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Ken Penders' legal cases
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1. The sequel is never going to happen, all thanks to Electronic Arts buying BioWare, killing plans for a series of Sonic RPGs.
2. Ken Penders sued Sega in 2011, under the belief of "original character, DO NOT STEAL!", because the Nocturnus Clan were carbon rip-offs of the Dark Legion (eg. Shade is Lien-Da/Julie-Su, Ix is Finetivius) making any chances of the sequel still happening under a different developer squashed.
3. According to Ken Penders on Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr, Ken Penders has stated that the characters from Sonic Chronicles are never going to appear again. Because, if Sega uses any of them, THE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS WILL BE REOPENED, GIVING KEN PENDERS ANOTHER CHANCE TO SUE SEGA.
(Edited by Odenbirb50)
So, regarding the Archie reboot, since they had to get rid of all of Penders' characters, because the settlement between the case between Archie and Penders allowed the former to use the latter's characters, but only if they paid royalties and followed Penders' guidelines.
How were characters not owned by Penders wiped out as well?
Now that Penders has finally brought back Julie-Su and Light Mobius...
Tell me what was the worst thing he did to SEGA, BioWare, Archie and EA?
I learned out on X that Ken Penders is trending.
Couldn’t post the other two due to wiki rules so here’s the link: https://x.com/dragonsfan1988/status/1805569163748163894?s=46
Saw this utterly abysmal existence on Twitter. Now, if you excuse me, im going to sleep and sob like a manchild:
Ken Penders: Sues SEGA of America and EA Games for copyright stuff in the game, because the Dark Brotherhood were too similar to his Dark Legion echidnas.
SEGA of Japan: Ignores the case, and wasn't aware of it
Also SEGA of Japan:
https://www.polygon.com/22573590/sega-key-master-arcade-game-class-action-lawsuit
Seems that SEGA of America, SEGA's American subsidiary is gotten into legal trouble once more.
Still waiting for the case to conclude for good, maybe in 2025!
https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1489877964942544901
What should BioWare and Sega do? Should they sue Penders for stealing the character?
Chronicles took heavy inspiration from the Archie Comics, which was why Ken sued Sega and EA Games for taking concepts from the comic (mainly his concepts).
So, what if the game wasn't a copy of the Archie canon, What would the Muraders and Shade be if they weren't echidnas and rip-offs of the Dark Legion?
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Sonic 1: South Island incident
Sonic CD: Little Planet incident (this one's actually official)
Sonic 2: West Side Island incident
Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Angel Island incident (so is this one)
Sonic Triple Trouble: Atomic Destroyer Zone incident
Tails Adventure: Cocoa Island incident
Sonic R: World Grand Prix incident
Sonic 4: Death Egg Mk. II incident
Sonic Mania: First Phantom Ruby incident
Sonic Mania Plus: Second Phantom Ruby incident
Sonic Superstars: Northstar Islands incident
Sonic Adventure: Chaos incident
Sonic Adventure 2: Space Colony ARK incident
Sonic Advance 2: Egg Utopia incident
Sonic Heroes: Neo Metal Sonic incident
Reason: Metal Sonic is the big bad of Heroes.
Shadow the Hedgehog: Black Arms incident
Sonic Battle: Emerl incident
Sonic Advance 3: Gemerl incident
Sonic '06: Solaris incident
Sonic and the Secret Rings: World Ring incident
Sonic and the Black Knight: Excalibur incident
Sonic Unleashed: Dark Gaia incident
Sonic Chronicles: Ken Penders v. Sega/Electronic Arts incident
Reason: In 2011, Ken filed a lawsuit of his own against Sega and EA Games, for copyright infringement. Just because he discovered that the game took concepts from the comics.
Sonic Colours: Wisp incident
Sonic Generations: Time Eater incident
Sonic Lost World: Lost Hex incident
Sonic Frontiers: Starfall Islands incident
The Murder of Sonic: Mirage Express incident
Sonic Riders: First EX World Grand Prix
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity: MeteorTech incident
Sonic Free Riders: Second EX World Grand Prix
Archie (2010-2013): Archie Comics v. Ken Penders incident
Reason: The lawsuit Archie filed against Penders. What do you think?
Archie (2016-2017): Scott Fulop v. Sega/Archie Comics incident
Reason: In 2016, Fulop filed a civil lawsuit against both Archie and Sega, for the usages of his characters, mainly Mammoth Mogul (which MAY have been the reason why Archie and Sega ended their friendship)
Sega/Archie Comics
In 2016, Fulop filed a lawsuit against Archie Comics and Sega for the use of his characters, mainly Mammoth Mogul.
The case ended on a settlement in September 2017 (yeah, at the same time Archie and Sega ended their relationship, they were still in the lawsuit with Scott)
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