Sam Speed

Sam Speed is a character from Sonic X. He is Chris Thorndyke's maternal uncle (the brother of Lindsey Thorndyke) and the leader of the Speed Team, a special unit of the Station Square police force that uses high-performance automobiles. His rivalry with Sonic is a recurring theme throughout Sonic X ' s first two seasons. Sam Speed is 28 years old, 183 cm tall, weighs 80 kg, and he is voiced by Souichirou Tanaka in Japan and Frank Frankson in the US.

A running gag in the original Japanese version of the show involves Sam having a different nickname in each of his appearances, some examples being "Highway Star" and "Love Express". In the English version, his only nickname was "Speed King", a possible reference to NHRA drag racing legend Kenny Bernstein, who is known as "the King of Speed."