Jet the Hawk

Jet the Hawk (ジェット・ザ・ホーク) is the 14-year-old hawk leader of the Babylon Rogues, and is often nicknamed the "Legendary Wind Master" due to his mastery of Extreme Gear. He's Sonic's most potent rival in Sonic Riders, and he uses a Type-J board that allows him to reach high speeds. Jet also possesses a mysterious "control box", passed down from his ancestors, that is said to awaken the fabled Babylon Garden. Only the power of the Chaos Emeralds can activate its fabled power.

Some fans believe Jet to be modeled after Bean the Dynamite from Sonic the Fighters, and in some cases, people even mistook Jet to be Bean. Nintendo Power magazine played a joke on this fact by giving an image of Jet a caption reading; "Bean? Is that you, Bean? Oh! How we've missed you!". Few people notice that Jet has the opposite color scheme to Sonic. Sonic is blue with green eyes, but Jet is green with blue eyes. Scourge the Hedgehog from Archie comics has the exact same color scheme.

Sonic Channel reveals info about Jet that wasn't stated in Sonic Riders. Apparently, Jet is 14, and is the same height as Sonic and Shadow (100 cm). He also weighs 33 kilograms--two kilograms fewer than Sonic or Shadow. Jet's original name was intended to be "Wind".

Sonic Riders
Jet first appeared when he is chased by Sonic because he has stolen a Chaos Emerald.He later enter the EX World Grand Prix with Wave and Storm.He advances to the finals of the EX World Grand Prix and unfairly wins after Wave detonates an explosive placed on the bottom of Sonic's board near the end of the race. Again, he races against Sonic after Doctor Eggman steals the control box in order to steal the ancient treasure of Babylon. This time, he is defeated fairly. Sonic, who retrieved the box from Eggman, willingly hands it to Jet, as he is not intending to use it.

At the doors of the Babylonian Fortress, Jet, Wave, and Storm awaken and are confronted by the Babylon Guardian, a large purple genie, and only succeed in defeating it with the help of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy. They discover the fabled Babylonian Treasure to be the ancient Extreme Gear Magic Carpet.

Jet and Sonic finally decide to be more friendly to each other. Jet concedes to the fact that Sonic is faster than him. However, this doesn't make him want to beat Sonic any less than in the beginning.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity Jet wishes upon a shooting star the power to beat Sonic, then when the shooting star crashes it causes an avalanche, making a newly found artifact activate, revealing to Jet the powers of Gravity Control. Proclaiming himself the fastest thing in the universe, Jet sets off to find the rest of the Ark's of the Cosmos, and prove to Sonic the Hedgehog once and for all he is the best.

Jet and Sonic meet up again at MeteoTech and Jet immediately jumps at the chance to prove once and for all to Sonic that he is the fastest in the universe. Later at the end of the game Jet and Sonic have a race to prove who gets the title of fastest and all of the Ark of the Cosmos. Jet and Sonic tie and Sonic gives his Ark of the Cosmos to him. Tails figures out that the Arks use Black Holes to use Gravity Control and if all of them are close enough to Babylon Garden the entire world be sucked up by the massive Black Hole it would make.

One of Eggman's robots flies into the room and steals the Arks from Wave and flies them to Babylon Garden. Babylon Garden reverts back into it's usual form as a space ship and a black hole appears at it's center and begins sucking in the world. Jet, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Wave and Storm fly to the Garden and defeat the Master Core: ABIS program. The last cutscene from the game is Sonic, Tails, Knuckles driving through a city and Jet flying up beside them and challenging Sonic to another race.

Sonic and the Black Knight
Jet has been confirmed to be a playable character in the Wii-Exclusive video game, Sonic and the Black Knight. Though he doesn't appear in the main story mode, he's unlockable afterwards, and is portrayed as Sir Lamorak.

Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Games
He was going to appear in the crossover Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Games, but was removed from the last version for unknowns reasons. However, his data still remain in the game and he is playable by hacking.

Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games
Jet was reaveled in a Nintendo Magazine to appear in the upcoming game Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games, but appeared as a Boss. Like Rouge, he is one of the rivals that challenges you every couples of days in the Festival Mode. In the DS Adventure tour Jet is in Cubyrinth waiting for Sonic to arrive for he can challenge him to see if he can beat him in Deluxe Halfpipe and when defeated he runs off promising to come back for a rematch later. In the Wii version, he challenges the player to Snowboard Cross.

Music
Jet has two theme songs, Catch Me If You Can Part 1 by Runblebee and Catch Me If You Can Part 2 by Runblebee.

Memorable Quotes
"Hm! I think it's time for a little fun!" Jet once selected in Sonic and the Black Knight.

"No way I'm gonna lose!" Jet before a race starts in Sonic Riders and Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity

"I'm the best!" Jet after winning a race.

"Now you'll see my TRUE POWER!" Jet after using Gravity Control.

"You may be fastest, for now. But I'll be back. Sonic the Hedgehog!" Jet at the end of Sonic Riders.

"Why'd you do that? I was just having this great daydream!" Jet after dreaming of being surrounded by bags of gold.

"Feel the power of Babylon!" Jet when he attacks his opponent in Sonic Riders.

"No sweat!" Jet after performing a trick properly.

"Ugh! I'll get you next time!" Jet after losing a race in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.

"The dirt suits you so well!" Says that to Sonic when he wins from the EX World Grand Prix

"Hmph! He may be the fastest creature on the ground, but in the air, with my Extreme Gear, he's just a joke!" Jet in the opening cutscene of the Babylon Story, in Sonic Riders

Friends/Allies

 * Wave the Swallow
 * Storm the Albatross

Enemies/Rivals

 * Dr. Eggman
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Yoshi

Extreme Gear
Like the other Babylon Rogues, Jet's Extreme Gear board gets it's name from the first letter of Jet's name. His board is called Type-J. (As another example, Wave the Swallow has a W as the first letter of her name, therefore her board is named 'Type-W'.)

