Dark Rider
Appearances in other media
Description
A GUN motorcycle
The Dark Rider ,[1] also known as the Bike ,[2] 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 he uses it to smash into a Black Arms soldier, blowing it up in the process. It can be found and ridden 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, since he could run as fast as Sonic, 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." Shadow sometimes works on the bike when he is stressed out.
Merchandise
The Dark Rider toy by Jazwares .
The Dark Rider was made into a toy for the Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing 3" action figure series by Jazwares , coming with a Shadow figure with hands especially molded so that they could wrap around the handlebars of the bike, keeping him on it.[3] The Dark Rider was also made into a radio-controlled toy with a working headlight.
Trivia
The Dark Rider bears a resemblance to a 2003 Harley Davidson XL1200 Custom Anniversary Edition.
References
Main article | Scripts (Main Story , Last Story ) | Credits | Manuals | Glitches | Beta elements | Library Sequences | Gallery
Playable characters
Amy * | Espio * | Knuckles * | Maria * | Omega * | Rouge * | Shadow (Dark Shadow , Hero Shadow , Super Shadow ) | Shadow Android ** | Sonic * | Tails * | Vector *
Non-playable characters
Black Doom (Devil Doom ) | Dr. Eggman | Chao (Cheese ) | Charmy | Commander | Cream | Gerald | President | Researcher | Secretary
Stages
Westopolis | Digital Circuit | Glyphic Canyon | Lethal Highway | Cryptic Castle | Prison Island | Circus Park | Central City | The Doom | Sky Troops | Mad Matrix | Death Ruins | The ARK | Air Fleet | Iron Jungle | Space Gadget | Lost Impact | GUN Fortress | Black Comet | Lava Shelter | Cosmic Fall | Final Haunt | The Last Way
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 | Hover | Jump Dash | Light Dash | Mid-Air Attack | Missile Fever | Overturn | Pawn Fever | Pick up | Punch | Ring Fever | Shadow Fever | Slide | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Strafe | Swift strike | Tail Swipe | Triangle Jump
Vehicles
Air Saucer | Convertible | GUN Motorcycle | GUN Vehicle | HMMWV | Jump Vehicle
Gimmicks and obstacles
Barrier | Black Slab | Case | Cell Cannon | City annihilator bomb | Coaster | Color Panel | Electrified Rail | Fan | Fire hoop | Firewall | Giant lantern | Gravity Control Switch | Green energy fluid | Gun Lift | Gun ship | GUN turret | Hint Ring | Jump Panel (Prison Island) | Jump Panel (ramp) | Junction switch | Laser field | Laser turret | Light-speed circuit | Meteorite | Pole | Pulley | Red fruit | Red Slime | Rocket | Secret Door | Shield switch | Shooting Gallery | Small bomb | Spinning Wheel | Surveillance camera | Toxic marsh | Toxic river | Vine | Warp Hole | Wide spring
Items
General
Black Tank | Bomb Unit | Chaos Emerald | Car | 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 (Shadow , Sonic ) | Sean Schemmel (Black Doom ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman , Gerald ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles ) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Rebecca Honig (Maria , Cream ) | Carter Cathcart (Vector ) | David Wills (Espio ) | Amy Birnbaum (Charmy ) | Jeff Kramer (Omega ) | Andrew Rannells (GUN Soldiers ) | 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 Soldiers ) | 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 " | "Vengeance is Mine " | "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 | Dark Gauge | Dark Rider | Eclipse Cannon | Egg Monitor | Eggman Fleet | Expert Mode | Fire in the Sky Festival | Guardian Units of Nations | Health Gauge | Hero Gauge | Life | Loop | Mother computer | Prison Island | Prosperity ritual | Rank | Shadow the Hedgehog Flash | Space Colony ARK | Tails' Spaceship | Team Chaotix | White House
* Only playable in the Nintendo GameCube & PlayStation 2 versions ** Only playable in Battle Mode
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 | Alberto Robert | Alfano | Anna | Antonio | Aristo | Berruni | Bishop | Claudia | Dante | Eggman | Duchess of Soleanna | Duke of Soleanna | Elkan | Frances | Francesca | GUN Soldier | Galienna | Gina | Hatsun | Herman | Iblis | Ken Williams | Ladies-in-waiting | Liza | Lord Regis | Mancini | Mels | Mephiles (Mephiles's monstrous form ) | Mikhail | Nicolo | Paganini | Parr | Pele | Pinto | Porta | Priest | Princess Elise the Third | Prodi | Puccini | Renzo | Roberta | Rossi | Sabrina | Sandro | Solaris | Soleanna Boys (Pucci ) | Soleanna Royal Guards (Alessio , Fabio , Giorgio , Guido , Pietro ) | Solomon | Solsaliente (Monica ) | Sonic Man | Sophia | 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
Soleanna Castle Town | Soleanna New City | Soleanna Forest
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
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 | Spiked bar | Spotlight | Spring | Switch | Tightrope | Trick Jump Panel | Turtle | Vine | Warp Hole | Wide spring | Wind switch
Items
General
Apple | Barrel | Chaos Drive | Car | 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 ) | Pete Capella (Silver ) | Lacey Chabert (Elise ) | Mike Pollock (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 (Elise ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (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 Original Soundtrack | Sonic the Hedgehog Vocal Traxx: Several Wills
Other
Action Gauge | Auto Running | Chao in Space | Day of Disaster | Dual Chaos Control | Eggman's chair | Egg Carrier | Egg train | Festival of the Sun | Havok | Health Gauge | Life | Loop | Rank | Rimlight | Scepter of Darkness | Shop | Soleanna | Solaris Project | Sonic the Hedgehog CHAOS CRUSH! | Super-Speed Stage | Water
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
Mii | Xbox Live Avatar
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
Emerald Power | Giant Froggy | Maximum Overdrive | Missile Madness | Piko Hammer | Super Shadow | Super Sonic | Tails Tornado | Tension Blast
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 ) | License
Music
"A New Day " | "Back 2 Back " | "Believe In Myself " | "Can You Feel the Sunshine? " | "E.G.G.M.A.N. " | "Metal Scratchin' " | "My Sweet Passion " | "Super Sonic Racing " | "Unknown from M.E. " | "Throw It All Away " | "What U Need "
Other
Announcer | Boost Pad | Death Egg | Loop | Orca | Sonic Says | Totem pole