History Characters / SonicTheHedgehogIDWClassicEra

[[folder:The Empire in General]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Despite the doctor implementing a patch to prevent Heavy King from taking over his Empire, the Hard-Boiled Heavies go off the grid in ''Fang the Hunter'' and steal Eggman's new battleship for a joyride, cutting communications with him. Downplayed as they never really betrayed Eggman this time, and after they are foiled, they immediately start obeying him, though Eggman strands at sea with no hope of rescue as punishment for their latest bout of rebellion.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: During the ''Fang the Hunter'' miniseries, after dealing with the Hard-Boiled Heavies going rogue again, Eggman leaves the robots stranded at sea in an airship taking in lots of seawater with no hope of rescue. Considering they constantly betray or disobey him, it's one of the few cases where Eggman [[LaserGuidedKarma ditching his creations is rather understandable]].

[[folder:The Hooligans in General]]

* LeaveHimToMe: Is actually on both ends of this trope in ''Fang the Hunter''. When the Hooligans first try escaping with [[spoiler:the Hard Boiled Heavies' Warp Topaz]], Heavy King orders all their forces to stop them, with the trio heavily outnumbered. Despite the odds, Bark stays behind to first fend off Heavy Rider's attack, while Fang and Bean try to get the Marvelous Queen. Heavy King then sends the other Heavies to go after Fang and Bean, staying behind to fight Bark himself.

** Heavy King acknowledges him as such in ''Fang the Hunter'', where he sends the other Hard-Boiled Heavies to pursue the Hooligans, while he alone challenges Bark to a fight by himself, and is quite impressed with the Polar Bear's resilience.

[[folder:The Witchcarters in General]]

* CharacterExaggeration: One aspect of Sonic's personality that is dialed up in the Classic era stories is his impatience and lust for adventure. While the character has typically been a hyperactive battle ready hedgehog, the classic stories are what make it the most evident. He's eager to investigate what's happening on Flicky Island that he takes off without consulting with Tails first, and while waiting for Tails to finish preparing a gadget that will help them track the Heavy Wing, he paces around and quickly gets bored (complete with a "bored" text effect appearing over him). When they do arrive on the Heavy Wing, he finds it incredibly dull, since no one is there to stop their assault on Heavy King's ship, as everyone is below deck fighting the Hooligans. A justified example, since this is a younger version of the title hero who hasn't matured to the same extent as his present day counterpart.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Sonic's characterization varies between "Seasons of Chaos" and "Sonic Learns to Drive". Sonic is similar to his IDW characterization when written by Creator/IanFlynn, as confident, if much more impatient, and has a bit of snark. In "Learns to drive", Sonic becomes a MotorMouth when written by the Creator/McElroyBrothers.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Learns to Drive", Sonic is rather impulsive at driving and just speeding ahead without a care. Notably, he gets pretty impatient when he attempt to drive normally.

* ADayInTheLimelight: As the title suggests, the ''[[Recap/Tails30thAnniversarySpecial Tails[='=] 30th Anniversary]]'' comic primarily focused on Tails in his attempt to stop Witchcart and her minions from taking over Flicky Island.

* {{Flight}}: As with all iterations, Tails can flight by spinning his tails in a helicopter fashion.
* KidSidekick: He's much younger in this universe, fitting this trope much more than his modern counterpart.

* TheBigGuy: The main powerhouse of the team. He matches Bark in strength.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Knuckles is portrayed in "Seasons of Chaos" as a serious and calm guardian while having a few humorous moments here and there, at least compared to his usual depictions as a hot-blooded [[DumbMuscle knuckle-head]] like in ''WebAnimation/SonicManiaAdventures''.

* TrapMaster: In the ''Fang the Hunter'' miniseries, Knuckles is able to make the Hooligans chase themselves in circles, splitting them up with fake tracks and improvised defensive measures from Mushroom Hill, which include switches and pitfalls that manage to capture Bean and Bark, which is [[ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat an often forgotten]] part of Knuckles' character that stemmed from his first appearance.

** ''[[Recap/Amys30thAnniversarySpecial Amy's 30th Anniversary]]'' has her as the central character, where she recruits various other characters in order to rescue her friends from Dr. Eggman and Metal Sonic's clutches.

* MoralityPet: To Bark during [[EnemyMine their temporary team-up]] to stop Heavy King. He notably looks after Amy throughout their journey and even allows her to borrow his scarf when they reach Winter Caverns Zone. When she saves him in ''Amy's 30th Anniversary'', he is rather grateful and teams up with her to save Fang and Bean.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Amy is the only female character in "Seasons of Chaos". She is not the only female character of the Classic era, however, as the Hard Boiled Heavies have Heavy Rider and Heavy Magician, Witchcart's crew includes herself and Carrotia, and Honey appears as a cameo.

An old armadillo friend of Sonic's with quite the monstrous strength.

* LightningBruiser: Possibly the most physically powerful character in the classic series and has borderline super speed on top of that if his fight with Bark is any indication.

