History YMMV / SonicTheHedgehog

* AngelDevilShipping: While nowhere near as ubiquitous as Sonamy or Shadamy, there are some fans that ship Amy Rose and Metal Sonic, the two characters having shared a DamselInDistress dynamic in their [[VideoGame/SonicCD debut game]] (never mind that Metal Sonic was the one who kidnapped Amy to begin with). More reasonably, several fans ship her with Shadow rather than Sonic, thanks to reminding him of Maria herself, on top of the sentiment that he'd be more steady of a partner compared with Sonic's wanderlust.

** Metamy (Metal Sonic X Amy) has started gaining more popularity as a ship in recent years. Fanfics commonly depict Metal having a VillainousCrush on Amy, seeking to KillAndReplace the real Sonic and become her love interest.

** The fandom tends to crank up Amy's crush on Sonic to downright {{Yandere}} levels way more than it has ever been portrayed. While there was a brief period following [[Anime/SonicX Sonic X]] where her tendency to chase after him was infamously flanderized during the 2000s, most notably in [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Sonic Heroes]] and [[VideoGame/SonicBattle Sonic Battle]], she is usually portrayed as just being a eccentric teenaged girl with a one-sided but harmless, innocent crush. However fanworks have taken this to make her out to be a [[StalkerWithACrush crazed stalker]] who only cares about Sonic and will chase him wherever he goes, ignoring her several other traits such as her kindness for others and determination to help out. Additionally they turn Sonic's annoyance towards her antics into him outright hating her, despite the times where he has been nice to her and treated her as a friend when she isn't pursuing him.

* TheInverseLawOfFandomLevity: In spite of a few darker moments in certain games, the franchise is a lighthearted, family-friendly videogame series about colorful {{Funny Animal}}s stopping a [[LaughablyEvil goofy and cartoony]] scientist and his mischiefs, with a few other threats as well. The fanbase, on the other hand, is focused a lot on said darker moments the series, with various discussions about it. Also worthy of mention the various {{Dark Fic}}s (such as ''Fanfic/SonicExe'') and adult parodies about the games and the fandom (such as ''VideoGame/SonicDreamsCollection'') as well.

* TheInverseLawOfFandomLevity: In spite of a few darker moments in certain games, the franchise is a lighthearted, family-friendly videogame series about colorful {{Funny Animal}}s stopping a [[LaughablyEvil goofy and cartoony]] scientist and his mischiefs, with a few other threats as well. The fanbase, on the other hand, is focused a lot on said darker moments the series, with various discussions about it. Also worthy of mention the various {{Dark Fic}}s (such as Fanfic/SonicExe) and adult parodies about the games and the fandom (such as ''VideoGame/SonicDreamsCollection'') as well.

** Sonic fans like to make fun with ''VideoGame/Bubsy'' (both fans and the franchise in general) '''A LOT''', especially with jokes with the custom character from ''Sonic Forces'' being a modernized Bubsy, whereas Bubsy is already [[VindicatedByHistory slowly healing away from the hate at the time]], in turn, this made some Bubsy fans VERY UNHAPPY, since it made hate for Bubsy go back to it's hayday, leading to some fight back. It's safe to say that, for the most part, Sonic and Bubsy will never get along.

** The fandom tends to crank up Amy Rose's crush on Sonic to downright {{Yandere}} levels way more than it has ever been portrayed. While there was a brief period following [[Anime/SonicX Sonic X]] where her tendency to chase after him was infamously flanderized during the 2000s, most notably in [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Sonic Heroes]] and [[VideoGame/SonicBattle Sonic Battle]], she is usually portrayed as just being a eccentric teenaged girl with a one-sided but harmless, innocent crush. However fanworks have taken this to make her out to be a [[StalkerWithACrush crazed stalker]] who only cares about Sonic and will chase him wherever he goes, ignoring her several other traits such as her kindness for others and determination to help out. Additionally they turn Sonic's annoyance towards her antics into him outright hating her, despite the times where he has been nice to her and treated her as a friend when she isn't pursuing him.

** The fandom tends to crank up Amy Rose's crush on Sonic to downright {{Yandere}} levels way more than it has ever been portrayed. While there was a brief period following [[Anime/SonicX Sonic X]] where her tendency to chase after him was infamously flanderized during the 2000s, most notably in [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Sonic Heroes]] and [[VideoGame/SonicBattle Sonic Battle]], she is usually portrayed as just being a eccentric teenaged girl with a one-sided, but harmless crush. However fanworks have taken this to make her out to be a [[StalkerWithACrush crazed stalker]] who only cares about Sonic and will chase him wherever he goes, ignoring her several other traits such as her kindness for others and determination to help out. Additionally they turn Sonic's annoyance towards her antics into him outright hating her, despite the times where he has been nice to her and treated her as a friend when she isn't pursuing him.

