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I am almost certain the blog already did. If it isn't too much of a bother, do you still agree with the OP? Or have the recent arguments involving Time Eater affecting Crisis City change your mind about it?
Yes, Time Eater is shown pulling stages across time and space and causing temporal distortions. But the mere presence of Crisis City doesn’t ******* prove it was Time Eater who pulled it, that's a false cause fallacy. That’s an assumption that falls apart when you apply later material.
The cutscene of Tails pointing at the other stages (He never specified Crisis city btw) isn't a good evidence when the stages were already there when he was pulled.
Think of it like this, you saw your dad bring fruit to the table. Later, when you go to the kitchen, you see fruit already there, some your dad brought, but also some your mom added without you knowing, you just assume your dad brought all of them because that’s all you witnessed, you’re not wrong about your dad bringing fruit, you just missed the fact that someone else also added to the table.
Same thing here. He saw Time Eater pulling zones and yes, that did happen. But that doesn’t mean something irrelevent to Eggman's plan was his doing. Tails assumed it, because they were already there when the game started but assumption =/= confirmation.
Now here’s where Shadow Generations comes in, which, importantly, is the more recent game and thus takes priority. The devs have been actively restructuring Sonic lore, fixing inconsistencies, decanonizing certain games, and giving additional context to old material. So naturally, we look to Shadow Generations for the latest interpretation.(Some Verses scaling in this wiki has been changed via similar reasons due to recent stuff and retcons being more important)
Gerald explicitly says:
"The damage done to the time stream may be stirring up echoes of past alterations."
Peeps here jump on that last line as "See? It's just le speculation!", but that's appeal to stone. Just because something is labeled a hypothesis doesn’t mean it’s wrong, especially when there’s no contradictory evidence. Gerald has been the main wise owl lore expositor in the game and the line wasn’t written to be questioned by the player. It’s actually giving us narrative context, 06 stuff are echoes of past alterations, not zones dragged back via time travel.Gelard states he’s basing this explanation on studies (likely in-universe time studies or science books) so this isn’t some random guess. It’s logical inference based on data, the same process many realworld theories are built upon.
Eggman also doesn’t even know something called Crisis city or a ruined future in Sonic 06, nor we should assume he treat it as relevant in gens. He’s rewriting his past defeats, not future events from an old timeline he doesn't even know they exist. So narratively, it doesn’t make sense for him to choose to pull crisis city. That zone appearing is simply due to the damage Time Eater caused to the timeline itself (How an erased future is relevent to a scheme about REWRITING THE PAST is relevent is non-sensical and makes unnnecessary loopholes).
Also worth noting the the “turning white” thingy when stages get teared by Time Eater isn’t specific proof . It’s linked to dimensional energy/spacetime loss, not a measure of "what he personally dragged". Crisis city was erased from time since 06, so obviously it's going to be white.
Plus we shouldn't ignore we have TWO statements of a unique time dimension.
