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The Knights of the Round Table (円卓の騎士,Entaku no kishi?) are a group that appeared in Sonic and the Black Knight. They are a group of knights and the lieutenants of King Arthur. Most of the members are alternate reality doppelgängers of Sonic's friends and rivals.
Having served King Arthur since during the king's noble rule, the Knights of the Round Table came to be Arthur's most trusted servants and enforcers. As Arthur was corrupted by the power of the scabbard of Excalibur and became a tyrannical ruler, the Knights of the Round Table stood by their king in spite of his change, being bound by their honor and code of chivalry to follow Arthur's every order.
Despite suffering humiliating defeats at the hands of Sonic and Caliburn, the Knights do not give up. While Sonic battles King Arthur on the island of Avalon, Lancelot, Gawain, and Percival manage to track down Merlina in Camelot Castle. The Blue Blur arrives just in time to see Merlina reveal herself as the true villain: the Dark Queen. As the castle falls apart around them, Sonic and the Knights flee through Knight's Passage. In order to save the Kingdom, the former lieutenants of King Arthur agree to work with Sonic and Nimue to halt the Dark Queen's magic by activating four barrier stones. Sir Lancelot rushes to Shrouded Forest, Sir Gawain to Great Megalith, Sir Percival to The Cauldron and Sonic to Dragon's Lair.
The Knights of the Round Table watched from Nimue's pool as Sonic got brutally injured by the Dark Queen, and advised him to back down despite his refusal to give up. Upon witnessing the long-lost light of the sacred swords, the Knights of the Round Table offered their sacred swords to merge with Sonic's Caliburn, transforming Sonic and Caliburn into Excalibur Sonic and Excalibur.
After Sonic defeated Merlina, Sir Lancelot suggested that due to the disappearance of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table had to disband, but Caliburn had already nominated the new king: Sonic. Believing that Sonic was the true King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table bowed down in honor in front of their new king, much to Sonic's dismay.
The Knights of the Round Table appeared in the Sonic the Hedgehogcomic series published by Archie Comics. The majority of the group is largely made up of alternate versions of Sonic's friends and they loyally serve under the leadership of the king, King Arthur, and makes their sole appearance in the adaptation of Sonic and the Black Knight 's opening cinematic.[2]
King Arthur led the attack on the royal wizard, Merlina the Wizard, before she retreated with Sonic the Hedgehog. The king would address his subordinate Round Table knights to slay them on sight, and they dutifully followed.
Real world mythology[]
Sonic and the Black Knight's Knights of the Round Table are based on the traditional English legends of King Arthur and Camelot.
Trivia[]
Nearly all the Knights of the Round Table are alternate reality doppelgängers of Sonic the Hedgehog's companions from previous adventures; namely:
Interestingly, the Knights of the Round Table's original counterparts all started out as adversaries of Sonic, before being on more friendly terms with him thereafter:
Galahad and Lamorak are the only knights whose original counterparts are not available for play in Multiplayer mode.
Each of the Knights of the Round Table has at least one aspect that they share with their original counterparts:
Shadow/Lancelot: Serious personality, being the strongest of Sonic's rivals and having the ability to use Chaos Control.
Knuckles/Gawain: Protecting a treasure, hard-headed and mistaking Sonic for a thief upon first encounter.
Blaze/Percival: Elegant and formal personality and possesses pyrokinesis.
Silver/Galahad: Psychokinesis.
Jet/Lamorak: Hot temper and cockiness.
Four of the five knights (sans Lamorak) play a prominent role in the 'Le morte d'Arthur' cycle of Arthurian legend- which is regarded as both the most popular and complete retelling of the legends:
Gawain is one of Arthur's most loyal knights, starts the Grail quest amongst the round table and finds himself in a fued with Lancelot later into the stories (which is mentioned by Merlina in game),
Lancelot causes a rift amongst the knights of the round table due to his affair with Guinevere.
