Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic Cinematic Universe)/Synopsis

The Synopsis of Knuckles the Echidna from the live-action Sonic Cinematic Universe. 
==Biography==
Knuckles was born into a clan of Echidna warriors on an unnamed forest planet. When he was just a child, the young echidna learned of the very old conflict between his people and the Owl clan for the Master Emerald. The day his people went hunting down the last of the owls, Longclaw, Knuckles wanted to join them despite still being a child, but his father stopped him from joining them and told him that he will have his moment to honor his tribe, but that moment was not here yet. That was the last thing Knuckles heard from him. The Echidnas then left and they never returned, leaving Knuckles alone and the last of his kind.
Growing up Knuckles would discover his ability to naturally use Chaos energy and spent many years training to fully master this power. Meanwhile, he learned of the existence of Longclaw's adoptive son who also possessed Chaos energy, Sonic The Hedgehog.
===Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)===
When Dr. Robotnik uses Sonic's quill he still possessed to send a signal from the Mushroom Planet, three scavengers arrive on this world through a Ring portal and are trapped by the mad scientist, who tries to escape through the portal, just to stop dead at the sight of Knuckles. Noticing the energy-soaked quill, Knuckles demandingly asked Dr. Robotnik where he found it. Dr. Robotnik then agreed to give him Sonic's position on Earth, while offering him a partnership to help him get off the Mushroom Planet.
Later, Dr. Robotnik bursts into Green Hills and Sonic tries to attack him when he threatens his foster family, but quickly gets punched through a wall by Knuckles. Judging Sonic as weak, Knuckles quickly engaged in combat and dominated his opponent with his strength and superior experience. Before he can finish off Sonic, Knuckles is hit by Tails driving a police cruiser and crashes into the garden shed. Quickly recovering from the impact, he chases the car, jumps on it, breaks off the light bar, rips off the right front passenger-side door, and nearly grabs the runaways until the car falls off a cliff, allowing Sonic and Tails to flee through the air. His fists driven into rock, Knuckles comes back up, only for Dr. Robotnik to appear to turn on him, but ultimately helps him back up faster and renew their alliance to find the Master Emerald, Dr. Robotnik offering to shake hands, to which Knuckles squeezes too hard. The duo then depart aboard the Egg Mobile.
Knuckles and the Dr. Robotnik go to see Agent Stone, at the Mean Bean Coffee Café in Green Hills where Dr. Robotnik's equipment is stored. Knuckles gets offended when Agent Stone mistakes him for a porcupine, to the point that he goes into a monologue before nearly breaking Agent Stone's hand by squeezing too tightly like before with Dr. Robotnik. When Dr. Robotnik hacks Sonic's phone to learn of his whereabouts, Knuckles reads every text aloud, including the charging points until another message tricks him into thinking Sonic has gone home, but Dr. Robotnik contradicts him by taunting a small hologram of Sonic that Knuckles literally crushes. Once Sonic is discovered to be in Siberia, Knuckles and Dr. Robotnik go there, leaving Agent Stone behind.
Inside an ancient owl temple, Sonic and Tails obtain the magic compass that can take them to the Master Emerald only to be ambushed by Dr. Robotnik and his drones. Knuckles briefly finds himself buried under rocks after Sonic deflects a missile, but Knuckles quickly breaks free and breaks a drone to use as a snowboard and pursue Sonic across the snowy mountain. Knuckles first hits Sonic against a rock, but misses his second attack and crashes into the trees, then claims he will win as he has been training his whole life, only for Sonic to taunt him over it. Knuckles' third hit against a large boulder sends Sonic spinning and pinning him on the edge of a cliff, losing his Rings in the process so he can't open any portals to escape. The two rivals then begin to argue as when Sonic declares that the Echidnas ruined his life, Knuckles replies that it was Sonic who ruined his existence then begins to recount the tragedy of his childhood, when his father and his tribe left to hunt down Longclaw and never came back. Sonic sadly realizes that they both lost everything that day, leaving Knuckles pensive until Tails throws an electrical harness at him from behind, resulting in Knuckles believing that it was a deception before breaking free. Dr. Robotnik then grabs the compass and wounds Tails with missiles. Knuckles is confused seeing Sonic helping his friend instead of taking the compass back, to which Dr. Robotnik gives a cynical remark that even Knuckles doesn't appreciate and then retreats when an avalanche begins to fall, triggered by the explosion of Dr. Robotnik's missiles against Tails.
