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toaarcan · 24 hours ago

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Anyone noticed that Surge is like... aesthetically derived from Scourge, but her damage and reasons for hating Sonic are way more similar to Fiona?

Kidnapped by a mad scientist (Starline/Robotnik), experimented on in a traumatic fashion (turned into a lightning-powered anti-Sonic/used for the Auto-Automaton prototype), blames Sonic for her situation happening at all (because he didn't kill the villains before they could hurt her/because he didn't come back to save her), and is angry at Sonic for not taking a stronger position against the villains (explicitly/implicitly).

And given how well-received Surge has been, there's a level of "Wow they could've done something like this a while ago if anyone at Archie had seen Fiona as a character rather than a love interest" but honestly I'm mostly just glad they finally did something with the concept of "Person who feels that Sonic is to blame for everything that went wrong in her life and wants to kick his teeth in about it."

#In all honesty I've never liked villain Fiona *because* they bolted her to Scourge and made her into Evil Sally 2 #If she became a villain who could challenge Sonic herself and was driven by her desire for vengeance #(so basically Surge)#that would've been fine. A+ no notes #But instead her character becomes ''Scourge's girlfriend who annoys Sonic's girlfriend''#Even her slapping Tails feels less like a dramatic moment and more like an overdramatic ''Hate this character now'' sign #So yeah as much as I generally think IDW is a downgrade from Archie #and that Flynn had mostly a strong start and has gotten worse over time #I will give them both plenty of credit for Surge #I find her way less annoying than Scourge and also everything villain Fiona should've been #Sonic #Sonic the Hedgehog #IDW Sonic #Surge the Tenrec #Surge is probably the best part of IDW TBH #Not huge on the rest of it but even I- dedicated Flynn disliker since 2012 that I am- have to admit they went off with her #Not gonna tag Fiona since this post is basically ''Man Flynn's version sucked and none of the others gave a shit''#I like her and I wish she was better but Archie weren't up for that

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