Bugernaut
Appearances in other media
Color scheme
Orange, blue, silver
Bugernaut [1] (ブンブーン[2] , Bun-bun ? ) is an enemy in the Sonic the Hedgehog series . It is a mass-produced, horsefly-based Badnik model created by Dr. Robotnik .
Appearance
Based on the horsefly , Bugernauts have a small blue body with a pair of large superposition eyes, four big wings and a cylinder-shaped abdomen on their back.
Game appearances
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
In Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and its lock-on continuation Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles , Bugernauts are found in Hydrocity Zone , and come in two sizes: a larger Bugernaut may be followed by a smaller one, but only the larger one can be destroyed. Buggernauts remain stationary above water surfaces, but will start buzzing around and charge at the playable characters when they approach them.
When the player defeats a larger Bugernaut by using a Spin Jump , the small Bugernaut becomes vulnerable and seeks out the nearest larger Bugernaut to follow it. If there are no large Bugernauts nearby, the smaller one flies away.
Sonic Mania
In Sonic Mania , and its expansion Sonic Mania Plus , the Bugernauts appear as enemies. In terms of design, they look exactly like they did in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 . In these games, they appear exclusively in Hydrocity Zone .
A Bugernaut in Sonic Mania .
In gameplay, the Bugernauts behave just like in their debut appearance: they will buzz around the player in pairs when the player get close, and the smaller one will flee to a new large one or escape if its partner gets smashed. Also, upon destroying a Bugernaut, it will release an Animal .
Powers and abilities
With their wings, the Bugernauts are capable of flight.
In other media
Sonic the Comic
Trivia
The Bugernaut's name is a portmanteau of the words "bug" and "juggernaut."
Bugernaut's Japanese name "Bun-bun" is Japanese for "buzz".
References
Main articles (Sonic 3 , Sonic & Knuckles , Sonic 3 & Knuckles , Sonic & Knuckles Collection ) | Staff (Sonic 3 , Sonic & Knuckles , Sonic & Knuckles Collection ) | Manuals (Sonic 3 , Sonic & Knuckles ) | Glitches (Sonic 3 , Sonic 3 & Knuckles , Sonic & Knuckles Collection ) | Beta elements (Sonic 3 , Sonic & Knuckles , Sonic 3 & Knuckles ) | Galleries (Sonic 3 , Sonic & Knuckles , Sonic & Knuckles Collection )
Characters
Sonic (Super Sonic , Hyper Sonic ) | Tails (Super Tails ) | Knuckles (Super Knuckles , Hyper Knuckles ) | Dr. Robotnik | Mecha Sonic (Mecha Sonic's Super State ) | Animals (Flicky (Flicky's Super State ), Pocky , Pecky , Cucky , Ricky , Rocky )
Badniks
Batbot | Blaster | Blastoid (Carnival Night Zone) | Blastoid (Hydrocity Zone) | Bloominator | Bubbles | Bugernaut | Butterdroid | Catakiller, Jr. | Chainspike | Clamer | Cluckoid | Corkey | Dragonfly | EggRobo | Fireworm | Flybot767 | Hyudoro | Iwamodoki | Jawz | Madmole | Mantis | Mega Chopper | Monkey Dude | Mushmeanie | Orbinaut | Penguinator | Pointdexter | RhinoBot | Ribot | Rock'n | Sandworm | Skorp | Snale Blaster | Spikebonker | Spiker | Star Pointer | Technosqueek | Toxomister | Turbo Spiker
Zones
Sonic 3
Angel Island Zone | Hydrocity Zone | Marble Garden Zone | Carnival Night Zone | IceCap Zone | Launch Base Zone | Special Stages | Bonus Stages
Sonic & Knuckles
Mushroom Hill Zone | Flying Battery Zone | Sandopolis Zone | Lava Reef Zone | Hidden Palace Zone | Sky Sanctuary Zone | Death Egg Zone | The Doomsday Zone | Special Stages | Bonus Stages
Competition
Azure Lake Zone | Balloon Park Zone | Chrome Gadget Zone | Desert Palace Zone | Endless Mine Zone
Bosses
Sub-bosses
Doctor Robotnik's Flame Craft | Doctor Robotnik's Whirlpool Machine | Tunnelbot | Self D-Struct Machine | Iceball | Swing'm Spikez | Hei Hou | Gapsule | Barrier Eggman | Guardian | Heat Arms | Egg Mobile-H | Flying Eggman | Red Eye | Death Ball
Zone bosses
Doctor Robotnik's Flame Craft | Doctor Robotnik's Waterspout and Depth Charge Machine | Doctor Robotnik's Jet Drill Pod | Doctor Robotnik's Energy Ship | Doctor Robotnik's Freeze-O-Matic | Ball Shooter | Beam Rocket | Big Arm | Jet Mobile | Hang Mobile | Egg Golem | Hot Mobile | Knuckles | Mecha Sonic | Mecha Sonic's Super State | Great Eggman Robo | The Doomsday Zone
Moves/Techniques
Bound Jump | Crouch | Double Jump | Fireball Spin Dash | Glide | Gliding Knuckles Attack | Hyper Flash | Insta-Shield | Propeller Flying | Spin Jump | Spin Dash | Spin Attack | Wall Climb
Items
Air Bubble | Balloon | Banana | Bomb | Booster | Bumper | Bumper wall | Cannon | Capsule | Change | Chaos Emerald | Cloud | Continue | Fan | Jump Stand | Monitor (Water Shield , Flame Shield , Invincibility , Lightning Shield , Super Ring , Super Shoes , Extra Life , S , Eggman ) | Movable box | Mushroom | Pulley | Ring | Signpost | Self-Propelled Bomb | Slow-Down Shoes | Snowboard | Sphere | Spikes | Spring | Spinning Top | Star Post (Star Circle ) | Super Emerald | Switch | Transport | Vine | Zip Line
