Sonic fans tend to be a pretty odd bunch and I'm allowed to say that because I'm one of them. If my word alone isn't enough to convince you, then perhaps the rather odd reaction from fans to discovering the Blue Blur isn't homeless anymore might sway you. Spoiler: they weren't happy about it.
This all started with what many would label a pretty innocuous entry in the newly released 2025 Sonic the Hedgehog annual. In Sonic's bio, it notes that the hedgehog lives in Green Hill Zone. To most, that probably goes without saying. It's the first level in the original Sonic game, an area that has been revisited countless times, and it's even where Sonic spends his childhood in the live-action movie.
Amy, Silver, Big, Rouge. Sega and Paramount still have a lot of characters to choose from.
However, it's not so much the area Sega chose for Sonic to reside in that has irked some of his more hardcore fans, but the insinuation that their hero lives anywhere at all. Since Sonic's house has never been shown in any of the games, it was assumed that he doesn't have a home to go to. That was...