Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog/Characters

The Heroes

Sonic the Hedgehog

• Badbutt
• Big Brother Instinct: Probably the most emphasised usage of any Sonic incarnation. He looks out for Tails constantly and regularly goes frantic the moment something happens to him.
• Catch Phrase: "Up, over and gooone!", "I'm waaaaiiiiiiitiiiiiing...", "Gotta speed, keed!", "You got it ace - let's race!" amongst other rhyming phrases.
• Chick Magnet
• Defrosting Ice King : Shown retrosepctively in 'Tails new home' Sonic is shown to be jerk before he met Tails, he also acts jerkishly toward some other people before learning to respect them.
• The Hero
• Karmic Trickster: The show nudges Sonic's characterization into this category, where he uses all sorts of mental tricks and misdirection to deflate Robotnik's plans.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Much of Sonic's disguises are this. One's just Sonic with a hat and a bag of mail, and they fall for it.
  • Lampshaded by Sonic when, to his alarm, sufficient doses of downloaded ninjutsu allow Scratch and Grounder to see through a disguise.
    • Also in the episode Grounder the Genius twice. The first time Sonic visits the fortress as a "Chip Recycler" and looks for the genius chip. Grounder says he has it which Sonic tries to get him, however Grounder, now being a genius, petrifies him aware that this would happen. Another example is later where Grounder makes out a trap and tosses it away far before anything bad happens. Sonic takes off his disguise and Grounder states he already knew Sonic was going to pull that.
  • At one point, Sonic even winks at the audience while showing himself through disguise.
  • In Too Tall Tails Sonic actually takes off his disguise mid way through one of his schemes. Scratch and Grounder still don't recognize him!
    • Dr. Robotnik actually does manage to see through the majority of Sonic's disguises, however the few times he does it is either a few moments too late, or he's too far away to tell Grounder and Scratch, the ones typically being tricked.
• Parental Substitute: To Tails, who happily accepts that Sonic's his "mom, dad, and picket-fence".
• Race Lift: Simply put, Jaleel White, who is dark skinned, didn't want Sonic to sound too black.
• Rhymes on a Dime
• Rule-Abiding Rebel
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Sonic in some of his disguises counts for this.
• Smug Super: At times.
• Teen Genius: Sonic has his moments of this.
• Totally Radical
• Trademark Favourite Food: Chili-dogs.
• Walking the Earth

Miles "Tails" Prower

• Balloon Belly: In Boogie-Mania.
• Big Eater
• Bratty Half-Pint: Sometimes.
• Child Prodigy: Keeps up with Sonic, saves the day on occasion, built a flying bicycle from scrap, studies the Big Bang in kindergarten — and is four-and-a-half years old. And that's assuming you write up his claim of illiteracy to Negative Continuity.
• Cool Little Bro: Tails, so very much.
• Designated Victim: And how!
• Do Not Call Me Miles
• Girls Have Cooties: What he believes. It's actually helpful from time to time.
• The Lancer
• Only Known by Their Nickname: You can count the times he's called "Miles" on one hand. This actually becomes a plot point in "Tails' New Home", when a couple appears claiming to be his parents. Sonic eventually realizes that, if they were really his parents, they shouldn't have been calling him Tails; they should have been calling him Miles.
• Tagalong Kid
• Trademark Favourite Food: Chili-dogs.

The Badniks

Dr. Ivo Robotnik

• Adult Child
• Badass Moustache
• Bad Boss: Robotnik comically verbally and physically abuses his "metallic moron" minions on a very frequent basis. On more than a few occasions he has also proved to find them rather dispensable as well.
• Bald of Evil: Sonic has frustrated Robotnik so much, he made him "Tear every hair from my BEAUUUUUTIFUL HEAD!"
• Berserk Button: Robotnik has many, mainly Sonic foiling his plans or Wes Weasley scamming him. But his biggest was arguably when Coconuts stole...er, "borrowed" his Egg-O-Matic and crashed it while trying to nab Sonic.
  • Being served anything other than eggs for breakfast. When Scratch and Grounder try to surprise him by making him hotcakes for a change he loses it.

Hotcakes... How nice... You know what I like on my hotcakes? CHOPPED CHICKEN BRAINS!!!

