Honey the Cat

Honey the Cat ( ハニー猫 "Hanii ze Neko") is a cat character that was scrapped from Sonic Championship (also known as Sonic the Fighters). She is a yellow cat with navy blue, black hair and a red dress. Although she was scrapped, her data still exists in the arcade version. When you do 2-player mode on Sonic the Fighters, the 2 people that are playing it have a choice of which character they want to chose, and, if they both choose the same character the person that chose that character second will get a gray scale version of that character, but with Honey she has two different versions so if you chose her second she will have blonde hair, a blue dress and pink fur. (The pink, blonde haired, and blue-dressed one is her mirrior version.) Honey normally has pigtails, and a tail, but they don't come due to a glitch.

Abilities
Honey the cat has borrowed abilities from the other fighters:
 * She glides with her wings (similar to Knuckles the Echidna).
 * Honey shares the same fighting pose as Sonic.
 * Honey even shares the same kicks as Sonic.
 * Some of Honey's punching type moves are from Tails.

Emulator Honey
When playing with an emulator, you get a different Honey, one without ponytails, and a tail. This is not another Honey, this Honey is made from a bug in the emulator that doesn't show them, but the parts will flash sometimes for a few seconds, then disappear again.This glitch honey only appears on the emulator.

Mirror Honey


The mirror Honey is a pink skinned, blonde haired, and blue dressed version of Honey, Mirror Honey has no moves at all, and is completely useless due to that fact. It is a 100% chance that the player would be able to defeat Mirror Honey without getting any health loss. She is the only Mirror Version in the game to actually be colored. The Mirror Honey also appeared in the Sega Saturn version of Fighting Vipers (see picture). The Mirror Honey also has blue colored hairband, normal Honey has a red hairband. Mirror Honey is the only version of Honey the Cat to actually appear in a game.

Eye Glitch
In gameplay, Honey has an eye glitch that one eye looks at the opponent, while the other looks in the opposite direction. This certainly makes her look strange in the game. Her eye glitch will be there anytime someone chooses to play as Honey in the game.

The eye glitch is strange and can't go away or be fixed. It is caused due to eye data being unfinished, and never completely functional. This may be another reason she was scrapped from the game.

However, when cutscene after Metal Sonic is defeated is started, it seems to fix this eye glitch. This could be because of the way the cutscene is handling the eyes, forcing them to look around, and once the fight actually begins, the eye data is reset. This could also be because the character only needs to look at the opponent, and not the camera. (From Sonic-Cult)

Fighting Vipers Honey
Honey the Cat is probably based off a character of the same name in the game Fighting Vipers. This Honey is a human character, not a cat, and has the same poses as Honey the Cat.

The Fighting Vipers Honey is easily comparable to Honey the Cat of Sonic the Fighters. Fighting Vipers Honey looks exactly like a human version of Honey the Cat. This version is called Candy in the US.

Please keep in mind that it is unknown whether are not this is a coincidence, or was intended, but this may be a reason Honey the Cat was scrapped. Both version look almost exactly like each other. The Fighting Vipers Honey does not have the eye glitch because Honey the Cat was scrapped before she was finished, the Fighting Vipers Honey wasn't scrapped, and was finished.

Trivia

 * Honey has only appeared in the prototype Sonic the Fighters.
 * Honey has wings on her back, which gives her ability to glide.
 * She shares attacks from other fighters,this could be because,when the game was released,Honey did not have a moveset,so the game "borrow" attacks from the other fighters.
 * She is only playable via hacking.
 * In Sonic Championship's soundtest, a music track called "Sunset Hill" can be played. However, it is not in the actual game. The stage could have been Honey's intended stage, but when Honey was scrapped, the stage was scrapped as well.
 * Honey has the same victory pose as Tails. When she do the similar victory, her face will look like this: X3
 * Mirror Honey is in the Sega Saturn version of the Fighting Vipers intro. (As seen above).
 * Honey is quite popular on the famous art site, DeviantART. However, many of artists have mistaked Honey's white "stars hat" as part of Honey's ears, when they are normally aren't, they were behind Honey's ears, but people doesn't pay attention enough to details on Honey the Cat. They also added black color on the edge of Honey's tail when Honey normally doesn't have black fur on the edge of her tail.
 * Honey the Cat is the first cat character in Sonic history, although Honey never made it in the final version of Sonic the Fighters.
 * When Honey's title card appear before a fight,instead of her name,it is write  ? ? ? , this may be because she was going to be a unlocked bonus character. Also, her picture is of Dr. Robotnik