History Characters / SonicTheHedgehogFilmSeriesExtraterrestrials

* 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.

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

* LiteralMinded: Knuckles doesn't get metaphors or fancy technology like holograms, and has to be guided through baseball by the analogy of the game as a form of combat. He reads the dots that appear when someone else is typing in a text messaging app out loud as if it were part of the conversation. In the first episode of his show, he thinks Cool Ranch Doritos come from a ranch and TJ Maxx is a warrior who failed Wade's father.

* LiteralMinded: Knuckles doesn't get metaphors or fancy technology like holograms, and has to be guided through baseball by the analogy of the game as a form of combat. He reads the dots that appear when someone else is typing in a text messaging app out loud as if it were part of the conversation.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Pachacamac was a power-hungry tyrant who went as far as to order his tribe to run over his own daughter Tikal when she tried to stop them from claiming the Master Emerald, which led to their demise by Chaos. Here, while he was merciless towards his enemies as shown in the prologue of the first film, he was the eccentric, but wise and respected leader of his tribe, as shown by his spirit in ''Knuckles''.

* NotQuiteFlight: His gliding ability, though he only uses it very briefly to catch up to Sonic and Tails' police car.

* AffectionateNickname: While it took a bit while to figure out the nickname, Wade occasionally refers him as "Knucks".

* BigEater: Shows himself to be this in the eponymous miniseries, which is justified by the training and fighting he does. He is shown guzzling down a full bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, chomping down a whole ''cluster'' of green grapes, having finished sizeable amounts of fast food, eating an ''entire buffet'' of food during a dinner at Wade's house, drinking a full pot of coffee, and eating a large challah bread at a bar in Reno.

* BigEater: Shows himself to be this in the eponymous miniseries, which is justified by the training and fighting he does. He is shown guzzling down a full bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, chomping down a whole ''cluster'' of green grapes, having nearly finished a sizeable order from a fast food restaurant, eating an ''entire buffet'' of food during a dinner at Wade's house, drinking a full pot of coffee, and eating a large challah bread at a bar in Reno.

* BigEater: Shows himself to be this in the eponymous miniseries, which is justified by the training and fighting he does. He is shown guzzling down a full bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, chomping down a whole ''cluster'' of green grapes, having nearly finished a sizeable order from a fast food restaurant, drinking a full pot of coffee, and eating an ''entire buffet'' of food during a dinner at Wade's house.

* BigEater: Shows himself to be this in the eponymous miniseries. He is shown guzzling down a full bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, chomping down a whole ''cluster'' of green grapes, has nearly finished a sizeable order from a fast food restaurant, drinking a full pot of coffee, and eating an ''entire buffet'' of food during a dinner at Wade's house.

* BigEater: Shows himself to be this in the eponymous miniseries. He is shown guzzling down a full bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, drinking a full pot of coffee, and eating an ''entire buffet'' of food during a dinner at Wade's house. One [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/6KhZ/paramount-knuckles TV spot]] shows Knuckles in Wade's car eating a ''cluster'' of green grapes, his favorite food on Earth.

* TalkingToTheDead: In the first episode of his spin-off series, he manages to contact the ghost of his tribe's leader Pachacamac by calling for him for advice.

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

[[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'''
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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]].

[[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''.]]
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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.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Pachacamac was a power-hungry tyrant who went as far as to order his tribe to run over his own daughter Tikal when she tried to stop them from claiming the Master Emerald, which led to their demise by Chaos. Here, while he was merciless towards his enemies as shown in the prologue of the first film, he was the eccentric, but wise and respected leader of his tribe, as shown by his spirit in ''Knuckles''.
* CompositeCharacter: Serves his daughter Tikal's role as a SpiritAdvisor.
* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Was killed by Chaos in Sonic Adventure for trying to seize the Master Emerald. In this continuity he died fighting Longclaw.
* FreezeFrameBonus: First-time viewers probably aren't going to notice that the echidna who shoots down Longclaw is Pachacamac, the tyrannical tribe leader from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''.[[note]]He can be identified by his purple eyes, and the shape of his mask resembles his large eyebrows and facial fur.[[/note]] The detail was so easy to miss that Creator/TysonHesse had to [[https://twitter.com/tyson_hesse/status/1246227402704863232/photo/1 publicly reveal the cameo on his Twitter.]]
* FrontlineGeneral: During the hunt for Longclaw and Sonic; he was right there leading them on the field alongside the other tribe members, and even wears similar-looking armor to them. This trope is used so prevalently that Tyson Hesse had to confirm on Twitter, as seen above, that Pachacamac is among the group in the first place.
* PosthumousCharacter: He is dead by the time Sonic and Knuckles are teenagers, having been killed by Longclaw along with the rest of his tribe.
* SpiritAdvisor: He acts this way to Knuckles and never really was with him. He is this to Wade as well.

[[folder:The Scavengers]]
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Three alien mercenaries Knuckles hired to help him track down Sonic.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Defied. Unlike the more animal-like extraterrestrials, the Scavengers seem to speak their own language. The text featured in the comic looks nothing like written dialogue on Earth.
* AllThereInTheManual: The comic "Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill" reveals they were mercenaries that Knuckles encountered before bribing them with rings into helping him hunt down Sonic. Without this knowledge, it makes their presence at the beginning of the film confusing.
* AnimalMotif: Their helmets have vulture-like features, and like the animal, they're scavengers. Their appearance in the movie is them approaching Robotnik's body, likely thinking he's dead to steal from him.
* CanonForeigner: They have no direct counterparts from the games, cartoons or comics prior to the movie.
* CurbStompBattle: On the receiving end by Robotnik, who by the way, was still stuck on the Mushroom Planet and only had limited resources to work with.
* HumanAliens: They have very human-like bodies, though it's unknown what exactly is under their helmets.
* NoNameGiven: Not only are their individual names not given, but their species is unknown as well. "Scavengers" is just what Knuckles called them.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: They're the only alien characters introduced in the series so far who are not CG, but are depicted as people in costumes.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Robotnik manages to subdue them before running into Knuckles and makes a deal with him, they're never seen again. It's more than likely that, since he's found someone who knows exactly where Sonic is, Knuckles had no need for them anymore and left them on the Mushroom Planet (or if he considers that dishonorable, brought them back first and ''then'' dismissed them).

[[folder:The "Project" '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
!!Shadow the Hedgehog
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeanuReeves
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' (in the {{Stinger}}) | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"My God... Project Shadow."'']]

->''"Someone worked very hard to keep this hidden."''
-->-- '''Secretary of Homeland Security'''

The end result of Project Shadow, having remained dormant in a black site for over fifty years... until now.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Shadow is historically a character who didn't appear until much later on in the franchise's lifespan, with his first appearance being in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' (canonically the sixth game in the mainline titles), but TheStinger for the second movie sets him up as an antagonist for the third movie, appearing before other villains introduced before him like Metal Sonic and Chaos.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: The last shot of him shows his eyes glowing with electricity, strongly hinting that he's also capable of using bio-electricity like Sonic and Knuckles.
* CelebrityParadox: Creator/KeanuReeves starred in the film ''Film/{{Speed}}'', which appears in the first film.
* ConjoinedEyes: Subverted. Much like Sonic, his eyes are separated, and also like Sonic, he has a patch of white fur between his eyes to give off the illusion of them being conjoined.
* DeathGlare: In the last shot of the second film, no less. He awakens with a furious look in his eyes, which spark with electricity.
* TheDreaded: Commander Walters is audibly unnerved when he is informed that Project Shadow had been discovered.
* EvilCounterpart: Implied. He's a hedgehog with a strong resemblance to Sonic and implied to share the same powers. However, unlike Sonic, Shadow's first appearance in TheStinger depicts him as an [[TheDreaded ominous threat]].
* EyeAwaken: After his capsule rises from the floor, Shadow opens his eyes, and they spark with electricity, much like Sonic's do whenever he uses his SuperSpeed.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Implied. It's mentioned the file for Project Shadow dates back over fifty years ago, yet Shadow doesn't seem to be visibly older than Sonic, much like in the games. However, it's unknown if Shadow is mentally a teenager or ageless like his video game counterpart.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He has black fur with hints of red.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He's depicted as having red eyes, and if Commander Walters being unnerved by Project Shadow is any indication, then Shadow is NOT someone to be messed with.
* SealedBadassInACan: According to the military, Shadow has been locked away in a black site vault for at least fifty years.
* SequelHook: Dr. Robotnik's whereabouts are unknown at the end of the second movie, but G.U.N. agents trying to wipe his records from their files anyhow happened to discover "Project Shadow" while Shadow himself reawakens after fifty years.
* TsurimeEyes: Subverted. Shadow's eyes are rounded like Sonic's, but his facial markings make them appear somewhat sharp.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just like Tails in the first movie, it's impossible to talk about TheStinger for the second movie without mentioning that Shadow makes an appearance.

