Knuckles the Echidna

## Sir Knuckles the Echidna of the House of Edmund

* Current
* Younger

**Knuckles the Echidna**, is both a fictional character and protagonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. He is an anthropomorphic red short-beaked echidna who lives on Angel Island.

He is one of the remaining surviving descendants of the mobian echidna race from the clan known to inhabit the world. He is also the current Guardian of both his island and the Master Emerald, which is his solemn duty to protect.

He is determined and serious, but sometimes gullible. While his primary concern is protecting his home from invaders, certain threats, particularly those posed by Dr. Eggman, have been enough to persuade him to leave the island.

He is a powerful fighter with super strength and the two spike-like knuckles on each of his hands, from which his name is derived from, allowing him to perform feats such as shattering boulders with his fists or use to climb up walls.

His mastery of martial arts, specializing in punches, and which is really useful in his field. He can also trap both the wind and air underneath his dreadlocks, while in order to have the ability to glide through the air for the short distances.

He is also one of Sonic's former foils, oldest rivals, and recurring friends. Knuckles is also a treasure hunter. He once had mentioned that treasure hunting has always been his favorite hobby, after hanging out with Tails and Sonic.

" *This island is my life! It's my purpose, my duty, to protect the Master Emerald! It's already been taken during my watch...and destroyed...or* **both!** *I will* **not** *be humiliated again! I will not fail again! They can keep coming, keep trying, keep fighting...but I* **won't** *lose!!*"

—Knuckles, to Eclipse.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Knuckles is a mobian echidna with red fur that covers most of his body, a black nose on his peach-skinned muzzle, a white crescent-shaped patch of fur on his chest, and purple eyes. He also has seven dreadlock-like spines around the sides and back of his head and a medium-sized, tri-crooked tail.

For attire, Knuckles wears red and yellow shoes, each with green cuffs, light gray soles, and a gray, sextuple-bolted plate on top. He also wears large, white, mitten-like gloves with sock-like cuffs and two spiked knuckles on each hand.

In his younger years, Knuckles had black eyes, a more protruding chest, more defined cheekbones, and was shorter in height, but he has since grown out of these traits.

* Hair Color: Purple, white, beige
* Skin Color: N/A
* Eye Color: Yellow
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Knuckles is a very driven individual with an almost single-minded focus on protecting Angel Island and the Master Emerald from anyone who would do them harm. However, he also recognizes the danger the Master Emerald poses in the hands of villainous powers and has demonstrated on more than one occasion a willingness to shatter it into fragments in order to keep it safe.

Knuckles has also demonstrated enough sense to realize that a threat to the planet is a threat to his island as well and has left Angel Island on more than one occasion in order to combat a threat to the planet. In this he often finds himself working alongside Sonic and Tails, though he and Sonic enjoy a friendly rivalry in addition to friendship.

Knuckles has proven somewhat gullible over the years, with Dr. Eggman tricking him into fighting Sonic on several occasions. He is hot-tempered and quick to act without thinking, usually choosing violence over discussion. Patience is another area in which Knuckles is not at his strongest, but despite this he is a trustworthy friend and powerful ally.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Resistance
	+ Team Sonic
		- Tails (good friend)
		- Sonic (good friend and rival)
	+ Team Rose
		- Amy Rose
		- Big
		- Cream
			* Cheese
	+ Rotor the Walrus
* Team Chaotix
	+ Charmy
	+ Espio
	+ Vector
* Mighty
* Ray
* Honey
* Relic
* Fixit
* Emerl/Gemerl
* Moss
* G.U.N.
	+ Team Dark
		- Omega
		- Rouge
		- Shadow
* Chip
* Freedom Fighters
	+ Antoine D'Coolette
	+ Bunnie D'Coolette
	+ Nicole the Holo-Lynx
	+ Sally Acorn
* Nigel Acorn

### Family

* Lara-Le (mother) †
* Locke (father) †
* Tikal (distant cousin)
* Pachacamac (distant uncle) †
* Tikal's Mom (distant aunt) †
* Tikal's Grandma (distant grandmother) †

### Rivals

* Sonic (friendly rival)
* Shadow
* Storm (arch-rival)

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Eggman's Robot Horde
		- Metal Series
			* Metal Sonic
	+ Soumerca Egg Army
		- Thunderbolt
* Dr. Julian Snively
* Team Hooligans
	+ Bark
	+ Bean
	+ Nack
* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom
	+ Dark Arms
	+ Eclipse
* Dark Gaia Creatures

## Powers and abilities

Knuckles is an incredibly strong individual and served as the muscle of Team Sonic; his techniques include the "Spiral Upper," a punch so powerful that his fist catches on fire from the friction and is devastating to anything. He can also glide through the air using his long spines, and his namesake spikes are both effective in combat and for climbing up walls or digging and burrowing underground. In addition to his combat prowess, Knuckles is skilled to a degree in footwork and utilize the Spin Dash attack as seen during his fight with Shadow.

