STUCK in the tube?!| BumbleKast for February 12th, 2024 - Ian Flynn Q&A Podcast

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  • @J.R.Unbound
    @J.R.Unbound 6 місяців тому +49

    February 12th, 2024 Question Timestamps:
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    1:36 - Hey there, nabbed this question from nightfurylover31 from off of tumblr. After months of research, Eggman discovers the ultimate weapon to use on hedgehogs! A giant toilet paper tube! Is Sonic tempted to stick his head in it? Would he get stuck? Can the other hedgehogs resist the urge to try?
    4:41 - We now see that Sonic with Enerjak is a chill but styling hedgehog in Golden Armor, we know all there is about Archie Knux as Enerjak, but I gotta ask... The one to take over the hex isn't Knux, but our favorite edgelord! How do all the Shadows (Games pre-ShTH, X, Boom) under the influence of Enerjak go?
    5:47 - Whisper agrees to go to a costume party with Tangle but doesn’t want to wear a costume. Tangle says she’ll make Whisper part of her costume and goes as little red ridding hood. Is Whisper embarrassed or insulted?
    6:52 - Heeeeello Ian! Is Dr. Deep's goatee fake? It looks pretty fake to me
    8:10 - When most people talk about Sonic and Nicky in the Shogakukan manga, they usually refer to them in the sense that Sonic is nothing but the secret identity of Nicky. But, in the issue entitled "At Last, We Learn the Truth About Sonic!!", it is shown that 20 years before the events of the Manga, Sonic Helped Nicky's father, Paulie, from nearly crashing his plan. This event would lead to Paulie Meeting the woman he would later marry, Brenda. Because of this, that would have to mean that Sonic existed way before Nicky was even a thought in his parents heads. This leads me to believe that Sonic, in this universe, is actually a spirit who sometimes gains possession over Nicky and not the secret identity of Nicky. Think of it like an ancient god sometimes getting possession over a random elementary Schooler sometimes. The kid himself is not the ancient god. Would my thought process be right on this, or am I simply thinking about it wrong?
    9:56 - HappyTimes recently pointed something out to me regarding Enerjak. In his first appearance, Enerjak yeeted Knuckles and Archimedes into the middle of the Sandopolis Zone. In his second appearance he left the Chaotix for dead in the Sandopolis Zone too, tied up to bake in the blistering heat. Then when Knuckles took on the mantle of Enerjak, he yeeted all the dingoes into the middle of the Sandopolis Zone. So would you say that yeeting your enemies into the Sandopolis Zone is part of the package of becoming Enerjak? Is it as the saying goes: “Phenomenal cosmic power, yeeting enemies into the desert”? Or is this more of a case of Knuckles being easily influenced by Dimitri’s previous actions as Enerjak - “Knuckles see, Knuckles do”? Does it specifically have to be the Sandopolis Zone, or will any old desert work?
    11:37 - What are a couple of your favorite anime that people may deem “Underrated”? Personally. I love FOOLY COOLY so weird and out there but not for everyone.
    13:44 - Sonic in the latest fang special was very on point and liked by everyone. Why can't he be written like this in the main comics or even in the games?
    *”Everyone” is optimistic*
    14:22 - Do you think that the Sonic movie design front the leaked Chris Pratt poster and the test footage would have faired better if it was the one that was in the original trailer for the Sonic Movie?
    15:25 - Is there anyone in the sonic cast eggman doesn’t know the name of? Of course he knows the names of Sonic, shadow, knuckles etc, but I think the idea that he calls tails “fox boy” because he thinks so little of him that he couldn’t be bothered to learn his name is absolutely hilarious and the most “eggman” thing to do
    18:17 - Starline’s isekai adventures continue! This time he falls into the first episode of Sonic Prime, but he falls straight into the paradox prism, so he ends up being the one who destroys it instead of Sonic, thus taking his place within the show. How does the events of "Starline Prime" go?
    19:56 - Is Blaze having Iblis inside her canon or a guess?
    21:14 - What's your karaoke choices if you both had to do karaoke together?
    21:53 - Starline is isekai'd into the Classic era and meets his younger self. What does Classic Starline look and act like, how does each Starline react to the other's fashion sense, and what does Modern Starline do to help his past self, what with knowing what his own future holds? Or does he even try to help, knowing he'll create a time paradox if he gives himself any advice or insight? And last but not least, how long before he gets stuffed into a Motobug?
    24:42 - What if Orbot joined Sonic as his newest sidekick?
    25:24 - On a beautiful day on Angel Island, what are mighty and knuckles doing as a date?
    25:50 - You’ve spoken about how difficult it can be to get characters into different outfits but it SEEMS outfit changes have become more common in IDW since the early days of the book so I’m wondering, is it still difficult getting outfit changes approved by the bosses? Personally I’d like to see Vanilla and Clutch rocking some different outfits haha
    26:43 - What was striking Sonic at the entrance of every new island in Sonic Frontiers?
    27:51 - It's Valen-times! So, do you like cloth? >KO)->
    29:02 - Lately I've been playing games with silent protagonists and Adol from Ys has stuck out to me. While he isn't always a silent protagonist, he writes his adventures in a journal. He clearly talks to many people but is portrayed silent and it's frustrating to me. Anyways what is your take on silent protagonists and how would you write one?
    33:03 - Discord suggested Shadow as Poly With Everyone "for all the people on that planet"... how do outsiders Blaze & Yacker react to Shadow going full Yivo?
    34:28 - Diamond Cutters Live AU Time! In an ideal world, where the Diamond Cutters were never wiped out, how would the leadership dynamic change if both Lanolin AND Smithy were on the team?
    37:08 - Hey Ian, could you and Kyle sing the song "Raisin' Me Up" from Sonic Rush together? One could sing the chorus and the other the main lyrics, also feel free to ask anyone else on the team to join
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    39:18 - Outtake 1
    40:08 - Outtake 2
    41:13 - Outtake 3

