| “ | As far back as I can remember, I've been living here, on this dark island... Always guarding the Master Emerald from anything that can harm it. I don't know why I was given this job... Why it was my fate... Destined to be here...forever! | „ |
| ~ Knuckles thinking aloud about how long he's been Guardian of the Master Emerald |
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Knuckles the Echidna, simply referred to as Knuckles by those who know him, is a supporting character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. He is the last remaining descendant of the Knuckles Clan and is the current guardian of the Master Emerald, a powerful ancient relic that is his solemn duty to protect from anyone seeking to abuse its power. This is what led him to first meet Sonic and Tails upon their initial meeting on Angel Island, misguided by Eggman's trickery into making him believe Sonic was after the mystical artifact he was charged with. Knuckles would eventually see the mad scientist for who he really was, teaming up with the heroic duo to stop Eggman's plot to steal the Master Emerald for himself. Their success would result in Sonic gaining an ally in the echidna, who would become the hedgehog's longest-standing rival to date.
A loner by nature, Knuckles is the antithesis to his rival; where Sonic is the wind blowing free, Knuckles is the mountain that remains immovable. He is independent, headstrong, and oftentimes has a stoicism that clashes with those around him. Due to his solitude, he is also gullible and short-tempered to a fault. But he is entirely devoted to his duty, thus spending most of his time on Angel Island protecting the Master Emerald. But when his friends and others need his help, however, Knuckles can always be relied on to leave his post and prove himself a faithful and good-hearted hero against threats that threaten the world.
Tier: Low 4-C to High 4-C | 4-A to possibly 3-C, higher with the Maximum Heat Attack | 2-C to 2-B, likely 1-B, higher with the Maximum Heat Attack and Boost | High 2-A to 1-B | High 2-A to 1-B
Name: Knuckles the Echidna
Origin: Sonic the Hedgehog
Gender: Male
Age: 16 (Originally 15), 36 years (Infinite says that sonic has beaten eggman for decades)
Classification: Anthropomorphic Echidna, Guardian of the Master Emerald, Leader of the Resistance
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts, Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Hammerspace, Accelerated Development (Training, Battle, Passive; Physical Stats), Forcefield Creation (Of the fire and electricity varieties), Statistics Amplification (Can enhance his movement speed with Speed Shoes), Size Manipulation via Grow and Shrink, Teleportation (Can swap positions with his opponent with the Swap Monitor), Underwater Breathing (Type 3; With the Aqua Shield), Healing (Chaos Emeralds can heal their users and restore consciousness when they get rendered unconscious), Attack Reflection (With the Elemental Shields, which can all reflect small projectiles off of it), Fire Manipulation (With the Flame Shield), Statistics Amplification (Via Hyper Mode), Explosion Manipulation and Light Manipulation (Via Flash), Invulnerability (With the Invincibility Monitor), Can sense the Master Emerald whether it was broken or not, Chaos Emeralds, and even Sol Emeralds, Can use the Master Emerald and control its powers, Gliding, Underground Mobility (can dig through the ground), Surface Scaling, Resistance to Extreme Cold, Cosmic Radiations (Unaffected by the environment of space), Poisons and Chemical Products (Can travel through the most dangerous areas of Chemical Plant Zone without any trouble), Status Effect Inducement (The Invincibility Monitor grants a resistance to other Power-Ups, which includes Amy’s Heart Attack), Energy and Electric Attacks (With the Thunder Shield), Extreme Heat (Unfazed by the volcanic temperatures of Lava Reef Zone), Pseudo-Resistance to BFR (By just touching a Chaos Emerald, Knuckles will escape from being trapped in closed off dimensions)
Same as before, Homing Attack, Breaking the Fourth Wall (Can look at the player & get annoyed or bored while waiting for them), Weapon Mastery, Paralysis Inducement, Shockwave Generation (Can punch the ground hard enough to create an omnidirectional shock wave that disorientates and dizzies opponents, or causes a small volcanic eruption), Can see invisible objects with his Sunglasses, Non-Physical Interaction (Can hurt ghosts and spirits; Was able to harm King Boom Boo even after he had phased into the ground), Limited Electricity Manipulation (Can summon lightning bolts), Fire Manipulation, Toon Force and Elasticity (Can survive and recover from being flattened), Limited Time Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement (Via Stun and with Power Flash, Knuckles paralyzes the opponent for up to ten seconds), Resistance to Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the gravitational pull of a Black Hole), Extreme Heat (Can survive the heat of falling directly into a star), Death Manipulation (Can traverse through areas near Void and can interact with him, in which his presence alone killed off the life within the Nature Zone before it was restored), Time Stop (Able to move normally after hitting a Time Switch, which brings everything to a standstill and freezes the in-game timer), Acid Manipulation (Can withstand the acid of poison frogs with no negative side effects)
