Asteron
Asteron in Sonic the Hedgehog 4.
Appearances
First appearance	Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Game appearances	Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure Sonic the Hedgehog 4
Appearances in other media	Sonic the Comic Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Series)
Biographical overview
Creator	Dr. Robotnik
Physical description
Species	Badnik
Color scheme	Yellow, Red, Grey, Black
Eyes	Red
Alignment and character traits
Alignment	Evil
Skills, abilities and powers
Skills	Able to float in the air. Self-destructs itself and fires sharp pieces to five directions.

Asteron (テルスター, Terusutā^?) is a hovering starfish-type badnik created by Doctor Robotnik. Making first appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Asteron badniks are simply designed badniks, that are located usually on walls and are able to self-destruct and fire its five sharp parts to toward directions.

Contents 1 Game Appearances 1.1 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 1.2 Sonic Pocket Adventure 1.3 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 2 Description 2.1 Physical Appearance 2.2 Abilities 3 Appearances in Other Media 3.1 Sonic the Comic 3.2 Archie Comics 4 Gallery 4.1 Artworks 4.2 Screenshots 5 Trivia

Game AppearancesEdit

Sonic the Hedgehog 2Edit

Asteron makes debut appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, where it is one of three deadly badnik types featured at Metropolis Zone. These badniks hide at walls, floors and ceilings, where they cannot be harmed. When approached, however, it will move closer to the player, and then fire its star points, which are like spears, in five different directions. Its red eye helps it to detect the player when they are close enough.

In a certain part of Metropolis Zone, there is a giant tower which can be scaled by running up a screw on a nut, and there are about four to six Asterons along the way. Their threat is increased as their spear attack can cause the player to fall off the nut, often requiring the player to move a certain distance away from the screw to reset the nut at the bottom.

Sonic Pocket AdventureEdit

Asteron badniks make next appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure, where they are featured at Gigantic Angel Zone. As Gigantic Angel has many identical gimmicks and elements from Metropolis Zone, it has also badniks models with same patterns as well. However Asteron badniks are seen hovering in the air and the player apparently is able to destroy these badniks before its self-destruction, thus freeing animal friend inside of it. Asteron badniks also are seen flashing red before its exploding.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4Edit

Asteron then make reappearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 4, with slightly different design and being featured at Mad Gear Zone with same badniks. Despite that, these badniks retains the identical patterns from previous appearances, but once again the player is not able to destroy these badniks. Before its self-destruction, these badniks starts spinning around.

DescriptionEdit

Physical AppearanceEdit

Asteron has simple, flat starfish-shaped appearance. Its core body is colored light-yellow and in the middle of the body is grey hole with red eye on the hole. All five sharp points have grey spears, that are pointing to the five directions. Asteron's appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is detailed, even through involving only slight changes.

AbilitiesEdit

Asteron badniks can found hiding in walls, floors and ceilings, waiting for its target to come close to it. When the character approaches, Asteron then moves closer to the character, and suddenly self-destructs and fires all five spears in five directions.

Appearances in Other MediaEdit

Sonic the ComicEdit

Asteron has made few appearances in Fleetway's Sonic the Comic, as being typically part of Robotnik's badnik army. The only appearance in the comic's original run has been in issue 79's story "Revolution", where Asteron was as one of the badniks unleashed on the civilians to remind them that Doctor Robotnik was in charge Brutus' troops are seen to feature one Asteron as well. All of these badniks have got destroyed by Sonic, Amy and Johnny Lightfoot. Before that, Asteron has also featured on one pin-up of issue 67.

Archie ComicsEdit

Several Asteron badniks made small appearance on one panel of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic issue 229. They are guarding Metropolis Zone like other badniks during the Genesis story arc., as Sonic tries to get past of them during his mission to get to the core of Eggman's base. Sonic uses meter-wide screw to make progress on his journey and also uses it to squash Asterons to the ceiling.

GalleryEdit

ArtworksEdit

ScreenshotsEdit

TriviaEdit

• By hacking Sonic the Hedgehog 2, it is apparently possible to destroy Asteron badniks simply by Spin Jumping on them and freeing animals inside them, if these badniks aren't set on to walls. Because the original game doesn't let the player to have change to destroy these badniks, animals inside them can possibly get perished after badnik's self-destruction.
• Asteron and Crawl are the only Badniks in Sonic the Hedgehog 4, that are not featured in the game's website.