Klagen
Appearances in other media
Color scheme
Blue and purple
Skills
Levitation Bomb dentation Immobilization field Electric generation
The Klagen (クラゲン , Kuragen ? ) is an enemy in the Sonic the Hedgehog series . It is a mass-produced, jellyfish-based Badnik created by Dr. Eggman .
Appearance
Klagens are gray robots with purple and cyan coloration that appear to resemble jellyfish. It has a UFO-like disc for a head that has a single purple eye, and two arms that hang down with a disc at the end of each arm.
Game appearances
Sonic Heroes
In Sonic Heroes , the Klagen will approach the player upon getting in range. If it hovers over a character, it will capture said character by suspending them in mid-air with a tractor beam. Each Klagen can only capture one character at a time. When captured, that character cannot be switched to, which is signified by a white restricted sign over the character's icon. If the leader is captured, the player will automatically switch to a random, available teammate. Once the player destroys the Klagen, the captured teammate will be usable again. However, if all three characters are captured by separate Klagens, the player will lose a life .
Sonic Rush
In Sonic Rush , Klagens are common enemies that can be found in the underwater sections of Water Palace , though they are not able to capture characters in this game. Instead, there are two variants of the enemies each with different abilities; one drop bombs on Sonic or Blaze and the other generates electric shields in intervals to defend themselves, harming the player if they touch it. In both cases, the Klagens can be destroyed with a Spin Jump /Axel Jump and the electric shield Klagens can also be destroyed using the Super Boost /Fire Boost even while the electric field is active without harming the player.
Sonic Generations
Two Klagens in the Nintendo 3DS version of Sonic Generations .
In the Nintendo 3DS version of Sonic Generations , the Klagens appear as enemies again. In this game, they are found in Water Palace . In gameplay, they retain their attack patterns from Sonic Rush .
In both Act 1 and Act 2 of the stage, they remain stationary on spots above underwater ground, holding their bomb. Once they spot the player, an exclamation mark displays above them. Then, they immediately leave their bomb to fall below them, causing a small explosion on the ground that is capable of damaging the player if they come with contact with it. After that, they instantly reload another bomb and so the mentioned pattern gets repeated.
In Act 1 of the Water Palace, they are rarely seen; being randomly scattered among the plentiful Gold Klagens . While in the second Act, they are more in number and mostly appear in groups.
Variant
There is a gold variant that teleports the captured team member to a location farther ahead in the level after a set period of time in captivity. Tails' description of this robot is "If that Gold Robot captures one of us it will take them away, we have to destroy it before any of us get caught".
In other media
Archie Comics
The Klagens, from Sonic the Hedgehog #269 .
In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by Archie Comics , several Klagens appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog #268 , while two more appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog #269 . They worked as bodyguards under the supervision of Scratch at Breeze Media .
Trivia
The Normal Klagen has a time of about twenty to thirty seconds before it releases the captured team member.
Sometimes the Klagen's programming will glitch and it will keep the Team Member forever, until either the area is left or the robot is destroyed.
The name Klagen comes from the Japanese word "kurage", which is the name given to jellyfish.
