History Awesome / SonicTheHedgehog

* The FinishingMove at the end of the final boss of SonicColors. UNLIMITED COLOR! LAZER! DRILL! SPIKES! ROCKET! CUBE! HOVER! FRENZY! FINAL COLOR BLASTER! Topped off with some [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCWFJC3-kQ Crowning Music Of Awesome]]. Also the fact that [[spoiler: Eggman is the final boss for the first time in Sonic's 3D career]].

* Act 2 of the Marble Garden Zone in ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'' has Eggman destroying the stage itself around Sonic, dooming him to certain death. Tails, however, swoops in to carry his idol and chase Eggman down for a battle in the skies. Tails has very little stamina in the air in normal gameplay, and less so while carrying Sonic, but he hangs on through the whole boss fight and even manages to catch Sonic if he ever should fall, and then for good measure keeps going long enough for the sun to set in the background...and lands in the ScrappyLevel. Maybe that cancels out the awesome?
** This Troper feels that the preceding area is much worse than Carnival Night (really, once you figure out the whole deal with the barrels it's not bad at all). And he also considers this a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, as Tails really cements his status as a worthy sidekick and friend to Sonic.

--> Eggman: Heh, because ''you just told me'', Fox-boy.

* Amy of all people gets one in the 2006 game during one of her MamaBear moments. She jumps in Silver's way ready to kick his ass. She gives him a DeathGlare that makes him back off. Think about this. A normal girl (BadAssNormal at best) driving off a powerful psyker with but a mere scary "I'm gonna kill you" look.

** Speaking of Tails in ''Sonic Adventure,'' who can forget him [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PoULSnH_UnI psyching himself up to fight Eggman alone]]...then doing it, saving Station Square all by himself? This seems to be the rare piece of CharacterDevelopment in the franchise to stick, too, as he does so a couple of times in the next game as well.

* In Sonic CD, after the game, Sonic escapes an exploding planet (to be fair, it really ins't that big), rescuing Amy and stopping Robotnik/Eggman's plans for controlling time. Right after it's over, Sonic spots Robotnik fleeing in his hovercraft, so he grabs a rock, goes into a spin dash, and throws the rock right at him. A few seconds later, the hovercraft (which has already flown into the horizon) ''explodes'', and it's all over... Damn!

** And let's not forget the intro movie, either. The look that's usually on Shadow's face, wasn't first used in the games by the black blur. It's on Sonic's face in this clip as he glares at the atrocity of the enslaved planet(CMOA for Eggman there, too. Chaining down and covering the surface of in metal a PLANET). Oh, and the Little Planet didn't explode. The metal base Eggman was building over it did, though. The Little Planet comes and goes.

* The very end of ''Sonic Heroes'', [[spoiler:when fighting Metal Sonic transformed. After playing through a game where the majority of enemies are pathetically cutesy, the pre-final-boss cutscene is of Metal Sonic dismantling a ginormous ship to transform into a beast of a robot, and all in a dark, seizure-inducing way, too! And that's just the cutscene: as he fully transforms, you have to fight him using Super Team Sonic, where his main attacks are firing giant lazers at you, launching 50-or-so bigger-than-you rockets at you, and throwing a large ''air ship'' at you too]].

* Thinking about it, Sonic had ALOT of crap! But yet, SEGA still makes Sonic games while [[JerkAss neglecting their other characters they made.]] DANG!

->Sonic: I told you! I don't mind playing the bad guy.
* It really frames Sonic's personality correctly. In that it doesn't matter who is wrong or who is right. He's fighting for what he believes in. The view of the world be damned.
** LOL, that may be why his theme song is called "It Doesn't Matter".

* This Troper felt that Shadow's CMOA was when finish the pure good or pure bad ending, he stands over a battered Sonic and proclaims himself to be the best. {{Baddass}}!

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdrLC3nqhw This cutscene from Sonic Adventure 2]] It gives perfectly displays the character relationship between Sonic and Shadow and sets a mood that if Shadow isn't stopped here Eggman will take over the world (Well when played from the Hero's side anyways...) The music just makes it all the more epic.

* How about when you fight Knuckles at Hidden Palace Zone? I mean sure the boss fight is really easy and nothing special but what makes it so awesome is that you finally get to have your revenge on Knuckles for every last cheap shot, trick, and trap that he's been pulling on you since your first encounter with him at the beginning of the game.

