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Team Sonic in General

Team Sonic are the protectors of Hedgehog Village. While this group of five friends may have their differences and occasional disagreements, they're still close-knit and always come together to save the day.

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• Armed Females, Unarmed Males: Team Sonic consists of three guys (Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles) and two girls (Amy and Sticks). Amy uses her signature hammer, while Sticks uses a variety of weapons including a staff, a club and a boomerang. Among the boys, only Tails uses weapons.
• Badbutt: They routinely fight off Eggman's robots, giant monsters, and ancient evils, but retain a light-hearted and family-friendly tone throughout the series.
• Dancing Is Serious Business: If you overpower them in the first half of a soccer game, they'll Michael Jackson you before the second half to bite back and make you regret your actions. The Eggman-hypnotized Team Cybonic learn this the hard way in "Victory".
• Five-Man Band: Team Sonic is the main opponent of Doctor Eggman's multiple attacks against the village. Led by famous speedster Sonic the Hedgehog, the team is bolstered by tech genius Tails, dumb muscle Knuckles, voice of reason Amy Rose, and total wildcard Sticks. Multiple episodes showcase the disasters that happen when members of the team go off on their own, ending with the team reuniting and ending Eggman's scheme of the day.
• Mixed Animal Species Team: The typical Team Sonic from the main-series games (Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles) remains intact while also adding Amy Rose and Sticks the Badger as members.
• Not So Above It Alls: Played straight and zig-zagged most of the time in season one of the show. Aside from the obviously moronic Knuckles and the obviously immature Sonic, the so-called smart characters who make themselves seem sensible and whatnot such as Tails and Amy in season one of the show were also lacking common sense in situations, much to the point that Eggman once pointed this out in the episode "Multi-Tails".
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: While they'll battle anything Eggman-related that comes their way, all they really want to do is hang out for a while. Played straight in "Mister Eggman" when Eggman's rubber gasket heist gets out of hand:
  Sonic: Can we go back to drag racing? Catching rings is boring.
• Protagonist Without a Past: There were plans for Rise of Lyric to involve exploring the backstory of Sonic and pals, but it went nowhere. As such, none of the main characters have a clear backstory with the exception of Sticks.
  • Knuckles also gets hints of a backstory in season two, as it's revealed he is the Last of His Kind and comes from Angel Island, but other than sharing his main counterpart's origin, this is never brought upon in the series.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Amy (Girly Girl) and Sticks (Tomboy).
• True Companions: The five are really close friends, and they spend most of their downtime hanging out together, goofing off, or enjoying a meal at Meh Burger (or trying to, anyway). Their bond has gotten to the point that the other members of the team consider themselves Knuckles' family, and even in the rare event that they split apart from conflict with each other or other means, they always reconcile and reunite, just as strong as before.
• Two Girls to a Team: Amy and Sticks as the female members of Team Sonic.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Mainly in season one, where they are loyal friends and also present many times where they seemed like they hate each other at times, mainly because of the gang grabbing a ton of Jerkass Balls for humor or not.

Sonic

Sonic the Hedgehog

Being a role-model is overrated. I'd much rather be hilariously edgy.

Voiced By: Roger Craig Smith (English), Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Japanese)

