Character

Character
The Character
Appearances
First appearance	Sonic Mania Plus
Statistics and overview
User(s)	Knuckles the Echidna Mighty the Armadillo MIles "Tails" Prower Ray the Flying Squirrel Sonic the Hedgehog
Purpose	Increasing number of available party members
Description	Item Box power-up with flickering character icons on it.

The Character is an Item Box power-up that appears in Sonic Mania Plus. When obtained, this power-up adds another party member to the player's roster.

Description

The monitors with Character feature a flickering screen that switches between the character icons for Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mighty and Ray.

Overview

Tails about to open an Character Item Box in Sonic Mania Plus.

In the gameplay of Sonic Mania Plus, the Character Item Box only appears in the game's Encore Mode. In this mode, the game uses a different life system; the player controls two characters at the same time and can have up to three characters on standby. When the active character loses a life, the next character in line will step up to take his place. What the Character Item Box does when opened is that it adds a new character to the player's party in case they have anything less than a full roster.

The playable character the Character Item Box adds to the player's party depends on the character icon shown on the Item Box when it is opened. For example, opening it when it shows Sonic's character icon will add Sonic to the player's party. In addition, the Character Item Box will only display character icons of characters not in the player's party. For example, if the player has Sonic, Knuckles and Tails on their party, then the Character Item Box will only show Mighty and Ray's character icons.

References

Item Box power-ups

1-Up	Aqua Shield	Flame Shield
Invincible	Thunder Shield	Power Sneakers
Shield	Magnetic Shield	Super Ring

5 Ring Bonus	20 Rings	Attract
Attack (Sonic Advance 2)	Attack (Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity)	Big 50 Ring
Blue Shield	Bomb	Bowling Strike
Chaos Emerald	Change	Character
Colorball	Combi Catcher	Combine Ring
Combination Dash	Combo Bonus	Confusion
Continue Monitor	Damage Recover	Eggman Mark
Explosion	Flame Jump	Fly Charge
Free Throw	Gauge Up	Gold Shield
GP Boost	Grow	Health

Heat Barrier	High Speed	Hyper Heli-Tails
Jet Board	Jump	Magnet
Marker	Maximum Tension Bonus	Minus Ring
Mosaic	Octo-Boost	Octo-Ink
Player Swap	Pogo Spring	Power Core
Random	Random Ring Bonus	Red Shield
Ring Can	Rings	Rocket Shoes
S	Propeller Shoes	Shrink
Skateboard	Slow	Soda Rocket

Speed Down	Stage Select	Special Combination
Support Spring	Swap	Target Torpedo
Tee Shot	Team Blast Ring	Tension Bonus
Time Bonus	Time Stop	Transparency
Twister	Warp

Exploding Balloon	Mine	Reaper
Spring	Steal Boost	Steal Wisp

Audio Assault	Balkiry	Bashosen
Bass Boost	Bat Bomb	Beat Boost
Blizzard Bomb	Booby Trap	Brutal Blitz
Bubble Bomb	Bunny Boost	Captive Light
Chao Attack	Chao Chase	Chao Guardians
Chao-nado	Chaos Charge	Chaos Slash
Chopper Chomp	Cyan Laser	Cyclone Charge
Dead End	Drac-O'-Lantern	Dragon Dance
Electro Boost	EMP Boost	Explosive Mine
Festive Umbrella Boost	Fire Boost	Fire Whirl
Fireball	Firework Flurry	Flue Shot
Frozen Chopper Chomp	Gift Trapped	Gold Rush
Green Hover	Harvest Time	Hedge Maze
Home Run	Honor Guard

Ice Boost	Ice Mine	Ice Wave
Illusion Boost	Illusion Mine	King's Judgement
Lava Bomb	Lightning	Lilytrap
Meteor Charge	Moto-Bug	Pink Spikes
Pyro-Mine	Ring Portal	Rocket Boost
Rocky Road	Savage Throw	Soul Surge
Star Trail	Steal	Storm Cloud
Strike Out	Tail Spring	Tail Strike
Tornado	Trap Shot	Umbrella Boost
Whirlwind	Wind Boost	Wipeout
Wrench Rush	Zap Trap

Enerbeam	Magnet	Score Doubler
Shield	Super Ring

Floating Item Box

Item Panel

Target Switch

Sonic Mania

---

Main article | Staff | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery | Re-releases (Plus)