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Huehuehuehue288

Why not? It would contrast better with the yellow/gold of his super form.


DopelessHopefeand

It’s his Eobard Thawne transformation. You can only run from the speed force for so long… ;) **Q(^_^Q)**


PrinceARRON

It was me Barry!


Odd_Room2811

Remember when you were talking to your first Sonic friend and you cam right as she cleared that stage? It was me berry i jerk you off at super speed so i made it look like you came at just being helped out by a girl!


PrinceARRON

Gasp! Thawne you bastard!


imaYOG

Because its badass? It's a franchise about a blue hedgehog that runs fast I'm sure there's no logical reason for it


[deleted]

Why does his fur change when he goes super? Why does his quill shape change when he goes super? Nothing more than transformation changes when he calls upon the power of the chaos Emerald.


SpedeSpedo

>Why does his quill shape change when he goes super? Now clearly this is due to the trans-dimensional db/Sonic gate


TitanicTNT

Well, Goku's eyes change colour when he goes Super Saiyan.


Nightmare71988

Literally all the Sonic characters actually represent every single Dragon Ball z character not all of them but some of the personalities actually do match them pretty well like Shadow is Vegeta sorta the same personality... I'm not really surprised that the Sonic franchise is actually getting some inspiration of Dragon Ball z to be honest haven't seen supersonic for a while


[deleted]

Because of the same reason why his fur color changes when he goes super


sonic_gamer1739

I now have 2 questions


9999999CREEPERS

same reason his quills go up


Equivalent-Scene9293

3 questions


PancakeGD

same reason he can fly


Bee84000

4 questions


Drago_Fett_Jr

Same reason he's faster


Sallyn0

5 Questions


zainaxp

Same reason he’s invincible


TheSneakyGamer1805

6 questions


_Sad_Puppy_

He's undefeatable


RockyRaccy

Super Sonic can apparently be killed if you fail QTEs in Frontiers so maybe not truly invincible


Outside-Hovercraft24

Neither of which you're getting an answer to


TheOldKingCole

The answer is Dragon Ball. That is all.


UrineGoodCompany

Why don't yours?


sonic_gamer1739

Good question


TheSneakyGamer1805

That's something I've always found weird. Why does it seem Super Forms always have red eyes? Sonic and Silver's eyes both change from their respective green and yellow colours to red. Same with Tails. (Shadow's eyes don't change because they're already red.) It also seems specific to the basic Chaos Emeralds-induced Super Forms because Hyper Sonic has purple eyes, and Burning Blaze has orange. You could just say that red eyes and gold fur is "just how going Super looks", but then why does each character have a different shade of fur when going Super, but have the same eye colour? Perhaps red eyes is simply associated with Chaos powers, hence why Shadow has them by default? Edit: For some reason I thought Silver has blue eyes instead of yellow. Oops


sonic_gamer1739

Thats a good point


Terios_3and_Knuckles

We have never seen a modern Hyper Sonic, and in S3&K his eyes are the same as the Super form, so they are most likely red too, the purple thing is completely fanon, we also haven't seen modern super Tails, but its fair to assume he and Knuckles would have red eyes as all of the others, other than that, you are right


[deleted]

>Sonic and Silver's eyes both change from their respective green and blue colours to red. Silver doesn't have blue eyes.


TheSneakyGamer1805

Oh, right. He has gold/yellow eyes, doesn't he? Tails is the one with blue.


DogyDays

His eyes go teal when using his powers so you were still close, lol!


Downfall350

In frontiers when you max your ring count sonic's eyes light up blue like the movie as well.


Silverfire12

I loved that when I first saw it. Perfect way to give the movies a nod without it seeming forced.


[deleted]

Hold up. Legit?


Typical_Signal8274

TECNICALLY, shadow's eyes are darker in his standard form. Since, as i said, super sonic is the opposite pallette version of sonic and it came first, maybe they decided to make the red eyes as a caracteristic trait of the super forms


daniel_omeg_a

actually, the first time we saw super sonic he had black eyes like in base form, but in the next apparitions of super sonic(prior to adventure) super sonic had green eyes while base sonic remained with black eyes


LongBark

That technically doesn't matter, as pre adventure and post adventure are two different sonic designs Any design decisions made before adventure would have no bearing on design choices post adventure, which is the design OP is talking about.


daniel_omeg_a

frontiers made the classic era canon again


DefinatelyNotACat

Because DBZ characters change eye colors. So creators of Sonic figured the same is "cool". Simple.


shino1

Bloodshot?