  • @PinkWolfieLove
    @PinkWolfieLove 6 місяців тому +34

    Sonic and Shadow sitting in a tube~
    K-I-S-.........!

  • @shadoubreak
    @shadoubreak 6 місяців тому +38

    Sonic and Shadow in the smooch tube

  • @NightFuryLover31
    @NightFuryLover31 6 місяців тому +103

    MY QUESTION GOT ANSWERED AND IS IN THE THUMBNAIL! Thank you N’oni, and Ian for answering this! I love the answer!

  • @mr.incredivenom
    @mr.incredivenom 6 місяців тому +29

    I can actually see shadow kind of smiling that Sonic’s head is stuck and then he’s going to be like “fine hold still” then he gets stuck and sonic says “who’s laughing now”

  • @comicfan1324
    @comicfan1324 6 місяців тому +37

    If Amy had just gotten there five minutes earlier earlier, she could’ve had fun in the tube and all she would be able to see is sonic on the other end. It would’ve been a win-win for her.

  • @AmazingJaty2006
    @AmazingJaty2006 6 місяців тому +21

    I love that Sonic being that sitting position,how cute!

  • @combatmaster
    @combatmaster 6 місяців тому +14

    The paper tube is the best question in history!!! ❤❤❤

  • @infiniteoctopaw
    @infiniteoctopaw 3 місяці тому +3

    Sonic and Shadow heads stuck in the tube.
    Sonic muffled: "I found you, faker!"

  • @brichumlb
    @brichumlb 6 місяців тому +10

    SMOOCH TUBE KSDSKDKDSKD I'M DYING

  • @Slimeonian
    @Slimeonian 6 місяців тому +17

    Sleepy Sage in the thumbnail art 🥺

  • @zionflanders376
    @zionflanders376 3 місяці тому +2

    3:02 the silver impression is soooo freaking funny

  • @jackhumphries1087
    @jackhumphries1087 6 місяців тому +10

    My headcanon was that sonic was being shot down by the giant mounted guns on ares and chaos island, since those are the only islands that have them and are the only ones where sonic gets shot down on arrival