Other
Angel Island | Barrel | Blue Knuckles | Conveyor Belt | Corkscrew loop | Crusher | Debug Mode | Fireball Cannon | Flipper | Flywheel | Freeze | Giant spear | Goal | Gravity Control Switch | Gumball | High-speed elevator | High-speed warp tube | Icicle | Iron ball | Jewel Radar | Perfect Bonus | Platform-raising Wheel | Pole Elevator | Relief | Reverse | Ring Shooter | Rock Drill | Seesaw | Shuttle loop | Slot machine | Snowblower | Sonic & Knuckles • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Strange Relief | Time Attack | Tornado | Warp Point | Winding Tunnel | Wonderman
Main article | Staff | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery | Re-releases (Plus )
Playable characters
Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Sonic ) | Miles "Tails" Prower (Super Tails ) | Knuckles the Echidna (Super Knuckles ) | Mighty the Armadillo * (Super Mighty )* | Ray the Flying Squirrel * (Super Ray )*
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Hard Boiled Heavies (Heavy King , Heavy Gunner , Heavy Shinobi , Heavy Magician , Heavy Rider ) | Phantom Heavies (Phantom King , Phantom Gunner , Phantom Shinobi , Phantom Magician , Phantom Rider ) | Metal Sonic (Giga Metal ) | Animals (Becky , Cucky , Flicky , Locky , Micky , Pecky , Picky , Pocky , Ricky , Rocky , Tocky , Wocky ) | Jimmy
Zones
Angel Island Zone * | Green Hill Zone | Chemical Plant Zone | Studiopolis Zone | Flying Battery Zone | Press Garden Zone | Stardust Speedway Zone | Hydrocity Zone | Mirage Saloon Zone | Oil Ocean Zone | Lava Reef Zone | Metallic Madness Zone | Titanic Monarch Zone | Egg Reverie Zone | Special Stage | Bonus Stage | Pinball Stage *
Enemies
Armadiloid | Aquis | Asteron | Ball Hog | Batbrain | Blaster | Blastoid | Bloominator * | Bugernaut | Bumpalo | Buzz Bomber | Cactula | Canister | Catakiller, Jr. | Chopper | Clucker | Crabmeat | Dango | Dragonfly | Eggrobo | Fireworm | Flasher mk.II | Gohla | Grabber | Hotaru | IceBomba | Iwamodoki | Jawz | Jellygnite | Juggle Saw | Kabasira | Kanabun | Madmole | Matryoshka-Bom | Mega Chopper | Mic Drop | Monkey Dude * | Moto Bug | Newtron | Octus | Pointdexter | Rattlekiller | Rexon | RhinoBot * | Robot Bee | Robot Beetle | Roller mk.II | Scarab | Sentry Bug | Shutterbug | Silver Sonic | Spiny | Splats | Sweep | Technosqueek | Toxomister | Tubinaut | Turbo Spiker | Turbo Turtle | Vultron | Woodrow
Bosses
Mini-bosses
DD Wrecker | Amoeba Droid | Heavy Gunner | Big Squeeze | Shiversaw | Hotaru Hi-Watt | Dive Eggman | Uber Caterkiller | Meter Droid | Drillerdroid | Egg Pistons mk.II | Crimson Eye
Zone bosses
Death Egg Robot | Mean Bean Machine | Weather Globe | Spider Mobile | Heavy Shinobi | Metal Sonic | Laundro-Mobile | Heavy Magician | Mega Octus | Heavy Rider | Heavy King | Gachapandora | Phantom Egg | Phantom King and Klepto Mobile
Moves/Techniques
Air Glide * | Bounce Jump | Climb | Crouch | Double Jump | Drop Dash | Fireball Spin Dash | Glide | Hammer Drop * | Insta-Shield | Propeller Flying | Ring Spark Field | Spin Attack | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Super Peel Out | V. Maximum Overdrive Attack
Gimmicks and obstacles
Beanstalk | Bomb | Bumper | Bungee Rope | Bumper wall | Conveyor Belt | Crusher | Dash Panel | Electrical conduit | Fan | Fireball Cannon | Flipper | Flywheel | Goal Plate | High-speed warp tube | Ice Spring | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Platform-raising Wheel | Pulley | Ruby Mist | Seesaw | Size Beam | Snowblower | Spikes | Spring | Switch | Transport | Vine | Zip Line
Objects
Air Bubble | Capsule | Chaos Emerald | Giant Ring | Giant spear | Item Box (1-UP , Blue Shield , Bubble Shield , Character *, Hyper Ring , Eggman Mark , Fire Shield , Invincible , Lightning Shield , Player Swap , Power Sneakers , Random , S , Super Ring ) | Little Planet flowers | Master Emerald | Metal Sonic Projector | Medallion | Ring | Robot transporter | Schrodinger's Capsule * | Sphere | Star Circle | Star Post | Time Warp sign | UFO | Warp Point
Music
Sonic Mania (vinyl album) | Sonic Mania Original Soundtrack (Selected Edition) | Sonic Mania Plus Original Soundtrack
Other
Angel Island | Auto Running | Continue | Death Egg Robot | Debug Mode | Egg Mobile | Freeze | Hang Glider | Klepto Mobile | Level Select | Little Planet | Mega Mack | Perfect Bonus | Phantom Ruby | Rock Drill | Shuttle loop | Sonic Mania Adventures (Sonic Returns , Sonic and Tails , & Knuckles , Mighty and Ray , Metal Mayhem , From: A. Rose , The Complete Mini-Series ) | Time Attack | Time Over | Tornado | Winding Tunnel
*Appears in Sonic Mania Plus only