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28th May '13 10:46:52 PM Ninetails2000

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27th Apr '13 7:59:09 PM Mullon

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*** But, at the same time, it might just be that it doesn't cause people to explode. Besides, on Mobius Strip, you aren't the one who activates any of the [[GravityScrew Gravity Actions]] which affect you, and yet you don't blow up. Instead, [[HumongousMecha Master Core: ABIS]] picks you up using Gravity Dive. If we were going by the same logic as the first trooper was saying, then shouldn't Sonic and co. also get blown up?
* Sonic Riders makes it so Sonic's board is many, many times faster than he is (with the exception of one item in the new version). This is especially bad because previous game Sonic R had everyone ''else'' using karts while Sonic just plain ''ran'', and that worked fairly well. So why the hell does he get forced to have a board now?
** '''WRONG!''' The only characters who used vehicles in Sonic R were Amy (who had yet to receive her SA 2 speed boost) and Robotnik, and the whole game was oddly slow for a racing game. Meanwhile, in the ''first two'' Sonic racing games, Sonic Drift and Sonic Drift 2, Sonic ''did'' use a kart. It looked like his shoes. Even if those hadn't happened, though, I don't see what's wrong--Sonic's not a ''beam of light,'' things are allowed to be faster than him.
** ...Speed is his whole thing, he's the 'fastest thing alive', saying that some hoverboard is faster than someone that can move like he does is somewhat stupid
*** So hoverboards are alive now?
*** For what it's worth, in Sonic Battle Shadow was faster than Sonic. So "Fastest Thing Alive" is probably an outdated title. 
*** It's been shown that Shadow's actual leg movements are slower than Sonic's. Shadow's rocket skates are responsible for his ability to keep pace with Sonic. And if '''06'' is to be believed, they're not doing as good a job of that as they used to.
** plus he was just following the rules of the competition
*** This. Just because Sonic ''can'' run as fast as the competition without a board or kart doesn't mean he ''has'' to. This troper rationalizes that he would be happy to follow the rules of the race, as he still gets to go fast. 
*** This is the explanation I give--that Sonic has to follow the rules, and being LawfulGood, if he enters a competition, he'll try to comply as best he can. You wouldn't run in a sack race. Sonic won't run in a car race. That being said, the whole thing about Sonic being "the fastest thing alive" was a product of the [=SatAM=] cartoon. This has never been canon in the games. Plenty of things have managed to outrun Sonic, alive or not.
*** I seem to recall that the above is actually the official explanation for why he doesn't automatically smoke all of the other racers in the Olympics games: he slows himself down in the interest of fairness. So this explanation is most likely canon.
*** A second note to go with above, if you read the bio for Sonic in [[SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]. It states that he can run faster then everyone in the race but to be fair he rides in a car. Whos to say its not the same for the rest of the series.

26th Apr '13 9:12:47 AM thelegendaryorretrio

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26th Dec '12 7:57:10 PM hayleychaotix

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