Thread:Smash The Echidna/@comment-28942325-20160713031918/@comment-1942179-20160713171133

Ohh boy, here we go. I critique one, and everyone's gonna come flooding toward me I know it.

Anyway, the main thing that stands out to me is the fact that he has 8 different powers and 6 different forms. To me, that's kind of excessive. Does he really need all that? Like I told the other guy: Powers don't make the man. Neither do transformations.

Having multiple powers or transformations isn't necessarily bad, but you gotta try and work to make them fit with the character in question, and seem less tacked on. Sometimes you gotta ask yourself: "WHY does my character have these powers?" This is something that bothers me about the majority of the characters on the wiki. There is no explanation for why their characters have such incredible power(s). I can accept it being heritage, (i.e Pyrokinesis has been passed down in Speedy's family for generations,) I can accept scientific experiments gone wrong/right, (i.e Thunder's father gained powers from lab experiments; Thunder inherited them from him upon birth.)

But a lot of people just have it for no reason. Thinking up an explanation for his powers could help with his backstory. I would also think about cutting out the unnecessary powers.