![]() Alternatively, it can also describe the two different sides of Amy's personality, with her more sweet, compassionate and caring sides being the petals, while the thorns are her more feisty traits.Īnyway, one that I think was surprisingly well done in those comic strips that Sonic Team published some time ago was the meaning of Shadow's name according to Maria, as she put it in a more positive perspective as what showed the direction of the light. Then there's Rose, which IMO is cleverly fitting for a hedgehog character because thorns = quills. I love the IDW comics too because they stay faithful to the SEGA method of choosing names for their characters (Tangle, Whisper). ![]() She's the only one who had actual conversations with villains to redeem them (E-102, Shadow). Or it could also mean she is beloved and very social, hence her many close friends Big Cream Sticks Vector Flicky E-102, as well as Sonic Tails Knuckles. There are obviously a lot more considering how many characters are in this franchise so please share some of your favorites or comment on those names that just really don't make any sense to you no matter where they are from in the franchise. Of course that means her name with title comes across as Princess Princess which is just kind of silly and redundant, but at least Princess Acorn works as quirky video game name for a princess who also happens to be a nut eating rodent of some kind (squirrel, chipmunk, something). ![]() A fairly apt description of her most basic character descriptor. Supposedly in Hebrew (shouldn't that be Yiddish is wonder?) the name Sally means princess. Fortunately though, even a cursory search in the case of her name gave some very immediate results. It doesn't even sound like a quirky video game character name. It doesn't even sound particularly engaging as a name of member of a royal family as it sounds more plain than regal. On its own it doesn't really do anything, tell a joke, give an idea about her character, or really anything else. As Sally has always received a great deal of attention for some reason or another and considering her role pre-Archie reboot, her name just seemed unduly boring. It's a fun little tidbit in a story about a hedgehog who runs faster than the speed of sound.įor my second example though I'll turn to Princess Sally Acorn. Most notably for my research is Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier. While the name Chuck itself is pretty boring on a cursory search as it simply means man, doing some research into who else has held that name bears some more interesting fruit. Looking at that I decided to start researching some of the character names and found some fairly interesting results.Īs my first example, Uncle Chuck is kind of a fun one. But is that really true?Īs normal names are not always without meaning, for example Amy's actual name is perhaps even more descriptive of her than her Rosy the Rascal nickname as the imagery of roses says quite a lot about her and the name Amy meaning beloved in French implies heavily at her role as love interest (on an aside strange that both Amy and Antoine have french names but only one has an accent). Even further out though you start finding more and more characters whose names just seem normal with no purpose and were just chosen because they sounded good when they were decided on. ![]() Sure names like Bunny Rabbot still hinted at that playfulness but then you had names like Snively, obviously taken from the words snivel and sniveling which doesn't really come across playfully at all. But when looking at that I then turned my attention to the comics and other media for the franchise and that simplicity washed away. Even beyond that most character names in the franchise are simple names that tell you about the characters and their characteristics or are making fun little jokes (miles per hour anyone). Or perhaps names like Tails and Knuckles as descriptive names along with Rosy to imply a description and an outlook. Sonic to imply the speed of sound, or Eggman because of being shaped like an egg. Now most of the names are pretty straight forward and speak for themselves. A quick story to get started here, but after various conversations over the years on character names and the importance of how characters are named left me investigating the names in the Sonic franchise.
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