[[folder:The Flames of Disaster]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}''

A fiery being that Knuckles fought a while ago.

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

--->'''Sonic:''' I shouldn't even be on this planet right now, but I am. Why? Because you shot me!\\
'''Tom:''' I know.\\
'''Sonic:''' ''YOU SHOT ME!''
** He also isn't happy when Tom tells him of his plans to leave Green Hills for San Francisco, [[spoiler:[[EmotionalPowers so much so that his powers start to flare up.]]]]
* WhiteGloves: While he doesn't have them in the first trailer, he does wear them in the second trailer, the TV spots, and the actual film (as pictured above).
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler: Knuckles warns Tom and Maddie to stay away from Super Sonic, as he's no longer the Sonic they once knew. Super Sonic then summons a storm similar to Eggman's, shoots energy into the sky... [[SubvertedTrope and creates]] [[BaitAndSwitch a chili dog]].]]
* TheWorfEffect: Sonic is able to completely total a genius-built ''tank'' and an ''aircraft'' in the first film. The trailer for the second film illustrates Knuckles' SuperStrength by having the echidna casually catch Sonic mid-attack and slam him to the ground, causing an explosion. Justified in that in his original appearance, Knuckles was strong enough to knock Sonic out of the superstate with a single punch, so his strength here is fairly close to canon.
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Each time his limitless power charges up, his whole body is always bathed in cyan-colored lightning. In the climax, his lightning becomes so intense that when he achieves his newfound HeroicSecondWind, his power manifests as various lightning arcs are seen traveling skyward.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Sonic was forced to flee his homeworld as a child, due to being hunted by an echidna tribe who wanted to harness his power. Longclaw, giving him her power rings and opening one to Earth, stressed that because of his power, he would always be hunted by villainous factions so long as he remained on his planet, thus why he hasn't gone back in ten years.

[[folder:Miles "Tails" Prower]]
!!Miles "Tails" Prower
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey [films, ''Knuckles''],[[note]]Uncredited in the 2020 film's theatrical release, but is credited in that film's home video release[[/note]] Alicyn Packard [''Sonic Drone Home''] (English); Creator/RyoHirohashi (Japanese) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Marisol Romero (Latin-American Spanish), Emelie Clausen (Swedish), Vii Zedek (Brazilian Portuguese), Sébastien Reding (Quebec French, [[TheStinger first movie stinger]]), Marie-Ève Sansfaçon (Quebec French, ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2''), Creator/MarieEugenieMarechal (EU French), Creator/BenedettaPonticelli (Italian), Mu Xuanming (TW Mandarin)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' (in the {{Stinger}}) | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''WesternAnimation/SonicDroneHome'' | ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"If these readings are accurate, he's here -- I've found him! I just hope I'm not too late!"'']]

->''"Growing up, I didn't have any friends. Everyone in my village thought my two tails were weird. [...] But then I saw [[Characters/SonicTheHedgehogFilmSeriesSonicTheHedgehog you]]--the fastest creature in the galaxy. You were weird too, but you were a legend. That made me think, 'Maybe being weird isn't so bad.' You inspired me to leave my village--to find you and help you in your mission!"''

A flying two-tailed fox who comes to Earth looking for Sonic.

