Dark Rider
Appearances in other media
Description
A GUN motorcycle
The Dark Rider , also known as the Bike , is a vehicle that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series . It is Shadow the Hedgehog 's personal motorcycle.
Game appearances
Shadow the Hedgehog
The Dark Rider first appears in Shadow the Hedgehog as an unnamed vehicle. It is shown in the game's intro, where it gets destroyed, and in Lethal Highway .
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
Shadow riding the Dark Rider.
The Dark Rider reappears in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) , where it can be used in Radical Train and Aquatic Base . It also appears in Shadow's seventh Town Mission , "Motorcycle License Test ". It has been completely redesigned, is now armed with machine guns, and its speed can be increased using an ability called the Boost Dash . Unlike in Shadow the Hedgehog , the Dark Rider is needed on certain missions to advance as it allows Shadow to travel faster.
In gameplay, the Dark Rider is harder to steer. While it is faster than the Buggy and can jump higher from Ramps , the Dark Rider has weaker armor. Additionally, should the rounds for its machine guns empty, it will reload in seconds. If the Dark Rider rams at into a wall at full speed, it will overturn and cannot be flipped back unless the player gets jumps off of it and back on again. When its Health Gauge is critical its engine starts to smoke, and when it empties, the vehicle will explode (without harming the player).
To board or dismount the Dark Rider, the player can press / . Pressing / makes it reverse/brake, pressing / twice triggers a Boost Dash, and / fires its machine gun.
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
In Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing , the Dark Rider appears as Shadow's vehicle. Its appearance is identical to that in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) , but it lacks its machine guns. Instead of the GUN insignia, it has the Black Arms insignia on its fuel tank. It has the following statistics:
Speed
Acceleration
Handling
Turbo-Boost
5/10
9/10
9/10
6/10
Other game appearances
Shadow the Hedgehog Flash
In Shadow the Hedgehog Flash , the Dark Rider appears as an unnamed vehicle. It is ridden by Shadow in the entirety of Westopolis Act 2.
In other media
Archie Comics
In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics , the Dark Rider debuted in Sonic Universe #23 . In its debut, Amy asked why Shadow had the bike, and he explained that all G.U.N agents must be issued with a vehicle. Rouge pointed out that he did not need it, but customized and maintains it himself, to which he admitted that he "really like(s) that bike."
Trivia
The Dark Rider bears an resemblance to a 2003 Harley Davidson XL1200 Custom Anniversary Edition.
The Dark Rider was made into a toy for the Sonic & Sega All-Stars 3" action figure series, coming with a Shadow figure with hands especially molded so that they could wrap around the handlebars of the bike, keeping him on it.[1] The Dark Rider was also made into a radio-controlled toy with a working headlight.[2]
Gallery
Concept artwork
Artwork
Sprites
Models
Screenshots
Merchandise
References
Main article | Scripts (Main Story , Last Story ) | Credits | Glitches | Beta elements | Library Sequences | Gallery
Playable characters
Shadow (Hero Shadow , Dark Shadow , Super Shadow ) | Shadow Android
Non-playable characters
Black Doom (Devil Doom ) | Eggman | Sonic | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Rouge | Omega | Team Chaotix (Vector , Espio , Charmy ) | Cream | Cheese | Maria | Gerald | Commander | President | Researcher | Secretary | Chao
Stages
Air Fleet | Black Comet | Central City | Circus Park | Cosmic Fall | Cryptic Castle | Death Ruins | Digital Circuit | Final Haunt | GUN Fortress | Glyphic Canyon | Iron Jungle | Lava Shelter | Lethal Highway | Lost Impact | Mad Matrix | Prison Island | Sky Troops | Space Gadget | The ARK | The Doom | The Last Way | Westopolis