Due to his connection to the Master Emerald, Knuckles has limited mystical abilities, including being able to sense the presence of Master Emerald shards or Chaos Emeralds and hone in on their position. He can also utilize Tikal's Prayer to grant himself a brief boost in power. Also, he can control the Master Emerald.

## History

### Past

#### Early Adventures

Knuckles spent most of his life living alone on Angel Island, keeping watch over the Master Emerald. This isolation came to an end when Dr. Eggman arrived on the island following his latest defeat at the hands of Sonic the Hedgehog. Knuckles was soon persuaded that Sonic and his sidekick Tails were out to steal the Master Emerald and opposed their journey across the island starting with ambushing Sonic and scattering his collected Chaos Emeralds.

Unbeknownst to him, however, Sonic and Tails were looking to stop Eggman, who had decided to steal the Master Emerald for himself. After a brief scuffle, Knuckles eventually befriended Sonic and Tails after Eggman stole the emerald himself. Knuckles, worn from the battle and from Eggman after trying to stop the thief, showed Sonic and Tails the path to reach Eggman. After Eggman was defeated and expelled from the island, the Master Emerald was safely returned.

Dr. Eggman then dispatched his lackey, Julian Snively, to steal the emerald once again, with the diminutive villain employing an Eggrobo to do so. However, Knuckles successfully recovered the Master Emerald, putting a stop to his plan for good. Knuckles was later tricked by Eggman once again, this time into believing Sonic had gone on a rampage with the Chaos Emeralds. Agreeing to let Eggman watch the Master Emerald, who he had believed had cleaned up his act, Knuckle waited to ambush Sonic in the Cascade Temple under the orders of Eggman.

After springing a trap on Sonic, Tails, and Amy, the trio destroyed the trap, revealing Knuckles inside it. It was then that Sonic helped Knuckles realize he had been tricked by Eggman into handing him the Master Emerald for his new super-weapon, the Mega Drive, which Eggman still needed the seven Ancient Gears for. With the four of them forming a team, they encountered and defeated Eggman, retrieved an Ancient Gear, and saved some captured Mobini.

After arriving at Glitter Peak Zone and defeating another badnik, the four heroes once again encountered Eggman, who was easily defeated thanks to Tails, Amy, and Knuckles, with Sonic watching on in disappointment, realizing that he wanted to adventure by himself and at his own pace. After retrieving another Ancient Gear, the team traveled to Haunted Depths, where Sonic suggested splitting up to cover more ground. After leaving the three, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy came across a giant badnik which they beat after a hard fight.

They then felt a tremor and wondered if Sonic was okay. Deciding that they would meet Sonic at the next island, Eruption Ruin, the traveling trio met up with Sonic and helped him cross a ledge that he could not reach, helping Sonic realize that he preferred having his friends around with him after all. After teaming up to defeat Eggman once again, the team retrieved one more Ancient Gear, but their victory was cut short by Metal Sonic, who swooped in to steal the five Ancient Gears that Tails had as well as kidnap Amy.

After Tails realized where Eggman and Metal Sonic could be hiding, Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails made their way to Eggman's new flying fortress. After handing over their Ancient Gear in exchange for Amy thinking that Eggman did not have the seventh, the team realized that Metal Sonic had the last Ancient Gear inside of it. After the three defeated Metal Sonic and saved Amy, Eggman and Metal Sonic fled the fortress. After taking a look at the database on the fortress, Tails realized that there was a deep-sea base directly under where they were.

However, Sonic decided that before pursuing the villains they should collect the seven Chaos Emeralds, which had a habit of showing up when they needed them.

## Synopsis

### *Sonic Pokémon*

#### Plot in the Series

##### Red, Green, Blue & Yellow Adventure arc

A number of adventures later, Knuckles was once again keeping watch over the Master Emerald when Dr. Eggman hatched another nefarious plan. This time, he shattered the magic gemstone in order to release Chaos, an ancient water elemental long imprisoned inside the stone. With the emerald's fragments scattered across Mobius, Angel Island fell to the ocean surface, Knuckles was forced to leave the island in order to recover them.

Along the way, he learned about his heritage and an ancient echidna clan through visions imparted to him by Tikal's spirit, a member of that group who had imprisoned Chaos. After finding a few, the first vision was the past of the Mystic Ruins, when his clan stilled thrived, where he saw Tikal trying to convince her father, Pachacamac, to abandon his war efforts.