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Playable characters
Team Sonic
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails (Super Tails ) | Knuckles (Super Knuckles )
Team Dark
Shadow | Rouge | Omega
Team Rose
Amy | Cream | Cheese | Big
Team Chaotix
Espio | Charmy | Vector
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Metal Sonic (Neo Metal Sonic ) | Chocola | Froggy | Shadow Android | Omochao | Dark Chao | Hero Chao
Stages
1P stages
Sea Gate | Seaside Hill | Ocean Palace | Grand Metropolis | Power Plant | Casino Park | BINGO Highway | Rail Canyon | Bullet Station | Frog Forest | Lost Jungle | Hang Castle | Mystic Mansion | Egg Fleet | Final Fortress | Special Stage
2P stages
BINGO Highway | Casino Course | City Course | City Top | Casino Ring | Egg Fleet | Egg Treat | Frog Forest | Grand Metropolis | Hot Elevator | Mad Express | Pinball Match | Rail Canyon | Road Rock | Seaside Course | Seaside Hill | Special Stage | Terror Hall | Turtle Shell
2P Play Mode
Action Race | Battle | Bobsled Race | Expert Race | Quick Race | Ring Race | Special Stage
Enemies
Bomb Flapper | Cameron | Cannon Flapper | E-2000 | E-2000R | Egg Bishop | Egg Hammer | Egg Knight | Egg Magician | Egg Pawn | Egg Pawn (Casino version) | Falco | Flapper | Gold Cameron | Gold Klagen | Gun Flapper | Heavy-Egg Hammer | Klagen | Laser Flapper | Needle Flapper | Pumpkin ghost | Rhinoliner | Search Flapper | Solid Flapper | Solid Pawn
Bosses
Egg Albatross | Egg Emperor | Egg Hawk | Metal Madness | Metal Overlord | Robot Carnival | Robot Storm | Team Chaotix | Team Dark | Team Rose | Team Sonic
Moves/ Techniques
Speed Maneuvers
Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Kick | Light Dash | Lightspeed Attack | Propeller Hammer | Rocket Accel | Shuriken | Spin | Spin Jump | Swinging Hammer Attack | Tornado Jump (Black Tornado , Blue Tornado , Leaf Swirl , Tornado Hammer ) | Triangle Jump
Power Maneuvers
Auto Homing | Body Press | Bubblegum Descent | Fire Combination | Fire Dunk | Fire Launcher | Fireball Jump | Forward Power Attack | Hammer Down | Jump Fire Knock | Jump Fireball | Remote Power Attack (Fireball , Fire Knock ) | Spin Jump | Triangle Dive | Umbrella Descent | Wide Power Attack (Big Fishing , Omega Arm , Vector Breath , Volcanic Dunk )
Fly Maneuvers
Ascending Flight | Cheese Attack | Dummy Ring Bomb | Spin Jump | Sting Attack | Thunder Shoot | Quick Ascent
Team Blasts
Sonic Overdrive | Chaos Inferno | Flower Festival | Chaotix Recital | Super Sonic Power
Misc.
Chaos Control | Crouch | Crystal Attack | Grind Step | Grinding
Gimmicks and obstacles
Ball Switch | Bingo | Bobsled | Bomb | Bumper | Bumper wall | Cannon | Conveyor Belt | Dash Panel | Dash Rail | Dash Ring | Detonator Switch | Fan | Fireball | Flipper | Flower | Formation Change Gate | Giant Frog | Giant Switch | Grind Rail | Hint Ring | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Kao | Laser field | Mushroom | Orb switch | Pole | Power Gong | Propeller | Pulley | Rainbow Ring | Slot machine | Spring | Target Switch | Trolley | Vine | Warp Flower | Weight | Wide spring
Objects
Capsule | Car | Casino chip | Castle Key | Cell Key | Chaos Emerald | Chaotix Detective Agency | Check Point | Container (Cage , Case , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) | Emblem | Engine Core | Floating Item Box | Goal Ring | Hermit crab | Item Box (Barrier , Fly Charge , High Speed , Invincible , Rings , Power Core , Team Blast Ring , 1-Up ) | Light spider marking | Power Core | Ring | Special Stage Key | Sphere | Torch
Voice actors
English
Ryan Drummond (Sonic , Metal Sonic ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | William Corkery (Tails ) | Scott Drier (Knuckles ) | David Humphrey (Shadow ) | Lani Minella (Rouge , Omochao ) | Jon St. John (Omega , Big ) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | Sarah Wulfeck (Cream ) | Bill Corkery (Espio ) | Marc Biagi (Vector ) | Emily Corkery (Charmy )
Japanese
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic , Metal Sonic ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Taiten Kusunoki (Omega ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Takashi Nagasako (Big ) | Yūki Masuda (Espio ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Yōko Teppōzuka (Charmy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao )
Music
Songs
Sonic Heroes | We Can | This Machine | Follow Me | Team Chaotix | What I'm Made of...
