Researcher
Appearances in other media
Skills
Scientific knowledge
The researchers [1] are characters that appear in the Sonic the Hedgehog series . They are scientists who resided on the Space Colony ARK over fifty years ago.
Appearance [ ]
The researchers wear white shirts and trousers with an orange waistcoats with black stripes on the shoulders. They also wear white helmets with visors. They also wear white gloves and shoes.
Game appearances [ ]
Sonic Adventure 2 [ ]
In Sonic Adventure 2 and its enhanced port Sonic Adventure 2: Battle , the researchers were indirectly mentioned. Here, it is mentioned that they worked alongside Professor Gerald Robotnik on Project Shadow onboard the Space Colony ARK . When the ARK was shut down and had its protects ceased, GUN executed everyone on the ARK, including the researchers.[2] [3]
Shadow the Hedgehog [ ]
A researcher beside Shadow , from Shadow the Hedgehog .
In Shadow the Hedgehog , the researchers appear in The Doom as the objective for the Hero mission. Ten injured researchers are found throughout the stage and Shadow must use Heal Units (or the Heal Cannon if unlocked and found) to revive them.
Powers and abilities [ ]
Being involved in the research projects conducted by Gerald Robotnik , it stands to reason that the researchers possess a great deal of knowledge in the fields of science.
Trivia [ ]
References [ ]
Playable characters
Hero
Sonic (Super Sonic ) · Knuckles · Tails
Dark
Shadow (Super Shadow ) · Rouge · Eggman
Misc.
Amy * · Metal Sonic * · Tikal * · Chaos * · Chao Walker * · Big *^ · Dark Chao Walker *
Non-playable characters
Chao (Angel , Chao Principal , Chaolin , Chaoko , Chaos Chao , Chaosky , Chappy , Crunch , Crystal , Dark Chao , Dinner , Eggie , Flash , Happy , Hero Chao , Lucky , Magic , Melody , Ninja , Rainbow , Skull , Smokey , Spooky , Stinky , Stormy , Tin , Wacky , Woody ) · Gerald · Maria · President · Scorpion Troop · Secretary · Sigma-Alpha 2 · Spider Troop · Researcher · Animals (Bat , Bear , Boar , Cheetah , Condor , Dragon , Gorilla , Half Fish , Parrot , Peacock , Penguin , Phoenix , Rabbit , Raccoon , Seal , Sea Otter , Sheep , Skeleton Dog , Skunk , Tiger , Unicorn )
Stages
Hero
City Escape · Wild Canyon · Prison Lane · Metal Harbor · Green Forest · Pumpkin Hill · Mission Street · Aquatic Mine · Route 101 · Hidden Base · Pyramid Cave · Death Chamber · Eternal Engine · Meteor Herd · Crazy Gadget · Final Rush
Dark
Iron Gate · Dry Lagoon · Sand Ocean · Radical Highway · Egg Quarters · Lost Colony · Weapons Bed · Security Hall · White Jungle · Route 280 · Sky Rail · Mad Space · Cosmic Wall · Final Chase
Misc.
Cannon's Core · Green Hill
2P Stages
Downtown Race · Grind Race · Planet Quest · Pool Quest · Deck Race · Pyramid Race
Enemies
G.U.N.
Blue Eagle · Bomb Beetle · Bomb Wing · Gold Beetle · Gum Hawk · Gun Hawk · Gun Beetle · Gun Hawk · Gun Hunter · Gun Wing · Hornet-3 · Hornet-6 · Hornet-9 · Laser Hawk · Laser Hornet · Laser Hunter · Mono Beetle · Phoenix · Rhino Cannon · Rhino Jet · Rhino Metal · Rhino Spike · Shield Hunter · Sky Hawk · Spark Beetle · Spring Beetle
Badniks
Buzz Bomber · Chopper · E-1000 · Gola · Unidus · Kiki
Misc.
