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Origin of an unpleasant aspect of the Sonic fandom: The Couples War.
Danj86 posted a topic in Sonic Chat
I always think long and hard before ever making a topic. Does it have discussion value? Has it been talked about in lengh before? Could it spark trouble between members? I can't lie. This topic idea does have me worried. But...to avoid talking about something, just becouse it could attract nutters is...well...not what a forum is about. I hope that the whole status update thing would've made some of the more boisterous members "chillax." So I'm trusting all the members to approuch this topic in a calm and open minded manner. You wouldn't betray that trust would you? I looked around the back catalog of topics and couldn't see any about the origins of one of(several) unpleasant aspects of the Sonic fandom, this one being "The Couples War." I found myself thinking about this while searching through Archie Sonic characters. Most characters I noticed have a section of there profile listing relationships with other characters and what happened between them. (On the Sonic News Network: http://sonic.wikia.c...ic_News_Network ) As I continued my browsing, I jumped from other Sonic medias and couldn't help be notice that the characters from them didn't have a relationship section. This led me to the conclusion that perhaps the Archie Sonic series has played a major role, or even created what would become a plague to the fandom, "The Couples War." As a series progresses, writers have to change things to keep people interested and as time goes by, characters have had relationships with a large number of other characters. No wonder fans get conflicted. "I like suchandsuch x thingiemabob." "Yeah? Well your dumb becouse thingiemabob x whatshisname is a much better couple." "Pfff, your both mental, everyone knows that randomname x thatguy were made for each other." I plan on digging deeper, but as I write this post, I'm inclined to believe that the Archie Sonic comic series is to blame for this silly war of the smooches. But is that the case? Maybe it started with Amy and Sally back in Sonics 2nd year of life? Could the inclusion of Shadow and Rouge have sparked these hate fuelled arguments ironically about love? Or maybe Blaze should have stayed in her own dimension so the rest of us could've had mature discussions? As I prepare to open the floor to other opinions and pray to the message board gods that this doesn't backfire in a most unpleasant manner, I wanna stress one last time, this topic has nothing to do with peoples favourite couples, it's about how people think all this unpleasantness came to be. As always, I hope it was okay to make this topic and I hope I don't regret it. If the mods or admins know of a reason that this topic should be blocked then please go ahead. I won't complain. Okay, I'm clicking on "Post New Topic".....now!