• Beware the Silly Ones: It is often implied Robotnik is only ineffective due to Sonic, a lot of episodes show the heroes encountering civilians that have already been enslaved or terrorized by Robotnik due to Sonic not being around. Not to mention the odd occasion Robotnik even manages to get one over the hedgehog.
• Big Bad
• Butt Monkey: Sonic pulls no punches making him suffer. One of the best examples is the "Zoobotnik" episode.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Played with. Sure, he likes being called despicable but there are moments when he will pretend to be a hero if his plans require it. An example of this would be Over The Hill Hero, where he says to Captain Rescue "I think we can fight rotten-ness just as good as that hedgehog..
• Catch Phrase: "I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!"
• Dastardly Whiplash: Has some of this trope's characteristics, most notably moustache-twirling, open and two-dimensional eeevilness and bombastic diabolical laughter.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Dr. Robotnik fears his mother, but he still loves her.
• Evil Laugh: Robotnik has a few utterly excellent ones
• Evil Is Hammy: Robotnik takes it up to eleven.
• Faux Affably Evil: Though Robotnik's villainy is taken somewhat lightly, some of it can seem pretty extreme when you think about it.
• Freudian Excuse: Dr. Robotnik is shiwn to have one in the form of his abusive mother, Momma Robotnik.
• Gadgeteer Genius: As buffoonish as he is, most of his gadgets do what they are supposed to and are pretty damn advanced.
• Genre Savvy: He may not fair much better than Grounder and Scratch in the department of victory, but at least he knows enough to try different methods to keep Sonic away (such as tempered steel and tricking people around Sonic rather than getting Sonic himself), and even then always assumes Sonic will show up and take out Scratch and Grounder at the minimum.
• Gonk
• Large Ham: Robotnik. Oh God, Robotnik. And his mother is even worse.
  • Guess it just runs in the family.
• Last-Name Basis: Dr. Robotnik, whose first name "Ivo" is only mentioned twice in the whole series.
• Laughably Evil: The doctor is completely ruthless, but it's hard to find a scene he isn't hilarious. Only upped even further due to Youtube Poop.
• My Beloved Smother: Robotnik, despite his evil nature, is completely at the mercy of his mother, who is even more demanding and has a really bad temper. He has turned on her a couple of occasions though.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Usually rather bumbling and defeated handily by Sonic. There are a fair few times he manages to outsmart the hedgehog and temporarily get the upper hand however. It helps he also knows just how to get under Sonic's skin (see above).
• Pet the Dog: When Coconut accidentally gives him superpowers, he gives him a promotion as a result.
• Robosexual: Robotnik himself proved this when he created a robot wife.
• Robotic Spouse: Robotnik creates one for himself in one episode
  • And another when he was running for president.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Eggs. Having eggs for breakfast for ten years! No, he does not want any hotcakes for breakfast.
• Trrrilling Rrrs: Does this quite frrrequently
  • "I'll have to :give myself a PRRRRROMOTION"
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one at least once an episode.

Scratch & Grounder

Robotnik's newest, dedicated anti-Sonic robots and general minions. Unfortunately for him, they're both total incompetents and idiots. Created at about the same time from the same machine, they would originally have identical, but Scratch pulled a level that caused Grounder to come out with a different chassis. Both Badniks are based off of badniks from Sonic the Hedgehog 2; Grounder is a straight lift of the Grounder badnik (itself a lift of Burrobot from the first game), while Scratch is a heavily modified Clucker (a turret-firing chicken badnik).