Artificial Chaos (Artificial Chaos P-1 , Artificial Chaos P-100 , Cell , Float Type , Guard Type ) · Boo · Boom Boo
Bosses
B-3x Hot Shot · Biolizard · Dr. Eggman · Egg Golem · F-6t Big Foot · Finalhazard · King Boom Boo · Knuckles · R-1/A Flying Dog · Rouge · Shadow · Sonic · Tails
Moves/techniques
Amy Flash * · Black Shield * · Black Wave * · Booming Missile * · Bounce Attack · Captive Light * · Chaos Bind * · Chaos Control · Chaos Impact * · Chaos Screw * · Chaos Spear · Chaos Strike * · Charm Ray * · Crazy Rush * · Crouch · Dark Finish * · Dark Omochao * · Dig · Drill Claw · Drill Drive · Fire Somersault · Glide · Grind Step · Grinding · Hammer Punch * · Heaven's Justice * · Hell Bomber * · Hip Drop * · Hover · Homing Attack · Jump Dash · Kick/Kick Attack · Knuckle Spin * · Laser Missile * · Light Attack · Light Speed Dash · Lock-on · Lock-On Missile · Magic Hands · Omochao · Pick · Power Flash * · Power Laser * · Propeller Punch · Punch (Eggwalker) · Punch/Punch Attack · Rocket Launcher · Rumble Launcher * · Screw Kick · Somersault · Sonic Wind * · Speed Up * · Spin Jump · Spin Dash · Spiral Upper · Storming Heart * · Super Sonic Boost · Swim · Thunder Arrow * · Time Stop * · Volkan Cannon · Wrath of Gaia * · Zap Laser *
Gimmicks and obstacles
Ancient Ruin · Ball Switch · Bungie Vine · Dash Panel · Dynamite · Egg Beetle · Gravity Control Switch · Green energy fluid · Grind Rail · GUN Military Truck · High-speed warp tube · Hint Box · Hourglass · Iron ball · Jump Plate · Knuckles Clan foothold · Laser field · Missile · Pipe · Point Marker · Propeller Spring · Pulley · Ramp · Rocket · Safe · Sinking pool · Spikes · Spinning drum · Swing Bar · Time Switch · Turtle · Warp Hole · Warp Wall · Weight · Wide spring
Items
General
Air bubble · Balloon · Chao Egg · Chao Key · Chaos Emerald · Chaos Drive · Car · Container (Cage , Chao Container , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) · Emblem · Emerald Shard · Gate key · Goal Ring · Item Box (5 Rings , 10 Rings , 20 Rings , Bomb , Extra Life , Health , High-Speed Shoes , Invincible , Magnetic Shield , Shield ) · Key Stone (Gate Key ) · Meteorite · Outfit · Ring · Snowboard
Level Up Items
Air Necklace · Air Shoes · Ancient Light · Bazooka · Booster · Bounce Bracelet · Flame Ring · Hammer Gloves · Iron Boots · Jet Engine · Large Cannon · Laser Blaster · Light Speed Shoes · Magic Gloves · Mystic Melody · Pick Nails · Protective Armor · Shovel Claw · Sunglasses · Treasure Scope
Voice actors
English
Ryan Drummond (Sonic ) · Connor Bringas (Tails ) · Scott Dreier (Knuckles , GUN Soldiers ) · Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) · David Humphrey (Shadow ) · Lani Minella (Rouge , Omochao ) · Deem Bristow (Eggman ) · Moriah Angeline (Maria ) · Marc Biagi (Gerald , GUN Soldiers ) · Steve Broadie (President ) · Shelly Fox (Default menu voice) · Jon St. John (Big ) · Elara Distler (Tikal ) · Tomoko Sasaki (Chao )
Japanese
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) · Kazuki Hayashi (Tails ) · Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) · Taeko Kawata (Amy ) · Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) · Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) · Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman , Gerald ) · Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) · Yuri Shiratori (Maria ) · Kinryū Arimoto (President ) · Shun Yashiro (Big ) · Shelly Fox (Default menu voice) · Tomoko Sasaki (Chao )
Music
Songs
"It Doesn't Matter " · "Believe In Myself " · "Unknown from M.E. " · "Throw It All Away " · "E.G.G.M.A.N. " · "Fly in the Freedom " · "My Sweet Passion " · "Escape from the City " · "Kick the Rock! " · "A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup " · "Dive into the Mellow " · "Deeper " · "Space Trip Steps " · "Rhythm And Balance " · "The Supernatural " · "For True Story " · "Supporting Me " · "Live and Learn "
Albums
