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Spoilers for previous entries in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!Knuckles is a 2024 hybrid live-action/animated sci-fi action comedy miniseries spin-off of the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog film adaptations, and is the first live-action television series from the overall Sonic franchise after nearly three decades of animated television series.note Those being Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Sonic Underground, Sonic X, Sonic Boom, and Sonic Prime. The series was developed by John Whittington (who also co-wrote Sonic the Hedgehog 2) and Toby Asher, and sees the return of Idris Elba as the voice of Knuckles the Echidna and Adam Pally as Green Hills Deputy Sheriff Wade Whipple, with guest appearances by Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, Colleen O'Shaughnessey as the voice of Tails, and Tika Sumpter as Maddie Wachowski. Joining the cast will be Rory McCann, Cary Elwes, Edi Patterson, Stockard Channing, Julian Barratt, Scott Mescudi, Ellie Taylor, and Christopher Lloyd.The series follows both Knuckles and Wade as the former, having been caught up in the life of a warrior for so long, sets out to adjust to and learn about life on Earth while teaching Wade the way of the echidna warrior, while the latter seeks out to win the bowling-oriented Tournament of Champions and to resolve the baggage behind his family's past. All while the two are both hunted down by rogue G.U.N. agents and a former protege of Robotnik's.The series premiered on Paramount+ April 26, 2024. While billed as an event series, Toby Asher has stated that additional seasons could happen depending on whether or not there are more stories to tell, while more miniseries based around Sonic characters were likely.Previews: Trailer, Super Bowl Teaser (not the original link), Behind the Scenes featurette | |
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David Versus Goliath | |
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David Versus Goliath: One clip in the trailer shows Knuckles taking on a thug more than twice his size, and easily winning. | |
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Playing with Fire: In the final episode, after receiving a Heroic Second Wind, Knuckles' fists are set aflame from the power from his heart, dubbed the Flames of Disaster according to the Vision Quest Wade went through in the fourth episode. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Wade in this series is a lot like Hawk from Sonic X. Both are overweight men who want to help Knuckles and go on adventures with him. They are Knuckles' counterparts in the human world. "The Warrior" opens with Knuckles running an obstacle course outfitted with various hazards commonly seen in the games, such as swinging pendulums with spiked balls and a rotating log lined with spikes. Knuckles' face is also painted on the back of a goal sign, resembling those from the 2D games. It even spins around as Knuckles runs past it, just like in the games. Knuckles is at one point shown with flames covering his hands, a power he has used in the games on occasion (such as Sonic Heroes). The cowboy hat that Knuckles is wearing as he's riding a motorbike looks identical to the infamous hat he wore in the Sonic OVA. Not to mention a poster referencing that again. Episode 2 is set primarily at a ski resort called "Icecap", a name shared with a zone from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Part of the story is set in Reno, bringing the series tradition of casino-themed zones like Casino Night or Carnival Night back full circle to their real-world inspiration. The very fact of the series' existence is one. Coming out in the same year as the third movie means that once again we're getting Sonic 3 & Knuckles. One from the first film is taken full circle when Agent Willoughby reveals that G.U.N. actually refers to Green Hills and the surrounding area as the "Green Hill Zone". Sonic's Affectionate Nickname for Knuckles is "Knucks", just as in the games. Wade also tries to use it, but is denied. His second suggestion is "Knucky", which was what Rouge called Knuckles in Sonic X. Another suggestion, "Sir Knucks-A-Lot," brings to mind Sir Gawain. Knuckles' statement that he doesn't make jokes is a reference to his Image Song, "Unknown From M.E.", from Sonic Adventure ("Unlike Sonic, I don't chuckle..."). Knuckles is shown to be bothered by bright, twinkling lights, which is based on the idle comments he makes in the casino-themed stages in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Heroes. Sonic's statement that video games have come a long way since The '90s is a reference to the franchise's debut with the first game in 1991. The Flames of Disaster is a name normally associated with Iblis rather than the Echidnas. In fact, the puppet of the fire demon in the episode of the same name bears a strong resemblance to Iblis. The rock opera expositing Knuckles' backstory in Episode 4 is similar in tone and purpose to the theme song of Sonic Underground, the first western cartoon to feature Knuckles. Pachacamac's role in this series as a Spirit Advisor is ironically the same one that his daughter Tikal had in Sonic Adventure. He's even accompanied by a red-orange light when he materializes. In the final episode, the final battle between Knuckles and the Buyer outside of a casino at night invokes Tails's final boss fight against the Egg Walker, just outside Casinopolis, in Sonic Adventure. Likewise, the Buyer's mech resembles the Phantom Egg, the initial final boss of Sonic Mania, with its four tentacles and being a miniature suit. | |
