Character from Smash Bros Brawl: The Subspace Emissary by Nintendo / Masahiro Sakurai
The fastest thing alive — arrives at the last possible second, shatters Tabuu's wings with a spinning attack, and saves every single hero in the coalition.
Sonic does not appear until the final moments of the Subspace Emissary, and his entrance is the story's most electrifying scene. After Tabuu's Off Waves turn every single fighter into a trophy — after King Dedede's brooches and Kirby's revival mission have barely restored the coalition — Tabuu prepares to unleash the Off Waves again. Sonic appears from nowhere. He is a blue streak that impacts Tabuu's wings at full speed, shattering them. Without his wings, Tabuu cannot generate Off Waves at full power. Every fighter survives because a hedgehog they have never met ran fast enough to break a god. Sonic's combat style is pure velocity — spin dashes, homing attacks, spring jumps. He does not stand and fight. He moves through combat like a pinball, bouncing between targets. His arrival is unexplained, his motivation is unclear, and it does not matter. He showed up. He was fast enough. That is the whole story.
A blue anthropomorphic hedgehog with green eyes, red sneakers with white straps, and white gloves. His quills sweep backward in aerodynamic spikes. He is pure speed made physical — lean, compact, and vibrating with kinetic energy even when standing still. His trademark smirk says he is faster than you and knows it.
Also known as: The Blue Blur, Blue Hedgehog