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"Sonic's Big Break" is the thirty-fifth episode of the Sonic X anime series, as well as the third episode of the Shadow Saga. It first aired on 30 November 2003 and 13 November 2004 in Japan and the United States respectively.

Appearances[]

Characters:

Races and species:

Items:

Songs[]

Japanese version[]

English version[]

  • "Gotta Go Fast" - Opening theme (USA and CAN)
  • "Sonic X" - Opening theme (AUS, NZ and UK)
  • "Gotta Go Fast" (shortened) - Closing theme

Plot[]

Sonic has been imprisoned in his submerged prison cell on Prison Island. Howard Watcher announces as he can't escape, the hedgehog decides to kick back, nap and relax in his cell. Meanwhile Eggman flies by the island and emits a supersonic wave, disrupting the communications around the island as the guards watching the prison screens receive static and attempt to sound the alarm but it is disabled. Eggman requires the Chaos Emeralds located on the island along with Shadow and Rouge (despite of Decoe and Bocoe's pleas not to trust Rouge but the doctor cuts them off). Eggman plans to distract GUN forces focusing on him while clearing a path for Shadow and Rouge for their tasks while infiltrating the island: setting a bomb to detonate the entire facility and collecting the Chaos Emeralds respectively. Sure enough, Eggman begins to fulfill his part of the task by distracting the base's defenses.

As Shadow and Rouge head towards the entrance and destroy it, Tails and Amy arrive at the spot with the X Tornado in an attempt to rescue Sonic. Amy sees Shadow and hugs him from his back, mistaking the black hedgehog as Sonic. As Shadow shows no kind of reaction towards her, Amy realizes that Shadow is not Sonic and demands to know about the black hedgehog until Eggman presents himself, repelling the heroes while Rouge and Shadow head inside. Tails proceeds to fight Eggman in the skies while Amy goes to find Sonic while she notes the hedgehog's similarity to Sonic in appearance. At the same time Chris and Mr. Tanaka arrive on Prison Island with a paddle boat, also attempting to save Sonic and prove his innocence.

Amy finds Sonic in his submerged prison cell and informs him that Shadow is also on the island. Sonic then breaks from the cell and the duo escape. As Tails and Eggman clash, the latter abruptly leaves to continue with his plan. Shadow prepares the Eggman Bombom and Eggman orders him to set the timer into fifteen minutes. But Rouge claims that she can be out within five minutes, so Eggman tells Shadow to set the timer for ten minutes. After Rouge found the last Emerald, she was ambushed by GUN's Flying Dog. After a battle, Rouge successfully destroys Flying Dog but the vault's door shuts off, trapping her in with no way out. While Shadow runs off to find Eggman and escape, Sonic shows up and confronts Shadow, which leads them to fight each other. Unfortunately their fight is interrupted twice, first by Rouge's call for help and then Eggman warning Shadow that he's not waiting for him or Rouge any longer and has to escape or be blown to bits.

Sonic hears Eggman's warning and takes off to warn everyone to escape from Prison Island. Later, Chris finds Shadow and also mistakes him for Sonic, but realizes that it is not him then figures that with Shadow, he can prove that Sonic is innocent. Meanwhile, Shadow contacts Rouge and tells her that he will come to pick up the Chaos Emeralds from her. As Shadow uses Chaos Control to teleport himself, Chris grabs a hold of Shadow and gets teleported along with Shadow. Mr. Tanaka witnesses this and breaks down while Sonic escorts Tanaka away.

Shadow and Chris arrive at the vault where Rouge is, knocking Chris to the ground. As Shadow is about to invoke another Chaos Emerald, Rouge points out that they should not leave Chris behind. While Shadow is initially ignorant of this, Chris' attempt to reason causes Shadow to suddenly receive flashbacks of Maria's image and her words in his mind. With the Eggman Bombom ticking away its final seconds, Shadow finally uses Chaos Control to teleport Rouge, Chris and himself right at the last second. The Eggman Bombom finally detonates, creating a huge explosion in Prison Island. Sonic, Tails, Amy and Mr. Tanaka watch the smoking ruins of the island from a safe distance in the X Tornado where Mr. Tanaka believes that Chris died in the explosion, causing him great grief.

Eyecatch cards[]

Goofs[]

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Amy with tan legs.

  • There is a scene where Amy's legs are miscolored tan.

Regional differences[]

  • The guard at the lighthouse watch tower thinks that the Swan Boat has two lovers aboard at first "A swan boat? That means that somebody is on a date now!" "What does the couple look like?" In the dubbed version, the guard knew it was an attempt to get on the island.
  • In the scene where Tails and Eggman get into an airborne battle, the part where Tails tries to poke Eggman's Egg Mobile with the point of the X Tornado was removed from the dub.
  • All the laser sounds were changed in the dub.
  • The "EGGMAN BOMBOM" text of the bomb is erased in the dub.
  • The English dub added a "To be Continued" text at the end of the episode while the original version doesn’t have it

Title in other languages[]

Language Title Translation
Japanese プリズンアイランドからの脱出 Escape From Prison Island
Chinese 逃出監獄島 Escape From Prison Island
French L'évasion de Sonic The escape of Sonic
German Sonics große Pause Sonic's big break
Greek Απόδραση από το Νησί της Φυλακής Escape from Prison Island
Hebrew בריחה מאי הכלא Escape from the Prison Island
Italian La grande fuga / Intrusi The great escape / Intruders
Korean 프리즌 아일랜드에서 탈출 Escape from Prison Island
Polish Ucieczka z Więziennej Wyspy Escape from Prison Island
Portuguese (Brazil) Escape da ilha Prisão Escape from Prison Island
Romanian Evadare de pe Insula Temniței Escape from Prison Island
Russian Побег с Тюремного Острова Escape from the Prison Island
Spanish (Latin America) Huida de Prison Island Escape from Prison Island
Spanish (Spain) La gran huida de Sonic Sonic's great escape
Thai แหกเกาะพริซัน Break out of Prison Island

Trivia[]

Sonic X ep 35 recycled Rouge artwork pose scene

Recycled pose.

  • Amy mistakes Shadow for Sonic just as she did in Sonic Adventure 2. This is a running gag within the video game series as she also mistakes Silver for Sonic and does the same thing to Sonic as a Werehog.
  • Chris' undercover outfit in this episode resembles the outfits of Team Rocket Grunts from Pokémon.
  • One scene of Rouge looking over her shoulder is almost an exact match to the stock artwork for Rouge.

Differences from Sonic Adventure 2[]

  • In the episode, Tails does not venture into Prison Island's interior complex as he did in the game.
  • In the game, Amy slides a G.U.N. card through a card reader to open Sonic's cell and free him, whereas in the episode, Sonic eventually breaks free of the cell himself after Amy appeared.
  • In the episode, when Sonic asks Amy to tell him about where Shadow is, she asks in return if Sonic would “finally take [her] out to do something fun”, while in the game she asks Sonic if he would "marry [her]".
  • Sonic escapes the prison cells with Amy in the episode while in the game Sonic escapes first without Amy in the game.
  • In the game, Eggman orders Shadow to set the Eggman Bombom's timer for 15 minutes whereas in the episode, Eggman orders Shadow to set said explosive's timer for 10 minutes (though Eggman originally suggested 15 minutes).
  • In the episode, Shadow used Chaos Control with the green Chaos Emerald to get to Rouge before they escaped via Chaos Control with the said emerald, while in the game he ran all the way to her then invoked Chaos Control with at least one of the three Chaos Emeralds that were recovered by Rouge (since the green Chaos Emerald was put into the Eclipse Cannon prior to their attack on Prison Island).

References[]

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