7 Video Game Villains Who Were The Hero All Along
4. Knuckles
As a kid was there anything as cool as Sonic The Hedgehog?
He was a rude dude with a 'tude who don't take no guff and who got all the stuff. He was basically the over-saturated sugar rush encapsulation of the 90s and we loved him for it. Yet for many their world came crumbling down the moment that Knuckles The Echidna hit the stage in a very literal sense within the opening moments of Sonic The Hedgehog 3, as here we were presented with a character with a badass design and EVEN MORE 'TUDE!
Who do we root for? Will I have to change my Sonic wallpaper to Knuckles? Am I about to have a screaming match with my friend at school over who is the coolest Sonic Character (lol nobody is picking Tails)?
Plus it turns out that we don't even need to feel guilty about rooting for the bad guy in this instance, because Knuckles was actually just duped by Dr Robotnik into thinking that Sonic was trying to steal the Master Emerald, a precious artifact that Knuckles has sworn to protect. In essence, this makes him the hero of his own tale as he not only stopped Sonic dead in his tracks and made him look an utter boob in the process but did so whilst upholding his duty AND LOOKING COOL AT THE SAME TIME.