Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Violent Content

We’re shown how Shadow was targeted by the government after authorities determined that his chaos energy was too dangerous to be left unchecked. They sent soldiers into the facility where he was being held to arrest him. Instead, the lead scientist on the project, Dr. Gerald Robotnik (Ivo’s and Maria’s grandfather), tried to help Shadow escape. The soldiers fired their weapons, causing an explosion that killed Maria (whom we see lying lifelessly on the ground).

Those events fuel Shadow’s and Gerald’s anger and vengeance. So, they plot to destroy the world with a giant cannon powered by Shadow’s chaos energy.

Sonic and his friends battle Shadow throughout the film, usually causing quite a bit of destruction in the process. (It should be noted that they try to reason with Shadow more than once.) Gerald uses drones to fire missiles at Sonic’s team while they’re dining in a children’s restaurant. People fire weapons in other scenes, too. Two characters use robotic appendages to fight each other. When one falls off a bridge, the other stomps on his fingers to make him fall. However, he’s rescued by Tails, and he knocks his opponent into a stream of chaos energy, which incinerates the man.

Simulations show how force fields and lasers could kill Sonic. Ivo shoves his grandfather into such lasers, but the man is spared a gruesome death by his laser-deflecting suit (although Ivo admits he wasn’t sure if the suits would work or not). Sonic and Shadow fight off several missile-firing drones.

There are many perilous moments throughout the film. Among them, Team Sonic is nearly sucked into a black hole. While stopping Gerald’s space cannon, two characters pass out and begin falling to Earth, but they’re narrowly saved by a friend. Sonic’s friends are nearly crushed by falling rubble (which he saves them from).

Shadow attacks Tom, Sonic’s foster father, mistaking him for the man who locked him up after Maria’s death. He shows some remorse when he realizes his mistake, but he doesn’t apologize. Tom survives, but it’s a very near thing.

Two characters seemingly perish while moving Gerald’s cannon away from the Earth as the weapon explodes.

Sonic is shocked to learn that Ivo Robotnik is still alive, since the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 had led him to believe the evil scientist had perished. Characters are otherwise punched, elbowed and tackled. A man crashes his bike. Shadow says a television character should kill two men fighting over her since she’s not a prize to be won.

Gerald imagines blowing up a government building using his cannon. The cannon actually hits the moon, slicing off a good third of the satellite.

A post-credits scene shows Sonic fending off robotic hedgehogs shooting at him.