Rouge the Bat

Help Sonic Heroes and the G.U.N. to eliminate villains from conquering the world (succeeded)

### Crime(s)

Theft
Blackmail
Assault

## Alignment and Character Traits

### Affiliation(s)

* United Federation
	+ G.U.N.
		- Team Dark

### Previous Affiliation(s)

* Eggman Empire
	+ Team Eggman

### Employer(s)

* President
* Commander Abraham Tower

### Previous Employer(s)

* Dr. Eggman
* Dr. Eggman Nega

### Occupation

Agent of G.U.N.
Spy for the President
Intelligence member of Team Dark
Member of Sonic Heroes
Treasure hunter
Member of the Resistance

## Items & Equipment

### Attire(s)

* Black sleeveless catsuit with pink and white heart chestplate
* White elbow-length gloves with pink cuffs
* White high-heeled knee-high boots with pink cuffs and heart tips
* Powder blue eyeshadow
* Pink lipstick

### Favorite Food

* Chocolate and Vanilla-flavored ice cream
* Coffee

## Powers and Abilities

### Power(s)

* Flight
* Amokinesis
* Super strength
* Hypnosis
* Super speed
* Enhanced hearing
* Wall climbing
* Burrowing
* Hyper-go-on usage

### Skill(s)

* Martial arts skills
* Acrobatic skills and reflexes
* Treasure hunter skills
* Espionage
* Stealth
* Professional thief
* Manipulation
* Computer hacking
* Driving skills
* Grinding
* Extreme Gear riding skills

### Moves and Techniques

* Agent Eagle
* Ascending Flight
* Air B. Cracker
* Air B. Shock
* Attack Support 1
* Bat Cracker
* Bat Guard
* Beauty Shock
* Black Wave
* Blast Jump
* Bomb
* Bomb Snipe
* Charlie Kick
* Charm Ray
* Chaos Inferno (requires Shadow and Omega)
* Climb
* Grind Crouching
* Dash Boost
* Dig
* Distract
* Drill Drive
* Dummy Ring Bomb
* Glide
* Gravity Control
* Gravity Dive
* Grind Step
* Heart Effect
* Heart Mine
* Hip Drop
* Homing Attack
* Homing Cutter
* Item Box Transfer
* Jewel Storm
* Jump Dash
* Kick Attack
* Kick Dash
* Low Gravity Lv 2
* Plunder
* Quick Ascent
* Rising Knuckle (requires Knuckles)
* Rival Takedown
* Rouge S. Kick
* Rouge Catch
* Rouge Flight
* Rouge Grind
* Rouge Guard
* Rouge Heal
* Rouge Kick
* Rouge Run
* Rouge Sobat
* Rouge Style
* Screw Kick
* Secret Kick
* Secret Spear
* Shriek
* Skim Boost
* Silent Size
* Slingshot
* Spin Attack
* Spin Dash
* Spin Jump
* Spiral Dive
* Swim
* Strength Support 7
* Team Ultimate
* Tornado
* Tornado Kick
* Thunder Shoot
* Trick Action

## Behind the Scenes

### Real-World Creator(s)

* Kazuyuki Hoshino
* Yuji Uekawa

## Portrayals

### Voiced By (Foreign)

* Marie Lenoir (French)
* Marianne Graffam (German)
* Jasmine Laurenti (Italian)
* Ana Vidal (Spanish)

**Rouge the Bat**, is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. She is an anthropomorphic bat, jewel thief and a world-famous professional treasure hunter.

A world-famous professional treasure hunter, she has a weakness for jewels, like the Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds, which she always obsesses about. Once she has a target in mind, she always goes for it, regardless of the costs.

She has a tendency to ignore abstract morality or manners for potential profit to make all the gems and treasures of the world hers; her "feminine charm" makes her appear careless, but she is actually scheming and manipulative.

She is smart, sassy, and seductive, and knows how to get what she wants. Additionally, she also works and serves as a part-time government spy for the President of the United Federation and in close association with the G.U.N..

As a spy, Rouge is a competent fighter trained in combat, stealth and infiltration, and possesses both super-level kicking power and flight. She battles using kicks, especially her signature "Screw Kick," and she can fly using her wings.

Rouge is in short, an enigma, as her motivations are always in question. In truth, she is usually just out for herself. Beneath her ditsy exterior though, she is a calculating realist, and her motives are always mercenary in nature.

