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Amy Rose is the Perfect Feminine Heroine

With her classic debut happening near 30 years after being introduced in Sonic CD, Amy Rose has become as well knowm as the rest of the cast with very little changing bar just getting older.

In her debut she was introduced in a green blouse with orange skirt looking closer to the default Sonic design, this is a far cry from the prototype eras where Sonic had a human girlfriend with a curvy figure and red dress akin to Betty Boop with a blonde wig; her role was to play damsel and I've said this before, there's nothing wrong with being a damsel character if it's proven that the one who kidnapped you is shown as very threatening, this of course was Metal Sonic, this is why I usually give Princess Peach a pass going up against Bowser. From there, Amy shows up in racing titles with her own car and Sonic the Fighters with her Piko Piko Hammer, Sonic Adventure was the breakthrough game sporting an older look that gave her a retro red dress and a new hair style which still acts as her design today.
She starts out running from a robot pursuer only to fight back at the end perhaps being inspired by Sonic's constant heroics, from there she was a frequently playable character.
Her personality started as a hopeless tween romantic, becoming a more active romantic when she decided to simply get what she wants, some of my other favourite iterations includes Fleetway Sonic as a more committed Freedom Fighter dressed in a plaid skirt or combat pants, this version is closer to Sonic's more heroic traits complete with her own sidekick; Sonic X as a more fleshed out version from the games and Sonic Boom where she develops a more peace keeper mentality akin to a therapist.
At no point does she ever sacrifice her feminine persona to follow other female protagonists in the recent trend of action girls with no colour palette, Amy has evolved in the right way to remain as popular as her Nintendo counterpart Princess Peach and that popularity has made her playable in the classic games as of this Friday.