Anonymous asked:
Have you checked out the zootopia 2 teaser trailer?
I feel like the time for a Zootopia sequel kinda came and went, you know? Like, why are they making one NOW? Ten years after the fact? Just seems weird to me.
Anonymous asked:
You mean to tell me that Frontiers, the game that on release was hailed up and down as the definitive proof that Flynn should write for the games right now and forever, the game where everything good about it has been attributed solely to Flynn, the game that was called "The Return of The One True Sonic" after the dreaded 2010s...
is STILL garbage compared to the holy grail of IDW, the comic BY Flynn that all the aforementioned points have also been said about?
Imagine my absolute shock.
It really is so validating to me to see comic fans proving that the basis of their supposed enjoyment of the comics isn't appreciation for Ian Flynn as a writer at all. Otherwise why would they be throwing Frontiers, which was (supposedly) written by Flynn, under the bus to prop up the comic?
They like this comic BECAUSE they HATE the video games. That's why they happily and readily put down Frontiers in comparison to the comic, despite Flynn's name being in the credits. Because Frontiers was a video game. Therefore it was worse than the comics, no matter how much involvement Flynn had. Because they don't actually like Flynn. They don't actually like these comics.
They JUST hate the video games.
randomthefoxYou want a more honest comparison? How about the fact that Sonic had to voluntarily take on the cyber corruption, after knowing that it was having a detrimental effect on him, for the sake of saving his friends. Whereas the metal virus infection was basically an accident.Sonic CHOOSING to risk his life and health by being corrupted says something about his character. It's a consequence of his agency and one he took on fully aware of what would happen to him.The metal virus infecting him was an unknown outcome due to ignorance. It was for all intents and purposes a plot contrivance, that says absolutely nothing about him as a character. What does Sonic getting infected by the metal virus tell us about Sonic? It tells us that he didn't know how the metal virus worked, because why would he?What does Sonic getting cyber corrupted tell us about Sonic? It tells us that he values his friends lives and freedom over his own safety and health. That is a CHARACTER INSIGHT. One that the metal virus is devoid of.The cyber corruption is BETTER WRITTEN than the metal virus infection because the Cyber Corruption ACTUALLY MATTERS to Sonics CHARACTER. The metal virus infection is just something that happened TO Sonic. The Cyber Corruption is something Sonic took upon himself. It was a choice he made. It's better writing for a character to suffer the consequences of his own decisions, rather than just have negative things happen to him because of what amounts to bad luck.Figures that someone who pretends to like these asinine comics wouldn't understand the difference.#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#idw sonic#sonic idw#sonic frontiers
randomthefoxbeevean asked:"At worst it hurt him a lot"?Did I dream the cutscene where Sonic becomes essentially comatose and had to be saved by the others? Or the one where Sage is almost horrified that he insists on walking on despite the toll that the corruption has on his body?If you consider the threat of "death" of the Metal Virus, then the same goes for the cyber corruption. Not even mentioning that in the original plans, as implied by the very first summaries of Frontiers and some scrapped idle lines, the corruption was meant to give Sonic amnesia.How about another angle, the fact that Sonic had to voluntarily accept being corrupted and becoming weaker because it was the only way to save his friends? Which is thematically more relevant than "everything gets arbitrarily worse because it's all your fault anyway"?I think Frontiers, perhaps due to development issues, didn't take full advantage of the corruption plotline. But at this point I'll take that over the absolute misery porn that was the Metal Virus arc, which was all about how much Sonic sucks and his "principles" doomed the world - they can spin it into "oh the message of the arc was that you still have to persevere even when things are grim!" all they want, I know how to read, and that's what the arc actually says when you see characters blaming Sonic for not killing Tinker, or when everything can be traced back to him being an idiot who freed Metal because vibes.The one cutscene where Sonic, wordlessly, marches on and fights the pain with a smile is worth more than those 20+ issues of the MV arc because it encapsulates Sonic much more succintly without having to say "no good deed goes unpunished".I know right? The Cyber corruption literally fucking killed him. He literally fucking died.And even before that, Sonic starts