History Characters / SonicTheHedgehogFilmSeriesExtraterrestrials

-->'''Tails:''' (in English) That's right! I should've known you'd get that.\\
'''Tails:''' (in Spanish) ¡Exacto! Debí suponer que hablabas inglés. (''Exactly! I should've guessed you spoke English.'')

* TheDrifter: After losing his tribe, he had been travelling throughout the galaxy trying to find the Master Emerald. He didn't consider finding a place to call home, for he felt a warrior didn't have one. He eventually considers Earth to be his home after learning from Wade what it really means to have a home.

* TheDrifter: After losing his tribe, he had been travelling throughout the galaxy trying to find the Master Emerald. He didn't consider finding a place to call home, for he felt a warrior didn't have one.

* StepfordSmiler: He acts happy with his life without interaction with Green Hills' citizens, but it's only to cover up how alone and distant he feels, which tends to come out when he reflects on his situation (a particularly bad moment kicking off the events of the movie).

* AscendedExtra: Goes from being a supporting character in the second movie to the star of [[Series/{{Knuckles}} his own self-titled miniseries]]

* MagneticHero: By ''2'', he has started to gain the traits of his video game counterpart's ability to befriend others simply by entering their lives. Tails warms up to him instantly, and Knuckles, while initially misguided, accepts Sonic's offer of friendship after proving himself as honorable and genuine.

* SadClown: He still has his signature cocky attitude and makes plenty of quips, but it's all to cope with the loneliness he suffers from, having escaped his home dimension leaving the only other person he had ever known behind, and not allowing himself to befriend anyone lest he put everyone in danger. His only alternative to observing the people of Earth make friends and live their lives is to escape to a barren mushroom planet with absolutely no intelligent life aside from himself. It's not until he attempts to play a climactic inning of baseball with himself that his loneliness finally overwhelms him, causing him to unleash his stress by running fast enough to cause a nationwide blackout and kick off the plot.

* CharacterDevelopment: Knuckles goes from an intimidating, no-nonsense, ColdHam, ArrogantKungFuGuy to an excitable, goofy, LargeHam, BruiserWithASoftCenter over the course the movie. And over the course of his mini-series, he's taught to develop this further, learning from Wade to enjoy life on Earth after having spent so long as a warrior devoted to his destiny.

* NotSoAboveItAll: [[spoiler:In contrast to his serious, honor-bound persona during most of the movie, he acts like this during the final scene, gloating about his "win" in baseball, and getting excited over trying ice cream for the first time. ]]

* SuperSpeed: He has this, but not to the same extent as Sonic, as it takes him some time to catch up to a police car that Tails has hijacked. Sonic eventually is able to take advantage of this key difference and fight Knuckles evenly by focusing on avoiding his attacks with his greater speed and using openings to hit him rather than trying to counter his attacks directly. He even catches Robotnik completely off-guard when he darts himself across the walls within the Master Emerald Temple where Sonic himself hasn't even reached the Master Emerald in time. At one point in the climax, when Team Sonic is progressing towards the gargantuan Death Egg Robot, Knuckles is primarily shown to be keeping up with Sonic at the very least, as he even has a red trail behind himself as he's running beside him. Hu

* AmbiguousSituation: It may be the movie continuity's take on Iblis from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', but it isn't confirmed.

* ShockAndAwe: If the VisionQuest musical is any indicaton, he attempted to strike down Knuckles with a blast of lightning from its mouth.

The former leader of Knuckles' tribe who personally led them to hunt down Longclaw and Sonic. In the present, he appears as a ghost to give Knuckles a brand new quest to make Wade an echidna warrior.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Knuckles retains Idris Elba's London accent. ''Why'' he has a British accent when every other extraterrestrial sounds American is never discussed.

!!Others
[[folder:Longclaw]]
!!Longclaw
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Donna Jay Fulks (English), Rie Ishizuka (Japanese)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Verónica López Treviño (Latin-American Spanish), Karen Ramalho (Brazilian Portuguese), Mylène Mackay (Quebec French), Françoise Cadol (EU French), Creator/FrancescaFiorentini (Italian), Zhang Meijuan (PRC Mandarin), Coco Sung (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Stop. Running.]]"'']]

