From there, it only gets weirder – as Wade dons a Knuckles suit to belt out the tragic history of the rough-and-ready red echidna ... a nice box for us to figure out how to do something ...

So Knuckles decides to train Wade to become the next member of the Echidna warrior clan by taking ... we tried to focus on that, we tried to figure out, how do we create a story where you care ...

and Sonic the hedgehog (voiced by Ben Schwartz), Tails the fox (voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey), and Knuckles the echidna (voiced by Idris Elba) are called in to help. But even together ...