Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog / Characters

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Sonic

Sonic the Hedgehog

Gotta speed, keed!

Voiced by: Jaleel White (English), Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese)

100% Heroism Rating: Except for the villains, everyone on Mobius loves Sonic.
The Ace: Sonic is world-famous, very clever, has incredible powers, wins every race and just about every fight he’s in, and girls throw themselves at him.
Adaptational Badass: Game!Sonic is certainly a force to be reckoned with, but what he could do at the time was greatly limited by his games being 2D platformers, not so much in a cartoon. To wit, he's considerably faster, being able to run across the entire world in mere minutes and was able to run on water a year before Sonic 3 & Knuckles made the canon Sonic capable of such a feat. In addition, while his ball form is capable of destroying Robotnik's contraptions, he was never shown using it like an actual buzzsaw or burrowing underground. He's also shown being able to swim in The Little Merhog whereas the canon Sonic is notoriously poor at swimming.
Adaptational Intelligence: While not a blockhead in canon by any means, Sonic is more the type to rush headlong into a situation and mainly use physical confrontation to defeat Robotnik's creations, which is typically balanced out by Tails. In this show, he's a Karmic Trickster that outsmarts his opponents about as much as he roughs them up. Many of the Sonic Says segments have him profess how much he values reading and education as well.
Amusingly Awful Aim: Magnificent Sonic shows Sonic to be such a bad shot with a laser gun that he quite literally can't hit the broad side of a barn when he's standing right next to it.
Attractive Bent-Gender: He manages to seduce Robotnik while dressed as an attractive Blonde in Sonic is Running, and even marries him in Best Hedgehog while disguised as Lucinda, his high school crush.
Badbutt: He has the stereotypical young hipster's attitude from the '80s and the '90s who lives to the extreme, being overactive, slightly sarcastic and cheeky, and using Totally Radical phrases. In truth, he is pretty mild compared to other more modern stereotypes.
Batman Gambit: He frequently does these to Robotnik and his lackeys in order to stop Robotnik's plans.
Berserk Button: Calling him slow really seems to tick him off.
Best Friend: To Tails.
Big Brother Instinct: Probably the most emphasized usage of any Sonic incarnation. He looks out for Tails constantly and regularly goes frantic the moment something happens to him.
Blood Knight: One of the nicer examples of how to be one. He always loves a good, risky challenge and fighting (without killing) Robotnik, but the moment Robotnik claims that he has given up his life of crime, Sonic respects it though clearly feeling that his life lost much of its momentum.
Burning Rubber: He often leaves a trail of fire when running. In The Mystery of the Missing Hi-Tops, it is revealed that his shoes are friction-proof, and thus his feet would literally burn up if he tried running without them.
Captured on Purpose: He pulls this off twice:
- In Sonic Breakout, Sketch Lampoon is imprisoned by Dr. Robotnik for making an unflattering caricature of him in his latest issue of Crack Ups. Sonic purposely allows Scratch and Grounder to capture him so that he can escape from his cell and rescue Sketch. Unfortunately, this plan backfires when Robotnik reveals that he built a Tailor-Made Prison just for Sonic.
- In Zoobotnik, Katella the Intergalactic Huntress captures everyone on Mobius, including Tails. When she and Robotnik team up to capture Sonic, Sonic willingly falls for the trap in order to find and rescue Tails and the rest of the Mobians.
Character Catchphrase: "Up, over, and gooone!", "I'm waaaaiiiiiiitiiiiiing…", "Gotta speed, keed!", "You got it ace - let's race!" amongst other rhyming phrases that have naturally a lot do with speed and running.
Chick Magnet: He has a lot of admirers.
The Chosen One: He was apparently prophesied to save the kingdom featured in Hedgehog of the Hound Table, if the legend of the Holy Hedgehog is any indication.
Determinator: Even when his foes oddly give him a genuine challenge, Sonic is not one to back down.
Disguised in Drag: He does this all the time, in addition to putting on ordinary male disguises. Despite always being obviously in disguise, Robotnik and his cronies never seem to be able to tell it's him, with a few small exceptions. This is slightly lampshaded in Close Encounters of the Sonic Kind, where Sonic dresses up in a red dress, fruit hat, and lipstick to do something "really funny and cool" to destroy a device Scratch and Grounder were using but decides against because the two of them were already wrecking it in the midst of bickering over Grounder's nose.
Famed In-Story: Sonic is the most famous hero on Mobius.
Fatal Flaw: Though he's not quite egomaniacal about it like some other incarnations, Sonic can be very confident in his abilities throughout the cartoon. Robotnik has exploited Sonic's cocky streak more than once.
Friendly Enemy: He at least tries to keep Robotnik's henchbots from hurting themselves in the "Sonic Says" segments.
Good Is Not Dumb: Sonic is the hero of the show, and one of the smartest and sanest characters of the show.
Guile Hero: Achieves victory through his wits just as often as his speed.
Hammerspace: Where all of his disguises come from. He seems to be capable of using it to conjure any object so long as it has a connection to a disguise, and he occasionally uses these in combat or to save people. Usually, his disguises are used for messing with people, especially Scratch and Grounder.
Heroic RRoD: Very rarely, but yes, Sonic can be tired out. Exploited for Robotnik's Evil Plan in Mass Transit Trouble.
Hidden Depths: As corny as the Sonic Says segments are, he shows this at times in them. In one he talks about how great reading is, and in many others, he shows genuine concern for the safety of children.
Invincible Hero: He's more-or-less this. Robotnik, Scratch, and Grounder very seldom get the opportunity to lock him up in a trap he can’t easily escape from.
- The extent of this varied from episode to episode due to a bit of Power Creep, Power Seep. There were at least a few odd times Sonic was outsmarted or put in genuine danger by Robotnik (usually when the show wanted to play on Sonic's Determinator role or let Tails have a moment as the hero, or just show what an evil bastard Robotnik truly could be).
- Comically Invincible Hero: On average, how much of an edge he had over Robotnik depended on what was funniest.
Iconic Outfit: Just like in the mainline games, Sonic is almost never seen without his iconic red shoes. As shown in The Mystery of The Missing Hi-Tops, Sonic needs them to run at high speeds without burning up his feet.
Karmic Trickster: The show nudges Sonic's characterization into this category, where he uses all sorts of mental tricks and misdirection to deflate Robotnik's plans.
KidAnova: In keeping with his Chick Magnet status, this incarnation of Sonic has the obsession with the opposite sex one would expect of a teenager. Scratch actually comes pretty close to trapping Sonic by exploiting his lust with an inflatable hand puppet resembling a teenage animal girl.
Kid Hero: Sonic is a teenager and the hero of the show.
The Kirk: This incarnation of Sonic enjoys adrenaline-inducing activities like his Game! counterpart, but is shown to take rules and responsibility seriously, as is shown in the Sonic Says segments and his relationship with Tails. Many of his antics are also intellectual as well as physical.
- It's implied that he could be trying to behave better so as to serve as a better role model to Tails.
Knight in Shining Armor: Takes up the mantle of the legendary Holy Hedgehog in Hedgehog of the Hound Table.
Loved by All: Well, everyone except Robotnik and his minions. People love him so much that a town named a day “Sonic Day” in his honor in The Mystery Of The Missing Hi-Tops and a bank started printing 12-Mobium bills with his face on them in The Magic Hassle.
Magnetic Hero: Sonic immediately makes friends with almost every non-evil person he meets, and the few people he meets who don’t like him right away will like him by the end of the episode, such as Spelunk and Easy Eddie. He even makes friends out of two villains, Breezie and Robotnik Jr, leading them to do a Heel–Face Turn.
Mr. Vice Guy: Occasional overconfidence, which often leads him into serious trouble.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Much of Sonic's disguises are this. One's just Sonic with a hat and a bag of mail, and they fall for it.
- Lampshaded by Sonic when, to his alarm, sufficient doses of downloaded ninjutsu allow Scratch and Grounder to see through a disguise.
  - Also, in Grounder the Genius, twice. The first time, Sonic visits the fortress disguised as a "Chip Recycler" to try and find the genius chip. When Grounder says he has it in his head, Sonic tries to snatch it, but Grounder had anticipated this and petrifies him. Later, Grounder quickly deduces that the bull-shaped award a disguised Sonic gives him is meant to attract the lightning from his own weapon and throws it away.
- At one point, Sonic even winks at the audience while showing himself through disguise.
- In Too Tall Tails, Sonic actually takes off his disguise midway through one of his schemes. Scratch and Grounder still don't recognize him!
  - Dr. Robotnik actually does manage to see through the majority of Sonic's disguises. However, the few times he does it is either a few moments too late, or he's too far away to tell Grounder and Scratch, the ones typically being tricked.
Parental Substitute: To Tails, who happily accepts that Sonic's his "mom, dad, and picket-fence".
Powerful and Helpless: In The Mystery Of The Missing Hi Tops, it's revealed that Sonic requires his special shoes in order to protect his feet from friction while using Super-Speed. Without them, he can still run as fast as ever, but not without injuring himself.
Required Secondary Powers: Downplayed. Without his shoes, Sonic cannot use his Super-Speed without burning his feet which means he has all the necessary secondary powers for super speed except "feet durable enough to withstand extreme heat caused by friction".
Rhymes on a Dime: Whenever he gets ready for action, he uses one of his catchphrases that qualify.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Sonic in some of his disguises counts and is sharper than his quills.
Smug Super: At times. You could argue that this is his biggest character flaw, though he isn't mean about it. He can be condescending towards non-powered individuals. In other words, everyone else. He also sometimes fails to anticipate when Robotnik and his goons can be an actual threat to him.
Super-Speed: Sonic's main power is his incredible speed, which allows him to match Robotnik's machines. It's revealed that he outran Hodgepodge, the former Fastest Thing Alive.
Trademark Favorite Food: Sonic often eats chili-dogs, which eventually becomes a staple to his character in the franchise.
Walking the Earth: His home is never shown and he travels a lot.

