Sonic's animal friends are the small creatures that are used to power Badniks in the early Sonic games. In later Sonic games (Sonic Adventure onwards), the animal friends appeared to be scrapped in favor of a wider variety of small animals. However, in most recent Sonic games, the concept of using animals to power robots is less frequent.

Although only a small number of animal friends are named (that is, one character per depicted species), numerous animals appeared as captives, either in Badnik shells or in Egg Capsules. Certain drafts of the Sega of America Sonic Bible explained that Sonic's animal friends all have large families, and that it is the family members who must be rescued. This was never depicted in any Sonic publication, however.

Contents 1 List of animal friends 1.1 Introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog 1.2 Introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 1.3 Sonic CD 1.4 Sonic Adventure 1.5 Sonic Adventure 2 2 Other Media 2.1 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.2 SatAM / Archie comics 2.3 Sonic the Comic 2.4 Sonic X 2.5 Sonic X Comic Series 3 Trivia

List of animal friends Edit

Introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog Edit

Image	Species	Name (Japan)	Name (Western media)
	Bluebird	Flicky	Flicky
	Rabbit	Pocky	Johnny Lightfoot
	Penguin	Pecky	Tux
	Chicken	Cucky	Chirps
	Squirrel	Ricky	Sally Acorn
	Pig	Picky	Porker Lewis
	Walrus	Rocky	Joe Sushi

Introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Edit

Image	Species	Name (Japan)
	Bear	Becky
	Eagle	Locky
	Monkey	Wocky
	Turtle	Tocky
	Mouse	-

Sonic CDEdit

Image	Species	Name (Japan)
	Fish	-

Sonic AdventureEdit

Image	Species	Type
	Deer	Running
	Kangaroo	Running
	Rabbit	Running
	Swallow	Flying
	Parrot	Flying
	Peacock	Flying
	Elephant	Power
	Gorilla	Power
	Lion	Power
	Penguin	Swimming
	Seal	Swimming
	Sea Otter	Swimming
	Koala	Other
	Mole	Other
	Skunk	Other

Sonic Adventure 2Edit

Image	Species	Type
	Boar	Running
	Cheetah	Running
	Rabbit	Running
	Condor	Flying
	Parrot	Flying
	Peacock	Flying
	Bear	Power
	Gorilla	Power
	Tiger	Power
	Penguin	Swimming
	Seal	Swimming
	Sea Otter	Swimming
	Raccoon	Land
	Sheep	Land
	Skunk	Land
	Bat	Ghost
	Half-Fish	Ghost
	Skeleton Dog	Ghost
	Dragon	Legendary
	Phoenix	Legendary
	Unicorn	Legendary

Other MediaEdit

Adventures of Sonic the HedgehogEdit

Three animal friends appear in the episode "Momma Robotnik's Birthday": Pocky, Ricky, and a Mouse.

SatAM / Archie comicsEdit

The Knothole Freedom Fighters are based on the original animal friends from the first Sonic game. The most obvious is Princess Sally Acorn, who shares her name with the corresponding animal friend. Rotor Walrus is based on Joe Sushi, while Bunnie Rabbot is based on Johnny Lightfoot.

Flickies have made a few appearances in the Archie comics, most notably in the Sonic Blast 48 page special. Powerful, yellow Flickies were also seen helping Hyper Tails in Sonic the Hedgehog #66 (similar to the Flickies that help Super Tails in Sonic 3 & Knuckles), and another Flicky appears as a travel companion for Amy in the Sonic Adventure storyline.

Sonic the ComicEdit

Many of the early animal friends have made appearances in the British publication, Sonic the Comic. The most notable ones are Porker Lewis and Johnny Lightfoot, who are valued members of the Freedom Fighters.

Sonic XEdit

Three Flickies, Sally Acorn, Porker Lewis, and Joe Sushi are shown on the news in Defective Detectives after they are teleported to Earth through Chaos Control. In Mean Machines, Chirps, Tux and Ricky all appear in a local park. In Running Out of Time, when Sonic's friends return to their dimension, Pocky, Tux, Ricky and two Flickies are seen being transported back.

Sonic X Comic SeriesEdit

In the Archie Sonic X Comics, many of the original animal friends make cameos on the cover and in the story of issue 11.

TriviaEdit

• If the player hits a Caterkiller on any part of its body other than its head, an animal friend will not be freed.