  • @J.R.Unbound
    @J.R.Unbound 6 місяців тому +13

    19:56 Here’s my best attempt at providing “hard counterarguments”. There are 2 reasons why Iblis still being in Blaze makes very little sense (to me):
    1. Sonic and Elise went back in time and blew out Solaris, killing him and wiping the events that took place in 06 from existence. How can Iblis still be in Blaze when he shouldn’t even exist (since Solaris is dead and never split) and Blaze meeting Iblis + her going to the future was retconned? Blaze doesn’t remember 06, so she was clearly affected by the wipe… unless you take that one bit of dialogue from Generations as gospel, but considering she also doesn’t remember her time with Silver and IDW Issue 64 shows she only recently learned about Soleanna, I think this can be placed in the same bin as “You’re the Sonic from a different dimension”. That being said, since Crisis City is still around somewhere in time, I guess you could use the same logic Ian applies to the “Time Eater/Mephiles” theory if you really wanted to (where a bit of Mephiles and therefore Iblis survived the erasure), but that’s purely fan theory and doesn’t do much against the next point.
    2. Blaze struggled to keep Iblis contained in 06, so why is it so effortless for her now? She was audibly under strain trying to keep him sealed, and she straight up told Silver to freeze her in time (presumably permanently) and teleport her to a different dimension so she could act as a permanent seal. Surely Blaze would notice Iblis being inside her, right?
    To summarise, if you wanted to share this accurately as a factoid like Ian said, you’d have to do it like this:
    “06 shows Iblis might still be in Blaze, but only if you ignore what happens in 06.”

    • @Pikmanipulator
      @Pikmanipulator 6 місяців тому +1

      You pretty much summed up my thoughts, though I might as well put out there that the belief (that Shiro Maekawa, at least, seems to have) that Iblis exists after 06 may indicate that Solaris wasn't exactly wiped from canon, but the _memory_ of Solaris was. ...Which I guess means that Blaze does have Iblis inside her still, but it settled down, hence the lack of struggle? And now she's harboring that creature with absolutely no knowledge of it (unless her dialogue in Generations means that she regained those memories upon the restoration of Crisis City in White Space, but I always found it weird how her reaction to regaining those memories was so apathetic). And considering that all it takes to release Iblis is for the host to cry, Blaze better not cry in the future or all heck will break loose again.
      Personally, I would prefer for that not to happen (and it probably won't) since it would require the audience to be familiar with the events of 06 to understand what's even going on--something I'm sure Sega would rather avoid touching on--plus the whole prospect of dealing with an entity that has lit the world on fire is a bit "been there, done that" at this point. Maybe there would be a unique way of pulling it off, but I don't know.

    • @J.R.Unbound
      @J.R.Unbound 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Pikmanipulator Fully agree with all of your thoughts, especially in regard to Iblis being acknowledged due to evoking the story of 06. I genuinely think there isn’t much to mine by dredging it up again that couldn’t be gained through a new story, and doing so could at worst confuse the fanbase’s current understanding of Silver and Blaze’s characters.
      Silver’s current outlook that all life is precious is really appealing to me and pairs a lot better with his naivety and earnestness, which would be a little undermined when the time he tried to murder Sonic the Hedgehog before it was cool is highlighted. And Blaze kinda went from a ready-to-act princess to a non-entity who only talked to Silver and gave very questionable advise. She suspected the “naïve hedgehog” (and therefore Iblis Trigger) could be Silver, for example, but then encouraged him to go after Sonic again when he expressed hesitation…? This is made even worse if Rush actually comes before 06, since Silver immediately after being convinced to hunt Sonic again tells Blaze that the hedgehog in question is chasing Eggman. How she doesn’t pick up that the target is Sonic is beyond me, but the point is that both characters don’t really come off the best in the context of 06 (Silver especially if the gameplay is considered).

    • @gengarboi8745
      @gengarboi8745 6 місяців тому

      It might be possible that 06 takes place before Rush and Iblis is essentially morphed into the Sol Emeralds when Blaze seals it inside her. She looks like she turns into Burning Blaze during the whole thing, after all.

    • @J.R.Unbound
      @J.R.Unbound 6 місяців тому +1

      Ian confirmed on the September 22nd 2023 Mini (at 0:10) that Rush comes before 06.

    • @gengarboi8745
      @gengarboi8745 6 місяців тому

      @@J.R.Unbound But he said just before that it's never been clarified... so surely that means no one knows for sure?

  • @Sonicfan6000
    @Sonicfan6000 4 місяці тому +2

    OH MY GOSH SONIC RUSH THAT WAS SO NOSTALGIC

  • @Sonicfan6000
    @Sonicfan6000 4 місяці тому +1

    U GUYS MAOE ME LAUGH AND CRY BRO IM LAUGHING SO HARD TEARS R FORMING

  • @johnnygyro2295
    @johnnygyro2295 6 місяців тому +14

    Sonic and Shadow being stuck in a paper tube sounds like another Boom episode. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you.
    Question time: Since Naugus and Nigel Acorn were trapped in the Special Zone Post-SGW, what was it like for them in there?