Multi-Dimensional Sonic Adventure 2 Original Sound Track · Passion & Pride: Anthems with Attitude from the Sonic Adventure Era · Sonic Adventure 2 Battle - Sampler · Sonic Adventure 2 Official Soundtrack · SONIC ADVENTURE 2 OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK VINYL EDITION · Sonic Adventure 2 Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition · Sonic Adventure 2 Vocal Collection: Cuts Unleashed
Strategy guides
Sonic Advance & Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Official Perfect Guide · Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Strongest Strategy Guide · Sonic Adventure 2 Hero/Dark Manual · Sonic Adventure 2 Perfect Guide · Sonic Adventure 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Other
Altar of Emerald · Angel Island · Auto Running · Black Market · Boss Attack · Central City · Chao Adventure 2 ^ · Chao Garden (Dark , Hero , Neutral ) · Chao in Space · Chao Kindergarten · Chao Lobby · Chao Machine · Chao Race · Chao Stadium · Chao Transporter ^ · Chao World · Corkscrew · Cyclone · Eclipse Cannon · Eggman Bombom · Eggwalker · Emerald Radar · Fake Emerald · Game Over · Gerald Robotnik's diary · Grind Shoes · Health Gauge · Hidden Base · Kart Race · Life · Limiter Ring · Loop · Master Emerald · Moon · Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome · Prison Island · Project Shadow · Rank · Space Colony ARK · Station Square · Teleporter · Totem pole · Tunnel · Water
Playable characters
Shadow (Dark /Hero Shadow , Super Shadow ) · Sonic * · Rouge * · Knuckles * · Amy * · Tails * · Maria * · Espio * · Omega * · Vector * · Shadow Android **
Non-playable characters
Black Doom (Devil Doom ) · 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
Black Arms
Black Assassin · Black Hawk · Black Oak · Black Volt · Black Warrior · Black Wing · Death Leech · Death Worm · Hammer Oak · Kill Worm · Killer Plant · Sand Worm
G.U.N.
Big Foot (Type A , B ) · Giga Trooper · Gold Beetle · Gun Beetle · GUN Soldier · GUN Trooper · Mono Beetle · Rocket Beetle · Spark Beetle
Eggman Empire
Egg Bommer · Egg Pawn · Egg Pierrot · Jack Bommer · Shadow Android
ARK
Ark Missile Turret · Artificial Chaos (Cell , P-100 )
Miscellaneous
Giant Walker
Bosses
Black Bull · Black Doom · Blue Falcon · Devil Doom · Diablon · Egg Breaker · Egg Dealer · Heavy Dog
Moves/ techniques
Playable characters
Attack · Chaos Blast · Chaos Control · Chaos Spear · Crouch · Dark Spin Dash · Grinding · Grind Step · Homing Attack · Hover · Jump Dash · Light Dash · Mid-Air Attack · Overturn · Pawn Fever · Pick up · Punch · Slide · Spin Dash · Spin Jump · Strafe · Tail Swipe · Triangle Jump
Non-playable characters
Bomb Fever · Homing Attack · Missile Fever · Ring Fever · Shadow Fever · Swift strike · Strafe
Vehicles
Air Saucer · Cannon Vehicle · Convertible · GUN Motorcycle · GUN Vehicle · HMMWV · Jump Vehicle
Gimmicks and obstacles
Barrier · 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 · Weight · Wide spring
Items
General
Black Tank · Bomb Unit · Chaos Emerald · Car · Container (Special Weapon Container , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) · Core program · Crimson Rock · 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 · Volcanic Defense System
Weapons
4-Shot RPG · 8-Shot RPG · Bazooka · Big Worm Shooter · Big Barrel · Black Barrel · Black Sword · Dark Hammer · 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
Voice actors
English
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
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 " · "The Chosen One " · "E.G.G.M.A.N. Doc. Robeatnix Mix" · "I Am... All of Me " · "Never Turn Back " · "Tripod Baby " · "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 · Cyberspace · Dark /Hero Gauge · Dark Rider · Eclipse Cannon · Eggman Fleet · Egg Monitor · Expert Mode · Fire in the Sky Festival · Guardian Units of Nations · Health Gauge · Life · Loop · Mother computer · Prison Island · Prosperity ritual · Rank · Shadow the Hedgehog: Prima Official Game Guide · Shadow the Hedgehog Flash · Shadow the Hedgehog Strongest Strategy Guide · Space Colony ARK · Tails' Spaceship · Team Chaotix · White House