, he would finish building an energy beacon, powered by Sonic's chaos energy-infused quill, from his Eggpod to attract visitors in an attempt to return to Earth and exact his revenge against Sonic. Upon hooking Sonic's quill up to his invention however, Robotnik created an energy pulse so great that it spread far into space and knocked him out. Later, at night, three alien scavengers appeared from a Ring. Awakening soon after, Robotnik took them out with traps he had set up on the Mushroom Planet. When Robotnik tried to escape from the planet through the scavengers' Ring however, Knuckles the Echidna emerged from the portal. Upon seeing Sonic's quill in Robotnik's hand, Knuckles demanded to know where he got it from. In response, Robotnik told him where and offered to help lead Knuckles to Sonic. Agreeing to the deal, Knuckles got Robotnik off the Mushroom Planet.
Comics[]
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Adventures of Sonic & Donut Lord[]
In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Adventures of Sonic & Donut Lord, after accidentally revealing his presence on Earth, Sonic planned to go into hiding on the Mushroom Planet. Fortunately for him, this plan never came to be, as he eventually found a new home with the Wachowskis.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill[]
While stranded on the Mushroom Planet, as Dr. Robotnik reflected on his current situation and Sonic, the doctor vowed that he would survive on the Mushroom Planet and find a way back to Earth. As he looked for food to sustain him while he rebuilt his Eggpod, Robotnik found an edible type of mushroom, which he began collecting. As his search took him into a cave with a surplus of those mushrooms however, he ended up disturbing some of the local carnivorous mushrooms. Despite them posing a threat to him, Robotnik obstinately kept plucking mushrooms until he had awoken a swarm of carnivorous mushrooms. Even when swarmed by these fungi however, Robotnik refused to let himself die here. As he then came face-to-face with a giant carnivorous mushrooms which tried intimidating him, Robotnik used his hand-made, wrist-mounted flamethrower to destroy it. Robotnik then proclaimed as he left the cave that he would destroy anything that gets in his way on this planet and return home to get revenge on Sonic.[1]
Some time later, an unusually erratic spike of chaos energy appeared on the Mushroom Planet.[2]
TV shows[]
Knuckles[]
During the Reno incident, Agent Fairley was sent to the Mushroom Planet by Agent Mason, unbeknownst to him about Agent Willoughby and Mason's real intentions with Knuckles.
Trivia[]
- The Mushroom Planet strongly resembles Mushroom Hill.
- The Mushroom Planet in the end credits scene of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is represented by the sprite art of Mushroom Hill Zone from Sonic & Knuckles.
- The symbol on Sonic's map for the Mushroom Planet is of silhouettes of mushrooms from the Zone.
- In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Official Movie Novelization, it was stated that the Mushroom Planet consisted of a giant forest with mushrooms in every size, similar to Mushroom Hill Zone.
- In the first trailer of the Sonic the Hedgehog film, the sky of the Mushroom Planet was turquoise, resembling that from Earth. However, in the final film, it is light brown colored.
- The lighting in was changed in the second movie to be a little more lighter.
- The real life Earth is stated to have once been a Planet filled with giant Mushroom's before trees came to existence millions of years ago.[3]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill, "Mushroom With A View"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill, "Two For The Road"
- ↑ https://www.geologyin.com/2020/03/when-giant-mushrooms-ruled-earth.html#:~:text=Once%20upon%20a%20time%2C%20over,(1%20meter)%20in%20di