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Every time I read "Amy was bastardized under Pontaff, she was nothing more than a stalker" my blood boil. To quote the YMMV page of Lost World on TV Tropes:

Character Rerailment:

Amy, surprisingly enough. In a cutscene, Amy is seen comforting the animal friends that Sonic has recently freed. In games like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Amy can be shown being a caring person in cases like the Flicky from Adventure 1, and this aspect of her character was nearly forgotten due to the character's Flanderization. Not once has Amy gushed about Sonic in the entire cutscene, and she was even seen having a normal conversation with him through the Miles Electric. Over the course of the entire game, Amy never even mentions her crush aside from the scene where she appears to die during the Deadly Six's world-draining.

Any and all complaints people have about "Pontaff writing" is usually completely nonsensical and baseless and stupid.

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Shikamaru and Kankuro are pricks (spoilers from the latest chapter of Boruto)

Gaara's life is at stake.

Kankuro phones Shikamaru for help.

Kankuro also asks Shikamaru to not tell Temari so she doesn't worry.

Temari. Gaara's sister. Shikamaru's wife. But above all else, an ADULT AND RESPONSIBLE WOMAN.

This is how they treat her.

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I've found many fanfictions that deal in their own different ways to the aftermath of every Donnie Trauma... except the Kirby one. You know, the ONLY incident that had a permanent bad ending in the cartoon. Do you think there's a specific reason?

I don't know myself. I would say it's because it's one of the weaker episodes in the series, but that doesn't make any sense because as a Donatello-focused episode, it really shows the kind of character he is when you take away his engineer/mechanic deal and just focus on Donnie and what he's like as a person, er, turtle. It's also an incredibly touching tribute to the late Jack Kirby, and Don's VA has gone on record saying it was his favorite episode to voice act in the series. (Never mind that it was also the only episode to have its ending reanimated so that it was closer to the original comic issue it was based on, like damn.)

My best guess is that it just tends to be overshadowed by the other Don traumas. Seasons 3 and 4 included multiple major story arcs where the plot decided to give him the short end of the stick (Space Invaders, Same As It Never Was, Good Genes), while The King was a single isolated filler episode from Season 1 that could, in theory, be removed from the series and not affect the plot too drastically. But that's just my thoughts on the matter, haha.

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I tried to make him smile...

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True story. I developed a hyperfixation for Sonic after I watched the cutscenes of Sonic Lost World (the scene where he was all alone really broke me), so for the first time I reached for the fandom. I found a small forum, joined, and poured my heart into describing how great of a character Sonic was for me, with all his strenghts and weaknesses. ...then, the freaking ADMIN of the forum replied, telling me "If you like seeing the emotional side of Sonic, forget about the games. He almost feels nothing there! Go read the Archie comics instead." They could have simply suggested me to search the comics, without downplaying the reason I joined the forum in the first place, but noo. THIS is the proper way to welcome a newcomer!

I'm very sorry to hear about that. That is definitely a very representative experience though, I'm sorry to say. So many people who call themselves Sonic "fans" really just genuinely do hate Sonic, I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that about them. They hate the games, they hate the people who make the games, and often they are hateful towards people who enjoy the games. And it's incredibly alienating because in the english speaking community of the internet, they feel like the majority.

But the truth is they're just a vocal minority. Every Sonic game sells millions upon millions of copies. For every youtube video saying such and such Sonic game sucked that gets 100K upvotes from people agreeing with it, there are 900K people who bought and enjoyed that game and are just quietly staying in their lane about it.

Even Sonic Lost World sold 700K in its first year before being ported to PC, and it was a Wii U exclusive. Do you know how many Wii U's were sold in 2013, the same release year as Lost World? Around 3 Million. Meaning almost one third of everyone who bought a Wii U that year also bought Sonic Lost World. That is a massive slice of a very small pie. Anyone who acts like Lost World's sales (before it ported to PC) are indicative of anything besides the fact that the Wii U was a failure of a console is being economical with the truth.

Don't be discouraged, that's all I can say. If they can't appreciate Lost World then that's their loss. And their sour attitude is no reason to not also give the comics a fair shake if you're interested in them and want to come to your own conclusions as well.

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And what if I cried until I threw up

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Don't show this to Randomalistic!

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Redrew an old comic from 2022. Now in color!

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Lemons. Yes....

Лимоны. Да. Кто как, а я люблю их только в чае☕

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Sonic Lost World, the game in which Sonic displayed a range of emotions and vulnerability and made me feel empathy for the poor hedgehog, was the reason I decided to reach for the fandom, to find other people who felt the same way as me. ...you can guess how it went.

