Charmy Bee

**Charmy Bee** (チャーミー・ビー *Chāmī Bī*?) is a character from the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series. He is an extremely hyperactive mobian bee with a big heart. He is youngest member and co-founder of the Chaotix Detective Agency. Charmy first appeared in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* manga, but was later used for the games, in which he first debuted in *Knuckles' Chaotix*.

While Charmy is always hyperactive, bee-brained, loud, immature and often annoys his teammates a lot, his tracking skills are nonetheless an invaluable assist to the Chaotix Detective Agency and a crucial part of their team. As such, both Vector and Espio treat Charmy as their equal.

## Appearance

Charmy Bee is a black-and-yellow striped mobian bee with yellow-and-black striped antennae and golden eyes. He wears an orange vest with a bee emblem on the left, white and orange shoes, white gloves cuffed with black rings, a black pilot's helmet with a red rim and flight goggles.

## Personality

Charmy is hyperactive and scatterbrained mobian, and not too bright. Because he is a child, he would rather play than work, as shown in the Chaotix's first level of *Sonic Heroes*. When the team is receiving their first mission at the beachy Seaside Hill, Charmy is hovering around singing "Sea, sea, sea". However, he is also very friendly, lighthearted and cheerful. Due to his age, he is not as skilled a detective as Vector or Espio, but he is nonetheless valuable to the team. It is possible he is also greedy like Vector, as they had dollar signs in their eyes when their client promised a large payment (*Sonic Heroes*), although, as children are prone to do, he may just be emulating Vector's behavior.

He shows a deep respect, even admiration, for Shadow in *Shadow the Hedgehog*. When Shadow kills a black alien, Charmy states, "Shadow, you're so cool!"

## Powers and abilities

### Physical abilities

Thanks to his wings, Charmy is capable of nearly perpetual flight as he is always flying around. His flying appendages do not seem to fatigue easily whatsoever, unlike other fliers. Like other characters in the series, Charmy is able to move at super speeds, albeit so far only in flight. He can in fact move so fast in midair that he can create miniature vortexes of such density that they can be stood on. Charmy is also very acrobatic and agile, being able to perform impressive movements and tricks while airborne, and grind on rails with ease and at speeds matching his teammates'.

Charmy possesses a powerful stinger which is capable of landing fatal blows.[1][3] With it, Charmy can land strikes powerful enough to pierce metal and he knows how to use it with speed and agility. He is also surprisingly strong for his small size, capable of lifting both his larger teammates and flying with them over large distances.

### Moves and techniques

One of Charmy's signature techniques is the Dash, a move for letting him fly through midair. This move is vastly superior to moves like Propeller Flying and Flying, as Charmy can not only use it indefinitely, but also use it to make sudden midair boosts or dart movements. His other signature move is his Sting Attack where he attacks foes with his stinger. Also, Charmy's newest exclusively move, the Whirlwind, lets him form vortexes of winds so strong that they turn solid.

Though not a hedgehog, Charmy is able to use the Spin Attack and the various techniques derived from it as seen in *Sonic Heroes*, where the users curl into tight balls for protection. The Homing Attack allows Charmy to dash in midair toward a target and the Spin Jump lets him curl into a ball and attack opponent by landing on them. Together with his team, he can also use the Thunder Shoot where he fires his teammates as electrically-charged balls.

### Miscellaneous skills

Charmy excels in following hunches and uncovering hidden objects―once he is onto something, he is able to track down almost anything.[4] Out of the Chaotix, Charmy is the tracker, his innocent nature giving him an excellent sense of detecting what others would miss.[1] He also has some mysterious talent which enables him to warp between flowers[4]and activate bee-themed devices at will.

### Color Powers

By harnessing different variants of Hyper-go-on from Wisps, Charmy 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, Charmy 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.

## Theme songs

* "Team Chaotix" - this theme is shared with Espio the Chameleon and Vector the Crocodile, yet Charmy is mentioned in the two lines "Danger hides when the hyper bee flies" and "Charmy's thing is dishin' out first sting"

