Seriously, I can't figure this out. He's not a good character, he has like one special move that might work, and horrible start-up lag on any of his killing moves. The only reason I can figure out is that people are like "ZOMG SOINC IZ AUESOWME" but that doesn't make sense either, considering he hasn't been in a good game since maybe Sonic Adventure 2:Battle and even that is questionable. He's a ridiculous character thrown in to make people happy because of some stupid April Fools joke and he doesn't have a good move. Let's just move on from the honeymoon phase with Sonic and acknowledge that he sucks. That way, we can work with good characters. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 17:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
That is one of life's great unanswerable questions, along with "Why is Twilight so damn popular?".--Bek (talk) 17:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Why are you asking about Sonic? Why not all the other even worse characters? Save Captain Falcon, everyone secondaries the god of Manliness. - Hatake91 (talk) 18:18, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
As for Sonic, ZOMG EH CIN MOOV KWIK is the only reason I can think of, and spamming homing attack of course. As for Twilight, ZOMG THERE'S A VAMPIRE THAT SPARKLES.Smoreking(T) (c) 18:19, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Twilight just satisfies the tween girl's desire for very pale, white-skinned boys. Additionally, Sonic really is just for the fanboys, but the game is about fun. If they have fun playing as a bad character, who are we to blame them? Miles (talk) 19:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps because, as Shadowcrest used to claim himself to be, we are all "tin-plated dictators with delusions of godhood". I also think that people are attracted to Sonic because he has a kind of immature "nyah-nyah" personality, e.g. "You're too slow!" o_O--Bek (talk) 20:20, 5 April 2009 (UTC)