Rouge the Bat

Rouge the Bat is a fictional character from the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series who first appeared in *Sonic Adventure 2*. She is an anthropomorphic bat and jewel thief working as a part-time government spy for the President of the United Federation, and an agent on loan for the Guardian Units of Nations. A world-famous freelance treasure hunter, Rouge has a weakness for jewels, especially large jewels, like the Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds which she always obsesses about. As a spy, Rouge is trained in combat, stealth and infiltration, and possesses both super-level kicking power and flight.

## Role in the series

She appeared in Sonja's Adventures of Sonic Adventure 2 where Sonja became enemies with her. Rouge always tries to flirt Alister to break Sonja's heart but always fails. She appeared again in Sonja's Adventures of Kung Fu Panda-Legends of Awesomeness-Shifu's Ex when Rouge is with Mei Ling. She helps Mei Ling steal a bunch of jewels and coins.

## Personality

Rouge is a strong-minded young woman, a fearless, treasure-hunting, ambitious, independent, flirty, ruthless, calculating narcissist who most people see as only caring for herself and her gems. It is shown in *Sonic Generations* that Rouge can be referred to a temptress, due to her flirtatious and selfish ways. Her carefree and playful attitude can be fun or even annoying for the other characters of the series, especially Knuckles. She has a lot of pride and starts to fight dirty when facing a superior opponent, such as Knuckles (when it comes to power) or Tails (when it comes to flight). She can also show a bashful side, such as the time Knuckles saved her life from falling into her doom and became very embarrassed before disguising it with disgust and outrage.

Rouge is also at times a government spy who works for her own good. Rouge has a great obsession for jewels or even anything else that shines or glitters. She has been known to seduce people with her attractiveness to get what she wants (such as kissing Tails in *Sonic Battle*). However, she has, on occasion, shown that she can be heroic. In the final events of *Sonic Adventure 2 Battle*, she helped to save the planet. In *Sonic Heroes*, she stopped Shadow the Hedgehog and E-123 Omega from killing each other, and is seen battling Chaotix and Sonicas liabilities to her quest to finding Dr. Eggman's supposed hidden treasure room. In *Sonic Battle*, when Shadow was injured and needed a place to stay, Rouge helped him. In *Shadow the Hedgehog*, 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 Shadow's welfare at the end of the game.

Recently, she has been becoming less selfish, as can be seen by her actions towards Shadow in *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006) and *Sonic Rivals*. However, as shown in her portrayal in *Sonic Free Riders*, which depicts her as a very cold and only caring about her and the cash prize suggest that she has not changed much, regarding her interest in jewels and riches. This is proved as she couldn't care less that her robot team member broke down and even went on to insult it as well.

Rouge is often known to switch between the sides of good and evil whether to succeed to get her jewelry or to save the world from danger.

## Relationships

### Sonja Farrington

Sonja and Rouge had got in a love triangle like Alister and Sly Cooper. Like Hannah, she will do anything to win Alister's heart, which repeatedly fails all the time.

### Shadow the Hedgehog

The two are teammates and current best friends in *Sonic Adventure 2* and *Sonic Heroes* and often work together during mission stages, but are not seen together outside of duty alliance and do not spend time in one another's presence unless it is business. Nonetheless, Shadow is one of the few people Rouge cares about, other than herself.

In *Sonic Adventure 2*, Shadow saw a comparison to Maria in Rouge and saved her life when she was trapped in Security Hall. Despite how he later dismissed his actions saying he only returned for the Chaos Emeralds that she had acquired, she suspected that there was more to his reason for saving Rouge than he let on.

In *Sonic Heroes*, Rouge forms Team Dark with Shadow and Omega. During this time, Rouge and Shadow are much closer than they were in *Sonic Adventure 2*; interacting more within Team Dark as partners alongside Omega. Rouge is willing to help Shadow get answers about his past and is shown to have some sympathy for him when they discover the existence of Shadow Androids.

In *Sonic Battle*, Rouge calls Shadow "not bad-looking" and "a prince". She also lets him stay with her at Club Rouge when he is injured during a fight after carrying him inside when he passes out in front of the club. Also, while Shadow is dreaming, an image of Rouge appears and he whispers, "Ally." Rouge seems offended when Shadow doesn't thank her for saving him, but later he thanked her when she told him that she actually rescued him.

In *Sonic Rivals*, after Shadow saves Rouge from Eggman Nega, Rouge tries to persuade him into going treasure hunting with her and suggests the two "take a peek" into their own future using Eggman Nega's device. Shadow declines and the story ends with Rouge still trying to convince Shadow to join her in hunting for the remaining cards.

