'Super Sonic Sisters' The Canceled and Lost DiC Sonic Cartoon

TV & Film

Aug 10

Super Sonic Sisters fan art — Image Source: Twitter

There have been several Sonic cartoons over the years. From 1993's Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog to the new Netflix series Sonic Prime, Sonic had sped through several iterations of animation. However, not every pitch makes it, and some are left on the cutting room floor. Super Sonic Sisters is one such idea. Let's take a look at this lost Sonic cartoon.

Super Sonic Sisters was to be produced by DiC Entertainment, who had been behind Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and the Saturday morning Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. It is unknown which continuity this series would have taken place in, but what is known is that the series would have focused on the antics of Sonic's twin cousins, Monica and Isabelle, with Sonic himself only making guest appearances. There were two pitches made for the cartoon. The first one contains synopses for several potential episodes, and the second is a summary of the first with some minor changes.

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The following is the synopsis for the potential series itself:

"Don't blink or you'll miss Sonic's speedy cousins, MONICA and ISABELLE. They're Super Sonic identical twins. Two, too much fun, and two, too outrageous. Quick! Turn the page for double-action, double-laughs, and double-delight!"

The first pitch acts as a detailed story treatment for the show. Super Sonic Sisters was to be set on a rural asteroid near Mobius called Asteroid 896. The twins live with their mother and father, who runs an interstellar repair shop called the Shuttle Stop. Though the twins were similar in appearance, the twins' personalities were planned to be rather distinct from each other. Isabelle was going to be the careless and reckless one, while Monica was going to be a bit more careful. The twins would attend a hi-tech school on the moon of Mobius called Mobius Moon High, and they would be the hosts of the school’s news show called “Comet Sense,” giving them some degree of popularity. The sisters were said to have a nose for news and could “sniff out a story half a meteor away.” Their stories would have taken them on all sorts of crazy adventures, such as rescuing a pirate from a neighboring asteroid. However, their reporting efforts would be disrupted and opposed by Obnotnik, Robotnik’s evil nephew. Other characters would have included Ms. Astral Dawn (a form Mobius News Network anchor turned faculty advisor(, Cal Tech (the teen behind the tech for Mobius Moon High’s news station), and Mr. Straighten Narrow (the principal of the school).

Six episodes were laid out in the first pitch. The first one is titled “Scouting for Trouble.” In this episode, the twins must rescue a group of Brownie Scouts who were kidnapped by a space pirate disguised as their leader. The second episode is titled “Space Weights For No One.” This episode would have featured Sonic coaching Isabelle back into shape after eating a snack given to her by the rival school’s coach that made her instantly gain weight. The third episode, titled “Defeat of Clay,” would have the sisters reporting on the Art Department’s clay sculptures, and they soon discover the kiln is a device made by Obnotnik to turn the statues into mischievous gremlins.

In the next episode, titled “Dance Till You Drop,” the twins enter a dance competition hosted by the school. However, Obnotnik wants to win and beat the girls in any way possible, so he imports two new students called the Glint Twins, two dancing robots who are powered by dancing gas. The sisters must beat them at their own game with a new supersonic dance. In the next episode, titled “The Truth Will Set You Freeze,” the sisters would have to face off against a sleazy satellite developer who launches a mylar balloon to block the sun and freeze the moon to turn the school into a retirement community. The last episode, titled “Double-Double Time,” would have had Isabelle cover for her sister at school and at the news station while she does a commercial for the Shuttle Stop.

The second pitch summarizes the first, but there are some changes. Firstly, some characters, such as Mr. Straighten Narrow, are omitted, but this could simply be due to it being a summary. Dr. Robotnik is also made into a universal tyrant, similar to how he appears in Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Underground. The news show was also changed from “Comet Sense” to “Comet Tails.” Other than those differences, the two pitches are identical. Ultimately, the show was scrapped and left unknown to the public until the pitch documents were shared by DiC writer Phil Harnage for preservation purposes. No art exists of the show (the art in this article is fan made), as it seems to have never left the pitch phase. The show would have been an interesting addition to the animated canon of the blue blur, but perhaps it was for the best that this show never sped onto television.

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