being VISIBLY DEBILITATED by the cyber corruption by the time he gets to Chaos Island. During over world gameplay Sonic is locked in a "damaged" animation whenever he's standing still. Normally he only goes into this animation when he has zero rings, meaning he's one hit away from death.Starting on Chaos Island, Sonic is in this idle state ALL THE TIME meaning he is clearly in so much pain that he feels like he's about to die even if he has maxed out rings. And during the cutscenes with Tails, Sonic is trying to hide how badly the corruption is impacting him so that Tails doesn't worry. In the scene after he frees Tails from his cage he waits until Tails leaves and then grimaces and falls to his knees. After they leave Chaos Island Sonic is at the point where he can't hide it anymore no matter how much he tries.They're interpreting Sonic TRYING TO HIDE HIS PAIN from his friends as "at worst it hurt him a lot." Because they're fucking illiterate I guess. And also ignoring that HE DIESHE'S FUCKING DEADAlso fyi the idle lines of Sonic saying he's having trouble holding onto his memories on Rhea Island aren't scrapped, they're in the game. They are just extremely rare to trigger naturally in game, since you have to basically leave Sonic idle without touching the controller for, like, ten minutes. If you install a mod that increases the rate of the idle dialog triggering, they play pretty routinely during the Rhea Island sequence. It is in the final game that Sonic is completely deteriorating as a person both physically and mentally because of the corruption, it's just due to the way that idle dialog is implemented hearing that dialog naturally is about as rare as hearing the Tangle name drop lol."at worst it hurt him a lot"It fucking truly is flabbergasting that these people hate the video games so much that the fact Frontiers was nominally written by Ian Flynn doesn't matter to them. They're still trying to downplay and dismiss the struggles Sonic endured in that game because The Comics Are King.These people hate the video games so much that they're literally just spewing proveably wrong bullshit.#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sonic frontiers#idw sonic#sonic idw
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:Oh great and knowledgeable Random the Fox, I beseech you for your wisdom. Is it possible to incorporate Sonic OCs into a Sonic fanfiction without it feeling cringeworthy and forced? I understand that you have a negative opinion of OCs, but I created the original characters in this story for the story to advance the arc of the game character around whom I'm basing the fic and to flesh out the world. It is not my intention to have them overshadow the game characters, as the majority of them die anyway. Because established characters cannot die in prequels, the tension in many of them stems from how they will survive rather than whether they will. The conflict is usually emotional. But, to add some flavour, new characters are introduced, leaving the audience wondering whether the reason they don't see them in the future is because they faded into the background or if they got got. I was hoping to do something similar with my original characters, where the game characters take centre stage, but the original characters are intriguing enough that the audience may not want to see them get game-ended when conflict arises. Is it possible to create likeable original characters in a fic, or will them getting any spotlight be doomed to feeling forced?Okay, calm down friend. I'm just some cringe furry. You don't have to care what I think.If you're parodying that post of some guy tweeting "oh mister the great ian flynn" then that's funny, I get it. But I'm just making sure you're not being serious lol.If you're writing fanfiction you can do whatever you want. There's no standard of quality you should be holding yourself to. It's something you're doing for fun, in your spare time for free. Only a bunch of nofun busybodies are going to act high and mighty over you putting OCs into your fanfiction or fanart or whatever. If they don't like that you're doing that then they can put their money where their mouth is and pay you to stop. Otherwise they can fuck off and you can keep doing what you're doing.I resent and loath the donut steels in the OFFICIAL COMICS because they are characters that are transparently created and written with the intention of being presented as SUPERIOR to the canonical video game cast. Ian Flynn literally did an interview where he explained the reason they created Tangle was because HE THOUGHT NONE OF THE ALREADY EXISTING FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE GAMES WERE GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM, so they created a new one who was "on the same level as Sonic." (Which makes the fact that they obviously got bored of her and dumped her for new OCs even funnier in