As you'd expect from a team named after him, Sonic is the spearhead of the bunch. He may have a smart remark for many occasions and tends to be a bit egotistical, but he's always willing to use his superhuman speed and signature Spin Attacks to lead his friends into battle and protect the innocent from evil of all kinds.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: His arms are blue here, while they're skin-colored in the main series.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While he's still a largely pleasant guy overall, he is more arrogant, rude, sarcastic, and prone to making remarks at times compared to his main series counterpart. This is due to the comedic nature of Boom, turning Sonic into a more flawed character rather than the almost flawless Ideal Hero he is in the mainstream series.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • To Eggman. They have fought for a long time, with Eggman biggest desire after building a theme park is to defeat him. Apparently, they have fought for so long Eggman lost his hair in the process.
    Eggman: When Sonic and I first met, it was Hate at First Sight. Now, as I stand here, my hair full of hair...wow, how long did I write this?
• Badasses Wear Bandanas: He wears a neckerchief and is undeniably badass.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: He's a rare male example of the "Beauty" to Tails' Brains and Knuckles' Brawn.
• Being Good Sucks: Going hand-in-hand with Dude, Where's My Respect? below; no matter how much good he does, the villagers always seem prepared to believe the worst in him and turn on him at a moment's notice. This reaches a head in "Just a Guy," where he launches into a rant over it and ultimately goes into a 10-Minute Retirement:
  Sonic: You know what I think is "compassionate?" Saving the village from Eggman! Like, every week! But do I get any props for that? No! Everyone just goes around gasping at me whenever I call a guy a "guy," or people "people!" I quit heroing! And I quit this stupid group!
• Berserk Button: Don't say that you're faster than he is.
• Big Brother Instinct: As per usual with most versions of Sonic, he is very protective and caring towards Tails. In fact in the first episode he's a bit too over-protective towards Tails and "fires" him for his own good.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Thin to Knuckles' Big and Tails' Short.
• Blood Knight: Sonic loves a good, risky challenge and fighting Eggman and his robots. Deconstructed in "Aim Low"; when Eggman gets depressed over his constant failures and stops enacting evil plans, Sonic quickly ends up bored, listless, and paranoid, driving his friends so crazy that they decide they have to re-motivate Eggman back to doing evil just so they can have some peace and quiet.
• Brutal Honesty: When fed up with Eggman being The Thing That Would Not Leave in "Can an Evil Genius...", he does not try to hide it:
  Sonic: How do I say this delicately? You're a horrible roommate and nobody in this house likes you.
  Amy: Let's frame our statements with "When you do this, it makes me feel this."
  Sonic: Fine, okay. Uh, let's see... When you... live here... it makes me... feel angry... because you're a horrible roommate and nobody in this house likes you.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': he saves the world on a repeated basis and gets a varied level of gratitude for it, and yet often cosmic forces or sometimes even his friends or the people he saves will jump at the chance to scold him and lecture him if he is even the slightest bit crude or smug about it. He vigorously lampshades this in one relentless case and quits helping anymore, turning the trope in his favour since things go near instantly haywire without him around. Also, Knuckles and Amy often act disrespectful to “him” and usually get away with it.
• Chick Magnet: Amy is secretly in love with him, a crowd of girls swoon over him when he does his guitar solo in Battle Of The Boy Bands, and the bandicoot twins both take an interest in him in Mech Suits Me.
• Collector of the Strange: Coconut husks, as revealed in "Fortress of Squalitude".
• Commitment Issues: Give Bees A Chance he's rather nervous when Amy uses the word relationship. Bear in mind, Amy was using it in a general sense and didn't add any hidden meanings.
• Crazy Jealous Guy:
  • Surprisingly sometimes acts like this concerning Amy, such as in "Fuzzy Puppy Buddies" when the group spies on Amy apparently getting ready for a date.
    Sonic: A-a date? That's cool. Why would I care? Stop staring at me!
  • In "Alone Again, Unnaturally", when he's unable to find Tails he wonders if he's with Amy (i.e. dating), before sighing that it's his own fault. He rushes over to Amy's house, and sighs with relief when he realizes they aren't there.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The Cold Open to the game has Sonic surrounded, and subsequently shot, by several of Lyric's drones.
  "Ugh... not my best moment. But hey, even in the face of certain doom, I still look good."
• Dance Battler: As usual, Sonic is packing a lot of break-dancing inspired kicks.
• Deadpan Snarker: Emphasis on "deadpan". No matter how ridiculous a situation will get, you can expect Sonic to have an exasperated look on his face while commenting on it.
• Didn't Think This Through: Sonic's profile pic shows that "planning ahead" is one of his dislikes. Sidekick gives a demonstration:
  Sonic: I was just trying to protect you...
  Tails: How? By putting me in more danger?!
  Sonic: The plan had holes!
  • Sonic's plan to lure Eggman and Lyric away from town and play Keep Away with the Radiant Crystal ends with half of Slowpoke Isle razed via Metal Sonic.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: In the cartoon, no matter how many times Sonic saves the village from Eggman, they turn on him or assume the worst of him at the drop of a hat over anything, no matter how small. This causes him to have a go at his team during one of Amy's seminars because he's fed up with how he gets treated.
• Everyone Can See It: On several occasions, other characters mention how close Amy and Sonic are. On one occasion, Eggman straight up asks what's going on between them, and on another, Sticks snaps "I'm not Amy," when a drowsy Sonic calls her "sugar plum".
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Sonic has these after a while of living with Eggman who did his utmost to keep Sonic and Tails up as part of a Batman Gambit.
• Extremity Extremist: When not using his Rolling Attack, Sonic is almost exclusively using kicks.
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. As with many previous interpretations, Sonic can be rather cocky and reckless at times. His profile even indicates that he dislikes planning ahead. Sonic is legitimately fast and heroic, and has earned his reputation as a good guy among the village. It's just that he's so sure of his ability that it leads to him making bad decisions when his mouth writes a check that his feet can't cash.
