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Harvey Who is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. He is a mobian owl, a master of disguise and espionage, and was the head of the Freedom Fighters' Secret Intelligence Division. He led the SID and its operatives that were placed in a sophisticated network among Dr. Ivo Robotnik's territories, collecting information on Robotnik's current plans and operations and spreading it to the rebel groups, allowing them to make them fail with ease. Because of his success as the leader of SID, Dr. Robotnik made frequent attempts to find out the identity of the SID's leader, so Harvey had made sure that no one outside the Freedom Fighters knew anything about him, except his last name. He has brown, cream and black feathers, brown eyes and an orange beak. He wears a green hat and a robot disguise (missions only).
Concept and creation[]
Evan Stanley was tasked with redesigning Harvey Who. As she was doing this in a math class, her boyfriend had drawn a mustache on Harvey as a joke. Despite this, Evan kept the design.[1]
Appearance[]
Harvey is a large brown owl. In his first appearance, he wore a green robot disguise. However, his redesign makes him appear much older and now has a mustache.
History[]
Head of the Secret Intelligence Division[]
Harvey Who and his agents had managed to infiltrate many of Robotnik's plans and schemes, allowing the Freedom Fighter groups they contacted to foil them easily. After Robotnik realized the Freedom Fighters may have an inside man, he had Snively and Crabmeat do some literal digging with a shovel. They found a Mole miner whom Robotnik interrogated. He asked "Who is the head of the Secret Intelligence?" and the Mole replied "That's right!" Misunderstanding, Robotnik had his SWATbots take away the mole and went on to his next plan, the Wheel of Misfortune, which Harvey had secretly infiltrated disguised as a robot mover. He informed the Knothole Freedom Fighters of every move Robotnik made. He accompanied them when they made their attempts to stop Robotnik in his tracks and occasionally left behind notes to Robotnik's lackeys. Later when Sonic the Hedgehog and Sally Acorn went to Renobotnik after a hard day's work, Harvey had infiltrated Robotnik's casino as a card dealer. He was watching the two and slipped Sonic a card with a warning note, saving him from having his head crushed. After Sonic used static electricity to short out a particularly large SWATbot, he collapsed and was captured by Robotnik. Robotnik tied him to his Wheel of Misfortune so his robots could vaporize him. Luckily, Harvey managed to turn the lights off and saved Sonic and brought him back to Secret Intelligence Headquarters. Sonic said he was impressed with Harvey's disguises, how he rescued him, and asked Harvey a single question: "How many licks does it take to get to the chewy center of lollipop"? To which the owl replied "That information, my dear boy, is classified!" Following Robotnik's death at the hands of Sonic the Hedgehog, the re-formation of the Royal Secret Service and open war being declared with the Eggman Empire, the SID has likely been dismantled and Harvey retired as leader.[2] (StH: #16, #50, #61)
Forming and Directing the Secret Freedom Fighters[]
Harvey is hired by Elias.
Harvey Who was never seen after the first war against Robotnik reached its' end. However he most likely remained hidden but close to the inhabitants of Knothole and New Mobotropolis, with his whereabouts only known to the royal family. Upon Ixis Naugus seizing the throne, Elias Acorn sought out Harvey Who for assistance. Despite giving Elias a hard time at first, Harvey saw that Elias was worthy to be the king, unlike Elias' father, and began to create plans with Elias to take down Naugus with a group of "Secret Freedom Fighters", a group that would operate in total secrecy to pull off missions that the regular Freedom Fighters couldn't perform. He was quick to recruit Silver the Hedgehog, promising the despondent time traveler help in locating the supposed traitor amongst the Freedom Fighters in exchange for his help. He also traveled to Freedom HQ in order to request the aid of the exiled NICOLE, walking in on her and Mina Mongoose's reconciliation. Setting up base in Secret HQ, Harvey worked with Sir Charles Hedgehog to assemble other members of the team, including the rebuilt Metal Sonic aka Shard, Larry Lynx of the disassembled Substitute Freedom Fighters, and Leeta and Lyco of the Wolf Pack. He would then send Leeta and Larry to retrieve Elias from Feral Forest, completing their team. Elias initially objected to his new team, but Harvey vouched for his recruits and sent them on a mission to secretly aid Team Freedom in protecting the city, in which they succeeded. (StH: #233, #235, #237, #238, #239, #240)
Harvey would soon send the new team on a dual mission, assigned code names to insure secrecy in their operations. Silver, Shard, and Larry-Agents Ace, Jack, and Joker-were dispatched to pursue Naugus' apprentice Geoffrey St. John, who after secretly observing the whole team deduced Harvey's hand in the organization. Elias, Leeta, and Lyco-Agents King, Queen of Diamonds, and Queen of Hearts-were sent to investigate suspicious activity on Naugus' part in the city. Between the information gathered by the pair, Harvey and his team were able to determine that Naugus had a plan to enslave the Council of Acorn. In the process, Harvey was surprised and impressed by both Elias and Silver, as the former demonstrated reasoning similar to Harvey's own, whilst Silver's proposal to approach St. John directly for help was an unexpected move. Following the team's successful defeat of Naugus' plan, Harvey met with Silver in Secret HQ. Having examined a copy of Antoine D'Coolette's diary brought from the future by Silver, the present day version, and his own files, Harvey revealed that he had deduced the identity of Silver's traitor, holding up a photo of the founding Knothole Freedom Fighters and crossing off those he had eliminated. He then showed the photo to the shocked Silver, and assured him that he could explain how he had identified the suspect. Silver would later reveal to Team Fighters and the Arctic Freedom Fighters that Sally Acorn was the alleged traitor, but that he had also been made to see that it was her unwilling actions as Mecha Sally that had been attributed to treason. Harvey was not seen again prior to the second Genesis Wave washing over Mobius. (SU: #41, #42, #43, #44, StH: #247)
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Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Evan Stanley on Twitter. Twitter (14 January 2019). Retrieved on 15 January 2019.
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #130, "Home Part One: The Blue Blur Returns"
External links[]
- Harvey Who at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.