Lightning Blaze

"What in the blazes?"

- Lightning Blaze on several occasions.

Lightning Blaze is a young Red Glider fox, the animal counterpart of Sammy and the younger brother of Lightning Dash. He serves as the main protagonist of the 2016 film Blazing Away. Blaze is a mischievous, restless and fun-loving fox who wanted to be wild rather than a house fox.

Lightning Blaze is voiced by Madeleine Peters. He is also the only animal counterpart to not have the same voice actor as his human counterpart (Sammy is voiced by Ty Simpkins).

Personality
Though most counterparts share almost exactly the same personality, Lightning Blaze is slightly more restless, curious, adventurous, fidgety and troublesome than Sammy. Blaze is more suited to a carefree and responsibility-free life, and he pursues his dream of being free by ultimately managing to run away from his family. Blaze immensely dislikes "house-rules" and bossy people, and prefers to have his own way.

Other than his desire for freedom Lightning Blaze is described as "good, decent, and kind" by Angel and has a willingness to help others. Blaze also has a slightly sly or cunning streak in him, put there by the animators to match the general stereotypical fox figure.

Physical appearance
Lightning Blaze is a young Red Glider fox with a red bushy tail with a white tip. He has somewhat thick eyebrows, big eyes with black pupils and short whiskers. His wings do not appear to be damaged in any form but he is apparently handicapped from flying.

Disability
Lightning Blaze is a disabled fox, and is unable to fly yet. Most Glider foxes start flying at around the age of a few months, Blaze is about a few years old. Blaze was once very self-conscious about his disability.

Doraemon (2015 series)
Lightning Blaze first appeared in the 2015 reboot of Doraemon with the introduction of the "animal counterpart" plot idea. He was an extremely young fox when he was first seen, and could hardly speak properly. It is unknown what happened to his parents, but it is hinted that they are possibly deceased.

Blaze's flying condition came into light after he was teased about it by a fellow classmate.

Blazing Away
Lightning Blaze make his most prominent appearance in the 2016 film Blazing Away where he serves as the main character. Sick and tired of "rules, rules and rules", Lightning Blaze runs away from his house in the film wanting a wild and free life, but not realizing how cruel the real world actually was.

Trivia

 * Lightning Blaze is the only animal counterpart to not have the same voice actor as his corresponding human.