Tails

Miles "Tails" Prower

Voiced by: Russi Taylor (EN, Pilot) Christopher Stephen Welch (EN), Chris Turner (EN, Sonic Christmas Blast), Nariko Fujieda (JP), Matina Karras (GR)

Adaptation Dye-Job: In the games, his fur is orange. Here, it's brown (which is actually Truth in Television, as real-life fox kits are born with brown fur that turns orange as they get older). This was due to DIC being given early sprites as a color reference for the character.
Adaptational Wimp: While he was pretty capable in the games, here, he's the Designated Victim and gets kidnapped by Robotnik every couple of episodes. He's not totally incompetent however and role reversals where he saves Sonic do occur.
Age Lift: He was aged down from 8 in the games to 4 1/2.
Balloon Belly: A natural result of his eating habits is ending up with one. The most memorable one is in Boogie-Mania.
Best Friend: To Sonic.
Big Brother Worship: Sonic is Tails’ adopted big brother and Tails idolizes him.
Big Eater: It's even a major plot-point in one episode, where he keeps getting bigger and bigger the more he eats (and the bigger he gets, the hungrier he gets).
Child Prodigy: Keeps up with Sonic, saves the day on occasion, built a flying bicycle from scrap, studies the Big Bang in kindergarten — and is four-and-a-half years old.
Deadpan Snarker: Tails can sometimes show a sarcastic streak as much as Sonic, especially towards Scratch and Grounder, and even Sonic himself.
Designated Victim: He gets kidnapped about every five episodes or so.
Do Not Call Me "Paul": In "Tails' New Home", Sonic threatening to reveal his real name Miles is enough to get him to leave while Sonic deals with Scratch and Grounder.
Dub Name Change: The Polish dub of Christmas Blast calls him Puszek ("Fluffy").
Embarrassing First Name: He freely admits he hates his real name, Miles. Sonic used this to his advantage to blackmail him out of danger in "Tails' New Home".
Sonic: You get out of here now, or I'll tell everyone your real name is "Miles".
Tails: No! Not that! [scrams]
Gadgeteer Genius: Not as prominent as his video game counterpart, but he has his moments.
Girls Have Cooties: What he believes. It's actually helpful from time to time.
Happily Adopted: Sonic meets Tails when the fox is just a baby, orphaned and looking for a family. Sonic then adopts Tails as a brother and becomes his caretaker.
- "Tails' New Home", focuses on Sonic trying to give Tails a stable life and a new family in concern for his safety. Tails, however, is perfectly happy living with the blue blur.
Sonic: Sorry for all of the trouble, squirt. I was just trying to find you a real family.
Tails: I got a real family. I got the best!
Sonic: Yeah? Where?
Tails: A family is just people who care about each other more than anyone else, right?
Sonic: Right.
Tails: You're it! You're my mom, you're my dad, and you're my picket fence!
Heli-Critter: Just like in the games, he can spin his tails like a helicopter rotor to fly.
Hero-Worshipper: Tails talks a lot about how cool Sonic is and how he’s the world’s greatest hero.
I Just Want to Be Special: Not a surprise, considering that his big brother figure and idol is a superhero.
Kid Sidekick: He's only four, and is always hanging out with Sonic and accompanying him on adventures.
The Millstone: He has a habit of being this to Sonic. While still often helping Sonic, his childishness or slowness on the uptake sometimes causes complications. Robotnik and his minions also capture him or use him as a pawn against Sonic on several occasions.
Only Known by Their Nickname: You can count the times he's called "Miles" on one hand. This actually becomes a plot point in "Tails' New Home", when a couple appears claiming to be his parents. Sonic eventually realizes that, if they were really his parents, they shouldn't have been calling him Tails; they should have been calling him Miles.
- The only time Tails introduces himself as "Miles Prower" is in the episode "Tails' Tale", when he was meeting one of his heroes. Coincidentally, that episode also features a very rare mention of Robotnik's full name (Ivo Robotnik).
Paper-Thin Disguise: Although Sonic uses disguises far more, Tails still gets in on the fun from time to time.
She's a Man in Japan: Due to translation issues, the Latin American Spanish dub changes Tails to a girl, nicknamed Colitas (Spanish for "Little Tails") and his true name was "Vivi".
The Smart Guy: He’s an intelligent youngster, who’s good at smarts.
Trademark Favorite Food: Chili dogs, except he prefers his with extra cheese.
Undying Loyalty: To Sonic. On the rare occasion that Sonic needs rescuing, Tails will stop at nothing to save him.

Robotnik's forces

Dr. Ivo Robotnik

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I'm never in trouble! I make trouble!

Voiced by: Jim Cummings (Pilot), Long John Baldry, Max Taylor (Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine)

