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The Shovel Claws (シャベル クラウ Shaberu Kurau?) are a Level Up Item for Knuckles the Echidna. They first appeared in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, and later returned in the sequels Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

Description

The Shovel Claws are a pair of hooked metal plates with spiked claws that can be attached over the tops of Knuckles' gloves. They are specifically made to enhance Knuckles' digging abilities, allowing him to use Dig. Rouge the Bat's equivalent are Pick Nails.

Locations

Sonic Adventure

Knuckles can dig up buried items with these attached to his gloves.

Sonic Adventure manual description

In Sonic Adventure, the Shovel Claws are located in the Mystic Ruins' Adventure Field. They are found in a small cave behind Tails' workshop, inside one of the smaller cavers with a Kiki Badnik, close to the Mine Cart that takes players to the Mystic Ruins' Chao Garden. After getting trapped inside the room with the Shovel Claws by a cage door activated by a Kiki, Knuckles has to use the Shovel Claws to find a hidden contact to break free. It is a later requirement to find the Master Emerald shards in certain levels.

Sonic Adventure 2

Enables Knuckles to dig into the grounds and walls.

Sonic Adventure 2 manual description

In Sonic Adventure 2, Knuckles finds them in Pumpkin Hill, on a platform just in front of the starting point of the level. They are the only mandatory Level Up Item for Knuckles here, as at least one of the Emerald Shards in the level will be hidden underground, requiring the Level Up Item to get to it.

In other media

Sonic X

Main article: Shovel Claw (Sonic X)
Shovel Claw Sonic X

The Shovel Claws in Sonic X.

In the anime series Sonic X, the Shovel Claws originate from Knuckles the Echidna's home world. After somehow ending up on Earth, they were found by Hawk, who later returned them to Knuckles. Knuckles would afterwards used them on a few occasions, mainly for burrowing and combat.

Trivia

  • The Shovel Claw is the only Level Up Item to appear in every game in which the character to uses it gets Level Up Items.

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Artwork

Screenshots

Gallery

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