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You could make a compilation of moments from "Return to the underground" and name it "Leo, Raph and Mikey show their love for Donnie for X minutes". If there is one thing the 2k3 turtles are better than any other version, is how they never fail to let their Donnie know how much they adore him.

Oh goodness, I almost forgot about this ask dsjgkjgd this was a pretty easy compilation to make, though! Enjoy!

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Nerd alert

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It's really frustrating, but I think it needs to be pointed out that the fans of 2010 Sonic (yes, there ARE fans of 2010 Sonic) were harassed and mocked back then. By the same people who wanted Sonic to be as pure and heroic as he was in Black Knight, no less.

There was a particular individual who was completely hellbent in advocating his beliefs, he dragged the entire goodwill of the "Adventure Era Fans" to the ground. And those fans, instead of saying "this individual does not represent us, we do not condone his behavior" they let him be because clearly complaining about the writing of a cartoon hedgehog had the priority.

This is how the FIRST post of the individual started:

Ok, first, I really want to know what's so "great" about the Post-Colors personalities ? "Hurr durr Sawnik and Taeelz r in a bromance, Sawnik haz attitude, it'z all so light-hearted, funny and simplistic !1!"

He just joined the forum and he already mocked the intelligence of half of the users. Great.

Then he kept on quoting everyone who dared say something positive about Colors and basically replied with "No, Colors sucks". Every single time.

And his personal interpretation of Sonic's character in the Pontaff games was so... distorted...

But I want to know something : why so many people are so obsessed with having Sonic portrayed as a insensitive, idiotic, self-righteous and selfish bastard so much ?

How can you consider a character like this, who is supposed to be the hero, and hence to be sympathetic, LIKEABLE ???

This guy was also all over the place on youtube, where he unprovokedly looked down upon everyone who DARED to genuinely likes and fondly remembers Sonic Colors. At one point everyone knew his many nicknames (he kept changing name because of internet trolls), and still, the Adventure Era Fans kept ignoring the damage he was making to their cause.

Those were the times...

From time to time I go back to a thread titled "Sonic's ideal characterization topic", where defenders and haters of the 2010 games collided to a fierce battle to decide if the Sonic from that age was a jerk or not. I was there too, and ten years later I'm still mad that I couldn't get the upper hand on the conversation (and doubly mad that a moderator scolded ME for calling other people "jerks", when I clearly didn't). I can't let it go!

As I said earlier, this is why I rarely have the energy to bother with intense discussions about these things anymore. It's not fun. It's not insightful. It's tedium, alienation, and people patting each other on the back for having the so-called right opinions.

I know complaining about how insanely strict people can get about the characters might sound hypocritical coming from me of all people, since I take accuracy to the characters' portrayals pretty seriously, and continue to lol at the Muh Mandates crowd. But there's still a difference between that and the constant contradictions and moving of goalposts performed by the vocal majority of the fandom. For years on end. What's good one day is actually bad the next, and vice versa, and all the while, anything you say continues to fall on deaf ears. People wish actual violence or even death on whoever they deem necessary, but the moment "undesirables" express a teensy bit of frustration, you must be shamed and cancelled.

It's a fucking cesspool, even compared to other fandoms with their own brand of notoriety. And I'm sick of sitting through it for what ultimately amounts to nothing, for people who don't care.

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From time to time I go back to a thread titled "Sonic's ideal characterization topic", where defenders and haters of the 2010 games collided to a fierce battle to decide if the Sonic from that age was a jerk or not. I was there too, and ten years later I'm still mad that I couldn't get the upper hand on the conversation (and doubly mad that a moderator scolded ME for calling other people "jerks", when I clearly didn't). I can't let it go!

As I said earlier, this is why I rarely have the energy to bother with intense discussions about these things anymore. It's not fun. It's not insightful. It's tedium, alienation, and people patting each other on the back for having the so-called right opinions.

I know complaining about how insanely strict people can get about the characters might sound hypocritical coming from me of all people, since I take accuracy to the characters' portrayals pretty seriously, and continue to lol at the Muh Mandates crowd. But there's still a difference between that and the constant contradictions and moving of goalposts performed by the vocal majority of the fandom. For years on end. What's good one day is actually bad the next, and vice versa, and all the while, anything you say continues to fall on deaf ears. People wish actual violence or even death on whoever they deem necessary, but the moment "undesirables" express a teensy bit of frustration, you must be shamed and cancelled.

It's a fucking cesspool, even compared to other fandoms with their own brand of notoriety. And I'm sick of sitting through it for what ultimately amounts to nothing, for people who don't care.

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"Would you cORK it? We're doing the best we can!"

-Townsend Coleman as Michelangelo sounding like a genuinely exasperated teenager who has hit a previously untested limit.

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"I was too slow to save my buddy" vs "Na na na na na na", which scene is the sappiest?