Arriving on the island that the compass indicated, Knuckles claims that the Owls made a big mistake by hiding the mystical object on Earth before discovering a secret temple hidden under the sea by embedding the compass in a base, leading to the water receding to reveal the temple, along with a path to it. The duo navigate the massive, trap-laden maze inside the temple until they finally come into sight of the Master Emerald. Knuckles is delighted to have succeeded with the help of Dr. Robotnik, to which the mad scientist is on the verge of responding by electrocuting Knuckles from behind until Sonic falls from the ceiling after racing his way through many traps. Knuckles becomes frustrated that Sonic keeps interfering with his destiny and Sonic retorting back at risking Tails' life, tells his rival that if he wants the emerald he will have to fight him.
Sonic then tries to reach the Master Emerald. Knuckles catches up to him by moving on the walls and the two charge up their respective Chaos energy before colliding in a titanic fight. Knuckles briefly believed to have defeated Sonic by kicking him into the water but Sonic comes back to the charge with full power and rage, getting so fast that Knuckles can't defend himself and violently crashing down the stairs. However, he recovers quickly and tries to punch Sonic several times without succeeding in hitting him until Knuckles' frustration increases his power enough for him to hit Sonic at the other end of the room. Grabbing a boulder, Knuckles is about to finish off Sonic until the latter warns him that Dr. Robotnik is about to grab the Master Emerald. Knuckles turns around and much to his shock, sees Sonic is right, but he doesn't understand Dr. Robotnik's act since they believed themselves to be friends, to which Dr. Robotnik cruelly reveals that he has been using Knuckles all this time, while calling him naive and foolish for actually believing that they were friends. After fully betraying Knuckles, he then seizes the Master Emerald, becoming all powerful and teleports out of the temple, which begins to collapse as the ocean begins to flood the ruins to bury them under the sea again.
Knuckles finds himself trapped under a stone column before being submerged by water, knocking him unconscious from the lack of air. Refusing to let him die, Sonic jumps into the water and tries to move the heavy rock. Knuckles regains consciousness and with Sonic's help, he manages to free himself and rises to the surface, but turns back when Sonic nearly drowns and brings him back to the island. Sonic thanks him, but Knuckles doesn't feel like talking to him and then sits down in depression. Sonic throws sand at him to explain why he saved him. Knuckles responds by throwing a bigger pile of sand on Sonic and claims he only saved Sonic because he saved him first, which he doesn't understand since he tried to kill him multiple times, after foolishly believing he was his enemy. Sonic then tells Knuckles what Tom told him earlier on their boating trip on what it really means to be a hero, caring more about others than yourself. When Tails arrives on the Tornado, a skeptical Knuckles asks Sonic how he was able to stay so free and hopeful after that tragic day so many years ago when Knuckles lost his clan and Sonic lost Longclaw. Sonic replies that he has found a family and encourages Knuckles that he doesn't have to be alone anymore. Sonic then reaches out to Knuckles and offers his hand in friendship, and Knuckles once again squeezes too hard like he did with Dr. Robotnik and Agent Stone, much to Sonic's utter annoyance.
Back in Green Hills, the heroes see Dr. Robotnik tapping into the power of the Master Emerald from afar. Tails voices his doubts to Sonic regarding Knuckles, to which Knuckles, who has heard their undertones very well, remarks that he's just a complex person, while warning Tails that he will eventually get his revenge for the time he hit him with the car. The gigantic robot created by Dr. Robotnik's powers gets into motion, but Knuckles deliberately jumps out of the plane and lands in the forest. Later, he rushes at the giant robot, yelling at Dr. Robotnik for his betrayal and punches the robot's left fist hard. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles then join forces against the attacks of the amplified drones while Tails suggests finding Dr. Robotnik's weak point, to which Knuckles replies that the worst weak point is his crotch, much to Sonic's discomfort. Ultimately, Sonic uses Dr. Robotnik's obsession with him to distract him while Tails and Knuckles infiltrate the robot. Dr. Robotnik nearly finishes off Sonic at the city border, but Tails makes a diversion, allowing Knuckles to punch Dr. Robotnik in the stomach, knocking away the Master Emerald, but causing the robot to fall and render both heroes unconscious.