• Freudian Slip:
  • After he and Knux take down the first boss in the Pit, Sonic says, "We did it!" even though he's supposedly a loner (and insists that Knux misheard him when he points it out).
  • In the cartoon, Sonic sometimes blurts out Amy's name (e.g. in "Designated Heroes", he sleepily muttered, "Not now, Amy, I'm not in the mood..." when Eggman interrupts his nap) despite vehemently denying any sort of romantic attachment.
• Friendly Enemies: With Eggman. Whilst they're still arch rivals, Sonic and Eggman still help each other out on occasion, and their barbs at each other feel more like banter than genuine malice. It's almost to the point of Vitriolic Best Buds at times, in fact.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Lampshaded in "My Fair Sticksy", wherein he agrees to escort Sticks to an award ceremony, but under the condition of not wearing pants. At the ceremony itself, all he wears is a sport coat.
• Handwraps of Awesome: Including his legs, and his shoes.
• Hates Being Touched: Whenever he and his friends do a "group hug", Sonic can be seen with a apathetic and disgusted look on his face. He even flat out says "No" when Amy suggests a pre-mission hug in the episode "Can An Evil Genius Crash On Your Couch For A Few Days?".
• The Hero: But of course.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Tails (as usual) and Knuckles.
• Informed Flaw: According to the developers, Sonic would start out the video games as a loner, and would need to learn the value of teamwork. When Rise of Lyric starts out, Sonic is fighting Eggman alongside his friends as he always does. Shadow even considers Sonic's reliance on his friends to be a weakness. Whenever Sonic tries to take the credit for what the group does collectively, it comes off more like his usual showboating instead of a genuine "I Work Alone" attitude. In fact, in "Shattered Crystal", Sonic is always the first to suggest teamwork.
• Ironic Echo: Due to a Stable Time Loop.
  "You and I have unfinished business."
• I Work Alone: Word of God says he's reluctant to work with others, but it's more of an Informed Flaw. However, he tries to take responsibility for setting Lyric free by isolating himself from the group en route to Slowpoke Isle, but the resulting events come back to haunt him with a vengeance. He also tries this again at the Purification Plant; Amy was not having it.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Into the Wilderness: When Amy and Sticks get stuck in a hole, Sonic walks off to win their bet, snickering about their predicament. Said hole is a missile silo, which helps the girls win the race.
• The Leader: A level headed, Deadpan Snarker Only Sane Man type. In contrast to his main series counterpart who was a headstrong type blasting through every challenge with Sonic Speed.
• Leeroy Jenkins: According his official bio, Sonic hates planning ahead. There is a multitude of evidence from the TV series that supports this.
• Moment of Weakness: Sonic hesitated when a horde of robots under Eggman's command descended upon the group outside of Lyric's Tomb, and he opened the door (despite Amy telling him, twice, not to do it) after Metal Sonic showed up instead of moving to help them in advance. Besides Eggman and Metal Sonic, everyone present at the event was angry with Sonic for what transpired, including Shadow. Not only does this kick off the plot of the game, but Sonic makes things worse during one of his attempts to rectify his mistake.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Much like his mainline counterpart, he's the In-Between to Tails' Nice and Knuckles' Mean. While he is still kind like Tails, he can be quite the Deadpan Snarker and sometimes egocentric.
• Not So Above It All: He tends to be as silly and goofy as his teammates.
• Only Sane Man: Often comes off as this in many plot lines, between his dysfunctional team and Eggman's antics. Being Sonic, he's not completely lucid however.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The apathetic Savvy Guy to Amy’s spunky Energetic Girl.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly man to Tails’s sensitive guy.
• She's Not My Girlfriend: Says this about Amy when Eggman taunts him in "Bro Down Showdown", and the game show indicates it's a wrong answer. Technically, it was because Sonic and Eggman's opinions were different, but the timing of the wrong answer light is still very suspect.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Sonic was this in Season 1 of the show, while he's The Hero and mostly the rational one around, he was very egotistical and full of himself to an immature, rude, and occasionally obnoxious degree.
• Sore Loser: Sonic suffers losing very badly. When he's Bested at Bowling by the Lightning Bolts, he runs his friends ragged with bowling practice and develops a borderline obsession with getting a rematch so he can beat them.
• Spell My Name with a "The": A lot of jokes treat the "The" in "Sonic the Hedgehog" as his actual middle name.
• Spiky Hair: His quills are designed to invoke this sort of impression.
• Straight Man: In most episodes, he often falls into this role, especially when around Knuckles.
• Super Drowning Skills: Sidekick reveals that Sonic still can't swim, requiring Tails to bail him out. I Can Sea Sonic's Fear From Here makes this a plot point, as Eggman builds a robot in the water specifically because Sonic's too scared to go stop it. It takes a lot of encouragement (and shoving) before Sonic gets in the water, even with a full set of SCUBA gear on.
• Super-Speed: Natch. It's also his defining characteristic in the video game.
• A Taste of Defeat: Into The Wilderness ends with him losing his bet with Sticks and Amy. See Laser-Guided Karma above.
• The Dog Bites Back: After all the episodes like “Don’t Judge Me” and “Just A Guy” where the villagers and even some of his friends give him no respect or appreciation and turn on him for no reason, it can be very satisfying to see him teach them all a lesson in “Mech Suits Me” when his new mech suit brainwashed him into acting like a bully.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Still loves his Chilidogs as seen in "Cowbot".
• Tranquil Fury: His reaction when Swifty the Shrew claims to be faster than he is.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Knuckles. The situation is reversed from the main line, with Sonic playing the loner role.
  Sonic: If you can't keep up, just go along with [Tails and Amy].
• Vocal Evolution: Roger Craig Smith gives Sonic a somewhat deeper and more serious sounding voice this time around, probably to better emphasize his loner status.

