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Mystic Monkey wrote: Sonic having a pretty human damsel-in-distress princess because Mario has one grinds my gears a little.

As a character I don't hate Elise but I don't like her a lot, I mean sure she's pretty, but othe rthan her issues theres not much else to her. She's rather mid-tier for me and thats fine. Kroshy is right that Sonic '06 was trying to teach a moral lesson that if you can be miserable at the past, you're best enjoy the future. Not Princess in another castle thing at Dusty Desert.

Perhaps thats why we won't see Princess Elise much again because Sega realise she's too much a Damsel in Distress and rather not do the Princess Peach thing. I really don't mind if Sega games have her back but I agree her role in life shouldn't be Damsel in Distress all the time. Maybe more as just a cameo. I always found her parts of being the damsel in distress all the time as a bit too much of a Cliché. The babes hot, yeah! With a modest backstory but what else can she offer us?