Characters / Sonic Destruction

Sonic and Friends

Sonic the Hedgehog/Sonic the Human

Played by: Penny Parker

• All or Nothing: Sonic declares that his race/battle against Eggman's Ultimate Lifeform is this, wanting Eggman to stop attacking the planet if he wins, and letting Eggman do what he wishes if he loses (or rather, being too dead to prevent it).
• Ambiguously Evil: Though he ultimately fights to save the world, Sonic briefly contemplates destroying it. He also seems disappointed that Eggman isn't doing more to act upon his evil plan, and is rather casual about all the death and destruction surrounding him. Complicating matters is Shadow's claim that Sonic is being mind controlled by Elise, who also seems to be under some kind of dark outside influence.
• And Then What?: Sonic threatens to just allow the world's Destruction when Eggman's conquest plans threaten to blow it up, in an attempt to show Eggman how he's gone too far.
• Berserk Button: Tells Shadow to "get the fuck out of [his] room" when he dares insinuate that Sonic has never eaten a chili dog.
• Everyone Has Standards: Sonic may be an enormous gaslighter, but he has little patience for Shadow's conspiracy theories.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Sonic starts out as one of the good guys who never actually does anything heroic. He finally starts to take action and goes to Eggman, saying he's there to stop him from destroying the world. Then Sonic considers destroying it himself, and claims he's trying to help a discouraged Eggman before shortly going back to opposing him again, this time actually fighting against evil. After being resurrected by Daedalus, he then becomes a full-blown villain and violently assaults the mayor. And then he becomes far more amicable to Amy after trying to gaslight her in their previous interaction and sincerely promising to help her when she asks for it. He also questions why he almost seems happy when sees the city in its ruined state.
• Humanity Ensues: At the end of Episode 1, Sonic, seemingly having been killed and sent flying to space just a scene prior, suddenly appears in the City Hall as a hooded figure...and turns out to not be a hedgehog anymore, but a human. Episode 2 reveals he was brought back by some figure named Daedalus, supposedly to eliminate the mayor.
• Jerkass: Sonic frequently gaslights those around him and cares so little for the world's destruction that he considers finishing the job himself.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sonic had lost some of his memories when he was turned into a human, thanks to a subordinate of Daedalus.
• Nominal Hero: Given how long they wait to even try saving the city this can apply to all the heroes, but Sonic is clearly the biggest example. He's far more nonchalant about its destruction and all the death that entails than anyone else, and he even ponders at one point if he should destroy it himself. Despite that, he does try to help eventually.
• Offscreen Teleportation: When Sonic confronts Eggman in his ship, the cast notes how there's no explanation for how Sonic got there from the city. He later somehow shows up in Jason King's office despite having just died in the ship.
  Sonic: How's it going, Eggman?
  Eggman (off-script): How the fuck did you get in here?
• Our Hero Is Dead: Although his status as a hero is debatable, The Ultimate Lifeform still ends up killing Sonic at the end of Episode 1. He gets better.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: In order to avoid Eggman's robots in the city, Sonic changes his hairstyle.
• Taking You with Me: Sonic is mortally wounded by the Ultimate Lifeform when they fight in Eggman's ship, but lasts just long enough to activate the airlock.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Sonic says it's chili dogs, but Shadow questions if he's ever actually had any.
• Unexplained Recovery: Sonic just appears in Jason King's office right after dying in Eggman's ship. The only explanation given is that this somehow fulfills a prophecy. While Episode 2 reveals that Daedalus (or at least, his subordinate) was responsible, no explanation is given for how it was achieved, or why.

Tails

Played By: Mar Katoto

• Angrish: He devolves into growling at Knuckles at the end of Episode 2.
• Deadpan Snarker: Most of his dialogue is bits of soft-spoken sarcasm and annoyed quips.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: At the end of Episode 2. He's largely the same, except being around Knuckles makes him so irrationally angry that he just starts barking.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: In order to avoid Eggman's robots in the city, Tails weaves his two tails into one big tail.
• Suddenly Shouting: "This is bullshit!"

Knuckles the Echidna

Played By: Scout

• Adaptational Intelligence: While he's certainly no super genius, this is still one of the smarter versions of Knuckles, who is usually just the group's Dumb Muscle.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: At the end of Episode 2. He's largely the same, except being around Tails makes him so irrationally angry that he just starts barking.
• Only Sane Man: Knuckles takes a moment to ask if anyone is actually trying to save the city after all the other heroes (and himself) have done nothing to help. And though his efforts are mostly offscreen, he does appear to be amongst the more proactive heroes.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: In order to avoid Eggman's robots in the city, Knuckles wears a jacket.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Knuckles frequently appears out of nowhere. The other characters make no note of this, but the cast very much does and they jokingly point out that he has a habit of randomly showing up in the games.