retrospect). The OCs in the comic are made BY PEOPLE WHO HATE SONIC and the characters are the manifestation OF that hatred.I wouldn't care that the comic is making up characters that didn't exist in the video games. I'd EXPECT a Sonic adaptation to invent some NPC characters who would by necessity need to be original inventions that aren't from the video games. I suggest all the time that my idea of an episodic Sonic cartoon show would be one where "the protagonist" ISN'T Sonic and is just some new character whom Sonic would provide as a positive inspiration to as part of the conflict of the episode. My problem with the comic characters is THEY SUCK and yet we're supposed to think they're BETTER than the video games cast. And since this comic is made BY people who hate Sonic FOR people who hate Sonic, the fans of this comic do indeed (pretend to) think that these OCs are superior to the video games cast. THAT is why I never shut up about how awful they are and how much I wish they didn't exist.#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#fanfiction#original the character donut steel#idw sonic#sonic idw
randomthefoxRebloggedskaruresonicFollowFinished playing Sonic 1 on the R36S the other day and I have a lot of Thoughts(tm) on the game that I'd like to share. This ramble isn't going to be particularly organized, just ideas as they occur to me, so I apologize in advance.---Firstly, playing through the game again, I was struck by how grounded the Zones are. I feel like fandom's talk about how Sonic's world is just ~soooo irreconcilably cartoonish~ colored my perceptions, because I felt like some Zones really could take place in our world.This is further bolstered by the presence of Special Stages. With dreamy music, floating backgrounds of geometric patterns, birds, and fish, and a lack of regard for time, Special Stages make the regular stages seem relatively grounded by comparison. Later games would nix this dreamlike state in favor of speedier minigames like Half-Pipe or Blue Spheres. In Sonic 1, however, you don't chase the Emerald; you uncover it. You find it. You apply thought and patience in order to obtain it, which seemingly lies at odds with the game's priorities, but really don't, if you think about it. Sonic 1's version of the Special Stage distinguishes itself based on its unique qualities. Altogether, they really sell the idea that they take place in some sort of alternate dimension or subspace. The stage ends if you touch the objects that say "GOAL." It's interesting to note that "GOAL" ends the Special Stage, and not something like "BACK" or "END." I think this can be seen through the lens of dream logic: there's no goal in a dream, and it might be foolhardy to chase one.Nor does linear time - and thus, the very concept of speed - apply here. Unlike the ten-minute timer seen in the main game, Special Stages do not take time into account when calculating your score. Nor can Sonic simply nab the Emerald by blowing past a sign or hopping on a capsule. He can't rely on his talents or skills to get the Emeralds, but must trust you, the player, to guide him. This requires patience he canonically lacks. Therefore, you provide the missing puzzle piece that completes his quest. The implications of this are all very interesting to me.---I was also surprised upon realizing that of the six Zones, only one is wholly natural. The rest are ruins or industrial areas. Surely that has to be intentional? A spectrum of manmade locales, abandoned and populated and somewhere in-between. Maybe the game is trying to say that there is also beauty to be found in these areas, and that nature can coexist with them. I would say exploration is a theme of the game, in addition to its environmentalist message. Lending credence to this is the cut power-up that would have granted Sonic goggles in Labyrinth Zone. An inability to swim doesn't hinder his willingness to explore every nook and cranny of an area.---Some areas of Sonic 1 keep you on your toes by throwing enemies at you from unfair vantage points, whereas later games prevent enemies and obstacles from attacking you until you can see them onscreen. I feel like that's the result of Sonic 1 having been created as Super Mario World's competitor - a game that ramped up the difficulty by throwing more and more shit at you (ohai Donut Plains). Sonic 1 is just a little subtler about it.The platforming here is noticeably more demanding than in later entries. They made it somewhat easier in S2 and CD, but some jumps Sonic 1 forces on you are brutal. There's also a lot more emphasis on timing, particularly towards Scrap Brain Zone, which is why I usually try not to enable Spin Dash - because I feel like that sidesteps the way the game was meant to be played.---
It's very interesting that, although the game pushes a green Aesop, most zones take place in ruins or industrial areas. Only Green Hill is wholly natural.
