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 Sonic Riders, and 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, and in 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. Scourge the Hedgehog from Archie comics has the exact same color scheme.

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".

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.

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 and the Black Knight
Jet has been confirmed to be 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 afterwards, and is portrayed as Sir Lamorak and uses Twin Swords. Like Gawain, his Soul Surge is Gail Meteor.

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 the upcoming game 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 for 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 to 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

Memorable 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!" - When Sonic was handing him over the box, even when Jet lost against Sonic.

"Hmm. I think it's time for a little fun" - Jet, as Sir Lamorak, being selected in Sonic and the Black Knight

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 smply 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 and promised each other to compete once again. 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
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose

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'.)

Trivia

 * Jet is the youngest member in his group.
 * With his appearance in Sonic and the Black Knight and as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Jet is the first Babylon Rogue to appear outside of the Sonic Riders game. However, Wave and Storm appear as stickers in SSBB, so Jet is the only Rogue to appear outside the Riders series as a playable character.
 * 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.
 * In the early days, many fans mistook Jet for Bean the Dynamite.
 * On that note, there is a similarity between Speedy the Kukku, Bean the Dynamite and Jet in that they're all three bird characters who are green.
 * 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 fifth character known to have a parent (Cream has her mom, Tikal's dad is Pachacamac, Shadow's creator is Gerald Robotnik who is like his father, 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.
 * Jet's laughing is similar to Sonic's, this is because they are both voiced by Jason Anthony Griffith.
 * Jet is the only rival Sonic has that he has not made friends with. In fact, Jet still hates Sonic as much as when they first met. This does not, however, affect their teamwork.
 * In Sonic Riders and its sequel alike, the stripes on Jet's shoes is black in gameplay and lower quality cutscenes, but white in most of his official artwork and higher quality cutscenes.