"He's BACKKKKKKKK!" - Agent Stone upon realizing Robotnik returned from the Mushroom Planet, Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Agent Stone is the secondary antagonist of Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog film series. He is the assistant and best friend of Dr. Ivo Robotnik. When Sonic the Hedgehog revealed himself on Earth, Agent Stone assisted Dr. Robotnik on his quest to capture the hedgehog. After Robotnik got banished from Earth, Stone began following Robotnik's manifesto in order to elevate himself above the common man using science, eventually becoming the owner of the Mean Bean Coffee Café in Green Hills.
After Robotnik returned to Earth with Knuckles the Echidna, Stone returned to work for him on his quest to find the Master Emerald and be recognized throughout the galaxy. After Robotnik got the Master Emerald, he and Agent Stone used the Giant Eggman Robot to attack Green Hills until Sonic defeated them, though Agent Stone managed to survive their defeat and elude capture by G.U.N.
Concept and creation[]
In early drafts for the Sonic the Hedgehog film, Stone had less overall involvement in the movie. However, Jim Carrey wanted someone to talk to in certain Robotnik-only scenes, and as such, would suggest adding Stone into several of them, which writers Josh Miller and Patrick Casey accepted.
Appearance[]
Stone is an average-sized human with short-cut black hair, brown eyes, light brown skin, and a thin black beard. For attire, he is usually seen wearing a black jacket, black shirt, a black tie, black pants, and black shoes.
While working at the Mean Bean, he wears the standard uniform: a white long-sleeved dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, a black necktie, black pants, black dress shoes (though this seems to be optional, as Brayden is seen wearing sneakers), a black wristwatch and a black apron that features a rectangular gold nametag on the left side.
Following Dr. Ivo Robotnik's defeat and the toppling of the Giant Eggman Robot, Stone gained a prominent jagged scar on the right side of his face, near his eye.
Personality and traits[]
Agent Stone is a very calm and level-headed man, which contrasts greatly with his eccentric boss. He is likewise very formal and notably professional in behavior and speech. He is also a quite polite and advocate person, often showing admiration and giving praise to those that amaze him. Stone has also proven himself to be extraordinarily tolerant, namely by enduring Dr. Robotnik's physical and emotional abuse and verbal berating of him without showing any more than a rare and quiet exasperated sigh. He is also very obedient, always carrying out the orders of Robotnik no matter how he has been treated.
Despite his largely neutral demeanor, Stone is very much an ambitious and amoral man, much like Robotnik himself. Noted to be practically a genius in comparison to the rest of the human race that Robotnik frowns down upon, Stone shares much of Robotnik's worldview and thus sees everyone, except for Robotnik, as basic beings that he does not seek relationships with, and works towards building himself into an instrument of pure science while giving himself no time to please the prattle of the masses. Stone also looks down on those he sees as unintelligent, such as insulting Knuckles behind his back due to his lack of understanding of Earth's customs. However, Stone can also be friendly and polite to his allies, as shown when he offered Knuckles a handshake and welcomed him to his team when Robotnik told Agent Stone he was their new ally. With Robotnik's tools and philosophy, Stone has as well proven himself highly intelligent, manipulative, careful, and patient, namely by steadily and subtly advancing himself into control of a small establishment within a week using underhanded and immoral methods. He is also quite vindictive, although not open about it, and plots revenge against anyone who he deems to have wronged him, whom he will taunt with calm superiority as a display of his intellectual power once he has defeated them. To him, all the relationships he makes, save solely for Robotnik, are only an alliance intended to bring him benefits.
During the talk with Tails, Stone was curious how the fox was feeling by being Sonic's "assistant", to his surprise, he was surprised to hear the word "best friend", meaning that Stone understands that he's just a servant for Robotnik, nothing much more. Later, in the Crab, Stone was further disappointed by seeing both Ivo and Gerald having fun in VR world as friends or even family.
Relationships[]
Friends/allies[]
- Brayden
- Team Robotnik
- Badniks
- Crabmeat
- Dr. Ivo Robotnik (boss and best friend)
- Badniks
Neutral[]
- Jason
- Lindsey
- Major Bennington
- Shadow the Hedgehog
- Tina
- Team Sonic (situational allies)
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Miles "Tails" Prower
- Sonic the Hedgehog
Enemies[]
- Professor Gerald Robotnik †
- George
- Green Hills Sheriff's Department
- Tom Wachowski
- Wade Whipple
- Guardian Units of Nations
- Commander Walters †
- G.U.N. Mean Bean Agent
- Karen
- Maddie Wachowski
- Roadhouse Thug