  • @onyxodon
    @onyxodon 6 місяців тому +4

    Even though the thumbnail is hilarious, i think a thumbnail featuring this part 36:32 would have been funnier.

  • @System509
    @System509 6 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for answering my question!

  • @supersonicfan7514
    @supersonicfan7514 6 місяців тому +2

    24:41 I asked this question because of the part in Lost World where Orbot asked Sonic if he could be his sidekick. I’m surprised Sonic would get annoyed by Orbot acting like a bootlicker. With his ego, I’d think Sonic would enjoy that. And he doesn’t have a problem with Tails, who’s also sometimes portrayed as clingy and sycophantic towards Sonic.

  • @LaurenEmelyanova
    @LaurenEmelyanova Місяць тому

    Oh my god tho, the way you voice the characters, especially shadow, you guys should be voice actors ❤

  • @thorwilhelms9635
    @thorwilhelms9635 6 місяців тому +4

    Question: English Sonic meets his other language versions. How does he react to hearing himself talk in over 30 different languages? Is he surprised to find out Finnish Sonic makes great music and has an equally as great singing voice? Is he entertained by Swedish Sonic's UA-cam videos? Does he ask Italian Sonic for advice to get closer to a certain red plumber? And is he caught off-guard by German Sonic's recently gained tendency to voice crack every sentence? (Seriously, what happened?)

    • @ElsanneJ
      @ElsanneJ 6 місяців тому +1

      Markus Niemi or someone else?

    • @thorwilhelms9635
      @thorwilhelms9635 6 місяців тому

      @@ElsanneJ I was referring to Joonathan Kettunen, Sonic's voice in Boom and Prime. But Markus Niemi is also a musician so you could take it either way, the joke just works better with Joonathan, as Sonic says in Boom that he has a great signing voice.

  • @ThatSoni
    @ThatSoni 6 місяців тому +2

    For a #KnowingKyle, we ride on the Algorithm Quest!

  • @RaiginAnimator
    @RaiginAnimator 6 місяців тому +1

    Hey Ian do you think rouge or the Restoration could be good Substitute guardians for the master emerald? The restoration seems good but knuckles has trust issues
    ngl I have a head canon that at some point in the future knuckles realises that when rouge steals Jewels she doesn't sell them she kinda just keeps them around. and so he realises that if he let her just chill by the master emerald all day she would probably make a good guardian.

  • @davidcamilo8577
    @davidcamilo8577 6 місяців тому +1

    8:10 in the manga it is explained that Sonic is actually Nicky but when he is 16 years old

    • @supersonicfan7514
      @supersonicfan7514 6 місяців тому +1

      Do you know a way I can read them in English? I love the mangas.

  • @andtails
    @andtails 6 місяців тому +1

    Steamed Hams references this episode: 0
    Total since count began: 10
    Total references to counter: 1

  • @lucasgibbs4050
    @lucasgibbs4050 6 місяців тому +1

    Where would you find yourselves saying “Volcano Wonderpants!” Hmm?

  • @bookmanjr69
    @bookmanjr69 6 місяців тому +1

    Will Team Chaotix ever be financially stable?

  • @TheLanydx
    @TheLanydx 6 місяців тому

    Ian, get a phone call from the local school that your daughter Tangle is in the principle’s office for fighting. You find out that she got in trouble defending someone from a bully. What is the cover story for the school on how you’ll handle it, and how do you reward Tangle?

  • @toonman5099
    @toonman5099 6 місяців тому

    I need to understand some aspects of the thumbnail art, Eggman's and Sage's outfits themselves I know what they're from (eggman's hero protag concept design and his pajama's from some of the early promo animations respectively), but I'm not entirely sure what their slippers and Sage's plush doll are based on.
    9:56 - 11:36
    My thought would be, if I had to give it a reason outside of the obvious Egyptian parallels, would be that the Sandopolis Zone is likely where a lot of the thought behind the creation of Enerjak came from.
    19:56 - 21:13
    My personal theory is her connection to Iblis, the Sol Emeralds, and the Sol Dimension in general is the result of the post-'06 events where Solaris likely could have re-fragmented (creating more/different entities other than JUST Mephiles and Iblis, like the Time Eater getting created for example) after the candle is blown out. Basically, it's a case of Blaze trying to seal Iblis away in a pocket dimension, gets joined with Solaris in his reformation (forming as the core of the big glowing sun that is the boss's weak spot), but then after the defeat and candle blow out, she and her memories of her '06 adventure get rubber-banded back into the separate dimension, but it makes what was a pocket dimension into a sort of out-of-sync copy/reflection of Sonic's world, sort of like the "Ultimate Marvel" counterpart to Sonic's "Earth-616 (main canon)" world. Granted I also have like a WHOLE other thing where I go into detail of "she might have been a lot more important to '06's story originally outside of the one thing she does for the finale."

