Sally's a great character, but she's also easy to mess up if the writer doesn't know how to utilize her. She's meant to be an emotional counterbalance to Sonic. Where Sonic is impetuous, Sally is calculating. Where Sonic is free-spirited, Sally is straight-laced. They complement each other by providing two contrasting perspectives on the same situation. Despite Sally and the other Freedom Fighters meaning just as much to me as the core SEGASonic cast, her role has kind of already been filled in the games continuously. Not by Amy, but by Tails. Tails provides the more rational and calculating perspectives, opposite Sonic's, and is able to rein-in The Blue Blur when he gets too impulsive, and ego-check him when he gets too cocky. Introducing Sally into the mainline canon would unfortunately be redundant. Plus, a lot of what makes her relationship with Sonic work is their long history together as childhood friends. If her introduction is treated as their first meeting, it fundamental changes their dynamic.
Never followed the Archy comics, but from SatAM......? Yeah. Sonic can be one of those overly confident almost screwing up the mission "I don't know if I should hug you or strangle you!" kind of heroes. A slap seems kinda minimal. Hate her color? A rodent shouldn't be kind of a blend in to trees chestnut brown? *_REALLY?!_* That _is_ a dumb reason. Not Canon...... Seems to me at the time she was introduced Sonic, Tails, And Dr. Robotnic was about it for canon characters and there was only a little info on why trap animals. Kinda goes back to the shipping thing. At the time there was no other love interest or even a female character. No clothes. Well. Neither does Sonic! And it isn't like she is showing any explicit anatomy. Almost more strange that female characters must be fully clothed but it doesn't matter for male ones. Well. Again, I only have the show to go on, but Sally can be a bit harsh and objective driven. Not mean, just loud and frustrated. I can see her blowing her top with anyone who she sees as getting in the way. But she always cares.
I think another large part hates the community surrounding Sally herself, like the strange Satam fans making strange comics and fanfics about Sally, which scares me a lot.
Amazing video. Honestly, out of all the stupid reasons that I agree with the most are her fur color and that she is not canon to the main line of the Sonic games. Other than that, I agree with you on the entire video. It is okay to dislike a character, but some of the reasons why can be stupid. I enjoy watching your videos, Alyssa. Keep up the amazing work and congratulations on 310 subscribers.
To be honest I’m one of those people that think Sonic and Amy should be together but i respect the other ships too and I think Sally is a great character.
One I need to tell this to fanfic writers ESPECIALLY to sonamy fanfics stop making Sally acorn the antagonist of your stories if you want an antagonist do it to someone like scourge the hedgehog but no freaking sally FIX YOUR DAMN STORIES IM TIRED OF EVIL SALLY I WANT GOOD SALLY. Also this hate towards sally is GETTING OLD IS ALREADY 2024 move on enjoy your life ride a bike or something or see real people try to take your mind off from fiction sometimes
Yeah people who do that don't know Sally It's sad that so many of us Sonamy fans have a bad reputation because of the hate towards Sally Acorn Sonally is not the end of the world People need to also realize that Sally is more than just a love interest in SatAM and Archie although that's how I used to think back then Sally is a great character and yes people can dislike her But most of the reasons are so stupid
I'm pretty sure Sally Acorn is owned by Sega but Sega themselves don't know what to do with her and that's why she hasn't shown up in recent installments. She's basically put aside and fans are getting impatient, but I would say I wouldn't know where to place her either after everything that had happened in the comics and in the shows. The Archie comics were out of place compared to what we get in the present time but Sally doesn't deserve the hate she gets after everything, I always thought of her as a nicely written character from the beginning. Everyone else has their own opinions, but it's not right to shove their beliefs down other fans' throats. Sally Acorn is a kind person, and I don't know why most Sonamy fans picture her as mean and gets in the way of two hedgehogs that she's gotten along in the comics. It goes against her character. There's more to Sally than just being a love interest, and I won't push for wanting her to show up sooner or later. That's up to Sega. I respect Sally Acorn, and if people prefer Sonamy, that's fine, just don't throw everything at Sally for basically existing. She holds a special place in my childhood. The reboot comics might be the only thing we get to see for Sally Acorn. She's her own character, and she was surprisingly the reason why I first got interested in Sonic in general.
