Sonic the Hedgehog 3 zipped into theatres this previous weekend, and up to now we’re having a fairly good time with it. Amid the delight of studying there can be a fourth Sonic the Hedgehog movie and discovering out that the movie’s ending teases yet one more new Sonic character for that movie, there’s nonetheless one main query on everybody’s minds: the place is Big the Cat?

Okay, positive, it is perhaps not the most urgent query ever, however we did have an opportunity to sit down down with Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller to ask the place everybody’s favourite fisherman kitty has been all this time. And it seems, they really did write a cameo for Big the Cat into the second Sonic the Hedgehog movie… just for it to be a bit too grim to make it to the last lower.

“In a single draft of Sonic 2, we truly, once they’re going by the snowy mountains to the cave, we had a bit, as a result of Sonic 2 was kind of an Indiana Jones,” Casey informed us. “Indiana Jones, it is a trope that sooner or later a skeleton pops out at you and scares you. So we have been going to try this, however with a skeleton of a, I’d say, a Big the Cat, not necessarily-“

Miller cuts in right here, “Not essentially the Big the Cat.”

“However we ended up reducing it,” Casey concludes. “It did not make any sense.”

Alas, we nearly had a… lifeless Big the Cat in Sonic 2. The 2 writers mentioned that “Big the Cat” is often their joke reply when followers ask them who they need to add to the movies, although in addition they knowledgeable me they have been unsuccessfully making an attempt to get Rouge the Bat in as properly for 3 fims straight.

Maintain your eyes right here at IGN for our full interview with Casey and Miller coming later this week, in addition to all the newest on the Sonic the Hedgehog films.

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