Galaga Bee

The Galaga Bee^{[note 1]} is an enemy that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a mass-produced, bee-based Badnik model created by Dr. Eggman.

Appearance

Based on honey bees, the classic Galaga Bee has an almost spherical body with black and yellow thorax armor. It also has four thin legs, a pair of yellow wings, and an orange and black-striped rear. Additionally, the classic Galaga Bees wear orange and green pilot glasses and have antennae with thick ends.

The Galaga Bees from around the time of the Phantom Ruby incident and the Time Eater/Black Doom incident resembled their classic selves, but had more bee-like body proportions. While their thoraxes were yellow, their abdomens were orange and back with orange stingers. They also had rockets on both sides, smaller antennae, no legs, honeycomb hexagon wings, and different textures.

Game appearances

Sonic Lost World

The Galaga Bees made their first appearance in the Wii U version and PC version of Sonic Lost World. The player encounters the Galaga Bees in Desert Ruins Zone 2 and Sky Road Zone 1.

Inside the honeycomb tunnels of Desert Ruins Zone 2, swarms of Galaga Bees will pop out from holes in the walls and start flying forward in lines, looking out for the player. In Sky Road Zone 1, Galaga Bees fly in lines within tubular routes. Some of these swarms fly directly forward while others circle around the tubular routes.

in gameplay, the player can attack Galaga Bee swarms using a Focused Homing Attack. When doing so, Sonic charges forward and defeats these Badniks quickly one by one as he skips up their line while receiving an increasing amount of points for each Galaga Bee (in order: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 and 3200). In Sky Road Zone 1, the player has to use the Focused Homing Attack on Galaga Bee swarms in this manner to cross wide bottomless pits along the tubular routes.

Sonic Forces

In Sonic Forces, the Galaga Bees received a more modernized look and make an appearance in the Episode Shadow DLC, where they are encountered in Enemy Territory and Virtual Reality.

Like in Sonic Lost World, the Galaga Bees fly one after another in gameplay. When a player attacks them with the Homing Attack, Shadow will start destroying the whole group by Spin Attacking them one by one as he skips up their line. This way, the player can overcome long distances, reach shortcuts, and cross dangerous obstacles.

Shadow Generations

Galaga Bees reappear in Shadow Generations, where they are encountered in Sunset Heights Act 2 and act the same way as they did in Sonic Forces.

Powers and abilities

The Galaga Bees are capable of flying at very fast speeds.

In other media

Books and comics

IDW Publishing

In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing, several Galaga Bees and other Badniks helped defended the Egg Base Delta against Knuckles, Vector, Espio, and Charmy when they broke into the city and began attacking them (due to the heroes thinking that Dr. Eggman and his Badniks were the ones who stole their relic). However, once Dr. Eggman informs Knuckles and Team Chaotix that he had nothing to do with stealing their relic, the heroes would then stop attacking the Galaga Bees and other Badniks before proceeding to leave Egg Base Delta.^[1]

Trivia

• Like many of the new enemies that debuted in Sonic Lost World, the name of the Galaga Bees was not listed in any official sources. Instead, it is referred to in the game's source code.^{[note 1]}
• In Sonic Lost World, a Galaga Bee can be seen flying around the map icon for Desert Ruins Zone 2, making them the only Badnik in the game to have an appearance on the world map.
• Galaga Bee's name and behavior is a nod to the "Zako" enemy from the 1981 arcade shooter game, Galaga.
• Several unused models of the Galaga Bee in Sonic Lost World can be seen, including one with a shield and purple visor and one with a lance and red visor, named Galaga Beecor and Galaga Beegar, respectively. It is likely that there were initial plans for the Galaga Bee to have multiple variants before the idea was scrapped.

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Models

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