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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#75026: Jul 20th 2023 at 5:14:23 AM

Amy wished on a "Special" Ring to be 16 years old, because classic Amy...in the comic was younger than Tails.

She was 8 and that's just not Sonic Adventure enough.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#75027: Jul 20th 2023 at 5:31:10 AM

I always thought Rouge was in her twenties. She certainly acts that way.

taotruths Live Jet Reaction (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
Live Jet Reaction
#75028: Jul 20th 2023 at 7:21:33 AM

I stg I thought Rouge's age printed in the Sonic Heroes Manual was 19.

Am I being Mandela effected right now or am I remembering a different character who had that one.

Edited by taotruths on Jul 20th 2023 at 7:22:13 AM

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#75029: Jul 20th 2023 at 7:30:34 AM

I thought it was 18...

Something I thought about today, but Sonic Prime is doing something similar as Sonic Lost World when it comes to Sonic's character... and both attempts have been extremely divisive to boot.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Masterofchaos Since: Dec, 2010
#75030: Jul 20th 2023 at 12:24:13 PM

Sonic Prime is actually good, though. That's the major difference, lol.

neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#75031: Jul 20th 2023 at 12:48:37 PM

Fleetway didn't give ages but Sonic and Knuckles were seen in bars. Drinking non alcohol drinks. Knuckles was definitely over the Drinking age since he was over eight thousand years old.

Edited by neoamon on Jul 20th 2023 at 1:15:48 PM

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#75032: Jul 20th 2023 at 3:17:19 PM

[up][up] Well yea, I agree. But that's not stopping it from being just as contentious and divisive.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#75033: Jul 20th 2023 at 5:44:02 PM

The only contention I really see about Prime are variations on "is Nine right?" which always happens when a fan favorite character turns bad for sympathetic reasons.

You think this is bad, y'all should've been there after Tangled: The Series' first season finale. Oooooof.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 20th 2023 at 5:45:24 AM

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#75034: Jul 20th 2023 at 5:57:16 PM

I've seen plenty of "Sonic is an idiot, Shadow should be the protagonist" takes.

I suppose it was inevitable when Sonic himself is put into a situation unlike any he's been in.

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Rabbitearsblog Movie and TV Goddess from United States Since: Jan, 2014 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Movie and TV Goddess
#75035: Jul 20th 2023 at 7:46:02 PM

This is why I don't like going on Twitter for Sonic content because all I see there are complaints about the franchise, with some of the complaints not making any sense. Like, there's nothing wrong about pointing out some things you don't like about the franchise. But the fact that some people on Twitter go as far as to harass the people working on the franchise just rubs me the wrong way.

Edited by Rabbitearsblog on Jul 20th 2023 at 7:47:27 AM

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#75036: Jul 20th 2023 at 7:56:19 PM

No one was really harassing anyone else...

Nor is that mindset exclusive to Bird app.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#75037: Jul 20th 2023 at 10:37:23 PM

Ares Island Action Chain Challenges are basically a matter of "Get to SUMO as fast as you can." Fortunately, SUMO is my favorite of the Guardians, and just before I switched over to doing all the challenges, I had another Starfall. The challenges don't count as killing an enemy in the overworld, and the enemies all respawn during the challenges anyway, so you can even do some of the Guardians multiple times. So far my top score is 1.5 million.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jul 20th 2023 at 12:51:30 PM

MrSeyker Since: Apr, 2011
#75038: Jul 21st 2023 at 4:59:10 AM

Since Murder revolves around Amy's birthday, I'm pretty sure she is officially upgraded from tween to teenager.

About Rouge's age, I think everyone thinks 18 because a combination of both her characterization and Archie Sonic having aged up characters for its entire runtime.

A lot of people think Sonic is 16 or older as opposed to 15 (some argue Generations aged him up a year, but I'm pretty sure Sega never did bump his age anywhere outside of that game before removing the ages entirely).

Edited by MrSeyker on Jul 21st 2023 at 5:08:40 AM

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#75039: Jul 21st 2023 at 5:21:49 AM

[up]I've never thought of Amy as a tween, she's always read as a teen since Adventure.

Ever Archie made her one because that's how she looked.

Edited by kkhohoho on Jul 21st 2023 at 7:23:26 AM

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#75040: Jul 21st 2023 at 5:22:57 AM

She was 12...

That post was meant to be literal.

—-

[up][up]I said Rouge was 18 because of the Sonic Channel ages. Despite this being why they're imprinted on my mind, I don't really recall seeing the Sonic Heroes manual say she was 17.

Edited by randomness4 on Jul 21st 2023 at 8:28:23 AM

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#75042: Jul 21st 2023 at 5:30:39 AM

Like I said before, the characters are never gonna act around based on those literal numbers due to the independence thing.

It's why I always only ever refer to age as just factual information, it's not useful for understanding anything about the series.

Edited by randomness4 on Jul 21st 2023 at 8:31:17 AM

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Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#75043: Jul 21st 2023 at 5:54:01 AM

I said it before, but judging age based off of actions makes no sense when two games ago we had Amy and Knuckles commanding a war. Like, the only character who kinda acts their age at all in this franchise is Cream.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#75044: Jul 21st 2023 at 6:20:55 AM

[up]And judging age based off information that isn't in the games makes less sense.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#75045: Jul 21st 2023 at 6:29:39 AM

...characters in fiction rarely have a reason to say their age.

The timelessness of it would be lost in a series like this.

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#75046: Jul 21st 2023 at 7:24:14 AM

It is kind of funny how their ages do not factor into their characterization. The Sonic series an escapist fantasy after all.

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#75047: Jul 21st 2023 at 8:10:02 AM

While I agree with Mr Claus that I rather judge the characters by the story and not so the manuals, hence I avoid the manuals, I feel we have Artistic Age for a reason: anime characters don't always act their age.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#75048: Jul 21st 2023 at 8:23:39 AM

I feel it applies way more often to anime characters.

That and behavioral actions you'd typically expect are usually subtle background detail.

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neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#75049: Jul 21st 2023 at 9:27:22 AM

In Fleetway's Sonic The Comic years past and they celebrated birthdays but never gave ages leading for readers to guess if they wanted to. I wonder if Archie and IDW were the same?

Edited by neoamon on Jul 21st 2023 at 5:30:53 PM

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Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#75050: Jul 21st 2023 at 9:39:15 AM

All the characters had actual ages in Archie, but it took a surprising while for us to find Sonic's out.

Notably, under Flynn, all the early gag strip era stuff was revealed to have happened when Sonic was 11.


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