Enemies
Ark Missile Turret | Artificial Chaos (Artificial Chaos P-100 , Cell ) | Black Assassin | Black Hawk | Black Oak | Black Volt | Black Warrior | Black Wing | Black Worm | Big Foot Type A | Big Foot Type B | Death Leech | Death Worm | Egg Bommer | Egg Pawn | Egg Pierrot | Giant Walker | Giga Trooper | Gold Beetle | Gun Beetle | GUN Soldier | GUN Trooper | Jack Bommer | Killer Plant | Mono Beetle | Rocket Beetle | Sand Worm | Shadow Android | Spark Beetle
Bosses
Black Bull | Black Doom | Blue Falcon | Devil Doom | Diablon | Egg Breaker | Egg Dealer | Heavy Dog
Moves/Techniques
Chaos Blast | Chaos Control | Chaos Spear | Crouch | Dark Spin Dash | Grinding | Grind Step | Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Light Dash | Mid-Air Attack | Missile Fever | Overturn | Pawn Fever | Pick up | Punch | Ring Fever | Shadow Fever | Slide | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Super Sonic Boost | Swift strike | Tail Swipe | Triangle Jump
Vehicles
Air Saucer | Convertible | GUN Motorcycle | GUN Vehicle | HMMWV | Jump Vehicle
Gimmicks and obstacles
Barrel | Barrier | Black Slab | Case | Cell Cannon | City annihilator bomb | Coaster | Color Panel | Electrified Rail | Fan | Firewall | Gravity Control Switch | Green energy fluid | Gun Lift | Gun ship | GUN turret | Hint Ring | Jump Panel (Prison Island) | Jump Panel (ramp) | Junction switch | Lantern | Laser field | Laser turret | Light-speed circuit | Meteorite | Pole | Pulley | Red fruit | Red Slime | Rocket | Secret Door | Shield switch | Shooting Gallery | Small bomb | Surveillance camera | Toxic marsh | Toxic river | Vine | Warp Hole | Wide spring
Items
General
Black Tank | Bomb Unit | Chaos Emerald | Container (Special Weapon Container , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) | Core program | Defense Unit | Egg Balloon | Energy Core | Floating Item Box | Goal Ring | Heal Unit | Item Box (1-Up , Barrier , Damage Recover , Heat Barrier , Invincible , Magnetic Barrier , Rings ) | President's escape pod | Ring | Secret Key | Temple jewel
Weapons
4-Shot RPG | 8-Shot RPG | Bazooka | Big Worm Shooter | Big Barrel | Black Barrel | Black Sword | Bomb Fever | Egg Bazooka | Egg Gun | Egg Spear | Egg Vacuum | Environment Objects | Flash Shot | Gatling Gun | Grenade Launcher | Heal Cannon | Heavy Machine Gun | Heavy Shot | Laser Rifle | Light Shot | Omochao Gun | Pistol | Refractor | RPG | Samurai Blade | Satellite Gun | Semi-Auto Rifle | Shadow Rifle | Splitter | Sub-Machine Gun | Survival Knife | Tank Cannon | Vacuum Pod | Wide Worm Shooter | Worm Shooter
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Shadow ) | Sean Schemmel (Black Doom ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman , Gerald ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles ) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream , Maria ) | Carter Cathcart (Vector ) | David Wills (Espio ) | Amy Birnbaum (Charmy ) | Jeff Kramer (Omega ) | Andrew Rannells (GUN Soldier ) | Marc Thompson (Commander ) | Maddie Blaustein (President ) | Bella Hudson (Secretary )
Japanese voice actors
Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Black Doom ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman , Gerald ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Yuri Shiratori (Maria ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Yūki Masuda (Espio ) | Yōko Teppōzuka (Charmy ) | Taiten Kusunoki (Omega ) | Takashi Yoshida (GUN Soldier ) | Banjō Ginga (Commander ) | Yutaka Nakano (President ) | Junko Kitanishi (Secretary ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Additional Chao )
Music
Songs
All Hail Shadow | Almost Dead | E.G.G.M.A.N Doc. Robeatnix Mix | I Am... All of Me | Never Turn Back | The Chosen One | Tripod Baby | Waking Up | Who I Am (unused)
