Sonic the Hedgehog Live-Action/CGI Movie Targeting 2020 Release Date

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Originally Posted by Sumac

I never will never stop being amazed by the amount crazies Sonic attracts.
What is the secret of the blue hedgehog?

That's something I've been wondering for about a decade now as well.

It's kinda strange when you think about it. Sonic was the only video game character who could rival Mario in popularity and notoriety at some point in time, and a lot of people who grew up gaming in the early-mid 90s still prefer the classic Sonic games to Mario games in general. Yet, nowadays Sonic is basically viewed as a former shell of himself and as kind of a joke alongside having a fanbase with a lot of furries and other weirdos. Granted most properties have lousy fandoms, but Sonic is among the ones with infamous fanbases. No one really talks smack about, let's say, the Mario or Zelda fandoms much, do they?

There's several factors to why Sonic fell so much since 1995 or so, but Sonic's fandom doesn't help the image of the property much either.