Sonic: What If?

Sonic: What If? is The Sega Scourge's second long-running Sonic the Hedgehog series on his YouTube channel, beginning it's run in the wake of the Sonic Theorist's final episode on the mechanics of Chaos Control. In his own words, The Sega Scourge believed that he was 'running out of material' with which to make videos to his standard of quality, and the amount of time and effort he was pouring into each episode was not balanced with the returns he got in viewer engagement. Inspired by other 'What If' channels and series' on YouTube (particularly within the anime community, with MasakoX's Dragon Ball What Ifs being cited as a particular inspiration like with many), Sonic: What If? aims to construct new narratives around twisting the Sonic series around a given catalyst: What if a certain power was never lost? What if a character who died got to live on? What if a certain pivotal moment in a character's path went another way? These are the kinds of questions addressed by the show and each episode is presented via direct narration from The Sega Scourge himself running through the events of a given part of these new stories.

Unlike some other What If shows on YouTube, Sonic: What If? is less themed around the 'audio drama' format due to it's inclusion of custom artwork for each installment that acts as a visual aide to accompany the narration, custom music and voice acting is also included as part of some episodes to help bring each tale to life. Since it's start in October of 2019, the show has received multiple visual updates in the form of custom backdrops and an animated intro sequence featuring an original song by Freen In Green that samples the fitting lyrics from Sonic Adventure 2's theme song 'Live and Learn'.