Abusive Parents: Momma Robotnik showed him firsthand how to be an abusive monster of a parent and he implemented her teaching methods greatly when it came time for him to create the life of his own (robotic one of course). That said, he's surprisingly affectionate (to the extent that a villain like him can be) towards his "actual" son, Robotnik Jr.. It's not until Junior pulls a Heel–Face Turn that he disowns him.
Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Has his moments, such as the famous line below.
Robotnik: SnooPING AS usual, I see.
Ambiguously Bi: He's made two robotic wives for himself in two different episodes, and as seen in "Best Hedgehog," he's been obsessed with a good-hearted woman named Lucinda for decades, but when D.U.F.U.S. forces him to kiss its creator, Dr. Quark, on the lips to "make up" with his newfound rival, the other mad doctor spits and wipes his lips in disgust, while Robotnik smiles and even blushes, indicating that this act made him feel rather bashful, or he genuinely liked being forced to kiss Dr. Quark.
Ax-Crazy: While he is Played for Laughs most of the time, that still doesn't make him any less dangerous.
Bad Boss: Big time. Robotnik physically and verbally abuses Scratch and Grounder on a regular basis, for reasons ranging from screwing up his latest scheme to simply making him something other than eggs for breakfast. On more than one occasion, he's also found them quite expendable.
Bald of Evil: Sonic has frustrated Robotnik so much, he made him tear every hair from his BEAUUUUUTIFUL HEAD!
Berserk Button: Robotnik has many. Though Sonic's mere existence and presence is the main one. In fact, when he first sees the hedgehog in "Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad", he responds by blowing his top and ordering his Badniks to catch him.
- Being served hotcakes for breakfast instead of his traditional eggs:
Robotnik: Hotcakes! Isn't that nice? You know what I like with my hotcakes? (grabs Scratch by the neck)
Scratch: (nervously) W-w-what?
Robotnik: CHOPPED CHICKEN BRAINS!
- Breaking his dishes:
Scratch: Ohhh! Dr. Robotnik's gonna be VERY unhappy!
Robotnik: (appears in the kitchen doorway) Robotnik isn't unhappy. In fact, he's... EXTREMELY TICKED OFF! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY CHINA?!
Grounder: Um, well, uh... (in earnest) completely trashed it?
- Being compared to Humpty Dumpty:
Robotnik: (walks in on Scratch and Grounder laughing at a comic from a Crack-Ups comic book) What is so funny? (swipes the comic book from Scratch) I see. You've been chortling at a... comic book. (flips through the pages) Is something in here so much more entertaining than my instructive and brilliant discourse?
(Cut to the comic, where Robotnik is seen flailing on the ground as he says, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!", all while the Mobians continue mocking him. Cut back to a very pissed-off Robotnik)
Robotnik: (clenches the book as he steams with rage and blows his top) How DARE anyone on Mobius laugh at the great Dr Robotnik?! NO ONE MAKES FUN OF ME! NO ONE! (tosses the comic book on the ground) Whoever's responsible for this outrage will be my first prisoner! Bring me the vile creature who drew this cartoon!
- The nickname "Robuttnik" sets him off massively.
- Scratch and Grounder's idiocy in general, is also a huge pet peeve for him.
- He gets especially furious when his plans get foiled by Sonic; even more so when there's one of the blue hedgehog's classic humiliation congas involved.
Robotnik: I HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THAT HEDGEHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG!!!!!!
Beware the Silly Ones: It is often implied Robotnik is only ineffective due to Sonic. A lot of episodes show the heroes encountering civilians that have already been enslaved or terrorized by Robotnik due to Sonic not being around. Not to mention the odd occasion Robotnik even manages to get one over the hedgehog, as well as the fact that (as pointed in out in Sonic's entry) more often than not he can see-through Sonic's obvious disguises. Finally, Robotnik's plans will take into account Sonic and Tails' abilities. In "Sonic Breakout", he imprisons Sonic in a Tailor-Made Prison that the hedgehog can't Spin Dash out of, and in "Prehistoric Sonic", he ties Tails' tails together to keep the fox from flying away from being thrown into a volcano.
- Not only that, but throughout this series, where Super Sonic doesn’t exist, Robotnik gains two super forms.
Big Bad: Every episode has him carry out an Evil Plan to kill Sonic and conquer Mobius.
Big Beautiful Man: In his own mind, at least; the chief animator paid special attention to trying to convey this, in hopes of making Robotnik "animation's sexiest fat man". Of course, the reality is that in-universe and out, Robotnik's "sexy moments" are serious Fan Disservice; which is played entirely for laughs.
Big, Thin, Short Trio: He's the Big to Scratch's Thin and Grounder's Short.
Black Eyes of Crazy: Has black sclera with glowing red pupils and is quite eccentric in his own rights.
Black Knight: Briefly adopts this persona when attempting to overthrow King Arfur in "Hedgehog of the Round Table". He's even called the "Bloated Knight".
Brilliant, but Lazy: A very good case can be made for Robotnik falling into this. Multiple episodes show that his schemes work fine when he gets hands-on with them and his inventions work perfectly well, but he'd much rather rely on his bungling minions to do the work, which is where things go wrong.
- "Birth of a Salesman" is the largest indicator of this. Wes Weasley sells him a variety of weapons that are surefire tools to catch Sonic, yet Robotnik passes them all off to Scratch and Grounder, who of course fail miserably, being too dumb to use the gadgets properly. Robotnik then puts most of the blame on Weasley, demanding refunds and accusing him of selling defective products. When Weasley rightfully points out that his gadgets do work and are in incompetent hands, Robotnik does concede the point... but then remedies this by threatening Wes Weasley into going along with Scratch and Grounder to oversee Sonic's capture instead of going himself.
- "Attack on Pinball Fortress" has Robotnik being able to use his handheld Stupidity Ray with little problem, aside from being unable to get Sonic to stand still long enough for a clear shot. The giant Stupidity Ray, on the other hand, is left for Scratch and Grounder to control - inevitably, they mess up and hit Robotnik when they misunderstand his instructions, leaving him an idiot instead.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Robotnik is very cavalier about collateral damage and shows no regard for any lives he'll ruin with his schemes. "Robotnik, Jr." has him shrug off his solar ray not being properly focused, claiming that any few innocents caught in the blast alongside Sonic would be "a bonus".
Butt-Monkey: Sonic pulls no punches making him suffer. One of the best examples is the "Zoobotnik" episode: when Sonic, disguised as a justice of the peace, marries Robotnik to Katella, and then invites Momma Robotnik to the wedding for the insult to injury.
The Caligula: What you get when a tyrannical, petty, immature little man gets enough power, which makes it fortunate that, despite being probably the richest guy on Mobius with infinite resources and robotic armies, he hasn't managed to conquer the planet yet.
Card-Carrying Villain: He's well aware that he's an evil, megalomaniacal supervillain and takes open pride in it. That being said, there are times he'll pretend to be a hero if his plans require it, as seen in "Too Tall Tails" and "Over the Hill Hero."
Character Catchphrase: Constantly expresses his dislike of Sonic Once per Episode with "I hate that hedgehog!", and here's a compilation of them.
Character Exaggeration: Dr. Eggman in the game's canon is also a hammy, childish Card-Carrying Villain, but nowhere near to the same extent as this Robotnik by his design or otherwise.
Composite Character: In Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, he uses the same A.I. as Satan, but he doesn't shake the ground when landing beans or create an explosion sound effect when making a combo.
Conjoined Eyes: Unlike other versions of Robotnik/Eggman, he has these.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Invoked. Robotnik occasionally speaks of "promoting" or "demoting" him and his lackeys, though this is mostly limited to promoting himself and demoting Coconuts. Other than that, he doesn't have an official company or do any work outside of trying to take over the world.
Dastardly Whiplash: Has some of this trope's characteristics, most notably mustache-twirling, open and two-dimensional evilness and bombastic diabolical laughter.
Defeat Catch Phrase: "I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!"
Disproportionate Retribution: Over and over again throughout the entire show.
- In "Sonic Breakout", he imprisoned cartoonist Sketch Lampoon just for comparing him to Humpty Dumpty.
- Also when he was in high school, he wanted attention from a girl he admired by attempting to kill his romantic rival by strangling him with a robotic snake out of jealousy. Robotnik was then expelled after the incident, and started his road to villainy.
Ditzy Genius: At times:
Sonic: You spelled "Kidnapped" with a 'C'.
Robotnik: So? When I take total control of Mobius, that's the way everyone will spell it!
Does Not Like Spam:
- He has something to say after getting blown up by the explosive chili dog meant for Sonic in "Sonic the Matchmaker".
  Robotnik: I hate chili dogs, and I hate that hedgehog!
- In "Robotnikland", he rejects the hotcakes Scratch and Grounder made for him and even attacks them simply because it wasn't his usual breakfast of eggs.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Dr. Robotnik fears his mother, but he still loves her, something that is exemplified in a lot of episodes and exploited in "The Last Resort" when he apparently goes into retirement to take care of her.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As well as loving his mother, Robotnik is shown to care for at least two people in his life. He adored his pet cockroach Mr. Bobo when he was a kid, and still gets teary-eyed reminiscing about him, even declaring with apparent sincerity that "there's nothing more sacred than the bond between a boy and his pet" in the episode "So Long Sucker". Likewise, in the eisode "Mama Robotnik", there's his childhood stuffed toy Fuzzy-Wuzzy, a robot teddy bear that can transform into a four-armed two-headed giant killer robot grizzly. He is horrified when Sonic hooks the killer teddy to an electric fence and starts shouting for somebody to help the bear, even going so far as to throw himself onto his hands and knees at Sonic's feet and beg Sonic to spare his Fuzzy-Wuzzy, to his own mother's shock.
Even Evil Has Standards: He loathes his cousin, Dr. Warpnik, for being a creepy, freaky, utter loony with an unsettling fixation on fish. To the point he sealed him up in a pocket dimension called the Warp of Confusion to get him out of everyone's hair.
Evil Brit: Robotnik has a pompous, hammy British accent — courtesy of British-Canadian blues singer Long John Baldry — and is the main villain of the series.
Evil Is Hammy: Robotnik takes his over-the-top villainy up to eleven.
Evil Is Petty: He commits petty crimes in his spare time when he's not trying to take over Mobius, and is very prone to Disproportionate Retribution.
- One of the ways he uses his new superpowers in "Super Robotnik" is to steal candy from 4,822 babies.
- Even more damning is Robotnik's Start of Darkness — he tried to kill a guy with a robotic snake because the girl Robotnik was in love with was in love with the guy instead. And when he started his conquest of Mobius, he was the first guy he locked up!
- The extent of his plan in "Lovesick Sonic"? To have Breezie distract Sonic so he could flood a village near his fortress, purely because they were obstructing the view from his window.
- That's not even getting into "Sonic Breakout," where he's so furious at being made fun of in the comic book "Crack Ups" that he has Sketch Lampoon, the cartoonist who drew it, imprisoned.
Evil Laugh: Robotnik has a few utterly excellent ones.
Evil Sounds Deep: There are moments where he steps out of Large Ham mode and directly into this. Sometimes both.
Fat Bastard: He could cover the whole trope and the whole page image with his girth.
Faux Affably Evil: As ruthless and cruel as he is, Robotnik can act polite and civil when he needs to, and most of his cruelty is counterbalanced by making him a Laughably Evil goofball.
Flaw Exploitation: As often as Robotnik is humiliated by Sonic, he knows his personality enough to get the upper hand many times, often exploiting his overconfidence or protectiveness of Tails.
Flowery Insults: Robotnik LOVES to insult people and just about anything. A lot. Here's an alphabetized video of all of his insults throughout the whole series. It's literally as long as an entire episode of the series.
Freudian Excuse: Dr. Robotnik is implied to have one in the form of his abusive mother, Momma Robotnik.
Gadgeteer Genius: As buffoonish as he is, most of his gadgets do what they are supposed to and are pretty damn advanced.
- That being said, the intelligence of some of his robots leave a little to be desired...
Gonk: It says a lot that its not obvious at first glance that he is one of the human inhabitants of Mobius.
Goofy Print Underwear: He's occasionally seen wearing boxers that have polka dots or hearts on them.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Uh, yeah. Flipping out for little reasons is one of his default moods.
Harmless Villain: Zigzagged, since he is implied to be rather imposing to anyone who isn't Sonic. Even then, he has the occasional formidable streak.
Hated by All: This goes a long way towards explaining why most of his followers are inorganic. His horrible and treacherous character makes most people hate and avoid him and as such he uses his love for technology and robotics towards building people the way he wants them to be, with blind obedience and admiration.
Hot-Blooded: Boiling blooded to the extent of tearing every hair out of his head and tattooing the word hatred on his teeth.
Humiliation Conga: Happens to him in nearly every episode. Particularly noteworthy is the ending of "Robotnik Express" and "Robotnikland".
In-Series Nickname: Sonic sometimes calls him 'Ro-butt-nik'. Predictably, Robotnik hates it.
It's All About Me: Definitely, to the point where he plans to destroy a village near his fortress purely so he can have a better view from his window, and attempts to force a famous singer to write and perform a song about him because she made a tribute song about Sonic.
Jerkass: Not only does he not think much about Scratch and Grounder, but he loves to go out of his way to taunt and insult Sonic and Tails — as well as other unsuspecting citizens — whenever they get involved in his schemes, often going out of his way to make all of them (including his own 'bots) miserable.
Joke of the Butt: His patootie is frequently shown and exaggerated to illustrate his inflated opinion of himself, to the point that Sonic calls him "Robuttnik".
Lack of Empathy:
- He feels zero remorse in his efforts to kill Sonic and terrorize citizens, even children and women.
- He has no problem with the idea of destroying a populated village, so he doesn't have to look at it from his window.
Large Ham: Oh God, yes! Thanks in no small part to the incomparable Long John Baldry. Robotnik actually invokes this in "Coachnik"; one of the ingredients he uses to create the titular robot is "300 pounds of ham".
Laser-Guided Karma:
- In "Sonic Breakout", where Robotnik imprisoned cartoonist Sketch Lampoon for comparing him to Humpty Dumpty, Robotnik ended up falling in the same position as Dumpty (albeit not broken) and unable to get up on his own.
- "Trail of the Missing Tails" and "Grounder the Genius" both feature moments where Scratch, Grounder, and/or Coconuts manage to get back at Robotnik for his lousy treatment of them.
Last-Name Basis: Dr. Robotnik, whose first name "Ivo" is only mentioned twice in the whole series.
Laughably Evil: The doctor is completely ruthless and ridiculous, it's hard to find a scene he isn't hilarious because of how buffoonish, goofy, and ludicrous he really is.
Leitmotif: He is almost always accompanied by a menacing yet quirky theme, especially his originated form to his originally memed version.
Manipulative Bastard: There are times Robotnik and his goons manage to convince others they are the heroes and Sonic is the villain. They also can rather easily pander to less scrupulous civilians such as Wes Weasley to assist them for a reward.
Mr. Fanservice: In his own opinion and nobody else's. See Big Beautiful Man above.
My Beloved Smother: Robotnik, despite his evil nature, is completely at the mercy of his mother, who is even more demanding and has a really bad temper. He has turned on her a couple of occasions though.
Narcissist: To quote Milton Knight:
Milton Knight: Robotnik is... to me the perfect image of self-love. He's not perfect, he's imperfect... his full-blown belief in himself. He is actually extremely excited by the fact that he exists, and the fact the others do not feel the same way simply spurs him on to greater heights of villainy. He is jealous of the hedgehog -- why should he get the applause? Give it to Robotnik! He really believes in his own romantic self and... I don't know if I'm getting too adult here but in his own sexiness.
Nepharious Pharaoh: Assumes this title when he overthrows the previous ruler of Mobigypt in "Robotnik's Pyramid Scheme". He also dresses up as a rather scantily-clad one in "High Stakes Sonic", when he's having his captured slaves build a Sphinx with his own face on it.
Never My Fault: Combined with Screw the Rules, I Make Them!. What mistakes? He never makes mistakes and if something wrong happens he can decide on his own who was at fault because if he says it, then it must be true.
- In "Full Tilt Tails", he demotes Coconuts after he himself is tricked by Sonic, even though Coconuts wasn't even present at the time. As he puts it, "I'm the boss! I can blame whoever I want!".
- This side of him is shown in full in "Birth of a Salesman." Every time one of the gadgets he buys from Wes Weasely fails, Robotnik blames Weasely, demanding refunds and accusing him of selling defective products. As Weasely rightfully points out, his gadgets work just fine, and they keep failing to catch Sonic because Robotnik keeps leaving them in the hands of Scratch and Grounder.
Never Recycle Your Schemes: Robotnik seems to adhere to this quite diligently, even after episodes where the evil gadget of the week is never shown being destroyed.
No Indoor Voice: He has a very loud and exuberant voice, especially when he is excited or irritated.
"I DON'T REMEMBER PROGRAMMING YOU TO BEAT ME!"
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Usually rather bumbling and defeated handily by Sonic. There are a fair few times he manages to outsmart the hedgehog and temporarily get the upper hand however. It helps he also knows just how to get under Sonic's skin (see above). Both "Mass Transit Trouble" and the large duration of the Chaos Emeralds four-parter are key examples where Sonic had extreme difficulty stopping Robotnik.
Obviously Evil: Let's see, red eyes with black sclerae, gigantic unkempt mustache, predominantly red-and-black outfit, bombastic Evil Laugh... yep, definitely a bad guy.
Once per Episode: "I hate that hedgehog!". To the point there's variants.
The One That Got Away: According to "Best Hedgehog," he's seen Lucinda as this since his teenage years; Lucinda, being a good person, has never reciprocated, and Robotnik keeps her true love, Lucas, prisoner out of jealousy until Sonic frees him.
Pet the Dog:
- In the first Mama Robotnik episode, he shows he sincerely loves and cares for his "Fuzzy-wuzzy", the teddy bear he grew up with a child and which was his only friend. True, Fuzzy-wuzzy is a killer robot that basically turns into a creepily real grizzly with four arms and two heads, but he still loves him all the same, even begging Sonic to save Fuzzy-wuzzy from being destroyed and promising to stop his latest evil plot.
- "So Long Sucker" reveals that Robotnik still carries around a photo of his deceased pet cockroach, "Mr. Bobo", whom he was apparently quite fond of. He even sheds a few tears reminiscing.
Pirate: In the episode of "Blackbot the Pirate". He even looks the part. But he's mostly in it for the Chaos Emerald of Invisibility.
Psychopathic Manchild: Never grew out of that first phase in his life where he was the center of the universe and everyone and everything were meant to serve him. When he made a spelling mistake he decided to force everyone to write the word that way, instead of admitting that he was wrong which sounds more like a kindergartener's fantasy.
Revenge: In "Momma Robotnik's Return", he finally fights back against his abusive mother when she disowns him and takes over his plans and operations. Furious over this, he outs her as the Abusive Mom she is to the social worker after she adopts and enslaves Sonic and Tails. This leads to said adoption being annulled and giving Sonic free reign to stop her from conquering Mobius.
Robotic Spouse: Robotnik gets a couple of these for himself in two episodes.
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Tying in with his Never My Fault personality. In "Full-Tilt Tails", Robotnik decides to demote Coconuts after he himself is tricked by Sonic even though Coconuts wasn't even there at the time, because, as he puts it, "I'm the boss! I can blame whoever I want!". There's also this gem from "High Stakes Sonic", where he declares a day (named after himself, of course) out of nowhere:
Grounder: There's a Robotnik Day?
Robotnik: Of course there's a Robotnik Day! I just declared it one minute ago, in honor of myself!
Slasher Smile: Among many of his emotes.
Sore Loser: His mustache usually suffers the worst from it, fortunately. His reaction when he loses a card game is to get out a laser gun and shoot his victorious opponent repeatedly, which he apparently considers an appropriate response.
Robotnik: I DON'T REMEMBER PROGRAMMING YOU TO BEAT ME!
Suddenly Shouting: He is prone to fits of yelling, especially when he's dealing with Sonic or his robots.
Super Mode: Has two, which is notable in a series where Super Sonic doesn't exist:
- Super Robotnik, from the episode of the same name. Created when Robotnik fell into some chemicals that Coconuts had spilled, Super Robotnik is essentially a corrupted Superman Substitute—a muscular, cape-wearing Flying Brick with freeze breath, laser eyes and other similar powers. His only weak point is his... caboose, and Tails finding this out allows the heroes to concoct a plan to defeat him.
- The Supreme High Robotnik, the form Robotnik takes when he gathers all four Chaos Emeralds. Their combined power transforms him into a muscular, Kaiju-sized near-god - invincible, immortal, the ability to become invisible at will, the power to bring inanimate matter to life and to send people through time. It takes Sonic teaming up with different versions of himself from different points in history to stop him.
Surrounded by Idiots: Well it takes one to make one, and since he made most of them to primarily worship him they were not gonna be the sharpest tools around. The most prominent of Robotnik's robots, Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts, are also among his most idiotic, and if one takes the convention fiasco into consideration things weren't any better with the bounty-hunter Badniks.
Robotnik: I'm surrounded by incompetence! Must I do everything myself?!
Terrible Trio: Forms one with Scratch and Grounder in most episodes, playing the role of the boss, natch.
Trademark Favorite Food: Eggs. He's had eggs for breakfast every day for the last ten years! No, he does not want any hotcakes for breakfast.
Trrrilling Rrrs: Does this quite frrrequently.
"I'll have to give myself a PRRRRROMOTION!"
"You lame-brrrrrain knuckle-drrrrragging dork! How dare you interrupt me when I'm having a bath with my rrrrrubber crrrrrocodile!"
Troubled Abuser: Yes, he's a horrible person and Bad Boss to his minions, who are effectively his children, but he ended up that way under Momma Robotnik's sub-par parenting, with her treatment of him echoing his own treatment of Scratch and Grounder. In "Zoobotnik," Momma Robotnik comes right out and admits that she deliberately raised Robotnik to be evil.
Villainous Breakdown: Has one at least once an episode.
Villains Out Shopping: When not enacting Evil Plans, Robotnik's occasionally seen relaxing around his lair, doing such things as taking baths or reading the morning paper while waiting for breakfast.
Would Hurt a Child: He's stated to Sonic before that if he had captured Tails, he'd be torturing him.
You Meddling Kids: His catchphrase: "I hate that hedgehog!".