This lends Sonic 1 an extra shade of nuance. The game subtly encourages us to find beauty in even the manmade, as if to say that manmade constructions aren't inherently evil as long as they don't impose on nature. They could have very easily made every industrial area ugly and unappealing, but there is likely a reason they did it this way. Which is why Scrap Brain Zone feels so imposing.Scrap Brain Zone sticks out in harsh contrast to the preceding level, Star Light Zone. Unlike the smooth inclines of its predecessor, its platforming stops and starts in jagged spurts as dictated by obstacles. Broken pipes spurt flames from the floor. Unstable ground suddenly gives way. You're forced to consider your momentum around every corner as you tuck and roll under the flashes of electric orbs and are punished rather severely if you mess up even once.Instead of rolling down loop-de-loops through the encouragement of a fan, Sonic must literally wedge himself into tubes and pistons, finding spaces where he can without getting killed. In a way it reminds me of a meat grinder. In contrast to nature slowly creeping in on abandoned ruins or coexisting with manmade edifices, nothing lives or grows here. Unlike Labyrinth Zone, which offers pockets of air as needed, the purple waters of Scrap Brain Zone Act 3 are infamously scarce with bubbles. The water is unbreathable, an unnatural shade of purple. The air is polluted, a dirty, almost sewage-like brown as Eggman's factories vomit smoke in the distance. Our first glimpse into Eggman's world is a dark and depressing one indeed, and makes Sonic's quest seem all the more vital.---Much ado has been made about the series' game design philosophy. It tends to be a common misconception that Sonic games are all about speed.Rather, I would contend that Sonic is about the practiced application of exploration which rewards you with speed. The more you play through levels and memorize the layout, the more you optimize your route, the faster you go, the "funner" the experience gets. AKA the speedrun. If the games were about instant speed, they wouldn't include secrets and rewards for optimizing your route, because you'd be going at the same speed every time.Sonic 1 teaches you when and how to be patient - ironic, given his idle animation lol. Marble Zone is often lambasted for slowing you down after Green Hill's brisker pace, but I'd argue it's vital to understanding how the game operates as a whole. It teaches you that if you blast through the level without stopping to think about where you're going, you're going to die. A lot. I'd also say there's a certain "stop and smell the roses" vibe to certain locations, encouraging exploration. By slowing you to a crawl, Marble and Labyrinth Zones evoke the feeling of spelunking through ancient ruins, complete with Indiana Jones-esque booby traps. #sonic 1#sonic#sonic the hedgehog
randomthefox"Omg why are you getting so butthurt about the Shadow wants to beat up Tails thing, it's just a joke dude!"me:I've seen people making serious indepth (idiotic) character analysis of WHY Shadow is supposedly so violent towards Tails. With a clearly nonjoking serious conclusion that it is due to projection and trauma. People like that are obviously not under the impression that it's a joke. They obviously think that it's serious and not just a meme. Therefore, I see no reason not to refute the subject seriously.#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#tails#miles prower#miles tails prower#jojo's bizarre adventure
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:I've always disliked western Robotnik with red eyes and black schlera. It's too edgy and tryhard. It makes him seem inhuman(no wonder some fans find it hard to believe he's human). Eggman is a very human character. He is human greed and selfishness personified. He also shows how human greed damages the environment.The amount of damage done by the idiotic and unnecessary changes SoA made to the characters designs is incalculable.
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:Putting aside this crossover is written by Flynn Shadow definitely would just kill the joker as he would see him as a threat to Gotham and has no problem killing Yeah that's a good point. There's no reason Shadow wouldn't want to just kill him. And Silver would have wanted to just kill Sinestro too.The fact that Flynn is writing the Sonic characters as effortlessly curb stomping the DC villains is really biting itself in the dick. For it to be justified that these villains are somehow still alive after running into these hedgehogs, he really should have written the scenario to be that the villains, you know, fucking escaped? Lost the chaos emerald but got away with their lives?Fucking moron.#idw sonic#sonic idw#ian flynn#dc comics
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:What are your thoughts on the crushing thirties by crush 40?Lame and bad
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:https://www.tumblr.com/randomthefox/784115495718780928/sees-people-making-rouge-and-other-conventionally?source=shareThe MHA and the Naruto fandoms are especially notorious for turning Japanese characters black. The kicker? The people who do this rarely, if ever show love to Canonically Black characters .👀I'm particularly annoyed when I see people do it to Yu-Gi-Oh characters.There's no "oh they live in fictional Ninjaland" excuse for them. Yugi Muto is fucking Japanese. He lives in Japan. He's fucking Asian. And yet I see people drawing him as a black person.What the fuck is wrong with these fucking racists? Being Asian isn't good enough, gotta draw him as black instead for extra social awareness points! Fucking literally racist. Pisses me off.Meanwhile ATEM IS EGYPTIAN. WHY ARE YOU DRAWING THE ASIAN CHARACTER AS BLACK WHEN THERE IS A CHARACTER WHO IS ACTUALLY AFRICAN IN THE FUCKING SERIES?
