Rhinotank

Rhinotank^[1] (リノタンク^[2], Rinotanku^?) is an enemy in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a mass-produced, rhinoceros-based Badnik model created by Dr. Eggman.

Appearance

Rhinotanks are based on rhinoceros, and possess turquoise and gray armor. They are bulky robots with motor engines on their backs, a pair of black tracks on each side, small ears and a yellow horn on their noses. Above each of their tracks are also grey frames with yellow and black hazard stripes.

In Sonic Advance, the Rhinotanks were slight modified. Here, they lack ears and back engines. They also have two horns on their heads instead of one, and they have only a single track that rises up horizontally from behind.

Game appearances

Sonic Adventure

First appearing in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, Rhinotanks are encountered in the following Action Stages for each character:

Character	Action Stage
Sonic	Emerald Coast
Gamma	Emerald Coast, Windy Valley

In gameplay, Rhinotanks move around the terrain until they notice the player when they get nearby. They will then slowly start charging towards the player in a straight line. The player can easily dodge their attack and use the Spin Jump, Homing Attack or gun fire to defeat them.

Sonic Advance

In Sonic Advance. Rhinotanks are encountered in the Neo Green Hill Zone and Angel Island Zone. In this game, their attack patterns are similar to the RhinoBots' in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Usually rolling back and forth, they will start charging towards the playable characters when they get close. Using the Spin Jump, Spin Attack, Spin Dash or melee moves will defeat a Rhinotank easily.

Sonic Rivals

The Rhinotank made an appearance in Sonic Rivals as one of the collectible cards in the game, They player can collect this card randomly from racing in Story and Challenge Modes.

Sonic Generations

Rhinotank (3DS) — A Rhinotank charging at Sonic in the Nintendo 3DS version of *Sonic Generations*.

In the Nintendo 3DS version of Sonic Generations, Rhinotanks appear again as enemies in Emerald Coast. In this game, they have their original design.

Much like in Sonic Adventure, they either appear alone on in groups and will slowly move back and forth until they notice Sonic, upon where they will slowly charge towards him. A Rhinotank can only feel Sonic's presence if he is to close it though, and it usually loses sight of Sonic during a charge when the player dodges it using a Spin Jump. Hence, it is easy to attack a Rhinotank before it charges by using the Spin Jump or Homing Attack. Alternatively, the player can just dash through them with the Boost.

Powers and abilities

Rhinotanks possess sharp horns that are capable skewing an opponent.

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References

↑ Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) United States instruction booklet, p. 31.
↑ Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) Japanese instruction booklet, p. 34.

