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.

Jet 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.

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 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 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.

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 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".

Personality
Jet the Hawk, also known as the Legendary Wind Master may be renowned for his Extreme Gear skills, but to his two close comrades, he's also known for his laziness and snide sense of humor. Jet, for the most part, is pretty laid back and doesn't in any way, shape, or form, display the responsibility that his duty as leader of the Babylon Rogues requires. His laziness, for the most part, is triggered from a mixture of carelessness and arrogance. Jet is well aware of his skills with Extreme Gear, and he has no problem showing it. In spite of all of that, however, he knows when to assert his authority as leader, though, it takes some incentive to get this strict side to come out of its shell as oppose to his typical rude but fun-loving conduct. For this hawk, pride is also on the high. He's not one to accept loss of anything, but if he comes to face it, he'll proudly accept it. And under no circumstance should seek the pity of others: he considers that a prime insult.

Physical Appearance
Jet has emerald green feathered body with flame-shaped highlights of a darker emerald shade on his arms, jagged, golden yellow beak with two nostril pits, cobalt eyes and red and black bordering at the edges, five contoured spikes of feathers sticking out from his head with two thick tufts under the back of his head, each tipped in a darker shade of emerald, excessively tufted, triangular patch of white, fluffy down feathers on his chest and several long feathers tipped in a darker shade of emerald serve as a tail.

Attire
Jet wears a pair of white gloves with red and black accented, sock-like cuffs fastened with a dark gray metal hoop, a pair of red boots with white accents and complex black designs, durable gray soles and white collars notched in the center that probably serve the purpose of socks, and a pair of thick-lensed, white goggles with high contrast yellow lenses and gray segmented strapping for when airboarding.

Friends/Allies

 * Storm the Albatross
 * Wave the Swallow
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose

Enemies/Rivals

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

Trivia

 * 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).


 * 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 slighty faster than Sonic's normal running speed, however, it is only half as fast as his real running speed.


 * 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.