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Johnny Lightfoot
Not to be confused with the robot named Johnny.
| Johnny Lightfoot | |
|---|---|
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| First appearance | |
| Appears in (games) |
Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit) |
| Appears in (other media) |
Sonic the Hedgehog (promotional comic, |
| Also known as |
Pocky |
| Species |
Rabbit |
| Gender |
Male |
| Fur |
Grey/ Blue |
| Eyes |
Black |
| Attire |
Red jacket, white shirt, blue pants |
| Alignment |
Good |
Johnny Lightfoot was a rabbit, one of Sonic's Animal Friends, and also was one of the founding members of the Freedom Fighters. He showed Sonic how to outrun every creature in the forest.
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History
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Added by SonicUltimateFanJohnny became a founding member of the Freedom Fighters, and started to wear a red jacket, which served as his uniform while a member of the team. He also fought with a unique-looking staff-like weapon. He joined Sonic on yet another mission to the Special Zone, this time to rescue Amy Rose from the Egg Fortress, and later argued that Amy should join the Freedom Fighters as she was not safe back in the Emerald Hill Zone.
Unlike the other Freedom Fighters, Johnny never had much in the way of his solo adventures or major storylines. Once, while investigating reports of slave labour in the Cotton Factory Zone, he even expressed a desire to have his own solo adventure. Immedaitely after this comment, he was attacked by the badnik army of Commander Brutus. Johnny noticed that the badniks had exceedingly poor aim, and managed to trick them into destroying the local wool factory, freeing the sheep workers. However, he was captured when Brutus himself caught Johnny by surprise, and the Trooper used a mind scanner to absorb a copy of Johnny's brainwaves. Brutus learned all of Johnny's secrets (including the location of the Emerald Hill Folk in the Mushroom Hill Zone), but Johnny's personality soon began to take hold, turning Brutus good! Under the influence of Johnny's mind, Brutus destroyed all of his Trooper followers before managing to erase the copy of Johnny's brainwaves (along with all of Johnny's secrets). In the confusion, Johnny himself escaped unnoticed. He would later be briefly turned into a Badnik Johnny by Brutus, only to be saved by Shortfuse the Cybernik.
A storyline in later issues introduced a villain called Agent X, one of Robotnik's minions. After several appearances, Agent X sabotaged the Freedom Fighter's attack on Robotnik's old Flickies Island base and, after capturing them, revealed himself to be Johnny. It soon turned out that it was not the real Johnny at all, as due to a rip in time and space, he had been captured and replaced by shadow-like aliens. Sonic saved Johnny from the shadow's home dimension and Agent X was destroyed.
Johnny Lightfoot was later killed. Where he attempted to reconnect power to an object the characters needed to defeat the rampaging Chaos. As he reconnected the power, Chaos attacked him and killed him with a powerful blow.
Sonic was deeply affected by Johnny's death and left the Freedom Fighters for a time to cope. During this period, Sonic matured significantly and lost many of his old personality flaws. Upon his return, Sonic traveled back in time, hoping to destroy Chaos in the past so he couldn't kill Johnny in the present, only to end up nearly killed himself.
CharacteristicsEdit
Johnny resembled a grey rabbit with blue eyes. While a member of the Freedom Fighters he wore blue jeans, white shirt and a red jacket. He fought with a unique-looking staff-like weapon. He was one of the most loyal and reliable of the Freedom Fighters, often being a more sensible counterpoint to Sonic. He was said to have many relatives (as actual rabbits tend to have)
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TriviaEdit
- Nigel Kitching's tongue-in-cheek explanation in his original pitch for the Sonic Adventure adaptation for Johnny's death was "Johnny is dull, Johnny has always been dull and that is why Johnny must die". In Nigel Kitching's letter printed in STC #223 (originally planned for #200) he stated that "I had nothing against Johnny, you understand, I just wanted to do a story where one of the heroes doesn't make it".
- Kitching has also said that he once planned Johnny to be in a love triangle with Sonic and Amy Rose. Though the idea was hinted at in a few stories (such as Sonic the Comic #43's "Badniks Bridge"), this storyline was never developed within the comic. However, Johnny's crush on Amy was explicitly mentioned in his Fact File in the Sonic Holiday Special 1996.
- Lew Stringer originally planned for Agent X to actually be Johnny, but Nigel felt that Johnny was "too nice a guy" to do that; the original plan would also have involved Robotnik, but he was involved in the Drakon Empire plot at the time.
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