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Hahaha— I’m sorry, but you couldn’t be any more wrong on this one. 
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You're talking breadth, I'm talking depth. I'm also talking about the source material. You could, say, rewrite War and Peace to have Sonic characters, but that wouldn't give depth to the Sonic source material. You could write your own novel using those characters and it still wouldn't say anything for the source material, with the reason being I could rewrite War and Peace or write my own literature about the results of my bowel movements but that wouldn't mean those aforementioned bowel movements have some sort of intrinsic emotional depth.

At the end of the day, you take the basic source material of what Sonic is and ask yourself if there is anything deep about it. That's what this discussion amounts to. And when I say deep, I mean that the characters and stories at the base of the thing tell us something about life and human experience in a way that isn't superficial and common. Remember that what a fandom produces isn't considered part of the source material. That material in this case would be, like, the video games and saturday morning cartoon. And that's my question from the beginning, "how come all these fandoms latch on to shallow source material".