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i want to fit this npc under a steamroller

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the sonic ova has metal sonic straightup win the first fight with sonic and if sonic didnt have plot armour it would have been the ONLY fight. like metal just drags sonic up to the top of the world and then kicks him off the top of a mountain to his death. the animation even shows a flatlining heartrate monitor like it was REALLY explicit about how metal would win in a fight

My personal head canon is that Metal is insanely dangerous.

Like, Metal was built to be a counter to sonic, he is crazy strong.

So I've always felt that in order to beat him you either need to be as broken as Sonic or Shadow, or you need to fight as unfairly as possible.

We're talking having three people gang up on him, we're talking having cheap shots from behind, we're talking doing whatever it takes to even the playing field.

If we look at every time he's shown up, he's very dangerous and needs a lot of effort to take down. First appearance he's a challenging boss battle. In Mania he's, again, a boss that takes effort to take down and until you get it down pat, you're gonna lose lives fighting him.

In Heroes you need 12 people and the Chaos Emeralds to crush him. In the Comics he wipes the floor with Sonic and Knuckles before going giant and it's a 12v1 to take him down and it still takes a lot of effort.

Surge 1v1s him, but has the Dynamo Cage boosting her to incredible limits. Surge 2v1s him with Kit, and Kit does a cheap shot from behind. When he's fought in the Eggperial City, Metal is bodying everyone in base form - only Sonic can keep up.

If the comic wasn't PG-12, I guarantee there'd be scenes where Metal seriously hurts people. But becasue it's PG-12, yeah it's not gonna happen.

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the line between vengeful brutal catharsis and gay sex is very thin so be careful out there

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Neo metal sonic

heavily inspired by carm3n_artz on tiktok and insta.

I drew this with markers

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sudden thought - has knuckles ever introduced himself? we get lots of "I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog!", a few "I am Doctor Robotnik, the greatest genius in the world!", but...

has knuckles ever introduced himself? has he ever said his name is knuckles before, or is that just a nickname everyone uses?

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i know the point of this post is that working a desk job means youre complicit in a lot of awful things without taking on any of the risk or suffering or even moral questionability, youre just pushing papers while the world burns down around you

but all i can think about is some poor midlevel bureaucrat trying to explain to their boss why theyve bought The Babythresher 9000 and having to explain that actually its very good PR the public loves The Babythresher 9000

Pilot this, handler that, where's the tumblr discourser who gets called out for working a desk job at a mech company

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"this media is not anti-capitalism" says idiot pointing at CORPORATIONS WILL FUCKING KILL YOU FOR .1% MORE PROFIT: THE VIDEOGAME

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So he's a bit of a fixer-upper

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Dapper robot who is so normal for @sczawr

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[2022] Mask on illustration

//please do not re-post//

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reminder that this has always been the case with pokemon. i dont know what their problem is exactly but like this has been the case since the year 2000. thats not a typo - pokemon fans have been hyperaggressive shitbags towards any monster raising franchise that is not their own for TWENTY FIVE FUCKING YEARS.

from the literal second digimon came out, pokemon fans were dogpiling on it. this wasnt some later development, it was DAY FUCKING ONE that they started shitting on competition. and this has gone on to influence their behaviour with every other Mons series out there - everything is a ripoff, because pokemon is THE BEST.

Seriously - as a Pokemon fanatic myself, wtf is with Pokemon fans insisting that:

1. Pokemon's success is solely due to it being perfectly designed game and character-wise

2. Every other monster taming series that doesn't blow up to the degree that Pokemon did is a fucking failure because it doesn't follow what Pokemon does????

I don't know how the fuck to explain this to some of y'all, but Pokemon's success was in large part due to pure luck. It came out at the optimal time, it was brought overseas and it struck gold. Of course it has a lot of great elements that helped it be so popular, but to act like it's success was due to it being so uniquely genius and perfect is a slap in the face to its predecessors. Pokemon had a capitalist juggernaut behind it that had the means to pump money into it and if you seriously think that it won by its own merits purely then I think you are very naive.

If it came out today, do I think it would be popular? Sure, I can see that. But it would not be guaranteed to blow up the way that it did in the 90's. Again, this is coming from a diehard, lifelong Pokemon fan.

And the absolutely bullshit idea that every series remotely comparable to Pokemon is a failure for not being Pokemon 2.0 is worse. OF FUCKING COURSE NOTHING ELSE COMPARES TO POKEMON'S SUCCESS. Pokemon is an established, centralizing, multimedia powerhouse which makes more money than any other franchise on Earth. We don't say that indie animation is lesser than Disney for not getting the same box office sales, but Pokemon fans LOVE throwing this idea around. To insist that capital success = artistic merit and flawless design philosophy is honestly just disgusting.

It's easy for Pokemon to dominate other franchises when it was one of the first to blow up on an international scale. Of course, when you can buy Pokemon merch of anything, it's gonna gather more focus and money than an indie game. When you have a prestablished fanbase of over 20 years, yeah you're gonna sell better than new franchises. So what - no other monster taming series should even bother? Because nothing will ever dethrone Pokemon, it can't.

I am so sick of watching unique and creative works with a ton of passion behind them get shit on for daring to not follow the Pokemon formula and their inability to outsell it being used as proof of their deficiencies. God forbid a piece of art have its own goals, intentions and meaning behind it.

And how hypocritical too, to ignore the serious design flaws in early Pokemon generations. Pokemon's first gen had a lot of weak designs and major flaws BUT it had the financial backing to continue on and define it's own style and formula over time. Watching Pokemon fans lambast new franchises for not having everything perfectly worked out in their first entries is laughable.

And can I just say how depressing this shit is? I am not a game designer, I will never make a monster taming series, but watching indie creators' works get disregarded for not being Pokemon is so disheartening. 99.99999% of artists will never make anything comparable to these giant media franchises. Our works will never gain even a fraction of these series' fanbases and success and enthusiasm. In my experience, this is something a lot of creatives struggle with - if I'll never be as successful as this huge thing that inspires me, if no one will ever see my work, if I can't create the single most original thing, why bother creating?

That doesn't mean our work is intrinsically worse or useless, its just the cold hard reality of living in a capitalist hellworld. Mega franchises established 35 years ago dominate the media landscape. They make money on brand recognition alone, they set the industry standards and if you equate that with them intrinsically being better, more worthy of success and shit on indie creators for not reaching those impossible standards then you're a piece of shit. And this attitude is so rampant in the Pokemon fandom, so unquestioningly pushed, that it drives me up the wall.

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digimon idea: Virusgreymon. instead of being a cyborg dinosaur, its a fucked up zombie that runs on all fours like a feral animal. it is, of course, blue - the superior greymon colour.

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Ben 10: Alien Force Heroes 💫 By Eugenio Sprenger, an Illustrator, Comic Artist, & Character Designer (Sprenger’s ArtStation) (Instagram)

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Moon Girl

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"Hey, I hate this piece of media because it looks like X, it sounds like Y, and the narrative is Z. Here are my reasons for thinking these things in order."

"YOU JUST HATE BECAUSE IT'S POPULAR!"

why is this my life