The Controversial History of Amy Rose...

Every Rose has its thorns

The thing I like about Amy is that she’s the most down to earth while every other main character is on a super hero level. I think her modern personality would be better received if her transition in Forces was better explained.

I wish more people knew about her in the Fleetway Comics. Fleetway Amy literally had her own comic run with her own adventures. Something I would love to see in the games.

11:48 To be fair, people take this line way outta context. Amy is saying that even if Sonic is somehow gonna mean the end of the world, she has trust that he would be doing his best to stop it from happening. I do think it could've been worded better though.

I used to hate Amy. Not because I disliked her, but because everyone else did. Now I look back at older Amy and realize no other Sonic character makes me laugh like she did.

Sonic x is where I got into the fandom and even though Amy was characterized poorly it’s part of what made me love her. The best recent version of Amy is the murder of sonic. She’s still fun and interesting but isn’t annoying or mean

I ALWAYS loved Amy, and she will always be my favourite character. I’m glad she’s getting tons of positive attention.

Amy is so plain now imo, her personality is just, “the girl”

Sonic Adventure, Amy’s second ever appearance, was the only game to show her having real character development as she learns from Sonic to share her compassion with E-102 Gamma and help others the way she would and I hate that Sega basically forgot about her until Frontiers.

Amy is a tale as old as time, while there are plenty of popular male characters who are flawed jerks, once girl becomes mean or selfish they are immediately completely hated, especially if they are one of the only girl characters in a franchise if a large male audience. Which is why a lot of token female characters are super mature, voice-of-reason, nice girls with little or no character flaws except maybe being too much of a nag to more-flawed male characters (i.e. Sally Acorn 😏). Amy was an meanie, sparked a blacklash, Sega took note and now we have a more safer, edgeless character.

Obsessive but passionate Amy from the 2000's is more memorable and in my opinion better than the more modern Amy

It is odd with Frontiers.... EVERYONE seemed much more mature in that game. Like, they honestly acted like young adults. (Save for Tails, he struck me as an early teen.) And... is it bad that I find that kinda nice? I actually like the idea of them having grown up since past games. Feels like there's actual progression with the timeline.

in my opinion, amy should be allowed to change as she progresses why do fans want these characters to mature and move on and yet when frontiers did it everyone was mad because amy was acting more mature and not like a little child obsessed with sonic its what happens irl, as you get older, you lose that boy crush shtick, you move on after all, its been established that the classic renditions of the characters are just kid versions of the modern cast, so canonically amy is never going to act the same way forever

Always felt like the dislike for old Amy was really overstated. And seeing Amy as she is now, it's easy to see why she never really was problematic to begin with. Just another character to bounce of Sonic, like Tails and Knuckles. Now she barely even has that. I'm not even really a big fan honestly. But the rounded criticism of Amy needing to do things for herself and stop being a damsel really falls flat when you remember Adventure and even Heroes. While I'm sure more people hyper-fixate on Heroes for portraying her in an exaggerated manner, Adventure nails it. She has a crush for Sonic, but her compassion for helping things stared as soon as Adventure. She is said to be more of this in the modern games, but we never really get to see it. It's implied growth that isn't interesting to engage with because we literally have Adventure show us she can be both compassionate and a girl who does what she wants. Without telling us that she is those things. We see it happen. And exaggeration in Heroes aside, I think it's great growth for Amy as a character to be able to lead a team, and also still show off her compassion in helping her friends find their missing pals. And now her, alongside alot of other characters, seem more inclined to the backseat of the situation, instead of having some branching involvement with the story. Especially when they take the humans out of the picture. As soon as they went, suddenly NPCs need to have a more cartoony style, or more resemble Sonic and his friends. Both of which I feel distract from how Sonic and his friends look by making them, ironically, look more out of place. I don't like the generics in Forces, and I don't really like the Pixar-esque designs of Unleashed either. It's a weird juxtaposition, but I honestly believe SA2 and Shadow the Hedgehog had a better integration of generics and humans in the Sonic universe. It has the right amount of style without being distracting.

1. No. That Sonic 06 line wasn’t Amy saying she’d side with an evil Sonic. Why do people just fabricate the “evil Sonic” part? She said she’d side with Sonic if the world was ever against him. Meaning she has faith in him. Why do you just assume Sonic is evil if the world turns against him? 2. I never found Amy annoying. Even as a kid, I recognized the gag, and found her fun. I never got self serious and called her a violent stalker. She was hardly the first or only character to have that personality. Plus, these days, she’s so boring. The quintessential mild-mannered mom. No energy. No bite.

amy is like everything else in this series. sega drove a concept into the ground, then overcorrected to the backlash

You never know what you have until it’s gone.

Me personally i like Amy alot, i didnt mind having her being a fan girl but she wasnt really a stalker. She just really likes sonic and wants to hang out with him. Stalking would be like standing in a bush or something and gazing them from a distance. I like how her character evolved aswell into an independent woman. Atleast id say shes much braver than tails in the 2010s. This might be a contriversal take but i like how Amy was portrayed in Sonic X, it was like a balance, she was still independent and a hero and a sonic fan. I get some people want a more independent amu instead of an annoying one. But now looking at it she was only 12 and didnt know any better. Its like a middle school crush. O6 Amy wasnt that bad either, i think people are honestly overreacting over that one line. So shes really one of my favorite characters, also because of nostalgia.

11:25 hate be that guy but actually in Sonic Battle Amy started over training herself to the point of passing out multiple times abd even pulling other people like poor Cream to it! because she wanted to get thinner to appeal to Sonic. With is pretty messed up if you ask me That is also the canon reason as why she got faster moving on as mentioned by Sonic.

In IDW, when Evan Stanley took over, she feels like Amy again, NOT Sally 2.0 at all. You should probably read the comics from issue 33 to so on. She feels like Amy in The Murder of Sonic the hedgehog, Dream Team and more.