OK, this is long overdue, since the Metal Virus arc ended about four years ago (and what I mean by long overdue is not overdue by four years, it's overdue by a year, since that was when IDW was fully considered canon). Time to start my PG proposal career with Cream the Rabbit.
What's The Work?
Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game franchise about a blue hedgehog named Sonic, who, alongside his friends, fights Dr. Eggman and stops his schemes to take over the world. They fight other villains too.
Who Is She?
Cream is a major protagonist in the franchise who debuted in Sonic Advance 2 for the GBA. She's a polite, kind, caring, and brave bunny who will do anything for her friends.
In her debut game, Sonic Advance 2, she tries to save her mother from Dr. Eggman.
In Sonic Heroes, her next appearance, she's part of Team Rose, who wanted to find Froggy and Chocola and later on, helped Team Sonic defeat Metal Overlord.
In Sonic Battle, she takes care of Emerl, but Eggman paralyzes him and takes the two to the Gimme Shelter to use them as hostages to trap Sonic.
In Sonic Advance 3, she, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy restore the world after it shattered into seven pockets of reality.
In Sonic Rush, she plays a huge role in reforming Blaze, helping her open up to others as she explores the vicinity with Blaze, since Blaze felt she had a deeper bond with her.
In Sonic Generations, she's one of Sonic's friends who was captured by the Time Eater. She's specifically trapped in Speed Highway.
In IDW Comics, she doesn't do that much compared to others, but her most admirable act comes from these, and she played a big role in saving the world from the Metal Virus.
In Sonic Dream Team, Eggman kidnaps her so that he can enter the dreamscapes and use the reverie to conquer the world.
Admirable Standards?
OK, the admirable standards were the reason why Cream was originally removed. However, I don't think she fails the admirable standards to anybody. And the reason why I think she passes the admirable standards is because she played a key role in saving the world from the Metal Virus, a fate worse than death. And it's in the scenes above and below this text.
Cream stops Whisper from killing Eggman while he, Sonic, and friends were talking about how they could get rid of the Metal Virus. And this isn't Fridge Brilliance either. As shown in the picture above, she says that the main reason she wanted Whisper to spare Eggman is because Eggman could come up with the plan to save everyone from the Metal Virus. Plus yes, Tangle seemed to be unaware of the state she was in after the Metal Virus was cured, but that doesn't change the fact that it would've destroyed the world, since according to Tails, who is an intelligent character, the Metal Virus could kill everyone in the planet in 200 years. Silver, a time traveler, confirms this.
And below the second picture of this scene, we see Eggman coming up the plan to save everyone from the Metal Virus. Use the Warp Topaz and Super Sonic (which requires the Chaos Emeralds) to get rid of the Metal Virus. This ends up working, so basically, without Cream stopping Whisper from killing Eggman, the Metal Virus would not have been cured. This stands out, since she had low resources in that scene. Speaking of the plan, this leads me to my next point in the fourth picture here.
With low resources, Cream snatched one of the Chaos Emeralds from Zeena, thus making her (along with the rest of the characters that did this that I am gonna mention later) responsible for helping Sonic and Silver get rid of the Metal Virus. If that previous point wasn't enough for you, this would back it up. She did this with lower resources than the other characters who also snatched an Emerald from a Zeti from the Deadly Six as well, like Tails and Amy, who are much smarter and stronger respectively, Whisper, who had a Variable Wispon, the Babylon Rogues, with Jet being able to blow gusts of wind, Storm being stronger than Cream, and Wave using a long wrench to get the Chaos Emerald, and Espio using his invisibility against Zazz. As for Sonic and Silver, no need to explain why they have higher resources than Cream. So yeah, any of these two points are enough for her to qualify. Maybe Cream and Wave are equal in this regard? Because, to be fair, Gemerl helped her in snatching an emerald from Zeena. Well, to answer that, Wave had backup from someone who could blow huge gusts of wind with one of his weapons (Jet) and a brute (Storm), so I think Cream wins out compared to Wave in this regard.
In summary, I think Cream passes the admirable standards, not only for letting Eggman come up with his plan to stop the Metal Virus by stopping Whisper from shooting him, but also because her team (which only consisted of Gemerl and her) has lower resources than the rest of the teams, even the Babylon Rogues, yet she still succeeded at snatching the Chaos Emerald from Zeena.
Corrupting Factors?
Oh, this is no problem for Cream. We don't see her be mean towards anybody. She's always polite, kind, and caring to all she meets and only fights others when it's needed. The ending in Dream Team doesn't even come close to counting, as all she orders Cheese to do is make Eggman sleep, so it's not even close to being lethal.
Final Verdict
Like I said, this has been a long time coming. And, honestly, I've been waiting for a long time to do this. But it's not a very strong yes, to be fair. There are debates about one of her actions being a little indirect and her action of getting the Chaos Emerald from Zeena not being enough to stand out from the rest, but for the first point, she knew that Eggman had to come up with a plan to stop the Metal Virus, and for the second point, her team has lower resources than all of the other teams, so yes nonetheless.