Sonic Adventure

Playable characters		Sonic (Super Sonic) \| Tails \| Knuckles \| Amy \| E-102 Gamma \| Big \| Metal Sonic*
Other characters		Dr. Eggman \| Beta (Mark II) \| Chao \| Chaos (Chaos 1, Chaos 2, Chaos 4, Chaos 6, Perfect Chaos) \| Cream* \| Delta \| Epsilon \| Froggy \| Grandma \| Mr. Know-It-All \| Pachacamac \| Tikal \| Unnamed Sonic robot* \| ZERO \| Zeta \| Animals (Deer, Elephant, Gorilla, Kangaroo, Koala, Lion, Mole, Parrot, Peacock, Penguin, Rabbit, Seal, Sea Otter, Skunk, Swallow)
Adventure Fields		Egg Carrier \| Mystic Ruins \| Station Square
Action Stages		Emerald Coast \| Windy Valley \| Casinopolis \| IceCap \| Sky Chase \| Twinkle Park \| Speed Highway \| Red Mountain \| Sky Deck \| Lost World \| Hot Shelter \| Sand Hill \| Twinkle Circuit \| Final Egg
Enemies		Beat \| Bladed Spinner \| Boa-Boa \| Buyoon \| Cart Kiki \| Cop Speeder \| Egg Keeper \| Electro Spinner \| Fighter Aircraft A \| Fighter Aircraft B \| Gola \| Ice Ball \| Icecap's unnamed aircraft \| Kiki \| Leon \| mechanical fish \| Pirate \| Rhinotank \| Sky Deck's unnamed jet fighter \| Spiky Spinner \| Sweeper
Bosses		Chaos 0 \| Chaos 2 \| Chaos 4 \| Chaos 6 \| E-101 Beta \| E-101 Mark II \| E-102 Gamma \| E-103 Delta \| E-104 Epsilon \| E-105 Zeta \| Egg Carrier \| Egg Hornet \| Egg Viper \| Egg Walker \| Knuckles the Echidna \| Perfect Chaos \| Sonic the Hedgehog \| ZERO
Moves/techniques		Arm Punch \| Bolt of lightning \| Bomb Attack \| Bomb Gun Attack \| Charge \| Climb \| Dig \| Double Punch \| Earthquake Attack \| Electric Arm \| Energy Ball Attack \| Flame Thrower Attack \| Flight Mode \| Glide \| Guiding Missiles \| Hammer Attack \| Hammer Jump \| Hover \| Homing Attack \| Instantaneous Liquefaction \| Laser Beam Attack \| Homing Missile Launch \| Homing Tail Slice \| Inhale Attack \| Jump Attack \| Laser Gun \| Light Speed Attack \| Light Speed Dash \| Lure Attack \| Marble Attack \| Maximum Heat Knuckles Attack \| Phantom Shadow Move \| Pick \| Propeller Flight \| Punch \| Punch Attack \| Quarter Attack \| Rapid Tails Attack \| Scorpion Attack \| Shockwave Attack (Chaos 6) \| Sonic Boom \| Spin Attack \| Spin Dash \| Spin Hammer Attack \| Spin Jump \| Spinning Spike Attack \| Spouting Attack \| Squash Roll Attack \| Swing Punch \| Tails Attack
Gimmicks and obstacles		Bumper \| Bumper Car \| Cannon \| Conveyor Belt \| Crank \| Dash Panel \| Dash Ring \| Drum Can \| Explosion Trap \| Fan \| Flipper \| Fountain \| Goal Balloon \| Hanging Bell \| Helicopter \| Hint Box \| Hint Orb \| Icicle \| Iron ball \| Jump Panel (plate) \| Jump Panel (ramp) \| Laser field \| Lit Panel \| Mirror \| Monkey Detonation Switch \| Power cube \| Rocket \| Satellite \| Slot machine \| Spring \| Spring Catapult \| Switch \| Teleporter \| Trick Jump Panel \| Wide spring \| Wind Path \| Zip Line
Objects	General	Air Bubble \| Capsule \| Cart pass \| Chao Egg \| Chaos Emerald \| Doll \| Emblem \| Emerald Shard \| Employee ID Card \| Item Box (Bomb, Extra Life, Invincibility, Lightning Shield, Power Sneakers, Shield, Super Ring) \| Key Stone (Gold Statue, Ice Stone, Silver Statue, Wind Stone) \| Point Marker \| Ring \| Sandboard \| Snowboard \| Sonic Token
Objects	Level Up Items	Ancient Light \| Crystal Ring \| Fighting Gloves \| Jet Anklet \| Jet Booster \| Laser Blaster \| Life Belt \| Light Speed Shoes \| Long Hammer \| Lure \| Power Rod \| Rhythm Badge \| Shovel Claw \| Warrior Feather
English voice actors		Ryan Drummond (Sonic) \| Corey Bringas (Tails) \| Michael McGaharn (Knuckles) \| Deem Bristow (Eggman) \| Jennifer Douillard (Amy) \| Jon St. John (Big) \| Elara Distler (Tikal, Station Square Train Voice, Default Menu Voice) \| Steve Broadie (Gamma, Pachacamac, Mystic Ruins Train Voice) \| Tomoko Sasaki (Chao)
Japanese voice actors		Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic) \| Kazuki Hayashi (Tails) \| Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles) \| Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman) \| Taeko Kawata (Amy) \| Shun Yashiro (Big) \| Kaori Asoh (Tikal) \| Jōji Nakata (Gamma) \| Tōru Ōkawa (Pachacamac) \| Kaho Kōda (Station Square Train Voice) \| Nobutoshi Canna (Mystic Ruins Train Voice) \| Elara Distler (Default Menu Voice) \| Tomoko Sasaki (Chao)
Original Soundtrack/Remix/Vocal Mini Album/20th Anniversary/Passion & Pride		Believe In Myself \| It Doesn't Matter \| Lazy Days \| My Sweet Passion \| Open Your Heart \| Unknown from M.E.
Other		777 Slots Pinball \| Angel Island \| Auto Running \| Black Market \| Card & Pinball \| Chao Garden (Station Square Garden, Mystic Ruins Garden, Egg Carrier Island) \| Chao Stadium \| Chao in Space \| Chao Machine \| Chao Search* \| Corkscrew loop \| Debug Mode \| E-100 Series \| Egg Carrier \| Egg Carrier 2 \| Emerald Radar \| Freeze \| Hedgehog Hammer \| Life gauge \| Mission Mode \| Mystic Ruins \| Shrine of Knuckles's race \| Shuttle loop \| Sonic Adventure (LCD) \| Station Square \| Station Square Police Department \| Tails' Lab \| Tornado \| Tornado 2 \| Transporter Machine Exclusive to Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut*.