Same as before, Vehicular Mastery (Is a skilled Extreme Gear rider), Afterimage Creation via Boost Mode, Aura (with Boost), Statistics Amplification (Passive with Trounce Support, Strength Support 3 and Attack Support 8), Earth Manipulation (With Rock Free Fall, Meteor Crush and ???. Can use it to heal himself), Transmutation via Ring Time, and Durability Negation (The Ichikoro Gauge allows Knuckles to knock out the opponent in one hit once enough energy is transferred to it), Resistance to Durability Negation (Via Knuckles Guard, Knuckles can defend himself from special attacks induced by the Ichikoro Gauge and release stored energy within it, which instantly knocks out the opponent with enough transferred energy to it), Space-Time Manipulation (Can withstand attacks from multiple chaos powers that attack opponents with distorted space-time), Sound Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Transmutation/Deconstruction (Can withstand the effects of the Magenta, Ivory and Cube Wisps), Cyber Corruption (Upon Sonic becoming corrupted on Rhea Island, Tails, Amy, and Knuckles drove back Sonic's corruption to bring him back in order to fight The End), and Limited Resistance to Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Possession (Able to fight back against the Ifrit's powers, although he is ultimately taken over)
Gravity Manipulation and Black Hole Creation (With the Gravity Band), With the Color Powers: Transformation, Fire Manipulation and Explosion Manipulation (With Red Burst and Black Bomb), Vibration Manipulation (With Blue Cube and Gray Quake), Energy Projection (With Cyan Laser and Crimson Eagle), Electricity Manipulation (With Ivory Lightning), Invisibility (With Jade Ghost), Transmutation, Deconstruction, Black Hole Creation, Gravity Manipulation, Size Manipulation, and Absorption (With Indigo Asteroid, Violet Void, and Purple Frenzy), Intangibility (With Violet Void and Jade Ghost), Flight and Levitation (With Crimson Eagle, Green Hover, Indigo Asteroid, Magenta Rhythm, Orange Rocket, and Violet Void), Void Manipulation (With Violet Void). With Forcejewels: BFR, Barrier Creation (Can create barriers for a limited amount of time that others can't pass), Teleportation (Can teleport others to himself, teleport himself to others, swap places with an opponent, or teleport himself or others to a random location), Body Puppetry (Can force an opponent to move or use their items). With various Power-Ups: Homing Attack with Mines, Fire Manipulation with Fire, Ice Manipulation with Ice, Electricity Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement with Lightning, Perception Manipulation with Illusion, and Limited Magnetism Manipulation with Magnet. Can have access to the Master Emerald, Resistance to Status Effect Inducement (With the Immunity Idol)
All of the previous abilities on a dramatically enhanced scale, Self-Sustenance (Type 3), Acausality (Type 4; Super forms can function in the Egg Reverie Zone where time is shown to be switching forward and backwards constantly, whereas base characters only float around aimlessly), True Flight, Spaceflight, Aura, Afterimage Creation (Passive. Has a constant afterimage), Chaos Energy Manipulation, Positive Emotions Empowerment, Passive Forcefield, Invulnerability (Super forms are stated by multiple different sources to be invincible, indestructible and invulnerable, and are merely unaffected by conventional attacks from a bunch of different enemies, such as Perfect Chaos, Time Eater, Ultimate Gemerl and the Great Eggman Robo), Invulnerability Negation (Super form users can harm other super form users with this trait), Resistance to Mind Manipulation
All abilities of Super knuckles on a greatly enhanced scale, Afterimage Creation (Enhanced from before, as he now has multiple constant afterimages that follow him), Underwater Breathing (Type 2. Hyper Knuckles can survive underwater indefinitely without needing to use air bubbles or Aqua Shield), Shockwave Generation (With the Gliding Shockwave Attack, Hyper Knuckles causes devastating tremors that damage all enemies in his vicinity)
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Small Star Level to Large Star Level (Fought Classic Sonic, Tails and Mecha Sonic Mk. II) | Multi Solar System level to possibly Galaxy Level (Superior to Classic Sonic. Said to have unbeatable power in battle and alongside the rest of Team Sonic fought Team Dark in Heroes), higher with the Maximum Heat Attack (Like the Light Speed Attack, the Maximum Heat Attack doubles the damage that Knuckles is able to output) | Low Multiverse level to Multiverse level, likely Hyperverse level (Can easily harm large Iblis creatures when they're more trouble for Sonic himself to deal with and remains a rival of Modern Sonic, who defeated Ultimate Emerl and the Egg Dragoon. Is the mountain to Sonic's wind, making him as strong as Sonic is fast), higher with the Maximum Heat Attack and Boost | High Multiverse level+ to Hyperverse level (Destroyed the Phantom King. Should be capable of achieving the same level of power that Modern Super Sonic used to fight the Time Eater. Can potentially use the full power of the Chaos Emeralds, which allowed Super Sonic, Super Shadow and Super Silver to match Solaris) | High Multiverse level+ to Hyperverse level (Vastly above Super Knuckles and is comparable to Hyper Sonic due to being powered by the seven Super Emeralds, which are far above the Chaos Emeralds)
