Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)/WMG

The dimension Blaze went to is the same one Tikal and Chaos were in
And Mephiles killed them all.

Elise was intended to be an Audience Surrogate for female players.
I mean, by using the same tricks done for decades to attract female audiences. Elise has little personality, gets captured many times so Sonic can rescue her, etc..
 * This, sadly, provides some Unfortunate Implications as to what the writers thought of the female players...

In another timeline, Mephiles would have been called "Homunculus".
They have very similar origin stories, and the Duke of Soleanna looks almost like Father!
 * ... You think so too? Heck, Mephiles and Father even have similar goals; . Then there's the fact that they both have similar true forms (amorphous, shadowy blobs).

Eggman made Sonic the Hedgehog 2006
He made it as part of his Anti-Sonic Propaganda Project.

Maybe Mephiles' plan has an explanation.
Probably the longer Iblis stays within Elise, or even free but separate by its "brother", the more independent it becomes, making it harder to recompose Solaris. That's why he doesn't simply go to the future to merge with Iblis: she's too indipendent by that point. Also, he cannot merge with Iblis in the period from its creation, to the separate sealing of the two parts, to the liberation of Mephiles from the Sceptre of Darkness: maybe it's because Mephiles is now more "normal" and cannot exist in two places at once (not counting the clones). This would have made sense...if it was somehow explained in the game. But hey, it's a good explanation... that cannot be jossed, because the game doesn't have one.
 * Look at the "pure" Iblis at the end of Silver's story. He's freaking huge. Compare it to the tiny Iblis fresh from the Lab, or the slightly larger but still small Iblis fresh from Elise. There's obviously something that happens to him if he's out too long.

Mephiles made Sonic the Hedgehog 2006
So that if he shows up for another game, no one will take him seriously, which he will use to his advantage. As an added bonus,nthe cast wouldn't remember him because he isn't supposed to exist.

the Blaze in this game is a Descendant of the one in the Rush games
Given Blaze is in the future here.

Solaris wouldn't have been evil if the moronic King hadn't decided to do (probably) hideous experiments on the deity his people worshipped
Exactly what it says on the tin. How cruel and amoral do you have to be to capture and experiment on the GOD THAT YOUR PEOPLE WORSHIP? Admittedly, we don't know if Solaris was really a god or not. Still, that's kind of a dick move, honestly. If someone tried to take control of MY mind and make me control time for them, a mindless slave, and then I went insane and decided to destroy everything, I'd be pretty pissed too. All kidding aside though, I can't be the only one who thinks the stupid king is directly responsible for turning a probably harmless god into a psychotic Lavos-wannabe.

Mephiles killed Blaze!
How else would he get Iblis back?
 * Or she starved to death.

When Sonic and Elise it didn't affect anyone outside that particular reality.
When
 * But if that dimension wasn't affected by the retcon, then why doesn't Blaze know Sonic in Rush? If it didn't change anything else, it wouldn't change her memories either.
 * Its influence/existance could have easily wiped her memories.
 * See the Blaze dying WMG above.
 * The Rush Blaze is a diffrent character from the 06 one.

Shadow and Silver were Bunnie Rabbot and Sally Acorn at earlier points of development
And there were two games: Sonic Adventure 3 for Wii, and Shadow The Hedgehog 2 for Play Station 3/360. These two were combined into one.

Final Character (06) = Orignal (SA 3/ Shadow 2)


 * Sonic = Shadow (Shadow 2)
 * Shadow = Bunnie Rabbot (Sonic Adventure 3)
 * Silver = Sally Acorn (Sonic Adventure 3)
 * Blaze = Sonic (Sonic Adventure 3)
 * Elise = Rouge (Shadow 2)
 * Mephiles = Ixis Nagus (Sonic Adventure 3)

Mephiles has No Fourth Wall.
He's not trying to blow up reality for kicks. He's aware he's in a game, and a terrible one at that. The destruction of time was a Xanatos Gambit to force Sonic and co. into erasing the game from history. Him killing Sonic was due to the game forcing him to do it, and/or to prove just how bad this game is. If he destroyed time, it would mean there wouldn't be a game in the first place. Either way, the canon is spared from having to include this game. Unfortunately for him and us, his influence wasn't able to Ret-Gone our copies of the game.
 * Yeah, but he would have destroyed the entire Sonic universe, which would have erased the good games, too. So he's still evil.
 * Not exactly evil, but willing to do what it takes to purge Sonic 06. The end of the franchise is a Necessary Evil to him. He may even feel that the games and their reputation are doomed. Of course, that's a worst-case scenario. As I mentioned, his ultimate goal was to erase Sonic 06. Destroying the rest of the Sonic games was a risk in the grand plan, and he was willing to take it.

