Well in the new Sonic they're made him the police off to arrest Shadow.
Look I'm probably too old to give a shit about this anymore, but god damn do I hate how out of character movie Sonic is.
Sonic is an anarchist. He hates cops, that's true of all the mainline games.
Even that anime from the 2000s got that right.
Movie Sonic is a wimpy uncool dweeb that want's to be a cop. I couldn't think of anything more not-Sonic than that.
I'm kinda going in a lot of directions with this, but it sucks seeing sonic okay with the status quo.
One of the earliest features in his games was that he saved animals. Up until sonic adventure 2, sonic would free animals because that was his thing. He dismantled drilling operations and factories. He actively fought a guy who exploited nature for bullshit self interest.
But they present a version of Sonic who could enter our world and not have a problem with it.
The movies are just so badly conceived that I cannot believe it enough to suspend my disbelief.