Scratch & Grounder

Voiced by: Phillip Hayes (Scratch) & Garry Chalk (Grounder), Jim Cummings (Pilot, both)

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"Yeah, we're terrific at fouling things up..."

Robotnik's newest, dedicated anti-Sonic robots and general minions. Unfortunately for him, they're both total incompetents and massive idiots. Created at about the same time from the same machine, they would originally have been identical, but Scratch pulled a lever that caused Grounder to come out with a different chassis. Both Badniks are based on badniks from Sonic the Hedgehog 2; Grounder is a straight lift of the Grounder badnik (itself a lift of Burrobot from the first game), while Scratch is a heavily modified Clucker (a turret-firing chicken badnik).

Adaptational Badass: They are dramatically more challenging in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine than they are in the series. Scratch even serves as The Dragon, being the last opponent before Dr. Robotnik himself.
Adaptational Dye-Job: While Scratch and Coconuts have design changes from their games counterpart, their color scheme is largely the same. Grounder, however, despite ironically looking much closer to his game's design, now sports a dark green paint job instead of red.^note
Affably Evil: In "Grounder The Genius" when Grounder gains super-intelligence, he also gains a considerable amount of charm to his personality.
Ambiguously Gay:
- Scratch seems to show a little too much affection and submissive behavior towards Robotnik.
- In "The Mobius 5000", when Grounder came up with an idea to both discredit the Racebots and get back in Robotnik's good graces, Scratch goes as far as to kiss Grounder on the nose in joy. This did, however, end up with Scratch's lips frozen to said nose.
Amnesiac Villain Joins the Heroes: In "Blank-Headed Eagle", Scratch chases after Sonic with an Eagle-Copter kit he ordered from watching the Edgar Eagle TV show. After Sonic tricks him into shooting himself out of the sky, Scratch gets amnesia, and when Henrietta Peck finds him, Scratch thinks he's Edgar Eagle. Sonic takes advantage of this and uses Scratch to help him save Farmer Peck's farm from destruction from Dr. Robotnik's machines. Scratch ends up regaining his memories near the end of the episode.
Anti-Role Model: Usually during Sonic Says, they will act as the antagonist such as when they decide to smoke or drink booze and try to convince Tails to do the same.
Arm Cannon: Grounder has this along with many other weapons.
Beware the Silly Ones: With how often they were a punching bag for Sonic and how stupid they really are, it's easy for the rest of Mobius to forget these goons can sometimes be threatening towards anyone without Super-Speed and wits.
Big, Thin, Short Trio: Scratch is the Thin and Grounder is the Short to Robotnik's Big.
The Bully: They are occasionally seen harassing random Mobian citizens for no good reason and once they even attempted to beat up an old (and seemingly weak) crane.
Bumbling Henchmen Duo: One classic duo with many of the stereotypes that accompany them, like the lack of intelligence, their arguments, and their contrasting looks.
Butt-Monkey: Comes naturally with bosses such as Robotnik and prey such as Sonic. And being dumber than a box of screws.
Can't Hold His Liquor: In one Sonic Says, they collapse after sharing one bottle of booze.
Card-Carrying Villain: Both, but Scratch takes the cake what with being very vocal about cheating and proud about it.
The Chew Toy: They have been blown up, frozen, melted, run over, squashed, tied together… at least half of the humor in the show revolves around them getting turned into spare parts by Sonic.
Co-Dragons: Though Grounder is slightly more submissive and dumb, both don't hesitate to point out the others' follies in sucking up to Robotnik and maintaining his plans.
Cocky Rooster: Scratch is a robotic example. He tries to ensure that he is Dr. Robotnik's favorite lackey, often resulting in arguments with Grounder. He also has a signature laugh, "Bwahahaha!", and is the twelfth and semi-final opponent in the Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine video game, wherein his introductory cutscene in the Genesis version, he makes a lot of chicken jokes to taunt the player.
Creepy Crossdresser: For some strange reason, Grounder occasionally wears women's clothing to complement Scratch whenever they find it necessary to put on costumes. In "Super Robotnik", when Scratch dresses up as a doctor, Grounder plays his nurse; in "Zoobotnik", when Scratch serves as the best man at Robotnik's (forced) wedding, Grounder is the maid of honor; when they transform themselves into wedding cake figurines in "Hedgehog of the Hound Table", Scratch is the groom and Grounder is the bride.
Didn't Think This Through: Their plans to capture Sonic and/or Tails often work as intended, but they repeatedly fail to account for the duo's larger range of abilities. In "Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad", Scratch and Grounder use an attractive female hand puppet to lure Sonic into an underground pit, which would have been successful if not for Sonic's ability to use his Spin Dash to burrow out of the pit.
Dirty Coward: Scratch resembles his master very much on this, being fittingly a metallic chicken who likes to pick only on those whom he deems as weaker than him and being quite open about it being more fun.
Disability Immunity: In the episode "Attack on Pinball Fortress", Dr. Robotnik creates a Stupidity Ray to use on Mobius, to make them too stupid to do anything against him. When Scratch gets hit by the ray, it has no effect, because he's already a complete moron.
The Ditz: Scratch is just only slightly smarter than Grounder, which isn't saying a whole lot since they're both really idiotic.
Do Anything Robots: Scratch and Grounder are full of all sorts of tools, up to and including inflatable supermodel decoys.
Dumbass Has a Point: "Sonic the Matchmaker" features a rare moment where Scratch and Grounder openly disagree with Robotnik. When he declares any woman would be proud to be his wife, the two robots silently glare at him as if to say "There's no way that's true." And Robotnik agrees with them.
Eating Machine: Are capable of consuming food despite not needing to. The episode "MacHopper" implies that Grounder likes spicy food, since it cleans out his turbochargers.
Evil Laugh: Scratch's rooster laugh, which sounds like a trumpet.
- It's not uncommon for Grounder to imitate the laugh himself, especially when he speaks right after Scratch does it. This becomes more common as the series goes on.
Expy:
- Scratch resembles Clucker, the Mook who appears in the Wing Fortress Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 2.^note
- Grounder resembles the badnik of the same name that appears in Sonic 2, though the one in the game is red instead of green. As a reversal, the 2013 remake features a hidden green-colored Grounder as a Mythology Gag.
- They also seem like evil but dimwitted versions of C-3PO and R2-D2. There's Scratch, the tall and bossy robot, and Grounder, the stout Swiss Army-bot. On the flip side, they seem to be inspiration for future Expies, as other Sonic media tends to give Robotnik/Eggman a Bumbling Henchmen Duo as his dimwitted right-hand men.
- In Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Scratch uses Rulue's A.I., while Grounder uses Witch's A.I..
Fatal Flaw: Their idiocy, gullibility, clumsiness, incompetence, and buffoonery often get in the way but, in spite of that, they are sometimes able to get the job done and capture Sonic. But then unfortunately, their obsession with favoritism is always what gets in their way. This leads to arguing about who deserves the bounty or promotion, leading to Sonic and Tails gaining the upper hand every time.
Fat and Skinny: They're not organic beings, but they contrast in this appropriately by appearance because of Scratch's Skinny to Grounder's Fat.
Feathered Fiend: Scratch is a robot, so he doesn't have feathers. Nevertheless, he's still a villainous avian.
"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: Grounder becomes super-intelligent in "Grounder the Genius".
Genre Blindness: Sonic tricks Grounder and Scratch endlessly all the time with various disguises, yet as far as they seem to know there's just a lot of hedgehogs all over the planet with a series of different and very diverse jobs, although Scratch does see through his disguises from time to time (if one moment too late).
Goldfish Poop Gang: Their traps are not much filler considering the seconds that it takes Sonic to overcome them.
Gone Horribly Wrong: For Robotnik, anyway. They were intended to be Hypercompetent Sidekicks who could easily defeat Sonic; instead, they're Lethally Stupid clowns who Sonic runs circles around and outwits on a regular basis.
Hammerspace: How Grounder carries all those arm gadgets.
Harmless Villain: Make no mistake, they really want to be the fearsome henchmen Robotnik wants them to be. They're just far too incompetent and idiotic to succeed in that regard.
Heel–Face Turn: In an inversion of Criminal Amnesiac Scratch temporarily turns good in "Blank-Headed Eagle" when he suffers amnesia and thinks he's a superhero named Edgar Eagle, whom he surprisingly admired.
Heroic Sacrifice: In "Blank-Headed Eagle", Scratch doesn't perform one, but his benevolent amnesia-induced alter ego, "Edgar Eagle", does when he tackles Robotnik and distracts him long enough for Sonic to save Henrietta. Robotnik throws him into a wall, and the impact jolts Scratch back to normal. Sonic never mourns (or even acknowledges) the loss of Scratch's good side.
Ignored Enamored Underling: Both want their maker's approval and to be called "His favorite" more than anything. They are too incompetent to earn it though.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: While Robotnik could at least strive to be fearsome every now and then. Scratch and Grounder were completely incompetent for the large majority of the time, when not being defeated easily by Sonic, their plans were taken apart by random civilians or even their own bumbling. As Beware the Silly Ones observes, however, it was still sometimes a bad idea to underestimate them.
Insufferable Genius: What Grounder becomes with the intelligence chip, though does manage to reach an epiphany at the end when Scratch in trying to help him, foils his plans, realizing even a genius cannot predict everything.
Insufferable Imbecile: Well, they're both villainous mooks for Robotnik, with extreme stupidity to prevent them from being completely insufferable.
Iron Butt Monkey: Even Sonic is unable to put them out of commission permanently, as they can easily pull themselves back together, so that's one aspect of their design Robotnik got right. Pity about their brains though.
Jerkass: Scratch often bullies Grounder, often venting his frustration when the latter's stupidity results in Sonic's plans succeeding. Given Robotnik's treatment of the two, this might be to an extent understandable.
Kindhearted Simpleton: Grounder can occasionally dip into this, as he can sometimes come off as innocently clueless and good-natured. This never lasts too long however, as he will always go on to prove how devoted he is to Robotnik and carrying out his evil schemes (often with considerable amount of joy).
The Klutz: Mainly Scratch while being the total moron that he is, Grounder also shares this similarity along with him since they are a Bumbling Henchmen Duo, so they'd easily make Robotnik pissed off because of their interrupting buffoonery and clumsiness more often than not.
- This was actually played with and was Played for Laughs in "Zoobotnik", where Robotnik motivates them by betting that they can do one simple task without falling on their faces, and they do so before Katella arrives.
Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: The Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad. This combined with Goldfish Poop Gang. Robotnik created Scratch and Grounder for the express purpose of hunting down and killing Sonic, but since the two have only a quarter of a brain between them, Sonic always ends up the winner.
The Magnificent: Listening to how Scratch and Grounder address Robotnik is one of the best parts of the show. Such as "Your Masochisticness".
The Millstone: Whenever one of Robotnik's plans fails, it's typically because of their bumbling nature.
Nobody's That Dumb: Both of them showed moments where they weren't as dumb as they seem, Grounder says this to Scratch in the "Zoobotnik" episode:
Grounder: Hold it buster! I'm not as stupid as everyone says I am! I'm not gonna do all of that!!
No Indoor Voice: Scratch's incredibly loud, braying voice shows this in him.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: They had odd times they could act out Robotnik's plans competently. "Mass Transit Trouble" has them successfully Out Gambit Sonic and escape for one example.
Number Two for Brains: Not very bright, but as we see in the Flashback Episode, the other monsters that Robotnik tried to recruit before building them were even dumber and were Paper Tigers that couldn't survive being outsmarted once. Scratch and Grounder are certainly resilient, that's for sure.
Pair the Dumb Ones: Both of them are complete idiots and thus are almost always together.
The Pollyanna: Considering how abusive and uncaring their father-figure is, it takes a special kind of obliviousness to feel optimistic and believe they can be his favorites.
Psychos For Hire: They are both among the most pitiable cases of sadistic agents but they were quick to bring the torture implements when Von Schlemmer said that he would crack under torture and thought of it as a treat to be allowed to watch the Dr.'s disassembling of his other robots. When Robotnik had them demolish a city with giant robots Scratch even commented mirthfully:
Scratch: And to think we get paid to do that!
Revenge: While usually undyingly loyal to Robotnik, there are odd times they attempt revenge over his abusive treatment of them.
- "Trail of the Missing Tails" has Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts transformed into hulking monsters by a wayward beam from Warpnik's invention. They quickly decide to turn against him, succeeding in trashing the device in the process.
- "Grounder the Genius" has Grounder, mind-enhanced by the genius chip, overthrow Robotnik. When Robotnik tries to smooth things over by claiming that Grounder was always his favourite creation, Grounder hits back by reminding him of all the insults Robotnik threw at him over the course of the episode.
Ridiculously Human Robots: They manage to produce tears in "Sonic's Song" and have to wear space suits in "Spaceman Sonic".
- As one of the most memorable Sonic Says segments shows, they can get drunk from drinking alcohol. And they are incredibly lightweight, at that. In another segment, Grounder is shown getting sick from smoking a single cigarette.
Screams Like a Little Girl: Scratch, especially in the German dub.
Signature Laugh: Scratch's screechy and trumpet-like "Ba-HA-ha-HAAA!"
Simpleton Voice: Grounder's standard tone of voice, except when he temporarily becomes a genius.
Smug Snake: Scratch seems to have a high opinion of himself half the time, which is reflected by his rooster form.
Scratch: He made me persistent! He made you too dumb to quit!
- Grounder, when he temporarily becomes a genius.
Straw Loser: Their sole existence and usual shtick when they are ordered to capture Sonic, and how they usually are in general when they are around their more abusive and aggressive leader because of how incompetent and habitually idiotic they are.
Swiss-Army Weapon: Grounder is full of gadgets and gizmos, ranging from his default drills to proper hands to bizarre one-offs like blowing into his thumb to create a pumpkin to throw at Sonic.
Sycophantic Servant: No matter how often Robotnik verbally and physically abuses them, they're still willing to serve under him. They did have moments where they striked back at him for his abusive treatment however, they're usually stupidly loyal towards him.
Tank-Tread Mecha: Grounder is a groundhog-like robot with tank treads and drills for hands and a nose, much like his video game counterpart in Sonic 2. He also has the ability to swap his drills out for whatever he needs for the situation, most commonly, hands to hold things.
Terrible Trio: Robotnik is the leader; they're the two minions. They also sometimes play as such with adding Coconuts around.
This Is a Drill: Grounder has three of them. One for the nose and one per each arm.
Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Because of their comedic bumbling, Scratch and Grounder have this dynamic with the more vile Dr. Robotnik.
Villains Out Shopping: When not carrying out Robotnik's plans, they're shown to enjoy reading comic books and watching TV; in "Blank-Headed Eagle," they're shown to be huge fans of the Edgar Eagle show.
Vocal Evolution:
- If you watch some of the earliest episodes, you'll notice that they talk quite differently from their later performances— Scratch is voiced with a New York-influenced accent, whereas Grounder has a lower, stupider voice. These attributes disappeared over the course of the series. (Grounder still sounded dumb, but less so.)
- An odd case in the German dub: Gerald Paradies and Oliver Feld had already adopted voices for the henchbots right from the get-go, but during the flashback in the first episode, Feld's voice for Scratch was really his own (up to the line "Mein zwillingsbruder? Bin ich so haesslisch?!"); then when he first interacts with Grounder, Feld switches back to the previous voice. Also, Paradies' Grounder also got slightly higher over the episodes.
Wicked Cultured: Surprisingly, Grounder becomes this in "Grounder The Genius", as he starts using a refined and eloquent manner of speech as well as gaining a posh-sounding accent. He's even seen playing the piano at one point in the episode.
Would Hurt a Child: Tails most of the time of course, but any child is fair play.

