Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24074103-20131204160455/@comment-679780-20140729011527

Thesoniczone11 wrote: Why do you want to refuse the idea of Knuckles being a geokinetic so bad anyway? Because it is merely a theory and I believe that there needs to be a substancial ammount of evidence to support a theory in order to have more basis behind it to be worthy to add to the respected articles.

For example, Knuckles does not fufill all the criteria that a geokinesis, or for conveniant use of term, an "Earthbender" have manipulation over. Earthbenders technique often involve the ability to move rocks and earth by stomping or forceful motion with contact with the material and yes, Knuckles the Echidna fill this criteria of earthbending. But earthbenders are also able to move the earth without physical contact, such as body motions that can reshape the earth or send rocks flying, most commonly the ability to levitate rocks, being seperate from the earth itself. These non-contact earth based abilities are usually considered what geokinesis is, the ability to move earth without physical contact, purely with the mind. Knuckles does not harbour any of these non-contact abilities at all. It is only a few games he has powers that could relate but even still these games could be considered spin-off or loose to canon. For example the many spectacular attacks in Sonic Battle seemingly forgotten in favour for standard gameplay abilities for the mainstream games.

It is my belief that the logic behind Knuckles control of earth is that he makes use of his powerful strength to deliver shockwaves through the earth in order to manipulate it how he wants. While this may count as earth manipulation I cannot say it is geokinesis because Knuckles is creating powerful shockwaves with his Hammer Punch skills and is not controlling the earth with just his mind.

If you persist to use Meteor Crush as your reason, well in the Skill Information it never states those rocks come from space nor that Knuckles have complete control of the "supernatural power of the earth". Just that he makes it happen which could be by any reason. He perhaps have telepathy to the Master Emerald to ask it to drop a few rocks. It is also important to remember that Sonic Battle is considered a spin-off game so it is questionable of how much it holds to the main series.

But all in all, I just don't think there is enough clear cut evidence to logically agree that Knuckles is an earthbender and that it's not worthy to add "geokinesis" to his article. To me the logical conclusion is that Knuckles can manipulate the earth through shockwaves. That is the logical conclusion I see from playing Sonic games since the 90s.