Flicky
Flicky
First appearance	Flicky
Appears in (games)	Flicky Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic the Hedgehog CD Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Sonic & Knuckles Sonic Chaos Sonic Triple Trouble Sonic Spinball Sonic the Screen Saver Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld Sonic 3D Blast Sonic Jam Sonic R Sonic Adventure Sonic Advance 2 Sonic Pinball Party Tails Adventure Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Games Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing(Cameo) Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Super Monaco GP Flash Point SDI TeddyBoy Blues Bloxeed Shenmue
Appears in (other media)	Sonic the Hedgehog (promotional comic) Sonic the Hedgehog (Manga) Sonic the Hedgehog (Comics) Sonic the Comic Sonic X Sonic X (comics)
Also known as	Birdie (what Amy Rose calls it in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure DX)
Species	Blue Mobian bird, Flicky
Alignment	Good

Flickies are a kind of colorful bird that live almost exclusively on the atoll called Flicky Island. Peaceful and friendly, Flicky birds feed on the strange the bejeweled plants of their home. When they gather into flocks, it is said they can create Warp Rings to other Zones. Most notable is the natural predators, of which they have none. Consequentially, they don't fear strangers, and are thought to be mere fools. Many of them were roboticized and used for "organic batteries" by the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik, but were restored by Sonic the Hedgehog. Flickies also influenced Sonic with his happy fearless approach to life.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Robotnik's slaves 1.2 Aiding Tails 1.3 Pursued by Eggman 2 Gallery 2.1 Artwork 2.2 Sprites 3 Cameo appearances 4 Background information 5 Comments

HistoryEdit

Robotnik's slavesEdit

Flickies were first seen after Sonic the Hedgehog responded to a distress call on an atoll called Flicky Island. Dr. Ivo Robotnik had enslaved the island, roboticized the Flickies, and was looking for a Chaos Emerald. Sonic soon found out that the Flickiebots were weak to seawater as they reverted to their flesh and blood forms when hit with it. While Tails and Rotor sprayed the robots, Sonic then tracked Robotnik to the Flicky Zone. There, Sonic engaged and trashed Robotnik's newest weapon, the Techno Bodyshell Battlesuit. Regardless, Robotnik managed to trap Sonic and locate the Chaos Emerald (on the forehead of a giant Flicky statue), but failed to realize the emerald was booby trapped. Removing the emerald caused the giant Flicky statue to come to life, and roar loudly enough to collapse the whole Zone. Sonic and Robotnik barely made it out of the Zone. Robotnik tried to keep his hand on the emerald, but a pink Flicky bit Robotnik's hand. By then, the Flicky robots had all been deroboticized, the roboticizer was destroyed, and all of the Flickies had apparently flown back into the Zone, except for one pink Flicky that watched Robotnik throw a temper tantrum for having no way off the island.

Aiding TailsEdit

When Tails absorbed an incalculable amount of magic energy from the Power Rings manufactured by Nate Morgan and transformed into Hyper Tails, a small group of Flickies materialized around him. These Flickies acted as familiars to Hyper Tails and at his command, swarmed over Ultra Naugus until he froze them in a magic supsension cube. Unlike the birds on Flicky Island, these Flickies all had yellow plumage.

Pursued by EggmanEdit

During the Chaos Crisis, a green Flicky was pursued by two of Dr. Eggman's E-100 Alpha robots and E-102 Gamma. The Flicky eventually followed Amy Rose around, who had come to the bird's aid when it was injured. Both Amy and the Flicky were brought on board the Egg Carrier as prisoners, but were subsequently let free by Gamma, who when observing the Flicky and Amy's willingness to help each other, decided to go against his programming. Later, Amy helped the Flicky reunite with its own kind, while the Flicky contained within Gamma was later released when he was destroyed by E-123 Omega.

GalleryEdit

ArtworkEdit

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Cameo appearancesEdit

• When Treasure released Gunstar Super Heroes on the Game Boy Advance in 2005, they paid tribute to Flicky in Pink's stage, where you run through a rotating jungle section rescuing little yellow chicks and guiding them to the exit door of the stage.
• The character also appears in the Dreamcast game Shenmue as a gashapon toy the character can collect.
• This character appears in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games in the background of most events.

Background informationEdit

• Flicky was one of few Sonic characters to actually predate Sonic himself, appearing in an 80's arcade game Flicky, in which a blue Flicky would rescue its children Chirps from Tiger cats and Iggy lizards. Flicky made numerous appearances in numerous later games. Flicky's original role in the Sonic franchise is as a small animal rescued from numerous robots in Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic Spinball among others. The Flickies in this article were more closely based on the Flickies from the Genesis and Sega Saturn game Sonic 3D Blast, and the Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure. Those Flickies are often following those who pass close by, like the Chirps did in the original Flicky game.
• The bird's name is usually spelled with a lowercase i, probably to avoid disastrous consequences if the uppercase L and I were mistaken for an uppercase U. Nonetheless, the proper spelling of the word conforms to standard rules of capitalization.