Josef

is a human resident of Spagonia in Sonic Unleashed. He is the owner of the town's local shop, which he has unimaginative named Josef. He is one of the people being possessed by Dark Gaia minions, until he is exorcised by Sonic the Hedgehog and Chip. In the game, Sonic can buy several things such as food, souvenirs, records and artwork from his shop.

Directory
''The owner of Josef's, and not a terribly creative thinker, as the name of his shop surely implies. Recently, Josef realized he didn't have enough hobbies outside of work, so he took up jogging, painting, and photography. None of these endeavors lasted very long.''

PS3/Xbox360
According to his profile, Josef had at some point realized that he did not participate in many personal hobbies outside of his work. As a result, he tried to pursue new interests, such as jogging, painting and taking photographs. For unknown reasons however, Josef quickly abandoned all of these attempts.

Following Dark Gaia's dispersions across the globe, Josef became possessed by some of Dark Gaia's minions. Their influence would then cause Josef to dance and party rowdy together with other possessed humans in the middle of the streets in Spagonia during nighttime. Luckly, not long after, Josef and the rest of the possessed people had the Dark Gaia minions exorcised from them by Sonic and Chip, thus freeing Josef from their influence.

Josef later watched on in horror with the rest of his town, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but rejoiced as the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.

PS2/Wii
Josef never made any real appearance on the PS2/Wii version of Sonic Unleashed. He did however appear during the cutscenes, where he and the rest of Spagonia watched in horror, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but rejoiced as the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.