Cream the Rabbit
From Sonic Earth
Cream the Rabbit (クリーム・ザ・ラビット, Kurīmu za Rabitto?) is a fictional character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games. She was introduced in Sonic Advance 2 for the Game Boy Advance. The release date for this game was December 19.
Cream is a young, cream-colored, female, anthropomorphic, humanoid rabbit who can fly by flapping her ears. She is six years old, 70 cm (2' 3"), and weighs 12 kg (26.4 lbs). Cream is the daughter of Vanilla the Rabbit, and she is rarely seen without her lifelong companion, Cheese (チーズ, Chīzu?), whom she uses as a method of attack. Their names are an obvious reference to "cream cheese". She and Charmy Bee are the youngest characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, both being six years old. Cream's ears are often mistaken for being placed backwards. In truth, rabbits can swivel their ears about to a degree, and in certain depictions (such as when Cream is falling from a great height) are shown swiveled forwards when straightened.
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[edit] Personality
Cream is extremely polite, uses polite language (especially in Japanese versions), follows manners, and does what she is told. She is very friendly and tries to be close to everyone she meets. As well, she is usually not afraid to go out on an adventure. However, she is a bit naive, since she is still very young.
Cream enjoys spending most of her time outdoors. There, she likes to play with her friends, usually any activity they want, or collect flowers which she finds pretty and joyful. She loves adventures and exploring. Indoors, she enjoys watching TV. Her favorite food is ice cream.
She does not like any form of violence. However, she will fight to protect the people she cares about. Like most of the heroes in the Sonic series, she does not like Eggman, but as a custom she is still somewhat polite to the doctor.
[edit] Video game appearances
Cream was first seen in Sonic Mega Collection, where there is promotional artwork of Cream and Cheese saying that they would appear in Sonic Advance 2, which was yet to be released at the time.
Cream's canonical debut was in Sonic Advance 2, where she was the first unlockable playable character. Like Tails and Knuckles, she is kidnapped by Doctor Eggman and Sonic must rescue her before she can become playable. Just before the final level, Eggman kidnaps her mother, Vanilla, who is eventually rescued by Super Sonic after he destroys the final boss. Cream can use spin-attacks, order Cheese to destroy enemies, and can fly by flapping her ears (though she gets tired out after a short period of time, similar to Tails).
Cream is seen as a cameo in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut after finishing certain levels in different characters' Story Modes. She is flying through the sky of Station Square. She also appears on a billboard in some missions in Mission Mode.
In Sonic Heroes, Cream is part of Team Rose, the "Beginner" Team consisting of her, Amy Rose and Big the Cat, acting as their flight member. The trio are on a quest to find Cheese's sibling, Chocola, a brown Chao with a blue bow tie, as well as Big the Cat's friend Froggy, and Sonic. Sonic was seen in a newspaper photograph with Froggy and Chocola. In the game, she can only use Cheese as a means of self-defense when the other two team members are incapacitated or otherwise not present.
In Sonic Battle, Cream is a playable character and lives with Amy Rose in her apartment, where she helps Amy work out. She quickly befriends the game's main character Emerl, and teaches him about sadness after Emerl's violence makes Cream cry.
Much like in Sonic Advance 2, Cream is an unlockable character in its sequel, Sonic Advance 3. She is unlocked by clearing the Cyber Track Zone 6 with Sonic as the team leader. When Cream is teamed up with the player, Cheese can transform into the shape of the player character and be controlled by him or her. Cream plays much like in Sonic Advance 2, except for various team-up bonuses that can give her a parasol to float with, a device that lets her float on water, or a hammer similar to Amy's. After the final ending, Tails reprograms G-mel, thought to be an evil rebuilt Emerl, so that he turns good and befriends Cream and Vanilla.
Cream has a supporting role in Sonic Rush. She finds the new character Blaze the Cat hiding in some bushes, and takes her home for tea. Throughout the course of the game Cream cheers Blaze on during the battles and helps her to find Sonic. In Sonic Rush, Cream also displays an understanding of her friends and their habits and motives. Cream is held hostage by Eggman during the final boss of Blaze's game but is rescued by Blaze. She is sad to hear from Sonic that Blaze left at the end of the Extra story, but Sonic reassures her that she will see Blaze again.
In Shadow the Hedgehog, Cream and Cheese are trapped in the Cryptic Castle stage, where the player can choose to help Amy rescue them. Her voice can also be heard on several levels in Expert Mode, when she cheers for Shadow.
While having no role in the game's story, Cream makes an unlockable appearance in Sonic Riders as a playable racer, and her type is Flight, as equivalent to Tails'. In this game she, like Amy, wears a different outfit, and can be unlocked by beating Hero Story mode. She is a flight-type character, and her default board is named "Smile." Cream shows off her crying face at the opponent for her Level 1 attack and can use Cheese for her Level 2 and 3 attacks.
[edit] Abilities
Cream can achieve flight by flapping with her two rather large ears. Although she cannot fly as high or for as long as Tails can, she can fly faster, allowing her to cover a greater horizontal distance. Whilst able to mimic Sonic's basic spin-attack and spin dash, she largely attacks by having her Chao, Cheese, ram her adversaries.
