Hints
Roots
Roots noun - The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage.
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Cullen Bunn even hints via Word of God that Exodus threw this fight, harkening to this trope's earliest roots.
Source: Comic Book / Uncanny X-Men -
Once they stop being Red Eyes, Take Warning and we have some hints that Children Are Innocent, even ones like gnarled roots.
Source: Green Eyes -
Due to complaints about this, Sega has been consciously going back to the series more lighthearted, cartoony roots, with hints of it in Sonic Unleashed (despite still taking itself seriously), and officially starting with Sonic Colors.
Source: Franchise / Sonic the Hedgehog
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