Shovel Knight

Shovel Knight is the main and titular character of Shovel Knight game.

Usually clad in light blue armor, he is a chivalrous knight trying to stop the Enchantress from taking over the Valley and find his beloved Shield Knight, lost to the Tower of Fate.

Appearance
Shovel Knight wears the Stalwart Plate, a blue piece of armor with shoulder pads, a plate, and a horned helmet. He has a round body and is usually short (depending how he is depicted in art or in game). Hence the name he uses a special type of shovel, the Shovel Blade.

Personality
Always honest and helpful, Shovel Knight aids people he meets along his journey, such as the Bard and the Deposed King of Pridemoor Keep. He constantly dreams of Shield Knight, fighting away imaginary enemies while attempting to catch her.

He solves many physically and mentally challenging puzzles throughout the lairs of The Order of No Quarter, proving his great intelligence and strength. Shovel Knight is a shining example of the Code of Shovelry: Slash Mercilessly and Dig Tirelessly!

Abilities
Shovel Knight's main form of attack is his trusty Shovel Blade and although out of commission for quite a while, he still retains great skill with it. Just by swinging his Shovel Blade he performs a Dig Slash, which can be used to inflict damage, uncover treasure, break blocks, open chests, find secret rooms, and reflect projectiles. He can also point it towards the ground and plunge while midair to bounce on obstacles and enemies, damaging his adversaries from an advantaged position. This technique is called the Shovel Drop and it can be easily be interrupted just with a swing of the shovel while plunging.

Shovel Knight can use various Relics, if he has enough gold to buy them from Chester in the first place, by depeleting some of his own limited Magic Capacity.

Shovel Knight either doesn't need to breathe or can hold his breath for an absurdly long time, demonstrated primarily in the Iron Whale level. This could, however, simply be a throwback to retro characters who often didn't have to breathe when in water.

Trivia

 * When fought as a boss in the Explodatorium, Shovel Knight will have access to the War Horn, which he shouldn't have been able to obtain yet.
 * In the Battle Royale in Plague of Shadows, he will always be the last Knight to battle.
 * Shovel Knight also appeared in an episode of the ScrewAttack webseries DEATH BATTLE!, where he lost to Ducktales 's Scrooge McDuck.
 * Shovel Knight's blue hue may be a reference to the NES' color palette. The NES' colors had more variations of blue than anything else. This is the reason a lot of NES characters are blue (i.e. Mega Man).
 * Ironically, Shovel Knight is never seen in Specter of Torment. This may be because it is a prequel, when Shield Knight was lost to the Tower of Fate, and Shovel Knight was still in solitude.
 * However, there is a slight nod to him when a Wizzem in the Tower of Fate says "Even the most  or  knights could never stand a chance!" and stalwart is highlighted in Shovel Knight's blue, and legendary in Shield Knight's red.
 * Shovel Knight's code, Shovelry, is a play on words on Chivalry, which is an informal, varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220, never decided on or summarized in a single document, associated with the medieval institution of knighthood; knights' and gentlewomen's behaviors were governed by chivalrous social codes.