->''"The only way to stay safe, is to stay hidden."''

A wise owl who acted as Sonic's caretaker when he was a child. After he gets followed by a group of tribal echidnas intent on attacking them, she uses and gives him Power Rings to escape to another world.

* AnnoyingArrows: She's shot with an echidna's arrow mid-flight, but aside from being knocked out of the air, she doesn't seem any worse for wear.
* CanonForeigner: She was created solely for the movie, although she's based on Sophocles from ''Stay Sonic''.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Being an owl who was initially the only character on Sonic's world to be aware of Sonic's existence makes her a rough analogue of Sophocles the owl from ''Literature/StaySonic'', who was the first to discover Sonic.
** Her acting as Sonic's mentor and ParentalSubstitute and being the one to give him the Power Rings is taken from Uncle Chuck from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''.
** She is also a mother figure to Sonic who has to abandon him at a young age from a greater threat, much like Queen Aleena from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground''.
** WordOfGod during the second movie's press junket pointed out that they used Babylonian art and writing as inspiration for the owls' architecture to indicate the Owl Tribe's ties to the Babylon Rogues (a group of thieving birds descended from an ancient civilization that invented antigravity) from the ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' series.
* ADogNamedCat: Though she is an owl, she shares her name with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longclaw different species of birds]] with the scientific name ''Macronyx'', [[MeaningfulName named for their long hind claws]].
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: She takes down an entire tribe of echidnas attacking her in her final stand, a fact mentioned in her memorial.
* FragileSpeedster: For a huge owl, she can take flight to the skies (while carrying Sonic) with graceful speed and is able to outfly a fleet of arrows from the Echidna Tribe. However, one arrow finding its mark is all it takes to instantly strike her down to ground level.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Despite being a wise owl, she is half-naked, and the only thing she wears is a gold chest plate.
* HeroicSacrifice: While she could've gone with Sonic to Earth, she decides to stay behind and delay the Echidna Tribe long enough for the Warp Ring to close, despite knowing they would likely kill her. We don't find out her fate until ''The Official Pre-Quill Comic'' confirms that she is, in fact, dead.
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: She gives Sonic the bag of warp rings and a map just before she sends him through the portal to Earth.
* LastOfHisKind: She's stated to be the last remaining owl in the official novelization of the first movie, which is later confirmed by Knuckles in the second movie proper.
* MadeOfIron: She's stabbed by an arrow underneath her right wing. After taking a fall from it, she doesn't seem to be fatally injured and looks perfectly fine.
* MamaBear: She is perfectly willing to act as a shield against the echidnas to allow Sonic to escape.
* MentorArchetype: Sonic explicitly describes her as "basically [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan Kenobi]], if Obi-Wan Kenobi had a beak and ate mice." [[spoiler:Tellingly, her only new scene in the sequel has her as a translucent blue hologram, not unlike a Force ghost.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Falls victim to this trope big-time. She finds a helpless Sonic and takes him under her wing, acts as his mother and protects him from those who wish to exploit him. All this gets her is being murdered by a tribe of savages.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Instead of a typical FunnyAnimal character in Sonic's world, she happens to be a normal great horned owl who is giant and [[TalkingAnimal can talk]]. Even her game redesign in the ''Sonic Forces'' mobile game only slightly tweaks her design.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: With Knuckles confirmed as the last of his kind, this means that Longclaw managed to take the entire Echidna Tribe down with her.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: She is wise, motherly, and was responsible for giving Sonic the Power Rings.
* ParentalSubstitute: She acted as a mother figure for Sonic back on his home planet.
* PosthumousCharacter: In the sequel, she is already dead, but her role as a guardian of the Master Emerald as well as her eliminating the Echidna tribe has major importance to the plot.
* RetiredBadass: According to the novelization, she was once part of an order of warriors dedicated to maintaining the planet's balance, but by the time Sonic met her she was a caring mother figure who didn't fight anymore. That said, as she is all but stated to have exterminated the echidnas before dying, it's clear she is still a legitimate badass.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She gives Sonic the bag of rings in the beginning of the first movie, which plays a major role throughout.
* StockAnimalDiet: If Sonic is to be believed, she eats mice, unlike the hedgehog, fox, and echidna that eat more human food.
* TakingYouWithMe: A rare heroic example, where she takes down the Echidna Tribe to protect Sonic, but dies shortly afterward.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: She always stresses that Sonic has to keep his powers secret for this reason. Between the echidna tribe, Robotnik, and [[spoiler:G.U.N.]], it's clear her worries are valid. [[spoiler:Although, after Sonic has spent time with Tom, he starts wondering if Longclaw was wrong and if it is possible for him to live peacefully with other people even with his powers.]]
* UncertainDoom: Because the portal ring closes before it's shown what happened to her, it's not clear whether the Echidna Tribe killed her or not. ''The Official Pre-Quill Comic'' confirms that she really did die protecting Sonic, though she kills the entire Echidna Tribe and is subsequently hailed as a hero with her last stand's location being revered.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The last a young Sonic sees of her is standing between the opened portal and the group of echidnas chasing him before the portal closes, just a few minutes after her introduction.
* YouShallNotPass: She stays behind to delay the echidna tribe and allow Sonic to get through the Warp Ring safely.

