Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20170412045049/@comment-679780-20170415131358

NotLessOrEqual wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Claiming an evil double as your own is like getting Pikachu, giving him a Snidely Whiplash hat, cape and mustache and claiming "Uhcakip" as a completely original character.

This is why I compare Penders to Chris-Chan who believes combining Sonic with Pikachu makes an entirely original character.

It's also why I'd be totally OK if Scourge and maybe Dr. Finitevus be replaced with Ashura and Wechnia given not only would they fit the part being the right kind of recolours to replace the roles, but have some tie-in to the games, albeit as glitches than canon. Ken Penders should, and deserve, credit where it is due, but what he tried to claim in that thread is absolutely absurd. Also, Finitevus isn't a Penders character (is Karl Bollers') but since it is Penders who introduced so many Knuckles re-colors, people will associate ANY non-Knuckles, non-Sega Echidna species as Penders now, so I doubt even if Bollers had no issue with Archie suing Finitivus, people may continue to wonder why Penders characters are still in there even though its not his, its so Sega can keep their associative distance away from Penders at all cost as to not look bad to the public. Finitevus may not entirely be his original idea. Penders admitted he read the british Sonic the Comics I think it was one of Archies mandates to assure no accidental coincidences between them and Fleetway that could lead to lawsuit.

Anyway pressuming Finitevus is an artificially enhanced echidna, Penders could of been inspired by Doctor Zachary who eventually became an artificially enchanced echidna. While Penders where making hidden cities full of Echidnas, StC introduced just the one other Echidnas to their comics. A white echidna who ended up a bad guy. Zachary is also 8 years older than Finitivus.

While there is not enough evidence to support Penders ripped of Richard Elson and could be an entirely coincident, the two are awfully similar, and Penders don't usually give colour to echidnas other than the neighbouring warm colours to red.