Howdy, Yea Forums, I'm a poster from Yea Forums, who figured, 'hey, Yea Forums might get a kick out of this'. So there's this dude, Ken Penders, who basically, thinks he owns Knuckles the Echidna. He is currently, sueing Paramount for 'ripping off' his 'iconic scene' of Sonic the Hedgehog standing on the wings of Tails' Tornado. And the fact Knuckles comes from a Tribe.
Like I said, figured you guys would get a chuckle out of it.
Howdy, Yea Forums, I'm a poster from Yea Forums, who figured, 'hey, Yea Forums might get a kick out of this'...
Juan Adams
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Carson Garcia
that's not terribly funny or interesting but I'll take this thread over some banal shit about elden ring or porn
Luke Adams
Leave it on twitter faggot
Gabriel Nguyen
Every sonic fan already knows this
William Bailey
Sonic Fan and Yea Forums aren't exactly the same thing.
Leo Morgan
Caleb Sullivan
Thanks user, that's nice to know and to see you from Yea Forums. Just for that, I'll go over to Yea Forums and make a thread.
Owen Evans
>He is currently, sueing Paramount for 'ripping off' his 'iconic scene' of Sonic the Hedgehog standing on the wings of Tails' Tornado. And the fact Knuckles comes from a Tribe.
He actually did it?
Mason Morgan
He was encouraged to by his fans, yeah.
Blake Morales
an elden ring thread died for this
Christian Thompson
Good.
Tyler Russell
yes yes we all know about penders
what ever happened to his godawful looking comic for the OCs he sued Archie over anyway
Owen Perry
Nothing.
He made like two pages and left it at that.
Juan Myers
The skunk was cute. Pity he's a Penders' creation
Henry Long
>Trying to sue Hollywood
Absolute lmao
Julian Campbell
He sued over Sonic chronicles, he will come for you if you use red Sonic's that aren't Knuckle's
Thomas Collins
Not yet it seems.
Zachary Fisher
Didn't the sonic chronicles one get thrown out?
Eli Howard
this guy is based for getting his intellectual property out of sega's hands and pissing off the shitmunching retards who actually like his work but don't want to see him get paid for it
Jonathan Campbell
Yes, twice.
Justin Robinson
You mean stealing Sega and archie's intellectual property
Jace Morris
Yea Forums already knows, Yea Forumsmblr
Brody Rogers
Angel Mitchell
Good, there's too damn many. I'm gonna make a thread right now just to kill another one.
Brayden Bailey
Delete this.
Logan Adams
But user, there's more!
Cameron Thompson
Yes but he STILL pretends like he won and like he owns Shade. Literally considering selling an NFT of Shade, a character fully owned by Sega and created by either Sega or Bioware.
Isaiah Rodriguez
This guy is better than Chris-chan now honestly.
Kevin Scott
Everyone knows that Tamers' version of Knuckles the Cool Echidna is the definitive version
Christopher Davis
And let's not forget that Ken Penders invented the idea of a Sonic film, too!
Ethan Gonzalez
His weens, more like.
Brandon Martinez
He hasn't played Sonic 3?
Aiden Robinson
>mfw
This dude is fucking nuts. Literally comedy fucking central over here!
Sebastian Barnes
>Sonic 3 literally opens with Sonic riding on top of Tails' plane
People aren't actually this ignorant are they?
Gavin Green
lol
Penders has never touched a Sega system. His kids that he inserted into the Sonic Live! special were "playing" Sonic with a sideways TV remote.
Jose Baker
Dont forget Sonic 2 user when Eggman literally had a war plane Tails had to fly Sonic up to on that same plane
Adrian Torres
this nigga settled out of court on a case 20 years ago and became the most delusional man on planet earth.
jesus fucking christ.
Jack Brown
Sure, but the comic that page was taken from isn't a wholly original work by Penders, it's a 1 issue adaptation of the story of Sonic 3, so that opening page is literally just an expanded version of the 3 second opening to Sonic 3. Penders is being coy, despite not playing the games himself he had to have been aware of the fact that Sonic is riding on the plane in the comic page because it is game accurate.
