The Archie Comics series, which although based on DiC designs was published nearly a year in advance of the TV show airing, featured no less than three designs of Sally - a blonde-haired, red squirrel seen in issue #¼, a brunette (or black-haired) pink squirrel used up until issue #16 and a brown squirrel/chipmunk hybrid with more "womanly" features and a blue jacket, used from issue #16 onwards. Sally Acorn's design is notorious for having changed several times during development of the cartoon. While it would be Sonic who would get all the laughs and take part in most of the action, Sally would devise the plans and coordinate the team.
SALLY ACORN IN SONIC GENERATIONS SERIES
While her design would change and the Sonic-princess romance (initially) toned down, Princess Sally Acorn would emerge as a major character in both SatAM and the US comic book series released by Archie Comics, fulfilling a leadership role. Other designs also suggest Princess Sally was at one point set to be a human character. In earlier versions of the concept, a "Princess Acorn" character, with an entirely different design to the finished product, is shown as being both a love interest and a strong character in her own right, ready to take on Robotnik as part of a "freedom team". As such, when DiC were designing their Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, they chose to use Sally Acorn as the female lead.ĭiC appears to have toyed with a "princess" character from an early stage, possibly as a love interest for Sonic, or as someone to be captured by Robotnik, fulfilling the damsel in distress cliché. Of these, the character Ricky became known as "Sally Acorn", the only obvious female character in the original game (although strictly speaking Flicky was designed as female). When brought to the west, the rescued animals in Sonic the Hedgehog were given localised names and a backstory, as outlined by the Sonic the Hedgehog Bible. "Pink Sally", the design used for Sally Acorn during SatAM's production. Robotnik and rescue her deposed father, King Acorn. A founding member of the Freedom Fighters, she shares a leadership role with Sonic the Hedgehog in an attempt to defeat Dr. Princess Sally Acorn is a fictional anthropomorphic character, either a Squirrel (SoA Story Bible, Sonic the Comic, and the UK Books) Squirrel/Chipmunk Hybrid (Pre-Reboot Archie Sonic), or a Fox/Squirrel Hybrid (SatAM), created by Sega of America and later reimagined by DiC for the 1993 Sonic the Hedgehog animated TV series ( SatAM). Species: Squirrel (SoA Story Bible, Sonic the Comic, and the UK Books) Squirrel/Chipmunk Hybrid ( Pre-Reboot Archie Sonic) Fox/Squirrel Hybrid ( SatAM)Īge: 16 ( SatAM and Post-Reboot Archie Sonic) 17 (Pre-Reboot Archie Sonic) There are not enough references to back up claimsĪfter the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message.Superfluous plot information should be covered elsewhere on Sonic Retro.
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