[[folder:Echidna Tribe]]
!!Echidna Tribe
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}''
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->''"Turns out with great power... comes great power-hungry bad guys. And I led them right to us."''
-->-- '''Sonic the Hedgehog'''
\\
A tribe of echidnas who covet Sonic's powers.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Retroactively. In the novelization, it is said that they served a powerful warlord who had chased Sonic his whole life. In the sequel movie, however, [[spoiler:they are stated to have been a rival brotherhood of heroes to the brotherhood that Longclaw served in]].
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the games, Pachacamac and the Knuckles Tribe lived 4000 years before Sonic was born. Here, they're alive when Sonic was a toddler and caused the attack that forced Sonic to flee to Earth.
* GreaterScopeVillain: They were the ones chasing Sonic on his home planet to harness his power, and it is because of them killing Sonic's mentor Longclaw that Sonic has to go to Earth. [[spoiler:This extends to the second movie, with it being revealed that the echidnas forged the Master Emerald]].
* InSpiteOfANail: Just like their game counterparts, the echidna tribe were wiped out between the events of Sonic's past and at least the prequel comic, seeing as Knuckles is addressed as the LastOfHisKind.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: They wear tribal masks and were pursuing Sonic to garner his powers.
* PredatorPastiche: The Echidnas, depicted with dreadlocks, masks, and various tribal weaponry, hunting a young Sonic in the jungle.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Their total screen time is very short, but they're the entire reason Sonic is on Earth in the first place.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Downplayed. In most Sonic media, Knuckles is the LastOfHisKind, with his ancestors being a distant part of history; he doesn't even know how he came to be. In the movie, the echidnas were still alive when Sonic was a child, [[spoiler:but are finally wiped out in their battle against Longclaw]].
* StarterVillain: They're the reason Sonic has to abandon his home world and flee to Earth.
* TheUnreveal: The first movie doesn't reveal what they want Sonic's power for so badly. The second movie reveals [[spoiler:it was ''Longclaw'' they actually were after]].
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[[folder:Pachacamac]]
!!Pachacamac
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristopherLloyd
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Series/{{Knuckles}}''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Pachacamac's spirit as he appears in ''Knuckles''.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Pachacamac in the first film]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/movie_pachacamac.png[[/labelnote]]]]

The former leader of Knuckles' tribe who personally led them to hunt down Longclaw and Sonic. In the present, he appears as a ghost to give Knuckles a brand new quest to make Wade an echidna warrior.
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[[folder:The Scavengers]]
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Three alien mercenaries Knuckles hired to help him track down Sonic.

** In his eponymous series, Knuckles finds himself unable to reconcile his warrior life style with modern civilization.

A fiery being that Knuckles fought a while ago during his quest to find the Flames of Disaster.

* PlayingWithFire: Considering its nature as a beast made of fire and lava, this is a given.

[[folder:The Flames of Disaster]]

A fiery being that Knuckles fought a while ago.

* CompositeCharacter: It has the nickname and fire motif of Iblis, but its connection to the Knuckles clan is closer to Chaos.

* RaceNameBasis: Most frequently refers to Tails and Sonic as 'Fox' and 'Hedgehog'.