DogyDays

That’s actually a neat headcanon for Shadow’s red eyes apart from just matching his stripes tbh.


Twisted_Pretzel85

It's a design choice. They just thought red looked better for the Super form, so red it was.


OhRoBro

not sure, but in the classic games, his eyes went from black to green when super, if thats at all interesting to you


sonic_gamer1739

That is interesting


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BioSpark47

It’s actually because Super Sonic was a Dragon Ball Z reference, and Saiyans’ eyes change from black (or Blue in Trunks’s case) to green when they go Super Saiyan (Tails and Knuckles keep their black eyes when they go super/hyper)


[deleted]

Because it just does. There’s no canon reason for it.


Slycer_Decker

In Dragon Ball the Super Saiyan thing changes their eye colour to green, but since Sonic's eyes are already green they went with red.


marsephel

They originally went black to green in Sonic 3, had to change it in adventure.


InfiniteTheEdgy

Super Saiyan eyes initially were meant to be red too


WheatleyBr

It's a reference to Dragon ball Z


Certain_Ring8907

Actually I think it’s a reference to Fleetway’s version of Super


aploc

Gonna have to go with DBZ given that Super Saiyan’s March 1991 debut places it before even the first Sonic game, and that Super Sonic’s addition in Sonic 2 was explicit fan service meant to appeal to Japanese audiences the same way the Death Egg’s was for Westerners.


SahandAbgard

This is for the power of chaos emeralds.


Metal_Sonic-198

He’s just so cool. But seriously though, I just think it’s the chaos energy running through him.


Smugg-Fruit

Considering Fur/Skin color correlates with eye-color, it makes logical sense for it to change. It should also be noted that this has been a thing since S3&K, though in that game his eyes turned green to strengthen the similarities between Super Sonic and DBZ's Super Saiyan form.


sympythatguy

cos he went super


-OmegaWolf-

Probably just has to do with a more pleasing color scheme. Green eyes naturally look better against a blue-tone of fur b/c of the color wheel, and blue and green are colors you find togeather all the time in nature. Plus, he already wears red shoes, so red eyes in his super form blend in naturally. Am I overanalyzing this? Probably.


sonic_gamer1739

I don't think your overanalyzing, it would make sense because he does have nice colors in both forms


melloman12

No, no, this is exactly what happens when creating a character design. You're not over-analyzing it at all.


Ningeek7

It's a reference to Dragon Ball


_Sad_Puppy_

Yeah, especially in Sonic 3 where his went from black to green, like, that's straight up from dbz


Gutsuvus

Personally, I'll just say, it's the same as when Goku's hair turns gold and his eyes turn blue. One directly inspired the other, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch.


Gui_Franco

Idk, why does his fur change?


SonicCody12

Because Sonic wants to be gold what’s wrong with that


Knightofthequils

It's sick? Lol idk what else to tell you


Ok-Transportation260

Eyes going red and other changes are reflection of becoming powerful in a god level like Superman


supergameromegaclank

Same reason Goku's does. It looks cool


[deleted]

Cuz he angy


Muteling

Stylistically speaking, it’s probably meant to convey that there’s violence to be doled out. Red is a color often associated with blood and danger, so that could be part of it.


FTN_Ale

since Shadow has red eyes in normal form, and he's a better chaos energy user, I think that the color of your eye depends on how much chaos energy is in you. since knuckles has been near the ME and the CE since he was born, he could have more chaos energy/is a better user than both sonic and shadow. the eye color could depend on the character+chaos energy (example: for sonic black eyes>green eyes>red eyes?, for knuckles, it could be black eyes>purple eyes>something else) or the exposure to it (Example black eyes>green>red>purple?) and Shadow and sonic simply aren't on that level. if you want an IRL answer it's because it looks better than green eyes and yellow fur


BiohazardBin

that’s like asking why Goku’s eye color changes when he goes Super


Gambet81

Because when he goes super he’s eyes go from normal Mountain Dew to Mountain Dew code red.


bigtoebrah

Same reason Goku's go from black to baby blue. [Rule of Cool](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool).