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Breaking Old Trends | |
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Breaking Old Trends: For the first time in the Sonic film franchise, Tom Holkenborg isn't on scoring duties, with Tom Howe taking over. | |
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Crossover Cameo | |
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Crossover Cameo: The Tournament Of Champions is being hosted on ESPN 8: The Ocho. | |
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I Am Not Weasel | |
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I Am Not Weasel: As shown in "The Warrior", Knuckles thinks Ozzy is a wolf. He's not exactly wrong, though, as domestic dogs are a subspecies of wolf. | |
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Ruder and Cruder: Compared to the movies and especially the games (for the most part), the series falls more under Shadow the Hedgehog's level of swearing for a PG-rated series, with a bit of usage of "damn" and "hell" throughout like said game and even a "pissed" gets dropped at one point. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: After the repair crew leaves, Sonic points out they are the fourth to be attacked by Knuckles during that month. One of the Whipple family Shabbats apparently ended with a live goat on the table, if Wade's flashback is to be believed. After the final battle with the Buyer, one of the Tournament of Champions commentators reveals that the last time an extraterrestrial entered a bowling tournament was in 1974, but he wasn't red. | |
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Powered Armor: The two agents that confront Knuckles in the trailer, Mason and Willoughby, are shown wearing metal exoskeletons powered by Knuckles’ quills, allowing them to match him in combat. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: If his spirit is anything to go by here, Pachacamac is certainly NOT the ruthless and power-hungry tyrant he was in Sonic Adventure, instead being a benevolent, Eccentric Mentor to Knuckles and later Wade. | |
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Non-Singing Voice: Played for Laughs. Wade's singing voice in Episode 4 is provided by Michael Bolton of all people, which is acknowledged in-universe. | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: In "Reno, Baby!", the Buyer is prepared to dispose of Willoughby and Mason for failing to capture Knuckles, but reconsiders when Willoughby explains that she has a vested personal interest in seeing Knuckles disposed of after G.U.N. reassigned her to observing him and his friends rather than destroy them to protect the human race. The Buyer, sympathizing with her because Knuckles and company were responsible for his boss Robotnik's disappearance, opts to give her and Mason another chance, albeit amending their deal so that his payment to them would be sparing their lives. | |
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Written-In Absence: Due to James Marsden not being a part of the cast, Tom is out of town during the events of the series. | |
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Archnemesis Dad | |
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Archnemesis Dad: Downplayed example with Wade's dad, Pistol Pete. Not only did he abandon his family, after Wade tried to reconcile with him in Reno, he actually sold Wade out to the rogue G.U.N. agents just to win the Bowling tournament. He's not really a villain, but certainly not a good guy and responsible for a lot of Wade's emotional damage. | |
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Audible Sharpness | |
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Audible Sharpness: In "The Warrior", when Sonic goes to touch one of the sharpened poles lining the living room-turned-battle-arena, a high-pitched, metallic sound can be heard. | |
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Contrasting Sequel Main Character: The animal-human duo of Knuckles and Wade is shown to be a direct inversion of Sonic and Tom's dynamic: whereas Sonic is a free-spirited and energetic kid with Tom acting as a level-headed father figure to him, Knuckles is a reserved and comically serious warrior trying to train Wade, a dim-witted Butt-Monkey. | |
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Logo Joke | |
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Logo Joke: In the trailer, the Paramount+ logo is set against a red background before a ring portal shifts it to blue. | |
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Beastly Bloodsports: In the "The Warrior", Knuckles gets Ozzy and the mailman to fight each other in a makeshift arena. | |
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Image Song | |
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Knuckles' statement that he doesn't make jokes is a reference to his Image Song, "Unknown From M.E.", from Sonic Adventure ("Unlike Sonic, I don't chuckle..."). | |
