Fang the Hunter

Fang the Hunter, also called Fang the Sniper or Nack the Weasel, is a sly and conniving jerboa-wolf who resides in a mysterious alternate dimension. Extremely slick, Fang serves as a villain and treasure hunter who opposes Sonic the Hedgehog at every turn. Fang wields a popgun, which he uses to attack his foes from a distance.

Fang the Hunter
Triple TroubleDrift 2The FightersSuperstars “ Heheheh! Neither Sonic nor Eggman count for squat! While they were at it, the Chaos Emeralds were obtained by me, none other than Treasure Hunter Fang the Sniper! „ ~ Fang the Hunter
Origin
Origin	Sonic the Hedgehog
Characteristics
Species	Weasel
Gender	Male
Age	Unknown
Status	Alive
Alignment	Chaotic Neutral
Occupation	Treasure Hunter

Background

Although not as physically skilled as people such as Sonic, Fang makes up for it using his equipment, such as his aerobike and missiles. Although people such as Knuckles the Echidna constantly find themselves being tricked by Dr. Robotnik, Fang only ever teams up with the doctor to serve his own desires. Most notably, Fang was able to acquire a Chaos Emerald after stealing it, in hopes of collecting the other six.

Fang was unable to retain his Chaos Emerald, eventually losing it, which resulted in the seven Emeralds being used to destroy the Death Egg II. Fang's further whereabouts are unknown.

General Information

Name: Fang the Hunter

Other Names: Fang the Sniper, Nack the Weasel

Origin: Sonic the Hedgehog

Gender: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Sniper, Jerboa-Wolf

Species: Weasel

Occupation: Treasure Hunter

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Merely does anything to get treasure, making him a consistent adversary of Sonic)

Codex Statistics

Grade: A

Tier: 9-B

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Wall level (Potency) (Is comparable to Sonic the Hedgehog in his early life, who could who threw a rock hard enough to destroy Eggman's ship)

Durability: Wall level (Can tank attacks from Knuckles), rings make him incredibly difficult to kill

Striking Strength: Wall Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Class 10 (Comparable to Classic Era Sonic, and thus also main timeline Sonic, who can push boulders comparable to his size)

Travel Speed: Supersonic (Comparable to Sonic the Hedgehog in his early life, where his profile from Sonic Jam notes that his speeds exceeds Mach 1)

Attack Speed: Supersonic

Reaction Speed: Supersonic

Stamina: Superhuman (Is a trained fighter who can somewhat keep up with the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog on several occasions. Could fight through several characters in Sonic the Fighters without signs of fatigue)

Range: Standard Melee, Tens of Meters with Popgun, Cross-Universal with Chaos abilities

Intelligence: Gifted Intelligence (Is comparable to Sonic, who has been able to thwart Dr. Eggman on multiple occasions. Fang himself has been a fighter forlikely years, and is able to fight people like Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails, who themselves have several years of fighting experience)

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Powers and Techniques

Innate AbilitiesRingsChaos Emeralds

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
• Vehicular Usage (Land Vehicles; Can drive a car)
• Weapon Mastery (Is proficient with his popgun)
• Body Control (Can whip with his tail)
• Acrobatics
• Dimensional Storage (Can keep Chaos Emeralds and Rings on hand despite having no place to put them)
• Fighter's Intuition
• Non-Standard Interaction and Soul Manipulation (Sonic's team can harm Hyudoros)
• Time Paradox Immunity
  • Alternate Timelines: Sonic characters can meet their future self without disappearing.
• Limited Acausality
  • Future or Past Defiance: The future in Sonic is essentially unwritten and constantly changing with events Sonic and co. do in the present affecting the future.

• Resistance to
  • Heat Manipulation (Shown here)
  • Ice Manipulation (Sonic's team can break free of ice when frozen)
  • Poison Manipulation (Sonic characters can go through Chemical Plant unharmed by its toxins)
  • Status Effect Inducement

• Added Invulnerability, Energy Boost, Statistics Amplification, Healing, and Energy Absorption (They can restore your energy for your abilities and Super/Hyper form. They allow one to survive lethal attacks from far stronger foes)

Singular Chaos EmeraldsMultiple Chaos EmeraldsSix Chaos EmeraldsAll Seven Chaos Emeralds

