Why Rouge the Bat is Important - A Character Analysis of Rouge the Bat (Founder of Team Dark)

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Rouge the Bat! Sassy seductive Jewel Thief? Or a Diamond quality Team player and friend?

Anybody SICK of the "Sonic the Hedgehog's stupid friends" narrative? Well I am! So I've taken it upon myself to analyze and pay my respects to the good times for these characters, and call out the garbage from the bad times! Games media and series detractors have been attempting to gaslight us for well over a decade now that Sonic's friends have done nothing but hold the series back. With some "journalists" even going as far as trying to say the Sonic Series itself was NEVER good! Total nonsense. So what better way to make my argument than a YouTube series going into insane detail on why and how many supporting Sonic characters are important to the series?!

Miles Tails Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Metal Sonic, Gamma, Shadow the Hedgehog, E123 Omega, Silver, Blaze the Cat, Dr Eggman, and the star of this video, Rouge the Bat, were all important characters. Crucial to the series, and the deeper, Shonen style stories fans are desperate to see make a return!

Of course, there are many more than the ones I've just mentioned, and we will get to ALL of them in time! But for now, let's take a trip back to Sonic Adventure 2, and check in on everyone's favorite bag of sassy, Rouge the Bat! With With appearances in Sonic Prime, NO appearance in Sonic Frontiers, and the questions around her starring in Sonic Movie 3? Let's first go back to a place and time where everything was perfect, analyze the good, then the bad and pray to the Sonic Gods that Paramount accurately reference Sonic Adventure 2 in Sonic Movie 3! Rouge is an amazing character if you do more than just scratch the surface, and I really think she needs to appear again in a major way. As the mother of Team Dark, she deserves nothing less!

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Games Covered:

Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Heroes
Shadow the Hedgehog 2005
Sonic the Hedgehog 2006
Sonic Battle
Sonic Generations
Sonic Forces Episode Shadow

[AceCardGaming]

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[liamphibia]

Who else misses Team Dark's interactions and dynamics?😭

[Richforce]

I always kind of thought if Rouge had a backstory, it would involve losing both her parents and lifestyle at an early age, taking up thievery just to keep herself fed. Becoming so good theft and seeing a lot of the criminal underworld, her turning into a manipulative jewel thief would have been very understandable.

[shinsou_simp]

4:32

"There's undeniably a lot of sexual tension between Rouge and Knuckles.

A flirty rivalry.

Staring into each other's eyes.

Some casual strangling."

😂😂😂

[shincore]

I think Rouge is the only team dark member in IDW written well.

Omega is constantly bring written out of the story and is only used for joke lines
Shadow is constantly moody and refuses to cooperate with anyone
But like Rouge is the only one shown to still care and worry about her teammates whenever they're harmed.

[marchedgie]

"Seeing Shadow throw it all away for the person he loved and saving the entire world in the process tore down all those walls and emotional defenses for her"

Ok dude, I see what you did there. Very clever. Also, that point that you made about Rouge not telling Shadow about what he did in Sonic Adventure 2 during the events of Sonic Heroes because she had seen him go on that world ending rampage is honestly something I never really thought of before. I always found it frustrating as to why she, Sonic and the others didn't tell him, but not telling him, knowing what he is capable of kind of makes sense. At the same time though, you wonder, how else could they could've gone about telling him (other than the way they did in Shadow's game). Great video btw.

[lelouche]

We can thank her and Amy for Shadow deciding to forgo his violence.

[ДмитрийПроскурня-ви]

Rouge in Sonic Adventure 2:
I realized that real treasures are not jewelry and emeralds, but friends.
Rouge the next day:
Where are the jewels? Where are the emeralds?

[ixiahj]

I assumed the game devs named her Rouge (despite not being red) is because of Shadow. Shadow and Rouge are make up puns.

[SoranotRoxas]

*Always wanted to know her backstory though.* Never understood why Sega never wanted to explore that in any media form.

[joeboosta]

When I heard you say " Seeing Shadow throw it all away" I thought you were having that be reference speach, because "Throw it all away, " is the name of the theme song that was written for Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2.

[mrhalfsaid]

I just want the characters to be treated like actual characters rather than mascots along the line of tony the tiger

[djphat]

If knuckles gets his own spin-off game id love for Rouge to become a side character/rival for him again. Having Knuckles out on some treasure hunt and finding out Rouge is on the same hunt driving him into a competition with her to reach the treasure first.

[purkle]

I'll say it again Rouge is the *REAL* and *TRUE* leader of Team Dark. Shadow was only made leader due to Sonic being leader of Team Sonic and his rivalry with Sonic. Shadow himself unlike Sonic lacks charisma, people skills, and has displayed no traits that a leader would have. Shadow isn't a bad character but he his far from ever being a leader.

[infiniteoctopaw]

"Even if the world turns against you, know that I'll always be by your side. Remember that..."

I love her so much, and she's kept that promise even as Modern Shadow treats her like garbage. For both their sakes, i need Shadow to be nice to her again.

[absoutezeo]

Sometimes it takes superficial appeal to reel 'em in to pay attention to the character depth beneath the surface. Weird that they did it with an anthropomorphic bat, but I can appreciate the hustle.




And I mean, she's hot so like—

[viivoid]

5:45 "despite that femme fatale wall she puts up in front of the world she's actually a deeply caring individual" Love her & Emma Frost so much for very similar reasons all around, and i relate so much to them omg - RaSz

[thespookymage]

I've been waiting for this. Rouge is my second favorite character, just behind knuckles, and I am glad that people are realizing she has a real and interesting character other then just bat tits. Love her.

[legendarymasterchief]

Her concept art kinda looks like an emo Amy, huh.

[Nephalem]

This doesn’t explain why Rouge won’t let Shadow watch Purple.