* AcePilot: He's able to fly a biplane with no problem, and can avoid a whole swarm of missiles without having his plane damaged, though he's not ace enough to avoid the Stache Smasher.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the video game series, Tails met Sonic when he saw the latter running past him and shyly followed him, earning the hedgehog's respect when he was able to keep up with him. Here, Tails already knew about Sonic and came to Earth specifically to find him after learning that Knuckles was after him.
* AdaptationalBadass: This Tails has many gadgets ready to go, including what seems to be an ''anti-gravity device'', which Maddie accidentally uses to [[spoiler:send a G.U.N agent flying, not knowing what it does.]] He's also a more active participant in combat than his video game counterpart.
* AdaptationDyeJob: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Tails looks very much like he does in the games, but his fur is a more vibrant shade of orange (much like he had in the older games) compared to the more yellow fur he has in 3D ''Sonic'' games.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: A downplayed example, but most versions of Tails hail from the same world as Sonic. Tails implies that his home planet is different from the one where Sonic lived with Longclaw.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: {{Inverted}}. Tails having a lot of admiration for Sonic is actually TruerToTheText of his original concept from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' ([[https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2_(16-bit)/Manuals#Miles_.22Tails.22_Prower only apparent in the Japanese manual]]), despite his more low-key, close friend/brother to Sonic presentation in the localized ''Sonic Adventure'' games.
* AffectionateNickname: Knuckles calls Tails "Fox" after they become FireForgedFriends.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: He can speak perfect English, for whatever reason, and even his given name is one that an Earth-born human could have, but needs TranslatorMicrobes to communicate with the people in the bar in Siberia. Given how he's been secretly monitoring Sonic for a while, he may have picked up English as a byproduct.
* AllLovingHero: He's sweet-natured and kind, despite his initial awkwardness with new people. Tails even apologizes ramming the police car into Knuckles to save Sonic.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Much like his backstory from the games, he states that he was seen as a freak by others due to his extra tail.
* AscendedFanboy: Tails had been watching Sonic from his computer on his home planet to the point of idolising him. He not only ends up meeting and teaming up with him but ends up as his close friend and [[spoiler:adoptive brother]].
* AudienceSurrogate: Just like real-world Sonic fans, Tails has spent a great deal of time watching Sonic without his knowledge and memorizing trivial facts about him.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: He's the youngest member of [[spoiler:Team Sonic and the Wachowski household]] at eight years old, and he has the least self-confidence and adventuring experience of them.
* BadassAdorable: He has an array of highly effective gadgets that he presumably invented himself, and is one of the most adorable characters in the movies.
* BigBrotherWorship: Towards Sonic, even though they're not related. [[spoiler:Later becomes more literal when Tom and Maddie adopt him and he becomes Sonic's new adopted brother.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Sonic first meets Tails when the latter saves him from Knuckles with a hijacked police car.
* CarFu: [[spoiler:He strikes Knuckles with a police car (out of nowhere) right into a shed, just to rescue Sonic from getting overpowered by Knuckles.]]
* CharacterCatchphrase: In the second movie, it's "Only Sonic the Hedgehog could... [insert action here]".
* CharacterDevelopment: Is introduced as a timid kid who feels he's not up for field work, ends the film as a more confident fighter who smirks in the face of danger.
* CheerfulChild: He's very upbeat in his interactions with Sonic.
* ChildProdigy: He's a young boy who is also a GadgeteerGenius.
* CombinationAttack: He performs one with Sonic by swinging him around at the robots while flying.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Despite being a boy genius, obvious things sometimes go over his head. He thought it would be hard to figure out why everyone calls him Tails, and when Sonic asks if he watched him while he was in the shower, Tails calls it out as a trick question, stating that he knows Sonic prefers bubble baths, missing his point that he's creeped out that Tails watched him bathe.
* CompositeCharacter: Of both his modern and classic selves. He is a GadgeteerGenius who is able to create weapons and machinery like his modern self. However, he also worships Sonic and is mostly shy, like his classic self.
* CowardlyLion: He's one initially in the second movie, though less for a lack of valor and more because he has little faith in himself, and thus gets freaked out and self-conscious at the idea of actually being within the action. As the plot goes on, Sonic inspires him to be more confident, and this trait goes away.
* CursedWithAwesome: Tails having two tails means that he's able to fly using them like a helicopter, but it also saw him being bullied and incredibly lonely as a child, to the extent that he ended up hero-worshipping Sonic from afar because he was different too.
* TheCutie: Like in the games, Tails is really adorable.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Similar to his game counterpart, Tails was ostracized by the people on his planet because of his two tails prior to meeting Sonic.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He takes this role from Tom in the second movie due to being Sonic's main ally in the film.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Understandably so, given that in the scene where he does, he's driving away from a furious Knuckles at the time, and that's after ramming the car into him in order to save Sonic. Even ''Sonic'' insists on taking the wheel at one point.
* DubInducedPlotlineChange: There's a minor one in the second movie's Spanish dub. It happens right after Tails supposes that Sonic is "probably wondering why" everyone calls him "Tails," and Sonic correctly guesses that it's "because of the extra tail."
-->'''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.'')
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In his appearance in the first movie's second stinger, Tails' shoes look more akin to slip-ons. In the first trailer for the second movie, when showing the same scene again, they had been changed a bit to have shoelaces. His head now also looks less wide than it did in that first version, and his fur is slightly more yellowish.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing Tails does upon arriving on Earth and discovering Sonic's whereabouts is to jump off a cliff... and perform his signature Propeller Flying ability to hover back up before speeding off to find him.
* ExposedExtraterrestrials: He only wears a pair of white gloves, sneakers, and a yellow backpack. [[spoiler:However, he briefly dons a coat, scarf, gloves, ''and'' pants alongside Sonic in the second movie.]]
* {{Fanboy}}: He completely geeks out when he meets Sonic.
* {{Foil}}: To Dr. Robotnik. Both are gadgeteer geniuses who had been outcasts during their childhoods. However, while Dr. Robotnik uses his gadgets for evil and is a PsychopathicManchild , Tails is a young ChildProdigy who uses his gadgets for good. Also, Robotnik hates Sonic, while Tails idolizes him.
* GadgeteerGenius: He carries a huge arsenal of gadgets and weapons in his yellow backpack, including a holographic projector and a laser gun. Maddie and Rachel even use some of his gadgets to rescue him, Sonic, and Tom from being held captive by G.U.N.
* GlassCannon: He's fairly speedy, as he can keep up with Sonic while flying, but very delicate; he spends several hours unconscious after being hit by Dr. Robotnik's missiles.
* GoodCounterpart: Tails and Dr. Robotnik are both geniuses with a knack for engineering. However, Tails' inventions are harmless for the most part, with even his weapons designed to incapacitate the targets rather than hurt or kill them, and he adores Sonic. By contrast, Robotnik uses his machines to hurt and destroy above all else, and he absolutely loathes Sonic to the point of wanting him dead.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A kind-hearted fox who is covered in yellow/gold fur.
* {{Hammerspace}}: {{Averted}}. Like Sonic, Tails wears a satchel to store his items. However, this wasn't added until later in the second movie's development, as he wasn't seen wearing it in early trailers.
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:He seems to have been taken in by Tom and Maddie alongside Sonic and Knuckles at the end of the second movie.]]
* {{Helicritter}}: Much like his game counterpart, he has two tails that he can spin like a helicopter's rotor blades to fly through the air.
* HeroWorshipper: Tails thinks the world of Sonic and constantly praises him throughout the second movie.
* HistoryRepeats: In the first movie, Sonic admired Tom's achievements from a distance before finally getting the chance to be with him later on. In the second movie, it's revealed that Tails had been spying on Sonic in a similar way before he forces himself to find Sonic to stop Knuckles from killing him.
* HumbleHero: To an almost detrimental degree; Tails has very low self-esteem even after searching several planets just so he could warn Sonic about Knuckles coming after him and then going on to ram a car into Knuckles to protect Sonic when he's a little too late. He does improve after Sonic takes him under his wing and gives him a much-needed confidence boost.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: In his village, he was shunned by the other villagers because of his two tails, and he ends up going to Earth to help Sonic defeat Robotnik and Knuckles. When Sonic calls Tails "his pal," this makes Tails happy enough to give Sonic a hug.
* InnocentAliens: Tails is perhaps the most innocent one between Sonic, Knuckles, and himself. He only came to Earth to warn Sonic about Knuckles, and then only stays to help protect both him and the planet itself.
* InnocentBlueEyes: He has baby blue eyes to fit his sweet and innocent nature.
* InterspeciesAdoption: [[spoiler:He's an anthropomorphic fox who is seemingly adopted by the human Tom and Maddie at the end of the second film.]]
* KidHero: He's notably quite a bit younger than both Sonic and Knuckles, just like in the games.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He says that he hopes he's not too late... having arrived during TheStinger after the events of the first movie.
* LightIsGood: Tails has yellow/gold fur and is unambiguously nice and heroic.
* LovableNerd: Tails is both nerdy and extremely sweet.
* MeaningfulAppearance: He wears a pair of sneakers very similar to Sonic's own despite having never set foot on Earth before. That said, Tails is quite the fanboy, and may have purposefully chosen a pair of similar-looking sneakers to better emulate his hero.
* MythologyGag: The yellow scanning device he uses to find Sonic on Earth closely resembles the [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Miles]] [[VideoGame/SonicColors Electric]]. The sequel minces no words about it, and "Miles Electric" is written on the device's interface.
* MysteriousPast: All we know is that Tails is from another planet and that his village shunned him for his extra tail; we don't know if it was a birth defect, a mutation later in life, or simply a natural trait of his species.
* NiceGuy: Tails is a helpful, friendly fox.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:During the snowboarding chase in Siberia, Sonic almost manages to talk down Knuckles by appealing to their CommonalityConnection. Unfortunately, before he can truly succeed, Tails launches an electric net at Knuckles, causing the latter to believe Sonic's sincere plea was just a trick to lower his guard.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Just like the games, everyone calls him Tails. However, unlike that continuity, he is never introduced as anything but "Tails." He is called by his true name just once in the entirety of ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2'', and even then it's as "Miles 'Tails' Prower".
* PrimaryColorChampion: He has yellow-orange fur, wears red (and white) sneakers, and has InnocentBlueEyes.
* RayGun: [[spoiler:During the final battle, Tails uses his laser gun to shoot down Robotnik's robots.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the video games, Tails, Sonic and Knuckles are just friends. In the film adaptation, Tails is seemingly adopted by the humans Tom and Maddie Wachowski, making him and his new friends Sonic and Knuckles adoptive siblings.]]
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Even Sonic isn't immune to his extreme adorableness, particularly in the scene in which the kid curls up by the fire and Sonic takes the time to tuck him in for the night.
-->'''Sonic:''' ''(regarding Tails in "interviews")'' He's a double threat. Fluffy and adorable!
* SarcasmBlind: When Sonic sarcastically "guesses" as to why he's called Tails, the kid doesn't realize that he's being facetious at all and is just stoked that Sonic got it right away.
* SelfDuplication: He can use a function on his device called the "Miles Multiplier" in order to create holographic duplicates of himself. He does this in the bar scene [[MundaneUtility in order to make backup dancers for Sonic.]] He later uses it again to [[spoiler:distract Robotnik while Knuckles gets into position.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He's the sensitive guy to Sonic and Knuckles' Manly Men. Tails prefers to use his gadgets to help him in combat and is also shy and cheerful, while Sonic and Knuckles are more physical in combat and both of them have more boisterous personalities.
* SequelHook: He shows up after the first movie's conflict is over, determined to find Sonic on Earth, foreshadowing his involvement in the sequel.
* SleepCute: He falls asleep in front of a fireplace. Sonic drapes a blanket over him and joins him, sleeping back-to-back. Tails in turn drapes his tails over Sonic.
* TheSmartGuy: He's the brains of the good guys, being a super smart GadgeteerGenius.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He's been tracking Sonic ever since his electromagnetic pulse at the beginning of the first movie with aid from his self-invented gadgets. He was drawn in by Sonic's sheer bravery against Robotnik. He spied on Sonic so much, he even knows that he prefers bubble baths to showers. Sonic is noticeably and understandably creeped out by this, but doesn't hold it against him.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: While he doesn't exhibit the amount of strength that Knuckles has, he's not a total weakling by all means and has a let of pep for a small fox child as he's able to swing Sonic around in a circular motion by pulling off a mid-air HumanHammerThrow version with enough force to destroy some of Robotnik's drones and has even managed to carry Knuckles himself while airborne (although he was visibly struggling to hold him at first) with the latter proudly claiming that he's "one million percent muscle!"
* SummonBackupDancers: He summons hologram backup dancers during the dance off, and later uses them to distract Robotnik.
* SuperSpeed: Much like Sonic, Tails can move incredibly fast. He flies from the top of a cliff overlooking Green Hills into the town proper in just a few seconds, leaving an orange trail behind him.
* TapOnTheHead: He is knocked out by Dr. Robotnik's missiles, rendering him unconscious for about a fourth of the second movie. He wakes up just in time for the FinalBattle, ready to pilot his plane, and takes part in the fray without any need for medical attention.
* ThinkingUpPortals: He can do this with rings like Sonic can. The prequel comic sees Tails using them to look for Sonic on other planets, and we see him use one in the movie itself to come to Earth. The book adaptation mentions he used his last ring to come to Earth, meaning he's trapped on the planet.
* TookALevelInBadass: Compared to his recent incarnations, Tails is now just as capable as Sonic and Knuckles when it comes to fighting Dr. Robotnik's badniks, and is able to fly the Tornado expertly through a barrage of missiles. He keeps up with them incredibly well despite being both younger and smaller than them.
* TranslatorMicrobes: He has to use a translator to repeat what he says in whatever language the Siberians speak, though it gives offensive MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels translations. Needless to say, he can speak perfect English for some reason.
* TrueCompanions: Much like his game counterpart, he becomes this with Sonic, and [[spoiler:seems to have become this with Knuckles by the end of the second movie.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Sonic. When Tails finds out Knuckles is coming after Sonic, he immediately sets out searching the galaxy for Sonic, one planet at a time, so he can warn him. Later, when Sonic leaves to fight Robotnik and Knuckles alone, Tails wants to go with him, despite being injured.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that Tails shows up at all in the first movie is a spoiler in and of itself; he is never mentioned before his brief appearance in TheStinger.
* WeakButSkilled: Tails lacks Sonic's speed and Knuckles' strength, durability and fighting skills. However, he is also very agile and his flight gives him great evasion. He also carries an array of tools and weapons of his own invention that are very useful in battle.
* WhiteGloves: Like Sonic, Tails wears white gloves over his hands as part of him being a cartoony FunnyAnimal.