Landon Jackson
Grayson Sullivan
What a fucking LOLcow. What even is his plan in the grand scheme of things? Is he really just pulling this stunt for attention or is he just a dumbass with a lot of time and has money to waste?
Jack Edwards
We know
Zachary Bell
He wants Sega to hire him and cut him a check
Carter Moore
What the fuck is wrong with this boomer, he is generally insane. He has this wierd uncanny art pinned and I can't tell if he's a furry or he's just so out of touch that he doesn't understand how weird this shit looks.
Gabriel Evans
>They're rendered completely differently
It's the little things
Nathan Sanders
He's not a furry, but he has whined before that Archie never let him talk about sex and that he has drawn it before (to him it's something you just do or something)
Christian Price
He's fucking putting Knuckles in his own fanfic, the guy really think he owns Knuckles fucking KEK
Robert Harris
he's also the reason why we never got a satam movie to finish the animated series
Jack Jackson
He's gonna get raped by Viacom.
Probably the only company that can outsue him
Joshua Ortiz
>He obviously doesn't know his comics history as there was a character that predated Superman which had a greater influence on the KNUCKLES series.
Does anyone know what the hell he’s talking about? What is this character because I am drawing a complete blank. For reference here is the comparison the article made
>Instead of having Knuckles be the sole surviving echidna, Penders introduced an entire mythology behind his actually surviving people, which was very obviously based off of DC Comics' Superman and other Kryptonians. Knuckles was reimagined as a chosen one whose greatness had been told to his father years before in a dream, causing Knuckles' dad Locke to irradiate Knuckles' egg and give him superpowers of sorts. The role of the echidnas, namely Knuckles' dad and girlfriend/wife Julie-Su, was of far more importance to Ken Penders than anything actually involving Sonic.
Brody Hill
This looks like something that'd be airbrushed to the side of a county fair trailer.
Easton Edwards
Ken Penders is the best argument for a relaxation of the best evidence rule in civil procedure. They had the "doctored" contract AND people to testify as to what his terms of employment were but the court wouldn't allow it.
Dylan Smith
hypothetically if he loses in court will he be disallowed from suing for similar shit like this?
Nathaniel Edwards
>Sonic 3
Try Sonic 2
Caleb Cook
Ok I gotta ask
I wanna read the Sonic comic from the start but I know eventually there's a bunch of specials and spin off comics that are all canon to the main one so I wanna know if there's a comprehensive list online for the release/reading order of every single Sonic-related thing all the way up to its cancellation.
Asher Price
Numerous people replied to that tweet asking what character it was, and not one of them received an answer.
Owen Clark
Daniel Johnson
>They had the "doctored" contract AND people to testify as to what his terms of employment were but the court wouldn't allow it.
Are fucking for real?
Thomas Richardson
If you think Ken is riled up now, wait until the Knuckles show comes out
Carson Sanders
Ask /sthg/ they probably know.
Justin Morris
There are some Princess of Mars vibes, with how the floating island had two native species that warred with each other (dingoes and echidnas) until the physically superior one was subjugated by the superior technology of the smaller species.
Bentley Diaz
Judge was a retard that didn't understand the law and I guess Archie didn't want to fight anymore.
Nicholas Wood
Now i see why Penders has such a big "Ill sue you" ego.
Kayden Clark
How different would Sonic be if Archie had Pender’s contract and won the lawsuit
Brandon Russell
Less echidnas. More Cream.
Adam Butler
>ken penders invented the concept of standing on top of a biplane
nobody tell the 1920s.
Adam Ward
If Sega really wanted to they could sue him for stealing their basic Echidna design. He may have "proved" he owns the the characters he created, but he doesn't own the designs.
Josiah Fisher
Sega was threatening to pull the license so they had to settle asap. Had that not have happened, they probably would've won the case.
Jack Richardson
It borderline violates their trademarks and copyrights, it's too similar to what Sega has. If it were bigger Sega would sue
David Campbell
It might work, but at the same time it's also extremely likely a judge would say, "No I will not enforce a copyright on the general concept of "strangely colored cartoon version of an animal that wear varying amounts of clothing but at a minimum oversized shoes and gloves".