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Orange Wisp
An Orange Wisp, from the Wii version of Sonic Colors.
Appearances
First appearance	Sonic Colors (Wii)
Game appearances	Sonic Colors (Wii version) Sonic Colors (Nintendo DS version) Sonic Generations (console/PC version) Sonic Lost World (Wii U) Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Sonic Lost World (PC) Team Sonic Racing Sonic Racing Sonic the Hedgehog (Minecraft) Sonic Colors: Ultimate Sonic X Shadow Generations
Appearances in other media	Archie Comics IDW Publishing Team Sonic Racing One-shot Team Sonic Racing Overdrive (cameo) Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps Sonic Colors Comics
Biographical overview
Habitat	Planet Wisp Earth
Status	Active
Species-related traits
Skills	Flight Hyper-go-on usage and bestowment
Features	Diminutive Wisp anatomy Two green eyes Orange skin Rocket-shaped head

Orange Wisps are very sensitive, emotional Wisps. They are easily elated when praised, but they can also get depressed if they’ve made a mistake. Be careful not to upset them, they can get angry very easily. Luckily, Sonic reaps the benefits of their powerful emotions when they transform him into an Orange Rocket.

— Description, Sonic Colors (Wii)

The Orange Wisp (オレンジウィスプ, Orenji Wisupu^?) is a creature that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a breed of Wisp that grants the Orange Rocket Color Power.

Description

Anatomy

The Orange Wisps have rocket-shaped bodies, with two green eyes lined up vertically. Instead of tentacles like most other Wisps, they instead have three sphere-like structures on their bottom.

Characteristics and culture

Being Wisps, the Orange Wisps are halcyon, social, bright, energetic, and pure of heart. They are likewise peaceful, playful, non-hostile and friendly of nature, and enjoy spending most of their time playing with others. Due to their overall good nature, they easily get along with everybody, except bad guys. Also, rather than aliens, with their floaty movements, they are more like fairies. Additionally, while they are not necessarily fighters, they are nonetheless brave and very helpful towards their friends and allies.

The Orange Wisps are a very emotional and sensitive breed of Wisps whose emotions can fluctuate rapidly; they are easily elated when they are praised, get depressed if they make a mistake, and very easily angered.

Powers and abilities

The Orange Wisps are able to levitate in midair at will, which serves as their main method of transportation.

The Orange Wisps are able to generate and store their own unique variant of a powerful energy known as Hyper-go-on inside their own bodies, which is their life source. It is unclear to what extent they can use their own Hyper-go-on, though they have been shown being able to use it to revert Nega-Wisps back to normal, carry objects through levitation, teleport objects and restrain black holes made from Hyper-go-on.

The Orange Wisps are able to pass on a fraction of their Hyper-go-on by phasing into the recipient. When organic beings or robots receive their Hyper-go-on, they can transform into the Orange Rocket which possesses jet propulsion abilities. Alternatively, the Orange Wisps are able to manifest the Orange Rocket form themselves without phasing into a recipient.

Game appearances

Sonic Colors

The Orange Wisps made their first appearance in the Wii version and Nintendo DS version of Sonic Colors, and later the remaster Sonic Colors: Ultimate. When their homeworld was moved to Sonic's world by Dr. Eggman in order to create his Egg Planet Park, the Orange Wisps and the rest of their race were threatened to be enslaved by Eggman, who wanted their Hyper-go-on to control the mind of everyone on Sonic's world using a weapon. Fortunately, the Orange Wisps and the rest of their race were all freed thanks to Sonic the Hedgehog. After Egg Planet Park imploded into a black hole, the Orange Wisps worked together with the rest of their race to stop the black hole and succeeded, before returning their homeworlds to their original places in the universe.

In gameplay on both the Wii and Nintendo DS versions of the game and in Sonic Colors: Ultimate, the Orange Wisps appear as Wisp Capsule power-ups that enable the Orange Rocket. On the Wii version of the game, the player encounters the Orange Wisps in Sweet Mountain, Planet Wisp, Aquarium Park and Asteroid Coaster. In the Nintendo DS version of the game, the player encounters the Orange Wisps in Starlight Carnival and Planet Wisp.

Sonic Generations

In the console/PC version of Sonic Generations, the Orange Wisps appear in Planet Wisp Act 2 as Wisp Capsule power-ups that enable the Orange Rocket.

Sonic Lost World

In the Wii U version and PC version of Sonic Lost World, the Orange Wisps appear as Item Box power-ups that enable the Orange Rocket. The player encounters the Orange Wisps in Windy Hill and Tropical Coast.

Team Sonic Racing

In Team Sonic Racing, the Orange Wisps appear as Item Box power-ups on the game's race tracks. On a few occasions, the player is able to obtain and hold up to three Orange Wisps at once. In gameplay, the Orange Wisp power-ups allows the player to launch Orange Rocket-based projectiles.

In the comic tie-in, during one of the early races in Dodon Pa's Grand Prix, an orange Wisp was used by Tails as a part of a combined attack on Dr. Eggman, who had intruded on Team Sonic and Team Dark's race.

Other game appearances

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games

In Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, the Orange Wisp makes an appearance during the Dream Event "Sonic's Figure Skating Spectacular". Here, an Orange Wisp is one of the Wisps that the four participating characters free from a Wisp Capsule as the player(s) proceed down the event's course. When the player then has to defeat the Rotatatron, the Orange Wisp will appear alongside several others Wisps and join up with the four characters to perform the Final Color Blaster, which deals the final blow on the Rotatatron.'

In other media

Archie Comics

An Orange Wisp in the Archie Comics.

The Orange Wisps made an appearance in the Archie Comics' adaption of Sonic Colors, in Sonic the Hedgehog #219.

In the comics, some Orange Wisps and a few other Wisps were chased by Orbot, Cubot and a pack of Egg Pawns, but one Orange Wisp was saved by Sonic. After Sonic destroyed the Egg Pawns in a flash and send Orbot and Cubot running, though with some Orange Wisps of their own. An Orange Wisp then joined Sonic, Tails, Yacker and some other Wisps, as Sonic ventured out to save the Wisp race from Eggman.

Trivia

• The Orange Wisps is the only Wisps whose eyes are lined up vertically.
• This is one of the five Wisps to appear in Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations, and Sonic Lost World, the others being the White Wisp, the Cyan Wisp and the Red Wisp.

References

Wisps

• Wisp types
• Nega-Wisps
• Misc.
• Wispons

Black Wisp (Black Bomb)

Blue Wisp (Blue Cube)

Crimson Wisp (Crimson Eagle)

Cyan Wisp (Cyan Laser)

Gray Wisp (Gray Quake)

Green Wisp (Green Hover)

Indigo Wisp (Indigo Asteroid)

Ivory Wisp (Ivory Lightning)

Jade Wisp (Jade Ghost)

Magenta Wisp (Magenta Rhythm)

Orange Wisp (Orange Rocket)

Pink Wisp (Pink Spikes)

Red Wisp (Red Burst)

White Wisp (Boost)

Yellow Wisp (Yellow Drill)

Purple Wisp (Purple Frenzy)

Violet Wisp (Violet Void)

Nega-Mother Wisp

Jade

Maggie

Mother Wisp

Red Hot

Rebel Wisp Blue

Rebel Wisp Cyan

Rebel Wisp Green

Rebel Wisp Orange

Rebel Wisp Pink

Rebel Wisp Yellow

Yacker

Asteroid Wispon

Burst Wispon

Cube Wispon

Drill Wispon

Hover Wispon

Laser Wispon

Lightning Wispon

Rocket Wispon

Spike Wispon

Variable Wispon

Void Wispon

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