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!!Knuckles the Echidna
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IdrisElba [films, ''Knuckles''], Creator/FredTatasciore [''Sonic Drone Home''] (English); Creator/SubaruKimura (Japanese) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/AdamFietz (Swedish), Ronaldo Júlio (Brazilian Portuguese), Widemir Normil (Quebec French), Frantz Confiac (EU French), Maurizio Merluzzo (Italian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' | ''WesternAnimation/SonicDroneHome'' | ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'' | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I do not make jokes. I make warriors."'']]
->''"It is my destiny to do what my ancestors could not: to restore the ultimate power to the home of my people."''
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A red echidna with super strength to match Sonic's speed, who joins up with Dr. Robotnik in order to get a lead on the blue hedgehog himself.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: [[spoiler:He was hit with the death of his father and the last echidnas of his tribe when he was still a child, giving him an angsty backstory much like the one the film version of Sonic has. The two even bond over their mutual feeling of loss. Also, he genuinely considers Robotnik a friend at first, and his betrayal hurts Knuckles more than usual for his canon counterpart.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: Knuckles debuts in the games as a threat because he blindsides Sonic and sets up traps for him in the various levels, but as a boss, he is a pushover. While Knuckles [[RedemptionPromotion is more effective as a hero]], he is at best Sonic's equal. In the movies, Knuckles is AlwaysSomeoneBetter to Sonic. He inflicts a CurbStompBattle in his debut with Sonic in their first meeting, and while their rematch is much more even, it is unclear if Sonic could have won.
* AdaptationalCurves: Downplayed. He's noticeably more muscular and top-heavy than his counterpart from his [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles first appearance]], but less so compared to his ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' incarnation.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Whenever Knuckles gets tricked by Eggman in the games, he doesn't catch on until the doctor straight-up betrays him to his face. Here, [[spoiler:he almost relents on his hunt of Sonic during their encounter in Siberia after the latter sincerely pleads a CommonalityConnection and starts to question his judgement of Sonic when he chooses to save Tails over recovering the compass to the Master Emerald.]] He also seems to be much more eloquent than he is in the games. [[spoiler:Plus, during the FinalBattle, he immediately catches onto Sonic's plan to defeat Robotnik.]]
-->'''Sonic:''' [[spoiler:I know what his weak spot is; it's me! I'm the groin! Think about it; I live rent free in this dude's head, so if I go out there and rile him up...]] \\
'''Knuckles:''' [[spoiler:He'll focus on only you, leaving himself open to a flanking maneuver from me and the fox!]]
* AdaptationalJobChange: He is not the guardian of the Master Emerald in the cinematic version, being instead a treasure hunter that seeks to use it for his own purposes instead of protecting it. [[spoiler:Although upon retrieving the Emerald after the final battle with Robotnik, he gets to protect it alongside Sonic, Tails, and the Wachowskis.]]
* AdaptationalNationality: Most versions of Knuckles tend to speak with an American accent, whereas here Knuckles speaks with Creator/IdrisElba's natural English accent.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Overlaps with AdaptationalIntelligence. Knuckles gets his sense of empathy and firm belief in teamwork and friendship taken up a notch in the films. Here he almost lets go of his vendetta against Sonic when the latter pleads a CommonalityConnection, and starts to question his judgement of Sonic when he chose to save Tails over pursuing the compass, revealing that Knuckles sees a lot of value in friendship. Also as he shields Tom and Maddie from what it seems like Super Sonic going mad with power (it turns out he was just summoning a perfect chili dog), he solemnly tells them that he is no longer the Sonic they once knew, after he sees them protecting Sonic before he becomes Super Sonic.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Downplayed with Sonic at first, he and Knuckles start out as enemies similar to in the video games, [[spoiler:but when they reconcile, they not only become friends, but Knuckles and Sonic actually agreed to be co-protectors of the Master Emerald and it's implied Knuckles allowed himself to be adopted into the Wachowski family, becoming Sonic's brother in all but name.]]
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Similar to how Sonic is supercharged with electricity capable of limitless energy, Knuckles seems to get his strength from some sort of red lightning.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed, as while he is by no means a bad guy, his conflict with Sonic here is much more personal, rather than being tricked by Robotnik into thinking Sonic was trying to steal the Master Emerald from his island like in the games. [[spoiler:This changes after Robotnik's betrayal and his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* AliensOfLondon: He's an extraterrestial being like Sonic and Tails, and he speaks with Idris Elba's natural British accent.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Like Sonic and Tails, he somehow already knows how to speak perfect English and even speaks with a distinct Earth accent, despite never having been there before the events of the film.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The first fight between Knuckles and Sonic sees Sonic get flattened as Knuckles' SuperStrength counters attacks by Sonic's SuperSpeed. Sonic fights smarter in their rematch, but his attacks still do not inflict any real damage, while Knuckles puts him down for the count with a few direct hits.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Knuckles looks down on Sonic for, amongst other things, being "unskilled" and "untrained" in combat like him. [[spoiler:He drops this attitude after he and Sonic save each other from drowning.]]
* AscendedExtra: Goes from being a supporting character in the second movie to the star of [[Series/{{Knuckles}} his own self-titled miniseries]]
* BaritoneOfStrength: It comes with being voiced by Creator/IdrisElba, being a conscious decision by the producers to harken back to Creator/DanGreen's performance. In the trailer for ''Sonic 2'', Knuckles asks Sonic "Do I look like I need ''your'' power?"
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:He becomes one of Sonic's allies and pulls a HeelFaceTurn after Sonic rescues him.]]
* BerserkButton: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. In the final trailer, the editing of the scene frames that Knuckles '''really''' doesn't take lightly for being insulted as a "space porcupine". In the film itself, Knuckles is completely innocent of Stone's disdain, and breaks his arm as part of a RunningGag in which Knuckles gives everyone a CrushingHandshake.
* BigEater: Shows himself to be this in the eponymous miniseries. He is shown guzzling down a full bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, drinking a full pot of coffee, and eating an ''entire buffet'' of food during a dinner at Wade's house. One [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/6KhZ/paramount-knuckles TV spot]] shows Knuckles in Wade's car eating a ''cluster'' of green grapes, his favorite food on Earth.
* BloodKnight: In ''The Official Pre-Quill Comic'', he states that it feels good to defeat the giant beast he was forced to fight.
* BoisterousBruiser: [[spoiler:He certainly becomes more hammy and chummy after his HeelFaceTurn.]]
-->'''Tails:''' [[spoiler:Oh, you're ''really'' heavy!]] \\
'''Knuckles:''' [[spoiler:That's because I am one million percent muscle! FASTER, FOX!]]
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Robotnik's Brains. Robotnik uses his technology and gadgets to track down and hinder Sonic, while Knuckles serves as a physical rival to the hedgehog.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: [[spoiler:True to his game counterpart, Knuckles is a tough, powerful warrior with a strong sense of empathy, and becomes something of a CoolBigBro to Tails.]]
* TheBrute: [[spoiler:Ultimately what his role amounts to in Robotnik's schemes. Despite Stone worrying about having to share his position as TheDragon with him, Robotnik has no use for the echidna as anything other than muscle to fight Sonic. He gladly tries to eliminate him once he's no longer useful.]]
* BulletTime: He appears to just as capable of this as Sonic, as the rain around them slows down when Knuckles catches Sonic's Spin Dash, possibly indicating that Knuckles is also capable of SuperSpeed to a certain extent.
* CatchingTheSpeedster: He gives Sonic TheWorfEffect when Robotnik led him to Sonic residing at the Wachowski's domain. The Blue Blur attempted to attack Knuckles head-on with an electrical-powered Spin Dash to ram straight into him, although, by the very second he collided into him, Knuckles instantly caught him, regardless of how fast he moved as his outstretched hand is holding Sonic, who's still continuously spinning into his spiked glove. He keeps him held for several seconds until he finishes the fight with a powerful GroundPunch.
* 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.
* ChekhovsSkill: One of the several displays of his SuperStrength is his extremely tight grip, which is used for comedy as he gives unintentional [[CrushingHandshake Crushing Handshakes]] to other characters. However, [[spoiler:this ability comes in handy after Robotnik's defeat, as Knuckles applies pressure to a fractured Master Emerald in order to restore it to its original form]].
* ColorfulContrails: He has his own degree of superhuman speeds whenever he uses his own powers that are similar to Sonic's if he chooses to boost his mobility even further, in one example is where he's pursuing a police car driven by Tails, a red lighting trail is shown behind his body as he's sprinting.
* CoDragons: He and Agent Stone end up as this to Doctor Robotnik, working to defeat Sonic and find the Master Emerald, with the red echidna serving as Robotnik's big bruiser while Stone serves as the assistant and tech guy. [[spoiler:Of course, Robotnik never intended to keep working with Knuckles for long before betraying him]].
* ColdHam: The sheer foreboding delivery of Knuckles' PreMortemOneLiner "Do I look like I need ''your'' power?" while also being accompanied by his piercing DeathGlare after grabbing Sonic (as he's Spin Dashing no less) with no effort brings a layer of serious menace to show that he's a force to be reckoned with.
* TheComicallySerious: Knuckles is a serious, foreboding ColdHam who reacts to other characters' quips with complete befuddlement. His unfamiliarity with Earth's culture doesn't do him any favors. Maddie actually finds him funny because of his battle-based mentality.
* CommonalityConnection: To Sonic. [[spoiler:Both of them lost everything and everyone they ever knew on the same day, and had to grow up alone. After saving each other from drowning, Knuckles solemnly wonder how despite sharing the same tragic origins, Sonic turned out much more cheerful and optimistic than him.]]
* CrushingHandshake: After Robotnik introduces him to the concept of shaking hands, using the ExactWords "grip each other's hands tightly", Knuckles gains a [[RunningGag tendency]] to accidentally inflict pain (and dislocate fingers!) on others with his handshake due to his immense strength.
* CurbStompBattle: When Robotnik "introduces" Sonic to Knuckles, the blue hedgehog stands little chance against Knuckles' overwhelming strength, being absolutely battered and thrashed around the Wachowskis' house. He even catches Sonic's Spin Dash mid-spin and [[MegatonPunch hammers]] [[FacePlant him]] to the ground. If Tails hadn't arrived in time to save Sonic, Knuckles would've ended Sonic right then and there.
** This is also somewhat extends to their eventual rematch, as while Sonic manages to land multiple spectacular hits on the echidna this time around, Knuckles proves to be quite the ImplacableMan and dishes out a few heavy punches in return to knock the hedgehog down. If Knuckles [[spoiler:hadn't been interrupted by Robotnik's betrayal]], Sonic may well have lost.
* DefrostingIceKing: {{Downplayed}}, [[spoiler:but after defeating Robotnik, Knuckles is especially hammy, as seen as when he joins Sonic, Tails, and the Wachowskis in a game of baseball and declares that he won after ''punching'' the baseball into oblivion. Oh, and he's openly ecstatic when learning that ice cream comes with sprinkles]].
* DeathGlare: A majority of his expressions signify an aura of him being constantly seething with sheer hostility, where most of his glares are unmistakably aimed at Sonic whenever he confronts him in battle. He noticeably loses this trait when took the path to his eventual HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler:as he lightens up by becoming more lively and cheerful]].
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Robotnik's betrayal]] catches him completely off guard.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: His RunningGag of hurting people with his handshakes without meaning to. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] by the fact that Knuckles is very aware of his strength, but handshakes are one of many Earth customs he's unfamiliar with, and no one thinks (or is brave enough) to tell him to ease off.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Unlike his game counterpart, Knuckles gets to fight Robotnik alongside Sonic and Tails after he betrays him, and even knocks the Master Emerald out of him.]]
-->'''Robotnik:''' [[spoiler:''Dis''-loyal.]] \\
'''Knuckles:''' [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho "Dis" is how]] ''[[IronicEcho I]]'' [[IronicEcho roll.]]]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: While he willingly works with Robotnik, to the point of considering him a friend, Knuckles' goal to get to Sonic is first and foremost to him.
* TheDreaded: In this continuity, instead of being a unknown hermit, Knuckles went out and gained a reputation as "the most fearsome warrior in the galaxy", according to Tails. He's so dangerous that the mere threat of him finding Sonic was enough to get the at-the-time timid Tails to track Sonic down to warn him.
* DumbMuscle: Not nearly to the point of his ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' incarnation (who is literally the page image for AdaptationalDumbass), but he is a bit of a LiteralMinded BoisterousBruiser, akin to [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Drax the Destroyer]]. He is utterly baffled by concepts such as holograms, ice cream, and baseball since he'd never seen such things in his life up until this point.
-->'''Knuckles:''' ''(smashes a hologram projector showing an image of Sonic)'' Tiny magic hedgehog destroyed!
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Despite Knuckles indirectly trashing their house during his first encounter with Sonic, the Wachowskis make no mention of the incident and accept him into the household just fine.]]
* EnemyMine: He teams up with the mysterious scavengers that captured him in the ''Official Movie Pre-Quill'' comic in his hunt for Sonic, giving them a bag of rings in exchange -- not that their alliance means all that much to him, Robotnik takes them out easily with his traps when they make their stop on the Mushroom Planet.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:He takes Robotnik's betrayal pretty badly, prompting him to join Sonic and Tails to stop his former ally.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even prior to his HeelFaceTurn, Knuckles shows signs of discomfort towards Robotnik insulting Stone and disregarding allies.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper:
** Knuckles saves Eggman from a rolling boulder by holding the stone door open long enough for him to get through. [[spoiler:Like in the games, the bad doctor repays this debt by stealing the Master Emerald and leaving him and Sonic to die in the labyrinth.]]
** Subverted immediately afterwards, when [[spoiler:Knuckles gets trapped under a pillar as the room is rapidly being flooded. Sonic decides to save Knuckles despite his inability to swim, letting the echidna swim to the water's surface while he's still floored. It almost looks like he's done for, but then Knuckles comes back for him.]]
* FastballSpecial: [[spoiler:While in the middle of fighting Super Robotnik's drones from his Death Egg mecha, Sonic and Knuckles do a literal variation of this attack with Knuckles grabbing Sonic right as he's curled into a ball and chucks him into one of the drones.]]
* FatalFlaw: Naivete is his biggest flaw. Putting his trust in Robotnik and believing he was his friend is what almost gets him killed.
* FieryRedhead: An echidna with red fur that is also a BoisterousBruiser and BloodKnight.
* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler:He becomes this with Sonic after they save each other from drowning, and later with Tails as he works together with him to disarm Robotnik of the Master Emerald.]]
* FishOutOfWater: While also an alien, he has the least familiarity with Earth life out of Team Sonic compared with Sonic being a pop culture buff and Tails' tech skills.
** He spends most of the second movie confused and LiteralMinded about Earth culture and tech.
** In his eponymous series, Knuckles finds himself unable to reconcile his warrior life style with modern civilization.
* {{Foil}}:
** A red echidna with SuperStrength to counter a blue hedgehog with SuperSpeed. His stoic and no-nonsense personality contrasts Sonic's wild, carefree, and very talkative demeanor. Unlike Sonic who has SuperDrowningSkills, Knuckles actually ''can'' swim.
** His brutish strength and aggressive personality also make him a polar opposite to Robotnik's calculated villainy.
---> '''Robotnik:''' Work smarter, not harder.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:During the Death Egg Robot battle, [[DiscussedTrope he suggests]] attacking the groin several times. The punch he uses to knock the Master Emerald out of Super Robotnik's body to depower him is aimed towards his groin]].
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:He seems to have been taken in by Tom and Maddie alongside Sonic and Tails at the end of the second movie.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Just like in his original appearance, he ends up going along with Sonic when Robotnik leaves him for dead in the collapsing Master Emerald temple.]]
* HeyYou: Knuckles initially never calls Sonic with his actual name as he only refers him with "hedgehog" until his HeelFaceTurn. He also refers Tails as "Fox" even after they become allies. It eventually becomes something of an AffectionateNickname for the latter.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Underneath his gruff, no-nonsense, and blunt demeanor lies a person who truly values friendship and has a strong sense of empathy and knowledge of the difference between right and wrong.
* HopelessWithTech: Knuckles is as equally bad with technology as Tails is good with it. His people lived in the jungle, so it's implied he's unaccustomed to any trappings of modern civilization. When he tries to make himself at home on Earth, he builds a primitive-looking battle arena with scavenged parts and tools.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Knuckles puts his trust in ''Robotnik'' and sincerely believes the MadScientist is his friend, which leads [[spoiler:him to [[DidYouActuallyBelieve mock the echidna for being so gullible as to trust him]]]]. Unlike his game counterpart though, this is PlayedWith at best because of their shared enmity with Sonic and he's also perceptive enough multiple times, such as to note that [[spoiler:Sonic ignoring the compass in favor of rescuing Tails is not something an evil guy would do.]]
* IAmNotWeasel:
** Knuckles is offended by Stone calling him a porcupine, as he sees such a mistake as an insult to the Echidna heritage he's deeply proud of.
** Knuckles himself thinks Ozzy is a wolf, apparently having never seen a dog before. In his defense, domestic dogs are a subspecies of wolf.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: It's very subtle, but Knuckles takes the time to note that Sonic saved Tails instead of retrieving the Master Emerald Compass, and he himself views Robotnik as his friend (not knowing that Robotnik is only using him). Since he likely grew up without any friends, Knuckles sees a lot of value in friendship, [[spoiler:and ultimately befriends both Sonic and Tails after Robotnik betrays him.]]
* ImplacableMan: Knuckles has been hunting Sonic for many years. He will stop at nothing to achieve his goal, including tracking him through multiple planets across the universe and paying the bandits who had captured him to track Sonic down for him. Even being knocked down by Sonic multiple times doesn't do anything but slow him down.
* IntelligentGerbil: Like Sonic and Tails, Knuckles is an extraterrestrial being who happens to resemble a bipedal animal from Earth. Agent Stone even derides him by calling him some sort of "space porcupine".
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: According to the VisionQuest of Knuckles' past that Wade experienced in the fourth episode of ''Knuckles'', [[spoiler:Knuckles had seeked out the power of something called the Flames of Disaster to become strong enough to fulfill his destiny. It's only after a fierce battle against a fiery beast [[AmbiguousSituation who may or may not be the movie continuity's take on Iblis]] that Knuckles learns the Flames of Disaster is made manifest from the strength from his heart rather than his fists.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's acerbic, gruff, and unfriendly (at first), but he has a strong sense of right and wrong. After his HeelFaceTurn, he's become much friendlier.
* KnightOfCerebus: Of the non-villainy aspect. Before his CharacterDevelopment, Knuckles brings an air of intimidation with ColdHam qualities and shows Sonic his own power without even trying during their first encounter. Even if he's teamed up with Robotnik, who's LaughablyEvil, the echidna is not even directly phased by his odd and lunatic mannerisms of any sort (but does react with confusion) and whenever Sonic takes him to blurt out his quips, Knuckles ponders on why he thinks everything tends to be a joke to him. [[spoiler:He no longer has this demeanor when he befriends Sonic and Tails and becomes apart of their group when they play baseball together.]]
* LargeHam: [[spoiler:After his HeelFaceTurn, he drops the ColdHam trope and becomes more of a BoisterousBruiser who is openly enthusiastic and also somewhat melodramatic.]]
-->'''Knuckles''': [[spoiler:''(referring to the Wachowskis' car)'' Ah, my victory chariot!]]
* LastOfHisKind: In the tie-in comic, when Knuckles is captured and forced to partake in GladiatorGames, he is revealed to be the last surviving echidna. This is also stated to be the case in the film itself, [[spoiler:since his father and the echidna tribe from the first film were already the last surviving members of their species]].
* LightningBruiser: Knuckles is without a doubt a powerful beast compared to Sonic, as he can wreck just about anything that stands in his way with his physical might. He also possesses the sheer speed to keep up with a police car, unleash so many punches that his fists turn into red blurs via RapidFireFisticuffs, and even though Sonic is way faster than him at his max speed, he can still nonchalantly catch up with the Blue Blur at lower speeds.
* LiteralMinded: Knuckles doesn't get metaphors or fancy technology like holograms, and has to be guided through baseball by the analogy of the game as a form of combat. He reads the dots that appear when someone else is typing in a text messaging app out loud as if it were part of the conversation.
* MadeOfIron:
** Tails hits him with a police car to save Sonic, knocking him into Tom's shed. Knuckles simply gets back up like nothing even happened.
** And later in the temple, when they're fighting over the Master Emerald, Sonic pounds him with his dash-attack, repeatedly, smashing him through several feet of stone floor. Knuckles still gets up and attacks Sonic with a flurry of punches like he didn't get hurt at all.
* MegatonPunch: He delivers quite a few massive hits over the course of the second movie. The first on-screen one is powerful enough to cause a massive shockwave, and he's strong enough to [[spoiler:make the Death Egg Robot's hand flinch]].
* MusclesAreMeaningful: He's visually much more burly than in the games to emphasize his raw power, with his design here between somewhere between his video game and ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' incarnations. However, his size also makes him heavier to lift and carry, as Tails finds out.
* NeckLift: [[spoiler:He clutches Sonic's neck in his grasp by holding him in place against a tree after he delivered a heavily one-sided beatdown against him.]]
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Basically another way of displaying their RedOniBlueOni personalities by showing how Sonic and Knuckles are portrayed and bounce off of each other. Sonic, who can be a bit of a SmugSuper, is reckless, hyper, and has an extremely rowdy outlook since facing threats is more of a breeze to him while Knuckles on the other hand is a brute and an ArrogantKungFuGuy but he takes practically everything seriously by wearing a rather dour expression who does not wish to waste such precious time on something important at hand and tends to be more reserved with himself.
* NominalVillain: Knuckles only works with Eggman because of their shared enmity with Sonic and the scientist offering to help Knuckles find the Master Emerald. Even then, Knuckles only hates Sonic because of the war between the echidnas and the owl tribes, the latter of whom Sonic's adoptive mother was from, and has no malicious intent otherwise. [[spoiler:After Eggman reveals his true colors and Sonic saves him from drowning, Knuckles joins forces with him and Tails to stop the madman.]]
* NoSocialSkills: Knuckles knows how to talk big and threaten people... but that's about it. Since he's the LastOfHisKind and didn't have any friends growing up, Knuckles struggles with a lot of social cues, doesn't understand jokes, takes all comments at face value, and is completely baffled at Sonic's jovial behavior.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Knuckles retains Idris Elba's London accent. ''Why'' he has a British accent when every other extraterrestrial sounds American is never discussed.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: He isn't deliberately said out to be evil by any means since he saw Robotnik as a potential guide to assist him through his quest to claim the Master Emerald to avenge his race, not knowing that he person he's aligned with wants to use steal it for diabolical purposes. [[spoiler:After being betrayed by Robotnik, whom he considered his "friend", his faith in others dwindled down until Sonic sees him as a lonely individual. Sonic even brought mention to Tails that Knuckles isn't as antagonistic during their heartfelt conversation after they saved one another.]]
-->'''Tails:''' ''(Lightly whispering)'' Hey, Sonic! Are you sure it was a good idea bringing you-know-who aboard?\\
'''Sonic:''' Knuckles isn't really a bad guy. He's just a little... mixed up.\\
'''Knuckles:''' I am NOT mixed up! I have steely focus! And I'm complex! And that's a lot for some people!
* NotQuiteFlight: His gliding ability, though he only uses it very briefly to catch up to Sonic and Tails' police car.
* 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. ]]
* PersonalityPowers: Super strength and super toughness for one stubborn echidna who is always down for a brawl.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Knuckles is larger and taller than Sonic and Tails, with the strength to match. However, he is still tiny compared to normal humans and a giant alien beast he was forced to fight in the comic prequel to the second movie. Still, he is strong enough to cause Robotnik and Stone immense pain with a simple handshake and knock out the alien beast with one punch.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:After tapping into the power from within his heart, Knuckles is attain to get a powerful strength boost symbolized by his fists lighting aflame in what's dubbed the Flames of Disaster.]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Knuckles is a firm believer in teamwork and companionship and attributes his and Robotnik's success in reaching the Hidden Temple to their will to work together. [[spoiler:Upon seeing that Sonic holds the same values as him, he doesn't hesitate to join him and Tails to defeat Robotnik, even proudly declaring that they "make their stand here on the field of battle". After defeating Robotnik and retrieving the Master Emerald, Knuckles proposes a "vow" for the heroes to "watch out for each other" and calls their newfound alliance "a new tribe".]]
-->'''Sonic:''' [[spoiler:Look, we aren't strong enough to beat Robotnik on our own, but there's three of us. (''to Knuckles'') Your strength, (''to Tails, who nods'') your smarts, and my speed. Together. That's how we win.]] \\
'''Knuckles:''' [[spoiler:So we make our stand here... ''on the field of battle!'']] \\
'''Tails:''' [[spoiler:As a team!]]
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Doubles as an IronicEcho. [[spoiler:When Robotnik calls Knuckles disloyal for siding with Sonic and Tails, Knuckles retorts with ''""Dis" is how I roll."'' before delivering a powerful punch to the groin to knock the Master Emerald out of him.]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Knuckles talks of his echidna tribe and heritage with a lot of pride, and upholds a strong code of honour that they passed down to him.
* RandomlyGifted: The rest of Knuckles' tribe fought with weapons and armor, while Knuckles eschews any tools other than his fists. Inexplicably, Knuckles possesses SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and is MadeOfIron. Why he's so different remains unexplained.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: In a homage to ''Anime/SonicX'', he does this to Sonic at the Master Emerald's temple. Sonic is fast enough to dodge them for a while, but Knuckles eventually tires him to the point that he manages to land a hit.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Whenever he's channeling his own bio-electric energy, his purple eyes morph into a vivid bright neon-red/magenta that not only matches his fur color, but gives him a rather vicious and empowered look.
* RedIsHeroic: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He's a vibrant red extraterrestrial who's a willing ally of Dr. Robotnik in his quest to catch Sonic. Then it gets [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] when [[spoiler:Dr. Robotnik betrays him, prompting him to join Sonic and Tails in stopping him and pulling a HeelFaceTurn.]] In his own view, Knuckles was heroically intentioned all along of course, viewing his quest as something he had to do to honor his tribe as the last of his kind.
* RedIsViolent: As is typical of the character, Knuckles' fur is a vibrant shade of red, and he's a BloodKnight who's quick to get physical. Sonic even nicknames him "[[Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog Clifford the Big Red Rage Monster]]" and states he has "serious anger issues".
* RedOnesGoFaster: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Knuckles is capable of some SuperSpeed, but it's nowhere near the velocity that Sonic's capable of.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the video games, Knuckles, Sonic, and Tails are rivals turned good friends. In the film adaptation, Knuckles is seemingly adopted by the humans Tom and Maddie Wachowski, making him and his new friends Sonic and Tails adoptive siblings.]]
* RunningGag: After being told by Robotnik that shaking hands is a gesture of trust on Earth, Knuckles proceeds to deliver a CrushingHandshake on [[RuleOfThree three occasions]] throughout the movie: first when he agrees to work with Robotnik, then when he meets Agent Stone, and finally [[spoiler:when he warms up to Sonic and decides to [[HeelFaceTurn team up with him to stop Robotnik]]]].
* RunningOnAllFours: He briefly indulges in this while chasing Sonic and Tails through Green Hills, using his powerful arms for an extra push.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Knuckles spent his whole life training his powers and fighting skills to be the greatest echidna warrior and achieve his people's dream of reclaiming the Master Emerald. This also left him with NoSocialSkills, a tendency towards [[LiteralMinded taking everything at face value]], and never having had any real fun in his life.
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:Right when Sonic asks of Knuckles' mentioning of Longclaw, the echidna (loudly) explains to the hedgehog about the ultimate power of the Master Emerald, as Robotink was in the direct hearing range which has caught his curiosity which also makes himself into a ManipulativeBastard to use Knuckles as a henchmen to guide him to the secluded whereabouts of the temple where he can achieve the Master Emerald all for himself.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Between Eggman's CoDragons, Knuckles is the Manly Man who routinely invokes honor and can break bones with his grip, while Agent Stone is the Sensitive Guy who makes art of himself and Eggman in latte foam.
** Later on, [[spoiler:after his HeelFaceTurn, he is a Manly Man to Tails' Sensitive Guy]].
* ShockAndAwe: He can tap into his raw SuperStrength to generate bio-electricity in the same way that Sonic can, if colored a bright red-orange to contrast with Sonic's cyan glow. His eyes even glow red when he taps into his power, just like Sonic's do.
* StrongAndSkilled: Knuckles is not only as strong as Sonic is fast, but he has trained to be a warrior his entire life, giving him an advantage against the UnskilledButStrong Sonic who has only been in a few real fights in his life. He even looks down on Sonic because of it, dismissing the hedgehog as being "unskilled" and "untrained".
* SuperReflexes: He can't move or run quite as fast as Sonic, but he's able to perceive Sonic's movements at top speed and counter them, as long as he has a little advance warning. It's only when Sonic is actively trying to trump Knuckles in pure speed that the echidna can't keep up.
* 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
* SuperStrength: Knuckles is able to punch through a car and wrench its doors off with ease. Catching Sonic's spin dash (that is enough to destroy cars and tanks on its own) does nothing but make him grimace a little. Also, he tends to give a CrushingHandshake to others even without intending to.
** At one instance when he was pursuing Sonic in Siberia, he mowed down a row of trees right when the Blue Blur dodged his punch, and charged his bio-electrical energy to shatter an enormous rock to pieces.
** [[spoiler:Right when he's defeated Sonic in a duel at the Master Emerald temple, he hoists a large boulder without even trying as an attempt to crush him with it. During his initial team up with both Sonic and Tails to face off against Super Robotnik, he powers up his already brutish strength with an energy-infused augmented punch so devastating that he briefly held off the Death Egg Robot's gigantic hand.]]
* SuperToughness: Tails ramming him with a car only slows him down, and even after Sonic steps up his game during their fight in the temple, being drilled several feet through stone by Sonic's repeated spin-dashes does nothing more than make him angry. He later outright states to Tails that being hit with the car didn't hurt him at all.
* SupportingProtagonist: [[spoiler:Despite his name being the title and sharing the role of main protagonists with Wade, he eventually becomes this in ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'', as Wade's journey is what's given the narrative focus after the halfway point.]]
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: At the end of the movie, he becomes excitable and goofy during the game of baseball, and is quite ecstatic about ice cream with sprinkles.
* TopHeavyGuy: His chest and biceps are much broader and sturdier than usual mainly to show off his inhuman strength, while his legs are long but nowhere near as muscular and burly as his Boom incarnation.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Grapes, as [[MythologyGag established all the way back in the manual for]] [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles his debut game]]. When he learns what ice cream is, his first question is if grapes are involved. In his eponymous series, he is shown digging hungrily into a whole cluster of green grapes. He also seems to have taken a liking to ice cream with sprinkles, Cool Ranch Doritos, and Shabbat food such as gefilte fish upon learning about them and trying them.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Little does Knuckles know that Robotnik is just using him for his strength, until Robotnik, having achieved his goals by stealing the Master Emerald, tells him that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he has served his purpose]] and mocks him for being [[DidYouActuallyBelieve dumb enough to even believe that he was his friend.]]]]
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: {{Inverted}}. Robotnik is dangerously cunning yet [[LaughablyEvil is also an absolutely hilarious goofball]]. Knuckles, the one who's working for him, is predominantly a destructive ColdHam even in spite of his trait of being TheComicallySerious.
* VillainousFriendship: Knuckles initially sees Robotnik as a means to an end, but once they ally themselves together he begins to see Robotnik as a like-minded person adherent to his cause, and a friend. The scientist even introduces him to the hedgehog as his new best friend. [[spoiler:Then it's subverted, as Robotnik never considered him a friend, and was only using him to reach the Master Emerald.]]
* VocalDissonance: Knuckles is in the same age range as Sonic and Tails, but whereas Ben Schwartz and Colleen O'Shaughnessey make their characters sound fairly young, Idris Elba's voice is too deep and adult-sounding to pass as a teenager. This is in keeping with most of Knuckles' voiced appearances over the years. He's usually [[InformedAttribute claimed to be]] sixteen years old, but about the only version that sounds convincingly teenaged is the Knuckles from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', with every other voice actor giving him a deeper voice that makes him sound mid-thirties at least.[[note]]Also, despite being much taller than Sonic and Tails, he's still short compared to the human characters, further highlighting the dissonance[[/note]]
* WallCrawl: His recurring ability from the games is displayed when Sonic and Tails shake him off a polce car and throw him down a ravine. With the spikes on his gloves, he proceeds to climb his way back to the road.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Knuckles' first approach to a problem is to punch as hard as he can it until it stays down.
* WhiteGloves: He wears ones similar to boxing gloves that still allow his knuckle spikes to do their thing. They're prominently featured on one of the teaser posters, which is just his gloved spiked hand.
* WhyWontYouDie: Starts throwing nothing but RapidFireFisticuffs at Sonic relentlessly, given the way how he's raising his voice while doing so it shows that he's had more than enough of the blue hedgehog who's trying to defeat him.
--> '''Knuckles''': Why don't you stand still, and ''die'' '''''with honor!?'''''
* WorldsBestWarrior: He's gained this reputation outside of Earth, with Tails even describing him as "the most fearsome warrior in the galaxy". In the second movie, his first fight with Sonic is a complete CurbStompBattle, and even in their last fight Sonic just can't overcome his sheer endurance.
* WouldHurtAChild: {{Subverted}}. Even though he does try to attack both Sonic and Tails during the car chase scene and even seems to plot some revenge against Tails for hitting him with the police car, [[spoiler:Knuckles eventually works together with Tails and even becomes something of a big brother to him towards the end of the film.]]
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: He conjures his own powerful bio-electrical energy with red colored lightning as opposed to Sonic's neon blue/cyan. Small arcs of red lightning bolts are seen exiting his body whenever he speeds himself up and his fists are surrounded by red electricity to deliver obliterating damage with his augmented punches.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Knuckles grew up in an ancient-type warrior civilization where its practices included fighting to the death in an arena lined with hazards such as spikes. He is blind to the fact that these would be viewed as barbaric, if not illegal in modern civilization.

