A closer look
Paramount Pictures had to spend an estimated five million dollars to completely redesign the CGI model of Sonic the Hedgehog after the internet collectively dry-heaved at the sight of the character's horrifyingly human teeth in the first movie trailer. The studio originally tried to give the beloved blue speedster a gritty, realistic aesthetic, which inadvertently turned him into a sleep paralysis demon for nineties kids everywhere. In a rare historical twist where toxic internet bullying actually produced a positive outcome, the animators worked massive overtime to make him look like an actual cartoon instead of a mutated lab experiment. The studio recouped their losses beautifully, proving that listening to angry nerds on Twitter can occasionally be a highly lucrative business strategy!