** The fandom tends to crank up Amy Rose's crush on Sonic to downright {{Yandere}} levels way more than it has ever been portrayed. While there was a brief period following [[Anime/SonicX Sonic X]] where her tendency to chase after him was infamously flanderized during the 2000s, most notably in [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Sonic Heroes]] and [[VideoGame/SonicBattle Sonic Battle]], for the most part she has mostly portrayed as nothing worse than a eccentric teenaged girl who has a innocent one-sided crush. However fanworks have taken this to make her out to be a [[StalkerWithACrush crazed stalker]] who only cares about Sonic and will chase him wherever he goes, ignoring her several other traits such as her kindness for others and determination to help out. Additionally they turn Sonic's annoyance towards her antics into him outright hating her, ignoring the several times where he has been nice to her and treated her as a friend when she isn't pursuing him.

** The fandom tends to crank up Amy Rose's crush on Sonic to downright {{Yandere}} levels way more than it has been portrayed. While there was a brief period where her tendency to chase after him was infamously flanderized during the 2000s, for the most part it has been nothing worse than her being a young teenaged girl who has a innocent one-sided crush. However fanworks have taken this to make her out to be a [[StalkerWithACrush crazed stalker]] who only cares about Sonic and will chase him wherever he goes, ignoring her several other traits such as her kindness for others and determination to help out. Additionally they turn Sonic's annoyance towards her antics into him outright hating her, ignoring the several times he has been nice to her and treated her as a friend when she isn't pursuing him.

* MemeticPersonalityChange: Even though Shadow's personality [[DependingOnTheWriter ranges from]] a StockShonenRival to Sonic to an [[AntiHero Anti-Heroic]] {{Jerkass}}, much of the fandom portrays him as a memetic edgelord based on his gun-toting, PG-swearing[[note]][[MemeticMutation Where's that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?]][[/note]] NinetiesAntiHero personality in [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog his self-titled spinoff]], even giving him the [[FanNickname nickname]] "Ow the Edge". This became an AscendedMeme in the various [[Blog/SonicTheHedgehogTwitter Twitter]] [[CharacterBlog Takeovers]], where, among other things, he says [[RealMenTakeItBlack he likes to eat whole coffee beans for breakfast]] and his favorite anime is ''Anime/KillLaKill'', which, like his memetic personality, has an edgy, weapon-toting protagonist who [[spoiler:has alien DNA]]. In less serious works it's also popular to portray him as trying to be edgy without actually knowing what that is, [[InternetJerk in a dig at some of his fanbase]].

** Sonic fans like to make fun with ''VideoGame/Bubsy'' (both fans and the franchise in general) '''A LOT''', especially with jokes with the custom character from ''Sonic Forces'' being a modernized Bubsy, where Bubsy is already [[VindicatedByHistory Bubsy is slowly healing away from the hate at the time]], in turn, this made some Bubsy fans VERY UNHAPPY since it made hate for Bubsy go back to it's hayday, which as a result, Bubsy fans might fight back by throwing a fit with them, not helping is that most of Bubsy's early games are based on Sonic, it reached depressing levels when hate art out of Bubsy start popping out, especially that ''''MANY OF THEM ARE WELL MADE'''', it's safe to say that, for the most part, Sonic and Bubsy will never get along.

* VindicatedByHistory: Numerous once base-breaking entries in the series, such as ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' and ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', are fondly remembered for being innovative and ''very'' risky departures from the usual gameplay that actually did quite well in a few areas.

** Though they don't have most of Knuckles' abilities, nor do they look anything like him, echidnas are [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna a real animal.]]

* FandomHeresy: Never admit you like ''Sonic 06'' (at least [[SoBadItsGood unironically]]). Ever. ''Rise of Lyric'' even more so.

** Knuckles, due to his immensely goofy and quotable nature in adaptations, and the ''& Knuckles'' part of ''Sonic & Knuckles'' being adopted as an internet joke.

* DeathOfTheAuthor: Many fans, especially fans of Team Dark, hate the implication by WordOfGod that not only is Team Dark not a thing in-universe, but that Shadow, Rouge and E-123 Omega aren't actually friends in the first place. It doesn't help that this also overlaps with WriterConflictsWithCanon as Shadow shows a lot of emotion at the hands of Rogue and Omega in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', with the reveal that [[spoiler:Omega will be the one to seal Shadow away in the future]] very visibly shocking and upsetting Shadow. Unsurprisingly, most fans prefer to simply ignore this fact and portray Team Dark as being TrueCompanions instead.

** Big the Cat is fairly well liked in Japan, but was so strongly disliked by western ''Sonic'' fans (both for his [[UnexpectedGameplayChange slow paced, unorthodox fishing gameplay]] in ''Sonic Adventure'', and for finding his [[ManChild infantile]], [[TheDitz slow-witted personality]] to be grating rather than endearing) that he had been reduced to sporadic cameos and bit player appearances after ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' before returning to prominence in the 2010s. His English voice actor Creator/JonStJohn even deliberately forgot how to do the character's voice...However, thanks to games like ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'', and ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', along with other things, the international hatred of Big has mostly (But not entirely) died down.

