* Knuckles the Echidna from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series

* Takashi Thomas Yuda ( Also works with Sega, and the original creator of Knuckles the Echidna )-Sonic Riders & Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity

Knuckles the Echidna is a red echidna featured in the video game series Sonic the Hedgehog.

The game is a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and follows on directly from the end of the game, in which Sonic defeated his enemy, Dr. Robotnik ; crash-landing on a floating island, Sonic encounters new character Knuckles the Echidna, and must once more retrieve the Chaos Emeralds while also working to stop Dr. Robotnik from relaunching his ship, the Death Egg.

As Dr. Robotnik begins to repair the damaged ship, he meets up with Knuckles the Echidna, the last surviving member of an ancient civilization of Echidnas that once inhabited the island.

To obtain the Emeralds, he fools their guardian Knuckles the Echidna, convincing him that Sonic and Tails are thieves who want to steal the Emeralds.

In the present day, Knuckles the Echidna is guarding the Master Emerald on the floating Angel Island when Chaos is released from the emerald by Dr. Robotnik.

The Chao raising feature was expanded in Sonic Adventure 2 ; Chao may become " Hero Chao " or " Dark Chao " depending on whether the game's " hero " characters ( Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles " Tails " Prower, and Knuckles the Echidna ) or " dark " characters ( Shadow the Hedgehog, Doctor Ivo Robotnik, and Rouge the Bat ) are nicer to them.

* In the Arabian Nights-themed video game Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sinbad looks almost exactly like Knuckles the Echidna.

It follows the protagonist team of Sonic the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna, and Miles " Tails " Prower and the antagonist team of Doctor Eggman, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Rouge the Bat and their attempt to work together in order to save the world from destruction.

In zebrafish, the orthologues of the three mammalian hh genes are: shh a, shh b, ( formerly described as tiggywinkle hedgehog named for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a character from Beatrix Potter's books for children ), and indian hedgehog b ( formerly described as echidna hedgehog, named for the spiny anteater, though this may have also been a playful reference to Knuckles the Echidna, another character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games ).

However, while Tails is no longer a playable character, the game does introduce Knuckles the Echidna as a playable character.

Referred to in-game as Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the game is largely identical to Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with the exception that gameplay is altered due to Knuckles having separate abilities from Sonic or Tails.

Sonic continues to track down Robotnik as he travels through each zone looking for the Chaos Emeralds, once again coming into conflict with Knuckles the Echidna, who believes he is trying to steal them.

( If one downloads Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic 2, they have the option to play the corresponding Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 game.

The group has five members, including Knuckles the Echidna, Mighty the Armadillo ( who previously appeared in the 1993 arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog ), Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon and Charmy Bee.

The two playable characters in the game are Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna.

The player controls Sonic the Hedgehog, who can unlock Cream the Rabbit and her Chao, Miles " Tails " Prower, and Knuckles the Echidna after defeating Doctor Eggman in specific boss battles.

Spin-off publications from the comic include a Knuckles the Echidna series which ran for 32 issues ; Sonic X, a comic spin-off based on the cartoon of the same name, which lasted 40 issues, and Sonic Universe, a direct spin-off of the expanded universe of the original comic, which is still on-going.

Because of the popularity of the specials and Miniseries featuring Knuckles, in 1997, Knuckles the Echidna became an ongoing series.

* Knuckles the Echidna # 1-32 ( Published monthly from April 1997 to February 2000 )

After the completion of Sonic 2, Yuji Naka made the final decision to only allow the Japanese members in the core development team to work on Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Following the completion of Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Yuji Naka was offered the role of producer at Sega of Japan.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles were again developed by Sonic Team in the US, but this time with some of STI's musicians contributing to the score.

The video games Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Sonic & Knuckles contain plotlines centered around the " Death Egg ", a space station resembling the Death Star, though altered to feature the face of series villain Doctor Robotnik.

Knuckles made his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Genesis.

The game is closely tied to its direct sequel Sonic & Knuckles, as the two games were originally one until time constraints and cartridge costs forced the game to be split into two interlocking parts.

Additional emeralds known as Super Emeralds can be obtained if the game is locked on with Sonic & Knuckles, which enable Sonic and Tails to become Hyper Sonic and Super Tails with unique abilities.

Competition Mode is a competitive mode in which two players, playing as either Sonic, Tails or Knuckles, race against each other through five laps on an endless level, unrelated to the levels played in the main game.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles were originally to be released as one game.

However, Sonic & Knuckles contained " Lock-on Technology ", where the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge would be put in the Sega Genesis system, and then another game could be placed onto the top of the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge itself.

The current members of The Roots are Black Thought ( MC ), Questlove ( drums ), Frank Knuckles ( percussion ) ( also a former Protégé of Questlove ), and Cap ' n Kirk ( guitar ).