Coconuts

Voiced by: Ian James Corlett

"I hate Sewer Patrol! Hate it! Hate it!"

One of Robotnik's earlier creations; pushed aside in favor of Scratch and Grounder, Coconuts yearns to re-earn Robotnik's attention and affection and so often works independently of his "little brothers", though he will work with them if he must. Coconuts' name and design are lifted directly from the "Coconuts" badnik of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Advertised Extra: He appears in the opening, but stars in only 17 episodes, roughly a quarter of the series. Which still makes him the most recurring of the secondary characters.
Ascended Extra: He appears more regularly than Scratch and Grounder in the Archie comic series.
Boisterous Weakling: He is pretty aggressive for a pint-sized monkey.
Butt-Monkey: Quite a literal example here, as he is a robot monkey. Takes abuse most of the time simply for existing despite his rather extreme effort and enthusiasm, getting demoted constantly for mostly nothing…and it's not like Scratch and Grounder have it good either.
Character Catchphrase: "Yeah! YEAH!"
The Chew Toy: This robot is the ultimate example of the Badniks role in the series, an evil yet hopeless metallic punching bag.
The Ditz: Not as dumb as Scratch and Grounder, but he definitely qualifies. Memorable moments include believing Sonic that he would let him hit him and trying to shoot Sonic with an automatic weapon when he was standing on him.
The Dreaded Toilet Duty: Coconuts deplores his job of scrubbing toilets, which is why he tries often unsuccessfully to catch Sonic on his own in the hopes of getting on Robotnik's good side so he can get promoted to the head of the S.S.S.S.S. Squad.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: a rare villainous example. Coconuts is easily more competent (if only slightly) and cunning than either Scratch or Grounder and yet? Robotnik always sees fit to lash out at him even when he succeeds. His "little brothers" also have little if any respect for him (though that sentiment is quite mutual).
Expy: He uses the A.I. of Harpy in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
Glory Hound: There is no one more persistent and more obsessed than him in proving himself to the Doctor, if only to escape the demeaning janitor job.
Ignored Enamored Underling: More so than the S.S.S.S.S. Squad, and he's desperate to be Robotnik's No.1 creation.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He's slightly more savvy and crazy than Scratch and Grounder, though still very much a pitiful bumbler. And even at that he just wants Robotnik's approval.
I Work Alone: He sometimes works as a Terrible Trio with Scratch and Grounder, but more often desires to make his own solo missions to prove his superiority, even sometimes sabotaging their's so he can take full credit.
The Millstone: His egotism and shortsightedness has done more bad than good to his own team.
Noodle Incident: Introduced in the first episode, Coconuts was demoted to sanitation duty. We don't know how he got stuck with that job, but it may have something to do with his initial failure to get Sonic or help Robotnik take over Mobius.
The Renfield: He introduces himself in present tense as Robotnik's favourite, for something that he will do (finishing off his foes) in the future.
Silly Simian: Mostly subverted since he is a ruthless maniac monkey, but played straight from the viewers' point of view as a funny chew toy.
Sixth Ranger: Of the Super Special Sonic Search & Smash Squad.
Smug Snake: He's a more pitiful case than standard examples, but he's still fairly assured he's smarter than Robotnik's other minions and his next plan will definitely get him on his boss' good books.
The Team Wannabe: By joining Robotnik's elite S.S.S.S.S. Squad, he plans to ascend from mere robotic scrap into what is really elite robotic scrap.
Terrible Trio: When he works with Scratch and Grounder, he actually fits in perfectly with them.
Throw the Dog a Bone: His pathetic nature reaches a point that Sonic actually offers sympathetic advice to him in some of the "Sonic Sez" segments.
The Unfavorite: Gets it much worse than Scratch and Grounder, which is really saying something.
You, Get Me Coffee: Despite being (very slightly) smarter than Scratch and Grounder, Robotnik often gives him janitorial work and assigns the latter two to catch Sonic.

Other Robotnik Robots

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: At worst, some of Robotnik's droids can turn out to be disobedient or even worse, good willed. At best they are loyal but incompetent fools like Scratch and Grounder.
Ascended Extra: A lot of Robotnik's earlier robots from the pilot appear as enemies in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
Berserk Button: Don't ever play music around the Music Destroyer.
The Brute: Many of the one-episode badniks fit this role, being significantly larger and stronger than Scratch and Grounder, but possess otherwise just as unremarkable intelligence. Coachnik, Arnold Robo negger, and the Music Destroyer are all good examples of this.
Butt-Monkey: Almost any robot made to commit evil by Robotnik is doomed to be humiliated and turned to scrap by Sonic.
Card-Carrying Villain: During the bounty hunter convention, Dr. Robotnik called them mean, malicious, and his kind of rotten, and it was a good motivational speech.
Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Ballhog and Roller were adapted for one episode with this persona.
The Gunslinger: The Despicable Desperados in "Magnificent Sonic", naturally using lasers in place of traditional pistols.
Living Prop: Many generic robots assist Scratch and Grounder in certain schemes, some with recurring designs.
Monster of the Week: The biggest role these characters play.
Unwilling Roboticisation: Despite being more synonymous with the Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) version, Robotnik used this odd times in the show, notably in the Chaos Emerald four parter, where he does this to Blackbot the Pirate. However, AoStH is also notable for being the only DiC Sonic show to feature the more traditional "organic battery" form of Unwilling Roboticisation from the games (where an animal is encased in a robotic shell and used as an energy source, rather than have its flesh turned into metal as in SatAM and the Chaos Emerald arc), albeit only once in the episode "Pseudo Sonic," where the titular character is piloted by a diminutive mouse. Needless to say, the vast majority of Robotnik's Badniks in AoStH are not Unwillingly Roboticized, but constructed out of parts like any other robot.

