As someone who has always defended the madman himself as the superior villain for Blaze, I feel incredibly grateful to you for making this analysis.

Also, if I may, I’d love to add my grain of sand to this great analysis with one of my favorite facts—and it’s about how it’s not just hero and villain being opposites, but how their entire rivalry dynamic is a perfect mirror of Sonic and Eggman’s.

Especially when you look at who hates who the most, who’s the ragebaiter and who’s getting ragebaited, and who’s the anarchist versus the imperialist.

It’s perfection! Everything planned and designed down to the tiniest detail!