Top 10 Reasons Why Sonic the Hedgehog is Better Than Super Mario

I agree with this! One of the things I love most about the Sonic series is that the characters carry the story better and have better dialogue. Sonic is enjoyable for all ages due to this, whereas Mario (fun though the games may be) can often feel very "kiddy," too family-friendly and vanilla. Sonic brings more depth, humor, and insight to each game plot. It's far more versatile. Also, Sonic music over Mario music any day!

Some Mario characters are fine, but few people choose to play as Peach, Toad, or Bowser... maybe Luigi in the main Mario games.

On the other side, Sonic is fast, Tails can build cool planes even though he is young, Knuckles is strong, and Shadow is Sonic but has more power and chaos energy, which is also cool.

The women in Sonic aren't stereotypical and lazy. They actually stand up for themselves. Princess Peach is a literal stereotype who is boring to save. Peach is not the best aspect of Mario, and I would rather see Sonic with Elise than Mario with Peach, who does not even seem to love him.

Every main character girl: princess.
Every Sonic girl character: things that make them not a princess who gets stolen by a turtle 15 times a second.

I love Sonic and Mario almost equally, but as a fan of both, I must say Sonic's OST in games 1, 2, and 3, including Knuckles in Sonic games and CD, honestly have the best soundtracks for the single levels that I've ever heard! If you don't believe me, listen to Ice Cap Zone, Lava Reef Zone, Green Hill Zone, Flying Battery Zone and more. The OSTs are ridiculous, and for 16-bit era games on the Genesis, they still hold addictive and people still love the OST.

I don't count the 3D Sonic games as the best. The gameplay just worked better in 2D. That being said, Sonic 2 on the SEGA Genesis had the best video-game-sounding music of any game. Casino Night Zone is the best level for music and gameplay.

While Underground wasn't canon, I think it's important to note that Sonic treats Tails like his little brother and treats him well. Mario has Luigi and treats him poorly.

You can see Sonic's siblings in the show, Sonic Underground. I don't know if Luigi jumps higher than Sonic.

Mario's sibling: Luigi. That's all. Sonic's siblings: Manic and Sonia.

Super Mario Sunshine ripped off Sonic Adventure 2. Super Mario Odyssey ripped off Sonic Unleashed. I'd say that's enough evidence right there.

Then again, Sonic Lost World was a Super Mario Galaxy clone, so I think both franchises copied off each other at different points. At least Sonic has more gameplay variety, though - like come on, Mario never turned into a werewolf or wielded a sword.

But unlike the coins, you keep the ring total over 100. And they can protect you from losing a life. Plus, your ring total at the end of each zone can be added to your score. And don't forget the light ring dash, which first appeared in Sonic Adventure (1998-99).

Sonic has better diversity than Mario. Why? Let me explain.

Sonic saved animals in Sonic the Hedgehog. He has to save the world from the Space Colony in Sonic Adventure 2. He has to team up with his younger self to restore the timeline in Sonic Generations.

Mario, on the other hand, is just him saving the princess who never defends herself. That's it.

Sonic finds himself in a candy amusement park in Sonic Colors, a city in Sonic Adventure 2, and even a prison.

Mario, however, is constantly navigating through grass, desert, tropical island, jungle, snow, mountains, sky, and castles. He has to go through this in multiple games. Doesn't it get repetitive, boring, and uncreative after a while? Yeah, I thought so.

An excerpt from a Sonic issue explains it all:

"Even though he tries to maintain a certain level of 'cool,' at heart he's a lovable goof who loves his family and friends dearly. You can always count on him to come through in a tough spot. He's all for speaking his mind for what he believes in, and he really cares."

That's Sonic's personality in a nutshell.

Mario does have a personality. He's brave and cheerful. However, when you put him next to Sonic, Sonic just has a more colorful personality. Being outgoing, cocky, brave, caring, and optimistic, he basically takes the cake from the red plumber.

Even if Mario racing games were never made, Sega would have still made some too. Mario Kart 64 wasn't the first racing game, you know.

Y'all all know well that Sonic is better. Their racing games look more realistic than Mario.

Sonic racing games are awesome. I never played one, but they are cool. In Mario Kart, you get attacks and throw them at your opponent, which is just cheating.

Look, I'm a Sonic fan, but the only Sonic spin-offs I like are Sonic Spinball and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. That's good because Sonic is known more for his main series than his subpar spin-offs. Mario, on the other hand, is now known more for Mario Kart than for Super Mario. That's another reason Sonic is better in its own way.

