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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Maledict is far more powerful than any of his subordinates. Justified considering he's literally both {{Satan}} and a PhysicalGod. Also, Astorath is much stronger than his Nephilim brethren.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Maledict is far more powerful than any of his subordinates, as he's both {{Satan}} and a PhysicalGod.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: * Lampshaded and PlayedForLaughs when Eric the Hedgehog shows up out of nowhere and Chris asks who he is.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: * Lampshaded and PlayedForLaughs when Eric the Hedgehog shows up out of nowhere and Chris asks who he is.
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* {{Manchild}}: Beelzebub is an immature drug-fueled hedonist that would easily be the poster for a man child if he wasn't also incredibly [[AnythingThatMoves dangerous]].
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* {{Manchild}}: Beelzebub is an immature drug-fueled hedonist that would easily be the poster for a man child if he wasn't also incredibly [[AnythingThatMoves dangerous]].dangerous.
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* BlackComedy: This fanfic is dripping with dark comedy, as the extreme DarkerAndEdgier nature of the setting is combined with the typical cheesy humor of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise. And the rewrite goes all out. The background materials have so much scathing satire that [[NarmCharm they become more funny than scary]].
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* BlackComedy: This fanfic is dripping with dark comedy, as the extreme DarkerAndEdgier nature of the setting is combined with the typical cheesy humor of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise. And the rewrite goes all out. The background materials have so much scathing satire that [[NarmCharm they become more funny than scary]].
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** Even with the darkness, it's also still LighterAndSofter compared to some of its [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei primary]] [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 influences]].
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** Even with the darkness, it's also still LighterAndSofter compared to some of its [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei primary]] [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 influences]].
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* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Sonic, Shadow, and Eric]] are failed "clones" of Maledict himself, which he made to create an "Ultimate Weapon". Because of this, all three of them can use the Chaos Emeralds (and Rings) to power themselves up. He thought they were failures and disposed of them many decades before the story. None of the [[spoiler: hedgehogs]] are happy with this truth, even though Maledict admits he treated them wrongly and is [[SoProudOfYou glad they grew up into fine hedgehogs]].
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The ''Galaxy Crusher'' is a Demon superweapon the size of a ''red giant'' that's capable of erasing an entire ''galaxy'' (and the ones around it) with a single shot. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the sheer collateral damage it causes, mind-boggling logistic requirements, and the threat of it being hijacked]] led Maledict to deactivate it after it was only used once.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The ''Galaxy Crusher'' is a Demon superweapon the size of a ''red giant'' that's capable of erasing an entire ''galaxy'' (and the ones around it) with a single shot. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the sheer collateral damage it causes, mind-boggling logistic requirements, and the threat of it being hijacked]] hijacked led Maledict to deactivate it after it was only used once.
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* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
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* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] Knights from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
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* UnwillingRoboticization: The story extensively deconstructs this trope to its [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul utterly]] [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[BodyHorror extremes]]. [[spoiler:''Especially'' with Tsali - this trope was inflicted to him by the Seedrians, caused him to go [[DespairEventHorizon nearly insane from pain and despair]], and led to him [[KillEmAll committing genocide]] on Cosmo's entire race in revenge before starting the Metarex War and destroying most of the galaxy]].
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* UnwillingRoboticization: The story extensively deconstructs this trope to its [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul utterly]] [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[BodyHorror extremes]]. [[spoiler:''Especially'' with Tsali - this trope was inflicted to him by the Seedrians, caused him to go [[DespairEventHorizon nearly insane from pain and despair]], and led to him [[KillEmAll committing genocide]] genocide on Cosmo's entire race in revenge before starting the Metarex War and destroying most of the galaxy]].
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* WholePlotReference: The discontinued prequel, ''Fall of the Seedrians'', is basically a retelling of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' with the Seedrians as the Colonials and Tsali/the Tsali Endoskeletons as the Cylons. [[spoiler: The [[KillEmAll only difference]] [[TheBadGuyWins is that]] [[DownerEnding it ends much, much worse]].]]
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* WholePlotReference: The discontinued prequel, ''Fall of the Seedrians'', is basically a retelling of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' with the Seedrians as the Colonials and Tsali/the Tsali Endoskeletons as the Cylons. [[spoiler: The [[KillEmAll only difference]] difference [[TheBadGuyWins is that]] [[DownerEnding it ends much, much worse]].]]
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: This story pretty much runs entirely on this. On one side you have a slave-holding, repressive, reactionary [[TheEmpire empire]] run by TheLegionsOfHell -- that [[BreadAndCircuses nonetheless does many]] [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure good things for its people]]. On the other side are the Angels, who are TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized ''at best''. And GodAndSatanAreBothJerks, "Satan" being a [[ManipulativeBastard scheming]] [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]], and "God" being a [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] AxCrazy sociopath. And then there's the malevolent EldritchAbomination, the genocidal two-tailed android fox (and his legion of cannibalistic android clones), omnicidal AbusivePrecursors, the Metarex, and of course [[MadScientist Dr. Eggman]] just to make things even more shitty. Even several of the lighter characters are quite grey--Eric and his friends eventually resort to piracy in order to replenish their supplies. Several of the saner Angel leaders aren't clean either; Jesus holds some [[UnfortunateImplications very]]...[[DeliberateValuesDissonance questionable]] views on homosexuals, though he's depicted more sympathetically than his fellow Angels.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: This story pretty much runs entirely on this. On one side you have a slave-holding, repressive, reactionary [[TheEmpire empire]] run by TheLegionsOfHell -- that [[BreadAndCircuses nonetheless does many]] [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure good things for its people]]. On the other side are the Angels, who are TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized ''at best''. And GodAndSatanAreBothJerks, "Satan" being a [[ManipulativeBastard scheming]] [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]], and "God" being a [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] AxCrazy sociopath. And then there's the malevolent EldritchAbomination, the genocidal two-tailed android fox (and his legion of cannibalistic android clones), omnicidal AbusivePrecursors, the Metarex, and of course [[MadScientist Dr. Eggman]] just to make things even more shitty. Even several of the lighter characters are quite grey--Eric and his friends eventually resort to piracy in order to replenish their supplies. Several of the saner Angel leaders aren't clean either; Jesus holds some [[UnfortunateImplications very]]...very...[[DeliberateValuesDissonance questionable]] views on homosexuals, though he's depicted more sympathetically than his fellow Angels.
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** The ''entire Angel Federation'' is a ''truly enormous'' TakeThat to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Especially the Emirate of Mecca, which is basically a damning insult against Muslim theocracies in general and Islam itself as a whole. It's such a huge TakeThat, in fact, that it sometimes [[UnfortunateImplications crosses into borderline racism]] - the Jews and Muslims are depicted as groups of FuturePrimitive brown-skinned HumanAliens who prefer fighting each other all the time over petty tribal squabbles, for example. All three countries represent the author's beefs with their religions, even though the recent rewrite balanced their depiction by [[BlackAndGrayMorality making them the gray to the Demons' black]].
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** The ''entire Angel Federation'' is a ''truly enormous'' TakeThat to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Especially the Emirate of Mecca, which is basically a damning insult against Muslim theocracies in general and Islam itself as a whole. It's such a huge TakeThat, in fact, that it sometimes [[UnfortunateImplications crosses into borderline racism]] racism - the Jews and Muslims are depicted as groups of FuturePrimitive brown-skinned HumanAliens who prefer fighting each other all the time over petty tribal squabbles, for example. All three countries represent the author's beefs with their religions, even though the recent rewrite balanced their depiction by [[BlackAndGrayMorality making them the gray to the Demons' black]].
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* TrollFic: Believe it or not, This fanfic is this to a degree. WordOfGod confirms that most of the content revolving around the Angel Federation -- especially its ''[[StrawCharacter extremely]]'' [[UnfortunateImplications demeaning]] depiction of Islam - was created [[{{Troll}} specifically to piss off Muslim and Christian readers]].
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* TrollFic: Believe it or not, This fanfic is this to a degree. WordOfGod confirms that most of the content revolving around the Angel Federation -- especially its ''[[StrawCharacter extremely]]'' [[UnfortunateImplications StrawCharacter extremely demeaning]] depiction of Islam - was created [[{{Troll}} specifically to piss off Muslim and Christian readers]].
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Maledict - and considering he's the biblical Satan, it's very understandable. Not only is he behind various events in the Sonic series [[spoiler: such as the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure release of Chaos]], the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 creation of Shadow]], the Black Arms invasion, and the Metarex War]], he's also been involved in actual human history numerous times. The supplemental materials reveal that he established the Roman Empire as a Demon proxy state and manipulated the world into fighting the World Wars.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: This story could probably be called ''Belief Makes You Stupid: The Fanfic'' with its {{Anvilicious}} skewering of religious faith. Although, since AllMythsAreTrue and [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks are out to get you]] in [[CrapsackWorld the story's universe]], this may actually be a prudent suggestion.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: This story could probably be called ''Belief Makes You Stupid: The Fanfic'' with its {{Anvilicious}} skewering of religious faith. Although, since AllMythsAreTrue and [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks are out to get you]] in [[CrapsackWorld the story's universe]], this may actually be a prudent suggestion.
* BigBadEnsemble: Tsali, Maledict, and [[spoiler:Dark Tails]]. Jesus and Allysion could also possibly be counted.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several times throughout the series.
** Venus the Seedrian fends off Dark Tails and rescues Tails and Cosmo in Episode 62.
** Eggman distracts Beelzebub in Episode 67, allowing the heroes to escape with Cosmo and Chris in tow.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several times throughout the series.
** Venus the Seedrian fends off Dark Tails and rescues Tails and Cosmo in Episode 62.
** Eggman distracts Beelzebub in Episode 67, allowing the heroes to escape with Cosmo and Chris in tow.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Maledict - and considering he's the biblical Satan, it's very understandable. Not only is he behind various events in the Sonic series [[spoiler: such as the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure release of Chaos]], the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 creation of Shadow]], the Black Arms invasion, and the Metarex War]], he's also been involved in actual human history numerous times. The supplemental materials reveal that he established the Roman Empire as a Demon proxy state and manipulated the world into fighting the World Wars.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: This story could probably be called ''Belief Makes You Stupid: The Fanfic'' with its {{Anvilicious}} skewering of religious faith. Although, since AllMythsAreTrue and [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks are out to get you]] in [[CrapsackWorld the story's universe]], this may actually be a prudent suggestion.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tails]] is dead, but [[spoiler:Dark Tails]] is defeated and the universe is saved. [[TheStinger And then]] [[spoiler:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Forerunners return]]]].
** An alternate ending changes it a bit where [[spoiler: Tails survives, the Metarex War ends, and the Forerunners invasion is diverted, but Dark Tails is still alive.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Tsali, Maledict, and [[spoiler:Dark Tails]]. Jesus and Allysion could also possibly be counted.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several times throughout the series.
** Venus the Seedrian fends off Dark Tails and rescues Tails and Cosmo in Episode 62.
** Eggman distracts Beelzebub in Episode 67, allowing the heroes to escape with Cosmo and Chris in tow.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: This story could probably be called ''Belief Makes You Stupid: The Fanfic'' with its {{Anvilicious}} skewering of religious faith. Although, since AllMythsAreTrue and [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks are out to get you]] in [[CrapsackWorld the story's universe]], this may actually be a prudent suggestion.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tails]] is dead, but [[spoiler:Dark Tails]] is defeated and the universe is saved. [[TheStinger And then]] [[spoiler:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Forerunners return]]]].
** An alternate ending changes it a bit where [[spoiler: Tails survives, the Metarex War ends, and the Forerunners invasion is diverted, but Dark Tails is still alive.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Tsali, Maledict, and [[spoiler:Dark Tails]]. Jesus and Allysion could also possibly be counted.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several times throughout the series.
** Venus the Seedrian fends off Dark Tails and rescues Tails and Cosmo in Episode 62.
** Eggman distracts Beelzebub in Episode 67, allowing the heroes to escape with Cosmo and Chris in tow.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: Both played straight and discussed in the final episode. Maledict succeeded in creating an "Ultimate Weapon" greater than he ever dreamed of... but the fact that his prized Ultimate Weapon ([[spoiler: both of them, in fact]]) ended up turning against him [[{{Irony}} thanks to his own actions]] made his success ultimately pointless. Even ''Maledict himself'' admits his GambitRoulette wasn't worth it in the end.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: PyrrhicVictory: Both played straight and discussed in the final episode. Maledict succeeded in creating an "Ultimate Weapon" greater than he ever dreamed of... but the fact that his prized Ultimate Weapon ([[spoiler: both of them, in fact]]) ended up turning against him [[{{Irony}} thanks to his own actions]] made his success ultimately pointless. Even ''Maledict himself'' admits his GambitRoulette wasn't worth it in the end.
