SFC WHAT-NOTS 53: MOST DRASTIC CHARACTER CHANGES

WHAT-NOTS
The purpose of this series of activities is to introduce scenarios where people can share their own experiences in the Sonic Fan Character world. Each month we introduce a new topic for people to share their input on. You can find the rest of the What-Nots HERE.

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SFC WHAT-NOTS # 53: MOST DRASTIC CHARACTER CHANGES



Have you ever looked up some of the more out there alterations to the iconic characters of comics? The Superman mullet, Wonder Woman’s biker outfit, noseless Wolverine, and so on? Or perhaps you’ve come across some large but not-so-out-there changes, like the change in tone for Batman comics, or the transition from photographer to tech-company owner for Spider-Man? Regardless, characters tend to have changes done to them to keep things interesting, or simply to replace and improve upon aspects from before.

The question today is “What were your most drastic character changes?”  Were these retcons or were they something that simply happened later on in the story? Did these changes last? Do you think they were good or bad changes now?

HOST’S EXAMPLE
When I was far younger, most of my characters today existed in some form as these rapid-fire drawings with little thought applied to them. The majority of them went through almost complete reworkings to what they originally were, but this all happened around the same time before I really was seriously trying to make something of my lore. As such, I usually stick to anything created after 2010, and definitely one of the largest character alterations I made had to do with VIRUS.

There were two stages in this change. First, we had the SERVER era Virus, which was an insane version of Iron Nicole from the Archie comics now made a separate character from Nicole. This character was to die in the Server era, but when writing the Lizzy Eventide stories for the first time, I decided to have this character appear there, surviving.

However, not long after that, I got the idea to do my first public roleplay, where people could have their own version of meeting the Virus character, but with the twist that each version wouldn’t have the same memories, and would be sort of customizable. This led to the creation of Rin, and the Identity species.

From there, the original Virus character was called “Virus Prime”, which was retconned to being two AI minds put together: an AI named Isis and the Iron Nicole AI, with the Isis AI being the one to travel to the Lizzy Eventide stories, and then return to take up the mantle of the current Virus people are familiar with today.