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Spirit Advisor | |
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Spirit Advisor: Pachacamac's spirit acts as this to both Knuckles in the first episode and Wade in the fourth. The second instance has him assume the form of a bowling alley manager for Wade's Vision Quest. | |
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Human-Focused Adaptation | |
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Human-Focused Adaptation: While Knuckles is the title character, a lot of the plot of the series focuses on his human partner Wade Whipple, with Knuckles more or less becoming a Decoy Protagonist for the second half of the season. Somewhat justified due to it being a TV series with a tighter budget than the movies. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: A lot of the plot of the series revolves around the bowling tournament in Reno, which is taken very seriously by Wade and Jack Sinclair as well as "Pistol Pete", Wade's father, who is willing to team up with the bad guys only to get Wade out of the way of winning said tournament. Given that one of the film posters prominently featured in Wade's room is from The Big Lebowski, the similarities to that bowling-focused movie probably aren't a coincidence. | |
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Teleport Gun: Agent Willoughby has a gun loaded with the portal rings used by Sonic and Knuckles in the films, which she first uses to drop Knuckles into a containment box after she and Mason fail to overpower him conventionally. She attempts it again during their rematch at the hotel, but Knuckles anticipates the move and punches the rings aside before they can trigger, causing them to instead create a looping suction effect before collapsing in on each other. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: Most of the promotional material (including this very page's image) focuses primarily on Knuckles and very little on Wade, in spite of the fact that the former ends up as a Decoy Protagonist for the latter about halfway into the series. | |
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Mirthless Laughter | |
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Mirthless Laughter: In the first episode, Tails nervously laughs after seeing Knuckles had made a very intense-looking throne out of the family car. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Maddie compares Knuckles's makeshift throne to the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones, which had Rory McCann (the Buyer) as the Hound. Wade's room has a poster of The Addams Family, which starred Christopher Lloyd (Pachacamac) as Uncle Fester. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: Being advertised as more of an action-comedy compared to the movies, the series has a lot more comedic moments throughout than action moments, whether it be from Knuckles' Comically Serious personality in his experience of learning about life on Earth, Wade's Butt-Monkey aspects coming in at full slapstick-levels of force as he tries to learn to be a warrior, or GUN Agents' Mason and Willoughby's attempts to be taken seriously in their hunt for Knuckles. | |
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Inner Thoughts, Outsider Puzzlement | |
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Inner Thoughts, Outsider Puzzlement: In Episode 2, Wade imagines himself saving Knuckles and sharing a hug with him. Cut back to reality, where the man behind the counter is looking confused why Wade is hugging the items he is about to purchase. | |
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You Are Grounded! | |
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You Are Grounded!: Maddie gives this to Knuckles for turning the living room into a gladiator arena and forcing Ozzy to fight the mailman in it. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: One scene in Episode 1 shows Knuckles downing a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos while relaxing under a tree, not quite what you would expect from an echidna warrior. Granted, he is under the assumption he just made a "victory" and is rewarding himself. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: In "The Warrior". Knuckles misunderstands Sonic’s advice to “make himself at home� by turning the living room into a gladiator arena and kidnapping the mailman. When Maddie grounds him for this, Knuckles blames Sonic and tells him he is planning revenge on him for this. | |
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Repurposed Pop Song | |
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Repurposed Pop Song: The trailer is set to a dramatic remix of “Knuck If You Buck� by Chadd Woo, for obvious reasons. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Not only Knuckles, but Wade also takes the main role for the series. | |
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Foreshadowing: 'Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster', Episode 5's opening song, is on Wade's Spotify playlist in Episode 2. | |
