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SpeedOfSoundSonic wrote: Lol. I don't see why you're making such a big deal out of it. Knuckles is stupid. His stupidity has been exaggerated in Boom. It is what it is and you can't change it with complaining. I'm not complaining, just saying that one Knuckles is smarter than the other.

Rainbowser wrote:

That's too late. His degradation to a second sidekick for Sonic began after Shadow entered the scene (probably because they decided to let Shadow be part of the main cast and they didn't want to have the same type of character twice) so it was on the move. The Master Emerald just disappeared from the plots and since Heroes he started hanging out with Sonic and Tails (two guys he didn't even like that much in the games before SH) for no good reason. A lot of past games treated him like an idiot, I'll give you that, but saying that's the way he always was is just incorrect. He's been flanderized and misused over the years and Boom put it at it's worst. We are talking about Sega games and Sonic Boom seperately right? In Sonic Boom games, Shadow just showed up for boss fights for no apparent reason. In Sonic Boom cartoon he isn't even bothered with. Sonic Boom is seperate from the games, just as the Archie comics are from the games also.

Meanwhile Shadow mostly does his own thing, usually with Team Dark. Since Sega doesn't have Sticks in Sonic's games and amy being more of a traditional fangirl to Sonic, Knuckles plays more important role to Team Sonic given he is not as stupid as boom Knuckles and can be trusted with tasks such as treasure hunting. Boom Knuckles doesn't seem to have the IQ to even play hide and seek let alone treasure hunt.