>>111619334On the second thought, I take it back. I must be frank, and admit I'm merely defending that one is better than the other based in my own preferences, which I feel sincerely no reason to care if one character look like or not a Sonic-designed character. Simply saying, I personally don't like how the background characters sometimes are drawn, and I prefer more the them from Archie. That's all.
However, I still insist to counterpoint a few things, which are...
>Until then you had tons of recolors running aroundI say this is not a problem if it's about relatives and parents (or in other special cases), or else, if they were very different, then they would hardly look like parents of one character. Sonic's family, for example, is good enough with their balance of similarity, compared to Sonic, and difference, perfect to look like unique parents. By the way, Vanilla exists. There's also the Knuckles Clan from SA1, where they can be considered as copy-pasted recolors of Knuckles, and so, this is no exception to the games.
>and straight up furries trying to pass as Sonic characters.Yes, but this is also nothing different from the games: Chaos, Big, the koala allies from Blaze's dimension, the Deadly Six, the fairies from Sonic Shuffle, and perhaps more. Theses are Sonic characters, despite not following the base reference of Felix the Cat/Sonic himself, by the simple fact they were created for the Sonic franchise.
>It wasn't until IDW where you can tell what animal isAgreed. However, once again, this is a common phenomenon among the game characters too: Sonic, Knuckles, Silver, Espio, Amy, and more, and actually, this affects with IDW too. For instance, analyzing the focused mobian speaking girl and the other green one to the right in the third panel of
>>111619460's uploaded page... uh, I can't perceive what animals are they based on.
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