Socio Pawn

Socio Egg Pawn are robots deployed by Doctor Eggman that first appeared in ''Sonic Heroes. ''They are common variants of the Egg Pawn that is armored with Shields.

Description
Those variants are very common in games and due to their shields, they are the strongest of their types. They are very potent and take more than one hit to take them off, but during the course of the series, these variants have been modified to be fit with the games mechanics. They also come with different weapons aside from their shields

Sonic Heroes
In Sonic Heroes, they appeared into two different kinds of Egg Pawns, one which come with very solid shield made of iron and the other is made of solid rock. The first on is common and their shields cannot be taken off by any other formations except the Power Formations character and the Speed types (3 power cores have been collected), sometimes their shields come with spikes, however it will not deflect the player attacks. The other type of these variants is the most powerful between the two, as every two attacks of the Power types characters only take a piece of the shield which takes approximately six hits only to destroy the shield. To take out the shield by one hit, the player has to use the Tornado or the Homing Attack (3 power cores have been collected). All these variants that come with shield may come with other weapons like: swords and guns.

Shadow the Hedgehog
In Shadow the Hedgehog, They come in one type of shields which unlike in Sonic Heroes, take one hit to destroy by Homing Attack. However they cannot be destroyed by guns as their shields deflect attacks except the Satellite gun. Like the previous game, they come with other weapons beside the shields.

Sonic Colors
They appeared in the Sonic Simulator of the Wii version. Where like in Shadow the Hedgehog, they take overall two attack and one attack by Stomp to be destroyed along with the shields they have. They can also be destroyed by environment s like Spheres.

Sonic Generations
In Sonic Generations, they only appear in Rouge: The Temptress act which their shields made them cannot be destroyed by any of Sonic's attacks, except by Rouge's hearts attack which will make them lower their shields and become free to Sonic attacks.