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Scratch and Grounder are a pair of Fictional Badnik Robot s created by Dr. Robotnik as adversaries of Sonic The Hedgehog in the Animated Series '' Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog ''. Scratch and Grounder are largely Comic Relief characters, as is this incarnation of Robotnik himself, and though charged with the capture of Sonic and his friend Tails , they almost always fail. Not only this, but the two are also highly gullible, easily being deceived by Sonic no matter how bizarre his disguises. These repeated failures frequently result in the two hapless robots receiving a lot of abuse (both verbal and physical) from Robotnik. Scratch and Grounder also appeared in the earliest issues of the '' Sonic '' Comic Book published by Archie Comics . However, the characters themselves were prominently featured only in their first appearance there, published in issue #2. Subsequent appearances of the two were minor; their last appearance in the comic was part of a flashback in issue #57. Scratch resembles a large, humanoid Chicken (similar to Clucker, one of the badniks in the Wing Fortress Zone of '' Sonic 2 '', and an enemy robot from the second stage of '' Sonic Spinball ''). He is distinctified by his prominent laugh, "A-Ha-ha-ha!" He sounds similar to Jet The Hawk . Grounder is a small green machine with tank tracks, as well as drills instead of his hands and nose. These drills can be unscrewed and/or replaced with other useful tools, such as grappling claws or helicopter blades. Grounder's design was purposefully derived from several different badnik characters from early ''Sonic'' games, especially a badnik of the same name from '' Sonic 2 '' Grounder is a sort of "clone" of Scratch. While being created by Robotnik in the cartoon, Scratch has his feather plucked and put into a cloner. He looks different because Scratch pulled a lever that wasn't supposed to be pulled during the process (when Robotnik chastises him for it, he responds "Well, how was ''I'' to know? I was just hatched!"). When he sees the copy of himself, he immediately asks Robotnik "Am I THAT ugly?" resulting in a small argument between the duo. The two were occasionally aided by a robot Monkey named Coconuts (also from Sonic 2 ), although most of the time, he would be competing with them rather than helping them, in hopes of being promoted out of janitor status. They all appeared as opponents in the game '' Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine '', which was a clone of '' Puyo Puyo ''. |
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