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Weekend WTF: The realistic Sonic the Hedgehog
6:58 PM on 05.10.2008, Hamza CTZ Aziz 63 comments

     Sonic

I am so happy this realistic take on videogame characters is really taking off. You've seen Mario, were intrigued by Bowser and got traumatized by Pikachu with nipples. Well now it's time for another well known videogame mascot to get the realistic treatment.

This realistic take on Sonic the Hedgehog was done by Marcus Blättermann, the same artist who made the realistic Bowser. Check out Marcus's site as he goes into the details on how he made this revision of Sonic and the process he went through trying to get Sonic to look as real as possible while trying to stay true to the classic character. Marcus even went ahead and made a realistic take of Sonic in classic 8-bit form.  

I have to wonder now, would Sonic have become as iconic as he has if he looked more like this revision as apposed to the blue fur ball we all know and love now? Either way, I still think the realistic Pikachu one is the best so far. What do you think?

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Professor Pew's Avatar
Professor Pew at 05/10/2008 19:04
8bit to realistic back to 8bit? My heaaaaad!

Now give us realistic Dynamite Headdy please :)
Animated Trigger's Avatar
Animated Trigger at 05/10/2008 19:13
This just feels horribly wrong for some reason.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 05/10/2008 19:15
Dude, he's got Chun Li thighs!
vexed alex's Avatar
vexed alex at 05/10/2008 19:18
Ew....
-PL-'s Avatar
-PL- at 05/10/2008 19:21
Yeah, it's kind of a given that a "realistic" painting of a hedgehog with gargantuan thighs and wearing white gloves and running shoes isn't really going to look realistic. However, if a real hedgehog were to somehow manage to pull it off, I imagine this is how it would look.
Jordan Grim Devore's Avatar
Jordan Grim Devore at 05/10/2008 19:22
The horror!
superezekiel's Avatar
superezekiel at 05/10/2008 19:35
This isn't really realistic at all, just more detailed and normal colored.

The mario one was the best.
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 05/10/2008 19:47
I agree that the Mario one was the best, but this one is good too. The Pikachu one?


**shudder**
vrplumber's Avatar
vrplumber at 05/10/2008 19:48
disturbingly erotic or erotically disturbing?

-Hamlet-
MissHinasaki's Avatar
MissHinasaki at 05/10/2008 19:55
That is scary as shit!
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 05/10/2008 19:57
...Weird.
garrfunkel's Avatar
garrfunkel at 05/10/2008 20:04
Really like this one. It think its the extremely muscley arms and legs that make it funny.

Also seconding realistic Dynamite Heddy. That game was the shizz.
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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask at 05/10/2008 20:23
This is worse then the latex Birdo :(
pedrovay2003's Avatar
pedrovay2003 at 05/10/2008 20:26
I don't know what scares me more --- That one, or this one from Sonic CD:

CrocBox's Avatar
CrocBox at 05/10/2008 20:31
...Those EYES...O_O

needs more blue... and this is much creepier than Pikachu.
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 05/10/2008 21:24
Man, you people must have low thresholds for these things. It's not disturbing or scary. I think he looks kind of cool. I'm certainly sick of seeing the real Sonic.
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Samit Sarkar at 05/10/2008 21:24
This is dumb. “Realistic” doesn’t mean “human-like”, but that’s exactly what Blättermann has done here. Hedgehogs don’t have tree-trunk thighs, and they don’t have hands with fingers, either. Instead, they have paws, which have claws.

If he was going for an exaggerated and “artistic” look, then fine. But it’s stupid to call this “realistic”.
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gotdurnrite at 05/10/2008 21:37
How is this realistic? Wouldn't realistic be shooting a hedgehog with blue paintballs then putting red shoes on a him? Actually that kind of sounds like fun.