Regardless, she is loyal to her closest friends and has more than once helped Sonic and his allies save the world.

"*I despise anyone who takes jewels from me! All the world's gems are mine to keep!*"

—Rouge the Bat, to Knuckles.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Karen Strassman (English), Rumi Ochiai (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Bulgarian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (Finnish), Marie Lenoir (French), Marianne Graffam (German), Jasmine Laurenti (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Poland), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Mateja Vukašinović (Serbian), Ana Vidal (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish), Not Known (Taiwanese Mandarin)

### Biography

Rouge is a world-famous treasure hunter who loves jewels. The president hired Rouge to uncover information about the mysterious project "Shadow." This fearless female bat is full of sex appeal and knows how to get what she wants. Although she looks innocent and carefree, she's always scheming. Once she makes a decision, her motives are always mercenary in nature.

A sultry bat with an air of mystery who specializes in jewels, Rouge is a brave and seasoned spy who boasts excellent footwork in a fight. Although a treasure hunter by nature, her love for gems can sometimes cause her thieving tendencies to take over. Perhaps she entered the competition in order to get her hands on a shiny and sate her lust for glitter.

### Physical Appearance

Rouge is an anthropomorphic bat with white fur/hair, tan skin, teal eyes with eyelashes, and a curvy figure. She has large pointy ears, small fangs, a small black nose on her muzzle, a short pointy tail, and a pair of dark purple wings on her back. Only her head appears to have fur, which flares out into six points at the back. Rouge usually wears powder blue eyeshadow and a pink lipstick. Her typical attire consists of a black, skin-tight, strapless unitard with a pink, heart-shaped chestplate with white trim, along with long white gloves and high-heeled boots with pink cuffs. Her boots also have gray soles and feature pink hearts on the toes.

* Hair Color: White
* Skin Color: Tan
* Eye Color: Teal
* Age: 18
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 105 cm (3' 5")
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Rouge is a strong-minded female bat with a collected and convivial voice. Nothing short of an enigma, she is a person of many mysteries, always playing an active role on both sides of the truth in many global affairs. Her appeal is very complex, but it is not too far off to describe her as an elusive, mysterious, and mature woman who is true to her desires. To most people, Rouge appears as a brave, ambitious, independent, flirtatious, greedy, calculating narcissist who only thinks about herself and treasure.

In *Generations* she is referred to as a temptress, due to her seductive ways. A gem-enthusiast, Rouge specializes in gem heists and gem-based treasure hunts and has an unquenchable thirst for gemstones. The latter is due to a certain philosophy of hers: once you get a good gem, you will want a better one. However, a jewel that she cannot actually hold in her hand has no value to her, although a beautiful scenery matching the finest of jewels is equally valuable to her.

Rouge's carefree and playful devil-may-care attitude can be fun to some people, like the easygoing Sonic, or annoying for others, like the gruff Knuckles.

While she may appear ditzy though, Rouge is in truth a cunning, calculative, and pragmatic realist; though she pretends to know nothing, she always manages to get closer to the heart of the matter than anyone else; she shows lax behavior but manages to conduct delicate research; she can be on the enemy's side but then turn into a reliable ally while keeping her eyes on seizing the monetary prizes for herself. Overall, she has a way of taking off a figurative veil to reveal a dramatic new side of herself.

Regardless, this unpredictable and mysterious aspect of Rouge may be her appeal. Rouge can also show a bashful side, such as the time Knuckles saved her life from falling to her doom and became very embarrassed before concealing it with disgust, outrage, and ingratitude. She can also be a bit of a hypocrite, especially in regard to thefts.

This is especially evident when, after witnessing the Master Emerald being stolen, she refers to the one stealing it as a thief despite the fact that she herself had stolen it from Knuckles earlier, something the echidna even noted by saying "Look who's calling who a thief", and in Grand Metropolis stage when she calls robots energy thieves.

Rouge is also at times a government spy who often works for her own gain. Rouge has a great obsession for jewels which she loves more than anything else, or even anything else that shines or glitters. Known to be a brilliant spy one minute and a gem-obsessed treasure hunter the next, she has little to no qualms about lying and manipulating others, often using her charms and attractiveness to seduce and take advantage of others, just to get what she wants.

In truth though, below her outward demeanor, she possesses a kind heart. In fact, on many occasions, Rouge has shown she can be heroic, possess loyalty, care about others, or, at least, have some degree of morality. In the final events of *Adventure 2*, she helped save the planet from destruction. In *Heroes*, she jumped between Shadow and Omega's hectic fight as the mediator.

