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Heavy and Bomb

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Heavy and Bomb

Heavy and Bomb from the Archie Comics
First appearance

Knuckles Chaotix (1996)

Species

robot

Gender

Genderless (referred to as male)

Creator

Doctor Eggman

Color scheme

(Heavy) Gray; (Bomb) Black, Red

Family

Doctor Eggman (Creator/Father)
E-100 Series Robots (Successors/Siblings)

Alignment

Neutral

Likes

The Chaotix, King Acorn's Secret Service

Dislikes

Doctor Eggman

Heavy and Bomb are two robots who first appeared in Knuckles' Chaotix.

Heavy is a clunky, silver robot with red oven mitts for hands and gray/black body, who resembles a Coffee Kettle and was Doctor Eggman's chief mechanic. In the game, Heavy was invincible to all attacks, could destroy badniks by just touching them, and could walk on spikes without being hurt, but (as his name suggests) is extremely heavy, causing him to be very slow and unable to jump very high. Heavy's invincibility, however, is actually very handy when used in combination with Charmy's flying (as long as Charmy is the leader).

Bomb is a small, black and red bomb robot with arms and legs. His abilities are the reverse of that of Heavy: He is very weak, and explodes when hit (albeit he can regenerate himself almost immediately afterward, while the explosion can damage both enemies and his ally) but is rather quick on his feet (though not anywhere near as fast as Espio) and has a decent height jump.

The two robots claimed to have escaped from the clutches of the evil Dr. Eggman, and are simply trying to help Knuckles and his friends. However no one knows if they speak the truth or if they were simply planted by Eggman to slow them down. After Eggman's demise at Newtrogic High, the duo disappeared and has not been seen since.

[edit] Archie Comics

Heavy and Bomb also made appearances in the Sonic the Hedgehog comics, serving in King Acorn's Secret Service under Geoffrey St. John. However, on one mission, the two were reprogrammed to assassinate the Acorn family, and were destroyed by the defending Sonic and co. Later, rebuilt versions of the two were sent to assassinate Mina Mongoose. However, they were also thwarted, and presumed destroyed, although they are never seen being so. The new Heavy was last seen sinking in a lake, while Bomb blew himself up (repeatedly).

[edit] Trivia

  • In a minigame in Sega Superstars Tennis, a robot fires out red and black coloured bombs, being a possible reference to Bomb.
  • In the comics Bomb could not regenerate himself so it is said that Heavy can produced new bombs the process is that the new shells are in his body and Bomb tranfers his artificial intelligents into a new shell and Heavy takes him out.