Mania takes place in an alternate timeline that was created because of Generations. Classic Eggman saw where Modern Eggman failed and is pushing for different plans, starting with using the Phantom Ruby on Angel Island. When Classic Sonic defeats Eggman in Egg Reverie Zone and the Chaos Emeralds react to the Phantom Ruby, Classic Sonic was sent back to the main timeline. This is why Tails says that Classic Sonic is from another dimension.
Also, how did Tails know he was from another dimension and not the past?
Because assuming that Tails is one of the smartest characters in the Sonic universe, he would recognize what I’ve stated about time travel being similar to Endgame’s. An in game event that supports this is the fact that Crisis City was a playable area in Generations despite not actually existing in their timeline. If you remember the ending of 06, Sonic blows out Solaris’ flame causing none of the events to happen for 06 to take action. This caused a reset in the timeline and the Rush games take place after Shadow the Hedgehog (which has all of its own different timeline shenanigans because of its many different endings) instead of 06. When Crisis City appears in Generartions, the cast doesn’t have any memory of it and they’re essentially just visiting that original timeline
What's really interesting about this is that even though Sonic destroyed that timeline by blowing out the flame, the Time Eater was still able to reach that timeline with it's power. It's nothing new for ancient deities to appear within Sonic, but it makes you wonder just how much of a god the Time Eater really was. It's probably for the better that it's rather passive when not being controlled by Eggman. If it was evil, the Time Eater could easily bring entities such as Solaris and Mephiles into the Modern timeline.
Although Eggman calls it the “Time Eater”, I feel a more accurate name would be the “Time and Space Eater” due to its ability to take different places and people throughout time and place them in White Space.
It is not true according to sonic 2006 if you change the past you change the future
It's possible there's some sort of connection between the Phantom Ruby and the Time Eater, but I don't feel like that connection is a direct one. The Ruby's power seems to be one of creating copies and illusions, or more specifically making illusions "real". There's not really a time/space relation there other than it being able to create copies of places and enemies from Sonic's past.
Sonic 06 actually does fit into the same logic as Generations leading to Mania in a separate timeline. Sonic blowing out the flame creates the Modern Timeline which doesn't have Solaris in it in the same way that Classic Sonic and Eggman create the Mania timeline when they choose to live out new futures different from their Modern counterparts. This did not destroy the Modern Timeline in the process.
Well that explains the character changes from unleashed onwards
Blaze and Silver are both something of an enigma. Blaze in 06 seems to remember Sonic after hearing about a "Blue Hedgehog" from Mephiles, even though that version of her never met Sonic. The Silver in the Modern Timeline is the one from Rivals while the Blaze from the Modern Timeline is from Rush, yet somehow the two characters still know each other, and Silver's future in particular seems to change depending on whatever is happening in the present even though Silver himself seems to be the same individual returning from the future each time. It's all quite odd and hard to explain.
I think the dimension to which Blaze was transportedat at the end of Sonic 2006 is the Sol dimension and that somehow she lost her memory and after seeing crisis city she regained her memory
You misunderstood me. When the original Sonic (lets call him Solaris Sonic) went back to blow out the flame, he created a new timeline. His original timeline still retains the events of 06 and we stop following Solaris Sonic as there are no more games that take place after 06. In the new timeline, we meet Sonic (lets call him Modern Sonic) in Sonic 1 and he goes through the Classic and Adventure Sagas, but because Solaris doesn’t exist in this timeline anymore, 06 can’t happen and the Rush games take its place. This is the same Modern Sonic that was able to go on to later games like Unleashed, Colors, and Lost World, hence his nickname.
Pretty much, yeah. Rush and Rivals take the place of 06 on the Modern Timeline, and don't happen on the Solaris Timeline. All timelines feature Sonic 1 - 3&K. The Classic Sonic of the "Mania" or "Classic" timeline and Generations starts out as the past self of Modern Sonic, but forges a new future after Generations thus becoming a new entity.
I got explanations for both
While I don't entirely believe it, I think it's interesting so I'll point it out. There's an old fan theory from a while back that Metal Sonic is actually Sonic from the Bad Future, fully converted into a robot. The Sonic you play as time travels to get there, whereas Metal Sonic is the native Sonic from that time. This also explains why Metal Sonic is so obsessed and adamant that he is the real Sonic, despite clearly being able to tell he's a robot. This would also be part of why it's the "bad" future; even Sonic has fallen to Eggman's schemes on this timeline.
I agree, that was bad writing, but I didn’t use anything from Forces to support how time travel works other than Classic Sonic being able to jump back into the Modern Timeline, which is also exactly how it works in Endgame. The word “Dimension” could have easily been swapped out for “Timeline” and people would have understood it easier, even though they essentially mean the same thing
I think Sega should straight up stop with time travelling in their writing.
Which is explained through Time Travel lmao. It’s not that confusing if you just look at how time travel’s been presented in past games
Dimensions doesn't always equal time travel.
