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00:00The Sonic Encyclopedia says that the special stage in Sonic 2 can be accessed via the Star Post checkpoints with 20 rings.
00:09The truth is, it's 50.
00:12There's at least 43 falsehoods in this book, most of which are according to SonicFandom.com.
00:18I made this video to prove them right about everything they said there.
00:22But the second point on the list of falsehood accusations is a rare example of something I can't disprove.
00:28Metropolis Zone's boss is called FlyingEggMan2, despite the fact that no mech before this was called FlyingEggMan.
00:37With this entry, there's only so much I can do when the true names of the bosses of Sonic 1 are unknown.
00:43I tried to find out them all, but hit a dead end by the second boss because its only source for the name is the Sonic Encyclopedia.
00:51It's not like it cites the name of it from the game's code.
00:55I can't use an FAQ as a source for the names because that won't cite its sources.
01:00While some of the bosses reappeared outside of the games, I know that Silver Sonic was named wrong in Archie.
01:06He's really Mecha Sonic, unfortunately.
01:10So SEGA wasn't controlling what the comics named them.
01:13You can't go by the names of the reappearances in other games either.
01:17The wiki says in Sonic 4, the boss is called FlyingEggMan.
01:22But that's only according to the Encyclopedia.
01:25What sense does it make for the book to call it FlyingEggMan if it also claimed that the first version of this boss was FlyingEggMan2?
01:34So even if I can't prove that the FlyingEggMan2 is a falsehood, this definitely is.
01:423. The book's description stating that the Mickey Animal first appeared in Hidden Palace Zone in the 2013 remaster of the game is false, as Mickey can be found in Mystic Cave.
01:564. The factoid states,
01:59Wait too long and Sonic will say, I'm out of here.
02:02He'll then jump off the stage, costing you a life.
02:06Actually, it results in a game over no matter what.
02:095. The book claims the strike dash in Sonic Chaos leaves Sonic vulnerable.
02:15It actually gives him a second of invincibility.
02:18Easy mistake to make.
02:216. A section claims that to go into one of Sonic Chaos' special stages, the player has to reach the end of an act while holding 100 rings.
02:29But in the game, Sonic retails his warp to the special stage as soon as he collects 100 rings.
02:35Extremely easily.
02:377. The section's entry for Mecha Green Hill Zone says Eggman has completely converted the Green Hill Zone of Sonic the Hedgehog to 8-bit.
02:47But the zone in the latter game is actually called Green Hills Zone.
02:53This is not just a typo, because that'd make no sense because S is pretty far away from L on the keyboard.
03:00Which is why it'd make no sense for the editor to think Hills was a typo and remove the S.
03:05It'd be unfair to insult the editor as an excuse to not criticize Flynn.
03:098. An entry says Super Sonic defeated Eggman in Sonic 2.
03:14That's impossible without cheat codes because there are no rings in Final Zone.
03:19This misconception of his is reflected in Archie's Genesis arc.
03:23The good ending doesn't show him fight Eggman.
03:28And there's no reason to think that the actual story intends it to be that Super Sonic was fighting Eggman.
03:35It's never been the case before in the franchise and never will be.
03:39That you can't fight him with Super Sonic at all in the gameplay, but you did in the story.
03:45Then why wasn't that the case in the SCC adaptation of Sonic 2?
03:50The Angel Island Zone's profile says that a carpet bombing by the Flying Batteries sets the second act ablaze.
03:58Actually, Angel Island Zone set on fire in Act 1 by a battalion of Fire Breaths.
04:05This bit of footage here will prove this is in Act 1 by the end.
04:09Flying Batteries is Sonic & Knuckles' level. Of course it's not what set a level in Sonic 3 on fire.
04:1610. Sunset Park Zone's called A Sprawling Railway.
04:21While it has elements of the railway theme, it's actually described as an abandoned amusement park in the manual, and you can see it.
04:2911. The book says about Sonic Triple Trouble, you'll need to either navigate a maze and battle Fang before the time runs out, or collect 80 rings with a tornado within a strict time limit.
04:40In the game, the player fights Fang after beating either variation of the special stage.
04:4812. Knuckles is said to be a boss of South Island.
04:53There isn't a zone called South Island. The first zone's called Great Turquoise, and you'd think the entire game would take place on South Island anyways.
05:0413. The entry for Knuckles' Chaotix says enthusiastic fans also found out that Amy Rose was supposed to appear in a scrapped sound test mode in other leaked versions.