randomthefoxRebloggedskaruresonicFollownervouspiratedragon asked:Thoughts on the "Crushing thirties" Song featuring Johnny Gioeli of Crush 40?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xXNTd-pgKVcskaruresonic answered:I listened to it once when it came out and then never again. I don't know who this song is for, because in all honesty it feels very meanspirited, if not cynical and irony-poisoned.Speaking as a stressed 30-something, it's not funny when people act like you've got one foot in your grave in your thirties. This sentiment fuels anxiety and depression, makes people afraid of aging. They could have emphasized that being 30 has its challenges, but you generally have a better grip on your life, like an actual Sonic song would say, but no.Yeah, Body Hurts(tm), but it's less because you turn into the Crypt Keeper at the stroke of midnight on your 30t birthday and more because you live in a capitalist hellworld where you're under constant stress, something that ages you prematurely. Lots of people my age are breaking their minds and bodies just to scrape by. It feels like the song is punching down on them, in addition to Adventure-era fans. Sorry for owning a Dreamcast, ig?The whole song is just one big "haha isn't it so funny how you're so ooooold and trying to recapture your youth" when it's not being all "haha Sonic fans you're so pathetic for trying to cling to your childhood.""Gotta take it slow" dude I'm 31, not 70
randomthefoxFlynn suckers hate the video games so much that they've eaten their own tail. They're at the point where they're trying to complain about how bad A STORY WRITTEN BY IAN FLYNN is compared to another story written by Ian Flynn, just because one of them was a video game.It can no longer be denied. They hate the video games MORE than they like Ian Flynn. I am once again vindicated. The fact that Frontiers was "written" by Flynn doesn't matter to them. It was still a Sonic video game. Therefore it was inferior. BECAUSE it was a video game. There's no other way to interpret this kind of take at this point.They don't actually like Ian Flynn or his writing at all. To them he is just a convenient tool to enable their sheer hatred of the video games. This confirms it.The fact that Frontiers was written after the metal virus arc should mean that you should consider cyber corruption to be superior and more grave than the virus, no?After all, Flynn wrote Frontiers. If you like him, you should naturally think anything New he's written is superior to anything that came before it. Or do you think he's stagnated as a writer? Do you think he's become inferior to his former storytelling splendor?Or will your excuse be that Frontiers wasn't as good as the comics because it was made with more oversight from SEGA? Contradicting the narrative that everything bad about the comics is due to SEGA 's meddling and Flynn somehow has more creative freedom now that he's writing the games?Such a tangled knot you cultists have wrapped yourself up into lol. You hate the games so much that you can't help but condemn them, even though doing so tears holes of cognitive dissonance into your worship of the fatfuck Flynn. It's hilarious.#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#idw sonic#sonic idw#ian flynn#sonic frontiers7 notes
randomthefoxAll of the dialog with Astarion is such a treat lolI like Raphael x3 he introduced himself as a foxeh and he lives up to that status #baldur's gate 33 notes
randomthefoxMEPHILES?#baldur's gate 30 notes
randomthefoxRebloggedpigegggeonFollowTHE NEW WIN POSE FROM THE CRYSTAL EGGMAN SET IS SO CUTE AAAAGAGSGDHDHCJCJFKFKF47 notes
randomthefoxReblogged pigegggeonkirchefuchsFollowNobody talk to me. I'm angy that someone ranked Classic Egg lower than the Western Robotnik designs in a video.I need to stare at my circle babygirl for a while to cleanse my soul.That guy's opinion doesn't matter. You are beautiful and evil and the perfect shape, no matter what anyone says 🥺Fr tho, I would kill for a Classic Eggman plushie 😔 he is without a doubt my favorite design.64 notes
randomthefoxRebloggedpigegggeonFollowSonic origins plus is so cute I SO wish I got it sooner… I can play as amy and there are adorable eggmans AND the game gear games are here. I feel like it was catered to me specifically /lh (it even seems to have the sonic 3 soundtrack I grew up with?! I was super shocked)Take a look at these gorgeous islands! They’re so lovingly crafted, everyone is so alive, and the badniks and flickies are so adorable. Met is there too 🥹🥹🥹This and superstars have my absolute favorite classic eggs 🥹I felt SO emotional in marble zone with Amy as my player character… like… that’s my daughter!!! In my favorite zone!!! OFFICIALLY!????I’ve been playing with my commodore 64 controls (buttons and joystick). No one was ever meant to play a sonic game this way, I feel like I might be breaking some fundamental law of nature… but it is FUN 😭 I just can’t get over how much superstars and origins felt like they were crafted to be put right in my heart.