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Continuity Nod: The first episode shows that Maddie is hiring construction crews to fix the hole in the Wachowski residence created by Knuckles and Sonic's fight in the second movie. Unfortunately, none of said crews get very far because Knuckles keeps mistaking them for attackers and reacts accordingly. | |
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Eye Am Watching You | |
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Eye Am Watching You: Wade's sister Wanda does this to Knuckles. Knuckles later returns the favor after saving her from a chain-wielding thug. Since his glove doesn't have separate fingers, he uses the two spikes on it instead. | |
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Bowling for Ratings | |
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Bowling for Ratings: The B-plot of Knuckles has Wade getting kicked off his bowling team and having Knuckles to help him regain his confidence, ultimately participating in a bowling tournament in Reno against Wade's father "Pistol" Pete. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Wade Whipple was a minor character in the Sonic movies, but is promoted to main character and co-star in this series. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: As shown in "The Warrior", Knuckles is blind to the fact that his tribe's practices wouldn't fly in modern civilization. Like when he forces Ozzy and the mailman to have a fight to the death in a makeshift gladiator pit surrounded by sharp objects. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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Fish out of Water: The series gives a few glimpses of how Knuckles's warrior lifestyle clashes with the modern-day environment on Earth, like turning the Wachowskis' living room into a gladiator arena. | |
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Reactive Continuous Scream | |
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Reactive Continuous Scream: Wade and Pachacamac do this when they meet in Wade’s Vision Quest in the fourth episode. | |
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Horns of Barbarism | |
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Horns of Barbarism: In the first episode, Ozzy wears a stereotypical horned Viking helmet (which is just a costume) as Knuckles prepares him for battle. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: While Maddie, Sonic, and Tails are present in the first half of the first episode, they take a backseat to Knuckles and Wade's adventures, with Tom in particular having been Put on a Bus as he was out of Green Hills at the time of the series. | |
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Nobody Here but Us Statues | |
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Nobody Here but Us Statues: Averted. Wade hides from Mason by putting on a hat and pretending to be a display, which is missed at first, but as soon as Mason starts paying attention he instantly notices. | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: The Buyer is not only a very competent engineer and inventor, but he also sports an intimidating physique. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: In the intro, Wade's playing a different musical instrument. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In "The Warrior", Maddie refers to Knuckles as a "little red barbarian". Also in "The Warrior", Maddie refers to Knuckles's makeshift throne as "the Iron Throne". Sonic comments that the warrior fighting pit is "very Conan chic". Wade's suggestions for a nickname for Knuckles include "Knuckington Bear" and "Knuckolas Cage". In "Don't Ever Say I Wasn't There For You", Knuckles glides in front of the full moon with Wade on his back in a shout-out to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In "The Shabbat Dinner", Wade's old bedroom has posters for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Total Recall, The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Addams Family, Speed, Beavis And Butthead Do America, and more. If you look closely, you can see Wade's bed is decorated with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bedding. Wade is also shown wearing a TMNT T-shirt under his morning robes in the trailer's final shot. Also in "The Shabbat Dinner," Knuckles and Wade's mother Wendy are watching Pretty Woman in the living room after dinner, where Knuckles points out how Julia Roberts' character is treated with disrespect. In "Reno, Baby!" when Wade mentions that Kevin James will be headlining the casino they visit, Knuckles refers to him as "the Mall Cop." In "What Happens in Reno, Stays in Reno", there is a pair of ESPN commentators at the bowling tournament. Specifically, they are from ESPN 8: The Ocho - the programming block introduced in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story before being defictionalized. During "The Flames of Disaster", Jack shouts an epic phrase from a long distance, though Wade cannot hear him, similar to Shen and Po, after the Dragon Warrior returns to Gongmen City. | |
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Savage Spiked Weapons | |