Amy Rose

Played By: Holly/HollowTones

• Blatant Lies: Immediately after entering City Hall, Amy claims that everyone who was already there have finally arrived after keeping her waiting forever.
• But Now I Must Go: She says an emotional farewell to Sonic in Episode 2... only to keep talking to him "from really far away".
• Demoted to Extra: Her only role in Episode 2 is to be led to a train station by Sonic. After she leaves, she doesn't reappear.

Shadow the Hedgehog

Played By: Ryan Mitchum

• Dead All Along: The real Shadow apparently died years ago. The current one is a video game character that can be controlled through a magic PlayStation 2 and possibly also an alternate personality of Daedalus.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As seen with how he acts towards Elise after defeating her against his battle with her in the burning Station Square, and many other parts in the entire Episode 1.
• Jerkass: Shadow outright insults Silver multiple times and questions why they're friends. Later on, he purposefully ignores Silver and Rouge during a crisis to consult with Knuckles.
• Just a Machine: Shadow couldn't imagine himself being friends with a robot. Poor Omega...
• Literal Split Personality: Possibly one of Daedalus and Silver as Silver controls him through the PS2 and he keeps talking to Daedalus even after he transforms back into his true form.
• Mercy Kill: After Elise's dragon gets crushed by the remains of the Ultimate Lifeform, Shadow puts two bullets in its head to stop its suffering.

Other Shadow the Hedgehog

Played By: Ryan Mitchum

• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After Sonic comforts the second Shadow, he responds by punching him in the face.
• Me's a Crowd: After destroying an Eggman-controlled hovercar trying to kill them, Sonic and Shadow hear a cry from a nearby forest, and find a second Shadow who's distraught about failing to keep a promise he made to Elise. Episode 2 makes this even more confusing, as the first Shadow is revealed to be a disguised Daedalus, who claims that the real Shadow has been dead for years, yet at the same time, Silver also claims to be Shadow.

Rouge the Bat

Played By: DollipDaze

• Author Avatar: Her appearance in Episode 2 is mostly so Penny can try to keep the story on track.
• Fantastic Racism: Hates wizards and is disgusted at the the idea of dying to one.
• I've Heard of That — What Is It?: She claims to have read the book on Daedalus, only to ask what it is one sentence afterwards.
• Lazy Bum: Her primary characteristic is refusing to participate in anything.
• Only Sane Man: Shares this role with Knuckles as she is the one to try and keep the story focused, as well as acknowledging inconsistencies like Daedalus supposedly faking his death.

Silver the Hedgehog

Played By: Red Van Buskirk

• Dark and Troubled Past: Witnessed the destruction of his home country.
• The Devil Is a Loser: Despite being an incarnation of Satan, he has no fashion sense, heavily relies on Shadow to accomplish things for him, and needs to play on a PlayStation 2 to focus.
• Evil All Along: Possibly. He's revealed to somehow also be Shadow the Hedgehog, possibly by controlling him through the game, and also possibly Satan himself, but it's never exactly made clear.
• Karma Houdini: At least, according to himself. He never got in trouble for the king and queen of Epirus dying when the meteorite they were inside of crashed, though how he could be responsible for such an occurrence is never stated.
• Last of His Kind: He's the only surviving prototype of the Daedalus Initiative.
• Mr. Exposition: Delivers two long Infodumps explaining his backstory in Episode 2, though he doesn't answer Knuckles' question about his connection with Shadow.
• Robot Buddy: Silver claims to have made a robot friend in the city named Q-B, but they don't make an appearance.
• Straw Misogynist: Silver seems utterly repulsed when Shadow asks if his new friend is a girl.

Mayor Jason King

Played By: Jackson Ward

• Ambiguously Evil: Comes across as a bit dastardly in his interaction with Sonic and might be plotting something, but mostly seems just like a normal mayor.
• Amoral Attorney: One possible interpretation of Gerald's claim that Jason once "defended" Eggman against accusations of mass murder, despite Jason himself being sure of his guilt.
• Badass Normal: An aging, overweight human who threatens to slowly kill an incarnation of Satan himself while he's still recovering from a brutal beating from sonic.
• Butt-Monkey: Sonic beats him within an inch of his life not long after his city is destroyed.
• Canon Foreigner: He's a product of AI Dungeon 2.
• First-Name Basis: The script mostly refers to him as "Jason". Slightly subverted if the cast's "theory" that he's truly the 'Sergeant "O"' (aka 'Captain Obvious') that Knuckles believed could help Sonic defeat Eggman.
• Made of Iron: Survives an absolutely vicious beatdown by Sonic, yet is largely fine by his next scene.
• Remember the New Guy?: Jason King appears suddenly and prominently in the first episode's second half, and later at the beginning and end of the second episode.

