zelchias

Sonic is quite explicitly forbidden to have a steady relationship. This is one of those things that are now written in stone. Memories or no, Sally is not going to end up with Sonic within the comics, not ever, not unless SEGA has a rather massive change of heart. 

Eeeh, I wasn't so much feeling rage as a kind... tired resignation really. Honestly, I think the thing that bugs me is that its kinda bland by comparison. Sorta like the origin of the Million Dollar Man versus the Origin of Seven of Nine; ones done a million times, the other is done rarely. 

Personally, I kinda hope your interpretation is the right one... the way the wiki worded it made it sound like some rubble fell on her or something. They said precisely 'injured in Eggman's initial attack', with no word of her actually fighting. 

And in this instance I would say it does, because under that set of circumstances the personal nature of what happened to her is eliminated. Recall that comparison I made earlier, about the Crossfire versus Joe Chill in the Batman mythos? I feel that this would similarly rob her of a longstanding aspect of her character, even if the end result is roughly the same. 

Again though, if its established she went down fighting, then I'll recant my criticism of it and move on... though I still have issues with how this is turning out beyond that. 

Really? My info came from spoilers on the Mobius Encyclopedia. Please, please tell me that's precisely what happened, that she got it FIGHTING Eggman. I'll take back everything I said if that's the case at least. 

 

 

 

And frankly, by the latter argument, does this mean that major events in characters lives are so arbitrary that so long as the effect is the same, it doesn't matter how we got there? Would a reboot of Batman that had his parents gunned down in the crossfire of a gang war be regarded as a worthy adaptation of Batman's origin? There are some things that are just *that* integral to a character that to alter them just takes something away, and this is such a case. Similarly, I would argue that it *does* lesson the personal nature of the conflict, because once again, Bunnie was collateral rather than a target.  

So the Nolan Batman series was instantly bad and instantly ruined the character of Batman because it wasn't the exact same as the comics?

 

How about the Avengers movie, it doesn't match the comic's origin of the team at all.  The only similarity is Loki was the villain.  Heck the team isn't even the same.

 

Bunnie's robot parts switch from being caused by a Roboticizor to being caused by an accident that nearly killed her.  Different origin yes, but

that doesn't mean it's bad or will ruin the character. 

Last I checked, Batman's parents were murdered by a lowlife called Joe Chill in an alleyway. They were not, as I put forth, killed in a gangland crossfire. There have been several takes on the precise circumstances of Joe Chill, his motives and his overall character; one version has him as just a desperate thug who panicked. Another has him as a hitman deliberately sent in to murder Bruce's father, with his mother ending up paying the price as well. And a third one had him as an up-and-coming crime lord who murdered and robbed them for start up money.

A far greater alteration was in the Burton films, where Jack Napier, AKA the Joker, was responsible for the murder of the Waynes, and it was this that was cause for criticism given that it heavily altered the dynamic of not only that scene, but of the relationsip between Batman and Joker. 

And you are quite right; the Avengers movie is not a clone of its comic origin, but the thing is the basic origins of each character is intact. Captain America is still a super soldier frozen in time who was formerly a weakling, the Hulk is still the alter ego of Bruce Banner who had a gamma radiation related accident, Black Widow a defector from Russia turned Super Agent, Tony Stark is IRon Man who jury rigged armor after being taken captive in a War Zone, and so on and so forth. There are changes, but the very basics remain the same. And the main threat faced by the Avengers comes courtesy of Loki all the same. 

To say characters must never change is foolish, but certain aspects, repeat, ASPECTS are fairly immutable, and I say this is the case with Bunnie's origin. I'm not railing against changes in general; after Captain Douchebag torpedoed the entire verse in the name of his Ego, that's kind of neccessary. But I'm saying that THIS Aspect of Bunnie's character is one of her defining traits, and the present changes take something away from it.