#Sonic the Hedgehog celebrates Batman Day with a crossover video

As a part of the celebration for Batman Day 2024, the official Sonic the Hedgehog social media accounts lately uploaded this fascinating animated in need of Shadow combating criminals whereas dressed up as Batman, and it took the complete web by storm.

Shadow not solely seems completely wonderful as Batman, but it surely additionally makes a whole lot of sense for him to cosplay because the Caped Crusader, seeing as each characters have comparable designs and personalities. That is additionally nice model integration as a result of Sonic X Shadow Generations is releasing on October 22, and Shadow would be the most important antagonist of the third live-action Sonic film, releasing on December 20. 2024 is the 12 months of Shadow the Hedgehog.

The video itself is brief however candy, with detailed animation made by none apart from famend Sonic the Hedgehog artist Tyson Hesse, who confirmed on Twitter/X that he produced the complete factor together with his spouse. Sonic followers reacted to this brief with each delight and shock, since it is a crossover that no person was anticipating to occur, and it additionally impressed a ton of inventive fan artwork and hilarious memes concerning the concept of Shadow turning into Batman.

There is perhaps extra to this Sonic the Hedgehog x Batman crossover

Followers had been fast to note that the add of this animated brief on DC’s official YouTube channel is titled “DC x Sonic Partnership Teaser,” which can have revealed that that is only the start and that each DC and Sega might have extra plans for these two characters.

Batman has already crossed over with iconic IPs from different firms in his comedian books, just like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Predator. So it’s attainable that DC is planning a possible crossover comedian sequence with the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise within the close to future. Then again, some followers consider that Sega might add some Batman DLC content material to Sonic X Shadow Generations after launch, like a Batman costume for Shadow.