* PrehensileTail: He's able to grab some things with his tail such as catching one of Bean's bombs and lobbing it back.

The Classic version Eggman's Empire of Badniks who terrorize Classic Sonic's world on various occasions.

* BirthdayHater: He dreads his birthday, not because of getting older but because his robots always throw him a party which he detests.
* CardCarryingVillain: Openly evil, and proud of it. This is also his [[VillainBall flaw]], as he programmed Heavy King to be deceitful and conquest-driven, which ends up shooting him in the foot.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: In "Seasons of Chaos", he teams with the heroes and the Hooligans to stop Metal King. After the succeed and he brings Metal King back under his control, he tries to turn on both parties. But by then they've long since left his base with the Chaos Emeralds. And all the Badniks around it had been destroyed by then, along with the Metals and Heavy King being out of power to chase after them.
* ManChild: Eggman sleeps with the Tails Doll.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Due to sharing the same anniversary, he's technically also sharing spotlight with Amy in ''Recap/Amys30thAnniversarySpecial'', being the main threat who captures all of her friends.
* RobotMe: A robot version of Sonic the Hedgehog, and the most famous of all the metal doppelgangers.
* SilentAntagonist: Like his older self, Metal is incapable of speech. Oddly enough, he speaks in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations''.

* FlatCharacter: He's a robot counterpart of Knuckles, but unlike Tails Doll's creepy nature and Metal Sonic's [[CallForward implied betrayal]], it doesn't go beyond that.

* RetCanon: The characterization as a creepy doll comes from the ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Archie series]]'', which in turn was inspired by the [[AscendedMeme creepypastas based on the character]]. [[DownplayedTrope Admitedly]], Tails Doll doesn't appear to hold a MechanicalAbomination inside of him and is just a creepy doll with a hidden camera.
* RobotMe: A robot (?) version of Tails in the shape of a doll. Tails is offended that Sonic and Knuckles get their metal variations but he himself ends with a creepy doll.

An elite group of Egg-Robos led by Heavy King, who were changed by the power of the Phantom Ruby. Heavy King was rebuilt by Eggman after the events of ''Mania''.

** Over the course of ''Fang the Hunter'', it's revealed that he and the Hard Boiled Heavies, is partially responsible for a lot of the events that are taking place, with his discovery of [[spoiler:the Warp Topaz]] end up tying together the assortment of plot threads set up throughout the miniseries.

* BlindedByRage: Heavy King is at the top of his game, with almost all the Chaos Emeralds at his power. How is he stopped? Sonic decides to annoy him, calling him "Heavy Comedian", saying his cape is stupid, and that even without the Chaos Emeralds, Mecha Sonic did achieve a super transformation using the Master Emerald. The last one does the trick, enraging Heavy King and distracting him enough for everyone to take the emeralds and steal them, leaving him powerless. It should be noted that he heard Sonic's plan to do this immediately beforehand and was prepared to simply ignore him. Sonic managed to piss him off that much that he still ended up taking the bait.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Despite the doctor implementing a patch to prevent Heavy King from taking over his Empire, the Hard-Boiled Heavies go off the grid in ''Fang the Hunter'' and steal Eggman's new phantom battleship for a joyride, cutting communications with him. Downplayed as they never really betrayed Eggman this time, and after they are foiled, immediately start obeying him, though Eggman isn't amused how they still disobeyed his orders. Their punishment for their latest bout of rebellion has them stranded at sea with no hope of rescue.

* KingMook: Heavy King and cohorts are advanced Egg-Robos.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: What ends up being invoked on the group's in the Fang the Hunter miniseries. After going rogue on Eggman for the '''fifth time''' (including both their games and comic appearances...even if once was just to celebrate Eggman's birthday) to steal Eggman's airship for their Warp Topaz experiment, once the ship goes down to the sea, Heavy King is promptly told by Eggman that he and his crew were pretty much on their own - cutting ties with the quintet and leaving them to likely sink with the wrecked ship.

* TheStarscream: Eggman built him to become the chief commander to lead the robots into battle, but turned rogue. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], [[VillainBall because Eggman]] programmed him to be deceitful and conquest-driven. After he is defeated, Eggman installed a software patch to make sure Heavy King doesn't rebel again. It doesn't last long, as the ''Fang the Hunter'' mini-series sees him commandeering the Heavy Wing as his own battleship, though without actively trying to oppose the Eggman Empire this time. Unfortunately for the Heavies, their latest rebellious stint had Eggman fed up with their antics and end their role in the miniseries abandoned at sea.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: During the Fang the Hunter miniseries, after dealing with the HBH going rogue again, Eggman leaves the robots stranded at sea in an airship taking in lots of seawater - with no hope of rescue. Considering they constantly betray or disobey him, it's one of the few cases where Eggman [[LaserGuidedKarma ditching his creations is rather understandable]].

* BreakingTheFellowship: After Bean and Bark have had enough of Fang endangering their lives and only caring about himself, they ditch him and go their separate ways. This leaves Fang by himself, free to work with Eggman without remorse and setting up the events of ''Sonic Superstars''.