Yeah like I said I used to hate her and people can hate her if they want But most of the reasons people hate her are so stupid I have grown to like her character myself and I understand that a lot of people grew up with Sally
Also even as a Sonamy fan I can tell u that most Sonamy fans do not like her just because of one of the reasons I mentioned They believe that Sonally is the end of the world and they can't ship Sonamy It's just stupid
I believe Ian Flynn once said that if Sally and the FFs were to return, they be forced as Classic characters only like Mighty and Fang. Not exactly the compromise I like but I’ll take it…
I totally agree on you that Alyssa. And i beonest, if the writer don't have done this because of a stupid idea that Sally Slaps Sonic on the Archie Comics only because of a stupid reasons that Sonic must be with Amy, than nothing will that happend in first place. Because of this writer, Sonally and Sonamy is at war over the years. Like you said Alyssa, Sally and Amy are good friends and your right about that. I like Sonally in the past longtime ago in good memories but now, i'm totally a Sonamy fan. Blame the writer for that, that Sega remove Sally and her populairity. If this wasn't happend than, Sally keep going as main character and in this modern age and, than i still love Sonally for sure that i beonest with you.
Yeah Although Sally was never a main character She was a SatAM character and isn't canon to the games However I think that it would be cool if she was optional in a mobile game like Sonic Dash for example
people hate princess sally? thats a new one on me. she's fucking awesome and the definitive love interest for sonic. I dont get why people ship Amy with sonic. Amy just likes the idea of sonic. Sally has been through the long hall with sonic and she's formidable in her own right. Not to mention she was the brains whenever tails wasnt around and even when he was around.
If you look at the design. You can see that Amy and Sally are the same character. SALLY NEEDS SOME CLOTHES BAD!! Us Sonamy fans and Sonally fans have a terrible wrap on each other.😅
Her design alone pretty much killed any chance of her being a good character, the fact she doesn’t even wear clothes in the first place, pretty much shows that they didn’t even care about designing her and just wanted her to be bad on purpose, and it doesn’t help the fact that she is wearing this blue boots, which makes her look even more awkward and embarrassing, and also destroys the consistency of the females in the franchise, because the Sonic franchise is the only franchise that managed to stay as consistent as possible with the females, and this character is just ruining it and it doesn’t help the fact that she is designed in a very detailed way, which makes her look even worse by having a visible chest so yeah, no wonder she is hated, and you shouldn’t be surprised by that and another thing about her fur color is the fact that it’s brown next to all the other colorful game characters, which feels incredibly awkward.
@@alyssathecat4223 so you prefer her reboot design, yet at the same time you’re still defending her inappropriate design and showing it throughout the entire video ?
@iceman92211 Inappropriate? I can understand calling it Inappropriate when Sally looks like a naked woman in squirrel print bodypaint, like she was drawn at some point in the comics' history. But why do you clutch your pearls over the fact that she isn't fully clothed to begin with? If the guys can go nude in Sonic, why can't the girls do the same and still be considered Sonic characters, without being seen as lewd? Quite a lot of people out there question this need to project our gendered standards of modesty onto furries, myself included (because in general, there's no reason to give "nude" furries naughty bits unless you're going for an R rating or something). And in fact, I prefer the pre-reboot design _precisely_ because it bucks the "naked boys, clothed girls" tradition. I also want you to consider that Sally was created at a time where those consistencies you mention weren't fully crystallized yet, and video game adaptations in general played fast and loose with the source material because executives didn't shove mandates down your throat the way SEGA does now. Her character designers didn't make her that way because they wanted her to look bad or whatever. They either didn't know girls in Sonic are supposed to cover up, or they simply didn't feel the need to follow that rule. And the Archie comics had a lot of naked or pantsless girls for the same reasons, up until the reboot.
@elliotgabriel4580 Yeah one great example is Julie-Su She was not fully clothed You make great points as well Also her not being covered like other Sonic girls doesn't automatically make her a bad character (Like I've been saying people can dislike her but still it's like judging someone just because of how they dress)