Bounty Hunters

General

A bunch of badniks who all make a living as ruthless bounty hunters, though they all remain loyal to Robotnik and will do his bidding in a heartbeat. They all play a minor role in the shows first episode, they are much more important in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine where they replace the various Puyo characters.

The Silent Bob: In the show, everyone but Dragón Breath is silent. This was averted in the game Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine where they are all quite talkative.
Villainous Breakdown: Start beating them in the game and they will either panic or get angry. Either way, when you beat them they lose it.

Arms

Voiced by: Terry Klassen

A long-armed badnik who is the first rather pitiful enemy in Mean Bean Machine.

Butt-Monkey: He is considered the weakest of the Badniks which REALLY says something.
Chew Toy: Just like all of them, he got hit by all sorts of stuff because he was easily led to realize Sonic's trick.
Creepily Long Arms: Which he is ready to use either to gloat or to nab some nearby Beans.
Fat and Skinny: He is this when paired with Davy, quite similarly to Scratch and Grounder.
Flying Saucer: Arms is shaped like one.
Smug Snake: The first of many badniks to follow.

Frankly

A tall and tough badnik who is strong and self-absorbed, though lacking in brains.

Composite Character: He uses the A.I. of Suketoudara in the game, but shakes the board like Zoh Daimaoh.
The Ditz: In the same way as Scratch and Grounder he got tricked by Sonic's poor disguise and fake carnival and fell from a cliff.
No Sympathy Between Mooks: He dislikes Arms so much that he claims he is too wrapped up in himself to do anything useful before he starts talking about himself.
Perpetual Smiler: His Slasher Smile is one of his trademarks until he gets owned that is.
Smug Snake: He did call himself a "bright spark".
Testosterone Poisoning: He is described as a machobot but he's as pitiful as the rest.

Humpty

A nervous egg shaped robot with a jetpack.

Adorable Evil Minion: Some of them are kinda cute, but his attitude makes him stand out.
Chew Toy: He is bandaged most of the time because he has balancing difficulties.
Nervous Wreck: The moment he sees his opponent he goes through a Freak Out.
Shrinking Violet: Despite fighting you, he is described as shy and is quick to retreat to his shell the moment he loses.

Davy Sprocket

Voiced by: French Tickner (First episode), Phil Hayes (The Last Resort)

A skinny badnik who fancies himself a sort of hunter.

Chew Toy: He got hit by all sorts of stuff along with Arms because he was too easily led to realize Sonic's trick.
Drama Queen: He speaks with Bond One-Liner like a Western outlaw.
Fat and Skinny: He is this when paired with Arms, quite similarly to Scratch and Grounder actually.
Humongous Mecha: Appeared as one in The Last Resort.
Named After Somebody Famous: His name is a pun derived from the iconic real-life American Folk Hero and politician Davy Crockett.
Not So Stoic: He loses his cool when he gets beaten and roughed up by Sonic or other heroes.
The Pioneer: He is modeled after one, so he is the tracer.
The Stoic: One of the least expressive and calmest Badniks that is.
Walking the Earth: Presumably an outdoorsman since he looks for trouble.

Skweel

A pig-like badnik who moves around on wheels.

Drives Like Crazy: A literal road hog and very keen on using his tires.
Evil Is Hammy: This is probably the best example, being especially wordy and dramatic.
Gluttonous Pig: Having the form of a wheeled hog he expectedly, spews tons of food puns at you pre-battle.

Dynamight

A badnik who is essentially a sentient dynamite plunger.

Complexity Addiction: He's still incredibly difficult and can create incredibly large combos to end you, but the time he spends doing overly elaborate combos means it's easier to overwhelm him.
Mad Bomber: A given considering that he is a moving stick of dynamite.
The Napoleon: For someone so short he certainly has a short fuse.
Slasher Smile: Has a very wide one when he's winning which showcases his insanity.

Spike

A big and brutish badnik with a short temper.

Boisterous Bruiser: Very much The Brute, but also louder and more obnoxious than the others.
Dumb Muscle: He's a meathead as much as a Fat Bastard.
Evil Is Hammy: There is no doubt that he is shouting.
Hot-Blooded: He has no self-control whatsoever.
Jerkass: He insults everyone, including his fellow Badniks.
Spikes of Villainy: In case you haven't noticed he has a thing for spikes.

Sir Ffuzzy-Logik

An imposing badnik who is fancies himself Robotnik's champion.

Affably Evil: More polite than all the other badniks, even calling the player sire.
Badass Boast: He calls himself Dr R's champion. Of course most badniks do this when they don't openly threaten you.
Black Knight: He has the demeanor if not the color scheme.
The Champion: He certainly sees himself as this, though in truth isn't quite high enough up in the ranks.
The Comically Serious: His Dramatic Wind and his big words aren't enough to change the fact that he is a ridiculously over-the-top robotic helmet with No Mouth.
Failure Knight: He fails to realize Sonic is among their group and is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain like all of them.
Large Ham: He speaks as if he is in a medieval setting. Of course given that he is a knight he was made to be this way.
The Rival: To Dragonbreath like a real dragon and a knight would be.
Undying Loyalty: Like his fellow henchbots, he is utterly devoted to his boss.
You Shall Not Pass!: "Thou are destined to proceed no further" is no less impressive.

Dragon Breath

Voiced by: Gary Chalk

One of Robotnik's strongest badniks, he looks like a big humanoid dragon.

Composite Character: He uses the A.I. of the Minotaur in the game, but shakes the board like Zoh Daimaoh.
The Dragon: The second one after Scratch. He takes charge of the bounty hunters. Quite a literal example, as he is designed to resemble a dragon.
Dumb Muscle: All badniks are dumb, but he gets a special mention for being the most muscular one.
Evil Is Hammy: He shouts orders all the time.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Sonic taunting him with William Tell was enough to make him scream at the top of his lungs and throw his spiky club at him.
No Sympathy Between Mooks: His comments about fuzzy-face's defeat and shows him no sympathy.
No Indoor Voice: The only badnik who was given a distinguishable voice in his first appearance and he yells all of his lines.
The Rival: To Sir Ffuzzy-Logik, which makes sense since he has the form of a dragon.
Testosterone Poisoning: He is goofy in a thuggish way already, but when one sees his Goofy Print Underwear he becomes even more of a joke.

Other Characters

Breezie

Voiced by: Venus Terzo

A robotic female hedgehog created by Robotnik to run Sonic into an exhausted state by bending him around her little finger and sending him on impossibly long quests to please her. She has a change of heart when Sonic turns out to genuinely care for her and winds up joining a community of Robotnik's various "junked" robots.

Action Girl: After Sonic gets the water in Robotnik Falls to start flowing again, Junior gets washed downriver, and Breezie takes action to save him.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Spends her introductory episode seducing Sonic and making him run errands for her so that he won't have time to save the day, but when Sonic gets her a present she hadn't even asked for and writes her a sincere love poem, she immediately starts undergoing a heel-face turn.
Canon Immigrant: It took her 20 years, but she made her debut outside of the cartoon in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) #268. She'd go on to become a massive Ascended Extra, too, with a very different role than in the show, including becoming a fully organic hedgehog.
Easily Forgiven: After Tails found out about her true motive, Breezie disposes of Tails rather quickly and harshly. However after her Heel–Face Turn (which Tails was NOT present at as he was still subdued by her) he still was very quick to forgive her.
Friend Versus Lover: She was the love interest versus Sonic's concerned friend Tails in "Lovesick Sonic".
Grew Beyond Their Programming: She expresses amazement and even disbelief at her own actions after she saves Sonic's life in her introductory episode, saying outright that she wasn't programmed to do so.
High-Heel–Face Turn: She was created as a seductive assassin Robot Girl, but fell in love with Sonic and promptly defected from Robotnik's service.
Humanoid Female Animal: She's a Robot Girl in the shape of one.
Interspecies Romance: With Robotnik Jr.. Subverted because they are both robots, they just look different.
Lady in Red: A textbook example, complete with Sexy Backless Outfit and High-Class Gloves.
The Mole: Designed to seduce Sonic and lead him into a trap set by Robotnik, before gaining genuine affections for the hedgehog and intervening.
Ms. Fanservice: In-universe, she's built into what is intended to be the Mobian hedgehog equivalent of a smoking hot babe with a very seductive personality.
Not Blood Siblings: With Robotnik Jr.. Despite being created from the same mad doctor Robotnik, Breezie and Junior don't consider themselves "siblings" and fall in love with each other. Justified since they're robots.
Robosexual: Inverted; she's a Robot Girl created to seduce an organic, but who ended up falling in love with him herself. Then subverted when she breaks up with Sonic and hooks up with fellow android Robotnik Jr.
Robot Girl: A variant, in that she's constructed in the shape of a Humanoid Female Animal hedgehog rather than the traditional human woman, but she's still a gynoid made to look like a living (and sexually provocative) female.
Turned Against Their Masters: Breezie and Junior were created by Robotnik to work for him, but both underwent heel-face turns when Sonic saved their lives. Robotnik has Scratch and Grounder hunt them down so that he can figure out where he went wrong with them and ensure that Omletta won't betray him like they did. Omletta turns against Robotnik when she gets drenched with water and short-circuits.
The Vamp: A very unsubtle case, specifically made to distract Sonic.

Momma Robotnik

Voiced by: Kathleen Barr

"Nice to See You?!"

Robotnik's harridan mother, normally held safely away in the "Mobius Home for Really Bizarre Mothers" but who sometimes escapes to harass her son and everyone else. She looks almost identical to her son, but she's considerably larger (usually twice his size, depending on the scene) and much nastier.

Abusive Parents: She is both physically and verbally abusive to her own son.
Brawn Hilda: She's a huge, fat, ugly woman.
Canon Foreigner: She was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Card-Carrying Villain: As she reveals in "Zoobotnik", she intentionally raised her son to be a dishonest supervillain.
Depending on the Artist: While always designed as something of a female Robotnik, the extent of this varies from having at least basic Tertiary Sexual Characteristics to outright being her son in a dress, mustache and all.
The Dreaded: She's so crazy and evil that even Robotnik himself is terrified of her.
Eviler than Thou: At least once she managed to successfully usurp Robotnik from his own fortress and do what he couldn't: keep Sonic captive via adopting him!
Evil Matriarch: Not just to Robotnik, but once she even adopted Sonic.
Evil Sounds Deep: She's got a very gruff and grating voice, but can make herself sound more pleasant if she's trying to deceive someone.
Fat Bitch: She is fatter and meaner than Robotnik himself.
Girls with Moustaches: Depending on the Artist at least.
Gonk: Arguably even more so than her son, due to the two looking so similar. She even has his mustache and arguably looks worse without it.
Gonky Femme: She looks like her son in drag.
Hypocrite: In her first appearance she gets mad at Robotnik for lying to her, then in "Zoobotnik" gets mad when he tells the truth saying she raised him to be a liar. She despises Ivo and wants him to be evil at the same time, but not even SHE voted for him in "Sonic Is Running" despite being the one who ordered him to run for President, because he was a failure.
Large Ham: Just as much as her son.
Manipulative Bitch: She tricks Tails into heading towards her trap by acting as though she's an innocent woman who doesn't understand how her son turned out so horrible and wants him to become good.
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Is essentially Robotnik in a dress with eyelashes. Some episodes didn't even bother getting rid of the mustache.
Uncanny Family Resemblance: As stated above, she's a bigger, fatter, ugly, bustier Robotnik in a dress with little girly eyelashes.

