Sonic Alignment

[Bartmanhomer]

I always want to know what Sonic The Hedgehog alignment is?

Sonic The Hedgehog (Chaotic Good)
Tails "Miles" Prowler (Neutral Good)
Knuckles The Echinda (Lawful Good)
Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Lawful Evil)
Amy Rose Neutral Good (Neutral Good)
Shadow The Hedgehog (Lawful Evil)
Rouge The Bat (Lawful Evil)

So what do you think of Sonic Alignment? I know there are more characters that I might have missed.

[danzibr]

No Chaotix?

Problem is, I only played the Genesis games (and 32X and the new retro one), and watched some shows, so I’m missing out on their personalities.

[Bartmanhomer]

No Chaotix?

Problem is, I only played the Genesis games (and 32X and the new retro one), and watched some shows, so I’m missing out on their personalities.

I forgot about those characters.

Chaotix:

Vector The Gator (Chaotic Neutral)
Espen The Chameleon (Chaotic Neutral)
Charmy Bee (Chaotic Neutral)

[DataNinja]

Since I see these threads popping up a lot from you... why not just have a single thread regarding "Fictional Character Alignment", and then whenever you have a new one that you want to share or ask about, just put it there?

[Bartmanhomer]

Since I see these threads popping up a lot from you... why not just have a single thread regarding "Fictional Character Alignment", and then whenever you have a new one that you want to share or ask about, just put it there?

Why haven't I thought about that?

[Zevox]

With some of these it may depend a bit on the particular portrayal, since there's so many different pieces of Sonic media out there (the games, the comics, various TV shows, that upcoming movie that looks like an abomination...). But sure.

Sonic: Chaotic Good, probably in all cases. Very much an individualist with a heart of gold type.
Tails: Neutral Good, generally. Tends to be the innocent do-gooder type with no particular leanings towards anything lawful or chaotic.
Knuckles: Oh gods, does he depend on the portrayal. The original games (pre-3D) are open enough to interpretation that he could be anything but evil I'd say, though probably not chaotic either, but there's little to narrow it down beyond that. Some of the later games seem to cast him as Lawful Stupid (Neutral), being a muscle-head who is largely focused on his role as guardian of Angel Island, while others portray him as more generally good and just sort of one of Sonic's entourage. In the portrayal where I feel he had the most actual character, the old comics (from well over a decade ago, I stopped reading them somewhere in the issue 110-120 range), I'd call him Neutral Good, having both Lawful and Chaotic tendencies but a definite do-gooder streak.
Robotnik: Lawful Evil, very much the wannabe world dictator type of villain.
Shadow: Hard to place, in part because I've tended to avoid things with him in them. From what I recall from Sonic Adventure 2 and the little I've seen of him elsewhere, eh, Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Evil. He's always kind of a selfish a-hole, and definitely shares Sonic's chaotic qualities, but whether he crosses into full-blown evil territory varies.
Amy: From what little I've seen of her I don't think she has much personality beyond "Sonic fangirl" and being generally good. So, Indeterminate Good.
Rouge: Only recall seeing her in SA2 and a little in Sonic Chronicles, and she doesn't do much in either. Probably like Shadow, somewhere in the Chaotic Neutral to Chaotic Evil range, depending on how bad her actions are being portrayed in a given game/story.
The Chaotix: The only game where I even recall seeing them is Sonic Heroes, and I don't remember anything of that game's story or how they were portrayed there. Based on their few appearances in the old comics, I'd call them a mix of Neutral and Chaotic Good, with Vector being the most chaotic, Charmy being the least, and Espio and Mighty somewhere in between.

[Knaight]

Shadow: Hard to place, in part because I've tended to avoid things with him in them. From what I recall from Sonic Adventure 2 and the little I've seen of him elsewhere, eh, Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Evil. He's always kind of a selfish a-hole, and definitely shares Sonic's chaotic qualities, but whether he crosses into full-blown evil territory varies.

Shadow is fairly likely to be presented as having an actual arc, which generally runs from LE to NG or so.

[danzibr]

Or, going by 3.5 rules, since they're all animals (except Rotobnik), all true neutral :P

[Bartmanhomer]

Silver The Hedgehog is Neutral Good.

[Malphegor]

Shadow the Hedgehog has to be Chaotic Neutral mainly because his game was basically built on whether you, the player, pick the Good ending or the Evil ending, but either way involves a lot of shooty shooty bang bang.

Big the Cat is True Evil though. All he cares about is getting Froggy. His selfishness drives him to ignore the entire universe, all the evils of the world to thwart, so that even if he was arguably a Good character, he is an obsessed lunatic.

Whatsherface the princess character from Sonic 06, human, she's True Neutral as she is a glorified npc with no actual distinguishing features to her personality beyond maybe being attracted to talking animals.

[KillianHawkeye]

Big the Cat is True Evil though. All he cares about is getting Froggy. His selfishness drives him to ignore the entire universe, all the evils of the world to thwart, so that even if he was arguably a Good character, he is an obsessed lunatic.

I have to disagree. Big the Cat is not intelligent enough to have a non-Neutral alignment. He does not understand anything other than fishing for his friend Froggy.

Froggy, on the other hand, is pure Evil because HE WON'T FOLLOW THE DAMN LURE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU FROGGY JUST TAKE IT WHY IS EVERY LEVEL THE SAME DAMN THING?!?!?!

Um... sorry... I may have some past issues I'm still dealing with.......