Bean the Dynamite (Archie)

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This character exists primarily or exclusively within the continuity of Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog series. Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.

Bean the Dynamite (Archie)
Series	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comic)
First Appearance	Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 50 (Cameo) Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 160 (True first appearance)
Latest Appearance	Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 188
Total Number of Appearances	14
Likes	Shiny Objects Bombs Paying Jobs

Contents 1 History 1.1 Past 1.2 Out Of The Blue 1.3 Round Up! 1.4 Eggman Empire 1.5 House Of Cards 1.6 Mogul Rising 1.7 Mister Popular 1.8 Beating The House 2 In The Games 3 Relationships 3.1 Bark the Polar Bear 3.2 Mammoth Mogul 3.3 Fiona Fox 3.4 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Questions To Be Answered 5 Trivia 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Past

When younger, Bean worked in a mercenary team with Fiona, and Bark. At one point, the three entered an illegal fighting tournament, only to be single-handedly defeated by Rouge.^[1]

[edit] Out Of The Blue

Bean first appears with Bark, crashing Sonic's birthday party, at a newly rebuilt Freedom HQ. Bean breaks in, singing a childishly evil birthday song to Sonic, and then begins throwing his bombs at Sonic, Amy, and Antoine.^[2] Continuing this, Bean does so to Sally, as well, after which, Sonic finally stops him, and pins Bean up against a wall, telling him about Anti-Sonic.^[3] Before Sonic can finish, Bean starts pecking at his head. Fiona uses some "Shiny keys" to distract Bean. She throws them out of the window, after which Bean jumps after them.^[4] Outside of Freedom HQ, Bean plays with the keys as though they were a female that he was dating at the time. Bean then notices a shadow behind him, to which Bean turns, and asks the figure if he wants to help beat up Sonic, adding that it's good for his "glutes."^[5] A few minutes later, after the Freedom Fighters have defeated Bark, Shadow comes in, holding an unconscious Bean.^[6] After being put down, everyone (excluding Bean and Bark) begin talking. Bean wakes up, taking this as an opportunity to sneak into the Brain Trust's Room, and contact Robotnik.^[7] While tossing a bomb, Bean tells Robotnik that he, and Bark were defeated. Robotnik begins complaining to Bean, only to be interrupted by Fiona, Sonic, and Rotor. Fiona scolds Bean, and tells him to sit with Bark.^[8]

[edit] Round Up!

While riding Extreme Gear with Bark, on Angel Island, to watch the Master Emerald, they run into Sonic, and Antoine.^[9] Bean, and Bark start circling the heroes, waiting for the right moment to attack. During this, Bean tells Sonic that they got the Extreme Gear by leaving the "armada" at the right time. Before he finishes, Sonic jumps on Bean, and starts giving him a noogie. Bean reacts by freaking out, and yelling at Sonic not to infect him with "noogie germs".^[10] After losing control of the Extreme Gear, and Bean calling Sonic several names, Sonic is able to defeat Bean.^[11] After another battle, Sonic, Antoine, Bunnie, Sally, and Rouge pile all the villains, including Bean onto the Marvelous Queen, and Rouge takes them away.^[12]

[edit] Eggman Empire

After Sonic, Amy, Tails, and Knuckles rescue everyone from the Egg Grapes, Bean is seen among the crowd, checking on Charmy, while Dr. Quack tends to him.^[13] Bean is later seen again in a crowd, escaping Eggman's base.^[14] Bean, Bark, Nack, Ixis, and Mogul all appear together, in New Mobotropolis, after NICOLE has everyone sent there, from Eggman's base.^[15] Mogul begins threatening to defeat everyone, while they're weak, though, Nicole begins transporting them to an un-escapable jail she had built. Bean is the only one to notice this process, though he doesn't realise what it is, only getting happy about a "shiny". Once transported, Bean responds by calling it "AWESOME"^[16]

[edit] House Of Cards

While Elias goes to the New Mobotropolis prison cells, to talk to Amadeus, Bean gets hyper, and excited. Bean directs the attention of the other in-mates to Elias. Bean then starts yelling that he wants to wear Elias' crown.^[17] Hours later, while Tails, and Rosemary break Amadeus out, Bean accidently alerts them that Sonic is there, by trying to turn Sonic's arrival into a joke about cheese.^[18]

[edit] Mogul Rising

While Sonic talks with Mogul in the cells, Bean appears, making faces at Sonic.^[19][20] The next night, Sonic, and Ash return to confront Mogul about the new Fearsome Foursome, Bean is seen sleeping in his cell.^[21] Later that night, when Mogul receives the Chaos Emerald, he breaks everyone out of the cells, including Bean.^[22] Being throw back, by Mogul freeing the criminals, Bean picks up Ash's glasses, and stares down at the floor, sticking his tongue out, much to Ash's disgust.^[23] Ash angrily grabs his glasses back, only before Mogul teleports the villains away, with his powers. Before leaving, Bean starts crying saying how much he'll miss Sonic, and that he'll write to him everyday.^[24]

