Cream the Rabbit is a Sonic character that often gets a lot of criticism - whether it’s
because of her behaviour, her literally cheesy name with her Chao sidekick Cheese, or because
of her voice.
Often, she has an incredibly high pitched squeak when she speaks, and tends to have
a habit of crying a lot.
That being said, the pair still have a pretty large fan base, and loyal players who are
always jazzed to see when they’re included in a game.
First appearing in Sonic Advance 2, the duo would quickly become reoccurring characters,
and have amassed a bit of an interesting history over the years.
So today, we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Cream the Rabbit and Cheese
Surprising Facts.
We’ll be primarily focusing on Cream for this list since the character has a more expansive
history than her Chao sidekick, but fear not!
Cheese will get some loving too.
With that in mind, let’s jump in!
10 A Fox Initially, Cream was conceived to be a Fox
character rather than a rabbit.
The prototype artwork of the character depicts her as a fox not dissimilar to Tails, but
with pigtails and a bow.
Another initial sketch looks quite like a squirrel, but inevitably, Sega ended up going
with a rabbit instead.
Speaking her origins, Cream's name was intended to be a pun of two foods according to Yuji
Naka, if that wasn’t already obvious - Vanilla Cream, in association with her mother Vanilla
the Rabbit, and Cream Cheese with Cheese the Chao.
9 Cheese’s Origins How about Cheese’s origins though?
According to Sega, the character was initially designed to be a playable one for beginner
players.
But instead, this was changed to Cream getting the Chao as her constant sidekick in order
to give her an offensive maneuver.
This choice was made because Sega thought that if she had a different kind of attack,
it was damage Cream’s image as a ‘sweet girl’ if she were to strike enemies herself.
There are only there games where Cream is not with Cheese - Sonic Adventure DX Directors
Cut, Sonic Free Riders and Shadow the Hedgehog.
8 Amy’s Sidekick What Tails is to Sonic, Cream is to Amy Rose.
Amy often fills a big sister role to Cream, and they’ve worked together many a time.
Along with Big the Cat, the two of them are on Team Rose in Sonic Heroes.
The two often look out for each other in the other games in the franchise, and interact
often in cutscenes, with Amy Rose constantly looking out for her younger pal.
In Sonic Advance 3, they make up Team Jubilee.
And if you’re the type whose craving some Amy/Cream platform action, there’s plenty
of mods that have been crafted for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 that replace Sonic and Tails for
Amy and Cream, which is pretty darn cool.
7 Her Family Cream was the very first character in the
Sonic franchise to have been noted to have a known parent.
Her mother is Vanilla the Rabbit, who also made her debut in Sonic Advance 2.
She’s kidnapped alongside Cream and Cheese by Dr Eggman, and once Sonic saves Cream and
Cheese, they seek out Vanilla, who tends to have a habit of getting kidnapped by the mad
scientist - she’s kidnapped twice in the game.
Her later appearances are more cameo-esque, popping up during parts of Cream’s narratives,
or interacting briefly with Sonic, typically about Cream’s whereabouts.
Parents in general aren’t overly common in the franchise’s games, although a few
characters do bring it up, including Tikal (another character whose parent is actually
known as a character rather than just being mentioned in a throwaway line of dialogue).
6 Her Age If Cream is always getting a lot of heat for
being a character that has such a high pitched voice and cries quite often, you’d think
that Sega would revise their approach on her, no?
Well, there’s a very valid reason as to why they haven’t - it’s because Cream
is a child.
When we are first introduced to her in Sonic Advance 2, Cream is 6 years old.
5 Shipping Now that you all know Cream’s age, it’s
time to weird you the F out by talking about all of the ships that fans of the series have
dreamed up for the young rabbit character.
While initially that doesn’t sound bad - really, what could be wrong about her and Tails being
an adorable little couple together?
- consider one ship that gets more interest than it should - Cream and Doctor Ivo Eggman
Robotnik.
Yes, a grown ass man with a walrus moustache.
The villain seems a whole lot more pervy now, doesn’t he?
Cheese also has it’s own ships, too, weirdly enough.
ChaoShipping is the ship namer Cream and Cheese, TripleDesertShipping is between Cream, Cheese
and Chocola, and Sweets Buffet Shipping is Vanilla, Cream, Cheese and Chocola - here’s
hoping all of these are just platonic family ships, though.
4 Sonic Advance Cream and Cheese are never characters you’d
imagine as being a top pick for when it comes to fighting bosses in the Sonic games.
But, turns out there’s one series where the duo are a stellar choice - Sonic Advance.
This is because Cream’s flight abilities allows players to better avoid the attacks
of the bosses in that series, and that you can throw Cheese at a boss without even moving,
which can result in an easy way to avoid taking any damage at all.
How sneaky.
3 McDonald’s McDoanld’s has always embraced pop culture
hits when it comes to Happy Meals.
Most major kid-adored franchises have had done their time as happy meal toys in the
past, and of course, you can bet that that includes our favourite blue hedgehog.
There’s been some pretty cool Sonic themed merch over the years, from toys released for
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in 1994, to handheld LCD games in 2003 and 2004 in celebration
of Sonic Adventure DX Director’s Cut, Sonic X, and Sonic Heroes.
Cream has appeared in a few of the commercials promoting these Happy Meals, including the
notoriously bad one from Pakistan - where all of the characters do NOT look like the
characters.
But aside from that, she did get a starring role in another McDonald’s ad alongside
Sonic and two very enthused kids for the 2004 Sonic Heroes happy meal toys.
2 Sonic Jump Cream’s jam is primarily cameos - she’s
only appeared in three main series console games over the years.
She’s even been cut from games in the past, too.
This includes Sonic Jump - the 2012 mobile game that Sega released that recently became
available as a Facebook game.
It earned a hefty amount of controversy when it was unearthed that the game was collecting
data it shouldn’t of been.
Classic Sega.
Anywho, in a more positive reveal, turns out Cream, along with Shadow and Vector, were
supposed to be included in the app version, but were never released since Sega decided
to stop updating the app.
Despite it being on Facebook, it was announced that there were no plans to add more characters
to the game.
Cheese would have followed Cream around in the game, collecting rings for her.
Side note, based on these assets, when she curls up, it appears that she has two sets
of ears.
1 Sonic Adventure DX: Director’s Cut Sonic games have a history of slipping in
little Easter eggs of their characters from time to time.
Most notably perhaps is the inclusion of Big the Cat running through the cut scenes of
Sonic Adventure 2, resulting in some pretty comical reactions from players.
Turns out Cream has her own little cameos in another Sonic game - SonicAdventure DX:
Director’s Cut.
While they aren’t as hilarious or awkward as Big’s cameos, Cream appears in the GameCube
and PC version of the game - and also the Xbox 360 and PS3 version Sonic Adventure,
too.
You can spot her at various points flying around Station Square, near the station itself
and Twinkle Park, and the area surrounding Casinopolis.
This, minus her trophy cameo in Super Smash Bros Brawl, is the only smaller size cameo
where she just appears rather than being an unlock able playable character, like in Sonic
Riders.
There we have it friends!
How do you feel about Cream and Cheese?
Do you dislike them, like a lot of other sonic fans?
Or do you think they get a lot of unnecessary criticism, and people should be a little kinder?
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