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Savage Spiked Weapons: In "The Warrior", Knuckles has created a spiked club out of a baseball bat and nails, which he has given to the mailman to use as a weapon for his gladiator match against Ozzy. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: In the first episode, Maddie calls out Knuckles for turning the living room into a gladiator arena (and one that’s very hazardous at that) and getting Ozzy to fight their mailman in it. Perfectly understandable, as this would be illegal in modern Earth society (one of the repairmen that Knuckles attacked even threatened to sue). | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Sonic's Affectionate Nickname for Knuckles is "Knucks", just as in the games. Wade also tries to use it, but is denied. His second suggestion is "Knucky", which was what Rouge called Knuckles in Sonic X. Another suggestion, "Sir Knucks-A-Lot," brings to mind Sir Gawain. | |
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Vision Quest | |
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Vision Quest: In the fourth episode, after being knocked out via an electric cage Jack trapped him in, Wade undergoes one of these while unconscious, guided by Pachacamac in a retelling of Knuckles' past to help him to find his true strength... Through a musical stage play depicting said past with Wade as Knuckles and Jack as Longclaw. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: While the series initially starts with a focus on both Knuckles' story to get used to life on Earth and Wade's story to win the Tournament of Champions serving as the B-plot, the final two episodes ultimately set up Knuckles as a Supporting Protagonist as Wade becomes the primary focus of the story and character developments once he encounters his father at the Tournament of Champions. | |
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Barehanded Bar Bending | |
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Barehanded Bar Bending: During a workout session at Wade's house, Knuckles is seen bending a barbell (with four weight plates on each end) and casually throwing it aside effortlessly, which is a given due to his enormous Super-Strength. | |
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Black Comedy Animal Cruelty | |
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Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Downplayed in "The Warrior". Knuckles, who is ignorant about the modern standards of Earth society, attempts to have Ozzy challenge "his greatest enemy" (the mailman) in a fight to the death, in a very hazardous arena that the echidna set up in the living room. Given Ozzy lets out a whimper and his tail is between his legs, he is feeling discomforted by it. Maddie is understandably alarmed by this. | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn: During the beginning of "The Flames of Disaster", Knuckles and Wanda drink coffee as they watch Wade get dragged away by Jack Sinclair's motorcycle. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: The models used for Sonic, Tails and Knuckles in the series include their more expressive faces from Sonic Drone Home. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: The Buyer is a genius human inventor with a fatter more bulky body who makes two henchmen go after his enemies which makes him more similar to Robotnik from the original incarnations. But his plan about going after Knuckles and him once working for Robotnik makes him similar to Eggrobo when playing as Knuckles in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. | |
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Mailman vs. Dog | |
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Mailman vs. Dog: In the first episode, Knuckles turns the living room of the Wachowski household into an arena and gets family dog Ozzy to face the mailman in combat. | |
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Adaptational Context Change | |
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Adaptational Context Change: The Flames of Disaster, contrary to their original counterpart in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) where it's known as Iblis, was sealed away into Elise who cannot cry lest she release Iblis and unleash a fiery apocalypse upon the world, are completely disconnected from said fiery beast in the movie continuity as it's been turned into an Adaptational Superpower Change, now a power wielded by a Fire Demon, and a power known to the Echidna Tribe that's manifested from the true strength within one's heart, and when Knuckles uses the Flames of Disaster, his fists are set ablaze as his power is enhanced drastically. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Knuckles relaxes under a tree, unloading a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos into his mouth. Sonic tries getting Knuckles to play with his Meta Quest 3 in the attic. | |
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Real Men Take It Black | |
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Real Men Take It Black: The fourth episode shows Knuckles drinking coffee straight from the pot without a reaction to the taste. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: When Agent Mason counters Knuckles' punch with his own in "The Warrior" he throws back Knuckles' "Do I look like I need your power?" boast. Agent Willoughby then comes behind and complains that they do, because that's why they're there in the first place. | |
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