Hedgehog

Hedgehogs in the video game, comic book, and television series fiction of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, are anthropomorphic, spiny animals with quills of varying styles, similar to human hairstyles. Sonic, the main character of the series is a hedgehog followed by other hedgehogs through the series.

Hedgehogs are frequently brightly-colored (despite being mostly brown or grey in real life). They also often (but not uniformly) possess special abilities including, but not limited to, Speed (Sonic), Strength (Amy (using her Piko-Piko hammer), Telekinesis (Silver) or the power to use Chaos abilities Chaos Control (Shadow).

Several robotic hedgehogs also existed, most of whom were created by Doctor Eggman in imitation of Sonic. The most famous of these is Metal Sonic.

Games
In the games, neither the bright colours nor special powers of the hedgehogs are explained (save for Shadow, whose abilities derive from the circumstances of his creation).

Hedgehogs in the games

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Amy Rose
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Silver the Hedgehog

Hedgehogs in Sonic and the Black Knight

 * Sir Lancelot
 * Sir Galahad
 * Nimue, Lady of the Lake

Robotic hedgehogs

 * Silver Sonic
 * Mecha Sonic
 * Metal Sonic
 * Metal Sonic 3.0
 * Shadow Androids
 * Robo-Sonic

Others

 * Mephiles the Dark
 * Sonic the Werehog

Comics
In the Archie Comics, the bright colors of the hedgehogs are inherited traits. Sonic's blue pigmentation originates from his family (his parents and his uncle are also blue). That said, Amy and Rob O' the Hedge are cousins, yet one is pink and the other is green, for no discernible reason. In Sonic the Comic, most hedgehogs are brown. Sonic and Amy both were born brown, and gained their distinctive colours later due to accident and mutation.

Hedgehogs in Archie comics

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Bernadette Hedgehog
 * Jules Hedgehog
 * Sir Charles Hedgehog
 * Amy Rose
 * Rob O' the Hedge
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Silver the Hedgehog
 * Scourge the Hedgehog
 * Rosy the Rascal
 * Manik Acorn
 * Cyborg Sonic
 * Zonic the Zone Cop
 * Sonic the Werehog

Robot hedgehogs in Archie comics

 * See also Sonic robots in the Archie comic


 * Sir Charles Hedgehog (When he was a Robian)
 * Jules Hedgehog (Robian)
 * Pseudo Sonic
 * Metal Sonic
 * Metal Scourge
 * Silver Sonic
 * Silver Sonic II
 * Mecha Sonic (Roboticized Sonic)

Hedgehogs in Sonic the Comic

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Amy Rose
 * Super Sonic (independent entity)
 * Bravehog

Robot hedgehogs in Sonic the Comic

 * Metallix
 * Silver Sonic
 * Badnik Sonic

Others in Sonic the Comic

 * Cosmic the Hedgehog
 * Tonic the Hedgehog

Cartoons
Different variety of hedgehogs in the cartoons. In Sonic X and the movie, Sonic's blue color is not explained; in the other cartoons, it is an inherited color except in Sonic Underground, where all his family members have their own color.

Hedgehogs in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Regular brown hedgehogs were also seen in the series. In the episode 50 "Robotnik's Pyramid Scheme" Professor Canine Stein shows Sonic his family tree of blue hedgehogs but they were never named, however some of Sonic's ancestors were named.
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Cute little Hedgehog in a polka dot bikini (from "Blackbot the Pirate (episode)")
 * Buff Male Hedgehog in a speedo (from "Blackbot the Pirate (episode)")
 * Penelope
 * Masonic
 * Mummified Hedgehog

Merhogs: half hedgehog, half fish animals

 * Merna the Merhog
 * Queen of the Merhogs
 * Merhogs of Mertopia

Robot hedgehogs in AoSTH

 * Pseudo-Sonic
 * Breezie

Hedgehogs in the Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)

 * Sonic the Hedgehog

Robot hedgehogs in SatAM

 * Sir Charles Hedgehog (Robian)

Hedgehogs in the Sonic Underground

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Manic the Hedgehog
 * Sonia the Hedgehog
 * Queen Aleena the Hedgehog
 * Aman-Rapi
 * The Royal 'Corrupt' Hedgehogs
 * Fat alternate version of Sonic as a king
 * Greedy alternate version of Manic as a king
 * Vain alternate version of Sonia as a queen
 * Luke Periwinkle
 * Unnamed purple hedgehog girl, usually seen homeless

Robot hedgehogs in Underground

 * Sir Charles Hedgehog (Robian)
 * Hip Hedgehog