In *Diamond and Pearl Battle*, when Shadow was injured and needed a place to stay, Rouge helped him. In *Shadow 2*, she did other laudable things, such as rescuing a Chaos Emerald from the doomed mainframe, destroying the evil monster Black Bull, and assisting Shadow in defeating Black Doom as well as showing concern for his welfare at the end of the game. She also is not fond of hearing Omega constantly talking about vengeance.

## Relationships

### Friends/allies

* United Federation
	+ The President
	+ The Secretary
	+ G.U.N.
		- Commander Tower
		- Team Dark
			* Shadow
			* Omega
* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic
	+ "Tails"
	+ Knuckles
* Team Rose
	+ Amy
	+ Cream
		- Cheese
	+ Big
* Team Chaotix
	+ Espio
	+ Charmy
	+ Vector
* E-10000B (formerly)
* Avatar
* Dodon Pa
* Omochao
* Princess Elise
* Shade
* Silver

### Rivals

* Amy Rose
* Knuckles (primary rival)
* Wave

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Egg Army
		- Infinite
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Series
			* Metal Sonic
		- E-Series Robots
* Bio Lizard
* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom
	+ Doom's Eye
* Solaris
	+ Iblis
	+ Mephiles
* Nocturnus Clan
	+ Imperator Ix
* Ifrit
* Dr. Eggman Nega
* Time Eater
* Zavok

## Powers and abilities

A part-time government agent who has undergone extensive special and secret training, and the "world's greatest thief," Rouge has proven herself a most fearsome individual in terms of both skills and physical might, and is arguably one of the strongest female characters in the *Sonic Pokémon* series.

Notably, she has been able to outmatch Amy more than once, and during the ARK incident, she was able to fight the combat-versed Knuckles the Echidna to a stalemate during their clash.

Much like Knuckles, Rouge possesses enormous strength. However, while Knuckles' strength lies in his upper body, Rouge's strength lies in her lower body, particularly in her legs and feet, which provides her with incredible kicking power. With a basic kick, she can shatter boulders and dent walls. She can likewise knock opponents high into the air or blow them away with a single kick.

She can even perform powerful High Kicks that pack enough power to split an opponent in half. She can as well strike the ground with such force that it creates widespread tremors and carry the entirety of Team Dark through midair.

Besides physical strength, Rouge also possesses an innate quickness, reaching those of super speeds; she was able to keep up with her teammates during the Neo Metal Sonic incident and run at speeds compatible to various other speedy individuals during the Ifrit incident.

Rouge is also shown to have sharp reflexes, agility and acrobatic skills on both the ground and in midair, enough to let her effortlessly do special tricks and all other kinds of actions while in mid-air, effortlessly pull off cartwheels, pull off various Spin Attack maneuvers at high speed, and grind along Grind Rails without any trouble.

Rouge possesses powerful wings that let her fly through the air with ease. A very skilled flier, she even has a Sudden Descent Flight maneuver that allows her to get whatever she lays her eyes on. Also, thanks to her training, she can sustain flight, without losing altitude. Alternatively, she can use her wings to slowly fall while gliding through the air, like Knuckles.

Rouge is also a skilled swimmer, being able to swim into incredible depths and with both great speed and skill. She also excels at climbing, being able to scale any kind of wall, no matter the material it is made of. She is also excellent at burrowing and tunneling through subterranean regions, often by using a drill-like spin maneuver with her boots.

As a seasoned and greatly skilled spy, Rouge possesses a keen and tactical mind, and is an expert in a diverse set of skills that includes gathering intel, manipulation, infiltration, lockpicking, and much more. These abilities let her out-think, out-maneuver, or simply out-class her opposition. Most of the time though, she uses these skills to pull different kinds of heists.

With all those skills at her disposal, Rouge can surreptitiously enter enemy-held territory using only her expertise and sharp intellect; during the Space Colony ARK incident, she not only snuck onboard the Space Colony ARK undetected, but also tricked Shadow and Dr. Eggman into believing that she was willing to help them when she was actually sent to investigate the doctor on behalf of the United Federation while repeatedly toying around with them and eventually getting closer to the truth about Project Shadow than anyone else.

