Rouge the Bat

**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 white bat, renowned treasure hunter, and professional jewel thief.

She also works as a part-time government spy for the President of the U.F. and in close association with the G.U.N.. As a spy, Rouge is trained in combat, stealth and infiltration, and possesses both super-level kicking power and flight.

A professional, world-famous treasure hunter devoted to the pursuit of jewels, Rouge has a weakness for jewels, like the Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds, which she always obsesses about, calling herself the "Greatest Thief".

Rouge is in short, an enigma, as her own motivations are always in question. In truth, she is usually just out for herself. She is also incredibly smart, scheming, sassy, manipulative, and seductive, and knows how to get what she wants.

Once she has a target in mind, she always goes for it, regardless of the costs. She has a tendency to ignore either abstract morality or manners for potential profit; her "feminine charm" had made her appear careless, but she never is.

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 many allies save the world.

"*Stand back, kids...and let a **professional** handle this!*"

—Rouge.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Kathleen Delaney (English), Rumi Ochiai (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Kiril Boyadzhiev (Bulgarian), Pasu Leung (Cantonese), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (Finnish), Marie Lenoir (French), Not Known (German), Not Known (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), Not Known (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)

### Physical Appearance

Rouge is an anthropomorphic bat with white fur, tan skin, teal eyes (albeit more orange in color), and a curvy figure. She has large pointy ears, 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. She usually wears light blue eyeshadow and pink lipstick. Her typical attire consists of a skintight, black, strapless unitard with a pink heart-shaped chest plate with white trim, and long white gloves and high-heeled boots with pink cuffs. The boots have also gray soles and feature pink hearts on the toes.

An alternative outfit she wears includes a ninja-like version of her regular outfit with heels. It consists of a full black unitard with a similar heart chest plate and pink hearts at the feet along with a ninja cowl with a pink heart at the back.

For cold weathers, Rouge wears a white turtleneck underneath a magenta coat with brown buttons attached to a brown belt with a golden buckle, a magenta beret, and light brown gloves.

During the Neo Metal Sonic incident, Rouge wore a tight-fitting, dark purple outfit that exposed most of her chest. It featured a pink and white bodice-like garment, a white belt with a purple and pink heart-shaped buckle around the waist, white gloves with thick pink cuffs, and dark purple boots with thick pink cuffs like her gloves. Her boots also feature white buckles below the cuffs and pink and white soles. In addition, Rouge wore pink eyeshadow instead of her usual blue.

For the purpose of Extreme Gear racing and other sporting events, Rouge wears a black sports top with white trim, black bell-bottom pants with white flower-print design on the calves and a white trim at the waist. She also wears white gloves with pink trim, gold bracelets, and a pair of pink sport shoes with white stripes, pink straps with yellow fasteners, and gray soles.

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

## Personality

Rouge is an enigma whose voluptuous and daring attitude turns any man's head. Her policy though is that duty comes first, but she has a big interest in jewels. Rouge is very confident and sometimes brags about her skills and looks. She also enjoys taunting her opponents during a fight. Her figure, speech, and behavior masks her true identity. She is very secretive about everything and very little has actually ever been disclosed about her. She would often switch sides with either the good or bad to confuse them.

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 *Scarlet and Violet 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 gets 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 *Ruby/Sapphire Adventure 2*, she helped save the planet from destruction.

In *Black/White Heroes*, she jumped between Shadow and Omega's hectic fight as the mediator. In *Diamond/Pearl Battle*, when Shadow was injured and needed a place to stay, Rouge helped him.