Tails

Miles "Tails" Prower

Voiced By: Colleen Villard (English), Ryō Hirohashi (Japanese), Christa Lips (Dutch)

Sonic's closest friend and sidekick Tails serves as Team Sonic's brains, as well as their mechanic. Incredibly intelligent for his age, he creates new inventions that supply the team with the technological edge they need to battle evil. He tends to be a little naive at times, though; he's still a kid, after all.

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• Ace Pilot: Complete with a brand new Cool Plane. Of course, he still has a poor track record with safety.
• Adaptational Badass: Like Amy, Tails is given a combat role after so many years of being put on the sidelines, with plenty of explosives to throw around.
• Adorably Precocious Child: One of the most punctuated interpretations of such for Tails. He's as much a tech wiz as his games counterpart but has a lot of the childish naiveté and Endearingly Dorky impulses of earlier cartoon incarnations.
• And Then What?: In "Translate This", Tails demands that Eggman return UT to him, but when Eggman asks what would he do if he said no, Tails reveals that he didn't think that far ahead.
• Attack Drone: Buddy-bot can short out remote terminals and attack robots while Tails attends to other matters.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He recalibrates the Enerbeam binding array into individual units for the group's use after their first contact with Lyric.
• Badass Adorable: He hasn't lost any of his cuteness from the main series, and his gadgets arguably make him even more badass. Also, even Sticks, probably the biggest tomboy of the whole franchise thinks he's adorable.
• Badass Bookworm: Unlike his Sega counterpart as of late, Tails takes part in the action alongside his teammates without losing any of his intellect.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brains to Sonic's Beauty and Knuckles' Brawn.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Short to Knuckles' Big and Sonic's Thin.
• Bungling Inventor: Most of his inventions do work, but some not quite in the preferred manner. Universal Translator proves very unpopular after Tails fails to put any restriction into what it can translate out loud.
• Captain Crash: As always, Tails seems literally incapable of flying a plane without crashing it — though, to be fair, it's usually because of being damaged in battle.
• Cartoony Tail: As always, he has two tails which he can spin in order to fly.
• Chick Magnet: "Tails' Crush" has Zooey fall for him when he stops trying everyone else's suggestions, and "Fire in a Crowded Workshop" has Perci make bedroom eyes at him because she "like(s) a guy who's handy."
• Companion Cube: Often treats his inventions, tools, and especially his plane like this. He gives his translator robot a pep-talk when the others don't like it after its first outing, reacts to his tools being stolen as if they were his kidnapped children, and responds to Knuckles teasingly asking if he lavishes so much attention on his plane because he loves it with a blunt "I do."
• Complexity Addiction: He insists on making devices for nearly every situation, even ones it would be far simpler to do manually.
• Cyborg: He accidentally merges with a Bee-bot in "You and I Bee-come One" and becomes this.
• Deadpan Snarker: It seems he gets this from Sonic, too. For instance, when Lyric states his plans...
  Tails: Somebody needs a hug.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Several of his inventions have this process, since Tails is a bit too eager to make new helpful gadgets.
  • In "Translate This", Tails sneaks into Eggman's lair to rescue UT, but when he confronts Eggman and the latter asks what Tails would do if he said no, the fox genuinely doesn't know what to do. Thankfully though, he does manage to improvise.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Like Sonic, Tails gets these once Eggman starts living with them.
• Fatal Flaw: Focus. Tails often seems over-fixated with his inventions, especially when they're not 100% fool-proof. A pivotal plot point in "Circus of Plunders".
• Fear of Thunder: Tails is still absolutely paralyzed with fright when thunder sounds, as "Cabin Fever" shows.
• Forgot About His Powers: Tails' ability to glide or fly would probably have come in handy when he needed to bail out of his plane in the first episode.
• Fusion Dance: With a Beebot, albeit accidentally.
• Gadgeteer Genius: His penchant for mechanics hasn't changed, and he's packing plenty of gadgets for the game too.
• Giver of Lame Names: He has a tendency of giving everything he invents a very descriptive and long name. He sometimes lampshades this later on.
• Goggles Do Nothing: While they would come in handy while flying a plane, Tails doesn't bother putting them over his eyes in the trailer. He wears them on odd occasions of intense tooling however.
• Handwraps of Awesome: He doesn't wear any on his hands, but like Sonic, he wears them on his shoes.
• Here We Go Again!: Subverted. At the end of "Buster", when Sticks gives up Buster, Tails finds a stray octopus and asks if he can keep it as a pet, only for the octopus to promptly swallow him whole. Tails quickly changes his mind.
• Heli-Critter: Tails's main method of movement, of course. In the games based on the show, this only amounts to gliding, unless in a cutscene. The show and comics have him flying around as usual, and using his tails to swim quickly.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Sonic.
• Hidden Depths: Implied to have potential in scriptwriting in "Eggman the Auteur".
• Improvised Weapon: While he fights Eggman's robots with bombs in the games based on the show and occasionally uses gadgets in the show itself, in the latter's case, he'll mainly grab an object in his vicinity and either throw it at the nearest bot or slam it down on top of them.
• Innocent Prodigy: Tails is a gifted genius and inventor, but still often displays a childlike naiveté and enthusiasm.
• Little Professor Dialog: Can slip into this sometimes, especially when explaining things.
• Kidanova: In "Fire in a Crowded Workshop", while Sonic and Knuckles' attempts to woo Perci fail, she comes on to Tails at the end, possibly catching on that he lied about causing the fire to spare his friends' feelings.
• Kid Sidekick: He's Sonic's, of course.
• Mr. Fixit: "Dr. Eggman's Tomato Sauce" has a big case of this; with his friends asking him to repair their electronics. He also fixed up Eggman's robots(Cubot) or reverse-engineered them(Cowbot) a few times.
• Nice Guy: Most of the time, he's generally the most mild-mannered out of the group.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Much like his mainline counterpart, he's the Nice to Knuckles' Mean and Sonic's In-Between. He's a Badass Bookworm and a Child Prodigy.
• Official Couple: With Zooey since "Tails' Crush."
• Oh, Crap!: In 'The Sidekick', when he attempts to bail from the damaged Tornado, he pulls the ejection seat lever... completely out, looking at the audience with a look that says "I'm doomed."
• Only Sane Man: If even Sonic screws up because of his ego, immaturity, and impulsiveness, Tails usually takes his position here instead.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive guy to Sonic’s manly man.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He's the shortest character, and also the smartest.
• Sidekick: To Sonic as usual. The show tends to mock this trope from time to time, such as showing that Tails reads a magazine titled Sidekick Monthly and later a novel titled "Always Settle for Second Best".
• The Smart Guy: The smartest member of the five, as usual.
• The Strategist: His profile states he's the one who comes up with the plans and initiative.
• Super-Speed: Not as much emphasis is put on it as with Sonic, and he does it by flying instead of running (just like his main series counterpart in both respects), but in Rise Of Lyric he's the only other character who can run on water.
  • Unlike his main series counterpart, he doesn't have Super-Reflexes to go along with it (seen when Eggman uses a slow motion device in the show).
• Tempting Fate: The group finds a red crystal out in the open, and Tails just had to open his mouth...
  Tails: Finally, an easy one!
  *Driller Worm emerges in front of the group and eats the crystal*
  Amy: You just had to say something, didn't you?
• Throw Down the Bomblet: In Shattered Crystal, Tails can "stick" enemies with grenades. He also throws explosives in Rise of Lyric.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Unlike what happened when he was with Fiona or Cosmo, his relationship with Zooey here does not end badly by the end of the series.
• Token Flyer: The sole member of the five who can physically fly and can pilot a plane. Tails has been seen using a plane to fly far more often than by using his tails.
• Undying Loyalty: Predictably, towards Sonic. He is very protective of his sidekick role, and during one Feud Episode among the entire gang, it took a matter of seconds for Tails to reconcile and team up with Sonic.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Sonic have light moments of this. There is also occasional heat between him and Sticks due to her fear of technology and his insistence upon it.