Realistic Mario FTW
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infinity at 05/10/2008 21:38
@Samit

the fact is that sonic is already somewhat human-like in that stands upright, has actual digits on his hands, etc. i think the word "realistic" is appropriate because the image isn't quite as cartoony as the original, and might be what an anthropomorphized hedgehog would be expected to look like in the real world.
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The-Excel at 05/10/2008 21:51
I wonder what a physical world Kirby would look like.
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 05/10/2008 22:16
WHYYYY
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flaming burrito at 05/10/2008 22:24
ugh... that doesnt even look that realistic...

to the internet: enough of these realistic reimaginings plz kthx
JDUB X's Avatar
JDUB X at 05/10/2008 22:24
@The-Excel

OMG NO! STOP IT!
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Morrius at 05/10/2008 22:32
<img}http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b282/pedrovay2003/RealSonic.jpg</img>

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape.
The Unforgivable's Avatar
The Unforgivable at 05/10/2008 23:03
Pikachu with nippples is scary.
Brandon Undead's Avatar
Brandon Undead at 05/10/2008 23:16
Define "realistic".
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 05/10/2008 23:24
[img]https://www.awfulmart.com/sc_images/products/335_large_image.jpg[img]


Realistic Kirby.
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 05/10/2008 23:25
[img]https://www.awfulmart.com/sc_images/products/335_large_image.jpg[/img]
oops
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 05/10/2008 23:26
wow i fail


/triplepost
Ashley Davis's Avatar
Ashley Davis at 05/10/2008 23:32
@RedRabbit: Okay, now THAT is something that is truly frightening.
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vexed alex at 05/10/2008 23:33
Holy shit. Who knew this could bring controversy?

Oh, shit. Wait. I forgot I was dealing with gamers.
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 05/10/2008 23:39
@Ashley Davis
I know.....it was so frightening I couldn't even post it twice.
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PaperBowser0 at 05/11/2008 00:07
please.....don't eat me!!!!!
KanadianKain's Avatar
KanadianKain at 05/11/2008 00:12
do want samus aran 'relistic'
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Sharpless at 05/11/2008 00:18
@Samit
Dude, it's all semen ticks. It IS realistic, in the sense that he actually looks like an anthropomorphic hedgehog, as opposed to a blue, spiky, animal-like thing. It's obvious that "realistic" isn't supposed to be taken 100% literally in any of these cases. After all, it's physically impossible for a normal human being to look like that "realistic" Mario they did.
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Hamza CTZ Aziz at 05/11/2008 00:28
Yeah, um, why is everyone going so crazy here? All of the other realistic stuff that was featured before aren't really realistic either if you're looking at it in that specific sense of the meaning. Fucking relax.
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Luigi takes over at 05/11/2008 00:41
I don't think realistic is the word for it.


Horrifying is the word for it.
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Paddylicious at 05/11/2008 01:07
i think this picture is hilarious. i love the legs and the arms, and the eyes are just crazy and intense. it's amazing.
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animateria at 05/11/2008 01:31
That isn't realistic at all!

I'd imagine a hare with short ears and sharp spines.

Thats just bogus.

Unlike the realistic Pikachu.

Pikachu says, "Fukachu!", to that one.
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 05/11/2008 01:50
Who would have thought this of all pictures would piss people off...
animateria's Avatar
animateria at 05/11/2008 02:01
Are we... really pissed at the picture?

I was just itching for a chance to say fuckachu is all.

That said... that picture isn't much funny or amusing either.
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 05/11/2008 02:03
Fuckachu is a marvelous word, I'll give you that.
Cyberxion's Avatar
Cyberxion at 05/11/2008 02:14
That is the worst thing that I've ever seen, the matter of whether or not it's "realistic" aside.
Boolean's Avatar
Boolean at 05/11/2008 02:40
Not very realistic looking, and not blue.

-1.
Cube's Avatar
Cube at 05/11/2008 05:00
Hot.
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 05/11/2008 05:16
Anybody remember Bubonic the Blowfrog?
Orionsaint's Avatar
Orionsaint at 05/11/2008 05:29
bullcrap everyone knows hedgehogs are blue!

Alfie Haggis's Avatar
Alfie Haggis at 05/11/2008 05:59
Ive seen many a strange thing on my travels but that hedgehog is a first!

Alfie
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