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The Custom Hero (カスタムヒーロー), also referred to as the Avatar (アバター), is a character set to appear in Sonic Forces. The Custom Hero is the third playable character in Sonic Forces who can be designed and customized by the player.

The Custom Hero will be featured in the story of Sonic Forces and will be "a crucial element in helping Sonic reclaim the world from Eggman’s domination."

Appearance
As a custom character, the Custom Hero's appearance is entirely dictated by the player. While an anthropomorphic animal by default, their species can be one of seven options: bear, bird, cat, dog, hedgehog, rabbit, or wolf. The following can also be customized: upper headgear, middle headgear, lower headgear, gloves, shoes, accessories, bodysuit, and skin color. A multitude of options are given for the player to customize the Custom Hero in any fashion.

Personality
The Custom Hero is a heroic individual who cannot stand evil or needless destruction, and is quick to spring into action to stop evildoers.

Powers and abilities
The Custom Hero has the ability to instantly accelerate to and run at super speeds, and has immense jumping skills that rival those of Sonic the Hedgehog. They also have proficient grappling skills, being able to expertly use grappling gear to latch onto targets and swing around. They are also skillful enough to use grappling to latch onto foes and pull themselves in for an attack, dodge attacks, and tie up foes as large as a Death Egg Robot sentinel.

Equipment and weapons
The Custom Heroes wears a wrist-mounted grappling hook which can detach its rope at command. This gear's rope is both long and strong enough to tie up three Death Egg Robot sentinels at once. They also carry the Wispon, a customizable gadget that can harness the power of Wisps and channel their respective Color Powers without causing the Custom Hero to transform.

Trivia

 * The Custom Hero is going to appear in cutscenes and can be heard speaking. In the latter case however, they can only speak in grunts.