In *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006), Rouge makes an attempt to draw Shadow into a conversation that doesn't involve Mephiles' plan to destroy the world, and at one point she says, *"It's always business with you."* when Shadow ignores her and rejects the off-topic sessions. Although, Shadow also shows he is protective of Rouge's wellbeing. Once, when catching her from a fall after she was momentarily knocked out by one of Dr. Eggman's robots. And again, when he jumps in front of her defensively, after a fake Chaos Emerald explodes. After E-123 Omega reveals to Shadow that he is the one who traps him in the future, Rouge tells Shadow,*"Even if you believe everyone in the world will be against you, know that I will always remain by your side... Remember that..."*Shadow pauses, then replies strongly, *"I will."* Though, in the original Japanese version of the video game, Rouge simply says,*"You always have friends to whom you can rely on."*

In *Sonic Free Riders*, both Shadow and Rouge appear as Team Dark along with E-10000B. Their main focus during the game is winning the treasure and prize money. Unlike in previous games, Shadow seems perfectly content with helping Rouge obtain the treasure she covets. (Note: This is the only time Shadow has appeared in a game with the intent on making money, rather than his usual ulterior motives, although the manual implies that Shadow also joined for the sake of competing against Sonic of who had the better skills.)

### Knuckles the Echidna

Knuckles the Echidna is Rouge's rival and the two have been fighting over the Master Emerald ever since they met. Unbeknownst to Knuckles, Rouge has a bit of a crush on him, but she would never admit it.[4] She has thus been known to deny having such feelings for him, like in *Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood* where she said he was cute, but not her type. Regardless, she is secretly inspired by Knuckles' determination to protect the Master Emerald.[4]

In *Sonic Adventure 2,* when Knuckles purposely shatters the Master Emerald to save it from Doctor Eggman, Knuckles and Rouge both go looking for its pieces. But during their fight fight, he saves her life. After the rescue, Rouge and Knuckles share a short moment gazing at each other, before Rouge snatches her hand away and retorts with ungratefulness by teasing that he just wanted to hold her hand. In the end, Rouge gives him the remaining pieces of the Master Emerald and complains that, *"They stink like echidnas do"*, to imply her stubbornness. Needlessly, Knuckles apologies in the case he hurt had, and runs off. Before the scene fades out, Rouge gives a thoughtful smile over her shoulder before also heading out.

In *Sonic Heroes*, they don't have much interaction with each other. At the end of Team Dark's story, Rouge commented that she would go looking for the Master Emerald, "since that irritating Echidna is here." However, in the last scene, she went to Knuckles and coquettishly hinted about going to look for someone else's treasure, then he ran after her.

In *Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood*, the codex states that "there's a sort of unstated connection between Rouge and Knuckles that neither are overly willing to explore." During the game, when Shade the Echidnamentions that she is 4,000 years old, Rouge responds to this by saying that Knuckles was "always into older women".

In *Sonic Rivals 2*, the two are teamed up. Rouge's reason for this is because she had a mysterious client who told her that if she found all the Emeralds, she would be rewarded, so she believed with Knuckles she might find her client to know exactly who he was. When Sonic first saw Knuckles and Rouge together, he teased them, asking them if they are on a date. Rouge is hostile towards Knuckles and doesn't trust him. She however, supported Knuckles throughout the game but later on deceived him by stealing the Master Emerald by calling him "dashing and daring" in order to distract him.

Most recently, in both the first and final cutscenes of *Sonic Generations*, Knuckles and Rouge are seen having a conversation at Sonic's birthday party. They appear to be communicating in a friendly, lighthearted way.

### Omega

Rouge's second best friend is Omega, who is very loyal to her. She prevented Shadow and Omega from killing each other in *Sonic Heroes*, and soon after they formed Team Dark to help her find Eggman's "secret treasure room". Instead of finding treasure, of course, they end up saving the world, and Team Dark has been a tightly-knit bunch ever since. The two are close allies, and she shows signs of caring for him, such as in *Sonic Chronicles*, where she says she is saddened by the thought of Omega rusting away in Metropolis, and not with her and Shadow "blowing things up". She has sometimes shown annoyance at Omega, saying that he is too serious and that she is tired of hearing him ramble on about revenge and hatred.

### Alister Azimuth

Rouge has a huge crush on Alister Azimuth, Sonja's boyfriend. She do whatever it takes to win Alister's heart but it always repeatedly fails all the time because Alister loves Sonja, which made Rouge really jealous.