Thunderhawk

Thunderhawk is a member of the Brotherhood of Guardians and one of the few surviving members. While not known for any particular outstanding achievements as a Guardian, Thunderhawk has been a vital part of the Brotherhood team, assisting in dealing with the Overlanders and the issue of Alicia Acorn. Recently, Thunderhawk was tossed into the Zone of Silence by Dr. Finitevus along with the few surviving members of the Brotherhood.

Guardian
During the Great War, Queen Alicia was sent to Angel Island in order to avoid getting caught up in the conflict. However, a group of Overlander attack ships shot down her ship. When the Overlanders went to inspect the crash site, Thunderhawk quickly warned Sabre and Sojourner of their presence. Sabre proceeded to lie to the Overlanders, claiming everyone died in the crash. After they left, Thunderhawk and the others brought Queen Alicia back to Haven and put her in cryo-sleep in order to prevent her death from the injuries she sustained in the crash. Additionally, the three Guardians brought back Elias Acorn, who was only a baby at the time, and raised him. (KtE: #21)

When the Brotherhood began keeping eyes on their global interests, Thunderhawk was responsible for watching over the continent of Downunda. Following Sonic the Hedgehog's discovery of Crocbot's remains and the latter's schemes of using the Platypus' against the Downunda Freedom Fighters, Thunderhawk was responsible for the cleanup efforts and ensuring life returned to normal. While discussing what happened with the rest of the Brotherhood, Thunderhawk stated Sonic was "nothing but trouble" and left him a "lot of cleaning up to do". (KtE: #16)

When the defences of Haven were sabotaged by Moritori Rex, who had long been disguised as the Guardian Tobor, Thunderhawk was one of the Brotherhood members captured by the Dark Legion. However, the Legion's plan failed and the Brotherhood members got free. (KtE: #23, #24)

During the Legion's next campaign, Thunderhawk and the rest of the Brotherhood was accompanied by Mathias, where they rallied together and attacked the Dark Legion base at the Grand Conservatory. However, they were soon transported mid battle to a pocket zone when the Dark Legion fired the Quantum Beam at Angel Island via their Battle Cruiser. The Brotherhood was returned to Mobius Prime later by Chaos Knuckles. (StH: #107, SSS: #14)

After the Xorda's attack on Mobius and Sonic the Hedgehog's supposed death, Angel Island came under heavy siege by the forces of Dr. Eggman and his new allies, the Dingoes under the leadership of Kage Von Stryker. The Brotherhood, including Thunderhawk, spent as long as they could holding off Eggman's forces while the Master Emerald was relocated to prevent it from being captured. The Brotherhood was believed to have died during this battle, but in reality the mad scientist Dr. Finitevus had simply captured the battle-weakened Guardians. (StH: #139)

Captive
Having been badly weakened from their battle with Eggman's forces, Dr. Finitevus had no problems holding them captive. From there, Finitevus performed numerous studies on each member of the Brotherhood in order to understand their relationship with Chaos energies. Once he felt he learned all he could, Finitevus dumped the Brotherhood and Moritori Rex into the Twilight Zone, leaving them for death. (StH: #183)

Personality
Thunderhawk is often in agreement with his son Sojourner. When the Brotherhood was discussing the turmoil Mobius was left in following the death of Dr. Ivo Robotnik, Thunderhawk agreed with his son in that it was much more difficult to manage the numerous small problems all over Mobius than strictly dealing with just Robotnik or the Dark Legion. When the issue of Knuckles getting together with Julie-Su, a Dark Legionnaire, came up, Thunderhawk stated he thought the relationship would be "interesting". (KtE: #16, #27)

Continuity Errors
Back in the letters page of Knuckles the Echidna #21 a fan asks a question about listing Knuckles' relatives in order up to Hawking. It states: "The father of Knuckles is Locke. Locke's father is Sabre. Sabre's father is Athair. Followed by Athair is his mother Janelle-Li, the first and only female guardian, and daughter of Thunderhawk. Thunderhawk's father was Sojourner, who was child of Spectre. Tobor the father of Spectre, and the son of Hawking."

It even goes as far as the official story in Knuckles the Echidna #29 when Spectre gives a roll call introduction to Princess Sally stating that his son is Sojourner and Thunderhawk is his grandson. It wasn't until the Sonic Data Banks that this was changed around to Sojourner being the son of Thunderhawk. As to reasons why this change was made nobody is quite sure. All that is known of this situation was that it was handled under poor editing. Hardcore fans got upset with this, but many have adapted to the changes.