Rouge the Bat is a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Officially, she works as a secret agent for G.U.N. However, she is better known for being a treasure hunter/jewel thief. Rouge is especially fond of the Chaos Emeralds and is most enamored with the Master Emerald. She is often seen working with Shadow the Hedgehog. Among fans, Rouge has often been shipped with Knuckles the Echidna & Shadow the Hedgehog.
Appearance[]
Rouge has a white-furred head with a tan color inside her ears that matches her muzzle and the rest of her body, which on her back she has dark purple bat wings. Her eyes are green, and her eyelids are usually purple or blue with long black eyelashes. On occasion, she would wear white lenses.
One of Rouge's outfits includes a black T-shirt with a black/white bra showing her cleavage and light tan stomach, paired with black shorts, black/white high socks and black boots, and black wristbands that have black and white marks on their trim.
Game Appearances[]
Rouge debuted in Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) as Jonathan the Hedgehog's sidekick and member of the hero side.
Lani Minella voiced her from 2001-2005. Caren Manuel voiced her from 2005-2010 and Karen Strassman currently voices her.
Rouge has also appeared in Sonic Heroes (2003), Shadow the Hedgehog (2005), Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Sonic Riders (2005), Sonic Free Riders (2009) And Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2010) and Sonic Generations (2011).
Characteristics[]
Rouge appears calm and collected but is very interested in the Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald.
In Other Media[]
Sonic X[]
Rouge the Bat appears in the Sonic X anime series and its comic series published by Archie Comics. After arriving on Earth, she was robbing museums for their gems when she was recruited by the President and his staff to be a G.U.N. agent. Deciding to play along with their weak threats and accepting the proposal, she was assigned by the high brass with a human agent as her partner, Topaz, who Rouge became close friends with over the course of the series.
Unlike the games at the time of Sonic X's airing, Rouge goes on more adventures, either by herself or with the heroic cast, and is frequently treated as a comparable fighter to Sonic the Hedgehog himself. When spending time not doing government missions, she is found chilling together with Topaz and window shopping for priceless gems. She loves making suggestive idioms to the handsome echidna Knuckles and getting him hot under his collar.
Six months after returning to Sonic's world, Rouge allied herself with team Eggman for her own reasons and looked after an amnestic Shadow the Hedgehog when he reappeared during the cast's space traveling adventure to defeat the Metarex.
Sonic Prime[]
Rouge the Bat is interested in a new shiny object: the Paradox Prism. She has no problem working with Sonic and friends, but she states she usually likes to do things her way. However, she is shown to have a genuine friendship with them. Due to the Paradox Prism's incident, Rouge is displaced across different dimensions from the Shatterverse. Her alternate counterparts are Rebel Rouge from New Yoke City, Prim Rouge from Boscage Maze, and Batten Rouge from No Place.
Archie Comics[]
Rouge the Bat appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. Very much like her video game version, Rouge is an agent of G.U.N. with a fondness of riches, especially rare, beautiful gems, and has often searched for or stolen jewels. She had many run ins with various people on Mobius, such as fighting Bunnie Rabbot to a standstill over a misunderstanding, dated Evil Sonic for a bit before he turned into Scourge, had several run-ins in the past with Fiona Fox and Nic the Weasel, often beating them to rare treasures, and thus has something of a former rivalry with the pair, and forming Team Dark as her game counterpart.
Theme songs[]
Flying into Freedom (Sonic Adventure 2)
Trivia[]
- Rouge shall be chosen as one of Ikran's favorite Chiropterans in Video Games.
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