Sonic has Sonic Spinball, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Sonic R, and Sonic Rivals 1 and 2 (play as Sonic in the last three for the maximum fun experience). Those are the best Sonic spin-offs and they make Mario's look like a joke.

I agree. Mario fights Bowser as the final boss in almost every game.

How many times has Mario defeated Bowser already? The only cool fight I can remember is when Mario took down a dragon in the Lost Kingdom, but Sonic has been there and done that in Black Knight.

Now it's right! He defeated Dark Gaia, Deadly 6, Time Eater, and many more. P.S: To Nintendo: Be more creative, guys! Don't get stuck on one villain.

Modern Sonic has some moments where it gets kind of dark and realistic at the same time. Mario, however, has so many games based around this Princess who is a liar that it's no wonder why people say it's for kids. You know, while we have a mutant fox and other weird animals, I think that it's more likely that we would live with animals in harmony rather than teach kids to kill some plant life just because they are depicted to be evil.

Sure, but Mario is for all ages. Even if little kids still play Sonic, it still doesn't change the fact that Sonic is really made for older audiences. So, wouldn't this limit Sonic's popularity and use? I think so.

Top three reasons why the Mario movie sucks:

1. It was nothing like the game.
2. Goombas made no sense.
3. Luigi was pretty much the main character, and Mario was just like another sidekick.

This movie felt like Sonic '06 (no offense, Sonic).

I hate the fact that it's actually true... Nintendo shouldn't sue people for using emulators or making fan games. If they want to make those people feel pain, Nintendo should just make them watch the SMB Movie.

The animated movie of Sonic made in 1996 has him going against Metal Sonic, and its plot was awesome. The acting was too.

I remember being completely disappointed by The Super Mario Bros. Super Show when I watched it for the first time in 2002. When I saw Sonic SATAM in 2008 for the first time, I was officially addicted. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show did not even come close to SATAM in my opinion. The Mario anime wasn't bad, even though they were basically taking the storylines from fairy tales, but Sonic X (which is an anime) stole the show, despite the jacked-up "canon" it had. Frankly, all of Sonic's TV shows were much better than Mario's.

I LOVE how fast you go in Sonic games. Making Sonic speed through all of those levels is better than Mario saying, "Go slowly through this world, then at the castle, waste your power-ups destroying a fake version of the villain, only to hear a mushroom person say your girlfriend is in another castle." That makes me sick. Sonic would clear all of Mario's levels in three seconds.

This is tied with playing as Sonic when it comes to what I like most about Sonic games. Making Sonic run around all the awesome stages is just so much fun. When I play Mario, it's just so slow and tedious.

Yes. The first game, Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), was the first Sonic game. It was simple, fun, and it made sense.

I have tried repeatedly to like Mario games in the same way I love the real Sonic games for the Mega Drive. So many people seemed to like Mario, but I didn't have a Nintendo, and for years, I thought I was missing out on something great.

Eventually, after about ten years of waiting, I had the opportunity to try Mario on the Gameboy, on the SNES, and on the N64. I think I may have tried one of the Wii ones. I loathed every single one of them. I couldn't handle the controls for ages. The physics of the movement still makes no sense to me, and I attributed this to simply being unused to the games.

However, even when I got used to their gameplay, I found them to be unbearably tedious and unimaginative. Frankly, I always felt a relief wash over me when the plumber, who spends all his time running after a princess instead of fixing plumbing, got eaten by something because it meant I didn't have to put up with his presence any longer.

Ironically, for years, I thought I was a potential Mario fan. After all, I enjoyed that cartoon in the early 90s when I was a child, though I did much prefer the Captain Nintendo side of it.

I honestly don't know why Mario holds such appeal for so many, and I really dislike him and all the hype. However, I do appreciate that he obviously brings joy to a lot of people, and that makes him, regardless of my opinion, worthwhile.

Still, the games devastated me after so much expectation. Then again, so did the slipshod products Sega began passing off as Sonic games. You press forward slightly for a nanosecond and go careening off the edge of a broad cliff before you can blink. The ear-shreddingly whiny 'goth'/emo/indy 'music' they began adding to games - and I actually like rock music, but it doesn't fit Sonic at all, especially as they didn't even get good stuff for it - and even worse music in Sonic Rush, I have no idea what genre it's supposed to be.

Not to mention the problem of the giant blue... more