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Knuckles the Echidna is a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games, television shows and comics. His nicknames are "Rad Red", "Red Storm", "Knux", and "Knucklehead", though many of these nicknames have appeared only occasionally. His creator is Takashi Thomas Yuda.

He is a teenage red echidna whose quills are dreadlocks. He is 16 years old, 3' 7", and weighs 88 lbs. His birthday is probably February 2nd, the date his first game came out. Two of the knuckles on each of his hands are actually sharp spikes. His name also shows his ancestry, from the ancient Knuckles Warrior Clan. He is one of the strongest characters in the series (said to be as strong as Sonic is fast). He also has the ability to glide by trapping air under his dreadlocks, and is highly skilled at a high variety of martial art forms. In several storylines, he also possesses Chaos abilities, such as opening portals.

Personality

Knuckles is honest, independent, headstrong, devoted to his duty and gullible. He usually doesn't smile and is very serious. He also acts kind of jokey sometimes. He doesn't always notice when he's being insulted, and he usually likes to be by himself, but he can be relied upon to help out whenever the planet needs saving. In all versions of the Sonic universe Knuckles has a rivalry in some form with Sonic. He appears to be jealous of his independent nature and freedom.

Knuckles' personality varies, depending on the universe - the Knuckles of the Sega games is extremely stubborn and is loyal to his duty, though he does go with Sonic and company to save the world far more often than his counterparts in other continuities. He is easily fooled into walking into traps. Knuckles is said to be shy in his bio in Sonic Jam, which is not consistent with the new games, but can be backed up by the way he acts awkwardly around girls like Amy, Blaze and especially Rouge.

The Knuckles of the Sonic Anime is a devoted treasure hunter (perhaps because there are no Chaos Emeralds involved in the story), almost carefree and quite goofy at times. He is said to be Sonic's best friend, but he's still more serious than Sonic and he knows his priorities.

The Knuckles of Archie Comics is the devoted Guardian of the Master Emerald, and though he is more sulky, he is also perhaps more talkative and sarcastic as he isn't a social loner like his other depictions.

The Knuckles of Fleetway is even more devoted to his duty as a Guardian, to the point of an obsession. He finds Sonic's enhanced ego slightly obnoxious, and is an extreme loner. He is quicker to anger, slow to trust and slightly less gullible than usual. He guards not only the Master Emerald, but also the Chaos Emeralds.

The Knuckles of Sonic X gets mad very easily, but is slightly less stubborn than other incarnations and tends to give in to situations when others gang up on him. He is probably the most gullible of the versions of Knuckles, perhaps for the comedy factor involved in Sonic X. Perhaps he focuses less on his duty as a Guardian, but in the first season of the show Angel Island wasn't around to protect anyway.

History

Knuckles lives on 'Angel Island', also known as the Floating Island, which hovers in the sky thanks to the power of the Master Emerald, which he is charged with guarding. Knuckles is the last surviving member of the Echidna people who once inhabited the island. Due to his rather remote location and the fact that he rarely strays far from his duty, Knuckles is often alone, and as thus can be quite antisocial and distrusting, but on the other side, he is often quite gullible. One example of this gullibility is the belief that he held throughout Sonic the Hedgehog 3: that Sonic and Tails were attempting to steal the Master Emerald and that the infamous mad scientist Dr. Robotnik was trying to protect it.

Dr. Robotnik, of course, had lied to Knuckles, and was planning on using the emerald to power his space station, the Death Egg. In the Hidden Palace Zone of Sonic & Knuckles, Robotnik's betrayal was revealed to him very bluntly, in the form of electrocution. Knuckles then joined Sonic and Tails in their quest to stop Dr. Robotnik.

Knuckles being easily tricked into believing Sonic is the bad guy has become a recurring theme in the Sonic universe. Also, in the Sonic X
Cartoon, aside from his gullibility, another running joke seems to be that despite his headstrong and stubborn attitude, Knuckles will very easily crumble under peer pressure; As soon as he says 'No' to something, the rest of the cast will gang up on him and question his abilities until he agrees to do what they wish him to.

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