Albums
Complete Trinity: Sonic Heroes Original Soundtrax | Triple Threat: Sonic Heroes Vocal Trax | Sonic Heroes Official Soundtrack | Sonic Heroes Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition
Other
Armored train | Dummy Ring | Egg Bazooka | Egg Fleet | Egg Gun | Egg Spear | Fly Type | Formation Change Gate | Health Gauge | HEXAeco | Moon | Orca | Palm Plants | Power Type | Rank | Sonic Heroes Puzzle | Shuttle loop | Speed Type | Super Hard Mode | Team Blast Gauge | Tornado 2
Main article | Staff | Script (Sonic , Blaze , Extra ) | Glitches | Gallery
Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Blaze (Burning Blaze )
Non-playable characters
Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Cream | Cheese | Vanilla | Dr. Eggman | Dr. Eggman Nega | Animals (Camel , Cat , Elephant , Gorilla , Koala , Kangaroo , Lion , Mole , Monkey , Parrot , Peacock , Penguin , Rabbit , Seal , Skunk , Swallow , Flicky , Ricky , Pocky , Wocky )
Stages
Leaf Storm | Water Palace | Mirage Road | Night Carnival | Huge Crisis | Altitude Limit | Dead Line | Unknown | Exception | Special Stage
Enemies
Battle Flapper | Bomb Hawk | Cannon Flapper | Egg Bishop | Egg Diver | Egg Hammer | Egg Pawn | Egg Pawn (spear) | Egg Pawn Bunny | Egg Pawn Manager (gun) | Egg Pawn Manager (SF gun) | Falco | Flapper | Gun Hunter | Klagen | Laser Flapper | Rhino Spring | Solid Pawn
Bosses
Egg Hammer Mega | Egg Turtle | Egg Scarab | Egg Libra | Egg Hammer Fortress | Egg Eagle | Sonic/Blaze | Egg King | Egg Salamander
Moves/Techniques
Axel Jump | Axel Tornado | Boost Mode | Burning Fire Boost | Burst Dash | Burst Hover | Crouch | Fire Boost | Grinding | Homing Attack | Hop Jump | Humming Top | Jump Dash | Jump Step | Spin Attack | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Super Boost | Super Sonic Boost | Trick Action
Gimmicks and obstacles
Bungee Rope | Cannon | Dash Panel | Dash Rail | Dash Ring | Giant Waterwheel | Grind Rail | Hang Glider | High-speed warp tube | Jump Panel | Rainbow Ring | Special Generator | Spring | Spring Pole | Switch | Winding Rope | Zip Line
Objects
Air Bubble | Chaos Emerald | Checkpoint Marker | Floating Item Box | Goal Ring | Item Box (5 Ring Bonus , Attract , Barrier , Confusion , Invincible , Magnetic Barrier , Max Tension Bonus , Max Tension Bonus (multiplayer) , Random Ring Bonus , Slow , Tension Bonus ) | Ring | Sol Emerald
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman , Eggman Nega ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream ) | Bella Hudson (Blaze )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman , Eggman Nega ) | Ryo Hirohashi (Tails ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze )
Music
Songs
A New Day | Right There, Ride On | Back 2 Back | Ethno Circus | Ska Cha Cha | Jeh Jeh Rocket | Get Edgy | What U Need | Metal Scratchin' | Vela Nova | Bomber Barbara | Wrapped in Black | Raisin' Me Up
Albums
Original Groove Rush
Other
Blaze's world | Corkscrew loop | Health Gauge | Rank | Real-Time Interaction | Shuttle loop | Time Attack | Tension Gauge
Main article | Script (Console/PC , 3DS ) | Staff (Console/PC , 3DS ) | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery
Playable characters
Modern Sonic (Modern Super Sonic ) | Classic Sonic (Classic Super Sonic )
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Time Eater | Tails | Classic Tails | Amy | Knuckles | Shadow | Cream | Cheese | Silver | Blaze | Omochao | Team Chaotix (Espio , Vector , Charmy ) | Orbot | Cubot | Animals (Flicky , Picky , Pecky , Cucky )
Wisps
Cyan ** | Orange * | Pink * | Red **