** Sonic is also very popular in Mexico since the Adventure era, though not on the same massively huge levels as Mario, Pokémon, [[WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol and]] [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug more]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan bigger]] [[WesternAnimation/PJMasks well]] [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} known]] [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles popular]] [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants franchises]], and the fact that Sonic's games are not offically localized in Latin American Spanish by SEGA yet, despite this, his popularity would grow further in the country with the release of the 2020 movie and it's sequel, giving Sonic more wider mainstream attention in Mexico, especially compared to Japan, where the Sonic movies bombed financially hard in Japanese box office performance, merchandising relating to Sonic is extremely big in Mexico, matching that of ''Mario'', ''PAW Patrol'', and ''Miraculous''. More recently, ''Sonic Boom'' is now currently broadcasting on the Mexican network, Canal 5, on the Tuesdays, and Thursdays weekday afternoon slots, replacing ''Miraculous Ladybug'' on those days.

** ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' is much more popular in the West than at home in Japan. This can be justified by the fact that Sonic was specifically designed to appeal to western audiences in the first place, and the fact that the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis never got a strong foothold in Japan. The third season of ''Sonic X'' didn't even air there until 2020 (nearly 15 years later) and was mainly commissioned for the international markets, despite all the episodes having a Japanese dub recorded alongside the English dub. Several ''Sonic'' games, such as ''Sonic Chronicles'', have performed abysmally in sales over there. On Website/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/@SONICMOVIECHANNEL the official Japanese Sonic channel]] has a mere fraction of [[https://www.youtube.com/@SonictheHedgehog the English channel's]] subscriber count.

** ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' is much more popular in the West than at home in Japan. This can be justified by the fact that Sonic was specifically designed to appeal to western audiences in the first place, and the fact that the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis never got a strong foothold in Japan. The third season of ''Sonic X'' didn't even air there until 2020 (nearly 15 years later) and was mainly commissioned for the international markets, despite all the episodes having a Japanese dub recorded alongside the English dub. Several ''Sonic'' games, such as ''Sonic Chronicles'', have performed abysmally in sales over there. On Website/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/@SONICMOVIECHANNEL the official Japanese Sonic channel]] has a mere fraction of [[https://www.youtube.com/@SonictheHedgehog the English channel's]] subscriber count. There's yet another slight [[BrokenBase fanbase division]] over international differences.

** Amy confusing any other hedgehog (Shadow, Silver, the Werehog) for Sonic in various games has led to many jokes about her poor eyesight/common sense that have yet to dissipate. Even worse, the Werehog IS Sonic, but she is unable to recognize him after actually getting to take a good look at him.

** Shadow x Tikal exists and was decently popular at one point, despite neither character being likely aware of the other. It mostly comes from Tikal's very concept and role being similar to Maria's, that being of a sweet girl that sacrificed themselves to protect someone they cared about. It's also one of the few ships involving Shadow that avoids the [[MayflyDecemberRomance potential issues of his agelessness]] since Tikal is effectively the same (being a spirit).

** Big's debut in ''Adventure'' is very disliked by many fans, due to his simpleton personality, almost filler role in the story mode, and his boring gameplay. He however gained better appreciation with his comedic cameos, and his appearances in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'' using the same gameplay as other characters.
** Following his controversial debut in ''2006'', Silver would become one of the most controversial characters of the franchise, with many disliking his [[SpotlightStealingSquad overuse]] in the same title, and for taking away the protagonistic role from other characters. However, Silver went to be more appreciated as time went on thanks to his boss battle appearance in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' showing the full use of his abilities in a satisfying manner, and his appearances in the Archie comic series making his story less puzzling.

** Sonic is also very popular in Mexico since the Adventure era, though not on the same massively huge levels as Mario, Pokémon, [[WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol and]] [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug more]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan bigger]] [[WesternAnimation/PJMasks well]] [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} known]] [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles popular]] [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants franchises]], and the fact that Sonic's games are not localized in Latin American Spanish yet, despite this, his popularity would grow further in the country with the release of the 2020 movie and it's sequel, giving Sonic more wider mainstream attention in Mexico, especially compared to Japan, where the Sonic movies bombed financially hard in Japanese box office performance, merchandising relating to Sonic is extremely big in Mexico, matching that of ''Mario'', ''PAW Patrol'', and ''Miraculous''. More recently, ''Sonic Boom'' is now currently broadcasting on the Mexican network, Canal 5, on the Tuesdays, and Thursdays weekday afternoon slots, replacing ''Miraculous Ladybug'' on those days.