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** Tsali manages to defeat Super Sonic one-on-one in the opening scene. However (unknown to Sonic), he was wounded and only barely won. Come Episode 64 when he fights Sonic, Shadow, and Eric in their Super forms, it doesn't take long for him to lose horribly.
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** Tsali manages to defeat Super Sonic one-on-one in the opening scene. However (unknown to Sonic), he was wounded and only barely won. Come Episode 64 when he fights Sonic, Shadow, and Eric in their Super forms, it doesn't take long for him to lose horribly.
** Maledict is quickly shown to be an InvincibleVillain who curb-stomps the heroes into the floor. Then comes in Dark Tails, who grows so powerful that he shrugs off all of Maledict's attacks. [[spoiler: It's a good thing Sonic and friends end up allying with him]].
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismAndCynicism: The fanfic lies closer to the middle. Sonic and his friends are still heroes and hold their ideals, even if several of them are traumatized by the [[WarIsHell things]] they see. However, the rest of the setting is [[BlackAndGrayMorality very]], [[CrapsackWorld very]], [[CosmicHorrorStory very]], '''[[BlackComedy VERY]]''' cynical.
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* ThereIsNotKillLikeOverkill: Beelzebub decides that there's only one way to finally take out Sonic and end the Metarex war; blow up the entire galaxy with the Galaxy Crusher.
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** Not to mention the numerous shout-outs to the original Japanese third season of ''Sonic X'' - which [[NoExportForYou was never officially released in the West]] and is [[DarkerAndEdgier much different]] than the western dub version* VillainousBreakdown: The story has a number of these.
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* RedBaron: Tsali is known [[TheDreaded and feared]] as "The Black Wind". Allysion calls Sonic "the Antichrist" and the "Son of Perdition". [[spoiler: She's technically not wrong.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler: Maledict secretly controlling the Metarex using an incredibly poor disguise]] was basically this, and the only reason it worked was because neither Dark Oak nor Tsali could believe that [[spoiler: Maledict]] would be able to pull it off.
** Basically everything Eric the Hedgehog does or says is this. Discovering that [[spoiler: Molly and Leon's refugee group are eating their dead]]? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ask for dessert]]. Taking on an entire Demon fleet led by Satan himself? ''[[LeeroyJenkins Charge in guns blazing]] and ram Maledict's flagship while blasting the 1812 Overture over coms''. Indeed, it's said in-story that the reason he's so dangerous is because he literally has no concept of fear.
** The entire background setting runs on this - among other things, it features space Muslims with mechanical spiders [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by molested girls]], literal SpaceJews that are [[ANaziByAnyOtherName basically Nazis]], and enough BlackComedy to rival ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
** Basically everything Eric the Hedgehog does or says is this. Discovering that [[spoiler: Molly and Leon's refugee group are eating their dead]]? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ask for dessert]]. Taking on an entire Demon fleet led by Satan himself? ''[[LeeroyJenkins Charge in guns blazing]] and ram Maledict's flagship while blasting the 1812 Overture over coms''. Indeed, it's said in-story that the reason he's so dangerous is because he literally has no concept of fear.
** The entire background setting runs on this - among other things, it features space Muslims with mechanical spiders [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by molested girls]], literal SpaceJews that are [[ANaziByAnyOtherName basically Nazis]], and enough BlackComedy to rival ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tsali eventually surmises that Maledict isn't actually interested in fighting Sonic the Hedgehog at all, and guesses that it's because he's gonna replace Tsali with them. [[spoiler:It's actually because Sonic, Shadow, and Eric are his cloned sons.]]
* SadisticChoice: Episode 75 has a truly crowning example. Satan gives Sonic and his friends a choice between giving him the Chaos Emeralds or the ''metaphysical annihilation of the entire Milky Way Galaxy''. [[spoiler:Sonic and his friends choose the latter, but D'Arnazhee betrays Maledict and shoots the Galaxy Crusher's firing mechanism right out of his hand]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Tsali is able to get away with ''genocide and mass murder'' without Demon government interference because of his personal connections with Maledict himself. He also has near-limitless access to money from the Demon treasury for the same reason.
* SerialEscalation: The fanfic deconstructs the Sonic franchise's use of the trope by quickly introducing numerous [[InvincibleVillain Invincible Villains]] and demonstrating that the heroes are surviving not because of their power, but because the villains keep getting in each other's way [[spoiler:[[BlackAndGrayMorality or aren't really "villains"]]]]. And the heroes are [[BreakTheCutie affected]] by the seeming hopelessness of their situation, [[DeconReconSwitch even though they keep helping as many people as they can]].
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismAndCynicism: The fanfic lies closer to the middle. Sonic and his friends are still heroes and hold their ideals, even if several of them are traumatized by the [[WarIsHell things]] they see. However, the rest of the setting is [[BlackAndGrayMorality very]], [[CrapsackWorld very]], [[CosmicHorrorStory very]], '''[[BlackComedy VERY]]''' cynical.
* StatusQuoIsGod: A major theme of ''Dark Chaos''. Sure Sonic and his friends stopped Dark Tails and saved the galaxy... but the endless conflict between Maledict and Allysion continues, [[TheBadGuyWins they both got what they wanted in the end]], and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. [[spoiler:Until the CruelTwistEnding.]]
* TakeThat: The story has several examples in both its setting and its prose.
** The ''entire Angel Federation'' is a ''truly enormous'' TakeThat to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Especially the Emirate of Mecca, which is basically a damning insult against Muslim theocracies in general and Islam itself as a whole. It's such a huge TakeThat, in fact, that it sometimes [[UnfortunateImplications crosses into borderline racism]] - the Jews and Muslims are depicted as groups of FuturePrimitive brown-skinned HumanAliens who prefer fighting each other all the time over petty tribal squabbles, for example. All three countries represent the author's beefs with their religions, even though the recent rewrite balanced their depiction by [[BlackAndGrayMorality making them the gray to the Demons' black]].
** The pre-rewrite versions had numerous TakeThat moments towards 4Kids Entertainment, who originally dubbed ''Sonic X''. When 4Kids went bankrupt, the author decided the insults weren't needed anymore and removed them.
** The ''entire Angel Federation'' is a ''truly enormous'' TakeThat to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Especially the Emirate of Mecca, which is basically a damning insult against Muslim theocracies in general and Islam itself as a whole. It's such a huge TakeThat, in fact, that it sometimes [[UnfortunateImplications crosses into borderline racism]] - the Jews and Muslims are depicted as groups of FuturePrimitive brown-skinned HumanAliens who prefer fighting each other all the time over petty tribal squabbles, for example. All three countries represent the author's beefs with their religions, even though the recent rewrite balanced their depiction by [[BlackAndGrayMorality making them the gray to the Demons' black]].
** The pre-rewrite versions had numerous TakeThat moments towards 4Kids Entertainment, who originally dubbed ''Sonic X''. When 4Kids went bankrupt, the author decided the insults weren't needed anymore and removed them.
* ThereIsNotKillLikeOverkill: Beelzebub decides that there's only one way to finally take out Sonic and end the Metarex war; blow up the entire galaxy with the Galaxy Crusher.
** Hell, the ''Galaxy Crusher'' is pretty much the physical incarnation of this trope - it's the size of a red giant and capable of obliterating ''galaxies''.
** Hell, the ''Galaxy Crusher'' is pretty much the physical incarnation of this trope - it's the size of a red giant and capable of obliterating ''galaxies''.
* TraumaCongaLine: Tsali's backstory/StartOfDarkness was a conga line of epic proportions. First, his home planet is annihilated and his family was killed when he was only ten. The Seedrians rescued him and then Cosmo's father Luke decided to use him in a demented attempt to defeat a Demon invasion of their homeworld. Tsali gets turned into a combat android powered by [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]]--[[BodyHorror very painfully]]--and Tsali promptly goes completely crazy from rage once he finally breaks out. He ends up slaughtering the entire Seedrian race before getting several dozen nuclear weapons dropped on him by Cosmo's mother Hertia. He barely survives by making a literal DealWithTheDevil--[[{{Irony}} becoming a pawn of the very same person who destroyed his home planet]]--and is forced to fight a brutal one-man war across the galaxy for revenge against the Metarex... yeah. And [[FromBadToWorse just to rub it all in]], he hired a group of mercenaries to help him, one of them being his (still living) younger sister [[spoiler: only for them to eventually betray him and force him to murder all of them]]. It's telling that when ''Dark Chaos'' begins thirty years later, he's been [[AxCrazy so utterly brutalized]] by his [[WarIsHell experiences]] that he considers ''disemboweling children'' to be a source of cheap entertainment.
* UnstoppableRage: Tsali pretty much runs on violently sadistic AxCrazy rage, [[BloodKnight especially in battle]].
* TheUnFavorite: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Shadow and Eric]] are this to [[spoiler:Maledict]]; the former because he was [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 "corrupted by human frailty"]], the latter because a [[NoodleIncident serious accident]] during his birth turned him into... [[HumanoidAbomination something else]]. He only regards [[spoiler: Sonic]] as his true successor.
* TheUnFavorite: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Shadow and Eric]] are this to [[spoiler:Maledict]]; the former because he was [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 "corrupted by human frailty"]], the latter because a [[NoodleIncident serious accident]] during his birth turned him into... [[HumanoidAbomination something else]]. He only regards [[spoiler: Sonic]] as his true successor.
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** Not to mention the numerous shout-outs to the original Japanese third season of ''Sonic X'' - which [[NoExportForYou was never officially released in the West]] and is [[DarkerAndEdgier much different]] than the western dub version.version* VillainousBreakdown: The story has a number of these.
** Tsali completely loses his cool when he is defeated by Super Sonic and friends.
** In Episode 74 Tsali has another mental breakdown after discovering Maledict was responsible for the entire Metarex war and everything that had happened to him. In the same Episode, the Metarex leaders (especially Dark Oak) have their own breakdowns when Maledict captures them and reveals that [[TheChessmaster they were his pawns all along]].
** Maledict himself has a minor breakdown from Sonic's (apparent) death in Episode 64. However, when Sonic refuses his WeCanRuleTogether offer, [[spoiler: D'Arnazhee destroys the Galaxy Crusher's firing mechanism]], and [[spoiler: Jesus and the Angels [[BigDamnHeroes come to Sonic's rescue]]]] in Episode 75, he [[ChewingTheScenery utterly loses it]] and [[CurbStompBattle unleashes his true power]].
** The Metarex leaders, especially Dark Oak himself, have a collective breakdown after their decisive defeat in Episode 64.
** Tsali completely loses his cool when he is defeated by Super Sonic and friends.
** In Episode 74 Tsali has another mental breakdown after discovering Maledict was responsible for the entire Metarex war and everything that had happened to him. In the same Episode, the Metarex leaders (especially Dark Oak) have their own breakdowns when Maledict captures them and reveals that [[TheChessmaster they were his pawns all along]].
** Maledict himself has a minor breakdown from Sonic's (apparent) death in Episode 64. However, when Sonic refuses his WeCanRuleTogether offer, [[spoiler: D'Arnazhee destroys the Galaxy Crusher's firing mechanism]], and [[spoiler: Jesus and the Angels [[BigDamnHeroes come to Sonic's rescue]]]] in Episode 75, he [[ChewingTheScenery utterly loses it]] and [[CurbStompBattle unleashes his true power]].
** The Metarex leaders, especially Dark Oak himself, have a collective breakdown after their decisive defeat in Episode 64.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"They are coming"]]. Doubles as TheStinger.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"They WhamEpisode:
** Episode 65. [[spoiler: On the eve of the Demon New Year celebration, Jesus launches an Angel invasion of the galaxy and restarts the Eternal War, killing trillions of innocent people]].
** While not a WhamEpisode in the traditional sense, Episode 67 is easily the [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest]] and [[NightmareFuel most horrific]] episode of the story, and it marks the story's GenreShift from gritty SpaceOpera to grim dark horror.