Stages
Console/PC*
Green Hill | Chemical Plant | Sky Sanctuary | Speed Highway | City Escape | Seaside Hill | Crisis City | Rooftop Run | Planet Wisp | Casino Night
Nintendo 3DS**
Green Hill | Casino Night | Mushroom Hill | Emerald Coast | Radical Highway | Water Palace | Tropical Resort
Challenge Acts*
Doppelganger Race! | The Buzz Bombers' Revenge! | Knuckles: Horde of Enemies | Swingset Circus | High Speed Challenge | Look Out Below! | Tails: Way Past Fast | Jump Rush | 300% Boost Gauge Challenge | Tails: Toxic Skies | Which Switch is Which? | Aqua Shield Challenge | Invincibility Challenge | One Ring Challenge | Amy: Taking the Leap Together! | Grappling with Grabbers | Underwater Ring Machine | Eggrobo Rush | Aerial Paradise | Ring Time Challenge | Amy: Topsy Turvy | Knuckles: Buried Treasure | 200% Boost Gauge Challenge | Balloon Bonanza | High-Speed Hijinks (Modern) | Cream: Chao Hunt | Hot Pursuit (Classic) | High Speed Challenge 2 | Resisting Arrest | Overdrift | Hot Pursuit (Modern) | Drill Baby Drill | Espio: Master of Camouflage | Lord of the Board | Thunder Shield Challenge | Rouge: The Bombardier | Rite of Spring | Cream: Helping Hand | Dash Ring 1-2-3 (Modern) | Topsy-Turvy | High-Speed Hijinks 2 | Rescue the Animals! | Espio: Way of the Ninja | High-Speed Hijinks (Classic) | Underwater Challenge | Rouge: The Temptress | Trick Island | Surf, Sea, and Sand | Terror From the Deep | Goal Post Juggle | Vector: Through the Storm | Flame Shield Challenge | Ring Time Challenge 2 | Power Stomp Challenge | Switcheroo | Blaze: Piercing the Flames | Four-way Cannon Cavalcade | High-Rise Balloon Climb | Dash Ring 1-2-3 (Classic) | Charmy: Don't Bug Me! | One Ring Challenge 2 | Barrel Ring Bonus | Rooftop Rail Grind | Endless Boost | Vector: Pick Up the Beat | With Your Powers Combined | Goal Post Juggle 2 | Chase After Blaze | Rescue the Animals 2! | Cart Challenge | Charmy: High in the Sky | Action Master | Orange Rocket, Blast Off!
Enemies
Aero-Cannon * | Butterdroid ** | Buzz Bomber | Buzzer | Chopper | Cop Speeder * | Crabmeat | Crawl ** | Dragonfly ** | Flapper ** | Egg Chaser * | Egg Diver ** | Egg Fighter * | Egg Fighter: Sword * | Egg Launcher (H) * | Egg Launcher (H+V) * | Egg Launcher (V) * | Egg Pawn | Egg Pawn (spear) | Eggrobo * | Giant Chopper * | Gold Beetle ** | Grabber * | Gun Beetle * | Gun Hunter | Iblis's Minions (Iblis Biter , Iblis Taker , Iblis Worm )* | Kiki ** | Klagen ** | Madmole ** | Mono Beetle | Moto Bug | Mushmeanie ** | Newtron | Rhinotank ** | Sandworm * | Spinner | Spiny * | Sprinkler * | Sweeper ** | Thunder Spinner
Bosses
Console/PC*
Metal Sonic | Death Egg Robot | Shadow the Hedgehog | Perfect Chaos | Silver the Hedgehog | Egg Dragoon | Time Eater
Nintendo 3DS**
Metal Sonic | Big Arm | Shadow the Hedgehog | Biolizard | Silver the Hedgehog | Egg Emperor | Time Eater
Moves/ Techniques
Playable characters
Air Boost | Bound Jump * | Crouch | Double Jump * | Drift * | Freestyle Tricks * | Grind Step | Grinding | Homing Attack | Hop | Jump Dash | Kick boost | Lightspeed Dash * | Mid-Air Dash * | Quick Step * | Boost | Slide | Skydiving * | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Stomp | Super Sonic Boost | Super Sonic Missile | Super Sonic Spinning | Wall Jump
NPCs
Chaos Spear | Drill Attack * | Fire Beam * | Heart Effect * | Ice Wave * | Meteor Smash * | Ninja Arts: Camouflage * | Propeller Flying * | Psychic Knife | Restraint Trap | Ring Spark Field | Sun Burst | V. Maximum Overdrive Attack | Warping arm attack | Whirlwind *
Color Powers
Cyan Laser ** | Orange Rocket * | Pink Spikes * | Red Burst **
