Knuckles the Echidna

Knuckles the Echidna

**Knuckles the Echidna**, is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. He is an anthropomorphic red echidna warrior with the power of super strength.

He is also well-known as a lonely traveler and treasure hunter. A proud and honorable warrior, He spent most of his life searching for Sonic, believing him to be the key to finding the Master Emerald, which he saw as his ancestral birthright.

To this end, he would ally himself with Howard and Dr. Robotnik. During their alliance however, he got betrayed by both Howard, who planned to merge all of humanity with Pokémon, and Dr. Robotnik, who took the Master Emerald for himself.

Befriending Sonic afterward, he joined forces with him and Tails to defeat Howard and Robotnik, thwart their plans, and save the city. After this, Knuckles, Sonic, and Tails formed a new order together to protecting the Master Emerald from evil.

"*I am an echidna warrior. Trained since birth in all forms of lethal combat, destined to restore honor to my tribe, and willing to destroy **anything** that gets in my way.*"

—Knuckles, to Stone.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Idris Elba (English), Subaru Kimura (Japanese), (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Frantz Confiac (French), Not Known (German), Maurizio Merluzzo (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Mads Henning (Norwegian), Not Known (Poland), Not Known (Polish), Guilherme Barroso (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Adam Fietz (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Kyrylo Nikitenko (Ukrainian), Ronaldo Júlio (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Dan Osorio (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

Knuckles is an anthropomorphic echidna with predominantly red fur that covers most of his body, a black and pointy nose on his peach-furred muzzle, a white crescent-shaped patch of fur on his chest, and purple eyes. His eyes in particular glow red whenever he utilizes his bio-electrical powers. He also has seven dreadlock-like spines around the sides and back of his head, broad shoulders, and a medium-sized, tri-crooked tail.

For attire, Knuckles wears two large white boxing gloves with spikes attached to them. He also wears red and yellow mountain boots. Each has the top folded down to reveal a soft green interior. The soles are light gray and each possess a gray, hextuple-bolted plate on top.

* Hair Color: Red, white
* Skin Color: Peach
* Eye Color: Purple
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Knuckles is described as being serious in nature, yet still gullible at times. Being better suited for combat than Sonic in many ways, his entire existence is about honor and about being a warrior, to the point where he appears to be a force of nature. Proud of his heritage, he also tends to be somewhat overconfident and arrogant, looking down upon Sonic for his inexperience as a warrior and claiming that he does not need Sonic's powers because he has his own.

Knuckles is very determined and meticulous when he is pursuing his goals, never letting go of his task or accepting the possibility of giving up. He is also very much a loner by instinct and prefers to do things on his own. However, he is willing to betray his own instincts and ask for help if he recognizes a task that may be beyond his capabilities. Despite this, being as honorable as he is, he is fair and possesses his own strong sense of justice, which compels him to come to the aid of even his enemies if he feels that he owes them a debt.

Knuckles is also very persistent when it comes to his supposed destiny to take down Sonic, even going so far as to be judgmental towards him when fighting. He also takes great pride in his species, and as a warrior, as he was somewhat offended by Agent Stone misidentifying him as a "porcupine". Due to holding honor and loyalty in such high regard, he will express dissatisfaction if he sees a lack of an honorable attitude in other people. He is likewise very direct and bluntly honest.

Knuckles is quite melodramatic and has a habit of making lengthy speeches; for example, he claimed that Sonic attacked him during his "hour of sorrow" when he threw a couple small piles of sand at him. He is likewise far from tech savvy, having no idea about the thought process of machines and would even refer to holograms as magic. While this makes Knuckles seem somewhat unintelligent, he is in truth just oblivious due to the absence of such elements in his daily life and his straightforward worldview.

He is also rather socially awkward, especially when it comes to local city customs, such as a handshake or the concept of how baseball works. However, he does enjoy having fun in his own way, as he took great pleasure when he prematurely ended the Wachowski's baseball game despite not fully understanding it. Knuckles also has a habit of referring to people by their species instead of their name, such as calling Sonic “Hedgehog” and Tails “Fox”.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Tails
* Sonic
* Tom Wachowski
* Maddie Wachowski

### Enemies

* Howard Clifford
* Dr. Eggman
* Agent Stone

## Powers and abilities

"*Do I look like I need **your** power?*"

—Knuckles, to Sonic.
Described as the "most dangerous warrior in the galaxy," Knuckles is an incredibly strong combatant, having trained since birth in the ways of combat. Notably, he is easily able to keep up with and even overpower in Sonic in a fight. Knuckles' main trait is his superhuman strength and also possesses amazing physical reflexes.