** Episode 73 - Sonic and pretty much all his friends arecoming"]]. Doubles severely injured/crippled by Tsali as TheStinger.he rampages through the Blue Typhoon to find Cosmo. Catching up to them, he seemingly murders Tails, only for Tails to suddenly revive... as a [[LovecraftianSuperpower Shroud-infected]] monster. He defeats Tsali and damages the ship tremendously before Knuckles stops him and reverts him back by [[KillItWithFire nearly burning him to death with a fuel cell]]. The Blue Typhoon is heavily damaged and basically ''everyone'' crosses the DespairEventHorizon in the aftermath.
** Episode 74, fittingly titled "''The Mystery Revealed''". [[spoiler: Sonic and friends - and a crippled Tsali - land on Cosmo's devastated home planet Seedrius]]. They soon discover a vault of stolen Demon data files hidden in underground tunnels beneath the same research facility where Tsali was made. [[spoiler: These files reveal that Maledict was literally manipulating ''everything'' in the backstory, from the destruction of the Seedrians to the entire Metarex war, and it was all part of a gigantic GambitRoulette to end the Eternal War and conquer the universe]]. Tsali is so enraged by this discovery that he decides to ally with Sonic and try to go kill Maledict. The Metarex leaders and Dr. Eggman are also captured by Demon special forces.
* WhamLine:
** Episode 65:
--->'''Jesus Christ''': Brothers and sisters, commence Operation Armageddon. Let the galaxy burn.
** Episode 75:
--->'''Sonic''': How would you know who my father is?!\\
'''Maledict''': [[LukeIAmYourFather [[spoiler:Because I am your father]].]]
** Episode 78:
---> '''M.A.R.Y.''': [[spoiler:"They are coming"]].
** Episode 65. [[spoiler: On the eve of the Demon New Year celebration, Jesus launches an Angel invasion of the galaxy and restarts the Eternal War, killing trillions of innocent people]].
** While not a WhamEpisode in the traditional sense, Episode 67 is easily the [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest]] and [[NightmareFuel most horrific]] episode of the story, and it marks the story's GenreShift from gritty SpaceOpera to grim dark horror.
** Episode 73 - Sonic and pretty much all his friends are
** Episode 74, fittingly titled "''The Mystery Revealed''". [[spoiler: Sonic and friends - and a crippled Tsali - land on Cosmo's devastated home planet Seedrius]]. They soon discover a vault of stolen Demon data files hidden in underground tunnels beneath the same research facility where Tsali was made. [[spoiler: These files reveal that Maledict was literally manipulating ''everything'' in the backstory, from the destruction of the Seedrians to the entire Metarex war, and it was all part of a gigantic GambitRoulette to end the Eternal War and conquer the universe]]. Tsali is so enraged by this discovery that he decides to ally with Sonic and try to go kill Maledict. The Metarex leaders and Dr. Eggman are also captured by Demon special forces.
* WhamLine:
** Episode 65:
--->'''Jesus Christ''': Brothers and sisters, commence Operation Armageddon. Let the galaxy burn.
** Episode 75:
--->'''Sonic''': How would you know who my father is?!\\
'''Maledict''': [[LukeIAmYourFather [[spoiler:Because I am your father]].]]
** Episode 78:
---> '''M.A.R.Y.''': [[spoiler:"They are coming"]].
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Eric the Hedgehog is a non-evil example of this; [[spoiler: he was created by Maledict along with Sonic and Shadow to create an "Ultimate Weapon"]]. Unfortunately, an [[NoodleIncident unexplained accident]] turned him into a HumanoidAbomination at the cost of damaging his brain, turning him into a CloudCuckoolander ManChild who [[AlmightyIdiot isn't aware of his own powers]].
** Poor, poor [[spoiler: Tsali]]. Being [[spoiler: forcibly turned into a Dark Chaos Energy-powered battle robot]] ''[[AxCrazy really]]'' didn't do good for his sanity.
** [[LovecraftianSuperpower Shroud Tails]], full stop. Although [[BodyHorror considering what happens]], insanity would probably be a step up.
** Poor, poor [[spoiler: Tsali]]. Being [[spoiler: forcibly turned into a Dark Chaos Energy-powered battle robot]] ''[[AxCrazy really]]'' didn't do good for his sanity.
** [[LovecraftianSuperpower Shroud Tails]], full stop. Although [[BodyHorror considering what happens]], insanity would probably be a step up.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Played horrifyingly straight with Tsali as a deliberate terror tactic. It's stated more than once that he slaughtered every single Seedrian he found down to the babies. In Episode 70, Trinity finds a recorded memory that Tsali saved for his own entertainment - which shows Tsali [[KillItWithFire setting Seedrian children on fire]] and using their screaming husks as {{Human Shield}}s. And Beelzebub [[{{Squick}} ''really'' has a thing for kids]]...
** According to the background material, the Muslims also regularly rape and murder children for breaking ''Shariah'' law in their territories - including the developmentally and physically disabled.
** According to the background material, the Muslims also regularly rape and murder children for breaking ''Shariah'' law in their territories - including the developmentally and physically disabled.
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* XanatosGambit: The entire Metarex War is this for Maledict, as he's secretly TheManBehindTheMan for both Tsali and the Metarex. If Tsali lost, Maledict would just build up the Metarex as a proxy army to aid him in the future; if Tsali won, than he obviously was the better fighter and would also aid Maledict in the future in gratitude for giving Tsali his revenge. Only [[spoiler: his servant Venus' betrayal]] and Sonic's intervention causes the gambit to fall apart.
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* TheCaligula: The rewrite depicts UsefulNotes/TheProphetMuhammad (yeah, that one) as a sadistic demagogue with a penchant for [[BloodKnight slaughtering infidels]] and [[{{Squick}} pedophilia]]. The background material expands on him; he tried to irrigate fields with vats of human blood, ordered every dog in the universe to be strangled because one barked at him, and invaded a galaxy based on the commands of a ''palm tree''. It's rather telling that many characters -- including his own Muslim followers -- fear him more than they fear Maledict and the Demons. Even Jesus and the Angels consider him TheFriendNobodyLikes [[spoiler: and are planning on quietly assassinating him the first chance they get]].
** Beelzebub is a more straight example; though he isn't a monarch, his PsychopathicManchild personality and [[MadScientist disturbing sexual fetishes]] make him this trope. He's despised by pretty much all the other Demon leadership -- even Maledict thinks his cruelty goes too far but keeps him around for his sheer intelligence.
** Beelzebub is a more straight example; though he isn't a monarch, his PsychopathicManchild personality and [[MadScientist disturbing sexual fetishes]] make him this trope. He's despised by pretty much all the other Demon leadership -- even Maledict thinks his cruelty goes too far but keeps him around for his sheer intelligence.
* TheDreaded: Tsali. According to Cosmo, a large group of the Seedrian refugees actually turned their fear of him into a EvilLuddite ''religion'' that considered Tsali [[TheScourgeOfGod divine punishment from Tryphon herself for their use of technology]]. It's taken to the point where when Cosmo first met Tails, she nearly [[BringMyBrownPants voided her bowels on the spot]] simply because she mistook him for Tsali.
** [[HordeOfAlienLocusts The]] [[TheVirus Shroud]]. They're not called ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Great Devourer]]'' for nothing. The fact that they regularly ''eat galaxies'' is just the icing on the cake. Both Jesus and Maledict alike consider them the number-one threat to the universe even more than each other. Even the [[TheCaligula Prophet Muhammad]] of all people is utterly terrified of Shroud and Shroud infestation, and Tsali also secretly fears them.
** [[HordeOfAlienLocusts The]] [[TheVirus Shroud]]. They're not called ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Great Devourer]]'' for nothing. The fact that they regularly ''eat galaxies'' is just the icing on the cake. Both Jesus and Maledict alike consider them the number-one threat to the universe even more than each other. Even the [[TheCaligula Prophet Muhammad]] of all people is utterly terrified of Shroud and Shroud infestation, and Tsali also secretly fears them.
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* GambitPileup: Between Maledict, Tsali, Dark Oak, Allyson, Jesus and Venus, [[spoiler:with a Tails shaped SpannerInTheWorks to boot.]]
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* GambitPileup: Between Maledict, Tsali, Loads of characters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Oak, Allyson, Tails]].
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, andVenus, [[spoiler:with a Tails shaped SpannerInTheWorks recruits Trinity to boot.]]spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** Dark Oak and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** Dark Oak and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The typical fate of those who hear the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]]. Not only does it drive several individual characters like numerous Marmolins or [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian and Trinity]] to gibbering madness, it's mind-blasting enough to cause entire space fleets to go insane and destroy themselves.
* GodzillaThreshold:
** Episode 63 has a villainous example. Sonic, Shadow, and Eric turn into their Super forms and are on the verge of defeating Tsali once and for all. So what does Tsali do? He ''summons [[{{Satan}} Lord Maledict]] himself'' for backup. Cue [[SummonBiggerFish Maledict showing up]], rescuing Tsali, and [[CurbStompBattle utterly curbstomping Sonic and friends]].
** When Dark Tails nearly annihilates the fleets of both sides, both the Demons and Angels separately devote all their attention to taking him down, to the point where the Demons reactivate a galaxy-destroying superweapon just in case. And then Dark Tails achieves godhood in Episode 75 and nearly decimates the entire galaxy, they both decide to take it on together — the threshold is taken to the the point where ''Jesus Christ and Satan'' pull an EnemyMine and decide to (temporarily) help each other.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Thirty years prior to the events of ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'', Luke the Seedrian -- the future Dark Oak -- roboticized a young fox named Tsali into the "Ultimate Weapon" that could save his homeworld from a Demon invasion. Tsali quickly freed himself, promptly turned against his creators, and exterminated the entire Seedrian race in revenge.
** Episode 63 has a villainous example. Sonic, Shadow, and Eric turn into their Super forms and are on the verge of defeating Tsali once and for all. So what does Tsali do? He ''summons [[{{Satan}} Lord Maledict]] himself'' for backup. Cue [[SummonBiggerFish Maledict showing up]], rescuing Tsali, and [[CurbStompBattle utterly curbstomping Sonic and friends]].
** When Dark Tails nearly annihilates the fleets of both sides, both the Demons and Angels separately devote all their attention to taking him down, to the point where the Demons reactivate a galaxy-destroying superweapon just in case. And then Dark Tails achieves godhood in Episode 75 and nearly decimates the entire galaxy, they both decide to take it on together — the threshold is taken to the the point where ''Jesus Christ and Satan'' pull an EnemyMine and decide to (temporarily) help each other.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Thirty years prior to the events of ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'', Luke the Seedrian -- the future Dark Oak -- roboticized a young fox named Tsali into the "Ultimate Weapon" that could save his homeworld from a Demon invasion. Tsali quickly freed himself, promptly turned against his creators, and exterminated the entire Seedrian race in revenge.
* HealingFactor: Tails gets one when he is infected by Shroud parasites. At one point, he regenerates most of his internal organs after Tsali tears them out of his chest. This bites back hard during the final battle when he gets possessed by Dark Tails; the resulting mutation causes his body to start [[BodyHorror literally falling apart]], [[AndIMustScream which starts to heal him, which makes him fall apart again]]...
* HeroicBSOD: Several episodes feature them, especially near the end thanks to the numerous [[TraumaCongaLine Trauma Conga Lines]] coming together.
** Episode 74 is an entire chapter of these as the heroes [[spoiler: and Tsali]] discover the conspiracy behind the Metarex war and the tragedy that shook the galaxy.
** Sonic in Episode 75 when he discovers [[spoiler: he was created by Maledict]].
** During the final battle, Cosmo in Episode 77 completely [[TearJerker breaks down]] when she realizes [[spoiler: she has to kill Tails to defeat Dark Tails]].
** Episode 74 is an entire chapter of these as the heroes [[spoiler: and Tsali]] discover the conspiracy behind the Metarex war and the tragedy that shook the galaxy.
** Sonic in Episode 75 when he discovers [[spoiler: he was created by Maledict]].
** During the final battle, Cosmo in Episode 77 completely [[TearJerker breaks down]] when she realizes [[spoiler: she has to kill Tails to defeat Dark Tails]].