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FTL (Can keep up with Classic Sonic) | At least Massively FTL+ (Superior to Classic Sonic. Can keep up with Modern Sonic's casual run, and should be comparable to Tails' speed movement speed wise) with higher reactions and combat speed (Can react to and keep up with even Sonic's attacks, though he lacks the quickness Sonic has, the Maximum Heat Knuckles attack is like the Light Speed Attack made by Sonic) | Massively FTL+ (Should be faster than before, as he remains a prominent rival to Sonic despite overall slower speed. Can catch up to the Eggmobile, which flew to the Nonaggression Zone. Could fight against the Phantom Ruby's clones of Shadow and Metal Sonic), higher with Boost | Immeasurable (Far faster than his Base. Far faster compared to his Base. Comparable to Super Sonic. Comparable to full power Super Sonic who managed to hit Solaris before the latter could react) | Immeasurable (Far faster than Super Knuckles and comparable to Hyper Sonic)
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Class 10 | Class M (Physically stronger than Sonic and Shadow. Helped stop the Riot Train, a massive locomotive) | At least Class M (Has the reputation of being one of the strongest Sonic characters) | Immeasurable (Superior to the likes of Darkspine Sonic due to being powered by the Chaos Emeralds, which are superior to the World Rings) | Immeasurable (Far stronger than Super Knuckles)
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Small Star Class to Large Star Class | Multi Solar System Class to possibly Galactic, higher with the Maximum Heat Attack | Low Multiversal to Multiversal, likely Hyperversal, higher with the Maximum Heat Attack and Boost | High Multiversal+ to Hyperversal | High Multiversal+ to Hyperversal
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Small Star level to Large Star Level | Multi Solar System level to possibly Galaxy Level, higher with the Maximum Heat Attack | Low Multiverse level to Multiverse level, likely Hyperverse level, higher with the Maximum Heat Attack and Boost | High Multiverse level+ to Hyperverse level | High Multiverse level+ to Hyperverse level
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Very high | Very high | Very high | Limitless | Limitless
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Standard melee range. Hundreds of meters with his attacks and abilities | Standard melee range. Up to Universal+ to Low Multiversal with his attacks and abilities, potentially High Multiversal | Standard melee range. Several meters with the Gliding Shockwave Attack. High Multiversal with his attacks and abilities
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None | The Shovel Claws and the Fighting Gloves | None | Chaos Emeralds | Super Emeralds
- Optional Equipment: Master Emerald
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Above Average (Seems to have extensive knowledge of ancient civilizations, as he was able to translate an ancient language in the Gigan Rocks. He's skilled combatant as he is a master martial artist that has fought Sonic to a draw and he's an amazing treasure hunter)
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His attacks are readable as stated by Sonic and a little naive (trusts individuals like Eggman despite him tricking him many times) | None notable | None notable
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- Spin Dash: Knuckles can curl in a ball and rev up quickly to plow down enemies or go through tight places.
- Homing Attack: Knuckles can do an aerial version of his spin dash and home in on a target and attack them as many times as he wishes.
- Insta-Shield: Knuckles creates a temporary shield for a split-second that can slash enemies and items within their range without having to touch them.
- Punch Attack: Knuckles' triple punch combo.
- Drill Claw: A downward flaming attack at the foes.
- Deep Impact: Knuckles performs a punch which is so powerful that it causes friction with the air, creating a small explosion.
- Maximum Heat Knuckles Attack: Knuckles strikes his enemies with a high-speed homing attack after charging his power. The attack is reminiscent of that of the Light Speed Attack that was created by Sonic.
- Piko Piko Hammer: Knuckles has his own Piko Piko Hammer and when he swings it, it creates fire.
- Thunder Arrow: Knuckles summons lightning bolts to strike his target.
- Meteor Crush: Knuckles throws a meteor from the sky using his earth manipulation powers.
- Knuckles Heal: Knuckles uses "the power of earth" to heal himself.
- Knuckles Slam: When executing the move, Knuckles jumps into the air and says "Knuckle Slam" while charging up energy. He then punches the ground with his fists, creating a large column of red energy. After this, a red field made of bursts of fire and minor exploding shockwaves surrounds Knuckles.
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Classic Era | Adventure Era | Modern Era | Super Knuckles | Hyper Knuckles
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