Knuckles has the ability to glide and climb walls. He also possesses amazing physical strength and reflexes, being capable of easily catching and holding back Sonic's bio-electrically-enhanced spin attack with just one hand and take out a monster several times his size with a single punch. His hands also appear to be quite durable, as he is able to hold Sonic in place while he is actively spinning without his gloves getting burned by the friction.

In addition, like Sonic, Knuckles has the ability to generating and appears capable of charging himself with bio-electrical energy. When tapping into this ability, Knuckles will start generating red energy, which causes his quills, eyes, and fur to glow red and his body to unleash surges of energy. He can channel this energy into his hands to create shockwaves of energy when hammering into a surface. He also seems to be able to move at super speeds, like Sonic, but in different ways, as his punches are fast enough to appear as blurs.

He can casually crush a human hand with a light grip, punch through solid rock, cause tremors by punching the ground, smash Badniks to pieces with one hit, and even hold back Sonic's bio-electrically-enhanced spin attack with just one hand. He is even able to channel his chaos energy into his fists and then release it as a shockwave powerful enough to blow away anything loose in the vicinity.

To match his strength, Knuckles is also extremely durable: he received no injury after getting rammed by a police car at high speed and got right back up after getting hammered through solid stone several times by Sonic's chaos energy-infused attacks, ready to continue the fight as if nothing happened. His gloves also appear to be quite durable, as he is able to hold Sonic in place while he is actively spinning without getting burned by the friction. He also being able to track and react accordingly to even Sonic's high-speed movements and intercept his high-speed charges with a punch at just the right time.

Knuckles is an very experienced fighter, having trained from birth in all forms of lethal combat. Thanks to his experience, he was able to outmatch Sonic in virtually all of their fights when it came to raw skills. The spikes on his fists also make Knuckles a skilled climber, as they allow him to plant his fists into any surface and scale them. Should Knuckles harness the chaos energies for himself, they seem to amplify his speed, strength and striking power.

Notably, he can use his chaos energy to increase his speed to the point where he can keep up with a police car (even briefly demonstrating that he can run on all fours while doing so) and Sonic's mundane running speed, boost his strength to the point where he can smash a giant rock several times his size to pieces with one hit and take out a monster several times his size with a single punch, and amplify the speed of his punches to the point where even Sonic has trouble dodging them.

## History

### Past

#### Early years

Hailing from Seaside Island, Knuckles was raised as a warrior amongst his tribe, the echidnas, an ancient order of heroes who had been feuding with the alien owl, for centuries over the echidnas' Master Emerald, a weapon of ultimate power that the owls had hidden away somewhere. During his childhood, the echidnas managed to locate Longclaw, the last of the alien owl warriors, whom they prepared to go after to get her secrets on the Master Emerald.

While Knuckles wished to join his tribe in their battle, his father told him to remain behind with the others and await the true moment where he would one day honor his tribe. However, Knuckles' father and his tribe died on that very day, leaving Knuckles as one of the last survivors of the echidnas. From then on, Knuckles would spend his life searching for Sonic, the apprentice of Longclaw, whom he believed to the key to finding the Master Emerald.

#### *Sonic Pokémon: Detective Pikachu: The Official Movie Pre-Quill*

Seeking Sonic, as he was the key to restoring "what was lost", Knuckles would scour the galaxy for him using Rings, assured that he could find him on his own. His search eventually took him to a volcanic planet. There, Knuckles climbed a cliff, only for a volcanic eruption to make him lose his balance and fall into a ravine. Though Knuckles survived the fall, it left him greatly weakened.

Immediately after, a group of "scavenger scum" emerged from a Ring, who chained him up with energy shackles and took him to Casino Night to fight in a gladiatorial arena against the establishment's champion: a giant alien monster. As the monster plucked Knuckles up by his shackles, Knuckles managed to break free, run up along the monster's arm, and take it out with a single decisive blow to one of its heads. Afterwards, Knuckles was released and received a bag of Rings as his reward.

Realizing now however that he may not be able to capture Sonic by himself, Knuckles approached the scavengers, who were good at finding things, and offered them Rings to come with him on his search for Sonic. With their aid, Knuckles and the scavengers would track someone whom they believed to be Sonic across different worlds. Upon reaching Hill Top however, they realized that they had hit a dead end by following the wrong target. Regardless, Knuckles had one more place in mind where they could find a lead.

## External links

* Knuckles the Echidna *Wikipedia*
* Knuckles the Echidna *Heroes Wiki*
* Knuckles the Echidna *Nintendo Wiki*
* Knuckles the Echidna *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*