He can’t swim because one of his creators didn’t do their research
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During Sonic’s design phase, Yuji Naka, one of the three men credited with making him, assumed that real-life hedgehogs couldn’t swim, so he just sort of went with it. Turns out they can swim, so all those times we had to watch Sonic fall into the water and drown were just dirty, dirty lies.