Sonic Advance

Playable characters		Sonic \| Tails \| Knuckles \| Amy
Other characters		Eggman \| Chao (Gold Chao) \| Animals (Deer, Elephant, Flicky, Kangaroo, Koala, Lion, Mole, Parrot, Penguin, Picky, Pocky, Rabbit, Ricky, Seal, Sea Otter, Skunk, Swallow)
Zones		Neo Green Hill Zone \| Secret Base Zone \| Casino Paradise Zone \| Ice Mountain Zone \| Angel Island Zone \| Egg Rocket Zone \| Cosmic Angel Zone \| X-Zone \| The Moon Zone \| Special Stage
Enemies		Buzzer \| Drisame \| GamiGami \| Hanabii \| Kero-Kero \| Kiki \| Kura \| Leon \| Mirror \| Mogu \| Oct \| Pen \| Pierrot \| Rhinotank \| Senbon \| Slot \| Tentou \| Wamu \| Yukimaru
Bosses		Egg Hammer Tank \| Egg Press \| Egg Ball \| Egg Spider \| Mecha Knuckles \| Egg Snake \| Egg Mobile-H \| Egg Mobile-D \| EGG X \| Super Egg Robot
Moves/technique		Climb \| Glide \| Grinding \| Hammer Attack \| Hammer Jump \| Hammer Whirl \| Jump Dash \| Giant Steps \| Insta-Shield \| Jump Attack \| Propeller Flying \| Skid Attack \| Spin Attack \| Spin Dash \| Super Sonic Boost \| Somersault \| Tail Swipe
Gimmicks and obstacles		Balloon \| Barrel \| Bumper \| Bumper wall \| Conveyor Belt \| Dash Panel \| Fan \| Flipper \| Goal Plate \| Grind Rail \| High-speed warp tube \| Iron ball \| Pole \| Special Spring \| Spikes \| Spring \| Zip Line
Objects		Capsule \| Checkpoint \| Continue \| Item Box (Blind, Brake, Confusion, Extra Life, Invincibility, Magnetic Barrier, Power Sneakers, Shield, Super Ring, Transparency, Warp) \| Ring
Other		Chao Search \| Moon \| Pulley \| Shuttle loop \| Time Attack \| Tiny Chao Garden \| Time Over \| Tornado \| Trick Point \| Winding Tunnel

