User blog comment:Rainbowroad6w/FAQs of Sonic I'm tired of./@comment-115265-20110818003639

Thinking back, there was some debate on an old blog over whether Sonic was based on Mario or DBZ. I said it was both.

This would be a good place to bring that up, as "Why was Sonic based on Mario?" or something like that. I have a good answer for this question, too.