Vector the Crocodile

Played By: Mar Katoto

• Big Brother Is Watching: Has apparently set up a surveillance state that has no affiliation with the government.
• Grumpy Old Man: Despite being the same age as Rouge, he has a mild case of this when he complains about “kids nowadays” getting all the superpowers.

Charlemagne "Charmy" Bee

Played By: Holly/HollowTones

• Butt-Monkey: He shows up in one scene to get insulted by Shadow, and then shows up later to get knocked out (and possibly killed) by Daedalus. The story goes out of its way to mention that subduing Charmy was particularly easy for Daedalus and his men.

Antagonists

Dr. Eggman/Dr. Ivo Robotnik

Played By: Alfred Coleman

• Big Bad: Of Episode 1, with the script outright calling him "our antagonist". He ends up usurped of this role later on.
• Blatant Lies: Eggman tries to deceive Mayor King into believing the city has been saved while it's being attacked. King calls him out on it by bringing up that Elise and her dragon are still rampaging.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Eggman starts off the story trying to rule the world. After a while, he seems utterly disillusioned with world domination when he realizes the planet is going to be destroyed anyway. When Sonic starts to show an evil side of his own, Eggman calls him out for losing his way. After Sonic resumes being a good guy though, Eggman lets the Ultimate Lifeform loose to oppose him and do whatever it wants to the city. Offscreen, he most likely returns to his state of disillusionment because when we next see him, he's decided to focus on aiding Knuckles and Tails in their masked council shenanigans instead, seemingly cementing him as having turned face.
• Misblamed: Silver blames him for some kind of apocalyptic attack on his home village, but if Gerald is to be believed, he was set up by the military to take the blame.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: It's apparently obvious that Eggman is one of the masked men in City Hall.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After Tails and Knuckles lose their memories in the second episode, Eggman decides "Yeah, they're fucked" and leaves the room.
• Smoke Out: Eggman fires missiles from his car to make a smokescreen.
• Visionary Villain: Eggman insists that he's a scientist with a vision when Sonic confronts him in his ship's control room, though Sonic retorts that he's just a madman...with a vision.

Gerald Robotnik

Played By: Dyvonne

• The Antichrist: According to an ancient prophecy, Gerald Robotnik is destined to destroy the world; he himself seems to be completely confused by this.
• Composite Character: Has visual similarities to the GUN Commander, along with apparently being in charge of "the Military," the GUN stand-in.
• Insufferable Genius: Brags about his intelligence in Episode 2.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Possibly. Him being the Antichrist is barely mentioned at all in Episode Two, but he is shown to be a far more threatening, competent villain this time around as opposed to just being confused and possibly senile.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Somewhat. In Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog, Gerald was just a Posthumous Character, but here, Gerald is very much well and alive just like the rest of the cast.
• Took a Level in Badass: Comes across as rather bumbling in the first episode where he doesn't even seem to know how he's related to Eggman. The second episode makes him out to be a much more intelligent threat, with him going into an Info Dump worthy of a Metal Gear villain.

Ultimate Lifeform

• A Dog Named "Dog": The Ultimate Lifeform doesn't have an actual name.
• Bioweapon Beast: Eggman has created another Ultimate Lifeform to aid in his world domination scheme. How it's supposed to help him isn't made clear since its abilities are not well-defined, but Sonic's insistence on racing it suggests it may at least have Super-Speed.
• Canon Foreigner: It's a product of AI Dungeon 2.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Dies in the climax of Episode One.
• Precision Crash: Although it's mentioned that Eggman's satellite was close enough to the planet for characters to see it in the sky, it's still rather coincidental that the ejected Ultimate Lifeform manages to crash down exactly on the head of Elise's dragon.
• Thrown Out the Airlock: The Ultimate Lifeform is defeated when Sonic uses the last of his life force to press a button that lowers a wall and sucks it out of the satellite they were fighting in. Coincidentally, it crashes right on Elise's dragon's head.

