Ok. In the Sonic franchise there are many things that separate fans. One of them is the amount of characters. I'm wondering what you're opinions are. Discuss.

There aren't many characters off the top of my head. The ones I remember are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Dr. Eggman, Shadow, Rouge, E-123 Omega, Amy, Cream, Cheese, Vanilla, Big, Froggy, Chaos, Tikal, Charmy, Espio, Vector, Metal Sonic, the President, The Biolizard, the alien people from Shadow the Hedgehog, Chris(or basically all of the human characters), the Chao, GUN, King Boom Boo, The egg Golem (and all of the other egg mechs), the Echidna Tribe, Chip, and... yeah. Compared to all of the nameable characters from other franchises, that's nothing.

I think people just extend their hate for Big the Cat to the other "extra" characters. :L I really don't care how many characters there are as long as most of them have small roles. The amount of characters isn't a problem, the quality of the game is.

It's not so much that I hate other characters that I hate the games relying too much on their levels/gameplay. In SA1, for instance, the only character that didn't stray too far from typical gameplay was Tails; the others had some strange gimmicks. In Sonic Rush, you played between Sonic and Blaze, and although Blaze was slightly slower and stronger, her stages didn't differ at all.

Oh, yeah I forgot about Blaze.

Some of the characters in other Sonic games are not even characters of the franchise, and that's what bugs me.

No, before you reply, I am not saying that "thar shud b moar karactorz", I'm saying that the fans get toooooooooo obsessed with that character. Take Princess Elise, or... Marine the Raccoon for example. They were both in only one game-- actually separate games, Elise in Sonic '06 and Marine in Sonic Rush Adventure-- yet the fans go acting like they're now characters of the franchise which is extremely annoying and it just needs to stop, 'cause it's total BS.