Albums
Lost and Found: Shadow the Hedgehog Vocal Trax | Shadow the Hedgehog Official Soundtrack | Shadow the Hedgehog Original Soundtrax
Other
Battle Mode | Black Comet | Central Information Agency | Eclipse Cannon | Dark Gauge | Dark Rider | Egg Monitor | Eggman Fleet | Expert Mode | Fire in the Sky Festival | Health Gauge | Hero Gauge | Mother computer | Prison Island | Prosperity ritual | Shadow the Hedgehog Flash | Space Colony ARK | Tails' Spaceship | White House
Main article | Script (Sonic , Shadow , Silver , Last ) | Staff | Manuals | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery
Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Shadow (Super Shadow ) | Rouge | Omega | Silver (Super Silver ) | Blaze | Amy
Non-playable characters
Accordion Player | Adrianna | Alan | Alessio | Alfano | Anna | Antonio | Aristo | Berruni | Bishop | Claudia | Dante | Dr. Eggman | Duchess of Soleanna | Duke of Soleanna | Elkan | Frances | Francesca | GUN Soldier | Galienna | Gina | Hatsun | Herman | Iblis | Ladies-in-waiting | Liza | Lord Regis | Mancini | Mephiles (Mephiles's monstrous form ) | Mikhail | Monica | Nicolo | Paganini | Parr | Pele | Pietro | Pinto | Porta | Priest | Princess Elise the Third | Prodi | Pucci | Puccini | Renzo | Alberto Robert | Roberta | Rossi | Sabrina | Sandro | Solaris | Soleanna Royal Guards | Solomon | Sonic Man | Sophia | Ken Williams | Zof
Action Stages
Wave Ocean | Dusty Desert | White Acropolis | Crisis City | Flame Core | Radical Train | Tropical Jungle | Kingdom Valley | Aquatic Base | End of the World
Town Stages
Castle Town | Forest | New City
DLC Stages
Sonic Boss Attack | Shadow Boss Attack | Silver Boss Attack | Team Attack Amigo
Town Missions
Sonic
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20
Shadow
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Silver
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18
Enemies
Dr. Eggman's mechs
Egg Armor | Egg Bomber | Egg Buster | Egg Buster (Egg Gunner) | Egg Cannon | Egg Chaser | Egg Commander | Egg Flyer | Egg Guardian | Egg Gunner | Egg Hunter | Egg Keeper | Egg Lancer | Egg Liner | Egg Rounder | Egg Searcher | Egg Stinger | Egg Sweeper | Egg Walker
Iblis's Minions
Gazer | Golem | Iblis Biter | Iblis Taker | Iblis Worm | Shadows | Stalker | Titan | Tricker
Bosses
Egg-Cerberus | Egg-Genesis | Egg-Wyvern | Iblis | Mephiles | Shadow | Silver | Solaris | Sonic
Moves/Techniques
Arrow of Light | Accelerator Tornado | Attack | Blast Jump | Bomb | Bomb Snipe | Bound Jump | Chaos Attack | Chaos Boost (Chaos Blast , Chaos Lance , Chaos Snap ) | Chaos Spear | Climb | Custom Action (Gun Drive , Homing Smash , Mach Speed , Scale , Slow , Thunder Guard , Tornado ) | Crouch | Double Jump | Dummy Ring Blitz | Dummy Ring Bomb | Dummy Ring Snipe | Edge Attack | Fire Claw | Fly | Glide | Grab All | Ground Shaker | Hammer Attack | Heart Mine | Hold Smash | Homing Attack | Hover | Invisibility | Jump Dash | Levitate | Light Dash | Lock-On Shot | Omega Launcher | Omega Shot | Psychokinesis | Psycho Shock | Psycho Smash | Punch Attack | Screwdriver | Shield of Light | Sliding Attack | Spear of Light | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Spin Kick | Spinning Claw | Teleport Dash | Turbo Boost | Wall Jump | Wings of Light
Vehicles
Bike | Buggy | Hover Craft | Glider
Gimmicks and obstacles
Bungee Rope | Conveyor Belt | Cylinder | Eagle | Eye of Solaris | Hanging Bell | Hint Ring | Horizontal Bar | Jump Panel | Laser field | Lotus | Mechanical Ring | Mirror of Soleanna | Orb statue | Orca | PK mark | Purple orb | Point Marker | Pulley | Rainbow Ring | Silver Sphere | Sphere | Spotlight | Spring | Switch | Tightrope | Trick Jump Panel | Turtle | Vine | Warp Hole | Wide spring | Wind switch
Items
General