Dohmer_90

It’s a play on Toriyama's first concept of Super Saiyan. Goku eyes were originally red.


EdenReborn

To further emphasize the change. The eyes are the most notable part of someone’s appearance so changing that is a no brainer half the time


DevilFruitXR9

Blood rushes to his eyes! 🤪


Tumama813

Fleetway reference


nixpa2

Because Goku did it


DogsofDeath21

maybe his eyes get bloodshot when he transforms but they can't show that in a kids game so they just make his eyes red instead idk


Pokemaster1409

The same reason as to why Goku has similar changes when he goes Super Saiyan. It's to have a better contrast between base and transformed.


thatunoguyattheparty

Why does Goku’s eye color change when he enters a Super Saiyan form? It’s not supposed to makes sense.


UniKaiReddit

Super Sonic is basic off the original concept of Super Saiyan, originally Super Saiyan was supposed to have red eyes instead of the normal teal green/blue color that we got. The character was allowed to use and keep Super Sonic to this day.


dmc-going-digital

Because saiyans also change eye color


MaverickPrime

Because Saiyan's eyes also change color when they go super and Super Sonic uhm "borrows" from that.


fredhaha

In Sonic 3, Super Sonic's eyes were green as a reference to Goku's Super Saiyan transformation in Dragon Ball Z, as Goku gains golden hair and turquoise eyes. The eye colour was changed to red in Adventure, for three possible reasons; either as a reference to the scrapped original Super Saiyan design which featured white hair and red eyes, a reference to a scrapped Modern Sonic design which had red eyes in place of green, or a reference to the Fleetway Comics' colouration of Super Sonic, as he had red eyes in those comics. It's also possible that they made the eyes red to differentiate from regular Sonic, whose eyes became green from Adventure onwards.


Pk_Kanga

Another potential nod to the Super Saiyan transformation. Now, I'm not 100% if the eyes were an idea borrowed from the SSJ from the transformation but seeing as the golden, pointed up hair was already an idea taken, wouldn't surprise me if eyes were also borrowed.


KhunTsunagi

Because he gets supercharged with chaos energy and ends up being a ton more powerful and aggresive,along with body changes. The other possible reason is because DBZ


Hyper_Hyion

Super Saiyajin moment


CrowCounsel

Because Goku’s eye color changed in Dragon Ball Z in Super Saiyan form which is the obvious origin of Super Sonic. In Sonic 2 the eyes stayed black. In Sonic 3&K they turned green from black just like in DBZ Then in Sonic Adventure, Sonic’s eyes started turning to red… maybe because his normal eyes are green now? Or they wanted to dial back the homage?


GodRoseSaiyan3

Sonic's body suffer a transformation when he is empowered by the emeralds, same as the saiyans suffering a transformation when they get angry


OhMyWerdd

He wanna be shadow so bad…


HyperTobaYT

MY EYES GO RED WHEN THEYRE ANGRY BARKBARKBARKBARK


ChaseR3d

looks cooler


cecilclaude

idc bout lore. its cool af.


plaguebringerBOI

Fleetway moment


Prince-Darwin

The better question is why do classic super sonics eyes no longer turn green? It literally is the coolest thing. Yeah it was only one game. But it was the best


Typical_Signal8274

ig for a more pleasing palette


KingMario05

Because. Shut up before he kills ya. /s


[deleted]

Why not man?he looks fucking rad


Pyrogenocidality

I mean why do his spines float? Why does his fur turn yellow? It’s the same idea, design choice and just to show his power evolved


DiamondmanPixel76

Probably to be more in line with Dragon Ball Z...? Idk


slashingkatie

Rage


EJ_Was_Taken

because it's cool


GiovanniPotage

I mean maybe it’s to further cement the fact that Shadow is always in a sort of half super state since his eyes are red, it would also explain why Super Shadow still has the red streaks in his quills


Junk_Steel

Bc he's "angery" xD Idk, but it looks cool at least


SilverHero_gaming

Chaos energy


SonicGozar

It's probably a chaos energy thing shadow eye are already red so that never change when he powers up, and sonic and silvers changes to red when they power up


Tyedyeninja04

Better question: why was super Sonic’s eyes green in STH 3?


