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Those stories got rendered non-canon a while back.

...Clearly he said something about the character so it doesn't even apply to him. And I'm just as interspersed with Ian's word.

Shard is...one of the few characters that truly is ambiguous as to whether he can be used. Ian still had plans for him long after Scourge was taken off cards, at least.

At the moment, it seems like all the characters bar SEGA, SatAM and a select few of Ian's characters are barred. And I doubt any of them will return

From what I've been able to gather, one of the ads wasn't appropriate for the target audience (Advertising a mature rated comic) so it's been recalled. Replacements are being printed though so it's only a delay, really.

With Sonic Live gone, it's gotta be either the Sabrina crossover or Naugus Games (SSS#15 version), assuming that this is genuine and not just a joke on his part.

Scourge still seems like he can't be used based off what Ian has said. Same would likely apply to Moebius. And the No Zone.

Scourge seems like he can't be used, but Naugus is completely safe and will be explored in the future.

The Chaotix had the last full SU arc prior to the crossover, then appeared in the crossover. They've been pretty regular lately.

Ian gave a detailed reason for why SEGA don't want it reprinted. I've quoted it exactly, formatting included, and it's spoilered for size. I'd say it was because SEGA view it as irrelevant. It hasn't been part of the active franchise since the comic ended half a decade ago.

There's already one confirmed major change in age; Charmy is six post-crossover.

And it's been confirmed that SEGA don't want the Sonic X comic reprinted. So at the mo it's rather dead.

Female only excludes 16 characters, pairs having to be 1 male and 1 female excludes no characters, just makes things unbalanced. Different circumstances.

It's an official regulation for pair figure skating in real life, so SEGA were probably made to adhere to their rules. You can still go for a romantic sleigh ride in the same game.

It was an easter egg put in by ArchAngelUK who was staff at the time of Sonic Generations' development, which SEGA allowed. Then Iizuka said that the characters would have to be reintroduced as new characters if they were to be used again, so these are literally just non-canon references. Cute though.

It's E106 Eta. E107 Theta was originally going to be the robot's name, but it turned out that he'd already mentioned such a thing in the Light Mobius future and he didn't want to allude to concepts from those future storylines. So it was changed.

Mighty won't be there. That's been confirmed.