Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20170412045049/@comment-679780-20170415084921

NotLessOrEqual wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote:

PenBird2000 wrote: Too long, didn't read. Such strong profanity isn't directed at you IMO. Anyway close this thread. Does this thread needs a closin'? Or do others still want to pay respects and contribute to the topic?

I myself would be interested if Scourge returned, or at least a replacement character for him. Like Ashura or anti- "Dark Sonic" or something. Scourge us the most complex due to the fact multiple people, parties and sources claim ownership to him, hell even on Penders' own forum he said he had rights to Evil Sonic, A RE-COLOR! His excuse is that he doesnt behave like Sonic and has different motives or personality. Pfft, talk about trademark violations.

Including Penders, we also have Ian Flynn (Scourge carnation) and Sega (for obvious reasons) claiming ownership. I dont exactly like Scourge that much because generally over-all I hate recolor characters, including fan characters. They left a bad taste in my mouth when going around Deviant Art, eeuch!

I really do hope they bring back scourge just to stick it to Penders, since many of Penders' original designs for his echidnas originated from Knuckles copies.

As a matter of fact as I can recall, I think Sega CAN use re-color type characters from Penders such as his Echidnas however they can only use the appearance of the character, but no story or the names (they may need to use new names) coz his Sega still claims ownership to the Mobian Echidna design, and Penders failed to change it enough to make it uniquely his own, save a few. I don't like recolours a smuch a syou do.

I also find over-used cliche's boring and mostly bad.

But my favourate cliché I like which excuse recolours, is the "evil double" cliché. And while I disagree with Penders over "different motives or personality", I liked how when Anti-Sonic became Scourge, he decided to become more of his own hedgehog but being just as fast and as predictable as Sonic, still used that against Sonic to be his evil double.