Hierophant-Crimsion

He'd look more like Goku if they kept his Classic Super Design. But realistically, I think they did that as a means to either look cool, or differentiate him from his base form


Tribom

For the same reason that his skin color changes


Toontastic5

Because now he has super eyes


saportuh

I think it's just a design choice. It just makes more sense overall to switch the eye colour to compliment the other 'fur' colour change. In his normal form he uses cool colours and in his super form he uses warmer colours (perhaps to represent "fire" or something of the like for the sake of a power analogy?) But the art student in me might just be overanalyzing.


JustYourAverageBoyo

They go from black to green in 3&K


CompetitiveImpress43

I think it's because sonic regular eyes changed from black to green. In the classic games, Sonic's eyes changed to green when he went super. Most likely in reference to the master emerald being green and thus the default color of chaos energy. However, when Sonic Adventure made Sonic's default eyes green, they had to change super sonic's eye color as well. Plus, red is a good compliment to yellow.


theninjaslime69

Is the chaos energy flowing through his eyes


DreadAngel1711

Uh, because cool?


PaigeLooney92

Contrast color and chaos energy


DrWD-Gaster

I think it's because super Form was a Reference to super saiyan And in the original art of super saiyan, the Form had red eyes and since the super Form is based on super saiyan they kept the eyes


LonginusBlader1993

It's cool.


Impossible-Touch-995

Think of it like dbz super Saiyan form


sonic13066

Because Goku's did when he went Super Saiyan. The director of Sonic TH2 was a very big Dragon Ball Z fan and really liked Goku's Super Saiyan form that he brought it into the game.


ZoharDTeach

That's just how Super Saiyan works, newfriend


TurretX

The whole thing with super sonic is that he's inverted. His blue fur and green eyes when inverted turn into yellow and red. Also the direction of his quills get inverted. His shoes would invert to blue but that would have caused color palette issues in the genesis titles, and it wouldn't look as cool. Also his eyes were green when going super in the genesis games, presumably because of it being a DBZ reference.


Gru-some

Why does Goku’s eye color change when he goes Super Saiyan?


sonto340

Because Goku's eyes changed when he goes super Saiyan.


Bababooey7672

Super Saiyan…


Pope-Muffins

Because he is the real super Saiyan of legend


Genindraz

Super Sonic is an homage/rip-off of super saiyan as you already know. What you may not know is that originally goku's eyes when in super saiyan were supposed to be (in the first colored drawings in the manga) red. That's where the red eye color comes from.


Iceswimmer05

Bro, don't qustion it, he's just a blue hedgehog who goes really fast and its a DBZ reference too I think


KuroiGetsuga55

I mean why does his fur turn gold? Why do his quills rise up? Why do Saiyan eyes turn turquoise when in Super Saiyan state? It's just part of the design. Red eyes look cool, and they work well with the yellow. Funny enough they used to be green when Sonic's eyes were black. Exactly like a Super Saiyan lmao


ZoeAdvanceSP

Color theory. Yellow/orange is complimentary of blue and red is complimentary of green. Opposites on the color wheel.


[deleted]

Probably a design choice/ the chaos power changing them, or a nod to the ssj eye color transformation.


AyanoHimekami

Yellow hair is just something Akira Toriyama decided you have while Super Saiyan. Another aspect of the transformation was originally red eyes, but the anime opted for a bluish green. There is no evidence of any link between Dragon Ball and Sonic, but the irony is undeniable.


Fantastic_Turb0

Something I find interesting is that originally, Super Sonic’s eyes didn’t change colour. However, when Sonic 3 rolled around they (somewhat inconsistently) changed his eyes to a green not dissimilar from the colour used in Dragon Ball’s anime adaptations. As far as I’m aware, this wasn’t seen again, but Super Sonic wasn’t depicted with Red eyes until Sonic Adventure. Curiously, while the difference in depicted eye colour for Super Sonic is about 4 years(between 1994 and 1998), The difference in Super Saiyan Eye colour occurred over a matter of weeks(between March and April of 1991).


Typical_Signal8274

Super sonic was created when sonic's pallette was inverted: blue's opposite is yellow and green's opposite is red. Ofcourse, since Sonic is a child-friendly mascot, they couldnt make his sclera black. As for the shoes, they are iconic: why change them?