* The FinishingMove at the end of the final boss of SonicColors. UNLIMITED COLOR! LAZER! DRILL! SPIKES! ROCKET! CUBE! HOVER! FRENZY! FINAL COLOR BLASTER! Topped off with some [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCWFJC3-kQ Crowning Music Of Awesome]]. Also the fact that [[spoiler: Eggman is the final boss for the first time in Sonic's 3D career]]
* Looking through this page and seeing so many examples that say, "Say what you want about that game, but..." this just occurred to me- Even if Sonic has hit some low points in his series, he's still been with us for almost 20 years. Somehow he and other characters in the series have endeared themselves to the general public and kept going after all this time. He has been a character that has appeared a wanderer and goof-off but will still work as hard as he can to reach his goals (mostly saving the world), often with the help of some pretty cool friends, and great music in the background. So maybe some of the games aren't that great, but seeing any moments listed here (or ones that haven't been listed yet) will always make that kid in us happy to see a hero just one more time. May I just say that nostalgia is awesome as well?

** Really, the fact that Eggman '''''destroyed the entire goddamn level just to kill Sonic''''' is, in itself, a CMOA for Eggman.

* The FinishingMove at the end of the final boss of SonicColors. UNLIMITED COLOR! LAZER! DRILL! SPIKES! ROCKET! CUBE! HOVER! FRENZY! Topped off with some [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCWFJC3-kQ Crowning Music Of Awesome]]. Also the fact that [[spoiler: Eggman is the final boss for the first time in Sonic's 3D career]]

* The FinishingMove at the end of the final boss of SonicColors. UNLIMITED COLOR! LAZER! DRILL! SPIKES! ROCKET! CUBE! HOVER! FRENZY!

* The [[FinishingMove]] at the end of the final boss of [[SonicColors]]. UNLIMITED COLOR! LAZER! DRILL! SPIKES! ROCKET! CUBE! HOVER! FRENZY!

* This guest just thought that the final battle in Knuckles' story in '' [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'' at Sky Sanctuary deserves some kind of mention I mean for both Knuckles and Mecha Sonic, first off Mecha Sonic uses the Master Emerald to go Super which I think is the only but most certainly the first time a Sonic robot has gone Super and he just looks sweet and moves quick and is just an awesome final boss to fight, and Knuckles for taking him out and surviving the collapsing Sky Sanctuary and well is hard to describe how awesome Knuckles' final boss in that game is so I'll show you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsfS1pp4MKE here]]

* This guest just thought that the final battle in Knuckles' story in '' [[SonicTheHedgehog 3 and Knuckles]]'' at Sky Sanctuary deserves some kind of mention I mean for both Knuckles and Mecha Sonic, first off Mecha Sonic uses the Master Emerald to go Super which I think is the only but most certainly the first time a Sonic robot has gone Super and he just looks sweet and moves quick and is just an awesome final boss to fight, and Knuckles for taking him out and surviving the collapsing Sky Sanctuary and well is hard to describe how awesome Knuckles' final boss in that game is so I'll show you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsfS1pp4MKE here]]

* ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'' has Eggman destroying the stage itself around Sonic, dooming him to certain death. Tails, however, swoops in to carry his idol and chase Eggman down for a battle in the skies. Tails has very little stamina in the air in normal gameplay, and less so while carrying Sonic, but he hangs on through the whole boss fight and even manages to catch Sonic if he ever should fall, and then for good measure keeps going long enough for the sun to set in the background...and lands in the ScrappyLevel. Maybe that cancels out the awesome?

* Sonic, in the ending of ''Sonic Battle''. Yes, it was [[TearJerker very sad]]. It also involves beating the hell out of a robotic PhysicalGod who currently has all the Chaos Emeralds -- ''with his bare hands and no Emerald assistance whatsoever''. It also involves [[spoiler: no fatal seconds wasted on [[{{Ptitleb2n8x0k6}} looking for Emerl in there somewhere]]. He [[ShootTheDog Shoots the Dog]] as soon as he realizes he has to. He doesn't even {{Wangst}} about it, before or after (ManlyTears are 100% in play though).]] We all knew Sonic was [[MadeOfIron made of all kinds of iron]], but...''damn''.