Recolor

A recolor is a type of original character that involves recoloring an existing Sonic character to different colors to make it seem "original", However recolors are not original as they are easily just Sonic characters changed to different colors they have been criticized for plagiarism and have since been banned from the community. There is even another on community on Google+ known as "The Anti-Recolors Main Base" started by Fleetway Sonic.