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This one isnt completly sonic related, but keep reading anyway.
Its shameful to make a terrible movie adaption of a video game, just as shameful as it is to make a bad Video game adaption of a movie! But if there is anything worse than both of these combined, its ripping off another medium. Here is a list of the worst plagiarists ever to plague the cinema...
The Hangover - - Conkers Bad Fur Day
Where do I begin? Both start with a heavy night of drinking and waking up not knowing what happened or where they are. Conker wakes up in what might as well be a Yellowstone Las Vegas, and even has to search for his girlfriend Berri at one point in the game. Also, in The Hangover Zach Galifinakiss character becomes something of a father figure to a strippers baby, just like how Conker becomes a father figure to a baby dinosaur (before he kills it accidently-on-purpose by squishing it under a rock as part of a sacrifice). Both even feature a struggle against an evil tiger (okay, in BFD it was a panther but whatever).
And oh yeah, they both have a crappy sequel that unsuccessfully mimics the predecessor.
The Pirates of the Caribbean - - The Secret of Monkey Island
While both of these stick close to the tropes of the pirate genre, there are a few similarities that are particularly striking. Lets start with the main character, in The Secret of Monkey Island you play as Guybrush Threepwood, a bumbling wisecracking swordsman who dreams of becoming a pirate, save the woman he loves, and battle a supernatural curse.... which is just like William Turner. Heck, they even dress alike!
But what about Elizabeth Swan? Or should I say, Elaine Marley! The two female leads are so similar that the only real difference is that Elizabeth is the Daughter of the governor, and that Elaine Marley is the governor. I guess that makes her the stronger character. As for Jack Sparrow, he might as well be all the funny minor characters rolled into one. But it doesnt even stop there, as there are actually visual similarities between the two. Using a coffin as a boat? Check. A pyrite city made from the wreckage of sunken ships? Check. The oddly specific character of a voodoo priestess in the Louisiana? Check. Again, all these are tropes of the genre they share, so its just coincidence, right?
Well... apparently its rumoured that some of the artists that worked on the Monkey Island series went on to do the art for the Pyrites of the Caribbean movies.
Only LeChuck knows for sure.
The Twilight Saga - - Sonic 06
Yep, you all saw this coming. There is no real way around it, they might as well be placed in a box set together. The thing is that the first Twilight book came one year before Sonic 06, but that's not stopping this comparison!
Both Sonic Team and Stephanie Meyer have very limited previous experience with romantic storytelling, in fact Meyer says the idea came to her in a dream. I guess Sonic Team dreamt the same thing and the evil Dr Eggman gave them a dose of suck.
Both publishers were, to be blunt, idiots. Sega rushed the game putting Sonic team in a tricky position. And Little, Brown while correctly predicting that it would be a teen sensation gave the books an awful editing job (or lack thereof).
Now lets get to the characters! To be honest, I never considered Elises feelings bestiality. Since Sonic is so humanoid he hardly resembles a hedgehog. However the Why? factor of Elise herself still persists when you consider the sheer number of female characters already in the Sonic universe. Why not Blaze the cat? Why not introduce Princess Sally? If you're going to make a romantic story at least take advantage of what you've already brought to the table.
As for Edward, hes hardly a vampire. Im trying not to laugh right now its just... Seriously? The movies are a prime example of taking itself too seriously while the audience cant possibly take it seriously enough. Just like Sonic 06!
But even with all this madness, good still can come of it.
The town of Forks, Washington received huge amounts of tourism from the movies and novels where its set, enough to fund a huge preservation effort of the surrounding parks and multiple community events.
As for Sonic... He eventually showed his true colors.
See if Elise had looked like that, the love story would've still been lame but at least the creepy furry factor would've been gone. Then there's the fact that the whole romance with Elise is a slap in the face to poor Amy. For years the series established that Sonic avoids Amy mainly because he's just not interested in a relationship. Yes in the comics he marries Sally and has had some other romances but rarely are aspects of the comics canonized in games. Then it just comes down to the fact that Elise, like Bella is boring and uninteresting, devoid of personality and I'm sorry, she's never cried her whole life not even as a kid when both her parents died? Yet she'll cry over some hedgehog she met for 3 days. Thank God Sega got away from these overly serious attempts at storytelling and went back to more lighthearted fare. Sure Colors and Generations were campy and silly at times but at least neither game made us vomit.
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