Big Panda

isn't it implied she's working for the president, not gun?

Diogenes is correct, and even if she was working for GUN I feel like that her double agent status wouldn't be known to lower ranking soldiers anyway.

I always saw Rouge in SA2 as working JUST for the president, not for GUN. Makes more sense even.

Yeah, her working for GUN wasn't a thing until Sonic 06, in Sonic Heroes she wonders how the President is doing and is seen again working only for the President in Sonic Battle. The President did order her to work with GUN in Sonic X, where it's elaborated that there was a hidden corrupt section of GUN trying to keep their involvement with Project Shadow a secret. Normally I wouldn't include information from what is clearly a different continuity, but in this case I think it's worth mentioning because Sonic X did include several cut scenes and dialogue originally meant for both Adventure games.

I just mentioned this in a previous status update oddly enough.

Even if she was, it's kind of easy to handwave anything about GUN since they were clearly working in full blown self preservation mode the whole time, regardless of the possibilities of those around them. They were willing to throw SONIC literally under the bus just to keep Project Shadow from getting out and had previously committed mass genocide, so doing the same to one of their own agents would be child's play for them.

Indeed they are.

I turned them off like a decade ago

Yeah. But I turned them off pretty recently and can't say I've missed them. Personally I think this forum's signature requirements are too lax and can easily lead to massively tall signatures. I want to focus on the actual discussion going on, not on people's huge sigs. Which is too bad because I think they're a fun feature in general.

I've cut down on my signature more and more over time. We don't need big signatures, and I certainly don't need to put everything I like in there.

I wondered because I can’t see any signatures anywhere, but the “Avatar and Signature” topic is still a thing.

I say yes.

I figured most people's ideal multi-canon "crossover" is the one where most everyone lives in one canon and there's just one version of every main character, taking practicality out of the equation of course.

That does sound cool, but if the IDW writers had permission to use characters from other Sonic media , I'd rather see them adapted into the IDW series proper, rather then in a one time only cross over event.

In fact Periwinkle is the only male of the major animal characters, other than the Purple Kangaroo.

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm still surprised that this surprises some people.

I've known this for years...

20th anniversary logo has a cool use of negative space.

Are we picking the event and related games, or just the logo?

Yeah 20th for me

@Blue Blood both

It's a really arbitrary and strange thing to choose between... but fine, whatever. In terms of the "big" games, 25th for Mania is obviously the best and 15th for '06 is obviously the worst. I'd put SA2 above Generations, but the two can go either way. 

As for the celebration, I wasn't even ten years old when Sonic celebrated his 10th birthday, didn't have any platform newer than a Mega Drive and wasn't active in any online communities. Can't really rate it as I wasn't involved. 15th Anniversary was basically just another year for Sonic, but the 15th Anniversary logo was slapped on everything and the best game to come out with that branding was Riders, followed by Rivals. Not the best showing all in all, even if I do really like Riders. The 25th Anniversary had a really cool party with a the most incredible music, but it felt so arbitrary when there were no games released around the anniversary and everything just came so much later. Boom Fire & Ice was the only game that calendar year. The best is obviously the 20th Anniversary. A great year for celebrations. Generations, Classic Sonic and the positive buzz were good enough all on their own, but a special mention goes out to the Generations demo that was launched on Sonic's actual birthday. Good move, SEGA (even if the inevitable data mine screwed over marketing plans). 2011 was a good time to be a Sonic fan. 

And logos... I really don't have an opinion. They're all fine, I guess? 

Actually, Fleetway Eggman did send a few Badniks, likely with Organic Batteries, into a furnace.

@Miragnarok the comic hasn’t been all that consistent with when badniks do and don’t have organic batteries, so that’s debateable.

His actions in Adventure 2 couldn't possibly have led to no injuries or death. He blew up a whole Island and theirs's bound to be collateral damage from the global panic caused by his message.

AOSTH Robotnik did transform Black Beard the Pirate into a robot, by the end of the episode Sonic shreds him into ribbons...does that count? Robotnik took a ways his humanity and free will, but Sonic is the one that destroyed him...does that mean AOSTH Sonic has a body count? Black Beard as a robot still shows up for the Sonic says segment at the end, was he rebuilt? Did this segment chronologically happen earlier in the episode and we, the audience, didn't get to see it until now? Are the Sonic Says segments even canon within the show?

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Adding to what Dan said, there definately would've been a body count when Eggman split the planet during Unleashed.

lol

... Given how "well" Disney has represented gay characters in their films thus far, I'm not holding my breath.

Come on the short is freaking harmless.

Is a small thing.

Can't we just enjoy things please?

@Balding Spider SparkShorts are all independently made films produced by Pixar. Disney has nothing to do with their content beyond streaming it.

@Big Panda Ah, okay cool.