## Quotes

* *"Yeah, let's go!"* When selecting Team Chaotix in *Sonic Heroes*.
* "*It's here it's here, we got work!"* When barging into the office of the Chaotix' detective agency in their opening cut-scene of *Sonic Heroes*.
* *"Yeah, you know our policy!"* After Vector reminds Espio of their policy in the Chaotix' opening cut-scene of *Sonic Heroes.*
* *"Sea, Sea, Sea."* In Sonic Heroes at the beginning of Seaside Hill.
* *"I'm bored."* Charmy when standing still for too long in *Sonic Heroes*.
* *"Can we go now?"* Charmy when standing still for too long in *Sonic Heroes*.
* *​"ZOOM!"* Charmy when boosting in flight in *Sonic Heroes*.
* *"BEE BEE BEEEEEEE, CHARMY THE BEEEEEE, CHARMY THE BEE HAS LOTS OF HONEEEEEEEY!"* Singing during the Team Blast.
* *"Take this you BAD MAN!"* Charmy, when discovering that Eggman does not have the money to pay Team Chaotix.
* *"Yeah, Time To Rock And Roll!"* When Team Chaotix encounter Team Rose in Sonic Heroes.
* *"Look at all the fishy ships! I wonder if we could take one."* Charmy when standing still for too long in Sonic Heroes (He says this in the Egg Fleet stage).
* *"Nothing new for you, Vector!"* after Vector claimed that Chaotix had made fools of Team Rose in Hang Castle.
* *"You're ROTTEN!"* When Espio and Charmy find out Eggman was tricking them in *Sonic Heroes*.
* *"Incomplete Freak!*" When Team Chaotix are fighting Metal Madness.
* *"Hey Shadow! I gotta ask you somethin'. Vector told me that he wants me to find five top secret disks. But like, what's a top secret disk?"* Charmy in *Shadow the Hedgehog*in the level Prison Island.
* *"Hey, don't drag me into this!"*Charmy, after Shadow destroys a G.U.N Robot.
* *"Shadow, you're so cool!"* Charmy praising Shadow for defeating the Black Creatures.
* *"Go up! Up, I say!"* When Shadow has to reach a high area.
* *"FIRE! HOT HOT!"* When Shadow comes across a Black Arms fire breathing plant.
* *"Yeah, whole day wasted!"*Charmy repeating what Vector said about Espio's data retrieval speed in *Shadow the Hedgehog*.
* *"I was scared because somebody took me, but now I'm free! I'm a free bee, free bee, free bee... Wheee!"*- Charmy after Modern Sonic rescues him from Planet Wisp in *Sonic Generations*.
* *"That was very scary, but being with you makes it all better! Yeah!! Hey, you look different."*- Charmy after Classic Sonic rescues him from Planet Wisp in *Sonic Generations*.
* *"We're with you guys!"*- Charmy cheering both Sonics in *Sonic Generations.*

## TMNT X Pokemon

Charmy is always optimistic and never gives up without a fight. He works well with Cream, Kokichi, and Pinkie Pie.

## Trivia

* Charmy is the youngest male character of the *Sonic the Hedgehog series*.
* In the English manual of *Knuckles' Chaotix*, Charmy was labeled as being sixteen years of age; however, with the release of *Sonic Heroes*, his age has been retconned to six. It should be noted that the Japanese manual for *Chaotix* didn't list an age for Charmy as it did for the other characters, although the other characters' ages were also inconsistent with their later portrayals.
* His size changed greatly from *Chaotix* (in which he was very small) to *Sonic Heroes* (in which he was approximately the size of Cream, who is smaller than other *Sonic*characters, but far larger than previously proportioned).
* Charmy is the first (and currently only) anthropomorphic insect in the entire cast of the series in the video games.
* During the cutscene that took place before the Egg Hawk battle in *Sonic Heroes*, Charmy acts as if he's never met Robotnik before, which contradicts the events that took place in *Knuckles' Chaotix*. This may be because Espio referred to him as Doctor Eggman, but Charmy may have remembered him as Doctor Robotnik. This also ignores the fact that the Chaotix keep pictures of the Badniks from the original *Sonic the Hedgehog* in their office.
	+ However, according to Takashi Iizuka, Charmy and the Team Chaotix in *Sonic Heroes* were recreated as new characters from the same characters in *Knuckles' Chaotix* when *Sonic Heroes* was designed, ignoring certain traits that had been established in *Knuckles' Chaotix* that would have contradicted their intent in the game.[7]
* So far, Charmy is the only member of the Chaotix not to appear playable without the rest of his team (Espio appeared in *Sonic the Fighters* and *Sonic Rivals 2*; Vector appeared in *Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games*, its sequels, and *Sonic Free Riders*).
* Charmy has proven, despite his small size, he is actually very strong because he can lift both Vector and Espio and remain in flight.
* In *Sonic 3D Blast*, a unnamed Badnik bears a resemblance to a giant-headed Charmy.
* Charmy is one of the few male characters to wear clothes other than the usual gloves and shoes.
* Charmy is seen to have a small bee badge on his jacket.
* Charmy seems to be so scatterbrained that he sometimes can't remember what to do. In the DS version of *Sonic Colors*, Charmy seems to have forgotten that he was sent on a job and was too focused on the rides.
* Charmy is the least seen character of the current Team Chaotix in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* video game series.
* In*Shadow the Hedgehog*, he can't be controlled by the second player, unlike Vector and Espio. This is most likely because he floats like the Eggman monitor and Doom's Eye. Note that the Xbox version lacks multiplayer in story mode.
* Charmy, despite being male, possesses a stinger. In real life, the stinger is an attribute only female bees possess.