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:I found a youtube video titled: The Umbara arc sucks. Which lead me to this person The Scruffy Looking Nerfheder who talks a good deal criticizing Dave Filoni's terrible writing and how the Expanded Universe Legends canon is far more detailed and better written than Disney Star Wars canon. I'm passing this on since I do remember your preference for the Star Wars original Legends canon the true canon. Please help the great legends continuity not let it die out. Thank you. new youtube channel subscription discovered!#star wars
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:Silver the Hedgehog should not have defeated Thaal Sinestro that easily. Sinestro is easily the biggest threat of the original Legion of Doom members and for good reason. Thaal Sinestro would not recklessly fight against multiple green lanterns alone. Thaal Sinestro has his own private army of yellow lantern Sinestro corps working alongside him, including a living microscopic virus alien that kills his targets from the inside. Sinestro would use divide and conquer tactics to separate the Green Lantern teams from unifying together as unity is part of what empowers their willpower of the Green Lantern. Of course Ian Flynn choose to ignore it and ignore Thaal Sinestro is a many decades genius bruiser who would rather take his own time to study the properties of the yellow chaos emerald to understand it's space and time mechanics and use those abilities to enhance his yellow lantern fighting capabilities to help him claim a foolproof planned victory. Unfortunately Thaal Sinestro is so easily defeated by Ian Flynn not giving a damn researching that DC Comics villain that he is off the list as a potential Big Bad Ensemble in this terrible written crossover. And that's not including how Sinestro can empower himself with Parallax at will. Yeah I'm sure the power scaling debate of the DC characters is its own can of worms loldidn't fucking fuckass fuckboy Ian Flynn say that Silver shouldn't be able to beat Future Trunks? Now all of a sudden he's writing him beating fucking SINESTRO? The FINAL BOSS of the entire Green Lantern organization?Someone really needs to tell DC fans about this fucking crossover so they can start tearing it to shreds tbh
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:Evan Stanley can't resist the power of the almighty clussy.To be fair, can't blame her on that one
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:*sees people making Rouge and other conventionally attractive Sonic characters fat*Eggman and Big the Cat were RIGHT THERE. Also the Conductor and his wife were kind of chonkers and yet I don't see anybody showing them love for their chonkiness...👀I know right??Sonic ALREADY HAS fat charactersbut of course, they aren't good enough 🙄like how people draw fucking anime characters as black. Anime characters are ALREADY FUCKING ASIAN. But being asian isn't good enough, they aren't minority ENOUGH, gotta draw 'em as black for extra minority oppression points -_-
randomthefoxWhile we're talking about this: Shadow is weaker than Sonic. Like, INDISPUTABLY weaker than Sonic. Shadow has LITERALLY NEVER EVER EVER beaten Sonic once in the entire franchise outside of the noncanon dark endings of Shadow The Hedgehog 2005. EVERY single time they have ever fought or raced each other, Sonic won. This isn't up for debate.There isn't a power gap or anything. They are of comparable strength and power. But Sonic is stronger. Even if it's only by an inch, Sonic IS stronger than Shadow. Sonic has ALWAYS beaten Shadow.The idea that Shadow eclipses Sonic and he has to go through some kind of struggle to surmount him is some dumbass stupid shit perpetuated by the god awful adaptations. Fucking Sonic X changing the way their first meeting goes so that Sonic is knocked to the ground and Shadow lords over him while he's helpless.And people wonder why I fucking hate this show and consider it a disgracefully inaccurate adaptation. People will tell me with their whole chest that Sonic X is the most faithful adaptation of the games we ever had. Meanwhile it's doing shit like THIS.In the video games their first meeting DOES NOT GO THIS WAY. Sonic bum rushes Shadow and Shadow just Chaos Controls away. They do not come to blows. There is no exchange of violence. SHADOW DOES NOT BEAT UP SONIC. Shadow is NOT portrayed as being superior and a threat to Sonic that he must overcome, he's portrayed as a MYSTERY to be SOLVED.In Sonic X, Shadow beats Sonic up and then tells him "by the way Gerald Robotnik created me and I'm better and