Knuckles

Knuckles the Echidna

Voiced By: Travis Willingham (English), Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese)

Knuckles is the muscle of the group. Hailing from Angel Island, what this echidna lacks in brainpower, he more than makes up for with sheer strength. When there's something that needs lifting or breaking into pieces, he's the one for the job.

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• Adaptational Curves: He's a good deal more muscular than his main series counterpart.
• Adaptational Dumbass: So much so that he provides the page image. In the original games, Knuckles was Super Gullible but by no means stupid, he was able to perform such feats as translating ancient runes for Sonic and co, and is a good-natured powerhouse. Here, he's little more than Dumb Muscle; he's illiterate, it takes him a few seconds to understand left from right and he can't even count.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Compared to his main-series counterpart, he’s much more egotistical and rude, often insulting Sonic right to his face.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Compared to his main-series counterpart. In the main universe, he's single-minded, antisocial, and at best is a reluctant ally of Sonic and the gang. Here, he's good buddies not only with Sonic, but a whole group of friends, and is somewhat kind and outgoing, if still moronic and more prideful.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Unlike the more serious and temperamental version from the main series, he's goofy, somewhat moronic, and easygoing.
• Ascended Meme:
  • The official Facebook post about Knuckles says that he doesn't like "leg day", a meme that was commonly poked at him for having an extremely buff body but very skinny legs.
  • It was acknowledged again in "Robots From The Sky - Part 4", when Knuckles used his leg strength to destroy a robot.
  "Who says I skip leg day?"
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brawn to Sonic's Beauty and Tails' Brains.
• Beware the Silly Ones:
  • In the first issue of the comic. He really did not appreciate all the "Oh God, what an idiot" directed at him, most of which was from Amy.
  • Knuckles in general. He is an exceptionally powerful and skilled martial artist, and his typical silliness is almost completely absent whenever he and his friends battle Eggman and his army.
• The Big Guy: As usual, except that he now looks more like the part even more so than before.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Big to Sonic's Thin and Tails' Short.
• Blood Knight: He's not psychotic by any means, but he clearly loves to brawl. At one point in "Shattered Crystal", he gets excited at the idea of fighting his way through a canyon of death traps and enemies.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Loud and pretty adventurous.
• Boxing Battler: His fighting style resembles this, with a few karate and wrestling elements mixed in.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He has frequently shown to be very patient and compassionate despite his macho flair. He also has a fondness for cute non-anthropomorphic animals.
  "I was voted "Sensitive Soul of the Month" by Hulking Brute Magazine."
• Casanova Wannabe: Zig-Zagged. While Amy, Sticks, and Perci aren't nearly as fond of him as he thinks they are, he has no trouble charming minor female characters - perhaps because they don't know how frustrating his simple-mindedness can be.
• Character Catchphrase: "Not cool, (insert character’s name, usually Sonic)". He usually say this missing the point.
• Character Exaggeration: The main series Knuckles was known for being gullible and occasionally one track minded, though this was justified in-series by being the last of his kind and living alone with the sole duty of guarding the Master Emerald. This version makes him a full blown idiot, to the point that can't read and has trouble telling his left from right, and unlike his main-series counterpart, there's no attempt to justify or explain it- he's just dumb.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Downplayed. He delusionally sees himself as a total ladykiller, even believing that Amy and Sticks are head-over-heels in love with him. Despite this, he cares greatly about the well-being of his female friends and rarely has trouble getting along with them, especially in combat.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: See Dumb Muscle. Also, he mistakes New Year's Eve with other holidays such as Easter, Christmas, Groundhog Day & many others in the episode titled "New Year's Retribution," which is extra impressive as these holidays don't even exist in this universe.
• Crazy Homeless People: Very dumb rather than crazy, but definitely homeless.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Knuckles often acts like a clueless manchild and/or a bumbling moron in the slice-of-life parts of every episode, but when a fight scene is involved, he proves to be an exceptionally competent fighter and team player.
• Deadpan Snarker: Yes, even he is capable of sarcasm.
• Determinator: Always willing to fight evil, protect his friends, and defend the innocent...no matter how much it hurts.
• Distinction Without a Difference: When Amy suggests she accompany Sonic to acquire the Tidal Crystal while Knuckles and Tails return to the village in case Eggman pays a visit, Knuckles voices offence at her taking charge... and then suggests the exact same plan.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Knuckles' IQ takes a real dive in this series. In the comics, at one point Amy says "I acknowledge I get... impatient with you sometimes." A few pages later Tails tells her, "Your impatience with him got us into this mess." But Knuckles isn't a little kid; he's 16. Now, what other kinds of people do you have to be 'patient' with?
• Drunk with Power: At the end of "Mayor Knuckles", in which he attempts to pass a law that gives him political power over everything.
• Dumb Muscle: Says off-the-wall things in both the cartoon and the game. He can't read, write (or at least this is implied by the novel he's drawing), or count, and the opening cutscene of Rise of Lyric has him struggle to even tell left from right.
  "Hey, there's things inside these things!"
• Dumb Is Good: Incredibly dumb, but is usually good-natured. He either ranges from this to being a Kindhearted Simpleton on occasion.
• Emotional Bruiser: He can get a little melodramatic from time to time. See Large Ham.
• Expy: An Adaptational Dumbass version of a usually serious character who usually suffers slapstick and is mostly idiotic and childish? He's clearly taking cues from the Radical Entertainment era Crunch Bandicoot.
• Extremity Extremist: Attacks primarily with punches, natch.
  "That's why they call me Knuckles!"
• Face–Heel Turn: At the end of Issue #1 of the comic, Knuckles gets tired of Amy and goes to partner up with Eggman.
• Fake Defector: It was all just an act to get back at her. Unfortunately, he Didn't Think This Through and Eggman genuinely DID capture the gang in the process.
• Fatal Flaw: Stupidity that is Played for Laughs relentlessly. Ceaseless things go wrong for Knuckles and the others due to his dopey behavior. On occasions, Pride will come into play as well.
• Glad I Thought of It: After acquiring the Enerbeam modules, Knuckles suggests using it to fling enemies at the statue.
• Ground Punch: He's seen doing this in the TV series' opening and in a commercial for the upcoming games. He has disabled Eggman's machinery at least twice using this attack throughout the show itself. Fire & Ice states that it is his Signature Move.
• Handwraps of Awesome: They do help in protecting hands after all.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Sonic.
• Hidden Depths: Despite failing in reading, writing, and arithmetic, Knuckles has a wide variety of talents.
  • In "My Fair Sticksy", Knuckles shows that he's surprisingly good at playing the piano.
  • In "Aim Low", he is seen setting up a birdhouse. He listed "woodworking" one of his manly attributes in "Tails' Crush", so it's safe to assume he made the birdhouse himself.
  • In "Mayor Knuckles", he produces a well-made drawing in less than five seconds.
  • In "Counter Productive", he bakes a pie, which appears to be well made.
  • In "Battle of the Boy Bands", he is shown be good at playing the drums.
  • In "Bro Down Showdown", it is implied that he knows quite a bit about animal care.
    Amy: Last time I left you two [Sonic and Knuckles] here, I came back to find a family of skunks living in the crawlspace.
    Knuckles: You should be flattered. Skunks are very picky.
  • In "Eggman's Anti-Gravity Ray", Knuckles is revealed to be something of a feminist:
    Amy: It all comes down to this one penalty kick. Can the young woman break the glass ceiling and prove once and for all that a female can be just as good as an athlete than a male?
    Knuckles: You know, Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo. (Sonic, Amy, Sticks and Tails are stunned silent) What? Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.
• Idiot Savant: He possesses a large number of specialized intellectual talents, despite lacking a grasp of elementary school subjects and almost about everything.
• Insufferable Imbecile: He fills this role, sometimes, with his massive ego and tendency to make rude, insulting comments towards others.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Despite his Super-Strength (or maybe because of it), Knuckles rivals Eggman for being the biggest victim of the slapstick abuse throughout the show.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He is incredibly patient (for the most part), and is sometimes compassionate and forgiving, despite his absurd delusions of grandeur and massive stupidity & moronitude.
• The Lancer: Just as his main series counterpart was a responsible and serious foil to the headstrong and cocky main series Sonic, this interpretation makes Knuckles boisterous Dumb Muscle to contrast with the jaded, toned-down Sonic. Both challenge Sonic's leadership, and he's more of a partner when they pair up rather than a sidekick like Tails.
• Large Ham: He has the comedic tendency to speak in a dramatic or poetic fashion, especially in "Mayor Knuckles".
• Last of His Kind: Like his mainstream version, he's the only echidna around.
• Leader Wannabe: One cutscene shows him trying to take command, but it's clear the others don't really take him seriously. He also tries interviewing Sonic to be his sidekick in the first episode of the cartoon, despite the fact that Sonic's the one doing the interviews.
• Literal-Minded: At least one instance, as he and Sonic descend into The Pit.
  Knuckles: Whoa. We are definitely not at the beach anymore.
  Sonic: You can say that again.
  Knuckles: Whoa. We are definitely not at the beach anymore.
  Sonic: ...Shoulda seen that coming.
• Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "Not cool, [character]."
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Likely the reason he's so buff.
• Never Learned to Read: "My Fair Sticksy" reveals that Knuckles can't read. He seems to have subverted this in "Mayor Knuckles" and "Chili Dog Day Afternoon", however, the former showing he can also write.

