Talk:Smash The Echidna/@comment-25559267-20160618021658/@comment-1942179-20160618044234

And there it is, ladies and gentlemen. The one canonical fact that I actively oppose.

The entire deal with the "last echidna on the planet" was kinda sketchy to begin with. The echidnas were supposedly all wiped out by Perfect Chaos, who also "destroyed the world", according to Tikal. Yet she was able to seal him inside the master emerald, and the world is very much not destroyed. At most the Knuckles tribe was wiped out and their home was left in ruins. The shrine of the master emerald is still almost fully intact, as well as the whole Lost World.

Not to mention if Sonic Chronicles is anything to go by, an entire tribe is still living.

So yeah, there are a number of plot holes that I can't abide there. Exactly how do we know that there aren't any other echidnas still living out there in other parts of the world? The Mystic Ruin couldn't be the only place that held any echidna ever. That would be silly.

In closing, I choose not to follow that. I didn't want to completely dismiss it though, so in my canon echidnas are sort of rare.