Skills*
Aqua Shield | Flame Shield | Thunder Shield | Twin Spin Attack | Invincible Start | Shield | Power Sneakers | Long Spin Dash | Treasure Scanner | Homing Attack | Hercules Muscles | Breath Holder | Boardmaster | Ring Time | Blast Off | Speed Up | Direct Jump | Power Stomp | Quick Slide | Acceleration | Smasher Bonus | Ring Energy Bonus | Boost Gauge Up | Serial Homing | Auto-Gauge | Gauge Rebooter | Trick Mastery | Endless Boost | Power Brake | Sure-Footed | Safety Net | Last Chance | 10-Second Rings | Athleticism | Time Break | Super Sonic | Sega Genesis Controller
Gimmicks and obstacles
Balloon | Barrel | Big Balloon | Bomb | Bonus Bell * | Bottomless pit | Bumper | Cannon | Cart | Cloud * | Conveyor Belt ** | Crusher | Dash Panel | Dash Rail | Dash Ring | Dimensional Bomb | Explosion Trap | Fan | Flipper | Four-way Cannon * | Gear Platform | Gondola * | GUN Military Truck * | Hanging Bell * | Heart bomb * | Helicopter * | High-speed warp tube | Horizontal Bar | Iron ball | Jump Panel (plate) | Jump Panel (ramp) | Kao | Laser field | Meteorite | Movable box | Mushroom ** | Pole Elevator | Prism ** | Propeller | Propeller Spring | Pulley | Rainbow Ring | Rocket | Route Signal * | Seed Propeller ** | Seesaw | Slot machine | Spring | Spring Catapult | Spring Pole | Spike Trap | Spinning Top | Spinning Platform | Spotlight | Switch | Trap Spring | Trick Jump Panel | Wall Jump Block | Warp Point | Wide spring | Zip Line
Objects
Air Bubble | Boss Gate | Boss Gate Key * | Buoy | Capsule | Chaos Emerald | Container (Case , Spike Block , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) | Crank | Energy Core | Goal Ring | Information Pod * | Item Box (1-Up , Aqua Shield *, Flame Shield *, Invincible , Magnetic Shield **, Power Sneakers *, Skateboard *, Super Ring , Thunder Shield ) | Medal | Mega Mack * | Musical note * | Red Star Ring * | Ring | Snowboard | Sphere ** | Star Post | Stomping Shoes ** | Time Bonus | Wisp Capsule
English voice actors
Roger Craig Smith (Sonic ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman ) | Kate Higgins (Tails ) | Travis Willingham (Knuckles ) | Cindy Robinson (Amy ) | Kirk Thornton (Shadow ) | Quinton Flynn (Silver ) | Laura Bailey (Omochao , Blaze ) | Karen Strassman (Rouge ) | Michelle Ruff (Cream ) | Keith Silverstein (Vector ) | Troy Baker (Espio ) | Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Charmy )
Japanese voice actors
Junichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryo Hirohashi (Tails (Modern)) | Takuto Yoshinaga (Tails (Classic)) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Koji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Yuuki Masuda (Espio ) | Youko Teppozuka (Charmy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao )
Music
Songs
Back 2 Back | Escape from the City * | Vengeance is Mine ** | You're My Hero
Albums
Blue Blur: Sonic Generations Original Soundtrack | Sonic Generations: 20 Years of Sonic Music | History of the 1st Stage Original Soundtrack Blue Edition | History of the 1st Stage Original Soundtrack White Edition
Other
Sonic's birthday | Boost Gauge | Chao in Space | Collection Room | Combo * | Corkscrew loop | Death Egg Robot * | Egg Dragoon * | Egg Gun | Egg Mobile | Egg Spear | Havok * | Health Gauge ** | Lair of the Time Eater | Miles Electric | Orca | Perfect Bonus | Rank | Skill Shop * | Sonic Generations (manga) | Sonic Generations of Skate | Statue Room * | Time Attack | Tornado-1 | Totem Pole | White Space | Winding Tunnel | Wisp Gauge **
*Console/PC version only **Nintendo 3DS version only