It features: " The Demon ", " Thunderbolt ", " Dearth ", " Knuckles ", " Star Song ", " Firepower ", " New Waver ", " Space Jam ", " Zoom ", " So Very Sad About Us ", " Phang ", " Speed Racer ", " The Eternal E ", " Hairy Eyeball ", " The Groover ", " Hell Bent for Hell ", " Rachel ", " A Dog's Prayer ", " Blast ", " The Black Rider ", " Slurpee ", " Flipper ", " The Viper ", " Bitch ", " Fried ", " Harmonia ", " U. S. A .", " The Tracer ", " Envelope Woman ", " Plastic Guy ", " Glasgow 3am ", " The Road Is Long ", " Funkified ", " Rigamarole ", " Depresso ", " The Streets Are Hot Tonite ", " Dawn At 16 ", " Spazmatazz ", " Fucker ", " In the Arms of Sheep ", " Speed ", " 77 ", " Me Rock You Snow ", " Feelium ", " Is Alex Milton ", " Rubberman ", " Spacer ", " Rock Me ", " Weeping Willowly ", " Rings ", " So So Pretty ", " Lucky Lad ", " Jackboot ", " Milieu ", " Disconnected ", " Let Your Lazer Love Light Shine Down ", " Phreak ", " Porkbelly ", " Robot Lover ", " Jimmy James ", " America ", " Slinkeepie ", " Dummy Tum Tummy ", " Fakir ", " Jake ", " Camaro ", " Moonkids ", " Make It Fungus ", " V-8 ", and " Die ".

* Locke the Echidna in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic books

* Echidna Parass, fictional character from the Black Cat series

* Black Cat ( Echidna Parass )

My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac " to which guitarist Eric Erlandson replied.

In the initial advertisement placed by Love which resulted in Hole's formation, she cited Fleetwood Mac, Sonic Youth, and Big Black as her three major musical influences.

" In December 2009, Michael Jackson's composer Bradley Buxer ( credited in Sonic 3 as Brad Buxer ) told French magazine Black & White that Jackson was actually involved with some of Sonic 3's compositions, supposedly not being credited because he wasn't happy with how they sounded, due to the lack of optimal sound reproduction on the Genesis.

My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac.

The most abrasive and discordant outgrowth of punk was noise rock, which emphasised loud distorted electric guitars bands and powerful drums, and was pioneered by bands including Sonic Youth, Swans, Big Black and Butthole Surfers.

His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians ( many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era ), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees.

The book, printed in both English and French, contains all of Watt's song lyrics from the Minutemen era as well as the tour journal he wrote during the Minutemen's only European tour with Black Flag, essays by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Blue Öyster Cult lyricist and longtime Watt hero Richard Meltzer, and illustrations by Raymond Pettibon that had been used in all of the Minutemen's album artwork.

* Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic and the Black Knight

Among others, Steve Albini ( Shellac, Rapeman, Big Black ), Panthére, Gang Gang Dance, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Sisters of Mercy, She Wants Revenge, Henry Rollins, Joy Division / New Order, Soft Cell, Nick Cave, Cassandra Complex, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Radiohead, Kap Bambino, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Angel Corpus Christi ( covers of Dream Baby Dream and Cheree with Alan Vega guest vocals ), Michael Gira, MGMT, Sonic Boom, Loop, The Fleshtones ( both of whom have recorded cover versions of " Rocket USA "), Ric Ocasek of The Cars, Mi Ami, R. E. M.

American noise-rockers Sonic Youth melded the rock-feedback tradition with a compositional / classical approach ( notably covering Reich's " Pendulum Music "), and guitarist / producer Steve Albini's group Big Black also worked controlled feedback into the makeup of their songs.

* Sega's Sonic Team transforms King Arthur into " The Black Knight " as a result of corruption from his immortality inducing scabbard of Excalibur given by the Lady of the Lake in the Arthurian influenced Sonic and the Black Knight.

Breedlove's vehicle, renamed the " Sonic Arrow ", was rolled out on the Black Rock Desert for a photo opportunity on October 15, 2007.

", a song by Black Label Society from their debut album Sonic Brew

While some critics viewed it as a good piece of nostalgia, many others criticized the lack of improvements and the game's more noticeable age, with IGN giving it a score of 3. 5 out of 10, calling it " so fundamentally flawed that it borders on unplayable ", making it the lowest scored Sonic game on the site since Sonic and the Black Knight.

The Spirit of America Sonic Arrow, as it was rechristened by Fossett, was rolled out on the Black Rock Desert for a photo opportunity on October 15, 2007.

Friedman contributed to the 2009 video game Sonic and the Black Knight, playing lead guitar on the final boss theme, " With Me ".

OTHERS: Men In Black I, II & III ( 2012 ); Sonic SEGA ( 1991-2012 ); Pets Rock ( 2012 ); El Jueves ( MAD type Magazine ) ( 2012 ); Monster High ( 2012 )

Though the band had various indy influences, with bands like Sonic Youth and Big Black, the album ended up having a Metallica influenced proto-grunge sound.

Lance Bangs ( born September 8, 1972 ) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R. E. M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, Odd Future, and Pavement.