Big the Cat

Big the Cat is a character from the Sonic series.
== Charactah Account ==
A very large purple cat who lives in the Mystic Ruins along with his pet Frog, Froggy. During the events of Sonic Adventure, Froggy ate a piece of Chaos which made him act strange and swallow the Chaos Emerald Big had found. Worried about his friend, Big set out to rescue him and gets caught up in the events as a result. Since then, he's become a good friend of Amy and Cream.
Despite his large size and strength to match, Big is a very gentle creature. He's also very laid-back preferring to spend his days fishing and sleeping in his house. Despite that however, Big is always there when his friends need him and really shows his true power when they're in danger.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Sonic X
=== Comics ===
* Mega Man
* Sonic and Mega Man: Worlds Collide Prelude, Free Comic Book Day Edition
* Sonic Super Digest
* Sonic Super Special
* Sonic the Comic
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2020
* Sonic the Hedgehog Archives
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Out of the Blue
* Sonic the Hedgehog: Waves of Change
* Sonic Universe
* Sonic X
* Team Sonic Racing Deluxe Turbo Championship Edition
* Team Sonic Racing One-Shot
=== Video Games ===
* Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
* Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
* SEGA Heroes
* Sega Superstars Tennis
* Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
* Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
* Sonic Adventure
* Sonic Adventure 2
* Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
* Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
* Sonic and the Black Knight
* Sonic and the Secret Rings
* Sonic Battle
* Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
* Sonic Colors
* Sonic Dash
* Sonic Forces: Speed Battle
* Sonic Generations
* Sonic Heroes
* Sonic Jump Fever
* Sonic Racing
* Sonic Rivals
* Sonic Rivals 2
* Sonic Runners
* Sonic Shuffle
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
* Team Sonic Racing
== Trivia ==
* In Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Big is the only non-optional character (besides Sonic) to not be affected by the Voxai Overmind's brainwashing. He is also the only Support-Class character who has a damaging POW move.
* Due to his gameplay style, Big is one of the most unpopular and is considered one of the most infamous characters in the Sonic universe. This infamy has resulted in Big turning into a meme of sorts, particularly by the official Sonic social media.
* In Sonic and the Secret Rings, he is also the only character aside from Sonic himself that does not take the name of an Arabian Nights character. It was revealed in Big's journal that apparently Shahra transported him to the world of the Arabian Nights as well, most likely by accident.
* Big the Cat was the only playable character in Sonic Heroes who does not appear in Shadow the Hedgehog.
* In Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Big the Cat is the only Sonic character to have his name written out in full in the racing stands. It is written "Big the Cat" unlike the names of other characters such as "Tails" and "Shadow".
* Without counting Shadow, Big is the second oldest hero (behind Vector) from new-generation games.
* In Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, there is a big purple cat-like enemy that wears a brown belt, looking very similar to Big.
* Big appears in almost every level as a cameo appearance in Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast, but those cameos were removed in the GameCube version. He can still be viewed in some story sequences by rapidly pressing the A or B buttons throughout the scenes. Big's cameos in the levels of Sonic Adventure 2 were put back in for the Xbox 360/PS3/PC re-release of the game.
* The original Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure contains a glitch with Big. For the very first time playing as Super Sonic (the first time relevant to the save file being used), when Big appears, his colors glitch out, causing him to appear as a patchwork of pinks, reds and oranges. He maintains this glitched color scheme throughout the playthrough. This glitch does not re-occur in repeat playthroughs of Super Sonic's story thereafter, and was fixed in subsequent re-releases of the game.
* Big is one of two Sonic Heroes characters to not appear in Sonic Generations, the other being E-123 Omega.
** Both, however, appear as secret collectable statues.
* Big's gameplay in Sonic Adventure is similar to SEGA Bass Fishing.
* Big's voice actor in Sonic Colors, Kyle Hebert, is credited in Sonic Generations. This suggests that Big was at one point going to be included in the game.
* Big the Cat was claimed to be officially retired, "for the time being at least", by Ken Balough. Despite this announcement, Big had made cameo appearances in several Sonic games such as Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.
* Aaron Webber, the PR of Sega America, claims Big to be his favorite Sonic character, often involving him in his shenanigans on the official Sonic social media pages such as Facebook and Twitter.
* Big's voice actor from Sonic X and Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Oliver Wyman, reprised the role for Big's appearance in Lego Dimensions, replacing Kyle Hebert as the current voice actor for the character. This is the only known instance of a Sonic character reverting back to their prior voice actor after the role was re-cast.
** Hebert returned for the role in Team Sonic Racing. This makes Big the only Sonic character to have their voice actor re-cast to one of their previous voice actors, and then back to their most recent voice actor again.
* Whilst answering questions about Sonic Forces, Aaron Webber stated that Big the Cat was not in the game because he was on a fishing vacation with Froggy, and also said (seemingly as a joke) that had Big not been on vacation Eggman would have been unable to take over the world.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Big the Cat at Sonic News Network
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