!!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]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' | ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}''
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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.
* 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]].

[[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.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Pachacamac was a power-hungry tyrant who went as far as to order his tribe to run over his own daughter Tikal when she tried to stop them from claiming the Master Emerald, which led to their demise by Chaos. Here, while he was merciless towards his enemies as shown in the prologue of the first film, he was the eccentric, but wise and respected leader of his tribe, as shown by his spirit in ''Knuckles''.
* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Was killed by Chaos in Sonic Adventure for trying to seize the Master Emerald. In this continuity he died fighting Longclaw.
* FreezeFrameBonus: First-time viewers probably aren't going to notice that the echidna who shoots down Longclaw is Pachacamac, the tyrannical tribe leader from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''.[[note]]He can be identified by his purple eyes, and the shape of his mask resembles his large eyebrows and facial fur.[[/note]] The detail was so easy to miss that Creator/TysonHesse had to [[https://twitter.com/tyson_hesse/status/1246227402704863232/photo/1 publicly reveal the cameo on his Twitter.]]
* FrontlineGeneral: During the hunt for Longclaw and Sonic; he was right there leading them on the field alongside the other tribe members, and even wears similar-looking armor to them. This trope is used so prevalently that Tyson Hesse had to confirm on Twitter, as seen above, that Pachacamac is among the group in the first place.
* PosthumousCharacter: He is dead by the time Sonic and Knuckles are teenagers, having been killed by Longclaw along with the rest of his tribe.
* SpiritAdvisor: He acts this way to Knuckles and never really was with him. He is this to Wade as well.

