Jet the Hawk

"No way I'm gonna lose!"

- Jet

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 the Sonic Riders series. 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. I''n 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.

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".

Origin
It is revealed in the Sonic Riders series that Jet's ancestors are technological, intelligent and professional Extreme Gear riders from the Babylon Garden. In the ending of Sonic Riders it is revealed that the ancestors of Jet were actually Genies who had invented a "secret treasure", which was a magic carpet (the first Extreme Gear).

In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, it is revealed that Jet's ancestors were actually Aliens. Jet's ancestors use to utilize an ultimate power from the Ark of the Cosmos, but all five of the Ark of the Cosmos had crashed into the Earth forming "shooting stars". However, not much is known about the ancestry.

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, even though Jet still thinks of Sonic as a rival. 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. Jet and Sonic later have many other races.

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 Free Riders
Jet once again rivals Sonic alongside Wave and Storm in the game Sonic Free Riders, exclusively for the Xbox 360 Kinect.

Sonic and the Black Knight
Jet appears as 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 afterward, and is portrayed as Sir Lamorak and uses Twin Swords. Like Gawain, his Soul Surge is Gail Meteor. He is unlockable by obtaining 5 Mastery Stars in Great Megalith.

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 unknown reasons. However, his data still remains in the game and he is playable by hacking.

Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games
Jet was revealed in a Nintendo Magazine to appear in 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 couple of days in the Festival Mode. In the DS Adventure tour Jet is in Cubyrinth waiting for Sonic to arrive so 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 in Snowboard Cross.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Jet appears as a collectible Trophy and Sticker.

Trophy Description

Music
Jet's theme, often associated with the entire Babylon Rogues, is called Catch Me If You Can. A remixed version was created for the OST, and a new version was created for the Sonic Riders sequel.
 * Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity Jet's theme song Catch Me If You Can
 * Sonic Riders Jet's theme song Catch Me If You Can
 * Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games VS Jet

Quotes

 * "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 before doing a meteor burst in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
 * "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 wrath 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 me and my Extreme Gear, he's just a joke!" - Jet in the opening cutscene of the Babylon Story, in Sonic Riders
 * "It's been a while, Sonic the Hedgehog." - Jet appearing before Sonic and the others in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
 * "I'll show you!" - Jet in attack mode in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
 * "Rush? I'm the fastest thing in the universe! And today, I'm gonna prove it." - When Sonic was telling him that "girls hate guys who rush them".
 * "Hmph! I lost! So don't play games with me! I don't want your pity, nor do I need it!" - When Sonic was handing him over the box, even when Jet lost against Sonic.
 * "Let's Fly!" Jet boosting in the race in Sonic Free Riders
 * "H-hey! Wait!" When Sonic leaves Jet in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
 * What's with the temper tantrum? Is this kidergarten? - Jet in one of the cutscenes of Sonic Free Riders

Storm the Albatross
Since Jet is the leader of the Babylon Rogues, Storm does not call Jet by his name, he calls him "Boss" and does whatever he can to please Jet. Jet doesn't really seem to take Storm as a friend as he is always acting like a leader and appoints him missions.

Wave the Swallow
Jet is also Wave's boss. But Wave doesn't bother calling him "Boss", she simply calls him by his name. She is the creator of Jet's Extreme Gear, Type-J, she also helps Jet by her intelligence. But, Jet seems to be bothered by her long and "boring speeches".

Sonic the Hedgehog
Jet and Sonic have been rivals ever since they met. At first, Jet was better than Sonic in Extreme Gear riding, Jet used to make fun of Sonic. In the last court in the World Grand Prix, Jet was surprised that he was actually losing against Sonic, so he cheated which made him win. In the end of Sonic Riders, the two had a more friendly relationship, friendship and promised each other to compete once again. Wave tells Jet that it's time to split up. And everyone hops on to thier gears and went home. In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, they met again and had a race, but it ended up as a draw, Sonic then says in the end of the game that he'll compete Jet again in the World Grand Prix. But however, in the final ending, when Sonic was in the car, Jet called his name and came in-front of a car asking for another race, Sonic accepts it and the two are competing against each other. It is unknown which one of them won the race since the credits of the game came in between.

Amy Rose
In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, Jet found out that Amy had one of the Ark of the Cosmos, he went after her. When he caught her, he said "Alright, girly. Hand over the Ark of the Cosmos!", Amy told him that she has no idea what was he talking about, Jet thought she was lying and told her not to play dumb. When Jet had reached Eggman's Computer Room, he found out how important the Ark of the Cosmos were and knew that Amy still had them, but since she wasn't around he couldn't get it from her, but Storm got it from her, along with another one.

Friends

 * Wave the Swallow
 * Storm the Albatross

Enemies/Rivals

 * Dr. Eggman (after being betrayed)
 * Metal Sonic
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (rival in speed)
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Rouge the Bat
 * Vector the Crocodile
 * Cream the Rabbit

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'.)

