MEET PHOEBE!
A brawler who controls her enemies with projectiles that splash into large areas based on how far they travel and her super which lets her eat an enemy target and turn it into a projectile!
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🚨 Andrea VS Sprout: Who was Supercell sued by and when? 📋
Although many of the recent discussions online have been mentioning that Supercell was sued by a French company that owns the Andrea Air Purifier, this statement is incorrect. In actuality, Supercell was sued by one person – Mathieu Lehanneur, and this conflict has been brewing for nearly 6 years.
Mathieu Lehanneur is a French designer, best known for combining design, science, technology, and nature in his projects. Rather than focusing on traditional furniture or decorative objects, he often creates designs that solve practical problems or explore how people interact with their environment.
Together with David Edwards (an American biomedical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and former professor at Harvard University), Lehanneur developed the Andrea Air Purifier, which was the subject of a U.S. patent application filed on October 8th, 2008, and was later marketed in 2009.
On June 29th, 2020 (just 2.5 months after Sprout's release in Brawl Stars), Lehanneur sent Supercell a formal notice alleging infringement and demanding that Supercell cease using the design. Then, on October 27th, 2021, he sent a second formal notice, this time specifically invoking his rights under French copyright law.
Supercell then rejected those claims on November 8th, 2021, on the grounds that the air purifier was not an original copyrighted work and that Brawl Stars' character Sprout did not infringe it. However, that didn't stop the French designer.
On December 10th, 2021, Mathieu Lehanneur had a report drawn up on the Internet, and subsequently sued Supercell for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was formally initiated on December 17th, 2021, and later proceeded through the French court system under case number RG 22/01196.
One of Supercell's arguments during the legal dispute was that Andrea had been developed with the involvement of David Edwards, so Lehanneur might not be the only holder of the rights. The court examined that issue in detail, and according to the judgment, Edwards stated that his contribution was limited to the technical and scientific aspects of the project and that he did not claim any copyright in the artistic design of Andrea. The court therefore recognized Lehanneur as the sole author of the protected design for the purposes of the case and held that he could sue alone.
After nearly 4 years of court proceedings, the judgment was issued on December 4th, 2025, by the Paris Judicial Court, finding that Sprout's design has infringed the copyright of the Andrea Air Purifier.
The court ordered Supercell to pay damages, disclose certain financial information related to Sprout's exploitation in France, and cease using the infringing design in France. While the court rejected Lehanneur's separate claim of parasitism, it ruled in his favor on the central copyright infringement claim.
🚨 A FULL RECAP OF THE DELETED TWEETS SITUATION! 🚨
5 days ago, @ruffsxevecanon noticed that a Brawl Stars post from the 2022 Biodome season containing the heights of several Brawlers had been deleted for unknown reasons. At first we theorized that this might be related to lore changes, with Supercell potentially going back and removing older media that no longer fits the modern version of the game's lore. We thought that was where the story ended.
Then, a day ago, @H_dile5 & @TheBrawlerMain discovered that two more posts had been deleted: the Bo x Charlie wedding post and the artwork celebrating Brawl Stars' 7th anniversary. At that point, we started to believe that Supercell was actually trying to get rid of the Bo x Charlie relationship entirely, a pairing that originated from a community event. It seemed like such a failure that even the developers had decided to erase everything related to it.
However, what happened last night changed everything. @6upTeapotDragon discovered that this wasn't about Bo x Charlie at all, nor was it about fixing the lore. It was about removing Sprout's current design. Every deleted Brawl Stars social media post had one thing in common: Sprout appeared in it. At that point, it was no longer a coincidence, and people started getting concerned.
Then, a Reddit user (u/Xedipme) discovered that Supercell had previously been sued over the use of an air purifier design that was allegedly used as the basis for Sprout's model. According to the official sources, Supercell lost the case and ended up paying more than €300,000 in fines and related costs.
On top of that, they may now be required to remove the disputed design from the game. The only ways to do that would be either remodeling Sprout or removing the character entirely. That would explain why Sprout is disappearing from Brawl Stars' social media posts. Supercell may not have had much of a choice. They pretty much have been forced to remove any content featuring him.
Supercell hasn't said anything publicly yet, and it's possible that their legal team advised them to stay quiet until a solution is ready to be implemented.
This whole situation is completely random. It's absurd. How did Supercell manage to end up in a situation where they could potentially lose one of the community's most beloved Brawlers? We all know Sprout's design is fantastic and has felt like a natural part of Brawl Stars since day one.
It's a sad day for the community and easily one of the strangest pieces of Brawl Stars news we've ever had to hear.
@DarkDeceptionDD Another issue: where are the checkpoints/save points in the level? After encountering the boss fight bug, I had to restart the level, but instead of loading from the boss fight, the entire level started from the beginning.
@DarkDeceptionDD There is a serious bug on consoles. The menu interface text is not displayed in any language (I'm talking about the menu UI, not the in-game dialogue). Also, during the clown boss fight, if I die, the clowns do not respawn and I get stuck, making it impossible to continue level.