Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29428918-20161008100136/@comment-24658561-20161103220225

Mystic Monkey wrote:

Sonic Boom does have different portrayals of the characters we know.

Knuckles is more of a fool, being the idiot of the group for the sake of comedy.

Sonic seems a bit more selfish and most episodes show this behavior. In Rise of Lyric he even has a cruel streak, such as the "See you in a thousand years" line, showing pride to have trapped Lyric. The Sonic I know is brash but not as arrogent as this Sonic. I'm not buying this excuse that the people behind this show set up anymore. Sonic Boom's only excuse for going against the established characters and continuity that's repeated over and over is that it's AU. AU is what an Undertale fanfiction writer who never actually played Undertale calls the mistakes, misportrayals and disregarding of canon in his fanfiction. The different TMNT cartoons don't have to point out all the time that they take place in a different universe because the changes they make to the source material don't come out of nowhere and make sense in their respective universe. The incarnations of Kraang, Mutagen Man, Slash, Baxter Stockman, Leatherhead, April and Karai from TMNT 2012 have different backstories, designs and character relationships than their other incarnations, but the choices that were made for this show work because they actually do something with it. We don't know the backstory of any of the Boom incarnations, so they can't expect us to make sense out of them and accept them as a different incarnation. And if they completely miss the point of a character as they like to do so often, they better have a damn good explanation for that. Thinking about it, the only characters where they don't miss the point are Orbot and Cubot and Metal Sonic, if you count him as a character outside of the OVA and Heroes. Sonic is way too lazy and arrogant, they're forgetting the "heart of gold" part of the Jerk trope. Tails is sometimes alright, but on other occasions he is the punching bag who receives a slap to the face even though other characters would be way more deserving of it. Amy is very inconsistent, but the one thing that has always been consistent about her was removed in Boom and the Boom Archie version is unbearable. Knuckles is the dumb jock trope and a joke generator, I don't think I have to explain how they're missing the original intention behind the character here. Eggman never actually poses a threat and just kind of wants Sonic's attention, he's like Chris except grown up. Seriously though: Writers, less Doofenshmirtz, more Rattigan! And Shadow's personality is entirely upside-down. His entire motivation in the main series is his loyalty to Maria while in the Boom universe he flatout dismisses loyalty as weak for no reason whatsoever. Though if Boom Archie Amy was the one giving him a motivational speech on the ARK, his hate for Sonic and his friends immediately makes a lot more sense. Yes, the characters have been miswritten by Pontaff before and some of them like Tails were arguably worse there, but I would prefer if they finally hired somebody who actually cares what they're writing. The movie and the 2017 game do get my hopes up, but I'll wait until we know more. I obviously hope the best for Amy too. She, Knuckles and Eggman are the ones who need some redemption the most.