@7656y also cause it’s more than likely they talk about it in the context of him being loyal to eggman, which completely misses the point of the form. it’s metal at his most independent and when he’s evolved past just being eggman’s puppet and sonic’s copycat. but the aura tho!
I find how Pac-Man is characterized in the World games to be so endearing. He’s just such a nice normal guy. I can imagine Mario and Sonic animatedly describing their crazy world-fairing adventures to him and he’d be like, “That’s great! I just paid off my pac-mortgage myself!”