In Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the titular character, voiced by Ben Schwartz, was blindsided as he tried to carve a new path out as an immature vigilante. Sonic, despite being a kid, felt he could protect the city like Batman, but he didn’t realize Jim Carrey’s Doctor Robotnik would return looking for revenge. Robotnik also had Idris Elba’s Knuckles with him, ready to take the blue-quilled hero out and attain the Master Emerald to rule the cosmos.
However, the debacle got even more complicated for Sonic when a new enemy revealed itself on Earth. As much as he wanted to protect humanity, some humans still didn’t trust him after all the chaos in the first film, and it resulted in an uncomfortable twist that showed how far the authorities would go to stop him.
The twist occurred with Shemar Moore’s Randall at the wedding that Sonic’s adoptive parents, Tom and Maddie, attended in Hawaii. Randall was marrying Rachel, Maddie’s sister, who hated the havoc caused in the first film and especially blamed Tom for it. And the couple made it clear to Tom that they wanted nothing but peace on their wedding day, but that went away when Tom accidentally gave Randall one of Sonic’s teleportation rings.
Tom eventually punched Randall out during the vows to use the ring to bring Sonic in from the Siberian Alps, draping the matrimony with snow. However, after the commotion, Randall and nearly everyone else at the wedding whipped out guns, tazing Sonic and Tails and imprisoning his crew. As it turns out, Randall and Co. were all part of a new federal unit, G.U.N. (Guardian Units of Nations), meant to police alien activity, including folks like Sonic and Tails.
Of course, Rachel was furious because all the guests on Randall’s side, the wedding workers and even the priest were undercover, but she also found out the girl waxing her in the most personal, intimate spots had infiltrated the wedding, placing a horrific spin on the romance being nothing more than a sham. Now, the film was trying to be funny, but it could have just turned this marriage arc into a date early on in Randall and Rachel’s history — something a bit more innocent. Instead, Randall went deep undercover as Rachel’s husband-to-be in a disgusting act.
And to make matters worse, the bizarre sequence was forgotten and didn’t even have an effect on the finale outside of helping Maddie rescue Tom. Instead, Rachel remained in Hawaii and forgave Randall after he took a taser meant for her from his boss before making up with him. Ultimately, making Rachel quickly forget the lie sent the wrong message because it ignored her mental trauma from the bombshell and had her move on with someone she shouldn’t trust.
See how Randall manipulates Rachel in a toxic manner in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, now playing in theaters.