  Knuckles: Let me see that! (grabs letter, scans it) Oh wait, I can't read...

• Nice Mean And In Between: Similar to his mainline counterpart, he's the Mean to Tails' Nice and Sonic's In-Between. He's idiotic, childish, and egotistical.
• Nobody's That Dumb: Despite his airheadedness, Knuckles tends to catch on pretty quick when it's someone else's turn to hold the Idiot Ball. Even he is dumbfounded Amy would fall for Eggman's flattery in "Fortress of Squalitude" for example.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Most of his contribution to the comedy stems from his hammy and/or off-the-wall dialogue and behavior.
• The Resenter: Knuckles acts incredibly jealous whenever Sonic is perceived as more competent or popular than him, or whenever Sonic beats him at something. When the opposite scenario happens, Knuckles is quick to boast.
• Seemingly Profound Fool: Diane Aardvark, a photographer was doing a photo shoot of Comedy Chimp, saw Knuckles attempting to photobomb the shoot with a trash can on his head and managed to create a completely serious and meaningful interpretation of his silliness.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He delusionally believes that he is much smarter, more powerful, and more popular than he really is, like the moron he is. There were two instances where upon being asked to recall events in the past, he developed an obviously fabricated story in which he was portrayed as an incredibly wise and capable leader who possessed powers he clearly doesn't have (maybe) and was admired greatly by a wimpy and idiotic Sonic, feared by Eggman (who can't even say his name right), and loved by every female character.
• Smart Ball: There are also times Knuckles can be smarter than his standard fare. For one, he pilots the Riptide, which is not an easy task when Swarmer Bots are zerging the group. He also figures out in "Hedgehog Day" that he can keep the "Groundhog Day" Loop going by being as unhelpful as possible, to avoid going to the dentist on the following day. There's also this line midway through Lyric's Tomb.
  "When doors open that you don't have to knock on, that usually means bad things are ahead."
• Super-Strength: He's been known to effortlessly lift things that the rest of the cast combined couldn't so much as budge. He also obliterated the asteroid in Spacemageddonocalypse in one punch.
• Super-Toughness: Even for a cartoon, it's downright shocking how much punishment he can take and still keep going.
• A Tale Told by an Idiot: Knuckles had this in "Dude, Where's My Eggman?", rewriting the story to make Sonic incompetent and telling it as though Knuckles stopped Eggman via flight and a laser beam.
• Testosterone Poisoning: He takes masculinity very seriously. When Tails ask Knuckles for dating advice, he emphasizes the importance of lifting weights, eating red meat, and taking up woodworking. Things don't go as planned.
• Top-Heavy Guy: His design here makes him really beefy on the top, but his legs are pretty thin by comparison. Fittingly, "leg day" is one of his dislikes.
• Tunnel King: His digging ability returns and now he shoots up with a Shoryuken.
  • Discard and Draw: This apparently comes at the expense of his gliding skills from the Modern games, at least outside of the Archie comic series.
• Ultimate Authority Mayor: Attempts to become this in "Mayor Knuckles".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Sonic, unsurprisingly. See Sonic above.
  Knuckles: [after Sonic strongly hints that he should go join Amy and Tails instead] One of these days, I am gonna knock you out. Really.
  • Also Amy in the comics, between his increased dumbness and her increased snide temperament.
• Vocal Evolution: This version of Knuckles has a higher voice to accentuate his Adaptational Dumbass in this series.
• Wall Crawl: He can do this using his handspikes. He can even hang from the ceiling!
• The Worf Effect: Despite being the strongest team member, he's unable to damage Metal Sonic in "It Wasn't Me, It Was The One-Armed Hedgehog."
• Would Hurt a Child: Albeit, not out of malicious intent, but due to a misunderstanding. In "Three Men and My Baby!" when he, Sonic, and Tails are babysitting Chumley, Sonic suggests putting a chili dog in a blender since Chumley can't eat solid food. However, Knuckles mistakes the "it" in Sonic's sentence for Chumley, and immediately attempts to blend the baby before Sonic stops him.

