Thread:Myself 123/@comment-25021229-20170414220955/@comment-1669199-20170415025618

Jlnhlfan wrote: Myself123,

These days, the term has a notorious reputation for being used in darker comics. Sonic should not and will not be exposed to such terms. Use 'change', 'changer' and 'the Changed' instead.

What exactly is wrong with using a word like "mutate" to describe something that's occurred to something else (in this instance, explaining the origin of "Mobians") in one fictional series just because that very same word has a supposed "reputation for being used in darker comics" (what reputation? What are you going on about?)? Even if darker comics do use this one word quite a lot for whatever reason, why should we prohibit our use of the word "mutate" in our articles regardless of the context in each instance we try to apply the word, especially when in these instances they accurately describe what is happening or what already has happened to the subject matter in which the word is being applied to? Also, although I can't think of any specific instances off the top of my head, I'm quite certain that the word "mutate" has been spoken/written in the games and various other media of the Sonic franchise plenty of times already, regardless of the context in each instance the word was used. Besides, places like Sonic Channel, an official Japanese website published and maintained by SEGA themselves which contains information about the Sonic the Hedgehog series, describes Chaos as being a "mutant" of Chao. So SEGA themselves, the people behind Sonic Team and the Sonic franchise as a whole, clearly has no issue using the term "mutant" to describe something in the series.

So answer me this: since the people who created the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the same people who continue to make games and other media in the franchise to this very day, seem to have no issue using the word "mutant" to describe something in the series, why then do YOU take issue with US using the word "mutate" to describe how the Mobians, creatures that are MUTANTS of humans and animal life, came into existence within their respective universe? Why exactly should we do what you suggest and change prohibit our usage of the word "mutate" in order to make our articles "friendlier to the younger users" as you so claimed when you made those changes to the Mobian article, when the very people behind the Sonic series don't seem to care about the usage of the word "mutate/mutant" the same way you? Why should we even care what you think about the word itself? You haven't even proven the existence a substantial number of people who feel the same way about the word as you do, and even if this group of people actually did exist, to be offended over the usage of the word "mutate" being used in a children's franchise just because you assume that most kids within the age group you're giving don't even know what the word means and that the programming that their parents watch must contain the word somewhere is simply ludicrous. Dictionaries exist for a reason, and its these parents' job to educate their children on their values, not anyone else's.

But I guess it would be pretty hard for you to go out and ask these parents what they think of the word "mutate" being used in the Archie comics, since they are "probably" expressing their outrage "in secret" and don't want to be easily found -- for some reason.