• Restoration (The Chaos Emeralds can completely repair the fractured gears in White Space)
• Infinite Energy (Chaos emeralds have unlimited power within them allowing for them to be used as endless power sources for a user)
• Empowerment (Grabbing a chaos emerald empowers one with the powers of it)
• Limited Magnetism Manipulation (Tails notes that the Chaos Emeralds attract to each other like magnets)
• Air Manipulation (Mephiles used the power of a single chaos emerald to push back Team Dark)
• Space-Time Manipulation
  • 3+1-D: Even with a single emerald, one has full control over space and time if they know how to use Chaos Control.
    • Time Stop (Blaze tells Silver to use chaos control to stop her in time to seal Iblis away. Shadow planned to use chaos control to stop Maria and Gerald in time so they would not return to their original timeline before Maria stopped him)
    • Time Manipulation (Chaos control can be used to completely slow time to a halt.
    • Teleportation (Chaos control grants the ability to warp, making it from one's perspective that the user is moving fast. Through Sonic using chaos control with a fake emerald he was able to teleport out of an explosion and save himself. Sonic also uses the chaos control in his final boss against Shadow to teleport ahead of him)
    • Battlefield Removal
      • Forced Teleportation: While a single chaos emerald wouldn't be able to replicate the effect of this size, chaos control is shown that it can also teleport others and other objects away.
    • Sealing (Blaze tells Silver to use chaos control to seal her and Iblis into a different dimension)

• Duplication (Mephiles used two of the Chaos Emeralds to create dozens of clones of himself)
• Fusionism (It's noted by Shadow that Mephiles needs the Chaos Emeralds in order to become one with Iblis again)

• Weather Manipulation (Sonic using the six chaos emeralds removed the massive storm over the island
• Plant Manipulation (The Chaos Emeralds did this on their own)

• Wish Granting & Subjective Reality (The Chaos Emeralds powers are based off the hopes and dreams of the wisher and using them to bring their wishes into reality Sonic uses these wishes have the power to stop Eggman thus granting him Super Sonic, if Solaris used them to wish to wreak everything then the emeralds would do so. The Chaos Emeralds turns one's thoughts into power, where all seven create a miracle)
  • Chaos Manipulation & Empowerment (Chaos is power drawn from the heart, one can either use the positive or negative emotions from the emerald to empower them, however, the positive emotions will always be harnessing its full power)
  • Transformation
    • Partial Transformation; With all seven chaos emeralds, if wishes so, they can unlock the Super Form, they can also utilize the chaos emeralds to transform themselves into a hyper state, carrying relative levels of power and strength to the Super Forms.
  • Healing and Restoration (The Chaos Emeralds can be utilized in order to heal ones injuries)
  • Resurrection
    • Resurrection of Others
      • Resurrection of the Deceased: Granted Elise's wish and brought Sonic back to life.

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Equipment

Rings, Popgun, Aerobike

Optional Equipment

Chaos Emerald

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Other

Standard Tactics: Fang normally shoots with his gun while jumpinga round or using different equipment or vehicles he has on hand.

Weaknesses: None notable.

Regarding Fang's Speed

There are many that wonder why Sonic and co. are rated lower here in terms of speed then other wikis; I below will explain the following reasons why:

Cyan Wisp

When Sonic first interacts with a Cyan Wisp it envelops his body and makes him move as a laser, that's outright stated to move at the speed of light, Sonic is completely shocked by the speed he gets when he uses it and it is way faster then anything he can do, they even acknowledge the Sonic Colors Ultimate Short Animation that it's far above his speed. Sonic Colors 3DS notes that the cyan laser let's Sonic fly through the air at "blinding speeds" already showcasing it's far above his regular speed.

An argument people try to make for why Sonic is comparable to the Cyan Wisp is that he caught up to it and claimed it's almost as fast as him. However, there is missing context to this, prior in the cutscene the wisp is shown in its normal body moving, when actually activating the laser there's a flash of light in the same cutscene Tails even notes the flash of light specifically is the power of the Cyan Laser with Sonic even claiming that he wants to see how fast it is. This string of dialogue showcases that the cyan laser itself is not what he caught, but the Cyan Wisp while it was still in its wisp form, which we see in Colors Ultimate that the cyan wisp will run from things without automatically turning into its laser form. Thus Sonic did not catch up with the cyan laser power of the wisp, but just the Cyan Wisp itself.

Official Statements

While many try to use official statements claiming he's the speed of light, these are always used in a hyperbolic sense.