* HiddenDepths: In the rewrite, Tsali is revealed to be surprisingly AffablyEvil underneath his genocidal psychopathic brutality, at least when he isn't on missions. He originally had a group of mercenaries to aid him in his genocide who he deeply cared about as a family [[spoiler: until they betrayed him and tried to kill him]]. He also privately begins to doubt if all his evil actions would be worth it in the end. He also treats Trinity respectfully as a guest [[spoiler: even after he discovers Trinity is an Angel spy.]]
** Knuckles is given more depth to cancel out his {{Flanderization}} from the show. Though still hotheaded, he's often depicted as wiser, more perceptive, and more reflective than most of the others. He also has a nerdy side to him.
** Astorath isn't anywhere near the stupid BloodKnight brute he seems to be; he comes to [[WorthyOpponent deeply respect Sonic and friends as enemies]] and has a strong sense of honor. He also [[spoiler:correctly]] predicted that [[spoiler:Maledict's master plan]] would never work from the start, but [[CassandraTruth he was ignored]]. Even ''Jesus'' praises Astorath as an honorable Demon.
** Knuckles is given more depth to cancel out his {{Flanderization}} from the show. Though still hotheaded, he's often depicted as wiser, more perceptive, and more reflective than most of the others. He also has a nerdy side to him.
** Astorath isn't anywhere near the stupid BloodKnight brute he seems to be; he comes to [[WorthyOpponent deeply respect Sonic and friends as enemies]] and has a strong sense of honor. He also [[spoiler:correctly]] predicted that [[spoiler:Maledict's master plan]] would never work from the start, but [[CassandraTruth he was ignored]]. Even ''Jesus'' praises Astorath as an honorable Demon.
* HumanAliens: The Angels, Jews, and Muslims in the ''Dark Chaos'' universe. Humanity was originally descended from them, and they look very similar to humans with only a few minor quirks.
** Ethnic Angels closely resemble Tolkien [[TheFairFolk elves]]. They are often tall and fair.
** Jews are short, dark-skinned tribal people with beards. Jesus, although he's the leader of the whole Federation, is one of these.
** Male Muslims are generally quite similar to Jews. Female Muslims are always completely covered up, and [[BodyHorror for good reason]].
** Ethnic Angels closely resemble Tolkien [[TheFairFolk elves]]. They are often tall and fair.
** Jews are short, dark-skinned tribal people with beards. Jesus, although he's the leader of the whole Federation, is one of these.
** Male Muslims are generally quite similar to Jews. Female Muslims are always completely covered up, and [[BodyHorror for good reason]].
* IdiotBall: A huge portion of the central conflict in ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'' could've been avoided if [[spoiler: Maledict had come right out and told Sonic that he was his father and that he needed his help]] ''before'' Tsali got there first and tried to kill Sonic. Also, the Metarex leaders continued to trust M/[[spoiler: Maledict]] even while they were slowly ''losing'' the Metarex War. Also, Tsali grabs it in Episode 73 - he could've easily killed Cosmo and her friends by simply blowing up the Blue Typhoon, and only storms the ship because he's so AxCrazy that he wants to watch them suffer.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: In Episode 61, Espio manages to throw an explosive shuriken at a pursuing Jewish cruiser. Not only does he manage to actually hit it in zero-gravity, he gets a direct hit on the ship's ammo magazine and immediately blows it into scrap. Even Espio himself is surprised he made the shot.
** Tsali demonstrates this numerous times with both his Chaos powers and his wrist-mounted weaponry. Justified, since he's a very advanced battle android and has been fighting a war by himself for thirty years.
** Tsali demonstrates this numerous times with both his Chaos powers and his wrist-mounted weaponry. Justified, since he's a very advanced battle android and has been fighting a war by himself for thirty years.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the [[AlternateUniverse very]] [[DarkerAndEdgier different]] [[CrapsackWorld setting]] and tons of [=OCs=] added in, ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' still [[BroadStrokes roughly follows]] the general plot arc of the original ''Anime/SonicX''. Sonic fights new villain, Cosmo arrives, the heroes go into space to find the Chaos Emeralds, meet several canon alien races, and the adventure ends with a huge final battle and [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice BittersweetEnding]].
** Also, the Seedrians are still utterly wiped out and Dark Oak forms the Metarex in both the canon and ''Dark Chaos'' universes, even though the ''Dark Chaos'' backstory is very different.
** Also, the Seedrians are still utterly wiped out and Dark Oak forms the Metarex in both the canon and ''Dark Chaos'' universes, even though the ''Dark Chaos'' backstory is very different.
* ItsAllMyFault: Dark Oak holds himself responsible for the destruction of his race at the hands of Tsali... which led to him starting a brutal galactic war so he could take revenge on his wayward creation and [[WellIntentionedExtremist find a way to rebuild his race no matter the cost]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Pretty much every single member of Eric's crew follows this trope. They often fight, make fun of each other, and make cruel jokes, but they're all firmly on Sonic's side and are willing to help others even at great cost. Sonya in particular embodies this trope - she's highly arrogant and willful, but also has a strong sense of justice.
** The rewrite makes ''Tsali'' of all people into this. Under all his genocidal AxCrazy psychopathy, he has quite a few HiddenDepths. He considers his Tsali Endoskeletons as his children and shows remorse that most of them are gone. Likewise, when he hired a group of mercenaries to help him hunt down the Seedrians, he became quite fond of them [[spoiler: and was utterly devastated when they betrayed him]] - it actually causes him to consider whether getting revenge was really worth it in the end. [[spoiler: The fact that one of them was his little sister probably didn't help.]]
** The rewrite makes ''Tsali'' of all people into this. Under all his genocidal AxCrazy psychopathy, he has quite a few HiddenDepths. He considers his Tsali Endoskeletons as his children and shows remorse that most of them are gone. Likewise, when he hired a group of mercenaries to help him hunt down the Seedrians, he became quite fond of them [[spoiler: and was utterly devastated when they betrayed him]] - it actually causes him to consider whether getting revenge was really worth it in the end. [[spoiler: The fact that one of them was his little sister probably didn't help.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Pretty much none of the major villains are punished for their actions. Maledict pardons the heroes and leaves with his armies in tow, Jesus and the Angels call off their invasion, and Tsali and the Metarex leaders decide to end the conflict and go their separate ways.
* KnightTemplar: A common trope, particularly among the Angels and the more-fanatical Demons. The Muslims and the Emirate of Mecca take this trope up to eleven. [[spoiler: Cosmo's mother Hertia]] also eventually became this, [[spoiler: torturing Tsali's sister and killing a recently born Seedrian male child because of Daffodil's religious influence]].
* LargeHam: [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Astorath]] in ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'' pretty much either yells or ''dramatically enunciates'' everything he says. Considering the fact he's an expy of the Heavy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', it's not entirely out of place.
** Maledict loses his cool and goes into full scenery-chewing mode during his climactic duel with Jesus in Episode 75. And that's before the author said that his voice is similar to William Dafoe.
---> "I am your '''god''', you half-formed chimp! When you swung from trees, I ruled '''TIME''' and '''SPACE'''!"
** Allysion is so hammy she could've starred in every single Creator/CecilBDeMille biblical epic. Everything she says is either a flowery Bible quote, a dramatic threat, or both.
** Once Dark Tails resurrects himself, he quickly puts BRIAN BLESSED to shame;
---> '''"YOU SHALL NOT DIE HERE... DEATH IS NO ESCAPE... YOU SHALL BE DEVOURED, ANNIHILATED, DEFILED... YOU SHALL KNOW TERROR WITHOUT END... YOU SHALL BE TORN ASUNDER FROM EVERY ATOM, AND YOURS SHALL BE THE CRIES OF TORMENT AND HORROR!"'''
** Maledict loses his cool and goes into full scenery-chewing mode during his climactic duel with Jesus in Episode 75. And that's before the author said that his voice is similar to William Dafoe.
---> "I am your '''god''', you half-formed chimp! When you swung from trees, I ruled '''TIME''' and '''SPACE'''!"
** Allysion is so hammy she could've starred in every single Creator/CecilBDeMille biblical epic. Everything she says is either a flowery Bible quote, a dramatic threat, or both.
** Once Dark Tails resurrects himself, he quickly puts BRIAN BLESSED to shame;
---> '''"YOU SHALL NOT DIE HERE... DEATH IS NO ESCAPE... YOU SHALL BE DEVOURED, ANNIHILATED, DEFILED... YOU SHALL KNOW TERROR WITHOUT END... YOU SHALL BE TORN ASUNDER FROM EVERY ATOM, AND YOURS SHALL BE THE CRIES OF TORMENT AND HORROR!"'''
* LightIsNotGood: Played with in ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos''. The Angel Federation stays neutral during a brutal civil war; Jesus decides to get involved, but sends his most powerful assassin Tephiroth to investigate. Neither of them are explicitly evil though, feeding into the setting's GrayAndGrayMorality.
* LighterAndSofter: The rewrite is simultaneously both this ''and'' DarkerAndEdgier than the original. While there is more violence and horrific content as a whole, the darkness is balanced with much more likable characters, a stronger message of hope and redemption in the face of terror, and the power of friendship. And BlackComedy.
** Even with the darkness, it's also still LighterAndSofter compared to some of its [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei primary]] [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 influences]].
* LighterAndSofter: The rewrite is simultaneously both this ''and'' DarkerAndEdgier than the original. While there is more violence and horrific content as a whole, the darkness is balanced with much more likable characters, a stronger message of hope and redemption in the face of terror, and the power of friendship. And BlackComedy.
** Even with the darkness, it's also still LighterAndSofter compared to some of its [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei primary]] [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 influences]].
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Tails's death]] in Episode 77 is this after he sacrifices himself to stop Dark Tails and suffers AndIMustScream because of it.
** Eggman and his robots terminate Beelzebub's "[[FateWorseThanDeath test subjects]]" in the Episode 67 rewrite.
** Eggman and his robots terminate Beelzebub's "[[FateWorseThanDeath test subjects]]" in the Episode 67 rewrite.
* MindRape: The voice of Dark Tails either kills those who hear it outright or [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drives them violently insane]]. Cosmo nearly meets this fate in Episode 58, but her mother's amulet protects her from the worst effects. [[spoiler: Venus]], [[spoiler: Alice]] and [[spoiler: Trinity]] are not so lucky.
* MisplacedRetribution: Tsali ended up murdering Cosmo's entire race in revenge after [[spoiler:being slowly and tortuously turned into a robot]], even though only [[spoiler:his adopted father Luke/Dark Oak]] was actually responsible for it.
* MisplacedRetribution: Tsali ended up murdering Cosmo's entire race in revenge after [[spoiler:being slowly and tortuously turned into a robot]], even though only [[spoiler:his adopted father Luke/Dark Oak]] was actually responsible for it.
* MortonsFork: Later in the story, Maledict eventually realizes that the entire conflict has become this. Either he ends the stalemate by destroying the Milky Way Galaxy himself with the ''Galaxy Crusher'', or the Shroud are going to eat the entire galaxy and destroy it instead. He decides on the former, rationalizing it as a MercyKill compared to letting the Shroud get more powerful.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In Episode 74, Tsali's core systems are damaged in the previous Episode, causing his programming to become scrambled. Because of this, the programs preventing him from feeling regret or remorse for his crimes are disabled. When he and the heroes find out [[spoiler:Maledict had been manipulating him from the beginning]], he completely breaks down into a sobbing wreck as his systems starts going into full LogicBomb meltdown - and the horrors he unleashed come back to him.
** Knuckles has one of these at the end of Episode 73 after setting Tails on fire to destroy his Shroud form, and nearly burning Tails to death when it changes him back to normal.
** Knuckles has one of these at the end of Episode 73 after setting Tails on fire to destroy his Shroud form, and nearly burning Tails to death when it changes him back to normal.
* NighInvulnerability:
** Lord Maledict, being both a PhysicalGod and a HumanoidAbomination, has this. He completely no sells every single attack from Sonic and his friends, even in their Super forms. However, because of his sheer power, his physical body is slowly dying off on its own.
** Astorath the Prince of Darkness is so physically strong he's completely unaffected by ''warship-class weapons'' fired directly at him. It's why Cream [[CombatPragmatist fights dirty]] and throws Cheese directly into his eyes.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: ''hoo boy''. Just to begin, Tsali the Ultimate Weapon is a Demon android two-tailed fox. Tephiroth is an angelic humanoid three-tailed cyborg fox. Maledict is a hedgehog-humanoid-reptile [[spoiler: cyborg]] PhysicalGod. Venus the Seedrian is a Seedrian cyborg vampire.