When it was over, Knuckles spotted Dr. Eggman and a shine in the doctor's hand, which he believed to be an Emerald Shard but discovered it was a Chaos Emerald when he corned Eggman at Saffaron City. Eggman called in Chaos 1, one of Chaos' transformations, and transformed it into Chaos 2, Knuckles still recognized it and beat it, though afterwards, Eggman told Knuckles that Sonic was after the Emerald Shards too before leaving, which filled Knuckles' mind with doubts.

After finding more Emerald Shards, Knuckles found Sonic and Tails. Seeing shines in Sonic's hands, Knuckles believed it was the fragments and attacked the duo until Sonic dropped them, and they were revealed to be Chaos Emeralds. Eggman then showed up to nab the Emeralds, mocking Knuckles with how it was a trick to steal the Emeralds, and gave them to Chaos, turning it into Chaos 4. Working together with Sonic and Tails in defeating Chaos, Knuckles left to find the remaining fragments while Sonic and Tails chased Eggman.

Knuckles was soon had a second vision after finding more shards where he saw Tikal attempt to make Chaos leave the Altar of the Emeralds with the Chao. Finding himself back at the altar, Knuckles tried restoring the Master Emerald, only to see it still missed a few pieces. From an image inside the Master Emerald, Knuckles saw the Egg Carrier and deduced it was there the last Emerald Shards were. Knuckles soon after stumbled upon Gamma and trailed it to trail the robot to the Egg Carrier.

When aboard, Knuckles found the remaining shards, only to have a third vision, this time to see the alter ablaze where he tried asking Tikal what was going on but was abruptly ended. Back on the Egg Carrier, Knuckles met Sonic as he was heading after Eggman, who left him to defeat Chaos 6. Knuckles subsequently beat Chaos, before returning home with its six Chaos Emeralds back with him where he succeeded in restoring the Master Emerald together whole again.

But for some reason, Angel Island is still not hoisting back to the sky, and Knuckles decided to find Colin for advice, believing the Chaos Emeralds he got had something to do with it. Soon after, however, he found Eggman unconscious and was ambushed by Chaos, who took back the Chaos Emeralds. After being founded by Sonic and Tails, Knuckles informed them of Chaos' return and that it would destroy the world with the Chaos Emeralds, before taking off himself to deal with the threat.

Arriving in Station Square where Perfect Chaos was on a rampage, Knuckles found two of the now-drained Chaos Emeralds and brought them to Sonic while his other friends brought the remaining ones, where he reluctantly agreed with Tails that Sonic could still harness the Chaos Emeralds' positive chaos energy to stop Chaos. Working together with Tails, Amy, and others, Chaos was defeated by Super Sonic and pacified back to its original form.

Knuckles looked on with content as Chaos was returned to a peaceful creature once more and departed with Tikal and returned to its home inside the Master Emerald, finally allowing it to hoist Angel Island back to the sky. At some point after these events, Knuckles made the acquaintance of archaeologist Relic, who had come to the island after it fell near the Mystic Ruins and convinced Knuckles to let her stay on the island.

##### Gold, Silver & Crystal Adventure 2 arc

The next female visitor to the island was nowhere near as friendly: the thief Rouge attempted to steal the Master Emerald, only to be beaten to the punch by Dr. Eggman. In order to prevent the mad doctor from using the Emerald's power for his latest scheme, Knuckles shattered the Emerald himself. After Rouge berated him for his action, Knuckles then proceeded to search Mobius and began hunting down the shards yet again before Rouge could get them, clashing with Rouge on a couple of occasions.

After gathering some shards on the way, Knuckles got lost inside the Aquatic Mine and ended up in Central City, where he met Tails and Amy, only for Amy to drag him into Sonic's latest adventure, where they were trying to stop Eggman from using the Eclipse Cannon to take over the world. Having located Eggman on Space Colony ARK, Knuckles led the group to Eggman's base in the form of a pyramid, having seen both Eggman and Rouge enter it.

Believing there was a space shuttle there that could take them to the ARK and destroy the Eclipse Cannon, Knuckles and the team infiltrated the base, where Knuckles found the keys to the center at Sonic's choice, before having a fight with King Boom Boo. At the shuttle's launch pad, Knuckles and the others were ambushed by Eggman with the Egg Golem. While Sonic defeated the Egg Golem, and it began attacking Eggman, Knuckles and the others got a space shuttle to take off in.

