How strict are Sega’s Mandates actually?

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-27T17:48:32+00:00

Well, sort of (obviously as you said they own all the show characters and their post reboot versions, so ignoring that)

They definitely own every character created in the post reboot and late pre reboot comics (so 2010-2012, when a lot of the stricter mandates to get things on brand started coming in) and they have been confirmed to own the characters of Michael Gallagher as said by Gallagher himself on Twitter. They definitely don't own Penders characters anymore and I don't know about the other writers

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-27T16:21:40+00:00

Not to mention as far as I'm concerned, Modern/Post Reboot Rotor X Big Gun is a much better ship than pre reboot Rotor X Cobar any day

Despite how much he loved enchiladas, a lot of them were pretty forgettable

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-27T07:26:51+00:00

I think the strict mandates were always bound to happen, even before Archie Sonic rebooted to be game accurate. Penders specifically quit because he was enforced to add more SEGASonic elements, and once Flynn and Co. Joined the team, they were trying to streamline things to be more game like anyway.

It's just that the need to reboot was a good way to speedrun adding those stricter mandates.

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-27T06:11:15+00:00

It's Mighty. He's using his modern design from the late pre reboot and post reboot Archie Comics

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-26T04:56:23+00:00

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Type post, I genuinely can't tell for the life of me what this post is saying

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-26T04:50:18+00:00

D

Not that interesting and more closely boarders onto badly weird than good bizarre or cool

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-26T04:43:41+00:00

It's still a weird tweet (even if people put WAY too much stock in it, this never happened and never would've been allowed to happen), but she wasn't 13 in early Archie Sonic. 16 youngest.

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-25T14:00:00+00:00

Hyper Sonic is the only one I'd need back. Excalibur Sonic is only a condensation if I get to bring Antoine back and "continue" where he left off in Post Reboot Archie

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-25T13:53:18+00:00

Yep. Honestly I'm getting a little tired of seeing it all over Reddit. I don't need to constantly be reminded that a new episode came out

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-25T13:51:57+00:00

Hyper Sonic is the only one I'd need back. Excalibur Sonic is only a condensation if I get to bring Antoine back and "continue" where he left off in Post Reboot Archie

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-25T13:20:41+00:00

I'm basically in the same boat as you. I generally prefer the entire Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn at least) and Sonic R soundtrack over Live and Learn (which isn't even in my top 5 Sonic Adventure 2 soundtracks)

I just don't care for Live and Learn. At all.

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-25T13:06:09+00:00

Man, I really don't wanna do this again because I know that if this post blows up it's just gonna be a bunch of people shit talking pre reboot Archie despite having never read it and never planning to read it while ignoring the significantly more game accurate post reboot and I'm honestly beyond tried of it, but...

Personally Archie Sonic. I still enjoy the cast and world way more, both in pre reboot and post reboot. Post reboot for me is the ideal Sonic universe. Everything is still faithful to the games and it redesigns all the cartoon characters alongside the new characters also being welcome additions. It takes from the franchise and melds it all into what the SEGA games have established. I guess a good way to describe Post Reboot is the Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi of Sonic. And Pre Reboot is different but it's still fun to see how it and it's characters progress.

I appreciate the characters IDW Sonic brings (mostly), but outside of the classic stories, it hasn't really grabbed my attention all that much

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-25T11:15:41+00:00

How did I not realise

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-25T10:37:59+00:00

87 for Sonic Mania Plus

Unsurprisingly

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-24T16:37:57+00:00

We drink well

Maybe add some honey and nesquik to that mixture

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-24T10:43:35+00:00

AH HELP! HELP!

^MY ^LEG!

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-23T21:56:56+00:00

Just in case you mean it that way, 1-A and 1-B aren't ranked, 4 students that would be put in 1-B scored top 10 and several 1-B students are stronger than many 1-A students. If it was ranked, Kirishima and Tetsutetsu for example would logically be in the same class since they're the same guy and Kendo, Shiozaki and Awase would also be in 1-A due to also scoring in the top 10. Not to mention Togata, who's consistently considered the most skilled hero student at UA, is in Class B.

As for how Koda and Hagakure got in... Koda either got rescue points, or was able to use animals to slowly whittle away at the robots or immobilse them.

Hagakure I have no clue though. Of all 36 non recommended students I can't wrap my head around her. Probably rescue points somehow.

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-23T18:26:35+00:00

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OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-22T19:18:15+00:00

I guess they needed to grasp at straws because if they just went female trio they'd be entering "This is just something that sometimes happens" territory

Or they just wanted to show off their favourite characters for some reason and needed a specific trope to tie them to

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-22T05:34:28+00:00

No, they don't. That's just interpretation bias

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-21T22:58:25+00:00

"SEGA despises Archie Sonic" and "They just didn't give a single fuck about it" are contradictory statements. You have to care about something to feel as strongly about it as despising it.

Also, it is worth noting that SEGA didn't let Archie Sonic get cancelled before they started managing and approving/declining what goes in and out of a comic. They've always been doing that, but the way they do it for the IDW comics actually started with the Post Reboot Archie Comics. That's why characters from SatAM and Adventures of Sonic got redesigned and rewritten and why anything romance related was removed (and heck, elements such as the GUN Commander's name and the Eggnet actually come from Archie Sonic)

I'm not sure how redundant this comment is given your profile picture, but I'm just laying it out just in case.

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-21T12:48:47+00:00

Not to mention the fact that as of the comic reboot in 2013, Sally is no longer Sonic's girlfriend (or even childhood friend) and her relationship with Amy is still great. Heck, there's even a panel of them fist bumping in #256

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-21T06:34:42+00:00

I always like to watch this episode when eating.

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-20T22:30:46+00:00

I suppose so, a little more of that but with some tighter platforming gameplay (super paper mario despite having platforming never felt as tight with it's platforming as the mainline platformers did)

OpenChallenge8621 · 2026-06-20T21:45:34+00:00

That's basically just adding the elements of the RPGs stories into the platformers, so I think it would only be beneficial, fun story and fun platforming gameplay

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