** The king of this trope has to go to the Tsali Androids; *deep breath* batshit-insane cannibalistic flesh-eating demonically-possessed fox robots.
** Lord Maledict, being both a PhysicalGod and a HumanoidAbomination, has this. He completely no sells every single attack from Sonic and his friends, even in their Super forms. However, because of his sheer power, his physical body is slowly dying off on its own.
** Astorath the Prince of Darkness is so physically strong he's completely unaffected by ''warship-class weapons'' fired directly at him. It's why Cream [[CombatPragmatist fights dirty]] and throws Cheese directly into his eyes.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: ''hoo boy''. Just to begin, Tsali the Ultimate Weapon is a Demon android two-tailed fox. Tephiroth is an angelic humanoid three-tailed cyborg fox. Maledict is a hedgehog-humanoid-reptile [[spoiler: cyborg]] PhysicalGod. Venus the Seedrian is a Seedrian cyborg vampire.
** The king of this trope has to go to the Tsali Androids; *deep breath* batshit-insane cannibalistic flesh-eating demonically-possessed fox robots.
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* NoSexAllowed: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} horrifically by the Emirate of Mecca. The Emirate is a [[RecycledInSpace space]] Muslim theocracy that has extremely strict religious rules on sex. This naturally causes the Muslims to have very low birthrates, so [[LoopholeAbuse rather than having sex]] they [[FateWorseThanDeath turned their women into literal baby factories, which are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth every few seconds]].
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* NoSell: Maledict is basically immune to Super Sonic, Super Shadow, and Super Eric [[TheWorfEffect combined]]. Needless to say, it's a CurbStompBattle when they actually do fight in Episode 64.
* NoSexAllowed:{{Deconstructed|Trope}} {{Deconstructed|Trope}} horrifically by the Emirate of Mecca. The Emirate is a [[RecycledInSpace space]] Muslim theocracy that has extremely strict religious rules on sex. This naturally causes the Muslims to have very low birthrates, so [[LoopholeAbuse rather than having sex]] they [[FateWorseThanDeath turned their women into literal baby factories, which are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth every few seconds]].seconds]].
* NoodleIncident: Tails occasionally refers to the last time he tried to repair something made by Eric, which ended up with him institutionalized for a week. Also, both Jesus and Maledict consider the [[Literature/TheBible Temptation in the Desert]] to be this trope in-universe.
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* NoodleIncident: Tails occasionally refers to the last time he tried to repair something made by Eric, which ended up with him institutionalized for a week. Also, both Jesus and Maledict consider the [[Literature/TheBible Temptation in the Desert]] to be this trope in-universe.
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* OrcusOnHisThrone: Lord Maledict is this until Episode 63, when he is so aggravated by Tsali's failures that he shows up personally to challenge Sonic and his friends -- [[CurbStompBattle and promptly wipes the floor with them]]. It explicitly justified, as he's both TheChessmaster and trying to run a gigantic universal empire at the same time.
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* OverlyLongName: The Prophet Muhammad's full name is Muhammad Ali Hussein Abu al-Addin bin-Laden al-Zarqawdi Talib.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: In Episode 67, Eggman and Rouge discover the truth behind Beelzebub's fake Chaos Emeralds; they're empowered by Dark Chaos Energy - produced by dozens of lobotomized slaves undergoing AndIMustScream.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: In Episode 67, Eggman and Rouge discover the truth behind Beelzebub's fake Chaos Emeralds; they're empowered by Dark Chaos Energy - produced by dozens of lobotomized slaves undergoing AndIMustScream.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Maledict doesn't want to destroy the galaxy with his galaxy-destroying superweapon because the resources of the Milky Way are too useful to squander - and trillions of his own subjects would die in the process, which could form another rebellion and hurt the Demon Empire. He only eventually relents once the Shroud start devouring the Milky Way in force under [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]]. The rewrite makes him [[MagnificentBastard so pragmatic]] that he quickly turns into an AntiVillain, often criticizing the excesses of his servants and turning him into a personification of HobbesWasRight.
** Jesus decides to ally with Sonic and friends even though his Angels considers them evil, understanding that they're both a valuable distraction and could do serious damage to the Angels if they were antagonized.
** Jesus decides to ally with Sonic and friends even though his Angels considers them evil, understanding that they're both a valuable distraction and could do serious damage to the Angels if they were antagonized.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Beelzebub, the Lord of Flies. A death metal druggie and MadScientist, he's also a sadistic pedophile who gets off on ColdBloodedTorture. After capturing them, [[spoiler:he ends up raping Chris and almost-raping Cosmo]] simply because [[BrainBleach he wanted to feel how "tight" they were]].
** Tsali is basically this trope personified, often going straight into AxCrazy with his playful attitude towards violence and bloodshed. It's justified later on with the reveal that [[spoiler: he was turned into a robot by Cosmo's race when he was only ten, which prevented him from ageing physically or mentally - and the entire Metarex War was basically a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds genocidal temper-tantrum]] over it]]. Also lightly [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], as his lack of self-control nearly ruins Maledict's plans several times.
** Tsali is basically this trope personified, often going straight into AxCrazy with his playful attitude towards violence and bloodshed. It's justified later on with the reveal that [[spoiler: he was turned into a robot by Cosmo's race when he was only ten, which prevented him from ageing physically or mentally - and the entire Metarex War was basically a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds genocidal temper-tantrum]] over it]]. Also lightly [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], as his lack of self-control nearly ruins Maledict's plans several times.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: Both played straight and discussed in the final episode. Maledict succeeded in creating an "Ultimate Weapon" greater than he ever dreamed of... but the fact that his prized Ultimate Weapon ([[spoiler: both of them, in fact]]) ended up turning against him [[{{Irony}} thanks to his own actions]] made his success ultimately pointless. Even ''Maledict himself'' admits his GambitRoulette wasn't worth it in the end.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
** Jesus Christ (yes, that one) is still in his thirty year old body despite being two thousand years old. Most of the Angels count as this, since they're all ageless HumanAliens. Some of the non-human Angels like Tephiroth take it up to eleven - several of them are ''trillions'' of years old.
** Tsali the Ultimate Weapon, who is actually forty years old but in a ten-year old body. It's also justified, as he was roboticized into a combat android when he was ten.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Most of the Angel leaders, except for [[GeneralRipper Metatron]]. They don't want the Metarex war to escalate, and immediately realize that Dark Tails is the biggest threat to the galaxy.
** Jesus Christ (yes, that one) is still in his thirty year old body despite being two thousand years old. Most of the Angels count as this, since they're all ageless HumanAliens. Some of the non-human Angels like Tephiroth take it up to eleven - several of them are ''trillions'' of years old.
** Tsali the Ultimate Weapon, who is actually forty years old but in a ten-year old body. It's also justified, as he was roboticized into a combat android when he was ten.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Most of the Angel leaders, except for [[GeneralRipper Metatron]]. They don't want the Metarex war to escalate, and immediately realize that Dark Tails is the biggest threat to the galaxy.
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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Just like its source material, this doesn't end happily. Only this time, it's ''Tails'' who bites it. And Ending B takes this trope up to eleven.]]
* CurbstompBattle: The battle between Maledict and Super Sonic/Super Shadow/Super Eric in Episode 64 ends up being one of these. Even in their most powerful forms, the heroes are unable to harm the Devil at all.
* CurbstompBattle: The battle between Maledict and Super Sonic/Super Shadow/Super Eric in Episode 64 ends up being one of these. Even in their most powerful forms, the heroes are unable to harm the Devil at all.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In Episode 73, Tsali rampages through the Blue Typhoon searching for Tails and Cosmo. When he corners them and Tails tries to stop him, Tsali throws the fox to the floor and graphically [[{{Gorn}}tears rips his heart and lungs from his chest]]. With his bare hands.
** The death of Cosmo's sister Galaxina is shown this time around in Episode 62. Tsali grabs her head and shoves it into a ruptured fuel line. [[EyeScream The]] [[BodyHorror result]] is not for the faint of heart.
** Chris gets impaled through the chest by Beelzebub's stinger in Episode 67, which injects corrosive acid into his body with very {{Squick}}-y effects. He gets better when Beelzebub saves him with Chaos Regeneration - [[ColdBloodedTorture so Beelzebub can torture him some more]].
** Episode 68 reveals what the the Demons do to runaway slaves; the women and children are nailed to crosses and the men are hanged by their ribs before being lashed to the outside hulls of Demon warships.
** The Muslims are pretty much the king of this trope - among other barbaric punishments, they often [[HumanResources rend non-Muslims down in flesh troughs for construction material]], or strap them into literal mechanical rape spiders called ''ankaboot'' that [[AndIMustScream slowly molest them to death with pistons]].
* CruelTwistEnding:[[spoiler:Just like its source material, this doesn't end happily. Only this time, it's ''Tails'' who bites it. And Ending B takes this trope up [[spoiler:Sonic and his friends defeat Dark Tails and save the galaxy. JUST KIDDING! Dark Tails' death allows an entire race of ''even worse'' Lovecraftian horrors to eleven.finally escape. Which they do - and then promptly exterminate nearly all life in the universe.]]
*CurbstompBattle: The battle between CurbStompBattle: In Episode 64, Lord Maledict himself appears to challenge Sonic and take the Chaos Emeralds. When Sonic and his friends refuse, Maledict promptly stomps Super Sonic, Super Shadow, and Super Sonic/Super Shadow/Super Eric in into the floor at the same time. He also obliterates the ''Tryphon'' station and the entire Metarex fleet with a single attack.
** In Episode64 ends up being one 73, Tsali kills Tails and is about to kill Cosmo. Then Tails turns into [[LovecraftianSuperpower Shroud Tails]], regenerates himself, sucks out all of these. Even in their most powerful forms, the heroes are unable to harm the Devil at all.Tsali's Dark Chaos Energy reserves, and throws Tsali into space through a window.
** The death of Cosmo's sister Galaxina is shown this time around in Episode 62. Tsali grabs her head and shoves it into a ruptured fuel line. [[EyeScream The]] [[BodyHorror result]] is not for the faint of heart.
** Chris gets impaled through the chest by Beelzebub's stinger in Episode 67, which injects corrosive acid into his body with very {{Squick}}-y effects. He gets better when Beelzebub saves him with Chaos Regeneration - [[ColdBloodedTorture so Beelzebub can torture him some more]].
** Episode 68 reveals what the the Demons do to runaway slaves; the women and children are nailed to crosses and the men are hanged by their ribs before being lashed to the outside hulls of Demon warships.
** The Muslims are pretty much the king of this trope - among other barbaric punishments, they often [[HumanResources rend non-Muslims down in flesh troughs for construction material]], or strap them into literal mechanical rape spiders called ''ankaboot'' that [[AndIMustScream slowly molest them to death with pistons]].
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The third season of ''Sonic X'' was dark on its own for ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', and this fic takes it up to eleven. Much of the galaxy is in ruins, torn about by civil war and malevolent gods. Numerous characters die and there is loads of graphic violence.
* DealWithTheDevil: Since the devil is an actual character, this is quite common.
** Dark Oak is following the advice and orders of the mysterious M [[spoiler:who is actually Maledict]].
** Tsali, nearly killed during the nuclear annihilation of Seedrius, sold himself to Maledict for revenge. The Devil gave him permission to destroy the Metarex and plunder the galaxy without fear of punishment. [[spoiler:Tsali doesn't find out [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the price]] until later]].
** [[spoiler:Venus the Seedrian]] prayed to Maledict for the power to defend her race from Tsali. He answered, although [[AndIMustScream not in the way she expected]]. [[spoiler: This is why she ultimately betrays Maledict]].
* DealWithTheDevil: Since the devil is an actual character, this is quite common.
** Dark Oak is following the advice and orders of the mysterious M [[spoiler:who is actually Maledict]].
** Tsali, nearly killed during the nuclear annihilation of Seedrius, sold himself to Maledict for revenge. The Devil gave him permission to destroy the Metarex and plunder the galaxy without fear of punishment. [[spoiler:Tsali doesn't find out [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the price]] until later]].
