Yellow Wisp (IDW)

The Yellow Wisp is a creature that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by IDW Publishing. It is a type of Wisp.

Appearance
The Yellow Wisps resemble White Wisps, except they have triangular heads with one orange eye in the middle. Their heads are covered in orange and yellow stripes, making them resemble drills. They also have three tentacles stemming from their heads.

Past
At some point in the past, the Yellow Wisps and their planet came under the threat of Dr. Eggman. Fortunately, they were saved by Sonic the Hedgehog. Afterward, a bunch of Yellow Wisps settled down on Sonic's world where they would return Sonic's favor by helping out the residents of Sonic’s world whenever they could.

Shortly before the war between the Resistance and the Eggman Empire ended, several Yellow Wisps in a town got hoarded by the mercenaries Rough and Tumble, who imprisoned them in their Deployment Pods and Wispons when they took over the town.

Fallout
In the town Rough and Tumble had taken over, the Yellow Wisps found salvation when Sonic and Knuckles arrived to stop the two mercenaries. During the heroes' subsequent fight with Rough and Tumble, the Yellow Wisps and their fellow Wisps were convinced by Sonic to not let the two villains boss them around. As such, the Wisps in Rough and Tumble's Wispons left them, leaving their arsenal powerless and allowing Sonic and Knuckles to defeat them. Afterward, the now-liberated Yellow Wisps decided to stick around and help the villagers defend their town by powering their Wispons.

Personality
Being Wisps, the Yellow Wisps are peaceful, helpful and friendly of nature, and enjoy spending their time with others. They get especially well along with the good people of Sonic's world, whom they will gladly help out whenever they need them.

The Yellow Wisps are not much for fighting. However, they are nonetheless brave and do not stand for amoral behavior.

Powers and abilities
The Yellow Wisps are able to levitate in midair at will, which serves as their main method of transportation.

The Yellow Wisps are able to generate and store their own unique variant of a powerful energy inside their own bodies. The Yellow Wisps can as well pass on a fraction of this energy by phasing into the recipient.

Trivia

 * The Yellow Wisps are based on the creatures of the same name from the Sonic the Hedgehog video games.