[[folder:The Scavengers]]
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Three alien mercenaries Knuckles hired to help him track down Sonic.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Defied. Unlike the more animal-like extraterrestrials, the Scavengers seem to speak their own language. The text featured in the comic looks nothing like written dialogue on Earth.
* AllThereInTheManual: The comic "Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill" reveals they were mercenaries that Knuckles encountered before bribing them with rings into helping him hunt down Sonic. Without this knowledge, it makes their presence at the beginning of the film confusing.
* AnimalMotif: Their helmets have vulture-like features, and like the animal, they're scavengers. Their appearance in the movie is them approaching Robotnik's body, likely thinking he's dead to steal from him.
* CanonForeigner: They have no direct counterparts from the games, cartoons or comics prior to the movie.
* CurbStompBattle: On the receiving end by Robotnik, who by the way, was still stuck on the Mushroom Planet and only had limited resources to work with.
* HumanAliens: They have very human-like bodies, though it's unknown what exactly is under their helmets.
* NoNameGiven: Not only are their individual names not given, but their species is unknown as well. "Scavengers" is just what Knuckles called them.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: They're the only alien characters introduced in the series so far who are not CG, but are depicted as people in costumes.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Robotnik manages to subdue them before running into Knuckles and makes a deal with him, they're never seen again. It's more than likely that, since he's found someone who knows exactly where Sonic is, Knuckles had no need for them anymore and left them on the Mushroom Planet (or if he considers that dishonorable, brought them back first and ''then'' dismissed them).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The "Project" '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
!!Shadow the Hedgehog
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeanuReeves
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' (in the {{Stinger}}) | ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"My God... Project Shadow."'']]