Princess Elise

Played By: Sophie Armstrong

• Adaptational Villainy: Elise, a benevolent princess in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), starts destroying her home city for what is apparently no reason while blaming Shadow in the first episode. Knuckles mentions that she might actually be a fake created by Eggman, but it's never elaborated on.
• Ax-Crazy: Princess Elise shows up at the climax of Episode 1, riding a dragon and attacking the heroes while shouting utterly deranged phrases. The cast assumes she's insanely high as she's doing it:
  Princess Elise: Steroids, steroids, does whatever a spider can!
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Downplayed. All the characters are anthropomorphic so it's closer to Interspecies Romance, but Elise's perverse obsession with kissing hedgehogs is treated with contempt by the entire voice cast.
• Demoted to Extra: Only appears briefly in Episode Two, where she, of course, kisses a hedgehog, specifically Shadow.
• Never Was This Universe: After her dragon has been killed, a defeated and weak Princess Elise's dying words are that the city where the story has mostly taken place isn't their home, as she wants to return to Earth. Though it is left unclear if this is true, or simply a result of her unhinged mind.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Shadow realizes that Elise has become evil when she confronts him in a forest with red eyes.

The Killer

• The Mole: Apparently disguised as one of the protagonists.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The story completely forgets about them almost as soon as they're brought up. Unless we are meant to assume they are Daedalus disguised as Shadow.

Daedalus

Played By: Scout, Ryan Mitchum (Shadow)

• Ambiguous Situation:
  • What exactly he is unclear at the moment.
  • Despite impersonating Shadow (who he states has been dead for years), Shadow briefly shows up to call Daedalus out on his greed. Whether Shadow is a Split Personality or Not Quite Dead isn't entirely clear.
• Arch-Enemy: To Mayor Jason King. He apparently resurrected Sonic specifically to fight him.
• Big Bad: The closest thing the series has had to one.
• Child Soldiers: Commanded them in the past, and makes use of them again to restrain Sonic and friends.
• Faking the Dead: Apparently did this, despite nobody mentioning it beforehand.
• Greed: Shadow and Vector argue that this is his motivation, and that he's being driven insane by it.
• Mad Scientist: He's apparently a scientist, and he's also apparently responsible for turning Sonic into a human after he died.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A likely immortal magical scientist with connections to the government.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims that he's using his gifts to better the world, Shadow and Vector argue that he's just doing it for his own greed.
• Science Wizard: He was stated to be a mage with magical protection.
• Really 700 Years Old: It's implied that he's responsible for writing the book of prophecy.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can apparently do this which he uses to disguise himself as Shadow.

Dr. Wyatt

Played By: DollipDaze

Gerald Robotnik's assistant at Skygard.

• Hypocrite: Shadow wonders how she could thrive around death, yet be afraid of dying herself.

Groups

"The Military"

• Ambiguous Situation: while a group/faction, "The Military" is also most likely the AI's interpretation of the sonic games universe's "Guardian Units of Nations/G.U.N.", yet still very little is known about them until further episodes release.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The end of Episode 2 seems to imply that they're responsible for... whatever is going on with Shadow and Silver, and maybe even Daedalus. And if Gerald is correct, the destruction of Soleanna.

The Organization/Jason King's Organization

• Breaking the Fellowship: By the end of Episode 2, Knuckles and Tails have lost their memories and are reduced to growling at one another, and Jason and Silver show some hostility to each other. Silver states that the group is falling apart.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Played for Laughs, the city's mayor Jason King meets with five masked figures in the City Hall to discuss the current end of the world thing; the stage directions immediately reveals two of them to be Knuckles and Tails, and one to be "obviously Eggman".

"The Government"

• Ambiguous Situation: While a group/faction, "The Government" is most likely the AI's interpretation of the Sonic games universe's "United Federation", still very little is known about this group in the series.

Unseen Characters

Q-B

• Robot Buddy: Silver's.
• The Ghost: Never appears in the plot.

Espio the Chameleon

• The Ghost: Despite being mentioned as someone Sonic might want to receive help from in the first one, he hasn't appeared in the story yet, while Vector and Charmy have been introduced in episode 2. On the list shown to Sonic, there is a note saying "Espio the Chameleon is a character from the Sonic comics." Unless he's been around the whole time, just using his invisibility.

Captain William Buckaneer

• The Ghost: Despite being mentioned as someone Sonic might want to receive help from, they never appear in the story.

Sergeant "O"

• The Ghost: Despite being mentioned as someone Sonic might want to receive help from, they never appear in the story. Unless the cast's "theory" that Mayor Jason King (aka 'Captain Obvious') is in fact 'Sergeant "O"' turns out to be true.

Professor Uma "Moebius" Fargod

• The Ghost: Despite being mentioned as someone Sonic might want to receive help from, they never appear in the story.

Lucas the Flaming Centipede

• The Ghost: Despite being mentioned as someone Sonic might want to receive help from, they never appear in the story.

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