Big The Cat, The Bumblebee thing, hell, 90% of Sonic Characters fit this bill. How about the girl Sonic sucks face with in Sonic 06?
what?! i think its slippy, at least on the annoyence level. infact, Slippy is the friendly character killed most off on purpose in a videogame (gametrailers.com's words not mine)
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