Dr. Warpnik

Voiced by: French Tickner

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Dr. Robotnik's cousin, a fish-loving lunatic so crazy and bizarre that he freaked out his own cousin, to the extent Robotnik banished him by sealing him up in the Warp of Confusion five years before the start of the series. He attempts to get revenge on Robotnik by capturing Tails, in hopes that he can then capture Sonic and use them to lure his hated cousin into the Warp so he can enact his revenge.

The Beastmaster: He's attended to by legions of trained fish.
Bestiality Is Depraved: His obsession with fish has some really disturbing sexual undertones.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Cloudcuckoolander: Warpnik is so weird and creepy that he freaks out even Robotnik, who banished him to the Warp of Confusion in disgust. He's prone to rambling on odd tangents, has a disturbing obsession with fish, bursts into fits of maniacal laughter, and generally acts in a really bizarre way.
Dr. Warpnik: He said I was a loony!
Early-Installment Weirdness: "The Warp of Confusion," where Warpnik resides, is an early franchise name for the Special Zones of the games, typical of the material found in the early Sonic Universe Bible. Even the fish occupying it were part of the original Special Zones.
Expressive Hair: His hair (or possibly a wig) floats above his head and frequently shifts into shapes to emphasize his moods or thoughts.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses at all times to help accentuate his mien of being an evil Mad Scientist.
Laughing Mad: Warpnik cackles and giggles almost incessantly.
Lean and Mean: Unlike his bloated cousin, Dr. Warpnik is a tall, spindly figure.
Nonstandard Character Design: Warpnik looks like he walked out of a Chuck Jones Dr. Seuss cartoon, and the Expressive Hair only reinforces the impression.
Ocular Gushers: Goes into a brief display of spectacular, waterfall-like torrents of tears when recollecting on how Dr. Robotnik banished him.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: A bit like how Robotnik is red, Dr. Warpnik has red skin and is Robotnik's cousin.
Shamu Fu: When forced into combat, Warpnik's go-to method of attack is to smack people with live fish.
Top-Heavy Guy: Warpnik has some beefy shoulders.

Robotnik Jr.

Voiced by: Ian James Corlett

An artificial son created by Robotnik to inherit his empire, since the alternative, giving it to Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts, is unthinkable to him. Unfortunately for Robotnik, he turns rebel against him and goes to live with Robotnik's other rejects, where he develops a crush on Breezie.

Bratty Half-Pint: Was designed as such to be just as bad as Robotnik was back in his day.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Character Catchphrase: "Big whoop!"
Dogged Nice Guy: To Breezie. He was interested in her but Breezie wasn't interested in him and had only eyes for Sonic. At first.
Delinquent Hair: His long mohawk is a sign of this.
Heel–Face Turn: Thanks to Sonic, he joins the side of good much to his father's anger.
Not Blood Siblings: Despite being created from the same mad doctor Robotnik, Breezie and Junior don't consider themselves "siblings" and fall in love with each other. Justified since they're robots.
Overlord Jr.: Robotnik creates him to carry on his legacy.
Robot Kid: Robotnik created Junior to resemble himself as a child.
Turned Against Their Masters: Breezie and Junior were created by Robotnik to work for him, but both underwent heel-face turns when Sonic saved their lives. Robotnik has Scratch and Grounder hunt them down so that he can figure out where he went wrong with them and ensure that Omletta won't betray him like they did. Omletta turns against Robotnik when she gets drenched with water and short-circuits.
Took a Level in Kindness: After Sonic convinces him to be nice.
Youthful Freckles: He has freckles on his cheeks.

Wes Weasley

Voiced by: Michael Donovan

A sleazy, fast-talking and conniving weasel salesman who inconveniences friend and foe alike.

Arms Dealer: He could be seen as this, as he sells various weaponry and traps to Robotnik and Coconuts without any care about their plans to use them.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Con Man: He is more than willing to lie to, cheat and swindle his customers in pursuit of their money.
Everyone Has Standards: He's willing to aid villainous causes if paid enough. But even he wouldn't vote for a tyrant like Dr. Robotnik when he runs for office. Of course, that's quickly subverted when Robotnik shows him the payload he'll get for helping him.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: He dislikes Robotnik, especially when he bullies and cheats him, but whenever he is a potential customer, he is always right as far as Wes is concerned.
Honest John's Dealership: A walking, talking stereotype of one, fast-talking, tacky, intrusive, always smiling and wearing a garish yellow suit. Though in a bit of a subversion some of his merchandise works just fine in competent hands.
Jerkass Has a Point: In "Birth of a Salesman". Sleazy salesman he may be, but Weasley makes a good point when he explains to Robotnik that his gadgets work perfectly, and they keep failing because Robotnik keeps passing them off to Scratch and Grounder rather than just use them himself. Even Robotnik acknowledges this.
Robotnik: You have sold me contraption after contraption, and none of them work!
Weasley: Au contraire, mon omelette! It's your two stooges who don't work! My machines have performed as promised!
Robotnik: Hmmm... you have a point.
Motor Mouth: His most useful skill, as he is hasty to convince potential customers and tries to make them hasty as well while making them not overthink their purchase.
New Job as the Plot Demands: His job as a salesman means he represents different companies and interests with every episode.
The Nicknamer: Everyone tends to be called "Pal-sie" in conversations.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Michael Donovan has admitted^notelook in the comments that Weasley's voice is his "bad impersonation" of Phil Silvers.
Perpetual Smiler: The smile is an integral part of his trying to cultivate a pleasant image and become liked by his targets. Therefore since he is a Consummate Professional he smiles every single moment. Unless someone cheats HIM out of his share.
Snake Oil Salesman: Weasley is more than willing to overhype the actual capabilities of his products in order to make a sale. In a subversion, most of his gadgets actually do work if used properly.
Unmoving Plaid: He wears the typical depiction of plaid in a limited animation series.
Wicked Weasel: He falls into this territory whenever he works for Robotnik, especially in his debut episode, where he sold him weapons and contraptions he could use to catch Sonic with. Even though they worked, Scratch and Grounder were too stupid to use them properly. In "Hero of the Year", he helped Robotnik with his evil plan to trap Sonic and his friends onboard a yacht and sink it with them inside in exchange for his own shopping channel, but when he found out that he wasn't allowed to actually broadcast it, he rescued Sonic so Sonic could rescue his friends and help him get back at Robotnik.

Sergeant Doberman

Voiced by: Phil Hayes

A militaristic canine, retired war hero and occasional ally to Sonic.

Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: His entire shtick. Even when retired, he keeps yelling out military orders and acts very overbearing towards his soldiers.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Downplayed. While he's played an ally to Sonic on more than one occasion, "Attack on Pinball Fortress" shows that Doberman isn't above selfishly chasing his own goals. Much like Wes Weasley, he wanted the Stupidity Ray to create a whole planet of idiot soldiers who would blindly follow orders.
Retired Badass: He was apparently one of Mobius' greatest war heroes before retiring, and isn't afraid to stand up to Robotnik. Later epiodes, such as "Attack on Pinabll Fortress", imply he's returned to active duty.

Collie Chang

Voiced by:

A recurring news anchor who reports on various goings-on in Mobius.

Canon Foreigner: She was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Named after Connie Chung.
Punny Name: A dog woman named "Collie".
Vocal Evolution: Started out with a higher-pitched, more feminine voice, but switched to a deeper and more professional-sounding one over the series.

Katella

Voiced by: Kathleen Barr

An infamous intergalactic bounty hunter. When she meets Robotnik, she immediately falls in love with him and won't take no for an answer.

Abhorrent Admirer: Unusually this, not because of her looks, but mainly because of her demeanor towards Robotnik.
Ambiguously Human: While she looks like a fairy realistic human, she's apparently from outer space, so it's not clear if she's a genuine human or a Human Alien.
And Now You Must Marry Me: She tries to force Robotnik to marry her at gunpoint.
Bounty Hunter: She kidnaps people from Mobius and sells them to intergalactic zoos.
Canon Foreigner: She was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Her entire role in "Zoobotnik" consists of her manhandling Robotnik in what is blatantly sexual assault, including at one point jumping up and down on him in a way similar to dry humping. However, while she's not called on it, it's very clear that it is not okay and Robotnik is actually very afraid of her.
Egomaniac Hunter: Very proud and full of herself, and she even carries a record player for her theme music.
Eviler than Thou: It's not long before Robotnik becomes totally scared of Katella.
Evil Versus Evil: Katella against Mama Robotnik after the latter shows up at the wedding. Katella calls the marriage off because she refuses to have Mama Robotnik for a mother-in-law.
Fetishized Abuser: To Robotnik. Weirdly enough, she is the one who is first smitten with him, mainly because he's so evil that it charms her.
Fiery Redhead: Redhaired and fiery-tempered, she's a classic example of the archetype.
Hartman Hips: Katella has a very large backside.
Heart Symbol: A very weird example; when she's particualrly enamored, she shapeshifts into a talking heart symbol with tiny legs.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: She makes frequent winks towards the audience.
Left the Background Music On: She carries around a portable record player with her own leitmotif.
Ms. Fanservice: It's not exactly clear if she's a human, but she's definitely one of the most human-looking and attractive characters on the show.
No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Though it would help if she didn't beat up Robotnik every time she gets her hands on him.
No Sense of Personal Space: The minute she sees Robotnik she can't restrain herself from manhandling him.
Non-Standard Character Design: She's a realistic human in a world full of cartoony animals and humans.
Not Good with Rejection: Invoked when she coolly warns Robotnik that she "doesn't handle rejection well."
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She gets over her attraction to Robotnik after seeing what his mother's like, leaving Mobius for a planet that will, in her words, "Appreciate her." She then literally chases after another planet with romantic intent.
Shotgun Wedding: Invoked; she literally tries to force Robotnik to marry her at blaster-point, and almost gets away with it... before his angry mom shows up.
The Vamp: Karella is a shamelessly seductive and brazenly flirtatious character, who oozes sexuality from every pore.
Ventriloquism: She does it quite well when imitating Tails. She mentions to Robotnik that she used to be a ventriloquist at the circus.
What Does She See in Him?: Katella's one of, if not, the hottest character in the cartoon, while Robotnik is more or less a pointy-headed blob with a very long mustache. And yet Katella is absolutely nuts about him, though less because of how he looks and more because of how twisted and depraved he is.
Wicked Cultured: She's suggested to have some surprisingly refined tastes, as indicated by her having her record player play classical music whenever she catches something.
Yandere: A more subdued version. She will not take no for an answer unless it's for a good reason.^note

Captain Rescue

Voiced by: Gary Chalk

A middle-aged racoon superhero who still tries to fight crime desite his age, weight and malfunctioning weapons.

Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Formerly Fit: Old home movies of Rescue show that he was a fit superhero in his youth. Since he went into retirement, he became overweight and out-of-shape.
Heroic BSoD: Suffers this after failing to save Sonic from Robotnik, briefly quitting being a hero. It takes Tails appealing to his better nature to snap him out of it.
Horrible Judge of Character: Rescue allows the Obviously Evil Robotnik to convince him that he's another hero who's overshadowed by the show-off Sonic.
Old Superhero: Rescue was once a great superhero in his youth, and has come out of retirement to help Sonic save Hill Top Village from Scratch and Grounder.
Swiss-Army Weapon: Captain Rescue's belt contains lots of hidden gadgets that he uses to fight crime. Given their age, however, they tend to malfunction quite a bit.

