4643: The Ultimate Science Fair
| The Ultimate Science Fair |
 Made by: TheCleanerDragon |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip depicts Garfield appearing to watch an episode of Sonic X about Chris Thorndyke entering Shadow the Hedgehog and a Chaos Emerald into a science fair, apparently to demonstrate Chaos Control. The Sonic X episode itself is completely fictional, and makes a few errors in how its lore is presented. Although Sonic and a number of other characters from the franchise did come to Chris's world from a different world in the Sonic X continuity, not once is that world in that series ever called Mobius--that term originated from Western-specific lore from the franchise's earlier days, and had been largely discarded by Sega of America by the time the first Sonic Adventure (Shadow first appeared in its sequel) rolled around in favor of faithfully translating the original Japanese continuity (in which the setting is a version of our own planet Earth), with only Sonic the Comic from the UK and the Archie Sonic comics from the US still using the term "Mobius" by the time Sonic X first hit Japanese airwaves (and the only continuity to reuse the term since then, and the first time by a new work since Sonic Underground, is that of the live-action film series. Even in Sonic X, Shadow did not originate from Sonic's world, he originated from the same world Chris did with the same backstory he had from Sonic Adventure 2, although Shadow did eventually travel to Sonic's world at the end of the original 52-episode run (the later Metarex saga, which takes place in the deep space around Sonic's world, was made later and primarily for international consumption). The third line stated through the television is, however, indeed a paraphrasing of one of Shadow's lines from Sonic Adventure 2, accurately describing the Chaos Emerald he was holding at the time.
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Original strip: 2020-09-03.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield is watching TV}
TV: My name is Chris...
TV: And this is Shadow from the planet Mobius
TV: And here is a jewel containing the ultimate power!
Garfield: And that's how you win the science fair
