Not just a race… But a special race to see who’s the fastest.

contender for stupidest fucking line in sonic history

Rrgh! How’d you get here so quickly?

Second place goes to Eggman as well

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    especially since canonically (in SA1) Sonic started calling him that to make fun of him and he just went with it. on the one hand props for just saying to the haters “you have no power here”, but at the same time like… breh?

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      7 months ago

      It’s a Resident Evil VII: Biohazard situation. He’s always been Eggman in Japan. Sega of America, being a weirdly independent and opinionated entity from Sega of Japan, made up a whole ridiculous backstory about “Ivo Kintobor,” and that influenced the US manuals, future translations, the SatAM cartoon show, and to a lesser extent the Archie comics.

      The exchange in Sonic Adventure was Sonic Team proper trying to syncretize these localization differences. Unfortunately, unlike Resident Evil being called Biohazard in Japan, Doctor Robotnik is blatantly the cooler name for the character, even if it is a cold-war relic.