While en route to Space Colony ARK however, the shuttle hit a stray asteroid, causing the cargo bay to open and releasing all the Emerald Shards Knuckles had stored there. Panicking, Knuckles tried taking control of the shuttle, only to make it crash on the asteroid. After landing, Knuckles left the group to find the lost shards. After finding some shards, Knuckles met Rouge again and fought her to a stalemate. However, as Rouge accidently tripped herself into lava, Knuckles saved her life, only for Rouge to show ingratitude at him. Regardless, she returned her Emerald Shards as thanks.

Eventually he managed to recover all the Emerald shards and restoring the Master Emerald, Knuckles left with it, but not before swallowing his pride and apologizing to Rouge for hurting her. No sooner after, Knuckles found Sonic appearing in front of him when he escaped from a doomed capsule using Chaos Control with a fake Chaos Emerald, who told Knuckles to go help Tails and Amy while he destroyed the Eclipse Cannon. After the Eclipse Cannon was stopped, Knuckles and Sonic met Rouge, who told them that the ARK was on a collision course with planet.

Knuckles and the others then saw a recording of Gerald Robotnik announcing to the world that the ARK's impact would destroy the planet as his revenge at humanity for the death of his granddaughter, Maria. Banding together with Eggman, Knuckles and the group came up with the plan to use the Master Emerald to deactivate the seven Chaos Emeralds, which was powering the cannon's core, to stop the Space Colony's crash course.

When Knuckles and Sonic made it to the core, they were attacked by the Bio Lizard, but Shadow arrived and held it off. Knuckles used the Master Emerald and shut down the Chaos Emeralds, but the Bio Lizard warped outside the ARK and became the Final Hazard to keep the ARK on its collision course. Knuckles then saw Sonic and Shadow using the Chaos Emeralds to become Super Sonic and Super Shadow to defeat the Final Hazard while he advised through transmission lines.

After Super Sonic and Super Shadow beat the Final Hazard and brought the ARK back into orbit, Knuckles found Sonic returning alone, informing them that Shadow had seemingly died. Knuckles then asked Rouge what she planned to do and was content to hear she considered giving up treasure hunting, before before returning home with the others.

##### Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald Advance Battle arc

He would later engage Sonic in another clash over Chaos Emeralds, this time while the Hedgehog was accompanied by the robot Emerl. Knuckles would also adventure alongside friends like Amy, Cream and Cheese.

##### Diamond, Pearl & Platinum Heroes arc

He later teamed up with Sonic and Tails to form Team Sonic. Together with Team Rose, Team Dark and Team Chaotix, the three friends would battle Eggman's treacherous underling Metal Sonic, ultimately defeating him even after he transformed into Metal Overlord.

When Knuckles and Tails received a letter from Dr. Eggman, who claimed to have created "the ultimate weapon" to conquer the world and challenged them to stop him within three days, the two used the Tornado 2 to find Sonic and bring him the news. As Knuckles was confident they could handle it, he and Tails joined Sonic in stopping Eggman's scheme, officially forming Team Sonic. Beginning their mission by tracking Dr. Eggman, Team Sonic found the doctor at Ocean Palace, where they were attacked by the Egg Hawk. Though the team defeated the machine, Eggman escaped. Knuckles and Team Sonic then followed Eggman to Grand Metropolis, where the team freed the city from Eggman's control and escaped from the Power Plant, before running into Team Rose, who they managed give the slip. Arriving in Casino Park, Knuckles was taken back by the place, but was pushed on. As they got through the city, Eggman attacked them with his Robot Carnival, but Team Sonic defeated the horde. Following Eggman to Rail Canyon and only having until sunset, Knuckles and his team headed for Bullet Station and destroyed Eggman's base there. Team Sonic found Eggman in the Egg Albatross and destroyed it. It was then, however, that Knuckles and the team discovered that the Eggman they had been chasing was a copy and that the copy's challenge was to distract them while Eggman launched his Egg Fleet. As Sonic took off, Knuckles quickly followed him. Following Eggman through the jungle, Team Sonic met Team Dark and saw that Shadow was still alive. As an argument arose about who would chase Eggman, the two teams fought each other. After the battle, Team Sonic followed Eggman and Shadow to Hang Castle, where Knuckles teased Tails by saying that it could have been Shadow's ghost they saw. After infiltrating the castle and escaping Mystic Mansion, Team Sonic was attacked by Eggman's Robot Storm, but defeated it. After that, Team Sonic got to the Egg Fleet and went straight for the Final Fortress where they destroyed the colossal flagship's core. Team Sonic then found Eggman in his Egg Emperor and defeated him. After destroying much of the Egg Fleet, Knuckles teased Sonic with how he would have stood no chance without their help, but was surprised when Sonic agreed. Knuckles and Tails then watched Sonic escaping as Amy arrived. Later, Team Sonic and the other teams saw the return of Metal Sonic, who had been staging the team's adventures and impersonating Eggman so he could follow them and copy their data in a plan to conquer the world himself, as he transformed into Metal Madness. Seeing that the teams had collected all the Chaos Emeralds, the real Dr. Eggman came up with the plan of using them against Metal Sonic. When Sonic decided to face Metal Sonic alone, Knuckles insisted on going with him along with Tails. While Team Sonic charged the Chaos Emeralds, Team Rose, Team Dark and Team Chaotix fought Metal Madness to buy them some time. When Metal Madness transformed into Metal Overlord, Knuckles and Tails were given their own Super States by Sonic as he transformed into Super Sonic. The team then took off and defeated Metal Overlord. Back on the flagship, Knuckles watched Sonic leave, before chasing after Rouge once she said she would steal "someone else's treasure." Soon after, Knuckles joined Sonic and Tails as they headed off to find their next adventure.