05:14In truth, the sound tests in Amy's appearance were not scrapped, and can still be accessed and viewed in the final game via cheat code in the color test.
05:24If it was strictly an action replay code, I'd understand, but no.
05:2914. The bosses of Volcanic Tunnel and Cavern Island have their names swapped.
05:34I checked the manual of Tails' Adventure in Sonic Gems Collection and couldn't find any information on the bosses and enemies, so I had to go to the wiki.
05:43But its source for the names of these bosses is just seen in Cyclespedia.
05:47So I can only assume this accusation is true based off the idea that the boss name with 5 added to the end must be later in the game than the other boss.
05:56And indeed, the Volcanic Tunnel boss is an incomplete version of the other boss.
06:01While Flynn wasn't in charge of the screenshots, he did write the words in the book.
06:06So this one really comes down to whether he saw the screenshots while working on this.
06:1115. The Jumping Combatant is listed twice in Enemy's section.
06:17The second entry calls them Jumping Soldiers.
06:20The wiki says they are indeed called Jumping Combatants in the Japanese manual.
06:25But there's no legitimate source for Jumping Soldier.
06:29The book says that they appear in Poly Mountain 2, but they don't.
06:35I'll play footage of the entire level in this video to prove it.
06:39But it's minutes long, so I'll show most of it at the end of the video.
06:4417. Their first entry also says they appear in Lake Rocky.
06:49They don't.
06:50It'd make no sense because you spend the whole time in the submarine.
06:54They're ground enemies.
06:56Again, footage of the entire level will be at the end of the video. It goes on too long.
07:0218. The Robo-Cuckoo is said to be found in Battle Fortress 1.
07:07Actually, Battle Fortress 2 is the only place they're in.
07:11They're ground enemies. Why would they be in a level where you fly the whole time?
07:15With 3D Blast section, the sprite for the Snake Badnik is called Caterkiller.
07:20The manual in Mega Collection doesn't name the Badnik, so I had to look at the wiki.
07:2620. In the description for Twinkle Circuit, it says you have to complete it before Sonic could access Twinkle Park.
07:34Will Twinkle Park start with you driving a hover car?
07:37That's not Twinkle Circuit. Twinkle Park is a separate stage from Twinkle Circuit.
07:42Twinkle Circuit's an optional minigame area unlocked by getting through Twinkle Park.
07:48Because you can't get to it at all until after beating Twinkle Park,
07:52at which point you emerge in a part of the Hob World where you can go to it.
07:56Twinkle Circuit is a place where any character can drive a hover car through a circuit.
08:02This description confuses this place with the start of Twinkle Park because you're also in a car there.
08:07But the circuit's a circular area you drive around.
08:1121. The description for Final Egg says Birdy's family members are his parents, not his siblings.
08:19What's especially confusing is the later part of the book says the Pink Flicky is Birdy's older brother.
08:25So even if he was right the first time, that means there's still a falsehood later.
08:30No lie in the game elaborates on how exactly these birds are a family.
08:34It turns out translation of the official guide reveals they're siblings.
08:40So I hope this gets added to the wiki.
08:4322. In the Sonic Shovel section, the description for the 1 4th March Force Jewel is also used as the description for the 6 4th March Force Jewel.
08:541 4th March and 6 4th March do different things.
08:5923. The book says that in SA2, toys can be bought from the black market.
09:05Actually, they can only be won from child races.
09:08This is the most baffling mistake to me.
09:10But there's only so much I can do to prove this true to someone skeptical.
09:14I could show you the entire inventory of the black market, but it could be claimed that it wasn't the entire inventory.
09:21That all of the toys weren't unlocked.
09:25The best I can do is show you a list of the inventory from a guide and trust you to check every guide.
09:31It's boring to show all of that.
09:33I could show every toy being won, but someone could claim that it's not every toy or one of the toys could also be unlocked to the black market in a secret way.
09:43Best I can do is say, play the games.
09:4624. The book thinks Maria's disease was put in remission by the Ark's low gravity.
09:54It's nonsensical.
09:55No one thought this before and there's no proof of this.
09:59I can't prove it's false either.
10:01Still, the fact that there's no proof means it's fanon, which has no place in an encyclopedia.
10:0925. The entry says Eggman's menu theme in the original SA2 was never released in the West until SA2 Battle.
10:19That's not true.
10:21Shadow, Omachao, and the secretary's themes, which were Japanese exclusive, are not mentioned in that entry.