Sonic Generations

Wisps		Modern Sonic (Modern Super Sonic) \| Classic Sonic (Classic Super Sonic)
Characters		Dr. Eggman \| Time Eater \| Tails \| Classic Tails \| Amy \| Knuckles \| Shadow \| Cream \| Cheese \| Silver \| Blaze \| Omochao \| Team Chaotix (Espio, Vector, Charmy)
Wisps		Cyan** \| Orange* \| Pink* \| Red**
Stages		Green Hill \| Chemical Plant* \| Casino Night** \| Sky Sanctuary* \| Mushroom Hill** \| Speed Highway* \| Emerald Coast** \| City Escape* \| Radical Highway** \| Seaside Hill* \| Crisis City* \| Water Palace** \| Rooftop Run* \| Planet Wisp* \| Tropical Resort** \| Casino Night*
Bosses	Boss battles	Death Egg Robot* \| Big Arm** \| Perfect Chaos* \| Biolizard** \| Egg Dragoon* \| Egg Emperor** \| Time Eater
Bosses	Rival battles	Metal Sonic \| Shadow the Hedgehog \| Silver the Hedgehog
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
Moves/ techniques	Sonic	Air Boost \| Bound Jump* \| Crouch \| Cyan Laser** \| Double Jump* \| Drift* \| Freestyle Tricks* \| Grind Step \| Grinding \| Homing Attack \| Hop \| Jump Dash \| Kick boost \| Lightspeed Dash* \| Mid-Air Dash* \| Orange Rocket* \| Pink Spikes* \| Quick Step* \| Red Burst** \| Boost \| Slide \| Skydiving* \| Spin Dash \| Spin Jump \| Stomp \| Super Sonic Boost \| Super Sonic Missile \| Super Sonic Spinning \| Wall Jump
Moves/ techniques	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*
Skills*		Flame Shield \| Aqua 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
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!
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)
Other		Air Bubble \| Back 2 Back \| Balloon \| Big Balloon \| Birthday \| Blue Blur: Sonic Generations Original Soundtrack \| Bomb \| Bonus Bell* \| Boost Gauge \| Boss Gate \| Boss Gate Key* \| Bottomless pit \| Bumper \| Buoy \| Cannon \| Capsule \| Cart \| Chao in Space \| Chaos Emerald \| Cloud* \| Collection Room \| Color Power \| Combo* \| Container (Case, Spike Block, Steel Container, Unbreakable Container, Wooden Container) \| Conveyor Belt** \| Corkscrew loop \| Crusher \| Dash Panel \| Dash Rail \| Dash Ring \| Death Egg Robot* \| Dimensional Bomb \| Egg Dragoon* \| Egg Gun \| Egg Mobile \| Egg Spear \| Energy Core \| Escape from the City* \| Explosion Trap \| Fan \| Flipper \| Four-way Cannon* \| Gear Platform \| Goal Ring \| Gondola* \| GUN Military Truck* \| Hanging Bell* \| Havok* \| Health Gauge** \| Heart Bombs* \| Helicopter* \| High-speed warp tube \| Horizontal Bar \| Information Pod* \| Iron ball \| Jump Panel (plate) \| Jump Panel (ramp) \| Kao \| Laser field \| Lair of the Time Eater \| Medal \| Mega Mack* \| Meteorite \| Miles Electric \| Movable box \| Mushroom** \| Musical note* \| Orca \| Perfect Bonus \| Pole Elevator \| Prism** \| Propeller \| Propeller Spring \| Pulley \| Rainbow Ring \| Rank \| Red Star Ring* \| Ring \| Rocket \| Route Signal* \| Seesaw \| Sega Genesis Controller* \| Skateboard* \| Skill Shop* \| Slot machine \| Snowboard \| Spring \| Spring Catapult \| Spring Pole \| Spike Trap \| Spinning Top \| Sonic Generations (manga) \| Sonic Generations of Skate \| Sphere \| Spinning Platform \| Spotlight \| Star Post \| Statue Room* \| Stomping Shoes \| Switch \| Time Attack \| Time Bonus \| Tornado-1 \| Totem Pole \| Trap Spring \| Vengeance is Mine \| Wall Jump Block \| Warp Point \| White Space \| Wide spring \| Winding Tunnel \| Wisp Capsule \| Wisp Gauge** \| You're My Hero \| Zip Line Console/PC version only *Nintendo 3DS version only

[SA1-0] Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) United States instruction booklet, p. 31.

[SA1Jap-1] Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) Japanese instruction booklet, p. 34.

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