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Oh shit I think I get it.
It's part of the reason Sonic doesn't associate with any humans under 30.
He's the Sonic the Hedgehog who wouldn't judge a prospective adult viewer for being lame or an agent of capital and he's not going to do anything that's a potential bad influence for that viewer's kids. He'll grumble, but he will eat his vegetables.
But it's more than that. In addition to making him seem more like 12 than 15, he's just not that rebellious. He doesn't defy authority. He doesn't question authority. He works for authority. He's not going to break the law to do the right thing.
It just really hurts with an adaptation like this because it was an actually transgressive piece of media. It was deliberately about how things are more complicated than good people and bad people.
Not only did you play as antagonistic characters who helped saved the world, you got to see compassionate characters twisted into trying to destroy the world.
In the movie, they took agency and complexity away from Shadow, Gerald Robotnik, and Maria.
Maria's final act was to save Shadow from G.U.N. at the cost of her own life and Gerald sought to avenge her death when he was overcome with grief. After he tried to find a cure for her fatal illness. Shadow's whole arc was him realizing that Maria didn't want revenge on the earth, but for him to live happily on it.
In the movie, Maria dies in an accident because Gerald was negligent enough to bring her along for no reason. G.U.N. isn't held at fault and Gerald is a kooky villain with a musical sequence.
Oh my god an actual adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2 would have been so cool. But no, gotta have cop dad adventures and a clean G.U.N. agency.
But hey, at least the movie wasn't political!