** [[spoiler:Venus the Seedrian]] prayed to Maledict for the power to defend her race from Tsali. He answered, although [[AndIMustScream not in the way she expected]]. [[spoiler: This is why she ultimately betrays Maledict]].
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* DarkIsNotEvil: This story has several examples.
** Venus the Seedrian; a scarred cybrog [[PlantAliens Seedrian]] wearing a black leather combat outfit and armed with a SinisterScythe. She has made it her mission to protect the remaining members of her race from Tsali at all costs. [[spoiler: Subverted when she's possessed by Dark Tails]].
** [[spoiler: Tsali]] and Maledict are deconstructions of this trope. [[spoiler: Tsali is more brainwashed by his programming than truly evil]] and [[spoiler: Maledict is basically a WellIntentionedExtremist taken to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality its extreme]]]].
** The Marmolims who worship Maledict dress up in black robes and perform satanic rituals in his name. Despite that, they are all actually quite reasonable and friendly, and they immediately come to Sonic's aid.
* DarkerAndEdgier:The This story is a full remake and DeconstructionFic of the third season of ''Sonic X'' ''Anime/SonicX''. While the original season was quite dark on its own for ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', and a ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series, this fic takes it up to eleven. Much of the grim elements to the extreme. The galaxy is a war-torn CrapsackWorld ruled by [[TheLegionsOfHell demons]] and infested with Shroud parasites, graphic violence and NightmareFuel abound, numerous characters die, and the ending is bittersweet at best [[spoiler: and full non-comedic ShaggyDogStory at worst]]. And the rewrite is often ''even darker that the original'', featuring such pleasent themes as near-galactic destruction, [[spoiler: [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]]], horrific science experiments, [[ReligionIsWrong fundamentalism]], [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate religiously-forced pregnancy]], and [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild children]] being [[RapeAsDrama sexually assaulted]]]].
* DarkestHour: Episode 75 is even titled "Resurrection of Darkness". The final battle between the Angels and Demons begins, with both Maledict and Jesus Christ battling each other. The entire Milky Way Galaxy is in ruins,torn Sonic's allies have been wiped out, the Blue Typhoon has been wrecked, and the ''Galaxy Crusher'' is about by civil war to wipe out the remnants of Milky Way in an instant. And just to top it all off, Dark Tails appears and malevolent gods. Numerous characters die and there is loads uses the Chaos Emeralds to become a god - putting the fate of graphic violence.
the entire universe on the line.
* DealWithTheDevil:Since the devil is an actual character, this is This story has quite common.
a few from [[{{Satan}} Lord Maledict]];
**Dark Oak is following the advice Tsali vowed to serve and orders of the mysterious M [[spoiler:who is actually Maledict]].
** Tsali, nearly killed during the nuclear annihilation of Seedrius, sold himself tofollow Maledict for revenge. if he would help the fox get revenge on the Seedrians. The Devil gave promptly turned him permission to destroy the Metarex into a Demon Lord and plunder the galaxy without fear revived him in exchange for eternal servitude. Also, Venus ritually sacrificed several of punishment. [[spoiler:Tsali doesn't find out [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the price]] until later]].
** [[spoiler:Venus the Seedrian]] prayedher fellow Seedrians to Maledict for the power to defend protect her race people from Tsali. [[BodyHorror He answered, answered]], although [[AndIMustScream [[SelfInflictedHell not in the way she expected]]. [[spoiler: This is why she ultimately betrays Maledict]].expected]].
** The rewrite implies that Dr. Eggman made one with Maledict as well, after Maria and Gerald Robotnik were killed by GUN. Eggman [[FreudianExcuse wanted to get revenge on humanity for destroying his family]]; Satan gave him a genius-level IQ and affinity towards machines, in exchange for [[StartOfDarkness commanding him to hunt down the Chaos Emeralds and helping to conquer the universe]].
** Venus the Seedrian; a scarred cybrog [[PlantAliens Seedrian]] wearing a black leather combat outfit and armed with a SinisterScythe. She has made it her mission to protect the remaining members of her race from Tsali at all costs. [[spoiler: Subverted when she's possessed by Dark Tails]].
** [[spoiler: Tsali]] and Maledict are deconstructions of this trope. [[spoiler: Tsali is more brainwashed by his programming than truly evil]] and [[spoiler: Maledict is basically a WellIntentionedExtremist taken to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality its extreme]]]].
** The Marmolims who worship Maledict dress up in black robes and perform satanic rituals in his name. Despite that, they are all actually quite reasonable and friendly, and they immediately come to Sonic's aid.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
* DarkestHour: Episode 75 is even titled "Resurrection of Darkness". The final battle between the Angels and Demons begins, with both Maledict and Jesus Christ battling each other. The entire Milky Way Galaxy is in ruins,
* DealWithTheDevil:
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** Tsali, nearly killed during the nuclear annihilation of Seedrius, sold himself to
** [[spoiler:Venus the Seedrian]] prayed
** The rewrite implies that Dr. Eggman made one with Maledict as well, after Maria and Gerald Robotnik were killed by GUN. Eggman [[FreudianExcuse wanted to get revenge on humanity for destroying his family]]; Satan gave him a genius-level IQ and affinity towards machines, in exchange for [[StartOfDarkness commanding him to hunt down the Chaos Emeralds and helping to conquer the universe]].
* DeconReconSwitch: The story rewrites the third season of ''Anime/SonicX'' into a [[CrapsackWorld hellish]] CosmicHorrorStory. It deconstructs both the origin of the Chaos Emeralds (created by [[spoiler: the devil himself]]) and the characters. Sonic's whole self-image as an InvincibleHero and TheAce is quickly shattered and the characters - especially the younger ones like [[BrokenBird Cream]] - are [[DespairEventHorizon visibly affected]] by the horrors around them. However, the heroes know that they can't give up, [[{{Determinator}} so they keep going regardless]]. The rewrite makes the switch even more blatant, emphasizing ThePowerOfFriendship and hope even in the face of cosmic terror.
* DespairEventHorizon: In Episode 74, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Tsali]] crossed the horizon [[spoiler: when he was [[UnwillingRoboticization forcibly roboticized]] by his adopted father Luke the Seedrian]] to cap off his BreakTheCutie backstory. This torture broke what little was left of his sanity and hope; he [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge slaughtered the entire Seedrian race in revenge]], made a literal DealWithTheDevil, and started the Metarex War.
** All of the main characters pretty much hit this after [[WhamEpisode Episode 73]], ''especially'' Knuckles and Cosmo. [[spoiler: Only Tails regenerating himself with his Shroud parasites]] pulls them back.
** Dark Oak crosses this in Episode 64 after his fleet is utterly annihilated and his primary command center is destroyed. He spends the rest of the story in a drawn-out VillainousBreakdown until he meets Sonic in Episode 72.
* DeusExMachina: * Episode 75 has a big one. Maledict has [[TheBadGuyWins lured the heroes into his trap and takes the entire galaxy hostage with the Galaxy Crusher in exchange for the Chaos Emeralds]], leaving the heroes in a literally hopeless situation. Suddenly, a gigantic Angel fleet led by Jesus Christ himself suddenly shuts down Maledict's trap and ambushes his fleet.
** All of the main characters pretty much hit this after [[WhamEpisode Episode 73]], ''especially'' Knuckles and Cosmo. [[spoiler: Only Tails regenerating himself with his Shroud parasites]] pulls them back.
** Dark Oak crosses this in Episode 64 after his fleet is utterly annihilated and his primary command center is destroyed. He spends the rest of the story in a drawn-out VillainousBreakdown until he meets Sonic in Episode 72.
* DeusExMachina: * Episode 75 has a big one. Maledict has [[TheBadGuyWins lured the heroes into his trap and takes the entire galaxy hostage with the Galaxy Crusher in exchange for the Chaos Emeralds]], leaving the heroes in a literally hopeless situation. Suddenly, a gigantic Angel fleet led by Jesus Christ himself suddenly shuts down Maledict's trap and ambushes his fleet.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Maledict is a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] who created an extremely elaborate GambitRoulette to defeat the Angels and conquer the universe. However, he didn't expect Sonic the Hedgehog to get pulled into the fray by mistake. [[spoiler:Nor did he expect his gambit to create a malevolent EldritchAbomination by mistake.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** The Jewish Republic and the Emirate of Mecca [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict are ancient enemies and are constantly at each other's throats]] despite being technical political allies in the Angel Federation. The fact that both sides are blatently in the wrong just makes it even more {{Anvilicious}}.
** A superpower gets involved in a foreign civil war [[spoiler:that it partially started in the first place]] and invades the galaxy, prompting another major superpower to invade in response, and the conflict quickly bogs down into bloody stalemate. [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korea]]? [[SarcasmMode Nope, definitely not]].
** According to WordOfGod, the Jewish Republic is a far right wing society obsessed with Jewish racial purity and often exterminates worlds with toxic gas. What major world event could that be an [[{{Irony}} ironic]] [[ThoseWackyNazis reference]] [[FinalSolution to]]?
** The Jewish Republic and the Emirate of Mecca [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict are ancient enemies and are constantly at each other's throats]] despite being technical political allies in the Angel Federation. The fact that both sides are blatently in the wrong just makes it even more {{Anvilicious}}.
** A superpower gets involved in a foreign civil war [[spoiler:that it partially started in the first place]] and invades the galaxy, prompting another major superpower to invade in response, and the conflict quickly bogs down into bloody stalemate. [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korea]]? [[SarcasmMode Nope, definitely not]].
** According to WordOfGod, the Jewish Republic is a far right wing society obsessed with Jewish racial purity and often exterminates worlds with toxic gas. What major world event could that be an [[{{Irony}} ironic]] [[ThoseWackyNazis reference]] [[FinalSolution to]]?
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Following Tails' death, along with the fact that she was the one to do the act, Cosmo is so distraught that she actually grabs a blaster and nearly shoots herself in the head. The others manage to talk her out of it by saying it's not what Tails would've wanted]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Following DownerEnding: The original version ends with a race of [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] called the Forerunners returning after trillions of years of imprisonment, and [[DistantFinale eventually devastating most of the universe in the process]].
** The author created four alternate endings for the rewrite on his Website/DeviantArt page, with two of them being this trope and the other two bittersweet. Ending B has [[TheBadGuyWins Dark Tails detonating the Dark Planet Egg]], killing the entire cast and turning the ''entire Virgo Supercluster'' into a hellish warped nightmare. Ending C is the Forerunner ending above.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** In the rewrite, it's heavily implied that Cosmo's crash in the first episode was actually her trying to commit suicide by destroying her pod after learning she was being followed by Tsali. However, by sheer luck, [[HappilyFailedSuicide she found Sonic's world in the process]].
** Talia/[[spoiler:Limit]] tried to kill herself after [[spoiler: she betrayed Tsali to try and end the Metarex War, hating what both herself and her older brother became - and [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled trying to escape Tsali's retribution]]]]. Unfortunately, Hertia captured her and [[ColdBloodedTorture had other plans]].
** Venus the Seedrian kills herself to [[DyingAsYourself break Dark Tails' control on her]].
**[[spoiler:Following Tails' death, along with the fact that she was the one to do the act, Cosmo is so distraught that she actually grabs a blaster and nearly shoots herself in the head. The others manage to talk her out of it by saying it's not what Tails would've wanted]].
** The author created four alternate endings for the rewrite on his Website/DeviantArt page, with two of them being this trope and the other two bittersweet. Ending B has [[TheBadGuyWins Dark Tails detonating the Dark Planet Egg]], killing the entire cast and turning the ''entire Virgo Supercluster'' into a hellish warped nightmare. Ending C is the Forerunner ending above.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** In the rewrite, it's heavily implied that Cosmo's crash in the first episode was actually her trying to commit suicide by destroying her pod after learning she was being followed by Tsali. However, by sheer luck, [[HappilyFailedSuicide she found Sonic's world in the process]].
** Talia/[[spoiler:Limit]] tried to kill herself after [[spoiler: she betrayed Tsali to try and end the Metarex War, hating what both herself and her older brother became - and [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled trying to escape Tsali's retribution]]]]. Unfortunately, Hertia captured her and [[ColdBloodedTorture had other plans]].
