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Mickey Mouse + Felix the Cat = Sonic
- Thread starter DonMigs85
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Dr. Kitty Muffins
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Given the nature of some Sonic fans, I was actually scared to open this thread. I was halfway expecting to see Mickey Mouse giving birth to Sonic the Hedgehog.
atomic moth
Member
More likely the conception than birth
This would make for a good fanart piece with an accompanying fic which details the night of conception.
I'm crying.
lmao
MaximumSpider
Banned
the accident with Dr. Kintobor of course
Hahaha
Sorcerer Supreme
Member
The best first post of the year.
Aaron Strife
Banned
Mr. Smiley
Member
Why does Mickey have a gun?
MisterGrey3000
Member
Lol
It's pretty easy to tell that the original Japanese design was based off a few old school rubber hose characters.
It's pretty easy to tell that the original Japanese design was based off a few old school rubber hose characters.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
I thought Sonic being a blue anime recolor of Felix the Cat was always fairly obvious.
Sir_Crocodile
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Funnily enough there was a parody of Felix in Fleetway's "Sonic The Comic"
He was part of the main sonic comic as a pirate, and could use "cartoon physics" to dodge danger and do things others couldn't.
He was part of the main sonic comic as a pirate, and could use "cartoon physics" to dodge danger and do things others couldn't.
Yes, but this picture better illustrates it:
It's a brilliant design, really. Shame it had to butchered in the U.S.:
Colors of the U.S. flag.
It's a brilliant design, really. Shame it had to butchered in the U.S.:
Colors of the U.S. flag.
This.
sixteen-bit
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DICKS AHOY
Banned
mistakes into miracles
MisterGrey3000
Member
Yes, but this picture better illustrates it:
It's a brilliant design, really. Shame it had to butchered in the U.S.:
Americans created and excelled at the rubber hose cartoon style; I really don't understand how we screwed up our depiction of classic Sonic. Lol
Freeman
Banned
So good.Yes, but this picture better illustrates it:
Too bad he gets treated the way he does. Just the fact that he survived one terrible game after the other, tells how powerful the original concept was.
The Power Of Snap
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Sega logo color
EightBitNate
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It's to contrast Mario's red
Spring-Loaded
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Sonic's classic design is really good character design.
I remember Sonic before all the weirds and DBZ fanfictions.
It was weirds from the beginning. The core of fanfiction/original creations is about creating an idealized something, even at the risk of that something being awful
Sonic was the MechaGodzilla, the imperfect clone of Big Boss. The abomination wrought of Sega's desperation for something better, faster, more attitude-er than Mario. He had everything, which made him ripe for corruption by his impending fandom. After all, he was exactly what kids wanted. That pandering set into motion Sonic's never ending torment: to never be satisfactory, always requiring the true Sonic loop of becoming irrelevant, being torn down and restructured, only to be ripped apart before getting a chance to fully heal and adjust by both his creators and the fans.
Sonic is his own creepy fanfiction. His own "OC do naht stealz." His own shitty friend.
I think it's pretty clear that the American Sonic is aesthetically inferior to the Japanese one. But maybe that's just me.
Not sure what Americans excelling at rubber hose cartoon style has to do with anything. The guy who drew American Sonic sure didn't excel at it.
â Narayan
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Very rarely does it occur so perfectly.
DonMigs85
Member
Very obvious video game facts that blow your mind
I thought there was a coincidental resemblance, but Oshima himself admitted to it
well if we're going to really get into it, Sonic's original color was the same color as the Japanese Sega logo. He was changed to Cobalt when they realized he clashed with the Greenhill Zone sky background.
DonMigs85
Member
Have some respect! The man died earlier this year. Not sure if he started with Sonic 1 though.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sonic-and-pac-man-artist-greg-martin-dies/1100-6416953/
I love you.
MisterGrey3000
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I believe you misinterpreted my post, big time. American Classic sonic is a lumpy mess with tacky glossy high lights. I don't think it's good.
I was basically saying " This our thing, and we screwed it up. C'mon guys, smh."
grap3fruitman
Banned
His buckles are on the wrong side. This is an outrage!
I'm not questioning his technical skill at all. And taken on its own, his covers look quite nice, especially compared to today's bland covers.
But the Sonic design that Sega of Japan came up with is sublime. It's a classic 1930s design created 60 years later. Greg Martin's Sonic just looks like a middle-of-the-road platformer mascot.
I didn't mean it like that. I wasn't commenting on Americans in general, just Sega of America.
Then again, maybe they had the right idea. Maybe a Sonic that could've come straight from the 1930s wouldn't have appealed to kids as much as '90s attitude Sonic.
dehydratedbabies
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Damn.
Nah.
OnimaruXLR
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I'm pretty sure neither Felix or Mickey have "attitude"
Sonic the Hedgehog is more like if Buster Bunny was the star of a dopey self-serious anime for teenagers. Bleach Buster Bunny?
Sonic the Hedgehog is more like if Buster Bunny was the star of a dopey self-serious anime for teenagers. Bleach Buster Bunny?
You realize this is because typical 90's cartoon mascots were imitating Sonic the Hedgehog, right?
Mascots with attitude is a thing, because of Sonic.