Apple | Barrel | Chaos Drive | Container (Blue crate , Case , Explosive crate , Steel Container , Wooden Container ) | Custom Shoes | Dummy Ring | Explosion Trap | Goal Ring | Heart bomb | Item Box (Extra Life , Gauge Up , High Speed , Invincible , Rings ) | Key | Light Core | Medal | Minecart | Ring | Snowboard
Level Up Items
Air Chip | Antigravity | Bounce Bracelet | Gem (Blue Gem , Green Gem , Purple Gem , Rainbow Gem , Red Gem , Sky Gem , White Gem , Yellow Gem ) | Heart of Wind | Light Chip | Memory Shard (black) | Memory Shard (blue) | Memory Shard (red) | Power Bracelet | Shock Bracelet | Single-Layered Extreme
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Shadow the Hedgehog ) | Pete Capella (Silver the Hedgehog ) | Lacey Chabert (Princess Elise ) | Mike Pollock (Dr. Eggman , Narrator) | Amy Palant | (Tails , Ladies-in-waiting ) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy , Ladies-in-waiting ) | Bella Hudson (Blaze ) | Dan Green (Knuckles , Mephiles , Solaris Project scientists) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Maddie Blaustein (Omega ) | David Wills (Duke , G.U.N communitcator )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Maaya Sakamoto (Princess Elise ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Dr. Eggman ) Kenji Utsumi (Narrator, Duke ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Hikari Yono (Ladies-in-waiting ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Takayuki Sakazume (Mephiles ) | Keiji Okuda (Solaris Project scientist, G.U.N. communicator ) | Yoshikazu Kozuma (Solaris Project scientist) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Taiten Kusunoki (Omega )
Music
Songs
All Hail Shadow | Dreams of an Absolution | His World | My Destiny | Solaris Phase 1 | Sweet Dreams AKON Mix
Albums
Sonic the Hedgehog Vocal Traxx: Several Wills | Sonic the Hedgehog Vocal Traxx: Several Wills
Other
Action Gauge | Auto Running | Chao in Space | Sonic the Hedgehog CHAOS CRUSH! | Day of Disaster | Doctor Eggman's chair | Egg Carrier | Egg train | Festival of the Sun | Havok | Health Gauge | Rimlight | Scepter of Darkness | Shop | Soleanna | Solaris Project | Super-Speed Stage
Main article | Staff | Glitches | Gallery
Playable characters
Sonic characters
Sonic | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Big | Dr. Eggman | Shadow | Metal Sonic
SEGA characters
AiAi | Akira Yuki | Alex Kidd | Amigo | B.D. Joe | Beat | Billy Hatcher | ChuBach | ChuBei | Chuih | ChuPea | Jacky Bryant | Ryo Hazuki | Ulala
Third party
Xbox Live Avatar | Mii
Tracks
Chao Cup
Whale Lagoon | Icicle Valley | Roulette Road | Sunshine Tour
Graffiti Cup
Shibuya Downtown | Outer Forest | Turbine Loop | Treetops
Egg Cup
Rampart Road | Dark Arsenal | Jump Parade | Pinball Highway
Horror Cup
Sewer Scrapes | Lost Palace | Sandy Drifts | Rokkaku Hill
Samba Cup
Rocky-Coaster | Highway Zero | Deadly Route | Ocean Ruin
Monkey Cup
Bingo Party | Lava Lair | Monkey Target | Thunder Deck
DLC
Egg Hangar
Moves/ Techniques
General
Drift | Hi-Speed Start | Trick
All-Star Moves
Super Sonic | Tails Tornado | Emerald Power | Piko Hammer | Giant Froggy | Maximum Overdrive | Missile Madness | Super Shadow
Vehicles
Speed Star | Tornado Racer | Land Breaker | Pink Cabriolet | Green Hopper | Egg Monster | Dark Rider | Metal Booster | Blazing Banana | Racing Rooster | Sun Buggy | Astro Glider | De La Custom GGs | Crazy Taxi | Hotrod of Horror | Naoyuki's Motorcycle | Red Lightning | ChuChu Rocket | Get-a-Way Wagon | Sukopako Motorcycle | Bolt Bucket | Ava-car 720 | Super Zoomer
Items
Item Box (All-Star Item , Bowling Bomb , Confusing Star , Energy Shield , Giant Rocket , High Speed Shoes , K.O. Glove , Manual Rocket , Mega Horn , Mine , Pocket Rainbow )
Music
My Sweet Passion | Believe In Myself | Unknown from M.E. | Throw It All Away | Can You Feel the Sunshine? | A New Day | Back 2 Back | Super Sonic Racing | What U Need | Metal Scratchin' | E.G.G.M.A.N.
Other
Announcer | Boost Pad | Death Egg | Orca | Sonic Says | Totem Pole