Welcome to part 5 of my review of "Sonic SatAm!" I was very pleasantly surprised by Dulcy, who’s way more useful than Antoine the braggart because she’s bad in the comic, but in the show, well, she makes a good first impression right away. She scares Antoine by yelling at him, "look out! ” showing a sense of humor to her and clear personality, a stark contrast to Bunnie and Rotor. She has the greatest line in the entire show: ” Can it, Antoine! ” YES! THANK YOU!

She's such a great audience surrogate with that line because Antoine is SO BAD in that show that I don't want to hear anything bad that he says! She also tells Sonic not to bother making fun of her landing in the swamp because she’s had a long hard day. I love her sassiness, any time she talks like that, it catches me by surprise, because she wasn’t like that in the comic and here it works so well, especially with her voice, which I’m pretty sure is also the voice of that friend of Angelica in Rugrats. Dulcy’s such a contrast to Sally, because while her sassiness is a surprise, it’s actually a pleasant surprise. She’s still nice to Sonic, and her sass is merely directed at characters who deserve it, like Robotnik.

While Antoine does nothing but screw things up for the heroes in unbelievable ways with his clumsiness and waste runtime by bragging, messing up English in ways that are usually implausible for a native French speaker, and all around makes me wonder why they don’t kick out his useless self, Dulcy is the exact opposite. She has ice breath letting her freeze Snively, she has fire breath – though it’s shockingly underutilized, I’d expect her to be constantly destroying robots with it, not simply burn an antennae on a flying machine. She’s usually used as a flying vehicle for Sally, but alright, that’s helpful too. And while I HATE the constant slapstick with her hitting her head, being dazed, and always always saying, ” I’m coming home, Ma, ” which isn’t funny at all and just sadistically mean-spirited of the writers, it’s not fair to hate her entire character just because of that.

For one, I realized that her crashing with her flying has some positive things about it. It helps balance out the overpoweredness of her being able to fly much better than Tails and let people ride her, because it comes at a price. And there’s genuine tension when she’s flying through a canyon because the whole time, I was worried she was going to crash, but she never did. Granted, just like in the comic, it’s bad that she plops into the show out of nowhere with no proper origin story for how she met and joined the Freedom Fighters like would be expected averagely-good writing. And what I didn’t know until I finished watching the show was that she only came to the show from meta logic; executives wanted another female character.

But hey, aside from the filler slapstick with her and the underutilization of her fire breath, they did the best job they could with that kind of ” force another female character into the show because she’s a cool dragon with all sorts of uses, and that alone makes her better than Antoine. Plus Fiona Fox was ALSO plopped into the Freedom Fighters in the Archie Sonic comics with no origin story, so Dulcy’s not the only one. Also, in "Sonic SatAm," Dulcy's not a forgetful dope, she’s not a complete idiot for even more failed forced comedy, she’s simply a klutz. But unlike with Antoine, I don’t remember her clumsiness constantly screwing things up for the heroes. Her crashing is just pointless, which is better than it could be. Stay tuned for part 6 of my review:)