One comes from a Sonic Adventure interview where they note that he zooms all around at light speed, but this is in context talking about how large the levels are and how they don't think most players will notice the details as they will be zooming through the levels. They're not saying that you're literally moving through the levels at light speed, this is especially apparent with famous parts of levels such as the orca chase in Emerald Coast, the avalanche chase in Ice Cap, not running down a large building instantly in Speed Highway, getting forcibly pulled into a tornado in Windy Valley, the boulder chase in Lost World and more. If one wanted to argue that this statement isn't hyperbolic, this is a developer interview before the game officially released thus these level locales would clearly show they don't actually intend for Sonic to be running through them at light speed.

Another comes from a statement from a Sonic Unleashed guide, where it states his usual self runs around at the speed of light, however this is another hyperbolic statement. For one the guidebook is claiming Werehog Sonic is slow, this is only true in gameplay, in actual cutscenes Werehog Sonic is shown to move around fast. On top of that the very game itself also showcases scenes that go against this statement, Sonic and Chip take all day to see if anyone knows who Chip is, he notes in cutscene that he can sprint to a neighboring continent if the planet wasn't broken, he takes a bit of time to catch up to Eggman whose flying away, has to run around a building for a bit rather then instantly. On top of this Sonic Unleashed entire plot is due to the chaos emeralds being drained of their power Sonic must travel to each continent and restore the chaos emeralds power, restoring the continent back, something to where if he was as fast as the guide is claiming, wouldn't have even taken multiple days, even if the continents are broken apart. Examples can even be seen in the story, he starts a day time stage here then another daytime stage in the same area with both of these taking until night time in one city.

Another claim is from the Sonic the Hedgehog Super Interactive Annual 2014 where it claims he runs faster than the speed of light and is the fastest video game character of all time according to Guiness Book of Records. To start with, the Guiness statement seems to be a hoax, no matter where one tries to search up this claim there is no actual record currently sourced for it. Secondly, this is another hype statement that comes from a European guidebook, it's a tertiary canon that does not line up with the portrayal of Sonic's speed in the mainline canon. Due to the usage of using a known hoax for the argument and coming from a tertiary canon that's not the main source, this statement is not very usable.

Another statement comes from Takashi Iizuka claiming "We aren't aware how fast Sonic the Hedgehog is. In some games, he is able to go beyond the light barrier. We don't really know, the best way we can say it rivals the famous comic book hero, The Flash.". While this seems clear cut, there is a massive issue. This interview does not exist. If one tries to look it up and use the exact wording as shown in the picture it will only take them back to a singular blog that has a cropped screenshot of it made for the sole purpose of pushing FTL Sonic. Thus this statement is not usable until an actual legitimate source confirms the legitimacy of this interview ever existing.

Light Speed statements are even noted by Ian Flynn to be characters being arrogant and they are not actually able to move at the speed of light.

It should also be noted, Eastern media uses speed of light a lot as a method for saying "very fast" rather then literally being the speed of light. It boils down to even doujins using it as a way to claim certain things and one getting home fast.

Omega statement

The Omega statement is a pretty popular one where one attempts to use Omega stating that light speed would be surpassed, though the full context of this is somewhat ignored.

For one, in Sonic Colors DS continuity Sonic doesn't even have boost until the Wisp give it to him. So collecting wisps make him move faster.

Secondly, Omega's statement in context is talking about Sonic's immense growth and how he keeps getting faster and faster each time he's doing the challenge, where if he keeps it up then light speed will eventually be surpassed due to breaking unprecedented growths.

SPD from Unleashed

Many try to use the SPD due to the boost SPD being rated higher then the light speed dash, however the SPD isn't programmed in a lineal way. Along with this it's clear by the context of the game that it's just apart of Ludonarrative Dissonance to get players excited by seeing how high of a value they're going. For note, the light speed dash's SPD isn't even consistent which already poses a problem since light speed is a static number, it doesn't get faster or slower.

Other Speed Issues

There are a couple of plot points in various Sonic games that greatly mess with the idea that Sonic is light speed or even faster than light.

In Sonic Adventure 2 Sonic and Shadow need to escape the island before it blows up, both needing actually being worried and needing to hurry out of the forest. The time limit for this stage is 8 whole minutes.

In the plot for Team Sonic in Sonic Heroes, they have three days to stop Eggman from his plot, with the three levels you do taking two whole days before getting to Casino Park and then by Rail Canyon they only got until sunset.

In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) there are times Sonic has to enter his "super-speed speed" state, where he will not stop running and is going at top speeds.

• In Wave Ocean, it's to catch up with Eggman's airship, which flew there overnight.
• In Radical Train, it's to catch up with Elise's train that's about to crash.

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