Honey the Cat

Honey the Cat (ハニー・ザ・キャット) is a cat character that was scrapped from Sonic Championship (also known as Sonic the Fighters). She is a yellow cat with black hair and a red dress. Although she was scrapped, her data still exists in the arcade version. Normally in Sonic the Fighters, during mirror matches (when two players use the same character) the second player will be a grayscale version of the character. Honey, however, has her own 2P palette, in which she has blonde hair, a blue dress and pink fur. Honey normally has pigtails, and a tail, but they don't show up due to a glitch. (This glitch is fixed in newer emulators.)

Abilities
Honey the Cat has borrowed abilities from the other fighters:
 * She glides with her wings (similar to Knuckles the Echidna).
 * Honey shares the same fighting pose as Sonic.
 * Honey even shares the same kicks as Sonic.
 * Some of Honey's punching type moves are from Tails.

Mirror Honey
The mirror Honey is a pink skinned, blonde haired, white-snouted and blue-dressed version of Honey, Mirror Honey has no moves at all, and is completely useless due to that fact. It is a 100% chance that the player would be able to defeat Mirror Honey without getting any health loss. She is the only Mirror Version in the game to actually be colored. The Mirror Honey also appeared in the Sega Saturn version of Fighting Vipers (see picture). The Mirror Honey also has a blue-colored hairband, while normal Honey has a red-hairband. Mirror Honey is the only version of Honey the Cat to actually appear in a game.

Eye Glitch
In gameplay, Honey has an eye glitch that while one eye looks at the opponent, while the other looks in the opposite direction. This certainly makes her look strange in the game. Her eye glitch will be there anytime someone chooses to play as Honey in the game.

The eye glitch is strange and can't go away or be fixed. It is caused due to eye data being unfinished, and never completely functional. This may be another reason she was scrapped from the game.

However, when cutscene after Metal Sonic is defeated is started, it seems to fix this eye glitch. This could be because of the way the cutscene is handling the eyes, forcing them to look around, and once the fight actually begins, the eye data is reset. This could also be because the character only needs to look at the opponent, and not the camera. (From Sonic-Cult)

Fighting Vipers Honey
Honey the Cat is most likely based off a character of the same name in the game Fighting Vipers. This fighter is a human character, not a cat, and has the same poses as Honey the Cat, even having a special attack called "Cat Punch".

The Fighting Vipers Honey is easily comparable to Honey the Cat of Sonic the Fighters. Fighting Vipers Honey looks exactly like a human version of Honey the Cat. This version is called Candy in the US.

Please keep in mind that it is unknown whether or not this is a coincidence, or was intended, but this may be a reason Honey the Cat was scrapped. Both version look almost exactly like each other. The Fighting Vipers Honey does not have the eye glitch because Honey the Cat was scrapped before she was finished, the Fighting Vipers Honey wasn't scrapped, and was finished.

Videos
left|250px|Sega Saturn intro (Note the mirror Honey is at 0:54) right|250px|A video with Honey fighting Knuckles, Amy, and Bark.

Trivia

 * Honey has wings on her back, which gives her ability to glide.
 * She shares attacks from other fighters, this could be because, when the game was released, Honey did not have a move set, so the programmers "borrowed" attacks from the other fighters.
 * In Sonic Championship's sound test, a music track called "Sunset Town" can be played. However, it is not in the actual game. The stage could have been Honey's intended stage, but when Honey was scrapped, the stage was scrapped as well.
 * Honey the Cat is the first cat character in Sonic history, although Honey never made it in the final version of Sonic the Fighters.
 * If Honey is smashed by anything like Amy's hammer or Bark's punches, her outfit will turn into Amy's.
 * Honey is the second character to wear high heels after Madonna, who was wearing high heels in Sonic Gems Collection.