    • @nintendoni2034
      @nintendoni2034 6 місяців тому +1

      The Slippers are Egg Pawn inspired, but they aren't from anything in particular. I just thought it would be cute for them to have matching slippers.

  • @onyxodon
    @onyxodon 6 місяців тому

    I have two questions on how to ask questions:
    On live streams, what is the price range for a question? Or are any of them answered as long as you pay for one?
    Also, I've thought about doing a song request with custom lyrics but similar enough so it's not difficult. Where would I send the lyrics? Or is this type of song request not doable?

    • @BumbleKingVideos
      @BumbleKingVideos  6 місяців тому

      During live streams, we try to answer as many superchat questions of any donation amount as we can get to.
      For song lyrics, it depends on how you submit it: you can DM them to us on Patreon or Ko-fi if you go through those methods, or email them to us via the address in the description, or DM them directly to me on Discord. -Kyle

    • @onyxodon
      @onyxodon 6 місяців тому +1

      Ok, thank you. Appreciate it, sir.

  • @greensoda123
    @greensoda123 6 місяців тому

    Have you seen any Trigger anime? I would recommend watching Inferno Cop or Space Patrol Luluco as those are really fun. Especially Inferno Cop like thats just observed and trust me, you won't regret watchin it. Kill La Kill is also great but everyone already talks about that one, so I thought I would talk about my two favorites I don't hear people talk about.

  • @greensoda123
    @greensoda123 6 місяців тому

    How would The Chaotix react about Mighty returning at the front door. Would Eggman even remember Mighty or just call him Red Sonic. It would be funny if he remembered Ray but didn't remember Mightys name.
    Also do you think Eggman would call Bean Jet and Jet Bean?
    Would he think Barks name is Meow?

  • @chaphidoesstuff
    @chaphidoesstuff 6 місяців тому +2

    OOOH

  • @greensoda123
    @greensoda123 6 місяців тому

    So would classic Starline just be Doofus Drake from the Ducktales reboot? With like the same design to just dect out in Eggman merch. Would classic Starline want to keep Eggman in a cage in his closet or something.

  • @SockoNChips
    @SockoNChips 6 місяців тому

    @BKQA
    Since dark shadow from shadow the hedgehog and dark sonic from sonic x both have a similar up bringings to use the form
    (In sonic x, sonic is purely fueled by anger just like shadow in the game with vengance, which could possibly mean anyone could use these forms if they're heroic enough or angry enough??)
    Do you think that can make the shadow dark/hero forms and the dark sonic form one in the same, and still canon because of shadow the hedgehogs inclusion of it?
    Or are those dark/hero forms separate things entirely from dark sonics universe form and the dark/hero form is just a shadow exclusive/game play thing?
    (I should also say the wiki tells me that you can use the form in shadow with and without the super form, so dark sonic only being a alternate super transformation doesn't seem like a good excuse)
    -Socko

  • @tristankawatsuma8962
    @tristankawatsuma8962 6 місяців тому

    #BumbleKingVideos What is the status of G.U.N. and the United Federation by Sonic Frontiers? Given that Twitter Takeover and Tailstube both seem to say that G.U.N. was wiped out by the Eggman Empire and logically the Federation was part of the 99% of the world taken over during the war, are they both gone for good?
    Also, why are is the comic series set to end chronologically before Sonic Frontiers? I like having a timeline of events, but I am curious as to this decision.

  • @madden1ish280
    @madden1ish280 6 місяців тому

    I think Blaze having Iblis sealed within her is a really awesome concept. We don't really need an explanation as to why Blaze has fire powers, but to think that they are derived from a demonic demigod living within her very soul makes it a bit more interesting. Yes, I know in 06 she had flame powers before absorbing Iblis, but still. It would also be interesting to see how Mephiles would factor in if Iblis was sealed in Blaze as opposed to Elise...and if Mephiles was still alive.