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Weekend WTF: The realistic Sonic the Hedgehog
Hamza CTZ Aziz
\\ 05.10.2008
63 comments

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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L0cky's Avatar
weird but not really realistic looking if you ask me.
liked all the other ones beter
wardrox's Avatar
needs more blue
Professor Pew's Avatar
8bit to realistic back to 8bit? My heaaaaad!

Now give us realistic Dynamite Headdy please :)
Animated Trigger's Avatar
This just feels horribly wrong for some reason.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Dude, he's got Chun Li thighs!
vexed alex's Avatar
Ew....
-PL-'s Avatar
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.
Reaprar's Avatar
Yeah, isn't that realistic compared to the others, however, I can definetly say no, it would not be as iconicz.
Grim's Avatar
The horror!
superezekiel's Avatar
This isn't really realistic at all, just more detailed and normal colored.

The mario one was the best.
RedRabbit's Avatar
I agree that the Mario one was the best, but this one is good too. The Pikachu one?


**shudder**
vrplumber's Avatar
disturbingly erotic or erotically disturbing?

-Hamlet-
MissHinasaki's Avatar
That is scary as shit!
Dexter345's Avatar
...Weird.
garrfunkel's Avatar
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.
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Avatar
This is worse then the latex Birdo :(
pedrovay2003's Avatar
I don't know what scares me more --- That one, or this one from Sonic CD:

CrocBox's Avatar
...Those EYES...O_O

needs more blue... and this is much creepier than Pikachu.
Sharpless's Avatar
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.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
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”.
gotdurnrite's Avatar
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
infinity's Avatar
@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.
The-Excel's Avatar
I wonder what a physical world Kirby would look like.
Cheeburga's Avatar
WHYYYY
flaming burrito's Avatar
ugh... that doesnt even look that realistic...

to the internet: enough of these realistic reimaginings plz kthx
JDUB X's Avatar
@The-Excel

OMG NO! STOP IT!
Morrius's Avatar
<img}http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b282/pedrovay2003/RealSonic.jpg</img>

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape.
The Unforgivable's Avatar
Pikachu with nippples is scary.
Brandon Undead's Avatar
Define "realistic".
RedRabbit's Avatar
[img]https://www.awfulmart.com/sc_images/products/335_large_image.jpg[img]


Realistic Kirby.
RedRabbit's Avatar
[img]https://www.awfulmart.com/sc_images/products/335_large_image.jpg[/img]
oops
RedRabbit's Avatar
wow i fail


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

Oh, shit. Wait. I forgot I was dealing with gamers.
RedRabbit's Avatar
@Ashley Davis
I know.....it was so frightening I couldn't even post it twice.
PaperBowser0's Avatar
please.....don't eat me!!!!!
KanadianKain's Avatar
do want samus aran 'relistic'
Sharpless's Avatar
@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.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar
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.
Luigi takes over's Avatar
I don't think realistic is the word for it.


Horrifying is the word for it.
Paddylicious's Avatar
i think this picture is hilarious. i love the legs and the arms, and the eyes are just crazy and intense. it's amazing.
animateria's Avatar
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.
RedRabbit's Avatar
Who would have thought this of all pictures would piss people off...
animateria's Avatar
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.
RedRabbit's Avatar
Fuckachu is a marvelous word, I'll give you that.
Cyberxion's Avatar
That is the worst thing that I've ever seen, the matter of whether or not it's "realistic" aside.
Boolean's Avatar
Not very realistic looking, and not blue.

-1.
Cube's Avatar
Hot.
Dexter345's Avatar
Anybody remember Bubonic the Blowfrog?
Orionsaint's Avatar
bullcrap everyone knows hedgehogs are blue!

Alfie Haggis's Avatar
Ive seen many a strange thing on my travels but that hedgehog is a first!

Alfie
twentythoughts's Avatar
I'm totally getting a Cho Aniki vibe from this.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar
still has too much cartoon in it.
Trevsweb's Avatar
i wonder how many people so far have spray painted a hedgehog blue?
mistic's Avatar
pfft the realistic other ones were better i think...
Holyetheline's Avatar
That's awesome/creepy as always.
Jetamo's Avatar
Doesn't look too freaky. Real Mario, on the otherhand...

Question: Where's Luigi?! HE ALWAYS GETS SHAFTED..
kevkevblazini's Avatar
that's just scary. If Sonic would have looked like that from the beginning he would have joined the likes of Sparkster, Zool, Socket, Aero the Acrobat, and Ardy Lightfoot in the "Bad Mascot Ideas" club.
MechaMonkey's Avatar
Sonic is jacked.
iliketuna's Avatar
ITS 16-BIT YOU NOOB POSERS
RAB's Avatar
Brucie the Hedgehog
NWKopf's Avatar
These realistic takes on characters are definitely entertaining.
cjpkiller's Avatar
...
sonic wears soaps.

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