Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31435758-20170304072556/@comment-679780-20170304161552

PenBird2000 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Short answer no.

Long answer, Cosmo is a licenced original character to TMS Entertainment who is indeed owned by Sega but specifically for the  Sonic X series and Sega have no interest in importing characters from other spin-off series from the franchise into the main games.

If they would, it be likely we'd have Sally and maybe other Freedom Fighters long before Cosmo would be considered. I thought Cosmo was created by Sonic Team and not TMS. Anyway close this thread. It's actually more vice-versa. Cosmo was created by TMS but is legally owned by Sega.

Just as Sally Acorn and the freedom fighters were originally owned by DiC I think but ownership was passed onto Archie comics. But given Sega commisioned the cartoons and the comics in the first place they legally own all the characters.

But just because they have legal ownership over the comics and cartoons, they choose to keep them seperate from their own franchise of games.