Notes:

Thought the gallery could do with some redesigns that weren't Boom ones.
Art by Knockabiller, link here.
(The artist has come up with some frighteningly believable fan reactions to these designs, you can read them in the link but I'll post them here too.)

There was a period of time early on where Blaze never showed her hands except on some pictures in the screensaver, so there was big debate in many usenet groups as to whether they even existed, or whether her match-like tail is one of them (it's a bit of a shiteyanyo-type meme in japan)

Silver's glowing marks are a major point of contention for whiny dig-your-heels-in fans: they've always been circle outlines on both sides of his hands in official japanese art, but in the american cartoon they were solid, round gems on the back of his hands only, causing megatons of butthurt to erupt across the country once his design was modernized for Silver Adventure