When I was a kid I was way into the UK Sonic the Hedgehog comics, and my absolute favourite Sonic character as a result was Amy. The writers of the comic seemed to have realised (even way back then in the 90s) that “girl who likes sonic” is a pretty flimsy personality so they made her tough and capable and she wore combat trousers and used a crossbow and she was my life goal.

It was only years later when I discovered that actually, canon Amy is completely different and boy howdy was that a disappointing discovery. Oh well. Here is british Amy and her gal pal Tekno