MacHopper

Voiced by: Scott McNeil

A talented freedom fighter kangaroo whom Robotnik brainwashes to try and capture Sonic. The brainwashing goes awry, however, and MacHopper loses his memory.

The Ace: Has been fighting Robotnik since he was "a wee nipper" and has become quite the skilled and resourceful fighter as a result. Even Sonic has major respect for him.
Animal Gender-Bender: MacHopper is a male kangaroo, but has a pouch.
Awesome Aussie: Definitely. He takes out Scratch and Grounder without breaking a sweat, the same way Sonic does, and even gets the jump on Sonic and Tails multiple times when brainwashed.
Bag of Holding: His pouch seems to be one of this - he claims it carries "a few things that occasionally come in handy". Which quite literally includes a kitchen sink.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Easy Amnesia: Robotnik tried to brainwash MacHopper into a loyal servant, but the process was interrupted by a lightning strike. This causes MacHopper to become spacey and forgetful, unable to remember even his own name.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Due to the imperfect brainwashing, MacHopper becomes fiercely loyal to Robotnik when he sees a picture of him, but can be restored to his old self by force-feeding him chilli. He eventually tricks Robotnik into removing the brainwashing via a magnetic force field.
MacGyvering: His forte as a Freedom Fighter is to construct anything out of anything in bushcraft style, such as forming a lockpick/boomerang combo from one of Scratch's tail feathers.
Trademark Favourite Food: Likes chilli dogs as much as Sonic, but with a side of eucalyptus leaves. Despite the fact that eucalyptus would be poisonous to kangaroos.

Goopster

A cute little Blob Monster from another dimension. He briefly becomes Tails' pet in "So Long Sucker!".

Berserk Button: When he gets angry or hungry, he grows to enormous size and devours everything and everyone in sight.
Big Eater: The only thing that can satisfy his appetite is - you guessed it - chili dogs.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Picky Eater: He won't eat anything but chili dogs, even though Sonic gives him a variety of different foods to try.
Trademark Favorite Food: Like Sonic and Tails, his favorite food is chili dogs.
Vacuum Mouth: He uses this to suck up anyone or anything in his path.

Captain William Le Duck

Voiced by: Terry Klassen

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Ace Pilot: Is said to be one of Mobius' greatest pilots.
Adventurer Archaeologist: Describes himself as such.
Badass in Distress: His episode opens with him getting his plane shot down by Scratch and Grounder, and he would've suffered a fatal crash if it wasn't for Tails' intervention.
Badass Unintentional: Since he's afraid of the dark, he ventures into the Temple of Komometz with his eyes closed and ends up falling through the floor... Only to land on Grounder, who had Tails at his mercy, incapacitating the badnik and allowing Tails to break free. Who immediately afterwards returns the favour by saving him from Scratch.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Chekhov's Skill: As an Adventurer Archaeologist, he can read ancient mobian hieroglyphs, which is how he figures out how to free Sonic from his cell in the Temple of Komometz.
Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey: Zig-zagged; while he isn't fearless, Le Duck will still face his fears if it means saving his friends. See Cowardly Lion below.
Cowardly Lion: Is afraid of the dark, but still enters dark, spooky ruins to rescue Sonic and Tails. He is also afraid of flying, which isn't something you'd expect from an Ace Pilot.
Expy: A World War One-inspired Ace Pilot flying an all-red plane? Are we talking about Le Duck, or the Red Baron?
French Jerk: Averted. While he does seem to have a short fuse, he is nonetheless a rather nice fellow and is nothing but friendly towards Tails and Sonic.
Goggles Do Nothing: He sports a pair of goggles, though this is justified since he flies an open-cockpit planse.
Gratuitous French: Le Duck peppers his speech with French words such as "sacrebleu!" or "mon dieu!", and has a thick French accent to boot.
Mythology Gag: Possibly; his plane is a red biplane that Tails ends up piloting. In the Classic games, Tails' plane, the Tornado, is a red biplane as well.
Quacking Up: He's a duck with a French accent who is an Ace Pilot, and although he is cowardly, he is willing to face his fears if it means helping his friends. He assists Tails in his quest to find and rescue Sonic.

Professor Caninestein

Voiced by: Gary Chalk

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A canine scientist and inventor who occasionally helps Sonic to battle Robotnik.

Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Evil-Detecting Dog: Shows shades of this in "Blackbot the Pirate", when Robotnik forces him to build a time machine. Robotnik hadn't revealed his plan at this point, yet Caninestein already seems to know that whatever the bad doctor has planned isn't good:
"I can't go through with this! My theories of time and space were developed for peace, not for your evil schemes!"
Gadgeteer Genius: The dog who always invents things to help Sonic.
Heroic Dog: A genius scientist and inventor who opposes Robotnik.
Herr Doktor: He speaks with a typical cartoony "exaggerated German" accent, to accentuate his Mad Scientist credentials, and his name is intended to invoke a cartoonish "German" family name.
Kidnapped Scientist: Was forced to build a time machine for Robotnik that kickstarts the four "Chaos Emerald" episodes.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: An scientist who consistently has a white lab coat, as shown above.
Last-Name Basis: Not once has he ever been referred to by his first name.
Smart People Wear Glasses: This is also an obvious sign seen above.

Professor Von Schlemmer

Voiced by: French Tickner

A somewhat crazed but well-meaning scientist and inventor who helps Sonic battle against Robotnik from time to time.

Absent-Minded Professor: Part of the reason why Von Schlemmer is such an oddball is that he's easily distracted and tends to forget what he's doing.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Cloudcuckoolander: Even by Mobian standards, Von Schlemmer is kind of The Ditz, prone to going on odd tangents, being goofy, and doing crazy experiments just because.
Herr Doktor: Like Caninestein, he speaks with a typical cartoony "exaggerated German" accent, to accentuate his Mad Scientist credentials, and his name is intended to invoke a cartoonish "German" family name.
Kidnapped Scientist: He's a frequent kidnapping victim of Robotnik's.
The Von Trope Family: Professor "Von" Schlemmer.

Hacker

Voiced by: Ian James Corlett

He's a mole who is a friend of Sonic's who hacked into Robotnik's computer and stole his Genius Chip program. According to Sonic, he is a computer geek, and this is proven by him being hesitant to help Tails fight Robotnik.

Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Cowardly Lion: Very hesitant to fight danger when Sonic was captured, Tails' encouragement and naive irresponsibility made him join along to save Sonic.
Geek: An computer hack.
The Klutz: Despite his genius intellect and simple competence, his tendencies to get trip over and get his body stuck to the ground in a stiffy and slightly bouncy way is because of his stiff joints make him out to be this. Along with this line from him:
Hacker: "This is why I don't like the outside world."
Meaningful Name: Played straight with being a literal hacker.
Perpetual Smiler: Never seems to frown in the slightest.

Rocket the Sloth

Voiced by: Ian James Corlett

A ten-year-old sloth who appears in "Slowwww Going". He lives with his parents and his unnamed sister.

Awesome, but Temporary: After the power crystal powering Robotnik's Slow-Mo ray breaks, the effects of the ray are reversed, making things faster instead of slower. When Rocket gets zapped by accident, Tails discovers this and uses the Slow-Mo Ray on the rest of the sloth family to get them to help him rescue Sonic. However, Robotnik makes it very clear that the effects of the Slow-Mo Ray only last for an hour. In fact, in the episode's "Sonic Says" segment, the sloth family are back to their normal slow selves.
Be the Ball: Much like Sonic and Tails' canon video game counterparts, Rocket and his family shape themselves into balls when they launch themselves at Scratch and Grounder.
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Ironic Name: Despite his claims that he's the fastest sloth on Mobius, Rocket is still incredibly slow, even when compared to people other than Sonic. When Rocket gets zapped with Robotnik's broken Slow-Mo ray, he actually lives up to his name.
Literal-Minded: When Sonic gives him the job of sounding the gong, telling him to hit it if he sees anything. Rocket is about to hit the gong, but Sonic stops him and clarifies that he should only hit it if he sees trouble.
Pink Girl, Blue Boy: He wears a blue sweater, while his sister wears a pink dress.
Sluggish Sloths: Rocket and his family both move and speak incredibly slow, despite Rocket claiming he's the fastest sloth on Mobius. When they get zapped by Robotnik's broken Slow-Mo ray, they temporary move faster.
Speedy Snail: At first, Rocket and his family are as slow as any real sloth. When they get zapped by Robotnik's broken Slow-Mo ray, they become incredibly fast, if only for an hour.
Verbal Tic: Rocket speaks incredibly slow to remind the viewers that he's a sloth. This changes after he gets zapped with Robotnik's broken Slow-Mo ray.

Dr. Brandon Quark

Voiced by: Terry Klassen

An evil genius who competes with Robotnik for world domination. Appeared solely in the episode "Robotnik's Rival".

Animal Motifs: He's affiliated with ducks due to a lab accident making him a part-duck hybrid.
Berserk Button: Don't mention his lab accident, call him "Quack" or refer to ducks in general.
Breath Weapon: His "Solar Polar Molar" allows him to shoot beams of light and heat from his mouth. Humorously, he even quacks when shooting the beams!
Canon Foreigner: He was created for the show and doesn’t exist in the games.
Evil Genius: Just like Robotnik, Quark is a mad scientist bent on world domination.
Evil Redhead: His spiky hair is a bright red to contrast with Robotnik's orange mustache.
Known Only by Their Nickname: While he gives his own full name at the start of the episode, he's only ever referred to as Quark afterwards.
Malicious Misnaming: Robotnik derisively refers to him as "Quack" due to his duck-like lower half.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: At the start of the episode, when Robotnik captures Sonic and Tails with his magna-beam, Quark tries to steal Sonic and Tails from him with his own manga-beam, which allows them to escape. Robotnik chews him out for screwing it all up.
Noodle Incident: The details of Quark's "little lab accident" that resulted in him becoming a part-duck hybrid are never given, but it's clearly a sore point for him.
Quacking Up: He's at least half-duck due to a lab accident. By the end of the episode, his plans falling apart and his minion betraying him causes him to snap and start quacking for real.
The Rival: He initially competes with Robotnik to capture Sonic and rule Mobius. They don't have any more success, however, because their conflicting plans keep foiling each other.
Villainous Breakdown: After D.U.F.U.S. betrays him and Robotnik finally beats him, he goes insane, starts quacking and joins a flock of ducks to fly south for the winter, never to be seen again.
Villain Team-Up: On D.U.F.U.S.'s recommendation, he teams up with Robotnik to capture Sonic and Tails and take over Mobius. The two prove frighteningly effective together, motivating Sonic and Tails to try and turn them against each other.

Characters / Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

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The Heroes

Sonic the Hedgehog

Miles "Tails" Prower

Voiced by: Russi Taylor (EN, Pilot) Christopher Stephen Welch (EN), Chris Turner (EN, Sonic Christmas Blast), Nariko Fujieda (JP), Matina Karras (GR)

Robotnik's forces

Dr. Ivo Robotnik

Scratch & Grounder

Coconuts

Other Robotnik Robots

Bounty Hunters

Arms

Frankly

Humpty

Davy Sprocket

Skweel

Dynamight

Spike

Sir Ffuzzy-Logik

Dragon Breath

Other Characters

Breezie

Momma Robotnik

Dr. Warpnik

Robotnik Jr.

Wes Weasley

Sergeant Doberman

Collie Chang

Katella

Captain Rescue

MacHopper

Goopster

Captain William Le Duck

Professor Caninestein

Professor Von Schlemmer

Hacker

Rocket the Sloth

Dr. Brandon Quark

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