Coconuts (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)


 * For the Badnik in the games, see Coconuts.

Coconuts is one of the main antagonists in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. He is a Badnik created by Dr. Ivo Robotnik and an unofficial member of the Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad. Next to Scratch and Grounder, Coconuts is one of Robotnik's primary henchmen, though he mostly serves as the doctor's janitor due to a demotion, much to his dismay.

Appearance
Coconuts wears a gray jumpsuit with a chest screen and buttons with red boots. He has lanky limbs, big monkey ears and cartoonish black eyes with no pupils. He also has a siren on his head which flashes rotating lights when he is excited.

History
At some point, Coconuts was demoted to Dr. Robotnik's janitor, a position he was not very happy with, so he wanted to capture Sonic, hoping that doing so would earn him a promotion.

While not as active as his fellow Badniks Scratch and Grounder, whenever Coconuts was, he would usually attempt to go after Sonic himself and make sure that Scratch and Grounder did not beat him to the punch. Many times, his plans almost succeeded until Scratch and Grounder came along and screw things up. However, they did team up to go after Sonic on occasion.

In the episode "Super Robotnik", he got his wish for a promotion (to First Lieutenant) when an accident of his led to Robotnik acquiring superpowers, with the added bonus of Scratch and Grounder getting demoted, though he lost it when Sonic defeated Robotnik and used a serum designed by Professor Von Schlemmer to depower Robotnik.

Personality
Coconuts is grumpy, cynical and obsessive over proving himself better than Scratch and Grounder. He has a lot of tenacity and does not back down easily. Despite his low status and general disrespect by his peers, Coconuts has proven he is much smarter than Scratch and Grounder, often being the only one to see through Sonic's disguises and even managing to capture Sonic on more than one occasion. He despises his role as Robotnik's janitor.

Powers and Abilities
Coconuts is able to use coconut-bomb to throw at his targets. He is also a good climber and has significant acrobatic skills. He also got a prehensile tail, which he uses occasionally.

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Coconuts appears as the fourth stage's opponent in both 16-bit and 8-bit versions of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. Like in the cartoon, he claims to be the doctor's favorite and is ready to finish off the player in flash. As the 16-bit version of the game is basically a Western edition of Puyo Puyo, Coconuts plays like Harpy as they both tend to stack their beans to the sides first.

Archie Comics
Coconuts also appeared occasionally in the early issues of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comics, making his first appearance in issue 2's "Triple Trouble", which marked the closest resemblance the comic had to the aforementioned cartoon. Here, Coconuts' head was colored light brown rather than red, and his face a light orange rather than the flesh tone used in the games and cartoon. However, this same color scheme was also used for the character's in-game sprites of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, although the box art used the cartoon's color scheme.

Unlike Scratch and Grounder, Coconuts appeared prominently a few more times in the comics. In issue #11, he captured the Freedom Fighters to lure Sonic into a trap in an attempt to get a higher spot on Robotnik's top ten favorite Badniks list (a list on which even Scratch and Grounder outranked him). He later starred in a short story in issue 30, in which he tried to prevent "an anteater" (Bunnie Rabbot, actually) from stealing Robotnik's Chaos Emeralds, using Wile E. Coyote-type traps that, needless to say, failed. Like his old costars, Coconuts' last appearance in the comic was part of a flashback in issue 57.

However this wasn't his end, as Coconuts ended up living on the Island of Misfit Badniks with a number of the other badniks. As Sonic visits on the island at issue 185, fights against all badniks and struggled with Pseudo Sonic after that, the island starts sinking to the ocean along with badniks. Coconuts however is the only one who was able to get away.

Coconuts later is seen as a minion of Mammoth Mogul where also Scratch and Grounder also working in. Unlike his fellow lackeys, who were envious of Coconuts' role as Mogul's right hand man, the robotic simian stated his disgust at being Mogul's "Butler Monkey".

Trivia

 * Besides Scratch and Grounder started the tradition of Robotnik having two incompetent sidekicks, Coconuts started the tradition of Dr. Robotnik having a third incompetent robot that often does his dirty work. The only example is Bokkun, from Sonic X.
 * Ironically, since Harpy is the fourth opponent from Puyo Puyo, Coconuts' MBM AI is relatively weak, whereas he is clearly smarter than both Scratch and Grounder (who are higher-level opponents in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine) in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * According to an article on Sonic HQ, writer Karl Bollers had planned for Coconuts to return to the comic by teaming him up with an amnesiac Nate Morgan. This idea never came to pass, however.