Van Pelt (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Van Pelt is a character featured in the AngieYaz/RoseOfSharon reboor of the Sonic Underground television series, emigrated from the Jumanji television series. Hailing from planet Earth, is a big game hunter, making him one of the Hedgehog Dynasty's newest dangers.
Van Pelt is voiced by Sherman Howard.
==Physical appearance==
Van Pelt is an elderly, broad shouldered and well groomed and dressed man who wears an 18-1900s british hunter's uniform with a 10 gallon pith helmet, red/black cape and black boots. He is also stated as being approximately 160 pounds, 5'11" ft tall, and sporting muttonchops facial hair belonging to the 18-1900s era. His 19th century jungle expeditionary uniform with pith helmet, cape, black boots are as much of his trademark as his hunting gun, never appearing without any of them. In the 1995 film, he has a gold tooth, in conjunction with wearing gold rings on his fingers and have pockets full of antique victorian coins of solid gold.
While this article shows him with his appearance from the Jumanji television series, in the Sonic Underground reboot he is redesigned to be more in line with the typical designs of Sonic characters and drawn in the Sonic Underground art style.
==Personality==
Human or animal, almost everything is fair game and always makes him a present threat to everything and everyone (with the exception of the Stalker), but often seeks to kill Sonic and his family in order to complete his collection of trophies. His constant attempts of hunting Alan might be associated to Van Pelt's tastes for human hunting. Van Pelt's hunting skills and tracking abilities are second to none, as he can sniff out his prey by their scent, and track their pace by observing the environment left behind them. Nevertheless, he is an honorable gentleman and well spoken towards others, often saying: "Blast!" whenever something goes wrong, and can reason with people down to trading for more ammunition or a replacement firearm in exchange from antique gold coins.
His hunting lifestyle also evokes competitive natures and Van Pelt takes great pride in having driven a species to extinction or two, and treasures their remains with sentimental attachment.
==Abilities and weapons==
* Elephant gun: Although Van Pelt has a wide arsenal of weaponry in his lodge, his weapon of choice is his double barreled elephant gun and is never seen without it. His gun is extremely powerful and the only effective way to rid of dangerous creatures like the Minotaur. When the weapon is dry of ammunition, the butt is an effective club that can knock down a fully grown Mobian. He also has a pistol concealed in his uniform.
* Tracking: Van Pelt's hunting skills and tracking abilities are second to none, as he can sniff out his prey by their scent, and track their pace by observing the environment left behind them. He is known to even use a magnifying glass for closer inspection.
* Invulnerability:Despite being slashed by a saber, crushed to death by collapsed paint pots, mauled by a mother Lioness, impalement from a Rhinoceros trophy's horn or completely swallowed by creatures, Van Pelt has always emerged unscathed, making him un-killable as he is an immortal character from a dimension that exists far beyond Mobius' borders. Sonia has even acknowledged that he is indestructible and the only way to stop him would be to either imprison him, banish him to another dimension or throw him into a bottomless pit.
* Swagger stick: Akin to 1800s army officers, Van Pelt carries a swagger stick to restrain or injure opponents. It has a leash that can hook onto ledges to prevent falls or restrain opponents, evidently when hanging on the edge of a bottomless pit and intending to take Alan down with him.
* Hound horn: When needing extra help when hunting prey, Van Pelt can blow ot play a tune on a horn that will summon a duo of ravenous black mastiff-like hunting dogs to chase prey. The hounds can however be turned on their master if they hear the horn being blown by someone else. As he traveled through the dimensional portal to Mobius, however, the hound horn was lost.
* Saber: When traveling through the ever-growing jungle where the vegetation grows faster than bamboo, Van Pelt uses a Saber to cut his way through plants in his path like a machete.
* Traction Engine: When taking multiple or very large prey back to his lodge, Van Pelt drives a giant traction engine around the jungles. Concept art of Van Pelt's traction engine appears in the Season 2 & 3 closing credits.
* Whip: Like the Jamazon Tribe, Van Pelt uses a bullwhip to restrain and interrogate victims, seemingly having no problem using it on children like Maria when asking her if Rock was a real person.
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