So here are the following recent S***c setbacks of late last year:
- Screwattack's special episode of Mario vs S***c: I'm sure that they did this episode with research and stuff and unlike the previous battle involving the same characters, the outcome was the opposite in which Mario had won the battle. Of course, this pissed off many fans of the S***c franchis.
- Story's intro of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Pretty much all the characters except Kirby are turned into spirits as if they're all caught by those things unleashed at them. Even hiding in the liquid doesn't help either but Kirby is somehow able to outrun those things at WARP-SPEED! It's no joke that he's going at WARP-SPEED, that's the speed even FASTER than S***c's Speed of Sound. Of course, certain fans of the S***c franchise are pissed about this.
- The upcoming live-action S***c movie: A live action movie based on the game franchise like this is already a waste of time and resources and ineffective as an idea to begin with. Maybe, an animated movie SHOULD DO instead although some of them happen to have positive reviews. From the poster, the character is closer to looking like a Werehog or something due to the amount of fur, realism and creepiness. Not even the mascot outfit may look like the one in the poster. Well, they can shoehorn the franchise all they want like there's no problem but a live action movie based on it is a bad idea in the first place
- Gamehut's Coding Secrets - Fire effect with S***c sprite on it: Jon Burton, a former game developer from Travelers' Tales had come up with the Coding Secrets series of videos on how things were made for games developed by the company back then in creative ways but this one is superseding the fire effect used for Mickey Mania. The video title sort of caught me the attention and especially for the thumbnail for the S***c R prototype model video which had the prototype model of A** cutting S***c with the saw from her car.
And those were what happened against the S***c franchise in the negative ways.