In *Shadow Adventures*, 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
	+ President
	+ The Secretary
	+ Christina Cooper
	+ Mr. Stewart
	+ G.U.N. (employer)
		- Commander Tower
		- Amanda Tower
		- Team Dark
			* Shadow
			* Omega
		- Topaz (best friend)
		- Hope Robotnik
		- Spider Troupe
* E-10000B (formerly)
* Molly
* Resistance
	+ Team Sonic
		- Knuckles (friendly rival)
		- Sonic
		- Tails
	+ Rotor
	+ Tangle
	+ Whisper
	+ Team Rose
		- Amy Rose (arch-rival)
		- Cream
			* Cheese
		- Big the Cat
* Vanilla
* Omochao
* Chao
	+ Chocola
* Team Chaotix
	+ Vector
	+ Espio
	+ Charmy
* Restoration
	+ Belle
	+ Jewel
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Scarlet Garcia
* Mr. Tanaka
* Dr. Cadberry
* Relic
* Fixit
* Gemerl
* Cosmo
* Princess Elise
* Team Sol
	+ Silver
	+ Blaze
* Shade
* Freedom Fighters
	+ Sally Acorn
* Nigel Acorn

### Neutral

* Team Hooligans
	+ Nack
	+ Bean
	+ Bark
* Dr. Julian Snively
* Emerl
* Team Babylon
	+ Jet
	+ Wave
	+ Storm

### Rivals

* Amy Rose
* Knuckles (primary rival)
* Wave
* Tails

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Doctor Eggman
	+ Bocoe
	+ Decoe
	+ Bokkun
	+ Infinite
	+ Badniks
		- Egg Spider
		- Metal Series
			* Metal Sonic
		- E-Series
			* E-70 Noizi
			* E-91 Lady Ninja
* Rough
* Tumble
* Scourge
* Fiona
* Bio Lizard
* Metarex
	+ Dark Oak
	+ Black Narcissus
	+ Pale Bayleaf
	+ Yellow Zelkova
* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom
	+ Doom's Eye
	+ Eclipse
	+ Dark Arms
* Solaris
	+ Mephiles the Dark
	+ Iblis
* Ifrit
* Dr. Eggman Nega
* Nocturnus Clan
	+ Imperator Ix
	+ Dr. Finitevus
* Time Eater
* Deadly Six
	+ Master Zik
	+ Zavok
	+ Zazz
	+ Zeena
	+ Zomom
	+ Zor
* Dr. Starline
* Walter Naugus

## Pokémon

### On hand

Zubat → GolbatPurrloin → LiepardTyrogue → HitmonleeSableyeWeedle → Kakuna → Beedrill
↔ Mega BeedrillAerodactyl ↔ Mega Aerodactyl

### Currently in rotation

SalazzleStunky → SkuntankTyrogue → HitmontopMienfoo → MienshaoWoobat → SwoobatSneaselAromatisseSeviper

### At home

NoibatMewoth (Alolan)KlefkiCarbinkOddish → Gloom → Vileplume

## Abilities and Powers

A part-time government agent, who has undergone extensive special and secret training, 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 series. Swift and powerful, she has proved herself to be a force to be reckoned with in terms of physical abilities, having defeated several powerful foes on her own.

Notably, she has been able to outmatch Amy more than once, and she was able to fight the combat-versed Knuckles to a stalemate during their clash. Rouge has a significant amount of raw strength, especially in the lower parts of her body. Her kicking power has several times been able to match Knuckles' punches, though she at times struggles against some foes such as the Metarex.

With her legs, Rouge can break up virtually anything, defeating an R-1/A Flying Dog with one strike, and destroy large parts of titanic robots. Her arms are fairly strong as well as she can break a metal ray gun with her bare hands and carry the Master Emerald with both arms. By utilizing her wings, Rouge is also capable of flight. Rouge is a trained thief and a master of stealth.

She has several times been able to follow Sonic without being noticed, snuck unnoticed inside the Crimson Egg, and could lead a squadron of soldiers through Eggman's base without detection. Rouge is also very proficient in martial arts, enough to go up against Knuckles the Echidna hand-to-hand, and Amy Rose with her hammer. Rouge possesses impressive agility as well, being capable of leaping great heights and performing several backflips in a row.

She is also a renowned professional treasure hunter around the world. Rouge has demonstrated proficient computer hacking skills as she was able to get access to the data on the ARK. Rouge is also, like all the characters, able to survive the vacuum of space without oxygen and can pilot her own spaceship.

Notably, she has been able to outmatch |Amy more than once, and during the Space Colony 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, and the "world's greatest thief" to boot, 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, 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.

### 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.

## 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*