You guys still haven't seen the third option? I'm waiting...
No, Jtrsee, you can't really relate to such if you are a real amputee. I'm gonna ask my best friend (who is one due to a real-life accident) if he can relate to a person who gets super-powers from such a tramatic event. That lawn-mower blade didn't give him much, man...there was no magic deus ex machina to fix him up and make him stronger than before. But overcoming his personal obstacles did. He is one of the most spiritually strong people I know. I think a person like Oracle/Barbra Gordon from Batman is a better model for this type of Character-Arc. A super-powered amputee is kind of insulting - there are none in the real world after all... And the potential message we can get out of this is completely bassakwards to the overall tone we have read in Sonic for all these years: Look! You get to have superpowers if you cut off your limbs and become a cyborg! :/ Is Robotnik writing the comic now? Why hasn't every solider not cyborged themselves yet in the cuase to fight Egghead? They are already risking life, why not a limb?
Please take this in to consideration, before you make another counter-argument. I feel you are not reall thinking my points through. You are making a lot of assumptions rather than arguments. I fear you you want this story to work, rather than admitting it's not...
At least with Roboticization, it is seen as something that is deemed a curse of perversed technology, something unwillfully imposed on people. A half-machine character becomes a symbol of liberation and an arbitor and sign for the cuase of our heros. Also there is potential for that character to have to overcome sociatal conflicts (can we trust her?). As a person who has a Special Need (I have Aspergers, a high-functioning anuerotypicallity), the challange of overcoming things imposed on us seems better than an unrealistic applied phelbotinum empowering us instead of finding the power to overcoe a personal challange and then becoming stronger becuase of it happening. Funnily enough, though he is villan, Darth Vader is a great example of this in the book The Rise of Darth Vader.
For Bytor: Then the subtext, the spirit, the core, of the Ameican Canon is all but abadoned. I have already discussed the wieght of Satam's story, the words between the lines in the Satam Recontructed thread. Look up where I discussed the subtext of Satam.
To me, Eggman is just another meglomaniac mad-scientist cliche. Robotnik's twisted industrial/modernistic/tolertarian vision of progress under his Big Brotherly regime is flattend to a two-bit Joker clone with a taste for tech that's not allowed spill blood, speak like a real villan, or be a true threat. Roboticization was an amazing way to add tension without throwing to much death in kids faces, and though it was wretched there was always the hope it could reversed and the moral issues that came with fighting those that were enslaved by Robotnik. There was an idealogical weight to the Satam conception of Sonic, it said something to the real world about the fualts of 20th century modernity and the ethical issues of technology and industry potentially damaging individuals, enviroments, and cultures. The subtle but profound message has been all but lost!
). Archie settled on a more stable identity, though it's incosistancies stem from their hastey publishing rather just sitting down and prewriting out and preparing a more consistant narrative (which was probably not possible, to be fair, given their tight deadlines and push for the product by certain someones, shows in those earlier issues. They could have fixed it for older fans as well as new here. But they just dropped the ball, missing a great choice for a broader additive choice of synthesis and plurality instead of redefining subtractivly from the lore long-time fans of the SoA canon they are familiar with. And to say that I am making a Satam Purist argument is simply an oversimplification of my position. If anything I am a progressivist concerned with narrative quality, if they can trump Satam (which can be done easy given that DiC had limitations the comics don't have (2 season contract) and the comic has years more of brainstorming fan-base to reap reward from) . I am just sickend by the conceptual-gravity being tossed aside by SoJ overlording about and abadoning so much ideas/lore/tone of the American and European canons in general in such a clumsy and uncritical fashion. I find no passion for possibility in the current silly politics and state of affairs, especially when there is an awesome third option you still can't see... I see this all as subtracting from already accepted and beloved substance of what people percieve as Sonic-lore. It might not be bad...but the track record isn't good and the potential trajectory, given the political shoehorning and the narrow commercialistic vision strangling at the overall creativity, and thereby various elements of story. I feel SEGA has fool memticidal on the American canon which ironically popularized Sonic. In a small part this would be ameliorated by keeping Roboticzation as a concept for Eggman to use a terror-weapon in warfare and subjegation from the start and as continual method of control and and established threat to the freedom fighters (though Legionization is pretty frightening as well, yet it doesn't cut to the quick of being buried alive inside your own body, wrapped in a tomb of steel milling about to harm your loved ones). And I just told Jtresse the fullness of my position a while ago. You've jumped the gun mid-conversation and this counter is mostly a limp Argumentum ad homenum and very presumptious of my intentions and views. Go read post 327#. before we discuss this at length. And if you wish to imply me some form of hypocrite, striking about my character instead of polemically entertaining my arguments, I advise you PM me. The public side of the forum doesn't need such bickering. 