10:29It only took a little bit of searching after googling SA2 Dreamcast Eggman's theme to find this.
10:3526. The book says about Advance 2, all of the bosses are fought on the run, but the Super Egg Robot Z isn't at any point.
10:4427. It said that ammo was found by Tails, but actually ammo was found by Sonic.
10:5128. For Sonic Battle's section, in the descriptions for Sonic Clash and Tails' Flying Get, it said that four game packs are needed to play them.
11:03They only need one.
11:04They're just minigames, the guides don't mention them, and I don't have the game.
11:09The only videos of them are bad quality and doesn't show what's right before the minigame.
11:14So the best thing I can do is show pictures of them from the wiki, which don't have a source in the description.
11:2029. The minigame, Shadow's Speed Demon, is somehow called Seagate.
11:2830. It said in Blank Doom's section that he uses the Chaos Emeralds to transform into Devil Doom.
11:35Actually, Blank Doom teleported to prevent Shadow from attacking him and left the Chaos Emeralds behind, which Shadow uses.
11:4431. Space Theater from Riders is called Theater.
11:4932. King Shariar's entry states he mistakes Sonic for the magic forces of Eraser.
11:56This never happens, not even in an implicit manner.
11:59His only reaction to Sonic is that he thinks he's disrespectful.
12:0433. The Crystal Head, Kaizoku Glider, and Kaizoku Snowball, who all appear in Blizzard Peaks, are said to appear in Haunted Ship.
12:17With most of these, it's obvious by their designs alone what level they're for.
12:21Sonic games never put obvious ice level enemies in places that aren't frozen.
12:27For Sonic Chronicles, the summary of the plot for Chapter 1 says that Tails went to Green Hill Zone to tell Sonic that Knuckles was kidnapped.
12:36Actually, Sonic's the one who goes to Green Hill while Tails contacts Sonic via radio from Central City.
12:4535. Omega's entry says he must recover his dismembered pieces and reassemble them.
12:52Actually, the player does not have to look for multiple pieces of him for Tails to fix him.
12:56Tails already has pieces from other robots to fix him the second he finds him.
13:0136. The entry says Sir Lancelot comments on the similarity of the Red Dragon with the Bio-Lizard.
13:08Sonic is the one who really says that.
13:11Lancelot has no reason to know the Bio-Lizard.
13:1537. It claims that Ms. Dragon looks even the slightest bit like Dalsie.
13:21If there was a dragon that looked like Dalsie in this game, you'd think everyone would know about it.
13:2738. In the section for Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed, the blue cube is called the Blue Blanc.
13:3639. In the Sonic Mania section, Big Squeeze is said to possess a laser cannon when it doesn't.
13:4540. The Heavy Rider is referred to as male. Mania doesn't have dialogue, so her gender is in the manual.
13:53Why do you think a pink robot identified as male?
13:56It's stated that Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games did not feature dream events. It did.
14:0342. The entry about the Hole-in-One curling events from Mario and Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
14:11This is inspiration from Green Hill Zone in Sonic 1. It's more like the events based on Green Hill from Sonic Generations.
14:20In Sonic 1, you didn't get to go to an underground cave in that level. But you don't go underground in this event.
14:27So this one's pulling hairs. I can't see the difference.
14:31Other than the obvious that they might have pulled the model for the level design from Generations.
14:37Also, Flynn says Eggman's afraid to fight with his fists. Which Sonic Riders and Lost World sort of disprove.
14:46There's only three falsehoods I can't fully prove are false one way or the other.
14:51And one of them I could prove if I had the game, but I just don't want to pirate it.
14:56What this means is they hired the wrong person to write this book.
15:00The right person would have made sure he got everything right. Flynn is the only person who wrote the book.
15:05There's no proof that anyone but him wrote it.
15:09They would have had better results if they hired someone who never played the games before and ordered him to play the ones mentioned in the book.
15:16Because that way the games would be fresh in his mind.
15:20Instead they trusted someone because he said he played the games and he proceeded to prove he doesn't remember them well enough.
15:27So either it's been a comparably long time since he played them or he's forgetful.
15:31And you'd think he'd know himself well enough to know that.
15:35I think it's most likely both since it was wrong about Sonic Mania.
15:39A recent game popular enough that the average fan played it to death.
15:43Instead of him taking the assignment seriously, he was too lazy and confident to fact check.
15:48If they hired someone who didn't already tend to be lazy and overconfident, it would have been fine.
