Board Thread:Question of the Month/@comment-25415705-20150529141549/@comment-24658561-20150701212110

Yeah, but Sonic also saved Amy once. What I'm trying to say is that Mario usually saves Peach when she gets kidnapped again by Bowser and sometimes saves the world, but most time, that's only in spin-offs. (He saves the world in the RPGs multiple times, but he usually gets some help by Luigi or some more friends.)

Sonic always more or less saves the world, even when he's just helping the animals. If Dr. Eggman would catch all the animals to power his robots, he could take over the world more easily. But he can't catch all of the animals because Sonic always frees them. And in almost every Modern Sonic game, Sonic directly saves the world.

That would make Sonic cooler, right? But then, how come that Mario is way more sucessful? Oh yeah: Even the greatest characters can't help if the gameplay is broken or just not that fun. Sonic had some really good games, but for every good Sonic game out there, there are at least two great Mario games. Mario easily overshadows Sonic, even if he's not trying to. And that makes Mario seem like a show-off to many Sonic-but-not-Mario-fans. Heck, some fans still think that Mario wants to kill Sonic off, but that's nonsense since Mario already won the battle.