cooler than you because you're normal and I'm a biological weapon created by science kbye."THE REVELATION OF SHADOW'S ORIGINS IS THE ENTIRE DRIVING MYSTERY OF THE FUCKING GAME, AND THIS PIECE OF SHIT FUCKING SHOW JUST INFO DUMPS IT IN HIS FIRST SCENE WHILE MAKING SONIC LOOK LIKE A WEAK LITTLE BITCH i fucking hate sonic xThen you have the fuckass movies, and Shadow single handedly trounces all three of Team Sonic after also blowing up a whole army of GUN troops. Because he's just soooooooooooo impossibly powerful amirite?it's so fucking god damn infuriatingShadow is NOT stronger than Sonic.Shadow is WEAKER than Sonic.ALWAYS HAS BEENFRANKLY? If Team Sonic all fought Shadow together, three on one? Shadow would get his BALLS ROCKED. Sonic can beat him BY HIMSELF, you SERIOUSLY trying to tell me that he couldn't do it with his two best friends and longest lasting battle buddies by his side? If Shadow didn't fucking RUN AWAY from them because he knows how outmatched he is, the fight would last a fucking minute with Shadows face being pounded into the fucking dirt.Do you fucking FATHOM the implications of saying that Shadow is STRONGER than Sonic Tails and Knuckles all fighting him at the same time??? Are you seriously thinking through what that would fucking mean in terms of power scaling?It's fucking ass. Shadow is weaker than Sonic. They are comparable in power strength and ability, but Shadow has ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS lost against Sonic.Fuck off#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#sonic x#sonic adventure 2#sonic movie 3#sonic x shadow tokyo mission#sonic movie
randomthefoxskaruresonic asked:The problem I have with "Shadow has beef with Tails" is that it paints Tails as a hapless victim and Shadow as a bully. You already covered Tails' half of the discussion, so I'mma talk about Shadow.While it's true that Shadow can behave like an asshole, it seems like the only character he truly has beef with is Sonic, and even that fluctuates from time to time. Maybe because he knows Sonic's strong enough to give as good as he gets, which would align with his whole "never abuses his power for selfish gain" thing.Not to imply Tails isn't strong, but the point being made here is that Shadow really has no reason to pick on him.Hell, even Eggman gets some perfunctory respect from him; he doesn't always threaten to throw hands with the Doctor and in fact sometimes pleads not to fight him, a la his dialogue during Team Dark's Robot Storm fight. There are also several instances in ShTH where Shadow approaches Eggman with the intent of getting information, only for Eggman to instigate the fight.However, with Sonic, Shadow's usually ready to beat his ass on sight. Why would he go aggro on Tails, who's done nothing to him?I also just remembered that the first Sonic fic I published on AO3 was a slice-of-life story where Shadow visits Tails at his house and convinces him to stop overworking and play outside, in so many words lol. It was inspired by a prompt I had seen on Tumblr about Shadow bonding with Tails over his inventions.That was back in 2016. How did we go from that to "Shadow hates Tails' guts"?I swear I used to see people float much different ideas about their dynamic. They'd say Shadow got along well with Tails - inasmuch as he can get along with anyone, ofc - because of Tails' similarities with Gerald and Maria, such as his genius, his gentle nature, and even his blue eyes.A little reductive? Maybe, but at least you could see it and it was something that gelled with games canon.Now it's like they want Shadow to shove him into a locker or something, all because they're basing the pair's dynamic on that one episode of Sonic X where Shadow bodies everyone in his mission to eliminate Cosmo, not just Tails.Either that, or they're pretending he took offense to the "Who's your daddy?" line. Which is still just fanon any way you dice it.Yeah it's such a frustrating character assassination against BOTH of them. "lol Tails is such a stupid useless idiot weak baby, getting beaten up by the big bad mean aggro badass Shadow!"Shit like Sonic X and Sonic movie 3 portraying Shadow as this fucking one man army that can solo Team Sonic single handedly like he's the most powerful Sonic character bar none doesn't help. Tails is the weakest member of Team Sonic. Shadow is propped up like he's an untouchable god that Sonic can't hope to measure up against by the fandumb, thanks to these fuckass adaptations. So the juxtaposition of "badass god killer Shadow" wanting to beat up "stupid poor helpless weak baby boy Tails" makes it a "funny