Mike Pollock Recast From Indie Cartoon Following Argument Sonic Fans

Summary

Mike Pollock, best known for playing Dr. Eggman in theSonic the Hedgehogseries, is being recast from an upcoming show. Kenny and the Defenders of Cosmiria, an independent cartoon that was announced last August, will now proceed without Pollock and has started looking for a new actor to take his role.

This is in response to Pollock’s recent social media activity, in which he argued with fans over his position on Israel and Palestine. In particular, he has come under fire for referring to dead Palestinians as “collateral damage”.

Mike Pollock Recast In Kenny And The Defenders Of Cosmiria

The team behind the show says that they “gave him another chance after his apology”, referring to aprevious incidentin which the actor argued about Israel and Palestine with fans online. Here, he said that he made a “knee-jerk reaction” after engaging in the conversation.

However, many people online, particularly in theSoniccommunity, have accused Pollock of going back on this in a new wave of replies yesterday.

In response to TheGamer, Pollock said, “I have not been contacted by the producers of Kenny and the Defenders of Cosmiria about any matter since September of 2023.” The show’s creator did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

Pollock has not publicly responded to the news of being recast at the time of writing. In his previous apology, he said the following on the issue:

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Zionist in the political sense of the term, often associated with colonialism and genocide. I’m against that. I can endorse the traditional sense of the word, which is Jews having a homeland to call their own. Every group, including Palestinians, should have some kind of safe haven, but I don’t know how to solve that problem with the current feuding that’s continuing, or where those safe spaces can be.

Kenny and the Defenders of Cosmiria’s creator has not made another statement on the matter since announcing that Pollock had been removed from the show. We will update this report with any response that we receive.