[edit] Cheese
Cheese is a blue Chao, and the best friend of Cream the Rabbit. Cheese looks like a normal baby Chao, but it wears a red bow tie. A couple of times in Sonic X, the other characters referred to Cheese as "she," but in his game appearances, Cheese is identified as male. This is however a moot point, as Cheese is officially listed as "without gender". Cheese generally seems to talk by saying "Chao" and making baby-like noises like other Chao, but in Sonic Heroes, he also managed to speak other words such as "Chocola" and "Amy". He is a chao with individual characteristics that set him apart from other Chao, akin to Team Rocket's Meowth in the Pokemon anime.
Cheese's first appearance was in Sonic Advance 2 for the Game Boy Advance handheld console. In both this game and in Sonic Battle, Cheese is accompanied by Cream the Rabbit and is a method of attack: Cream points to an enemy, and Cheese charges forward and destroys or damages the enemy on contact.
Cheese makes another appearance in the game Sonic Heroes, in which Cheese follows Cream and helps her look for Cheese's sibling, Chocola. However, though Chocola is rescued before the events during the Metal Madness boss battle, the Chao does not appear. If Cream's teammates are incapacitated, Cream will be able to send Cheese to attack at the enemies.
Cheese also appears in Sonic Advance 3, and follows Cream around. In this game, though, Cheese has the unique ability to temporarily shape-shift into a Chao version of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, or Amy upon being teamed with them. Cheese then follows the command of whomever it turned into. Cheese also appears in Shadow the Hedgehog where it can be rescued along with Cream. Cheese can be used to attack other opponents in Sonic Riders.
Cheese also appears with Cream in the cartoon series Sonic X, although it is considerably larger than its video game self. Cheese generally stays at home and watches television with Cream, though it later helps her defeat Emerl. Cheese also can speak, but usually says its species name, "Chao."
Cheese also has a sibling named Chocola, who Cream and Cheese set out to save in Sonic Heroes. Chocola looks just like Cheese, but is brown instead of cyan, and wears a light blue bow tie.
[edit] Vanilla the Rabbit
Vanilla the Rabbit (ヴァニラ・ザ・ラビット, Vanira za Rabitto?) is a cream-colored, anthropomorphic rabbit, introduced along with Cream as her mother in Sonic Advance 2 (where she was originally unnamed). An eyecatcher card in from the Japanese version of the anime series Sonic X states that she is 130 cm (4 ft 3 in) tall, and keeps both her weight and age a secret. In Sonic Advance 2, Vanilla and Cream were kidnapped by Doctor Eggman and separated. Cream was rescued by Sonic the Hedgehog, and Cream then rescued Vanilla. She also takes in G-mel after the events of Sonic Advance 3, and makes a brief appearance in Sonic Rush.
In Sonic X, Vanilla was separated from her daughter when Cream was kidnapped by Doctor Eggman and sent to Earth via Chaos Control, and eventually Vanilla is sent there herself. Vanilla asks the Chaotix detective crew to help find Cream, and Vector the Crocodile and friends mistakenly come to believe that Cream was kidnapped by Sonic. While the Chaotix team investigates, Vanilla comes across Sonic, who then takes her to see Cream at the Thorndyke house. The staff at the mansion meets Vanilla for the first time, and Cream is overjoyed to see her mom. Cream stays with her mother throughout the new episodes, helping her with meals as she did with Ella and Amy at the mansion.
In the comic book based on the Sonic X anime, Vanilla voices concern for Cream's safety being around Sonic and company, given their frequent and harrowing adventures and wants Cream to come back with her where Vanilla can assure she will not get in harm's way. She tries to voice these concerns to Chris Thorndyke's mother, but she and many others are possessed by King Boom Boo's ghosts before she can fully convey these concerns. Cream's role in helping free her mother and the others convinces Vanilla that Cream can handle herself and is in safe company wih Sonic and the Thorndykes. She then understands that Cream will not be a little girl forever and accepts that Cream is starting to grow up.
As the parentage of the other main characters has never been touched upon/revealed, Cream is currently only one of two characters in the series who has a known parent that is active in their daily life, the other one being Tikal the Echidna. However, she is the third character to have known relatives, as Doctor Eggman has three - Professor Gerald, Maria, and Eggman Nega. Tikal had her father, Pachacamac (this does not include the Sonic comic continuity, in which virtually all of the major characters have known parents).
Originally, the character was only called Vanilla in the anime; she was unnamed in her video game appearances. However, Vanilla has since been canonically established by Sega on Sonic Channel in Cream's profile as being the character's name.
Since Sonic Heroes, Cream and Amy Rose are portrayed as best friends and they share a sister-like relationship, comparable to Sonic and Tails' brother-like friendship. This fact is strengthened by Sonic Advance 3, as when they are paired together, they are given the title Team Jubilee and serve as a counterpart to Sonic and Tails' Unbreakable Bond. The two also seem to be together almost completely throughout Sonic Battle, except when Emerl drags one of them away. Amy is also seen searching for Cream during one of the levels in Shadow the Hedgehog, which could suggest how much she cares for her. Also, in Sonic X, Cream and Amy share a similar relationship. Next to Cheese, Amy is Cream's best friend.
[edit] Voice actresses
- Video games, Sonic X - Sayaka Aoki (Japan)
- Sonic Heroes, Sonic Battle, Sonic Advance 3 - Sarah Wulfeck (US)
- Sonic X, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Rush, Sonic Riders, Sonic and the Secret Rings - Rebecca Honig (US)
[edit] Associated songs
- Sonic Heroes - "Follow Me" by Kay Hanley. Cream shares this theme song with Team Rose.