** Venus the Seedrian kills herself to [[DyingAsYourself break Dark Tails' control on her]].
**[[spoiler:Following Tails' death, along with the fact that she was the one to do the act, Cosmo is so distraught that she actually grabs a blaster and nearly shoots herself in the head. The others manage to talk her out of it by saying it's not what Tails would've wanted]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Ending D: [[spoiler:Tails survives the final battle]] and manages to cripple Dark Tails by successfully destroying the Dark Planet Egg, allowing Maledict and Jesus to depower him and seal him in Warpspace forever. Maledict and Jesus agree to a temporary ceasefire and Maledict gives Sonic his Planet Egg back. The galaxy slowly starts to rebuild and Sonic and friends return home.
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** DarkTails full stop. Powered by Tails, the GreaterScopeVillain, is a physical manifestation of the Seedrians' collective terror of Tsali [[spoiler:and strongly implied to be a Forerunner in the rewrite]]. He begins to spread [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]]? Check. Enough power Energy]] across the galaxy and is literally MadeOfEvil. During the final battle, he transforms from a gigantic multi-headed space dragon to cleanse whole planets an [[GeniusLoci entire sentient planet]]. And then he mutates into a [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm literally incomprehensible mass]] of life? Check. Can drive other beings completely insane by speaking tentacles, eyes, mouths, and [[AndIMustScream voices crying in eternal agony]]. It's rather telling that it eventually took three Hyper-powered hedgehogs and ''both Satan and Jesus Christ in person'' (combined) to them? Check.finally beat him [[spoiler:[[CruelTwistEnding which ends up backfiring horribly]]]].
** [[AbusivePrecursors The Forerunners]] are an entire race of these, [[SealedEvilInACan sealed deep inside the depths of Warpspace long ago]]. [[spoiler:And it turns out they're [[EnemyCivilWar not all]] [[DefectorFromDecadence evil]] either]]. And it turns out Sonic and friends have already seen some - [[spoiler:the Chao from the games are actually infant Forerunners.]]
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** [[AbusivePrecursors The Forerunners]] are an entire race of these, [[SealedEvilInACan sealed deep inside the depths of Warpspace long ago]]. [[spoiler:And it turns out they're [[EnemyCivilWar not all]] [[DefectorFromDecadence evil]] either]]. And it turns out Sonic and friends have already seen some - [[spoiler:the Chao from the games are actually infant Forerunners.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Tsali deeply cared about the mercenaries he hired to aid him with exterminating the Seedrians - to the point when [[spoiler:they betrayed him to try to end the Metarex War]], he was so devastated that he suffered a slight VillainousBreakdown. Especially Talia, as [[spoiler:she was madly in love with Tsali and only reluctantly turned against him]] which is probably why [[spoiler:he gave her a MercyKill]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In Episode 67, Eggman and his crew end up stumbling upon Beelzebub's lair, where they decide to eavesdrop in order to find the Chaos Emeralds. Then they hear the screams from Beelzebub [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] Cosmo, and then they find [[spoiler: Chris unconscious and bleeding from his anus after being nearly raped to death by Beelzebub]]. Eggman is so shocked and horrified - and utterly [[UnstoppableRage furious]] - that he flat out tells Sonic and his friends to leave with the Chaos Emerald ''so they don't have to watch him beat the Demon to a bloody pulp''. [[spoiler: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil]], indeed.
** This trope is also [[spoiler: the reason Tsali's mercenaries betrayed him]]; they eventually became [[VillainousBreakdown exhausted and distraught]] from the endless killing of innocent people.
** Interestingly, ''Tsali'' of all people has standards too - despite his penchant for mass murder, he's uncomfortable with slavery and [[PetTheDog immediately freed the slaves Maledict gave him as a gift when he became a Demon Lord]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In Episode 67, Eggman and his crew end up stumbling upon Beelzebub's lair, where they decide to eavesdrop in order to find the Chaos Emeralds. Then they hear the screams from Beelzebub [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] Cosmo, and then they find [[spoiler: Chris unconscious and bleeding from his anus after being nearly raped to death by Beelzebub]]. Eggman is so shocked and horrified - and utterly [[UnstoppableRage furious]] - that he flat out tells Sonic and his friends to leave with the Chaos Emerald ''so they don't have to watch him beat the Demon to a bloody pulp''. [[spoiler: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil]], indeed.
** This trope is also [[spoiler: the reason Tsali's mercenaries betrayed him]]; they eventually became [[VillainousBreakdown exhausted and distraught]] from the endless killing of innocent people.
** Interestingly, ''Tsali'' of all people has standards too - despite his penchant for mass murder, he's uncomfortable with slavery and [[PetTheDog immediately freed the slaves Maledict gave him as a gift when he became a Demon Lord]].
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Allysion is such a depraved fundamentalist sociopath that she doesn't understand how Sonic could be a potential ally. Maledict suffers this too to a lsser extent, as he he is utterly baffled that Sonic is fighting him [[spoiler: despite Sonic being his "son"]]. Also becomes a plot point in Episode 74; [[spoiler: when Cosmo forgives Tsali for the things he did to her and her people, the resulting literal LogicBomb in his programming causes him to do a HeelFaceTurn]].
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* {{Expy}}: The story has a very large number of them, and WordOfGod has confirmed that many of the non-canon characters were based on others in at least some form.
** Dark Tails is an expy of [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime Dark Samus]]. Also, the Quadraxis robot is basically the same as the boss from the same game, except massively upgraded and far more powerful (and vicious). Dark Chaos Energy is also a pretty clear expy of Phazon.
** Along with his obvious parallels to Shadow, Tsali is essentially a more-humanlike Franchise/{{Terminator}}. In a similar vein, the armies of flesh-eating Tsali Androids he once controlled are rather suspiciously similar to [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]].
** According to the author, Venus the Seedrian is a gender-flipped version of Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', with several parallels in their back stories.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Tephiroth]] is the most blatantly obvious one, except his character and personality are entirely different. And he's not evil.
** Even the ''ships'' are expies according to WordOfGod -- the Dreadnought is based on the [[http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Machariel Machariel]] from ''VideoGame/EveOnline'', and Maledict's ''Leviathan''-class ships are based on the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Eclipse-class_dreadnought Eclipse Super Star Destroyer]].
** Dark Tails is an expy of [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime Dark Samus]]. Also, the Quadraxis robot is basically the same as the boss from the same game, except massively upgraded and far more powerful (and vicious). Dark Chaos Energy is also a pretty clear expy of Phazon.
** Along with his obvious parallels to Shadow, Tsali is essentially a more-humanlike Franchise/{{Terminator}}. In a similar vein, the armies of flesh-eating Tsali Androids he once controlled are rather suspiciously similar to [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron Flayed Ones]].
** According to the author, Venus the Seedrian is a gender-flipped version of Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', with several parallels in their back stories.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Tephiroth]] is the most blatantly obvious one, except his character and personality are entirely different. And he's not evil.
** Even the ''ships'' are expies according to WordOfGod -- the Dreadnought is based on the [[http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Machariel Machariel]] from ''VideoGame/EveOnline'', and Maledict's ''Leviathan''-class ships are based on the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Eclipse-class_dreadnought Eclipse Super Star Destroyer]].
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** Tsali graphically tears Molly's limbs off with his powers and then shoots her in Episode 68.
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* FatalFlaw: Both Maledict and Jesus' monomaniacal pride is what keeps them from understanding the terrible consequences of their endless warfare. Likewise, Tsali's vengeful wrath basically jump-started the Metarex War.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The people who are killed or [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] suffer this. He takes their souls and uses them for eternity as conduits of [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]]. And the punishment for high treason in the Demon Empire is eternal torment.
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** Tsali has shades of this in the rewrite. Despite his AxCrazy love for killing and bloodshed, he's quite sociable and sympathetic to Trinity, even after he realizes that Trinity is an Angel spy.
** Maledict himself hides his megalomania and obsessive desire for power under a rather level-headed demeanor and [[WellIntentionedExtremist a thin veneer of good intentions]]. [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks On the other side]], Jesus hides his own lust for revenge and callous dislike of non-Angels under a facade of concern and empathy, even though he was perfectly fine with ''slaughtering quadrillions of innocent people'' to invade the Milky Way.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The people who are killed or [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] suffer this. He takes their souls and uses them for eternity as conduits of [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]]. And the punishment for high treason in the Demon Empire is eternal torment.
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** Tsali has shades of this in the rewrite. Despite his AxCrazy love for killing and bloodshed, he's quite sociable and sympathetic to Trinity, even after he realizes that Trinity is an Angel spy.
** Maledict himself hides his megalomania and obsessive desire for power under a rather level-headed demeanor and [[WellIntentionedExtremist a thin veneer of good intentions]]. [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks On the other side]], Jesus hides his own lust for revenge and callous dislike of non-Angels under a facade of concern and empathy, even though he was perfectly fine with ''slaughtering quadrillions of innocent people'' to invade the Milky Way.
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* ForWantOfANail: According to WordOfGod, the backstory of ''Dark Chaos'' diverges from the canon ''Anime/SonicX'' in two specific ways. Both of these critical changes set off a chain reaction that leads to the DarkerAndEdgier CrapsackWorld of ''Dark Chaos'' compared to the canon ''Anime/SonicX'';
** Tsali's entire story never happens and he doesn't become the Ultimate Weapon in the canon. In ''Dark Chaos'', he does - which results in him exterminating Cosmo's race rather than the Metarex. He quickly turns the subsequent Metarex War into a [[WarIsHell brutal bloodbath]] that leaves much the galaxy in ruins and trillions of people dead.
** An economic depression forces Maledict to abandon his plans and pull his forces out of the Milky Way, [[FridgeLogic so the Demon Empire never appears in canon]]. In ''Dark Chaos'', this doesn't happen - so Maledict's plan goes off without a hitch and leads to the Demon occupation of the galaxy (which in turns leads to the Angel invasion in Episode 65).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The rewritten Episode 69 focuses on Sonic and friends being caught in the middle of a religious conflict between Marmolim Christians and the Marmolims who worship [[{{Satan}} Maledict]]. The satanic Marmolims initially revere Sonic as a literal messiah sent by Maledict to save them from the Shroud outside their city, while the Christians accuse him of being TheAntichrist and a spawn of the devil. [[spoiler: Episode 75 reveals that [[DarkMessiah both of them are more correct]] [[LukeIAmYourFather than they could ever know]]]].
** Also from Episode 69, there's a scene (taken from the original series) where Cosmo receives her fortune from a Marmolim seer, who says that her hate will bring suffering and death to those close to her. The previews of the sequel make this a form of retroactive foreshadowing - [[spoiler: Cosmo [[GoMadFromTheRevelation snaps from the trauma]], jumps straight through the MoralEventHorizon, and becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]].
** Cosmo takes Venus' demon-powered scythe from Tsali after he is beaten in Episode 73. [[spoiler: In the sequel, Cosmo's actions parallel Venus' mistakes almost to a tee - with tragic consequences]].
** Pretty much every single scene involving the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Legend of Disaster]] is this trope toward the [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]].
** Tsali's entire story never happens and he doesn't become the Ultimate Weapon in the canon. In ''Dark Chaos'', he does - which results in him exterminating Cosmo's race rather than the Metarex. He quickly turns the subsequent Metarex War into a [[WarIsHell brutal bloodbath]] that leaves much the galaxy in ruins and trillions of people dead.
** An economic depression forces Maledict to abandon his plans and pull his forces out of the Milky Way, [[FridgeLogic so the Demon Empire never appears in canon]]. In ''Dark Chaos'', this doesn't happen - so Maledict's plan goes off without a hitch and leads to the Demon occupation of the galaxy (which in turns leads to the Angel invasion in Episode 65).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The rewritten Episode 69 focuses on Sonic and friends being caught in the middle of a religious conflict between Marmolim Christians and the Marmolims who worship [[{{Satan}} Maledict]]. The satanic Marmolims initially revere Sonic as a literal messiah sent by Maledict to save them from the Shroud outside their city, while the Christians accuse him of being TheAntichrist and a spawn of the devil. [[spoiler: Episode 75 reveals that [[DarkMessiah both of them are more correct]] [[LukeIAmYourFather than they could ever know]]]].
** Also from Episode 69, there's a scene (taken from the original series) where Cosmo receives her fortune from a Marmolim seer, who says that her hate will bring suffering and death to those close to her. The previews of the sequel make this a form of retroactive foreshadowing - [[spoiler: Cosmo [[GoMadFromTheRevelation snaps from the trauma]], jumps straight through the MoralEventHorizon, and becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]].
