Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-25256883-20160220123602/@comment-24658561-20160511194237

Mystic Monkey wrote:

It can serve as an example of why when it comes to fanfiction I prefer canon accuracy over too much original content. Because the Super Mario Bros. movie had so much original content it might as well ditch the Super Mario elements and be it's own thing. You know, like Sonic Boom. From all the Sonic shows, it has the least to do with Sonic. AoStH, X and Underground had the Chaos Emeralds/Master Emerald, SatAM and X both had rings and expanded on things that were left rather vague in the games, whether they suceeded or not. And Boom has... Pretty much nothing. The setting is entirely different, the logic of the world is entirely different and the personalities of the characters are different, entirely for Knuckles and Amy and clichéd enough to be seen as original for Sonic and Tails and Eggman is already "taking inspiration" from Phineas&Ferb. Why not replace the Sonic characters with an original cast? Oh right, wouldn't be able to cash in as many views right from the start because the show had to stand out first to become popular. Let's just throw in one or two Sonic references that mean absolutely nothing and continue. That's btw the reason why they made that thing a Mario movie. They wanted to raise a high interest for the movie so when it came out, the theatres were full even though the movie had nothing to do with Mario. They were also trying to get lots of merchandise out of the movie. Sounds familiar?

If I had to make Sonic Boom into an original show, I'd remove Not-Sonic and Sticks from the main cast and have them as reoccurring side characters to make the world more dynamic, I'd probably try to handle them like Lars and Ronaldo from Steven Universe are handled. They'd get episodes that are about them, but the main focus is somewhere else. The focus would be on Not-Amy instead who is fighting Not-Eggman alongside Not-Tails and Not-Knuckles. Not-Sonic would occasionally help out, but is too lazy for the most part and Sticks would be more busy with trying to find evidence for weird wild animals attacking the village. In exchange for Not-Sonic and Sticks not being in the main cast, the rest would get an extra layer of personality without jumping between their stereotypes. Not-Eggman could stay the same, he's more Doofenshmirtz than Eggman anyway. Not-Orbot and Not-Cubot would simply have different models, there are a lot of "Dumb henchman, Smart henchman" duos out there, so noone would really notice.

But yeah, this is an important point I forgot to mention. The movies should portray the franchise in a way that makes sense. I wouldn't mind if the Mario movie was a little darker, Partners in Time was pretty dark too: Aliens with a sadistic nature and the ability to infect other creatures with their spores(?) invade the planet and kill Toads by strapping them to life-draining trees(and yes, they die, you see their souls in the pipes of the Shroob base and you can't do anything about it), try to turn the friendly and peaceful Yoshis into gigantic mindless monsters(they suceeded once), mind controlling the Hammer Bros into attacking Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, destroying a christmas-themed village and abducting all of it's inhabitants and, completely unrelated to all of that, a villain you defeated just one game before is living in the canalisation under Peach's castle, plotting his revenge and going insane because of you. I have no problems with seeing it as a Mario game. It still has the Mario, or better Mario&Luigi spirit. It does what these games (used to) do best: Hide the dark and disturbing stuff behind a mask of ridiculousness and Mario logic. Really, I'll be disappointed if they don't use Mario logic in the movie. For Sonic however, I'd prefer if they stuck to real life logic combined with Sonic elements, especially since it's a hybrid.