Despite their efforts, Dr. Robotnik had built a back-up battery into the robot and attempted to crush Sonic, Maddie and Tom, under the horrified eyes of Tails and Knuckles. Fortunately, the Chaos Emeralds hidden inside the Master Emerald transform Sonic into Super Sonic and he single-handedly destroys the robot with Dr. Robotnik still on it. With this victory, Knuckles stops Maddie and Tom from joining Sonic, fearing that the power of chaos has permanently changed him, but when he receives a Chili Dog created by Super Sonic on his head, Knuckles realizes that Sonic is always the same. After Sonic renounces the Chaos Emeralds, Knuckles successfully re-forges the Master Emerald. Now that his life's quest has finally been over, Knuckles agrees with Sonic and Tails to protect the Master Emerald at the risk of their lives, forming a new tribe and concluding this pact with a power-bump.
Afterwards, Knuckles is accepted with Tails as a member of Wachowski family and move in with them in Green Hills. On a sunny day, Knuckles and his new family are playing baseball, Knuckles having a little trouble grasping the rules. When Tails throws the ball, Knuckles hits it with his fist instead of the bat and makes a home-round that makes him so happy about his assured victory that he gloats at each base he crosses until making a complete turn. Maddie then offers the trio a break for some ice cream, which Knuckles can't wait to taste if there's are grapes in it. He then climbs into the back of Tom's pickup truck with Sonic and Tails, while continuing to proclaim his victory, much to the annoyance of his two friends.
===Knuckles===
Following the events of the second film, Knuckles is told by Sonic to go relax now that Dr. Robotnik has been defeated. In attempting to do this, he wrecks Maddie's house, creating a chair out of wood and car parts and trapping the mailman in a closet, which causes him to get grounded for a few days. During his grounding period, he tries to summon the ancient Echidna warriors, telling them that he had completed his quest, only to summon his relative Pachacamac, who tells him that his quest is far from over. Pachacamac tells Knuckles that he must help Wade Whipple win in a bowling match. 
Knuckles finds Wade at his house and starts to train him. They get in their car and starts to drive to the bowling alley. Wade offers Knuckles if he can call him different names, he refuses. They get in the bowling alley as Wade tells Knuckles about his past. Later, two rogue G.U.N. agents, Mason and Willoughby, attacks Knuckles, wanting his power. They kidnap and take him to the IceCap Ski Resort. He is then rescued by Wade and the two escape. They stop by at a burger shack to eat and talk more about Wade's past. They continue their travel using a truck as they listen to "Rock You Like A Hurricane." The song was interrupted by breaking news; Wade has been declared a fugitive and now has a bounty on his head. Wade decides to take refuge at his childhood home in Boise, Idaho. 
Wade introduces Knuckles to his mother, Wendy, and his sister and FBI agent, Wanda. At the dinner table, they eat dinner as Knuckles is amazed by the food available. Wendy then tells him about the shabbat dinner. He informs Wendy about his family before telling them of his role of saving the world and protecting the Master Emerald. He watches Wade and Wanda having an argument before he goes to his room. Wanda also leaves the room, leaving Wendy behind with Knuckles, whom she is grateful to have with her. Knuckles later went up to Wade's room. He notices the many posters of '80s and '90s films, questioning who the man on the poster reading "Pistol Pete Whipple" was. Rereading the last name, Knuckles learns that he was Wade's father, the champion he excitedly assumed would be dethroned in their quest. He and Wade then listens to "All the Small Things" from Blink-182, Wade's "jam." When having dessert by the television with Wendy, they watch the film Pretty Woman. Wendy states that having dessert while watching a movie is part of the tradition. Later, a group of bounty hunters broke into the house coming for Wade. Knuckles was able to take out two of them, who were focusing on Wade and Wanda. He and Wendy fight more to protect the candle. After the whole battle, the family with Knuckles gather to light up some candles. 