##### Black & White Shadow arc

Knuckles was one of the many heroes to be caught up in the Black Arms invasion of the planet, where he and his allies where paralyzed by a toxic gas released from the Black Comet.

When a gaping hole opened up in the sky and the Black Arms descended from the clouds causing pandemonium in the city below, Knuckles worked with most of his friends and G.U.N.'s forces to repel their invasion of the planet. Knuckles arrived in a few different places during this adventure where he met up with Shadow in each place. In Glyphic Canyon, Knuckles attempted to assist G.U.N. by driving off the Black Arms infesting the area. Upon meeting Shadow, who had just been teleported to the ruins, Knuckles filled him in on the Black Arms around them and requested his assistance in clearing the area of the Black Arms. In Central City, Knuckles discovered that the Black Arms had set up bombs across the city that would destroy the entire city, a tragedy that Knuckles did not intend to come true. When there was only a few minutes left until the bombs would explode, Knuckles noticed Shadow had arrived and asked for help defusing the bombs, eventually succeeding in defusing enough bombs and managing to save the city. On the Black Comet, Knuckles assisted G.U.N. in attacking the Black Arms' base, with Knuckles planning to destroy the comet's core. On his way to the core, Knuckles came across Shadow and asked him for his help to get to the center. Eventually, Knuckles, along with Sonic, Tails, Amy, Rouge, and Dr. Eggman, once again met up with Shadow on the Black Comet. Shadow, who had gathered all of the Chaos Emeralds, was speaking with Black Doom, the leader of the Black Arms who commanded Shadow to give up the Emeralds so that they could begin the 'Ritual Of Prosperity'. Knuckles and the others, including Dr. Eggman, told Shadow not to listen to the alien leader. It was then revealed that Black Doom wished to harvest humans as an energy source. After taking the Emeralds from Shadow and using Chaos Control to warp the Black Comet down to the surface of the planet, Black Doom explained that he helped Professor Gerald create Shadow but only in return for the Chaos Emeralds, which were needed to bring the comet down to the surface, revealing that Shadow was actually created using Black Doom's DNA. As Eggman was in disbelief that his grandfather would betray the planet, Black Doom paralyzed everyone with a special gas and left them to be devoured by his alien offspring. As the end seemed near, Shadow suddenly heard Maria asking for help and he broke through the paralysis. Black Doom fled, leaving behind Shadow, the only hope for the planet. Eventually, Shadow used the Chaos Emeralds to become Super Shadow and fought Black Doom, who had transformed into Devil Doom, and in his super state used a super-powered Chaos Control to warp the Black Comet back into the planet's orbit and tear it apart with a blast from the Eclipse Cannon, saving the world and stopping the invasion.

##### Other arcs

Knuckles worked together with the Chaotix and their mutual friends Mighty and Ray, on multiple occasions.

Another adventure found the Master Emerald threatened yet again by Eggman, this time piloting his diabolical Hyper Eggrobo. Later, Knuckles worked with the rest of Team Sonic against the Babylon Rogues. Another adventure brought the heroes up against the evil Solaris, though these events were later erased from history. Knuckles also became involved in Eggman's machinations involving the Wisps, and later the monstrous Time Eater, though Sonic defeated the doctor on both occasions.

## External links

* Knuckles the Echidna *Wikipedia*
* Knuckles the Echidna *Heroes Wiki*
* Knuckles the Echidna *IDW Sonic Hub*
* Knuckles the Echidna *Mobius Encyclopaedia*
* Knuckles the Echidna *Nintendo Wiki*
* Knuckles the Echidna *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*