Alex Kidd

Alex Kidd (アレックス・キッド Arekkusu Kiddo) is a video game character whose popularity peaked during the late 1980s and who was the protagonist of both a series of video games released by Sega and their fictional universe, as well as in numerous spin-offs such as novelizations and comics.

Alex Kidd is the protagonist of several video games, spanning various platforms, and appeared in the arcade and on the Master System and Mega Drive/Genesis home consoles. Alex Kidd's popularity was at a peak with the release of the first game in the series, Alex Kidd in Miracle World in 1986. However, Sega wished to have a mascot to rival Nintendo's flagship character Mario, a task which Alex Kidd was not considered up to. In 1991, Sega introduced Sonic the Hedgehog. After this, Alex Kidd fell into obscurity as the development of new games in the series had stopped. Despite that, he has made cameo appearances in other games. A remake of the first game was released on June 22, 2021, making it the first main appearance of the character since 1990’s Alex Kidd in Shinobi World.

Why He Rocks, Paper, Scissors, Shoe!

 * 1) Just like other popular video game characters, He is one of the most famous mascots in video game history.
 * 2) Unlike most other video game mascots, Sonic actually has a personality that can actually be integrated into interesting stories. Thanks to this, Sonic has not only interesting stories in his video games, but he has a bunch of good stories in comic books, cartoons and more!
 * 3) His famous rivalry/friendship with Super Mario. Which was famous enough that Mario and Sonic started to appear in a crossover game together since 2007's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.
 * 4) When there is a crisis, he intensely focuses on the task at hand.
 * 5) He is an unpredictable thrill-seeker and sees his heroics as an opportunity to have fun.
 * 6) He always manages to remain cool under pressure.
 * 7) He often jokes around to lighten the mood and has the tendency to hilariously taunt his opponents.
 * 8) He never forgets about his friends and believes in working as a team or, as he put it, the power of teamwork.
 * 9) Following his free-spirited nature, he does not dwell on the past or allow painful experiences to weigh him down. Instead, he lives in the present and always looks forward to new adventures, which is a good moral for anyone.
 * 10) He is always ready to risks his life for his friends, with little regard for his own safety.
 * 11) He has shown to have a habit for forgiving, like how he forgave Silver for trying to kill him.Twice.
 * 12) He is shown to be good at swordsmanship, like in Sonic and the Black Knight.
 * 13) He earned not only 5 animated shows (AoSTH, Sonic SatAM, Sonic Underground, Sonic X, Sonic Boom), 2 web cartoons (Sonic Mania Adventures, Team Sonic Racing Overdrive), a short CGI movie (Night Of The Werehog) and an animated movie (Sonic the Hedgehog OVA), but also an exceptionally successful live-action/computer animated movie in 2020 with an upcoming sequel.
 * 14) He has a buttload of quotable lines, such as "STRANGE, ISN'T IT??", "That's NO GOOD.", "Ah, yeah! This is happening!", "No copyright law in the universe is going to stop me!" and the fan-favorite "You're too slo-ow!".

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He can sometimes be too narcisistic, impatient and prideful to be likable.
 * 2) Most of the time he says very cheesy quotes, such as "Nothing starts before you take action".
 * 3) He kinda overreacts when his species is mislabeled, like when Erazor Djinn called him a "blue rat".
 * 4) He was a jerk in Sonic Lost World, where Sonic is portrayed as having a kind of one-track, arrogant mind that manages to do some very impulsive, foolhardy stuff.
 * 5) Most of the time makes absolutely terrible puns that no one can enjoy. Not even unironically.
 * 6) He was one of the reasons why mh:awesomegames:Super Smash Bros. Brawl took so long to release.
 * 7) * Not only that, but he has a very poor moveset in all the Smash Bros. games prior to Ultimate, As most of his moves simply consist of him attacking in his ball form and his D-air is poorly-executed, as it disqualifies him from recovering especially after meteor-spiking or edgeguarding. Fortunately, this was fixed in Smash Ultimate.
 * 8) In spite of having a great and iconic character design, he barely looks like a hedgehog and more like a blue-furred, mutated cat.
 * 9) His English voice in the Sonic OVA isn't that good, as it sounds like he has a southern accent.
 * 10) He was flanderized in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
 * 11) Some of his designs weren't that great, like his first movie design and his Pakistan Mcdonald's commercial design.

Trivia

 * For his cameos, Sonic has proven to be an extremely popular character and he is also a fighter in the Super Smash Bros. games since Brawl in 2008.
 * After having been around only three years, he had already surpassed Nintendo's Mario in popularity according to a June 1993 Q-Survey in Gameplayers magazine.
 * Even after Sega settled on the hedgehog, an idea proposed by designer Naoto Ohshima, the company tried out a taxonomically confusing name for the character: Mr. Needlemouse.
 * In keeping with the spirit of the above, Sonic 1's soundtrack was scored entirely by the Japanese pop group Dreams Come True, formed as a trio in 1988.
 * His design was inspired on a combination of Mickey's head and Felix the Cat's body.