The next day, Knuckles had a pot of coffee for breakfast and watched as Wade was kidnapped by a biker who turned out to be his former best friend, Jack Sinclair. When Wanda asked him if he was going to help him, Knuckles, despite Whipple screaming for help, refused, stating that his apprentice must learn to rescue of himself only to discover his true strength lie and continued drinking coffee. Knuckles tells Wade on the phone to fall asleep as Wade wakes up in his dream as Pachacamac tells him he will go through what Knuckles experienced in a musical opera. Later, Knuckles, Wendy and Wanda were surprised to see Wade returning home on Jack's motorbike, proving to have escaped and learning that true strength lie comes from the heart. Proudly, Knuckles clarified that Wade was ready as a warrior and finally they resumed their trip to Reno, with Knuckles driving the motorbike and wearing Jack's cowboy hat, while they were followed by Wendy and Wanda. 
Wade and Knuckles arrive at Reno and meets up with Wendy and Wanda at the National Bowling Staduim. Wade is ready to bowl as he reunited with his dad, Pisol Pete. Knuckles guides Wade what to say through headphones before Wade decides to speak from his heart when he sees him encountering a person dressed as a red mascot, comparing its colors with his, believing it to be a mirror. From afar, Knuckles watched happily as Whipple made amends with Pete, convinced that he had not lost his touch. While Wade participates in the tournament, Knuckles spends time in their hotel room watching the Reno Latin channel announce the novella "La Ultima Passion." 
Listening through Wade headphones, Knuckles discovered that Wendy and Wanda were kidnapped by Willoughby and Mason as Pete betrayed the family to make Wade forfeit the tournament, so the duo planned an ambush before he arrives to their room. Knuckles greeted Wade, asking about his visit with Pete, listening to his friend ask him to come with him to Pete's room to see something incredible while the agents listen to the conversation and prepare to attack him. Knuckles is left alone in the elevator with his cowboy hat and places a mascot costume on the way before hiding on the ceiling. When the elevator arrived, the agents shot at the mascot costume while he holds onto the ceiling. He confronts them, revealed that he heard what they were planning through Wade's ear buds and threatened them for their mistake. He engaged in battle against them, fending off their Chaos Energy powered equipment, while Wade rescues his Wendy and Wanda. Knuckles defeated the agents, but Willoughby fired two rings at him, attempting to capture him again. Knuckles deflected the two rings, sending the agents on a loop. Knuckles asked Wade to return to the tournament to prove his worth as a champion and warrior, defeating his father, inspiring Wade to achieve victory. 
Back at the Bowling Stadium, Knuckles ate some challah bread while watching Wade compete against his father through TV. However, he heard a noise outside, so he quickly left before being ambushed by the agents' employer, The Buyer, who appeared in his mech and attacked Knuckles with the chains of his mech before he was thrown towards the stadium, where Wade finally wins the tournament. The Buyer then stole his powers, leaving the echidna passed out. Wade comes by to assist, using Mason's gauntlets to throw bowling balls, given by Wendy and Wanda, at the mech. Knuckles listened to Wade's speech about how he learned to be braver thanks to his training, making Knuckles see that he must fight to honor his family, protect his friends and his home, Earth. Inspired, Knuckles woke up, saving Wade when he is out of balls to throw and deciding that Earth is his home. He managed to regained his powers while stopping the mech's chains. 
Knuckles shattered the mech's chains and with all his power and unleashed the Flames of Disaster. He and Wade were able to defeat The Buyer by crushing him with a dome. Knuckles declared this his and Wade's victory. Knuckles returned to the stadium, happily congratulating Wade on winning the tournament, with Wade acknowledging that they achieved the victory together. Happily, Knuckles and Whipple jumped into the air and high-fived. With the quest completed, Knuckles and Wade travels back to Green Hills with a motorcycle. 
=== Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) ===
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