• Arm Cannon: Grounder has this along with many other weapons.
• Butt Monkey: Comes naturally with bosses such as Robotnik and prey such as Sonic. And being dumber than a box of screws.
• Chew Toys: They have been blow up, frozen, melted, run over, squashed, tied together... at least half of the humor in the show revolves around them getting turned into spare parts by Sonic.
• The Ditz: Scratch is only slightly smarter than Grounder, which isn't saying a whole lot since they're both idiotic.
• Do-Anything Robot: Scratch and Grounder are full of all sorts of tools, up to and including inflatable supermodel decoys.
• Evil Laugh: Scratch's rooster laugh, which sounds like a trumpet.
• Fat and Skinny: They're not organic beings, but they contrast appropriately in appearance.
• Genre Blindness: Sonic tricks Grounder and Scratch endlessly all the time with various disguises, yet as far as they seem to know there's just a lot of hedgehogs all over the planet with a series of different and very diverse jobs.
• Hammer Space: How Grounder carries all those arm gadgets.
• Harmless Villain: While Robotnik could at least strive to be fearsome every now and then, Scratch and Grounder were completely incompetent for the large majority of the time, when not being defeated easily by Sonic, their plans were taken apart by random civilians or even their own bumbling.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Even Sonic is unable to put them out of commission permanently, as they can easily pull themselves back together, so that's one aspect of their design Robotnik got right. Pity about the brains though.
• Jerkass: Scratch towards Grounder, often venting his frustration when the latter's stupidity results in Sonic's plans succeeding. Give Robotnik's treatment of the two, this might be to an extent understandable.
• Laser Guided Tykebomb: The Sonic Super Special Search and Smash Squad. This combined with Goldfish Poop Gang. Robotnik created Scratch and Grounder for the express purpose of hunting down and killing Sonic, but since the two have only a quarter of a brain between them, Sonic always ends up the winner.
• The Magnificent: Listening to how Scratch and Grounder address Robotnik is one of the best parts of the show. Such as "Your Masochisticness".
• The Millstones: When one of Robotnik's plans fail, it's typically because of their bumbling.
• No Indoor Voice: Scratch's incredibly loud, braying voice.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: They had odd times they could act out Robotnik's plans competently. "Mass Transit Trouble" has them successfully Out Gambit Sonic and escape for one example.
• Non-Identical Twins Scratch and Grounder, sort of. Scratch was built first, but Grounder was created in the exact same way — except for Scratch pulling one additional lever on the control panel.
• Ridiculously Human Robot: They manage to produce tears in Sonic's Song.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Scratch, especially in the German dub.
• Simpleton Voice: Grounder's standard tone of voice, except when he temporarily becomes a genius.
• Smug Snake: Grounder, when he temporarily becomes a genius.
  • Scratch seems to have a high opinion of himself half the time, which is reflected by his rooster form.

He made me persistent! He made you too dumb to quit! —Scratch

• Swiss Army Weapon: Grounder is full of gadgets and gizmos, ranging from his default drills to proper hands to bizarre one-offs like blowing into his thumb to create a pumpkin to throw at Sonic.
• Sycophantic Servant: No matter how often Robotnik abuses them, they're still willing to serve under him. They do have moments where they strike back at him for his abusive treatment, however.
• This Is a Drill: Grounder has three of them. One for nose and one per each arm.
• Those Two Bad Guys: One classic duo with many of the stereotypes that accompany them, like the lack of intelligence, their arguments and their contrasting looks.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: With their comedic bumbling, Scratch and Grounder have this dynamic with Dr. Robotnik.
• Would Hurt a Child: Tails most of the most of course, but any child is fair play.

Coconuts

• Butt Monkey: Takes abuse most of the time simply for existing despite his rather extreme effort and enthusiasm, getting demoted constantly for mostly nothing. Scratch and Grounder aren't much better off either, but unlike Coconuts they at least don't get demoted (although Robotnik admits they're useless anyways and they did get demoted one time as backup singers). It helps that he actually is a monkey
• The Unfavorite: Gets it much worse than Scratch and Grounder, which is really saying something.

Other Characters

Breezie

• Ensemble Darkhorse
• Ms. Fanservice
• Heel Face Turn

Momma Robotnik

• Benevolent Boss: Scratch and Grounder side with her for this reason.

• Card-Carrying Villain: As she reveals in "Zoobotnik," she intentionally raised her son to be a dishonest supervillain.
• Gag Boobs: In one of the show's many instances of Getting Crap Past the Radar, they visibly stretch out her much-too-small dress.
• Girls with Moustaches
• Gonk: Arguably even moreso than her son, due to the two looking so similar. She even has his mustache.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Is essentially Robotnik in a dress with eyelashes. They didn't even bother getting rid of the mustache.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance

Robotnik Jr.

• Catch Phrase: "Big whoop!"
• Heel Face Turn

Wes Weasley

• Con Man
• Expy: Michael Donovan has admitted that Weasley's voice is his "bad impersonation" of Phil Silvers.
• Honest John's Dealership
• Snake Oil Salesman