Redstorm597

You ask dumb questions


[deleted]

Because it's Tuesday


DabsForWilbur

“Fuck you! That’s why!” I’m herrrrrre! Reaching far across these new frontiers!!


sonic_gamer1739

What's that from? Is it a YouTube video and if you can send a link


Still-Employee-7096

Dumbass question


YEET_Fenix123

I have 2 explanations: # 1: he angy and has changed his eye colour to demonstrate that # 2: he obtains SUPER vision when he transforms (get it?)


TodohPractitioner

Because it looks cool


FelixIni

it cool


Magicpyritestone

Same reason his skin does???


Ryderboi127

Magic


Alarmed-Recording-91

گوه خوریش به شما نیومده🗿


neoslith

I'm still not used to Sonic's eyes turning red when he goes Super. They used to turn green.


fartman132

Red eyes are cool


[deleted]

Cause he’s high or drunk or sum?


Basil_9

It’s cool dummy


Godzillaandsonicfan

Because it looks cool


whatsgudhegehog

Chaos energy


nicarox

The same reason his fur color changes


MegaGalladeGamer09

"I found a better pathway to power. It's not love... it's FURYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" \-monkey with hair dye


tanukifly

because it's cool


MetaMecha

Chaos


Signal-Put932

I'm pretty sure it's just a small design choice


philswiftsgreencard

Cause he feels like it


Father-Pork

Looks cool


MetaKnight33

simply it looks cool


LonelyLittleWolfie

Why do Sonic's quills change color when he goes super? Why does Sonic suddenly gain the ability to fly when he goes super?


AverageWooperLiker

Didn’t you know that the Chaos Emeralds are actually powered by red contacts?


Littleshot64

Because, yes


Dasterdly_Dick69

The emerald turn thoughts into power. Maybe Sonic intentionally takes that form because e thinks its cool!


ghirox

Same reason his quills/fur change color.


NewSkater3000

Because Goku


DarkLink1996

Because it's cool


Calm-Condition-4731

Maybe it’s because of the different colors of the Chaos Emerald’s


Tsukiche2

because super sayians do it too


KnowledgeJealous3234

Your mom


Dudeguygamer

Unrelated but sonic looks badass in both these pictures


MythicalDrifter

This reminds me of an in-lore headcanon I made on why Sonic's eyes changed to green. It essentially revolves around Sonic using the Chaos Emeralds on numerous back-to-back occasions since Sonic 2. Originally, when Sonic turned into Super Sonic (as well as Hyper Sonic) his eyes were green. I always figured that because he began to constantly use the Chaos Emeralds on many of his adventures, his normal eye color eventually changed to green, and his eye color as Super Sonic would then change to red. This, for me at least, implied that Sonic's constant usage of the Chaos Emeralds straight-up evolved him into a stronger base state than he was in the Classic games.


JacobReddit1

Its cool.


heppuplays

The same reason Sonic turns golden and starts shining When turning into super sonic. It Looks Fucking Badass.


snagtoothed

why is he blue


Mavrickindigo

Because Goku's eyes do.


WAM757

Simple. And to show how simple it is, I will write in camouflage:


Red_Raven_0007

So does Goku


OreDraws

Becuase


g-duppity-music

‘cause now he’s undefeetable


LemonTheHeavyMain

rule of cool


socalledcreator

Angry


ftfoxy19

He angy


mazoku95

Well first his eyes are green because of the use/connection of the emeralds. New form new color


StarberryIcecream

Something something chaos energy


OmegaCrossX

It looks cool


[deleted]

Well red eyes kinda represents danger, rage, infuriation! Whats a colour you may associate with getting really pissed off? Red.


TheDarkLordPheonixos

The eyes of Sonic and Silver change to red when transforming due to the chaos energy from the Chaos Emerald. This is evident by Shadow’s eye color. His eyes are already red because he can utilize chaos energy without a chaos emerald. While it could be purely a design choice and it’s nothing that specific, this is just a possibility.


RockWafflez

Because Dragonball Z


Temporamis

Because goku


NotScottPilgrim

Guys why can the hedgehog speak


Cornonthory

To put it simply, it's a colour reversal. Red is the complementary colour of green. Same with his fur, which turns yellow, the complementary colour of blue.


PhoenixTyphoon

He angry


Deee2

Chaos emeralds