Trivia

 * With his appearance in Sonic and the Black Knight and as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Jet is the first Babylon Rogue to appear outside of the Sonic Riders game.
 * Out of the all the Sonic characters to have officially raced Sonic, he is the first character to have beaten him (though Wave planted a bomb on Sonic's board to explode when he neared the finish, which should technically mean she is the first person to beat Sonic in a race by cheating, even though it was a no-holds barred race).
 * Jet was intended to be playable in Sonic Rivals and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
 * In one mission, it is hinted that Jet may have a rivalry with Knuckles the Echidna.
 * To many Sonic fans, Jet is considered one of Sonic's greatest rivals and ally.
 * Jet is the only Team Sonic member to have established a use of dirty tricks, aside from Rouge.
 * Jet's board, Type-J, is slightly faster than Sonic's running speed in-game Sonic Riders and Zero Gravity; however, it is only half as fast as his running speed in the other games.
 * The rivalry between him and Sonic is somewhat similar to that of his and Chris' uncle, Sam Speed, from Sonic X.
 * Jet is the youngest member of the Babylon Rogues.
 * In the early days, many fans mistook Jet for Bean the Dynamite
 * In the European version of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, if you hack the game, Jet is playable along with Silver, Donkey Kong, Cream, Big, Birdo and Espio.
 * In Sonic & the Black Knight, Jet is also given two swords to fight in battles, just like Knuckles. This may be a reference to the two Bashyo fans he uses in Sonic Riders.
 * Jet may be the third character known to have a parent (Cream has her mom and Shadow's creator is Gerald Robotnik who is like his father) he mentions his father gave him the control box.
 * The Babylon Rogues live in a hovercraft, and there is a picture of a golden bird most probably its his father or its just a random picture.
 * Despite being a bird Jet doesn't have any wings. However, Jet and the other Babylon Rogues might have "Foghorn Leghorn" style wings, where they are actually his arms with the feathers contoured down, which can be seen when you have full fuel, and use a boost.
 * Jet's appearance in Sonic and the Black Knight is the first time he does not use Extreme Gear at all. It is also his first playable appearance outside the Sonic Riders Games (He was supposed to be playable in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, but he was cut out of the final product). It was also his first solo appearance.
 * Jet's appearance in Sonic and the Black Knight makes him the only Babylon Rogue to appear in a Sonic storybook series game.
 * In Jets 2D images, he has nostrils on his beak. However, in his 3D Renders he doesn't.
 * Jet's theme song in Sonic Riders and Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is called Catch Me If You Can.
 * Like Rouge, Jet will appear in Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games as a rival in snowboard cross for the wii and halfpipe for the ds.
 * Jet have some things common with Vector the Crocodile:
 * 1.) They're both green.
 * 2.) They have opposite types of group(Jet=gang of thiefs, Vector=detective agency).
 * 3.) They both wish to be rich.
 * 4.) They both have a smart purple friend on their own team(Jet=Wave, Vector=Espio).
 * 5.) They have worked with/for Dr. Eggman once.
 * 6.) They have been least once as playable character without their team mates(Jet=Sonic and the Black Knight, Vector=Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games).
 * 7.)They both have an object on their head(Jet=goggles, Vector=headphones).
 * 8.) They both teammates that are purple (Vector=Espio Jet=Wave)
 * 9.) Both the hardest characters to draw


 * Jet has lots of things in common with Sonic
 * 1.) They both have a blue and green as part of their color schemes.
 * 2.) They both have a great reputation for their speeds.
 * 3.) They are both voiced by Jason Griffith
 * 4.) Both are skilled Extreme Gear riders
 * 5.) They both have Red shoes/boots.
 * 6.) Both have been mocked in the past for their laughs
 * 7.) Both have beaten eachother in races.
 * 8.) Both of their sidekicks are skilled mechanics (Tails, Wave)
 * 9.) Both of them have fought Eggman.
 * 10.) Both of their attributes/character types are speed.
 * 11.) Both had remixes of their themes (Sonic= It Doesnt` Matter Jet= Catch Me If You Can)


 * Silver has a few things in common with Jet the Hawk:
 * 1.) They both were rivals with Sonic.
 * 2.) They both became friends with Sonic later on, but they're still rivals with him.
 * 3.) Their voices are both classed as annoying.
 * 4.) They both have a female companion who has a shade of purple and wears something white and is voiced by Bella Hudson(Silver=Blaze ; Jet=Wave).
 * 5.) They both have a short temper.
 * 6.) They both appear in Sonic and the Black Knight as one of the Knights of the Round table, however they don't appear in the Story and instead they only appear in the Multiplayer Battle mode.
 * 7.) They are both fourteen years old.


 * In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, Jet is the only one who wears their goggles on their eyes.
 * It could be true that soon Jet would be called an alien, due to the fact that he is not from Sonic's world (told at the end of Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity) but it might not be true, that he may be a hawk, but from another world.
 * If you look at Jet`s shadow in the ending movie in Sonic Riders his shadow looks like Sonic but this could because Jet does look a little like Sonic
 * Jet, Wave & Storm are the hardest Sonic characters to draw
 * In both Sonic Riders 3D renders his board is light green,and in 2D it is Dark Green.
 * Jet's snowboard in Mario and Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games looks like the Type-J from Sonic Riders
 * Jet could appear in sonic & sega all star racing, using his extreme gear.

Screenhots
 File:Jet.jpg|Sonic Riders 