seen people say something similar about humans in Transformers only for stuff like Bumblebee and Transformers Prime to have human characters that are liked by the audience just fine. Humans in Sonic are not the issue, how they are written are. It isn't like the animal characters are immune to bad writing as just about any discussion about the games since the 2010s will show. Chris Thorndyke was badly written but not because he was human and he was far from the only thing wrong with Sonic X.
That's problem. A majority of the human characters are not written good. The big problem with Chris is that he became a spotlight stealing character and took over rolls that were either meant for Tails, Amy, or both. Mainly the Sonic Adventure 2 adaption. Chris Thorndyke is a glorified OC character, and he's just written poorly. He's just another generic only rich kid who thinks he has it bad or worse than anyone else. When most kids would kill to have parents like his. Yes, his parents are not around his life as often and are busy, but they don't hate him nor neglect them. They love and care for him and seeing whenever they can. He just comes off as a wangsty, selfish, brat. More selfish than Sera from the Sonic OVA for Christ's sake! You know you screwed up, when this chick has better traits and is more noble than Chris by comparison.
The only time I ever liked Chris's in the comic book adaptations of Sonic X and some fan fics. He has less of a role in the comic adaptation and didn't constantly get in the way. Even so, I remember enough that they wrote him to be less selfish.
Honestly, the Archie comics are the only ones to get human characters right in a Sonic property. Though I do admit, that I do like Topaz from Sonic X. She's pretty cool in her interactions with Rouge are hilarious. What helps is that Topaz is based off the female cop from Virtual Cop 2. So that gives me an extra soft spot for her.
Before you say anything, there have been bad written animal characters before, yes, but they usually didn't steal the spotlight like this compared to certain human characters. Though even the SatAM version was not immune to this and it's second season. That's stupid dragon. I can't even bother to remember her name. Not to mention the Archie comics had plenty of badly written animal characters too, but they were usually few and far between. Most of the time that is.
Given Mario's history with mediocre animated projects, I doubt that.
Yes, Sonic has had a better output with animated shows compared to Mario. Yet, I'm willing to give this a chance. At its worse, this movie will most likely just be average. It will have great animation and probably an average story. Like I said, it can't get any worse than the live-action Mario movie nor the live-action Sonic.
For the record, the first Mario cartoon was not that bad. It was good all things considered and what limited Lord had to work with at the time. The sequel cartoons, based off of Super Mario Bros 3 & World respectively, on the other hand are a mixed bag. Though I have not seen those in decades.
