Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog
Biographical information
AKA	Big Blue Blue Blur
Born	June 23rd, 1991 Christmas Island
Physical description
Species	Hedgehog
Gender	Male
Height	100 cm (3' 3")
Weight	35 kg (77 Ib.)
Eye color	Green
Voice actors
English	Jaleel White (1993-1999; DiC cartoons only) Samuel Vincent (singing voice) Martin Burke (1996) Ryan Drummond (1998-2003, 2004) Jason Griffith (Sonic X 2003-2006); (games 2005-2010) Roger Craig Smith (2010-present) Ben Schwartz (2020)
Japanese	Takeshi Kusao, Masato Nishimura (1993) Masami Kikuchi (1996) Jun'ichi Kanemaru (1998-present) Taishi Nakamura (2020)
Alignment and character traits
Alignment	Good
Favorite food	Chili Dogs
Friends and Enemies
Friends	Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Cream the Rabbit, Cheese, Amy Rose, Chris Thorndyke, Cosmo the Seedrian, Big the Cat, Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat, Espio the Chameleon, Charmy Bee, Vector the Crocodile
Enemies	Dr. Eggman, Dark Oak, Bocoe, Docoe, Metal Sonic, Chaos, Professor Gerald Robotnik, Biolizard

"What you see is what you get — just a guy that loves adventure! I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!"

—Sonic, Sonic Adventure 2

Sonic the Hedgehog, mostly known simply by his preferred nickname Sonic, is the video game company SEGA's mascot and the main protagonist of the quick, fun video game series he is named after.

A blue anthropomorphic hedgehog with plenty of attitude and personality, he lives up to his name by being able to run at supersonic speeds.

Why He Rocks

1. He is one of the most famous mascots in video game history.
2. He is highly free-spirited and adventurous.
3. He values freedom and believes in allowing the world to be free.
4. He has a lot of self-esteem and does not care about what people say about him.
5. Holds a strong passion for enjoying life to the fullest.
6. His famous rivalry/friendship with Super Mario.
7. When there is a crisis, he intensely focuses on the task at hand.
8. He is an unpredictable thrill-seeker and sees his heroics as an opportunity to have fun.
9. He always manages remains cool under pressure.
10. Often jokes around to lighten the mood and has the tendency to hilariously taunt his opponents.
11. He never forgets about his friends and believes in working as a team or, as he put it, the power of teamwork.
12. Following his free-spirited nature, he does not dwell on the past or allow painful experiences to weigh him down. Instead, he lives in the present and always looks forward to new adventures, which is a good moral for anyone.
13. He is always ready to risks his life for his friends, with little regard for his own safety.
14. His best-friend relationship with Tails.
15. Has shown to have a habit for forgiving, like how he forgave Silver for trying to kill him. Twice.
16. He is shown to be good at swordsmanship, like in Sonic and the Black Knight.
17. He earned not only 5 animated shows (AoSTH, Sonic SATAM, Sonic Underground, Sonic X, Sonic Boom), 2 web cartoons (Sonic Mania Adventures, Team Sonic Racing Overdrive) and an animated movie (Sonic the Hedgehog OVA), but also an exceptionally successful live-action/computer animated movie in 2020 with an upcoming sequel.

Bad Qualities

1. He can be too narcissistic and prideful to be likable.
2. He can be very impatient.
3. He can spout some very cheesy quotes at times, a major example being "Nothing starts before you take action".
4. He tends to overreact when someone (intentionally or unintentionally) misjudges his species.
5. He was bit flanderized in Sonic Lost World, where Sonic is portrayed as having a kind of one-track, arrogant mind that manages to do some very impulsive, foolhardy stuff.