meme" to the ratbrained tosspots.It's so fucking frustrating and stupid and not funny and an absolute disgrace for both of them. Tails is unquestionably weaker than Shadow, sure. But he would still put up a fight. Tails would obviously lose but it's not like Shadow would just walk through him with no fucking effort. Shadow couldn't just nosell anything Tails tries to do. It wouldn't go like THISI fucking hate Sonic X so fucking muchAnd power scaling aside, Shadow WOULDN'T WANT to fight Tails. He obviously likes Tails and respects him. He appears to give him much more consideration than he ever bothers to give for Knuckles or Sonic that's for sure. This is me reading into their relationship a bit, since they don't interact THAT often, but I would presume that Shadow sees Tails as someone who needs protection. He's young, smart, has some (mental) health issues, has blue eyes. You could easily say that Tails reminds Shadow of Maria. If TAILS wants to fight him, ala their encounter in Sonic Battle, Shadow isn't going to turn it down but he's definitely not going to go whole hog on him.Shadow would pull his punches. You can say that infantilizes Tails, but I wouldn't think so. Saying Tails couldn't single handedly punch a meteor into dust isn't infantalizing him either. Shadow IS stronger than him. Shadow would HAVE to be nerfed for Tails to be able to match him, as he was in their Sonic Battle fight. That doesn't reflect negatively on Tails, what it does do is reflect POSITIVELY on Shadow. Shadow WOULDN'T unleash his full strength on Tails, because he DOESN'T WANT TO HURT HIM. He couldn't care less about hurting Knuckles or Sonic, but he's fine with fighting with one arm tied behind his back when it comes to Tails. And even in that fight in Sonic Battle where Shadow KNOWS he's handicapped, he still admits that he had to push himself in the fight against Tails.Again, Tails ISN'T a worthless stupid weak helpless bully victim. He'd put up a fight.Shadow very clearly treats Tails differently from Knuckles or Sonic. Shadow's characterization is just too subtle for most people to pick up on, little gestures go a long way for him. In Sonic Rivals, Shadow doesn't give Sonic or Knuckles the time of day and just wants to beat them into the dirt to get them to leave him alone. But when Rouge gives him sass, he RELENTS and wastes valuable time for the sake of explaining himself to her.When it comes to people Shadow likes and respects, he's willing to bend and compromise and EXPLAIN himself to try and avoid conflict with them if he can help it. And we see this SAME THING in Sonic Battle. He tells Sonic "fuck off, I'm killing the robot and I'll kill you too" and doesn't bother with anything else. But with Tails, he actually lets him in on the drama and practically beseeches him to let him do what needs to be done.Tails is clearly at least in the same ballpark as Rouge, when it comes to how Shadow sees them.Shadow LIKES Tails. He RESPECTS Tails. He DOESN'T WANT TO HURT Tails.The meme is utterly repugnant for BOTH of these characters. It's not funny. It's not accurate. It's perpetuated by shitheads who don't understand anything about either character or their relationship. I honestly have no patience for it. #sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sonic rivals 2#sonic battle#shadow the hedgehog#tails#miles tails prower#miles prower#sonic x
randomthefoxkirbylover34 asked:the fact these people are making tweets about that metal virus arc tweet , when they could’ve just ignored it screams to me that they’re incredibly insecure about IDW Sonic, why they are I have no idea. But one things for certain is that people are starting to forget IDW Sonic, because there’s actual new content to consume people are instead focusing on the actual substance, I.e the games. When the comic kicks the bucket, the games will still be around. But yeah it pisses me off that these people act like fans, when they just hate the source material and want to mangle the entire series identity.It's been five years and they still won't shut up about the very first storyline the comic ever had lol.It's like they unintentionally admitting that nothing since then has been worth caring about.
randomthefoxAnonymous asked:CrossWorlds looks amazing!!! I'm so excited. Cream!!!! <3<3<33 AND OH, Your post has made my hopes for Shahra and Merlina showing up I love the storybook series! :3 though every game is wonderful and there's so many cool characters to think about being featured I can't wait!Truly the only valid criticism of the sonic games is that there isn't more of them. I can never get enough<3