** As revealed in the ''Knuckles'' series, [[spoiler:Knuckles has access to the power of the Flames of Disaster, which in turn have also been heavily changed in this adaptation from their [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 original interpretation]], granting him incredible power through the strength within his heart that sets his fists ablaze, rather than making him an ApocalypseMaiden who's tasked with being a SealedEvilInACan for the Flames of Disaster that's unable to cry lest the world ends up destroyed like Elise was.]]

--->'''Sonic:''' I shouldn't even be on this planet right now, but I am. Why? ate.

* SpeciesNameBasis: Most frequently refers to Tails and Sonic as 'Fox' and 'Hedgehog'.

* HeroicSacrifice: While she could've gone with Sonic to Earth, she decides to stay behind and delay the Echidna Tribe long enough for the Warp Ring to close, despite knowing they would likely kill her. We don't find out her fate until ''The Official Pre-Quill Comic'' confirms that she is, in fact, dead.
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: She gives Sonic the bag of warp rings and a map just before she sends him through the portal to Earth.
* LastOfHisKind: She's stated to be the last remaining owl in the official novelization of the first movie, which is later confirmed by Knuckles in the second movie proper.
* MadeOfIron: She's stabbed by an arrow underneath her right wing. After taking a fall from it, she doesn't seem to be fatally injured and looks perfectly fine.
* MamaBear: She is perfectly willing to act as a shield against the echidnas to allow Sonic to escape.
* MentorArchetype: Sonic explicitly describes her as "basically [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan Kenobi]], if Obi-Wan Kenobi had a beak and ate mice." [[spoiler:Tellingly, her only new scene in the sequel has her as a translucent blue hologram, not unlike a Force ghost.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Falls victim to this trope big-time. She finds a helpless Sonic and takes him under her wing, acts as his mother and protects him from those who wish to exploit him. All this gets her is being murdered by a tribe of savages.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Instead of a typical FunnyAnimal character in Sonic's world, she happens to be a normal great horned owl who is giant and [[TalkingAnimal can talk]]. Even her game redesign in the ''Sonic Forces'' mobile game only slightly tweaks her design.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: With Knuckles confirmed as the last of his kind, this means that Longclaw managed to take the entire Echidna Tribe down with her.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: She is wise, motherly, and was responsible for giving Sonic the Power Rings.
* ParentalSubstitute: She acted as a mother figure for Sonic back on his home planet.
* PosthumousCharacter: In the sequel, she is already dead, but her role as a guardian of the Master Emerald as well as her eliminating the Echidna tribe has major importance to the plot.
* RetiredBadass: According to the novelization, she was once part of an order of warriors dedicated to maintaining the planet's balance, but by the time Sonic met her she was a caring mother figure who didn't fight anymore. That said, as she is all but stated to have exterminated the echidnas before dying, it's clear she is still a legitimate badass.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She gives Sonic the bag of rings in the beginning of the first movie, which plays a major role throughout.
* StockAnimalDiet: If Sonic is to be believed, she eats mice, unlike the hedgehog, fox, and echidna that eat more human food.
* TakingYouWithMe: A rare heroic example, where she takes down the Echidna Tribe to protect Sonic, but dies shortly afterward.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: She always stresses that Sonic has to keep his powers secret for this reason. Between the echidna tribe, Robotnik, and [[spoiler:G.U.N.]], it's clear her worries are valid. [[spoiler:Although, after Sonic has spent time with Tom, he starts wondering if Longclaw was wrong and if it is possible for him to live peacefully with other people even with his powers.]]
* UncertainDoom: Because the portal ring closes before it's shown what happened to her, it's not clear whether the Echidna Tribe killed her or not. ''The Official Pre-Quill Comic'' confirms that she really did die protecting Sonic, though she kills the entire Echidna Tribe and is subsequently hailed as a hero with her last stand's location being revered.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The last a young Sonic sees of her is standing between the opened portal and the group of echidnas chasing him before the portal closes, just a few minutes after her introduction.
* YouShallNotPass: She stays behind to delay the echidna tribe and allow Sonic to get through the Warp Ring safely.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: When he appears in Wade's vision in the episode "The Flames of Disaster", he initially appears in his normal garb but later changes into a Neon Nightz employee's uniform to make Wade more comfortable.