*Trip the Sungazer is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. She is an anthropomorphic sungazer that inhabits the Northstar Islands. She was once hired by Dr. Eggman and Fang the Hunter to guide them through the archipelago's areas before defecting from them and joining Sonic and his friends. Being descended from a group of protectors, she is the current guardian of the Black Onyx, located in the Northstar Islands.

Trip is an orange-scaled anthropomorphic sungazer with black eyes and peach skin covering her muzzle and arms. She has two eyelashes on each side of her eyes, a small brown-pointed horn on her muzzle, three yellow spikes across her brown scales area, which rounds from her forehead above to her "hair" back, and a brown and orange zigzag-striped tail. She also has two ear-like bumps on both sides of her head.

For attire, she wears a brown and yellow zigzag-layered dress-like sleeveless shirt with a gold patch on the chest, white gloves with gold cuffs that possess two studs, black tights, and orange shoes with gold toes that possess two studs and brown cuffs and heel-squared regions.

As for Trip's armor, it consists of blocky bronze pieces attached to her cuffs, a bronze bucket-like helmet with black circular eye lenses that has gold frames, a darker row of three gold spikes on its front and studs, a bulky bronze armor with studs on the waist front covering her torso, and brown shoes with circular bronze pieces attached to her cuffs and blocky bronze soles with studs on the toes.

While Trip initially seems rather sinister in appearance with her armor, she is quickly shown to be very non-threatening, worrisome, and clumsy, as well as being the most under-credited of the trio, with all the credit going either to Fang or Eggman even in her few moments of success under their lead.

In truth, Trip is a docile and empathetic sungazer girl, that gets easily shy by the simple gaze of anyone to her face if not using her characteristic helmet, and has a sensible side, bursting into tears when in desperation and also being innocently friendly to anyone who approaches her without malice.

Though she sides with the heroes in the end and gets braver, Trip is still very shy, still putting her helmet on in fear when noticing strangers and generally leaving her helmet on most of the time, only taking it off when she's either around her friends or when she goes off to stop wrongdoers on her own.

In the IDW comics, Trip's personality is fleshed out further, as she is shown to be cheerful, whimsical, and energetic when around familiar faces. She is also shown to feel bad and belittle herself for failing to do her job as a guardian. It is shown that Trip dislikes wearing her armor, as she does not like how heavy and clunky it is, and only wears it because it is ceremonial to do so. While her age is not confirmed, the IDW comics reveal that she is younger than Knuckles and is often referred to as a kid, likewise acting child-like in her actions.*