Why are Tails and Amy mostly relegated to supporting roles?

[Scritch the Cat]

3 hours ago, DabigRG said:

Hm...I suppose that's a fair take?

Some of the canonicity is a little fuzzy and the details probably shouldn't be overlooked in cases, but yeah.

Whole we're at it, we can also see him as one of the cases where the franchise flanderizes it's mainstay characters.

Or worse, makes them learn the same lessons over and over and over again, like Michelangelo, or Fluttershy, or...yuck; this is all too common in children’s media.

But it really makes one appreciate something like Sonic Mania.  Not so much because the game doesn’t care much about plot and is reusing characters just because they’re there and iconic, but because it isn’t making pretense of being otherwise and then tripping over itself with halfhearted attempts at writing within a character’s boundaries.  If you can’t write something good, it might be best not to write anything at all, and SM barely does, and works just fine at including characters.

[Shadow Chaos Control]

On 9/7/2020 at 1:06 AM, Scritch the Cat said:

Or worse, makes them learn the same lessons over and over and over again, like Michelangelo, or Fluttershy, or...yuck; this is all too common in children’s media.

But it really makes one appreciate something like Sonic Mania.  Not so much because the game doesn’t care much about plot and is reusing characters just because they’re there and iconic, but because it isn’t making pretense of being otherwise and then tripping over itself with halfhearted attempts at writing within a character’s boundaries.  If you can’t write something good, it might be best not to write anything at all, and SM barely does, and works just fine at including characters.

So true, its sad how certain characters are trapped in a perpetual learning curve.