** The biggest example of the group would be [[TokenGoodTeammate Bark the Polar Bear]], who follows his ''Fighters'' characterization more closely than in the Archie series, even if he doesn't outwardly show it. He can be seen amongst the crowd who wanted to read Amy's comics in "Amy's New Hobby" alongside Bean, with Amy believing he's not really a bad guy, he just hangs out with the wrong crowd. His interactions with Amy and Ray in ''Amy's 30th Anniversary'' see him being very polite, joining the team in order to help save Bean and Fang without much coaxing.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: By the end of the Fang the Hunter miniseries, Bean and Bark had become so fed up with Fang dragging them into a pointless goose chase (which got them chased, hurt and nearly killed on multiple occasions) for the 'eighth Chaos Emerald' and Fang's poor attitude, that they both strike out on their own in a huff.

A treasure hunter who's not exactly as effective as he proclaims himself to be.

* BadBoss: Bossy, ill-tempered, detrimentally greedy, arrogant, keeps dragging his boys into working with [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] even when neither likes to do so and constantly getting them into dangerous consequences. By the end of Fang's miniseries, it gets to the point where both Bean and Bark leave the gang out of frustration with him.
* CoolBike: As usual, he shows up on his hover bike, The Marvelous Queen. It can bounce around, fly, and even fire its side cars like missiles. At the end of his miniseries, he loses the side cars after Bean and Bark take them for themselves after they leave him, noting he went through the trouble of getting them custom-fitted for the two.

* DirtyCoward: Fang would rather run away from a fight. During the fight against Heavy King, he is the only who is running away, with Metal Sonic grabbing him to keep him there.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Unlike the Archie series where he wielded real firearms, here his main gun just fires corks, which are hardly effective.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Even moreso than Bean. While Sonic and his friends already doesn't think too highly of him, both Bean and Bark are shown to occasionally be fed up of being dragged into his schemes as they voice their objections in Fang's miniseries. After their eighth Chaos Emerald Hunt turns out to be a total bust, they both ditch him in a hurry, due to how awful of a time they had with him and his nonsense.

* TreasureHunter: He pegs himself as such.

* WatchThePaintJob: Fang has plenty of moments showing that he cares more for his Marvelous Queen air bike over his teammates. He's barred Bean from driving it after a previous incident, looks for a mechanic after the events of Seasons of Chaos, wants to give it the upgrades "it deserves" (while looking at it with sparkles in his eyes), and when Bean starts throwing bombs willy-nilly at Sonic, he immediately dives at the woodpecker to prevent him from accidentally blowing the bike up. When he reunites with it after it crashes into Heavy Ninja, he gives it an affectionate hug and talks to it as if it were his pet.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Bean and Sonic meet, he tells him it has been a long time since they last met, a nod to Bean's lack of appearances following the cancellation of the Archie series.

** When he gets trapped by Heavy Gunner and Heavy Magician in a dead end, he realizes his "dinky little bombs" won't work. So he pulls out a ''huge'' one, exploding in the storage room with enough force to cause the sign to fall off, and his tail feathers catch fire after the ensuing chaos.

* OnlySaneMan: Shockingly, Bean ends up becoming this alongside Bark in the ''Fang the Hunter'' miniseries, where the more time Fang spends on his fruitless quest to find the rumored eighth Chaos Emerald, the more Bean and Bark get annoyed and tell him to stop. It comes to ahead when Bean tells Fang to just spill the beans about what they know in order to save their own hides, much to Fang's surprise.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bean, the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with a penchant for causing mischief, reaches the limit of his patience with Fang when they get captured by Eggman in issue #3 of ''Fang the Hunter'', telling him to just tell the doctor what they know in order to save their skins. The bomb-happy duck usually isn't the voice of reason, which Fang and Bean himself lampshade.

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Witchcart, Hocke-Wulf, Bearanger, Carrottia]]

** Over the course of ''Fang the Hunter'', it's revealed that he is partially responsible for a lot of the events that are taking place, with his discovery of [[spoiler:the Warp Topaz]] end up tying together the assortment of plot threads set up throughout the miniseries.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Despite the doctor implementing a patch to prevent Heavy King from taking over his Empire, the Hard-Boiled Heavies go off the grid in ''Fang the Hunter'' and steal Eggman's new phantom battleship for a joyride, cutting communications with him. Downplayed as they never really betrayed Eggman this time, and after they are foiled, immediately start obeying him, though Eggman isn't amused how they still disobeyed his orders.

* TheStarscream: Eggman built him to become the chief commander to lead the robots into battle, but turned rogue. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], [[VillainBall because Eggman]] programmed him to be deceitful and conquest-driven. After he is defeated, Eggman installed a software patch to make sure Heavy King doesn't rebel again. It doesn't last long, as the ''Fang the Hunter'' mini-series sees him commandeering the Heavy Wing as his own battleship, though without actively trying to oppose the Eggman Empire this time.