Mephiles didn't know any better...
He was just trying to survive the only way he knew how. Those terrible hedgehogs were out to get him, and no one seemed to want to help him find his brother, who'd been missing since the lab exploded and they were separated. He had reason to believe Iblis was kidnapped like he was, and was being held against his will in a place not too far from where he resided. Mephiles recruited Silver and Blaze to rescue him before learning that Silver was an accomplice with Shadow during both of their kidnappings, and that Sonic was the one heavily guarding the place where Iblis was being held. Unable to wait any longer, Mephiles moved forward and eliminated Sonic to free his brother, who had been waiting ten long years. Mephiles was too overcome with emotion during their reunion.

Sadly, the both of them never lived happily ever after, because he did not fully kill Sonic, who teamed up with Silver and Shadow to "take care of their problem". Some say they (mis)used the power of the Emeralds that Mephiles had tried so hard to keep from them, and erased all accounts of what really happened, and rewrote it all hastily before the story was released in the form of the game we are now so familiar with.

It's the Duke's own fault Solaris and everything related to it wants to eat time.
Okay, let me take some time to explain. So we have Solaris, god and creator of time. He's happy living in timelessness and using the Flames of Disaster as his avatar. But the Duke of Soleanna wants to play around with time, so he tries to make Solaris physical. Making a god of time physical is a bad idea. Iblis represents the rage of Solaris at being made physical. Mephiles is the sentience of Solaris, who became sadistic when he was locked up in the Sceptre.

The entire game is a daydream thought up by Princess Elise
It's why Sonic falls in love with her in one day. It's why she gets kidnapped every other second only to be rescued by her favourite blue hedgehog. It's why the physics don't work like they should, it's a daydream, it doesn't have to make sense. It's why the story makes no sense, it's how she knows Silver when she shouldn't, it's why she's the single most important person ever.

It's all a daydream from a bored Princess Elise waiting for the festival to start. The end of the game is when she finally jerks out of it.


 * This makes so much sense that it actually fixes the game's convoluted story. She probably hears about all the Sonic characters on the news and idolizes them. Turning the flames of Solaris into a villain is her way of expressing how she hates this festival and how she wished it didn't exist. It'd also explain why the tiny glowing necklace in her cutscene suddenly grows into a large Chaos Emerald during the game.
 * What it doesn't explain, however, is why Crisis City is in Sonic Generations.

The Hyrule Royal family has some connection to Soleanna.
Just take a look at the Hyrule Royal Crest compared to Solaris' second form. It's TOO similar to be a coincidence!

Mephiles trying to make Elise cry instead of just killing her makes sense
Maybe Elise dying didn't release Iblis: maybe she cried and released him just before she died. If that happened, it would make (slightly more) sense.

Mephiles has a Complexity Addiction because he is Stupid Evil.
Mephiles absolutely loves making people suffer. It's not so much that he could have simply released Iblis through killing Elise instead of Sonic, but he wanted to torture as many people as he could emotionally. His initial plan was probably not only to trick Silver into killing Sonic to cause Elise grief, but to tell Silver the truth after the fact to cause him grief as well. He simply doesn't care if he is Stupid Evil. Causing suffering is his absolute number one favorite thing to do, and he would give up ANYTHING to cause suffering.

Elise is kidnapped with great frequency.
Hence why no citizen or officer goes to help her: She's been kidnapped so many times it's guaranteed that she'll be back and be kidnapped again.

Elise's Chaos Emerald is a fake.
The one Mephiles uses to merge with Iblis, and which is used to revive Sonic is the real blue Chaos Emerald.

Elise's Chaos Emerald is real, but isn't one that appeared in previous games.
There are at least 16 blue Chaos Emeralds, a 17th one wouldn't be a huge stretch.

The Memories the Characters Have With the Plot Are the Only Parts of the Plot That Got Wiped Clean
To me, this makes more sense than the actual events getting erased. Maybe Sonic and Elise themselves remember inklings without being able to recall the full thing. Not only were they the ones that had a crucial decision put in their control, but it could be a possible reason Elise had that strange intuition before the credits rolled. Perhaps Sonic remembered more than Elise and the fact that he watched over her at the end is something other than coincidence.


 * Alternatively, Elise is the only one who forgot anything, not being used to dealing with the chaos energy and other strange forces the recurring Sonic characters usually encounter.