>>142362661>Not true. Archie Sonic's been through the ringer and his life was dark compared to his video game life. I headcanon as his early years with the looney tunes style humor as just a stylistic thing and it was much darker.I was trying to put this in more words here:
>>142362678 but you nailed it, anon. It's also as if a lot of that slapstick nature is retconned in later parts of the story anyway (through flashbacks and recaps).
>>142362683He also mentions that they lacked no inventive thinking. He learnt with what his previous incarnation in the preboot learned with Metal Sonic. No independent thinking leads to performance issues. But, as I said, still a cheap and lazy cop out. Robotization still has obvious uses.
>>142362718Charmy didn't remember shit with his brain damage. Then reboot happened. While knuckles did lose his dad, twice, he didn't really lose anything else until Thrash entered the picture. And that was a catalyst for rage, then pain. It is likely that Knuckles may have gone off the deep end if the comic did not reboot.
>Most of his fights with Eggman are whacky whimsical adventures where he neeners at Eggman, says some smug quote then does a fortnite dance on top of his smoking body after he breaks the mech he was in.And after that he becomes a celebrity and forms a harem and plays guitar in front of everyone in the city while they clap for him and all sorts of other shit.
Because that's the charm of the games being in the story, and again, the slapstick charm from the earlier comics gets seemingly retconned, at least to a degree, anyway.
Other parts of the comic also make it clear at times that death and vast destruction are very real, they just couldn't go into it all the time. Like helloooo, the Egg Grapes, instances of mass destruction, Sally getting machine-gunned to death, Eggman dabbing on GUN, the SGW which pretty much killed everyone then made copies of them, etc.