[edit] Mister Popular

Bean, Bark, Nack, and Sleuth show up at a meeting with Mogul, to discuss their jobs.^[25] During the meeting, Bean is seen playing with a shiny silver fork, taken from his sandwich. He seems to ignore what everyone else is saying, as he mumbles "shiiiiiiny" to himself, while playing with the fork.^[26] Several hours later, while Sonic, and Sally are out, Bean pops out with Bark, bombarding the heroes with an endless amount of bombs. Holding Bark's scarf, Bean starts singing "We're baaaaaack!"^[27] Sonic starts fighting the mercenaries, sending Bean flying, much to his joy. Sonic becomes distracted by Bark, while Bean gets ready to launch more bombs, warning Bark to get out of the way.^[28] Before being able to throw the bomb, Sally tries taking it from him. Bean yells at her, saying that it's his bomb. Sally tricks Bean into wanting to keep the already lit "shiny" bomb. Sally then throws the bomb in another direction, as Bean chases it, acting like a dog, shouting "Yap! Arf! Polar Bear's name!" Bean catches up to the bomb, only to have it blow up in his face.^[29] Later, Bean, and Bark watch as Sonic battles the Destructix. Sally interrupts this, and offers them more money than Mogul is, and less time in jail to help bail out Sonic. Bean tallies it up, and asks for cupcakes in the deal as well. Sally agrees to this. Bean then walks over to Bark, and discusses the profit with hm. After a moment, they agree to help.^[30] While Lynx, and Frog hold Sonic down, for Simian to attack, Bean flies in, throwing bombs at everyone, except Sonic, Sally, and Bark.^[31] Bean rushes over to Hawk, hitting him with bombs, whilst insulting him for leaving the "armada", to which Hawk replies "You're one to talk!"^[32] Bean is quickly distracted when Nack shoots Sonic with a type of laser tranquilizer gun.^[33] The Destructix take Sonic, as Sally pleads for them to stop. During this mishap, Bean, and Bark betray Sally. Sally catches them, and tries to talk them into helping her get Sonic back, but Bean admits to messing up, and says that he might as well get paid for Mogul's job.^[34]

[edit] Beating The House

Bean shows up playing with metal, while waiting with the Destructix, for Mogul, to pay them all.^[35] Bean soon draws his attention to the currently captured Sonic. Bean begins asking Sonic childish questions such as: Why is he so fast, why is he blue, and "Are you, and the princess going to marry and have mutant hedge-squirrel babies?", much to Sonic's utter disgust.^[36] A few moments later, when Sonic is set free by Geoffrey, Amy Rose, Rouge the Bat, and Sally, Sonic grabs Bean, and slams him against the wall.^[37]

[edit] In The Games

For more information, please see: Bean the Dynamite.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Bark the Polar Bear

In a Q&A on writer Ian Flynn's forum, a fan asked Bean what he thought of Bark, Bean's reply was

That JERK?! That pompous, arrogant, mouthy furball?! That lumbering, oafish, grammatically-challenged, poorly dressed schmoe?! That flea-bitten, cap-wearin', garlic-smellin', soft-shoein' hunk of cheese?!

I love him like a brother!

[edit] Mammoth Mogul

Their relationship is never stated and is highly likely that they are just employer and employee when necessary.

[edit] Fiona Fox

Fiona and Bean appear to have a friendly relationship as they have worked together on missions frequently.

[edit] Sonic the Hedgehog

Bean appears not to have any animosity towards Sonic, but Bean's habit of being on the wrong side and his annoying personality tends to annoy Sonic.

[edit] Questions To Be Answered

• What is the armada that he quit? Is it the same armada that Jet the Hawk quit?

• How does he know Predator Hawk? Have they ever worked together before?

• Is he still working as Mammoth Moguls lackey?

• How, and when did he meet Dr. Robotnik, Bark the Polar Bear, and Fiona Fox?

• Why does he like shiny objects so much?

[edit] Trivia

• Bean, and Bark both cameoed on the cover of Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 51, yet didn't make an actual appearance until Achie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 160.

• Bean also cameoed by himself in Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 76 (Page 6, Panel 1).

• Bean makes a flashback cameo in Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 165 (Page 4, Panel 1), and Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 172 (Page 5, Panel 4).

• While talking to Shadow, Bean says "Shine get!", an obvious reference to popular video game, Super Mario Sunshine,^[38] which was released in the same year as Shadow's game debut, in Sonic Adventure 2.

• Bean appears to be able to pull bombs out of thin air, like how Amy can produce hammer out of thin air too.

[edit] See also

• Bean the Dynamite (Video Game Character)
• Sonic the Fighters (Game debut of Bean)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Bean the Dynamite at Mobius Encyclopedia, the Archie Sonic wiki