Amy Rose

Amy Rose

Voiced By: Cindy Robinson (English), Taeko Kawata (Japanese)

Amy is a kind person at heart (albeit a bit bossy), almost always showing kindness to everyone around her (unless you tick her off, in which case she'll let you know it). Don't mistake that compassion for incapability, though— she's the backbone of Team Sonic, and she can fight just as well as the others, courtesy of a really big hammer.

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• Action Girl: Despite being as much of a girly girl as ever, she can hold her own just fine against Eggman's robots.
• Adaptational Badass: Amy could be pretty badass in the regular games Depending on the Writer, but the creators said they designed Amy to be a more capable character in this series. In Rise of Lyric, it shows.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Compared to her main-series counterpart, Amy is much more bossy and self-righteous, often bossing her friends around and scolding them whenever she believes they have done something wrong.
• Adventure Archaeologist: Amy is a capable explorer and archaeologist in this continuity, with added acrobatic talent to go with it.
• All-Loving Hero: Deconstructed. While she's a believer in The Power of Friendship, the other characters find this behavior strange or annoying. In the episode "Can an Evil Genius Crash on your Couch for a Few Days?" Amy tries to show Eggman some sympathy and affection, and Eggman is weirded out by it. Not to mention, Amy actively campaigns for Eggman to stay, even when he's making the entire team miserable. She also raises money for charities in her spare time (most prominently a campaign to give penguins sweaters) and is easily sweet talked by Barker with the premise of entertaining children in "Circus of Plunders".
• Always Save the Girl: Gender flipped. When Lyric threatens to shoot Sonic if the Crystals aren't turned over to him, Amy drops them despite Sonic's plea and asks Lyric to let him go afterwards. Lyric proceeds to order his bots to open fire anyway.
• Aside Glance: Does this in Fire & Ice on first contact with D-Fekt.
  "He'd make a great action figure if our adventures were ever merchandised." *winks to the camera*
• Badass Adorable: More badass than in the main series, but just as cute as she ever was. Also counts as a Girly Bruiser.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Beauty. Often shares this with Sonic.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Word of God states that Amy will always be the first to consider sympathy towards Eggman and other villains. When they try to exploit or betray her however, the gloves are off.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: This version of Amy looks and acts like an innocent girl, but is in reality a self-righteous Control Freak whose maturity compared to her mainstream version is actually a Fatal Flaw.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Amy still has the universal constant of being in love with Sonic. This time out, she keeps it to herself rather than fawn obviously over him. This leads to the rare sight of Amy and Sonic alone for an entire level without once asking about dates or marriage.
  • The cartoon, naturally, plays it for laughs. In "Translate This", Amy is actually visibly horrified when the Universal Translator nearly blurts out her crush for him. "Closed Door Policy" shows that she carries a picture of Sonic in her purse, but she insists it's a "picture of a platonic friend that [she has] no romantic interest in." She also made a doll of Sonic that she keeps around for "totally legitimate, definitely non-creepy reasons."
• Characterization Marches On: Sonic Boom a comic book written by Ian Flynn that predates the cartoon, introduces Amy as bossy and with temper problems, having problems with Knuckles and being passive agressive with him in particular. This clashes with Amy's characterization as a patient Nice Girl with the ocassional mean moment in the show.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn’t like it if Sonic shows any interest in another girl. An example is in Mech Suits Me, she's rather annoyed when Sonic under the influence of his mecha suits flirts with twins. After Sonic is freed, she makes a point of asking him if he remembered the twins and was annoyed when Sonic happily said yes.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Shows traces of this. In "The Sidekick" her idea of auditioning to be a sidekick is impersonating an Italian pizza man while juggling and singing "When the Saints Go Marching In".
  • In "My Fair Sticksy", she suggests making wishes on falling meteors and wishes for a pony... as they are falling inside the very same town square they're currently in!
• Control Freak: Increasingly pushy and egocentric as the show goes on. Lampshaded by Sonic in "Closed Door Policy," when she organizes a yard sale for Sticks against her will after seeing all the junk she's hoarded:
  Sonic: Amy, do you think maybe you're being a little too...."take charge"?
  Amy: I'm only doing what anyone would do for a friend that's pathetic and hopeless.
  Sticks: Hey! Hey!
  Sonic: Nope, not too take chargey at all.
• Damsel in Distress: Though used more mercifully here than most other takes, it does still happen time to time, such as "Fortress of Squalitude". Also a key plot point of Shattered Crystal.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not far behind Sonic in this respect. Jury's out on whether Sticks has this trait, but it seems to be contagious amongst the core protagonists.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In the earliest episodes, Amy is a lot more goofy and tolerant of similar behavior. Later episodes have her displaying bossy behavior and anger issues, with most of her Cloud Cuckoolander tendencies toned down.
• Everyone Can See It: On several occasions, other characters mention how close Amy and Sonic are. In "The Biggest Fan", when Amy mentions the titular fan has an unhealthy attachment to Sonic, Tails teasingly replies, "And you should know," before backing down when Amy growls dangerously at him.
• Fatal Flaw: Ego. Amy can be a pretty effective Team Mom and voice of reason when her ego doesn't take full control, making her cause problems by acting stroppy-tempered or overbearing. She also considers herself to be the smartest and most level-headed person in any given situation. She's usually right about that, but at the same time, it leads to Amy being openly condescending of people around her and unwilling to listen when the others do have a valid point to raise (something they do not pull any punches over in "Closed Door Policy").
• Feminine Women Can Cook: As revealed in "Role Models", she's kinda feminine and is the only member of Team Sonic who can cook.
• Gamer Chick: Tabletop version; "Fuzzy Puppy Buddies" has Amy playing the titular game with Eggman, even going to PuppyCon with him over it.
• Genki Girl: A trait carried over from the main canon.
  Rings! Wee!
• Hair-Trigger Temper: This version of Amy is notably rather irritable and doesn't like it when things don't go how she wants them to.
• Holier Than Thou: Amy tends to act very self-righteous, often scolding her friends for being “immature” or “insensitive”.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: She's hopeless at carrying a tune, as shown during the Terrible Interviewees Montage of the first episode. "Sleeping Giant" has her singing irritate a rock monster to the point it gets up and leaves to avoid hearing it.
• Informed Flaw: People will sometimes mention her having an "unhealthy attachment to Sonic", which might be true for some incarnations of the character but definitely not to this one; Amy has a personality and interests outside her crush on Sonic, and is able to keep normal interactions with the blue hedgehog without mentioning romance.
• Large Ham: The episode "The Sidekick" shows that Amy can, indeed, be this way.
• The Leader: Her profile states she has natural leadership qualities for those around her, which makes her the charismatic type. Sonic may be the main character as usual, but Amy is generally the one calling the shots from what we've seen. The only reason the trial in "Don't Judge Me" even gets started is because she's not around to call everyone out on how ridiculous it is.
• Little Miss Badass: She's not any older than in the main series, but just as cute and much more badass.
• Minidress of Power: She wears a very short dress.
• Moral Guardian: She acts like this a lot, with too many examples to list them. It's especially apparent in "Just a Guy" where she believes Sonic to be in the wrong for calling Mike the title phrase just as much as the rest of the village does, and uses plenty of Condescending Compassion when trying to help him be more tactful.
• Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: "Cabin Fever" has the cast finding and reading her play script-slash-fanfiction of them.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Closed Door Policy," her Control Freak nature and forcibly organizing a yard sale for Sticks against her will ends up causing problems when it's revealed that the stuff Sticks had hoarded was blocking off a doorway that was keeping a group of evil Froglodytes from invading. Knuckles, Sticks, and Sonic all make sure Amy knows it's her fault.
• Odd Friendship: She and Eggman hang out in several episodes while the two are off the clock. Usually this ends with Eggman resorting to villainy against her, bringing things back to the status quo. However, in "Fuzzy Puppy Buddies", he relents on an evil scheme to rob a poodle playing figure when Amy loses her patience and threatens to end their friendship.
• Only Sane Man: She is the more emotionally mature member of the group, offering common sense when the rest of the team gets carried away. Then again...
• Pink Means Feminine: Has Pink fur and is still a Genki Girl.
• Rescue Romance: A subtle affectionate moment comes after Sonic saves her from an attack in "Translate This". The kicker comes when U.T. translates Sonic's usual cockiness into a compassionate comment.
• Sarashi: Complements the Handwraps of Awesome and mitigates self-injury from the hammer.
• Soapbox Sadie: Similarly to her Moral Guardian role, she acts like this way too often to list any specifics, but to give a few, she's very fanatical about animal rights and gender equality, and she always tries to promote the idea that there is goodness in her arch-enemies (Eggman and his bots) despite the contrary.
• Spotting the Thread: Unlike regular most other versions of Amy, she almost instantly realizes that the Sonic she's faced with in "Where Have All The Sonics Gone?" isn't hers when Morpho-as-Sonic attempts to charm her into a trip to the canyon.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Amy is mostly annoyed because her friends do not listen to every single thing she tells them to do.
• A Taste of Defeat: "Chez Amy" ends with her restaurant destroyed by Eggman, and her left dealing with Meh Burger once again. However, this was a hubris-pivoted downfall.
• Team Mom: Her occasional moments of protectiveness have been emphasized much more in this series. Her profile lists her role as "The Backbone", and in Fortress of Squalitude, the group demonstrates trouble getting things done without her.
  • In "Don't Judge Me", after gatecrashing Eggman's Kangaroo Court just before it falsely convicts Sonic, she outright says, "I was only gone for the weekend and look what happened".
• Three-Point Landing: Pulls it off in the game's first trailer, whereas the guys just fall on their faces. The game proper has it as her "long fall" landing pose.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She may be small and cute, but she’s really bossy.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Her dynamic with Sticks. While she's still a Tomboy overall, Amy cannot outwild Sticks, so she becomes the Girly Girl by default. This is best shown in "Sticks and Amy's Excellent Staycation", where Amy is still fond of things like tea, knitting and spa sessions and only has disgust for Sticks' muddy ways.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: While Amy is not afraid to get her hands dirty, she does know a thing or two about fashion and etiquette. In "Fortress of Squalitude", Eggman hires her to redecorate his lair to get himself on the cover of a magazine.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: The show's Amy was initially somewhat pompous, but still usually a cheery Nice Girl. The comics convey Amy as far more snide and curmudgeonly, the first story even pivoted by her impatient attitude towards Knuckles. This was later carried over into the show itself, including a tendency to get bossy.
• Vocal Evolution: She sounds far less shrill than in past few games; now she sounds more like Makoto Nanaya or Labrys^note minus the Bronx accent of course.
• Women Are Wiser: She's the backbone of the group, and arguably the de facto leader when it's not Sonic himself. She's also, presumably, still one of the younger members at 12 years old. Granted Amy's Fatal Flaw is that she thinks she's this trope more than she is, leading to role reversals on a less than uncommon basis.