15:54Even Flynn admitted that he could have done this book better.
15:58Some things wouldn't be known by most fans, but most fans aren't in charge of writing an official encyclopedia for the series.
16:06And he got even basic information wrong.
16:09Stuff that anyone who played certain games recently would know.
16:13While misremembering things is usually understandable and everyone does that.
16:17For example, you really have to try to hit a checkpoint with under 50 rings to have the start of Sonic 2.
16:23And I didn't know about the super peel out Sonic Chaos thing.
16:26When you're making an encyclopedia, you shouldn't risk putting misconceptions in it.
16:30Because you'll have to deal with people correcting you on it for the rest of your life.
16:34So it's not even a smart idea to not fact check.
16:37I'm not the only one who agrees that having even one falsehood in it makes it a waste of money for spreading misinformation.
16:44Because the point of an encyclopedia is to make people smarter.
16:48But actually it'd have been a waste of money even if it got everything right.
16:52Because it's got nothing but useless info you can read on a wiki.
16:57I don't know if I miss any mistakes and I don't feel like fact-checking all the book when there's so many pages.
17:03This is a video because more people need to know about this and not everyone will read the book's wiki.
17:08The point of the video is this.
17:10Whenever a popular Sonic writer says something, everyone takes their word for it.
17:16And clearly that's not always a good thing.
17:18More people need to know that Flynn isn't a 100% reliable source of information because he is capable of making mistakes.
17:26Part of becoming a mature person is learning that everyone makes mistakes and nobody should be defended from all criticism.
17:33So no one's a 100% reliable source of information.
17:37So you shouldn't think taking someone's word for it is good enough in every situation.
17:42Because sometimes it's still possible to do the research yourself.
17:46While most of the mistakes were typos,
17:49the fact that some of his fans say that the only mistakes in this book were typos
17:54and get offended and snarky that anyone said there were falsehoods
17:58as if they think telling the truth they don't want to hear makes you evil
18:02is the main reason I made this video.
18:05Then I searched twice and couldn't find a video that did this.
18:09These aren't even all of his mistakes in the book.
18:11He somehow gave Orbanot the same description as Crabmeat.
18:15Why would he paste the description of Crabmeat into Orbanot's section when they look so different?
18:21Still time left in the video so this is my response to something that Evan Stanley said to someone on Tumblr.
18:29So how come no one reported Clutch's activities to the authorities after the events of the Chow Race arc?
18:36This response makes sense at first
18:39until I thought about it a little.
18:41First of all,
18:43there is a panel where it was said
18:45that the authorities seized everything Clutch had.
18:49Now this seems to make sense
18:51until you remember that Sonic Boom and AOSDH had cops in them
18:55and they're just as much an alternate canon as IDW is.
19:00People like to think it's canon
19:02but Flynn never said it was canon.
19:04All he said was,
19:05I will argue with the people who say it's canon.
19:09As long as there's no contradictions anywhere, we're good.
19:12But IDW has contradicted the games dozens of times to the point where I made an article about it.
19:19So if Boom is allowed to have cops in it,
19:23why can't IDW?
19:25No one thinks of it that way.
19:28Just because we don't see something in the games
19:30can't mean it doesn't exist in the games universe.
19:32There's billions of things we haven't seen in the games universe
19:36because the games only has a few plots over and over again.
19:41I guess it makes sense
19:43that Clutch didn't get in trouble with the cops
19:45because the law enforcement in White Park is just that corrupt.
19:50But then you remember that one panel stating
19:54the government seized all of his assets.
19:57What's that about the law enforcement being in his pocket?
20:00How did that happen?
20:02I guess the FBI was what bothered him.
20:06So the FBI deals with tax evasion.
20:10I assume that's what he's in trouble for.
20:12And not every state jails you for not paying your taxes.
20:16So it could make sense that he didn't get in trouble for that.
20:21Rouge being the key witness,
20:24that's kind of completely nonsensical as an argument though.
20:28Rouge is not the only witness.
20:30There was also Belle and Shadow and Cream and Amy.
20:36They wouldn't go with the cops, are you kidding me?
20:40So yeah, it really isn't watertight.
20:42At least she admitted that.
20:44Also, she could simply ask Sega what she's allowed to do.
20:49There's no reason she thinks she'd be fired for that.
20:52So there's really no excuse not to have cops in the comic.
20:56Weren't there people in SWAT gear in issue 19?
20:59What were we supposed to think about them?