Thread:702085/@comment-27926499-20160811135406/@comment-27926499-20160812104343

"What do you mean? They are canon. Some of these games like the 1991 game, Adventure, Heroes, 06, Unleashed, Colors, Generations and Lost World are canon (well maybe 06 is a little complicated because in the end it didn't make sense at all) but I hope they can change that if there is a movie based on the game and the other games that I just mentioned and make it fresh, great and understandable."

Sigh.......... You see, the question about what is canon and what is not in Sonic works like this : everything from Sonic 1 to SA2, Heroes and ShTH, pretty much is connected : the Chaos Emeralds, Master Emeralds, Angel Island, Metal Sonic, the Ark, GUN, Shadow, Chaos and the Chao. Perhaps the Babylonians and Ark of the Cosmos too. This is what you call "lore". The stuff that expands the universe, the characters, the locations, the history.

'06 was an attempted softcore reboot, since it never mentions past events unlike SA1, SA2, Heroes and ShTH, and ever since then, basically every main Sonic game is nothing more than a self-contained softcore reboot.

Unleashed tried to re-expand the lore with the Whole Light/Dark Gaia, the Temples of Gaia and such.

But then, with Colors, everything got trashed, because Sonic stories became self-contained retarded sitcom episodes instead of cool adventures. The Wisps have a lame lore, since they are just carbon copies of the Flickies. Generations is just an empty void of nothing, just random old stages thrown in, but there's no actual interaction like in a real time travel, and again, there's still the lingering self aware comedy vibe.

Lost World doesn't have an explanation for what the hell are those god-awful Koopalings rip-offs, what in the hell that butt ugly Teletubbyland-looking cartoony hell known as the Lost Hex is, why would Eggman revert to toddler toy-looking Badniks when he had Egg Fighters, Egg Chasers, and an entire star fleet.

And finally, the personalities : in 1998-2009, Sonic was portrayed, most of the time, as an adventure-seeking guy, Always energetic, pumped, motivated, who liked being with his friends and relied on them when in need.

From Colors onwards, Sonic has been transformed into a horrible bored dudebro, who constantly remarks on how boring and cliche everything is, who never treats anything seriously, makes awful jokes all the time, who barely has any friends outside of Tails, and even then, they constantly act passive aggressively towards each other.

So, you think canon as in all the main games. But canon in Sonic should be regarded as in what is tied up to the bigger picture. The Wisps, the White Space, the Lost Hex and the Zetis are nothing but self contained realities that make no sense, that cannot fit, because they've been made with a different mindset from places like Station Square, the ARK, the Egg Fleet, Angel Island and such.

So, if you want it "fresh, great and understandable", ditch entirely all that crap from post 2010, and try to expand on what was already done and established, like coming up with explanations to how the M.E Shrine and the Temples of Gaia might be connected, or if there are other prototypes to the Ultimate Lifeform outside of Shadow and the Biolizard.