Battle Kukku Empire



The Battle Kukku Army (バトルクック軍 Batoru Kukku Gun) are an army of birds that invade Cocoa Island (in the English language versions, the army is renamed the "Battle Bird Armada" and Cocoa Island is "Tails Island") in Tails Adventure. They invade the island to snag the Chaos Emeralds which are hidden there. Tails battles the army and after he defeats their leader, the birds surrender. The Battle Kukku Army consists of uniformed birds, somewhat intelligent robot drones and advanced machinery. The army lives on a huge flying fortress that posed as an island throughout most of Tails Adventure. The Battle Kukku Army are the second villains that Tails has fought single-handedly, the first being Wendy Witchcart.

Notable members

 * Grand Battle Kukku 15th, the dictator-like leader of the army. He is larger than most Kukkus, and is the final boss of the game battled in his flying fortress. He fights by throwing bombs all around him and throwing Tails himself if the fox gets too close.
 * Battle Kukku 16th, aka Speedy, the son of Grand Battle Kukku 15th. Speedy is a quick green Kukku who, despite his natural and fast aerial skills, sometimes wears armor equipped with an energy gun and a jet engine that lets him take even faster flight. He appears as a boss twice throughout the game, first on Pori Pori Mountain and then in the flying fortress just before the player faces his father.
 * Dr. Fukurokov, the army's main scientist. He is the first boss of the flying fortress, but does not actually fight, as he instead lets his defensive machinery take care of Tails. His tendency to overlook little details is his greatest weakness.

Archie Comics
The Battle Bird Armada has appeared in the Archie Comics continuity. It was first mentioned in Sonic the Hedgehog #163, "Sonic Rider, Part One", by Jet the Hawk, who told Eggman that he had left "an armada". In Sonic the Hedgehog #173, "Round Up!", Bean the Dynamite mentioned that he got the Extreme Gear by leaving "the armada" at the right time. Bean mentioned the armada again in Sonic the Hedgehog #187, "Mister Popular", when he accused Predator Hawk of being an "armada-deserter", only for Predator Hawk to retort "You're one to talk." The Armada itself made a full appearance in Sonic Universe #17, "Trouble in Paradise, Part One", the first part of the Archie adaptation of Tails Adventure. This episode also introduced Speedy, the sixteenth Battlekukku.

As in the games, the Battle Bird Armada consists entirely of birds. They are led by the Battle Lord and operate out of a hidden location near Cocoa Island. They are highly aggressive and believe that birds are the only Mobians with any right to fly. Although they had been willing merely to observe a group of vacationing Freedom Fighters, they decided to attack the group when they witnessed Tails' ability to fly by spinning his tails. They kidnapped Bunnie and Antoine D'Coolette (who were having a late honeymoon) and Speedy attacked Tails. Although these Freedom Fighters had not known about the existence of the Battle Bird Armada, some members of the Armada speculated that they had been looking for the Armada having been told of its existence by some "rogues".

Known members

 * Battle Lord
 * Speedy
 * Predator Hawk (formerly)
 * Bean the Dynamite (formerly)
 * Jet the Hawk (recalled)
 * Wave the Swallow (recalled)
 * Storm the Albatross (recalled)
 * Bunnie Rabbot-D'Coolette (as a spy for the Freedom Fighters)

Trivia

 * While they only appeared in Tails Adventure, a seemingly cancelled storyline for the Archie comics would have introduced the Battle Kukku Army as villains in an issue following #134.


 * There is a similarity between Speedy the Kukku, Bean the Dynamite and Jet the Hawk; they are three bird characters who are all green. Also, Grand Battle Kukku 15th and Bean both use bombs as their weapon of choice.
 * It was revealed in the Archie comics that Bean the Dynamite and the Destructix's Predator Hawk were once part of the Battle Kukku Armada.
 * The Battle Kukku Army's motivations, including the invasion of locales to try and get the Chaos Emeralds, is heavily reminiscient to the Red Ribbon Army's goals involving the Dragon Balls in Dragon Ball.

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