She is similarly an expert in the art of stealth, as she can masterfully enter even the most fortified of locations nearly undetected, such as Prison Island, Eggman's headquarters, or Space Colony ARK, and sneak up on people without bringing attention to herself. She also has skills in hacking computers and breaking codes in record time with successful results every time. She is likewise skilled in utilizing bomb for combat and demolition; she can both throw showers of bombs at foes or snipe foes with bombs with pinpoint precision.

Rouge is also capable of performing the Spin Attack, a technique where she curls into a concussive ball or cutting disk and directs herself at her targets. With it, Rouge can shred or burrow through just about any substance given enough speed. Adept in its usage, Rouge can utilize several variants of the Spin Attack for both grounded and aerial maneuvers, including the Spin Dash, Spin Jump, and Homing Attack. However, she favors her basic Kick Attack and Drill Drive maneuvers, which let her utilize her powerful legs. Her signature skill in particular is the Screw Kick, a technique where she leaps up and spins her body to form an upwards drill, feet-first.

Even when not making use of her specialized techniques and equipment, Rouge is a swift and powerful combatant and has proven herself a force to be reckoned on the battlefield. Said to boast excellent footwork in a fight, she possesses kickboxing-like prowess, with a fighting style derived from her special training. As such, she utilizes a large number of skillful and specialized kicks, never resorting her fists or arms.

Using her agility in combination with her special training, Rouge can perform moves such as high kicks, side kicks, rolling sobats, spin kicks, axe kicks and back thrust kicks where she strikes her opponents with pinpoint precision and efficiency. She can as well launch tail spin kicks that send her flying forward while spinning like a drill and let her pierce through her opponents.

Rouge can also take her fighting techniques into the air with her flight skills, allowing her to hit her opponents with aerial kicks and downward tail spins.

Like real-life bats, Rouge has an excellent sense of hearing, enough to let her to hear even Espio, who is a master of stealth, when he is in her proximity. In addition, she can produce ultrasonic waves with her voice, which she can turn into a concussive force to attack foes with. As a world-famous treasure hunter, Rouge is as well a skilled treasure hunter, as seen during her hunt for the Emerald Shards and numerous searches for the Chaos Emeralds.

Rouge has also proven herself as very talented Extreme Gear rider; during the second EX Grand Prix, she was able to go toe-to-toe with some of the best Extreme Gear riders in the world. While in midair, she is capable of doing several acrobatic tricks with her Extreme Gear and dash through midair with her Extreme Gear to pass through shortcuts. As seen during Dodon Pa's Grand Prix, Rouge also has excellent skills when it comes to driving and racing in racecars like the Lip Spyder.

### Transformations

#### Color Power

*Main article:* *Color Powers*
By harnessing different variants of Hyper-go-on from Wisps, Rouge can use specific **Color Powers** to transform into a certain form, such as a drill, a laser or even a planet, each one possessing its own unique abilities. So far, Rouge has been able to transform into the Cyan Laser, Yellow Drill, and Indigo Asteroid. However, these transformations require a steady supply of Hyper-go-on to be maintained.

### Weaknesses

While not having any physical weaknesses, Rouge's obsession with jewels can distract her. She similarly has a stubborn attitude that, along with her greed, has put her in mortal danger; during the Space Colony ARK incident, her arguing with Knuckles over the ownership of the Master Emerald would have made her fall into a lava pool had he not come to her rescue.

Also, her infiltration skills are not flawless either, as she was discovered by Flying Dog while robbing Prison Island and got imprisoned by Dr. Eggman when she stole the Scepter of Darkness (although she eventually broke herself out in the latter case).

### Equipment

Rouge makes use of different types of personalized mines and bombs. For example, she carries around numerous heart-marked bombs that she can deploy from midair and will detonate when touched by a foreign target. She similarly carries around other kinds of bombs for either combat and demolition. She also makes use of floating mines that are able to guide themselves towards enemies using a simple AI.

Rouge has her Treasure Scope, binoculars, and a laser weapon that she uses for her thieving heists. During the Neo Metal Sonic incident, she also made use of Dummy Rings.

## History

### Past

#### Early years

Not much is known of Rouge's origins or past, though at some point she gained an obsession with jewels and became a treasure hunter.

## External links

* Rouge the Bat *Heroes Wiki*
* Rouge the Bat *IDW Sonic Hub*
* Rouge the Bat *Mobius Encyclopaedia*
* Rouge the Bat *Nintendo Wiki*
* Rouge the Bat *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*
* Rouge the Bat *‎‎‎Villains Wiki*