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Hidden Details: Dead Hedgehogs and How to Revive Them

Welcome to the one-hundredth-and-twenty-seventh episode of the Hidden Details blog!

Have you found some obscure reference or detail in this comic? A JoJo reference? A sneaky little Loss? A callback to a previous comic? Let us know what you've found in the comments! Every detail that has been found will be added to the list below. Once everything has been found, this comic will officially be marked with "all details found".

Link to the comic for your convenience

Please only comment with ONE hidden detail or reference!

There is ONE Loss, ONE Balthazar, ONE crewmate and NO JoJo reference. Bonus panels don't count.

1: It's not referencing her origin per se, but I'll count it, Sebastian L. Isabelle is using a Nook Phone in this comic (the phone you get in Animal Crossing New Horizons).
2: Balthazar is very subtly hidden this week: he's visible on screen of the phone that Isabelle is holding in the first panel. Glad you found him, Noah.
3: You probably got that feeling because I tried my very best to make this reference obvious, Shelby Kinkead! Isabelle's reaction to Knuckle's voice is indeed referencing Idris Elba who voices Knuckles in the Sonic movie.
4: No idea why I added that tongue on the monitor in the third panel, Chj92.
5: I have no idea CSDX, I haven't played Sonic 06 (or any Sonic for that matter), but yeah, apparently Sonic gets revived by a kiss from a girl in Sonic 06, which is what Tails is alluding to!
6: Both Isabelles are oogling Knuckles in the fourth and sixth panels, but he doesn't seem to realize what's happening, And3rs_.
7: Hehehe yes, the flies circling dead Sonic are indeed forming Loss, Tejayes.
8: King Dedede has a cute little phone case with Bandana Waddle Dee on it. Thanks for noticing this cute detail, Generic Hero.
9: The book in the seventh panel says "Maidens and Where to Find Them", which is both a reference to the title of the comic and the fact that everyone calls you maidenless in Elden Ring, Trigger!
10: I had to use those posters to hammer home the fact that Hewg (the smithing guy) loves smithing, Jon Brouse. I had to make sure that even non-Elden Ring players would understand what happened. And yeah, among the posters are a "commissions open" poster (found by Cameron Devera), to further explain that Dedede commissioned 100 rings with him, and a "sure sex is nice, but have you ever tried SMITHING" poster (found by Daniel Myhre).
11: This week's crewmate... or rather crewmates, are found on the Hewg's anvil! Good catch, VisionPlayer22!
12: Yay, glad someone noticed this, Zach! I intentionally put Bayonetta in the last panel because both her and Sonic are SEGA characters!
13: And correct Phloxiana, in the final panel, Peach is glad she didn't have to kiss dead Sonic.

Hidden Details: Dead Hedgehogs and How to Revive Them

Comments

Just me copy-pasting assets to get the comic finished in time lmao

Wooden Plank Studios

one detail per person please :)

Sebastian L.

Isabelle has a phone case with the animal crossing logo referencing her origin

Sebastian L.

I would even go a little further and say all the background items are modelled after the sprites from the Green Hill Zone (1st Level) of the OG Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive Game "Sonic the Hedgehog": Flowers, Trees, Totem-Thingies, Waterfalls, The chess-like squares of the ground.

Sebastian L.

- The flies in panel 5 are positioned in the Loss format (Above Sonic's nose and lower stomach)

EJtrooper99

Knuckles being confused by Isabelle's love for him

And3rs_

How could sonics tongue be still wet after death? Should be dry no?

THEx

Isabelle is videoconferencing with Dedede and Meta Knight and she talks about Zoom-ing to collect rings. I know it may be a stretch.

Josue Cazanga

Isabelle is attracted to movie knuckles voice

Fighting Master

The poster on the right of the blacksmith is the "Sure, Sex is great, but X" meme.

Pokedude14

Lol the Sonic Icon is sticking his tongue out in 1 up Monitor.

Chj92

Not sure if this counts, but the palm trees in the background all seem to be identical, possibly referencing the way game sprites were reused throughout Green Hill Zone

Lord Circe

There’s a Commissions open poster!

Cameron Devera

Because he looks like roadkill not because it's Sonic. Sonic gets bitches

Alan-Michael White

Princess Peach is relieved as heck to dodge the Princess kiss bullet in the last panel.

Phloxiana

Bayonetta is happy her fellow SEGA character is back.

Zach

Ok I think I got sniped by a minute so I'll say that the tings in the background of Green Hill are all spinning one frame apart from another, just like in the games

A Sad Fat Dragon with No Friends

According to the blacksmith, smithing is equivalent to Shrek

Jon Brouse

The "kiss from a princess" Tails is referring to is the infamous scene in the equally infamous Sonic '06. Wherein Princess Elise of Soleana (a human) kisses the recently deceased Sonic. Gross

A Sad Fat Dragon with No Friends

Tails mentioning the princess kiss is a reference to the infamous Sonic 06 moment, even though that was decanonized in the very same game(spoilers).

CSDX

King Dedede has our good bandana boy on his phone case!

Generic Hero

There's something about the book shelf in the second to last panel that caught Zelda's attention, maybe the book which title can be barely read "Maidens... where to..."

Trigger

I call dibs on the Idris Elba reference.

John Leonard

The flies around Sonic's corpse are clearly mourning the "Loss" of the blue blur.

Tejayes

In the second panel Meta Knight swapped with Balthazar for some time with King Dedede

MattB

Balthazar on the first panel, switches with Meta Knight on the phone.

Noah

Why do I get the feeling Isabelle’s comment is a reference to Knuckles VA in the live action movie?

Shelby Kinkead

Among us on the anvil

VisionPlayer22


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