->''"Someone worked very hard to keep this hidden."''
-->-- '''Secretary of Homeland Security'''
\\
The end result of Project Shadow, having remained dormant in a black site for over fifty years... until now.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Shadow is historically a character who didn't appear until much later on in the franchise's lifespan, with his first appearance being in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' (canonically the sixth game in the mainline titles), but TheStinger for the second movie sets him up as an antagonist for the third movie, appearing before other villains introduced before him like Metal Sonic and Chaos.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: The last shot of him shows his eyes glowing with electricity, strongly hinting that he's also capable of using bio-electricity like Sonic and Knuckles.
* CelebrityParadox: Creator/KeanuReeves starred in the film ''Film/{{Speed}}'', which appears in the first film.
* ConjoinedEyes: Subverted. Much like Sonic, his eyes are separated, and also like Sonic, he has a patch of white fur between his eyes to give off the illusion of them being conjoined.
* DeathGlare: In the last shot of the second film, no less. He awakens with a furious look in his eyes, which spark with electricity.
* TheDreaded: Commander Walters is audibly unnerved when he is informed that Project Shadow had been discovered.
* EvilCounterpart: Implied. He's a hedgehog with a strong resemblance to Sonic and implied to share the same powers. However, unlike Sonic, Shadow's first appearance in TheStinger depicts him as an [[TheDreaded ominous threat]].
* EyeAwaken: After his capsule rises from the floor, Shadow opens his eyes, and they spark with electricity, much like Sonic's do whenever he uses his SuperSpeed.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Implied. It's mentioned the file for Project Shadow dates back over fifty years ago, yet Shadow doesn't seem to be visibly older than Sonic, much like in the games. However, it's unknown if Shadow is mentally a teenager or ageless like his video game counterpart.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He has black fur with hints of red.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He's depicted as having red eyes, and if Commander Walters being unnerved by Project Shadow is any indication, then Shadow is NOT someone to be messed with.
* SealedBadassInACan: According to the military, Shadow has been locked away in a black site vault for at least fifty years.
* SequelHook: Dr. Robotnik's whereabouts are unknown at the end of the second movie, but G.U.N. agents trying to wipe his records from their files anyhow happened to discover "Project Shadow" while Shadow himself reawakens after fifty years.
* TsurimeEyes: Subverted. Shadow's eyes are rounded like Sonic's, but his facial markings make them appear somewhat sharp.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just like Tails in the first movie, it's impossible to talk about TheStinger for the second movie without mentioning that Shadow makes an appearance.
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[[folder:The Flames of Disaster]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Knuckles}}''

A fiery being that Knuckles fought a while ago.

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* AmbiguousSituation: He may be the movie continuity's take on Iblis from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', but it isn't confirmed.
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* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: According to the VisionQuest of Knuckles' past that Wade experienced in the fourth episode of ''Knuckles'', [[spoiler:Knuckles had seeked out the power of something called the Flames of Disaster to become strong enough to fulfill his destiny. It's only after a fierce battle against a fiery beast [[AmbiguousSituation who may or may not be the moive continuity's take on Iblis]] that Knuckles learns the Flames of Disaster is made manifest from the strength from his heart rather than his fists.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Knuckles goes from an intimidating, no-nonsense, ColdHam, ArrogantKungFuGuy to an excitable, goofy, LargeHam, BruiserWithASoftCenter over the course the movie.

* SupportingProtagonist: [[spoiler:Despite his name being the title, he's actually this in ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'', as Wade's journey is what's given the narrative focus after the halfway point.]]

* 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.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Pachacamac was a power-hungry tyrant who went as far as to order his tribe to run over his own daughter Tikal when she tried to stop them from claiming the Master Emerald, which led to their demise by Chaos. Here, while he was merciless towards his enemies as shown in the prologue of the first film, he was an affable and eccentric mentor towards his allies, as shown by his spirit in ''Knuckles''.

[[caption-width-right:350:Pachacamac as he appears in ''Knuckles''.]]

The former leader of Knuckles' tribe who personally led them to hunt down Longclaw and Sonic.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Pachacamac was a power-hungry tyrant who went as far as to run over his own daughter Tikal with the rest of his tribe when she tried to stop them from claiming the Master Emerald, which led to their demise by Chaos. Here, while he was merciless towards his enemies as shown in the prologue of the first film, he was an affable and eccentric mentor towards his allies, if his spirit in ''Knuckles'' is anything to go by.

* SpiritAdvisor: He acts this way to Knuckles and never really was with him.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Pachacamac was a power-hungry tyrant who went as far as to hurt Tikal when she tries to stop him and the rest of the tribe from claiming the Master Emerald, which led to their demise by Chaos. Here, while he was merciless towards his enemies as shown in the prologue of the first film, he was an affable and eccentric mentor towards his allies, if his spirit in ''Knuckles'' is anything to go by.