Growing up is accepting that Sonic isn't consistently this immeasurable, faster than light character. Sonic since his inception has always been closer to DASH from the Incredibles, than THE FLASH. While I think the IDW comics have problems, it's annoying when powerscalers insist for Sonic to use his immeasurable and base 'universal+' scaling to get out of any situation. People gotta realise, most of Sonic's MFTL/IMMEASURABLE speed feats only started coming once Pontac and Graff in the 2010s came into the franchise. White space was created, and it's nothing more than a poorly explained cosmological space in the franchise. Then came in forces, which allowed Sonic and the avatar to break out of infinite's dimension 'with the power of friendship'. They're bad writers. And is why USUALLY most of the time, Sonic and his cast are treated in a more grounded sense when it comes to narrative. In the 2000s, it was VERY hard to even consistently scale base Sonic to light speed+, because Shiro Maekawa, Kiyoko Yoshimura, Akinori, and Iizuka always saw him as a more grounded speedster that fits the adventurous spirit well. Whenever he did something 'dimensional/time breaking' in this era, he always needed a condition to do so; via mystical items like the chaos emeralds, time working differently in the space ect. How can Sonic be an adventurous series if he can scale the planet or even universe in a picosecond? Another thing we should realise is that the Sonic series is MUCH more grounded than we think. Cartoon logic doesn't really exist in Sonic. There's a reason why he series has ALOT of SCI-FI elements. In cutscenes we're also seen real physics work accordingly in Sonic. Heck I'd even say Sonic is more grounded than stuff like Dragon Ball, because magic and otherworld realms(heaven/hell) in dragon ball can casually exist, but with Sonic it's not really the case; most powers are via genetic engineering, robotics, or genetic gifts. Ask yourself this real quick. If Classic Sonic is also an immeasurable character judging off generations, why did Sonic need chaos control to time travel in 06? Why did Sonic panic when prison island was going to blow up in a few minutes in SA2? Why couldn't he seamlessly jog around the broken planet in unleashed to restore the emeralds? #SonicTheHedgehog #Powerscaling