being cocky, overly talkative, competitive, and uncooperative. He was also shown to be sadistic and psychotic. His extreme arrogance was his most prominent trait, and he constantly bragged and claimed himself superior to Sonic. He even thought of himself as the "new" version of him, aiming to destroy and replace what he considered his inferior predecessor. While he quipped and taunted in a similar manner to Sonic, even borrowing specific lines of his, his taunts had a more sadistic edge to them