Sticks

Sticks the Jungle Badger

Voiced By: Nika Futterman (English), Aoi Yūki (Japanese)

Rounding out the gang, Sticks is the team's wild card. Having grown up in the jungles of the island before Sonic and pals found her and took her into the fold (she formed a close friendship with Amy in particular), she's handcrafted a variety of weapons that she uses to help her friends fight the bad guys. She's a bit... out there, however, often rattling off outlandish conspiracy theories (that occasionally come true, by the way) or tending not to trust anyone around her— not even the other members of Team Sonic.

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• Angrish: Reduced to this when construction of a mall being next to her hut in "Mayor Knuckles".
• Ass Kicking Pose: She has a distinctive crouch she goes into whenever she feels threatened.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Her pigtails are styled in the shape of a boomerang, her signature weapon.
• Badass Adorable: A dangerous hunter in the form of a cute, furry badger.
• Battle Boomerang: While Played Straight in season one with her choice of weapon being her boomerang, season two averts it, as she wields a large variety of weapons.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Brawn. Shares this with Knuckles.
• Brooklyn Rage: She has a Bugs Bunny-style Brooklyn/Queens accent, though it's noticeably stronger in some episodes than in others.
• Canon Foreigner: She's not a part of the original universe, even though she uncannily resembles Marine the Raccoon from that universe.
• Canon Immigrant: She appears as a playable character in Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, making her one of the very few Canon Foreigners of the Sonic franchise to appear in the actual games. She also has official artwork dedicated to her in the Sonic Channel official website, and appears in the 25th anniversary Sonic Comic alongside main series characters. In addition to this, she's also name-dropped in Sonic Frontiers in some of Sonic's incidental dialogue and by Amy in the main ending, cementing her place as an existing character within the main games' universe.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: She's smart, but very paranoid and loopy. She's apparently not too fond of the government, either.
• The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: On more than a few occasions, Sticks has been right to act abrasive with the strange inhabitants around her.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Living by herself has given her some extremely backwards ideas of how the world works. Chief among them being that everything is a massive conspiracy, and "the government" is out to get her. And then there's this gem:
  Sticks: "Crossin' paths with a cross-eyed moose brings a curse on the moose-crosser and the non-moose-crossed friends. DON'T YOU PEOPLE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SCIENCE?!"
• Crazy Homeless People: Downplayed, but present. Sticks is kooky, gets lost in her own little world, dumpster dives regularly, and while she does technically have a home, it's a ramshackle burrow rather than a house.
• Crazy-Prepared: "My Fair Sticksy" reveals she's outfitted the village with a defense system for wildfires, meteors, floods, and people trying to read her thoughts.
• Cuteness Proximity: When interacting with Buster the robot dog. For a given value of "cute", anyway.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's revealed that her ancestor Jebediah Badger, stood for everything she was against.
• Demoted to Extra: Somewhat. The longer the series went on, the less screentime she had. There were a number of episodes that featured little or no lines from her at all beyond reusing her battlecry.
• Dreadful Musician: Her singing is so horrid enough to make all of her friends cower and cover their ears and even set off Tails' Disasterometer. Strangely enough, the rock monster in "Sleeping Giant" is soothed by it.
  Knuckles: That's not a lullaby. That's what happened when I drop bagpipes into a wood chipper.
• Expy:
  • Her orange, Down Under-styled design makes a whole lot more sense once you remember that the people behind the game also created the classic Crash Bandicoot trilogy in the mid-90's.
  • A SEGA Action Girl who wields a boomerang and has giant pigtails? Sounds like Aika of Skies of Arcadia.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her shoes and bracelets don't match.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: She constantly talks to the audience in the show.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: A downplayed, G-rated example. Because she's lived alone for most of her life before Sonic and his friends showed up, she's very paranoid and has outlandish ideas about how the world works in the modern age.
• Good-Times Montage: In "Buster", she tries to stop the now Eggman-controlled Buster from killing the gang by saying he should remember the good times they had... however, none of the events shown in the montage actually happened. Thus, Buster remains unconvinced.
• Hypocrite: Compared to her constant paranoia of robots and obsession with trashing Tails' Universal Translator in "Translate This" (which she does eventually act on), she is very defensive of the equally discomforting pet robot, Buster in the very next episode. Subverts Protagonist-Centered Morality however since she does begrudgingly let Buster free.
• Improvised Weapon: She seems to have a knack for these. From bending a spoon into a boomerang to breaking a seashell in half, there's nothing she won't use as a weapon. Though when you've been living in the wild for so long, you'll come to realize that everything is a weapon.
• Informed Species: Aside from the 'wild' nature of the species, she bears minimal resemblance to a real badger. (Though she may be based on the European or American Badger due to her fur pattern)
• The Mad Hatter: She's well aware of how nutty and kooky she is and freely admits it in "In the Midnight Hour."
  Sticks: That's the trouble with being a paranoid kook; when something really is going on, no one believes you!
• Nonstandard Character Design: Sticks is the only character of the main cast to not be wearing any gloves.
• No Social Skills: Living alone in the wild for years will do that. This gets deconstructed in the episode "My Fair Sticksy". Sticks gets invited to a gala at the mayor's mansion when she's nominated for an award, but she feels she's too feral to attend such a fancy party. And though Amy tries to teach her proper etiquette, Sticks' innate animal instincts fail her constantly. She sniffs people, licks her teacups, throws Knuckles across the dance floor, and slurps her soup very loudly, all in the same episode. The fact that "formal occasions" is one of her dislikes doesn't help her case. Ironically, her feral nature comes to the rescue when Eggman crashes the party with his robots.
• Not in My Backyard!: In "Mayor Knuckles", a resident of the village has his bill to build a mall approved by Knuckles, of whom is running for mayor, as the title suggests. Said mall is apparently being constructed right outside her den, to her fury as the sound of a jackhammer jolts her awake... and worst of all, her situation in particular is of the first conflicts in the episode.
• Precision-Guided Boomerang: She can use it to tag out-of-the-way switches in Shattered Crystal, too.
• Properly Paranoid: To say that she is overprepared or overanalyzing for some impending crisis is an understatement in itself. However, half the time, there is a method to her madness and is proven right during that time.
  • Can an Evil Genius... has Sticks predicting that Eggman has an Obliteratorbot ready to deploy against the group along with his latest evil scheme. Turns out he actually did have a literally-named Obliteratorbot and an evil scheme to go with it.
    "Why doesn't anyone believe me? It's not like I'm paranoid! (stops, glares at own shadow) Stop following me!"
  • In Closed Door Policy, Amy assumes that Sticks is making a mess from constant hoarding. She sells the junk by yard sale, only to learn the hard way that behind the cleared door is a tribe of evil frogs.
  • In issue 6 of the comic, she doesn't trust Eggman's announcement of his Go-Karting Competition, because she says that Eggman will probably use some sort of 'bio-scanning Egg-what-cha-who-zits' to scan the others for a sinister plan. Turns out Eggman's karts do contain bio-scanning Egg-what-cha-who-zits(TM) that have scanned the other racers in anticipation for some unknown... operation.
• Remember the New Guy?: She's a new character for this universe, but her introduction with the rest of the cast is completely unknown. The team just act like she's always been around.
  • In Sonic Frontiers, Sonic and Amy mention her at various points, with Amy mentioning her alongside Cream.
• Rightly Self-Righteous: A strange roundabout case, since by default she's less virtuous and more a conspiracy nut and a dissenter of technology. But the show actually plays The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right way more often than not, her ramblings are actually seldom wrong, and out of the five protagonists she's actually least liable to suffer a comeuppance for her idiosyncrasies (she never suffers A Taste of Defeat like any of the others for example). Anytime Tails is vindicated is usually the obvious exception, though, as proven with U.T.'s fate, her unrepentant craziness can still just overrule the situation anyway, making her more a Karma Houdini.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Shown to be this after they rescue Amy in Shattered Crystal.
• Spanner in the Works: Eggman's plan to hypnotize the entire village using the Dreamcaster would've succeeded if it weren't for Sticks not owning a TV and being paranoid enough to investigate.
• Technophobia: Having grown up in the wild, she's not exactly trustful of technology, only turning to it when she has no other choice. She doesn't really like robots much, either, as she's convinced they'll turn on everyone and cause a robo-apocalypse (turns out she'd be right). Despite this fact, she somehow manages to be good friends with the technology-loving Tails, though not without some occasional hiccups.
• The Ophelia: Downplayed. She’s very cute, she’s an Unkempt Beauty, and she’s crazy, but she’s more of a harmless Cloudcuckoolander than anything.
• Tinfoil Hat: Suggested a few times in Shattered Crystal. "In My Fair Sticksy", she also specifies that her anti-thought-reading defense system is the one used to stop the meteor shower, only covered in tinfoil.
• Vague Age: She's one of the few main characters that doesn't have a set age. At least one official source claims she's 16, but she looks and acts much younger.
• Verbal Tic: Has a habit of ending sentences with "man" when in paranoid mode.
• Vibrant Orange: Sticks is an energetic, free-spirited badger with orange fur.
• Vocal Dissonance: She's got a rather deep and raspy voice for a girl who's somewhere around 13 years old.
• Wild Child: She spent most of her life in the wilderness, and as such, is wilder and has a greater animal instinct than the other characters.

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