The Sonic fandom is really the reason why I stopped reading the comics. I only watched the SatAM show and I liked the stories and characters so I was happy they were going with that in the comics while still having stuff from the video games too. Everybody's happy, right? Right??
Seriously, all the fans I've come across (except from a personal friend of mine) seem to just complain and moan about how terrible the games were and leered over the female characters. Especially Sally. Poor Sally.
I have to admit, they aren't completely wrong about the video games. They rushed out that game in '06, and it seems the Boom tie in game has the same rushed through, unfinished problems. If you rush out the games, you wind up damaging your reputation. They've made strides since 06, only to blow things up with the cartoon based ones. The ones that just don't like any of the games aside of that fact for not being Sonic and Knuckles are a different story... though, frankly I never cared much for 3-D platformers either.
Also, while I admit they have a point about Sonic X, it's painfully obvious that they've
never seen a kid's anime before. They have
no clue about the heavily mandated audience surrogate kid appeal character they force into these kinds of shows in Japan. Especially since Ganbare Goemon and Mega Man (the OVA's about Japanese culture made for Japanese kids... there's a logic gap there) beat Sonic to Chris type characters for years. They always need that odd kid that steals the focus that's a 10 year old student. It's an annoying trope, but the only thing significant about Chris was that he was
American instead of a Japanese school student. Like they wanted to make it for the Western audience but at the same time they didn't get that we don't really like audience surrogate characters.
But the worst part is the leering while hating any new characters. That said, my personal beef is
where the heck is the love for Eggman?! Internet Memes aside, the merchandising and everything Sonic related only goes to the anthro characters. And I like me Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and the three main Chaotix, Robotnik/Eggman stuff was scarce. Makes no sense. I love me some Robotnik/Eggman. You can always find King Koopa and his Troopas in the Mario merchandise.