Personality
Jet the Hawk's personality is being greedy and selfish. He is normally very lazy and orders Wave and Storm around. When he gets angry, he stomps around and aggressivley kicks things; acting similar to Knuckles or Amy. Even though he's greedy, he can also act nice to others, such as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy even if they are his rivals. When he and Sonic first met Jet teased him about his skills, but as shown in Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, he seems to have become more mature, no longer kicking things around when he's angered, and simply ignoring Storm and Wave's frequent arguments, apparentally having become a better leader of the Babylon Rogues. And in Sonic Free Riders, he's still an arrogant jerk, but has become more mature. As seen before one his races with Sonic, he questions Wave, asking if she messed with Sonic's Gear in any way meaning that unlike in Sonic Riders (in which he was interested in cheating) in Sonic Free Riders, he was more into a fair race.

Reception
IGN had said that Jet's voice in Sonic Free Riders is more annoying but they had said that they think it's fine because he is a "jerk." Many fans believe that Jet is a great character, as seen on SEGA's website, where they took a poll on Jet. Other than IGN, most websites leave no comment on Jet's personality or behavior.

Trivia

 * Jet is the youngest member in his group, the Babylon Rogues. He is also the youngest rival Sonic has ever had in the game series (he's one year younger than Sonic, who is 15), but he is one of the younger rivals if one counts Silver, who like Jet is also 14.
 * Coincidentally, both of them have a seiyuu that shares the same given name (Daisuke).
 * Jet is currently the only Babylon Rogues member to have a playable appearance outside the Sonic Riders series, in Sonic and the Black Knight in the multiplayer mode.
 * Jet, along with Amy, were the only two Mobians to appear in Sonic and the Black Knight, without a confirmed superform.
 * Jet was intended to be playable in Sonic Rivals and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
 * Jet is the only Sonic character to have established a use of dirty tricks, aside from Rouge, as in one of the Fleetway comics show him racing Sonic on Extreme Gear and firing a gun at Sonic's board to disable its functionality. Also, he had no "notice" of Sonic's board exploding in the first Sonic Riders. The foul play seems to be less noticable in later games.
 * In the early days, many fans mistook Jet for Bean the Dynamite, as both had green feathers and shared the same yellow beak.
 * On that note, there is a similarity between Speedy the Kukku, Bean the Dynamite, and Jet the Hawk, since they are all bird characters who have green feathers.
 * 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.
 * Jet is the fourth of five characters known to have a parent (Tikal's father is Pachacamac, Cream has her mom, Shadow's biological father is Black Doom, and Rouge mentions her mother in Sonic Chronicles). He mentions his father gave him the control box that unearths Babylon Garden from the ground.
 * In Jet's quarters of the Babylon Rogues' hovercraft, there is a portrait of a golden bird that is most likely Jet's father.
 * Jet's species may have chosen as a reference to the famous skateboarder, Tony Hawk, as they are both skilled board riders.
 * In Jet's 2D images, he has nostrils on his beak. However, in his 3D renders he doesn't. This could be the exception with his Sonic and the Black Knight artwork, though it is hard to confirm due to his helemt blocking the "nose" of his beak.
 * Jet's laughing is similar to Sonic's, this is because they were both voiced by Jason Anthony Griffith. Jet's voice can be traced back to the anime "One Piece", as one of the characters, Usopp.
 * Jet and Shadow are the only rivals Sonic had that he hasn't made friends with. Jet is still competitive with Sonic since they first met. This does not, however, affect their teamwork.
 * Oddly, Jet and Sonic seem to have their colors inverted, in terms of eye and fur/feather color. Jet's appearance is mostly green, but he has blue eyes, the color of Sonic. Sonic's appearance is mostly blue, but he has green eyes, the color of Jet. This is especially noticable on the cover of Sonic Riders.
 * In Sonic Universe #18, it was revealed that Jet was a member of the Battle Kukku Army, but became a traitor, along with the rest of the Babylon Rogues.
 * Jet is the only reoccurring rival of Sonic's not to have a super form.
 * In Sonic Riders, Jet cheated so he could win the World Grand Prix, by blowing up Sonic's board. But in Sonic Free Riders, when they beat Team Heroes because Wave sabotaged their boards, Jet demanded a rematch. This shows that Jet may have matured since Sonic and him last met.
 * Jet is very similar to Vector the Crocodile as both are green, money loving, short tempered leader of team of three, and somewhat immature rival of Sonic.
 * Jet is the only character in the Sonic Riders series to wear his goggles when racing ingame, though in the opening cutscene in the first Sonic Riders, that was the only time he wore his goggles in any cutscene of some sort.
 * Also, most characters tend to wear their goggles when using skates in the first two Sonic Riders games, Jet basically wears his goggles more often compared to others, possibly noting to his experience on an Extreme Gear.

Gallery
For more pictures see: Jet the Hawk/Artwork