** Cosmo takes Venus' demon-powered scythe from Tsali after he is beaten in Episode 73. [[spoiler: In the sequel, Cosmo's actions parallel Venus' mistakes almost to a tee - with tragic consequences]].
** Pretty much every single scene involving the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Legend of Disaster]] is this trope toward the [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]].
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* FromBadToWorse: The story starts like the original ''Sonic X'', except Tsali attacks Sonic's world rather than Dark Oak. Then Satan himself steps into the fray, which rapidly escalates the conflict until the galaxy is torn apart in a war between demons and angels. And then an EldritchAbomination appears, obliterates both sides, and nearly causes the end of the entire universe. Finally, the story ends with [[spoiler: an entire ''race'' of Eldritch Abominations appearing and actually destroying ([[SequelHook most of]]) the entire universe]].
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* TheTunguskaEvent: In the background material, it was the result of a disabled Angel scout ship activating its Warpspace drive in Earth's atmosphere just before it crashed.
* TheUnpronounceable:
** Demonish, the common Demon language. Most of it is translated, but not all of it. The easiest way to replicate it is to [[WordOfGod "roll your face on your keyboard"]]. It is described in-story as a combination of Latin and Enochian put in ''reverse''.
** Demonese Skript, an ancient form of Demonish, is literally only translatable by Maledict himself.
* TheUnpronounceable:
** Demonish, the common Demon language. Most of it is translated, but not all of it. The easiest way to replicate it is to [[WordOfGod "roll your face on your keyboard"]]. It is described in-story as a combination of Latin and Enochian put in ''reverse''.
** Demonese Skript, an ancient form of Demonish, is literally only translatable by Maledict himself.
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* TheWorldIsNotReady: Episode 75 reveals that this is the primary motivation for Maledict trying to rule the entire universe. He believes that sentient mortal beings are not ready for freedom to make their own decisions, and must be controlled (freely or by enslavement) for their own good.
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* TimeAbyss: The Eternal War has raged between the Angels and Demons for five hundred ''trillion'' years. Maledict and Allysion are even older than that; they helped create the entire universe several times over.
* TimeSkip:An There are short indeterminate amount of time passes skips between many most of the episodes.episodes. Only Episodes 55/56 and the episodes after 74 directly follow each other.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: In the lore of the fanfic, the Bible and the Koran are depicted as this, [[KnightTemplar driving people]] [[TheFundamentalist to madness]] and being able to summon Lovecraftian horrors with the right versions.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: In the lore of the fanfic, the Bible and the Koran are depicted as this, [[KnightTemplar driving people]] [[TheFundamentalist to madness]] and being able to summon Lovecraftian horrors with the right versions.
* TorturePorn: Episode 67 is this trope, inflicted on Chris and Cosmo. [[{{Squick}} With emphasis]] [[BrainBleach on the "porn."]]
* TrollFic: Believe it or not, This fanfic is this to a degree. WordOfGod confirms that most of the content revolving around the Angel Federation -- especially its ''[[StrawCharacter extremely]]'' [[UnfortunateImplications demeaning]] depiction of Islam - was created [[{{Troll}} specifically to piss off Muslim and Christian readers]].
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Tsali is the incarnation of this trope. He ''committed genocide'' on an entire race when he was only ten years old. Even thirty years later, he's still physically and mentally ten due to being turned into a robot - turning him into an AxCrazy PsychopathicManchild.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Tsali the Ulimate Weapon was involuntarily turned into a Dark Chaos Energy-powered battle android by Dark Oak. The second he awakened and freed himself, he immediately [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went off the deep end]] and promptly slaughtered the entire Seedrian race.
* UnwillingRoboticization: The story extensively deconstructs this trope to its [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul utterly]] [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[BodyHorror extremes]]. [[spoiler:''Especially'' with Tsali - this trope was inflicted to him by the Seedrians, caused him to go [[DespairEventHorizon nearly insane from pain and despair]], and led to him [[KillEmAll committing genocide]] on Cosmo's entire race in revenge before starting the Metarex War and destroying most of the galaxy]].
* UterineReplicator: One of the darker moments in this story is that the Miriam pods the Emirate of Mecca uses are a subversion - [[spoiler:they aren't a uterine replicator, they're ''actual women'', trapped in a metal pod and forced to bear a child every few ''seconds''. The heroes find this out when they come across a broken pod, still ejecting half-formed stillbirths.]]
* ViewersAreGenius: Some of the backstory and references in the fanfic are nearly impossible to understand without a theology major, historical research into Literature/{{the Bible}} and the Koran, knowledge of American right-wing Evangelical beliefs, [[CosmicHorrorStory familiarity with the works of HP Lovecraft]], and knowledge of Christian and Jewish demonology. Some understanding of [[UsefulNotes/{{Satanism}} LaVeyan Satanism]] helps too.
** Not to mention the numerous shout-outs to the original Japanese third season of ''Sonic X'' - which [[NoExportForYou was never officially released in the West]] and is [[DarkerAndEdgier much different]] than the western dub version.
* VillainBall: This fanfic mostly averts this trope - with the major exception of Episode 67. Beelzebub wanted to study Tails' Shroud infection one day, so he goes about it by ''kidnapping, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]], and [[BlackComedyRape raping]]'' Chris and Cosmo... and then [[TooDumbToLive gloating about it to Tails when he comes to rescue them]]. Somewhat justified in this case, since Beelzebub is an utterly sadistic pedophile and narcissistic MadScientist rolled up into one.
** Tsali grabs it in Episode 73. Rather than just blowing up the Blue Typhoon and killing everyone the easy way, he decides to rampage through the ship and meticulously slaughter Sonic and friends one by one. Trinity actually points this out to him... and Tsali retorts that just blowing them up is "[[AxCrazy way too simple for them]]." This ends up distracting him at several key moments, letting Tails and Cosmo get away.
*** He also temporarily grabbed it when he took on Super Sonic, Super Shadow, and Super Eric at once because he thought he could win. [[CurbStompBattle He was wrong]].
* VillainDecay: The fanfic does this badly with the Metarex. In the canon ''Anime/SonicX'', the Metarex were a nearly unstoppable empire of powerful robots led by even more-powerful robot overlords that gave Super Sonic a run for his money. ''Dark Chaos'' reduces them to a side faction... and by the halfway point of the story, their armies are all but destroyed and their leaders have gone into hiding (with a collective VillainousBreakdown for good measure). It doesn't help that their motivations are also completely different from the canon; in the show, they wanted to exterminate all animal life in the galaxy and replace it with plant life. In ''Dark Chaos'', they're just trying to find a way to kill Tsali and revive their species by [[WellIntentionedExtremist any means necessary]].
* VoodooShark: While the rewrite does a great job of filling the ''numerous'' plot holes in the original, a few explanations do fit this trope.
** If Tsali is so powerful, why didn't he just kill Sonic and his friends in the very first chapter? [[spoiler:It's because Maledict was monitoring him and ordering him not to.]] But this turns into a plot hole because Tsali can still resist and defy Maledict - which exactly what he does later as the animosity between them grows. Downplayed later on, as it's revealed that Tsali is terrified of pissing off Satan (and [[DoNotTauntCthulhu for good reason]]) and [[spoiler:when he ignores Maledict and decides to attack the Blue Typhoon in Episode 73]], he fully expects to be harshly punished for it... but he decides [[AxCrazy killing Cosmo and Sonic is worth it]] and doesn't care anymore.
** Exposure to [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]] is established to be able to rapidly evolve Shroud parasites. Despite this, during his fight with Dark Tails in Episode 69, Tails does not lose control and [[LovecraftianSuperpower mutate into Shroud Tails]]. This is explained later on - Tails has to directly absorb Dark Chaos Energy to mutate. However, this doesn't explain his first mutation in Episode 67...when he wasn't exposed to any energy at all. This is handwaved later on that the transformation in Episode 67 was an angry "spasm" rather than a full evolution, but it's not much better.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Tsali is the incarnation of this trope. He ''committed genocide'' on an entire race when he was only ten years old. Even thirty years later, he's still physically and mentally ten due to being turned into a robot - turning him into an AxCrazy PsychopathicManchild.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Tsali the Ulimate Weapon was involuntarily turned into a Dark Chaos Energy-powered battle android by Dark Oak. The second he awakened and freed himself, he immediately [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went off the deep end]] and promptly slaughtered the entire Seedrian race.
* UnwillingRoboticization: The story extensively deconstructs this trope to its [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul utterly]] [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[BodyHorror extremes]]. [[spoiler:''Especially'' with Tsali - this trope was inflicted to him by the Seedrians, caused him to go [[DespairEventHorizon nearly insane from pain and despair]], and led to him [[KillEmAll committing genocide]] on Cosmo's entire race in revenge before starting the Metarex War and destroying most of the galaxy]].
* UterineReplicator: One of the darker moments in this story is that the Miriam pods the Emirate of Mecca uses are a subversion - [[spoiler:they aren't a uterine replicator, they're ''actual women'', trapped in a metal pod and forced to bear a child every few ''seconds''. The heroes find this out when they come across a broken pod, still ejecting half-formed stillbirths.]]
* ViewersAreGenius: Some of the backstory and references in the fanfic are nearly impossible to understand without a theology major, historical research into Literature/{{the Bible}} and the Koran, knowledge of American right-wing Evangelical beliefs, [[CosmicHorrorStory familiarity with the works of HP Lovecraft]], and knowledge of Christian and Jewish demonology. Some understanding of [[UsefulNotes/{{Satanism}} LaVeyan Satanism]] helps too.
** Not to mention the numerous shout-outs to the original Japanese third season of ''Sonic X'' - which [[NoExportForYou was never officially released in the West]] and is [[DarkerAndEdgier much different]] than the western dub version.
* VillainBall: This fanfic mostly averts this trope - with the major exception of Episode 67. Beelzebub wanted to study Tails' Shroud infection one day, so he goes about it by ''kidnapping, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]], and [[BlackComedyRape raping]]'' Chris and Cosmo... and then [[TooDumbToLive gloating about it to Tails when he comes to rescue them]]. Somewhat justified in this case, since Beelzebub is an utterly sadistic pedophile and narcissistic MadScientist rolled up into one.
** Tsali grabs it in Episode 73. Rather than just blowing up the Blue Typhoon and killing everyone the easy way, he decides to rampage through the ship and meticulously slaughter Sonic and friends one by one. Trinity actually points this out to him... and Tsali retorts that just blowing them up is "[[AxCrazy way too simple for them]]." This ends up distracting him at several key moments, letting Tails and Cosmo get away.
*** He also temporarily grabbed it when he took on Super Sonic, Super Shadow, and Super Eric at once because he thought he could win. [[CurbStompBattle He was wrong]].
* VillainDecay: The fanfic does this badly with the Metarex. In the canon ''Anime/SonicX'', the Metarex were a nearly unstoppable empire of powerful robots led by even more-powerful robot overlords that gave Super Sonic a run for his money. ''Dark Chaos'' reduces them to a side faction... and by the halfway point of the story, their armies are all but destroyed and their leaders have gone into hiding (with a collective VillainousBreakdown for good measure). It doesn't help that their motivations are also completely different from the canon; in the show, they wanted to exterminate all animal life in the galaxy and replace it with plant life. In ''Dark Chaos'', they're just trying to find a way to kill Tsali and revive their species by [[WellIntentionedExtremist any means necessary]].
* VoodooShark: While the rewrite does a great job of filling the ''numerous'' plot holes in the original, a few explanations do fit this trope.
** If Tsali is so powerful, why didn't he just kill Sonic and his friends in the very first chapter? [[spoiler:It's because Maledict was monitoring him and ordering him not to.]] But this turns into a plot hole because Tsali can still resist and defy Maledict - which exactly what he does later as the animosity between them grows. Downplayed later on, as it's revealed that Tsali is terrified of pissing off Satan (and [[DoNotTauntCthulhu for good reason]]) and [[spoiler:when he ignores Maledict and decides to attack the Blue Typhoon in Episode 73]], he fully expects to be harshly punished for it... but he decides [[AxCrazy killing Cosmo and Sonic is worth it]] and doesn't care anymore.
** Exposure to [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]] is established to be able to rapidly evolve Shroud parasites. Despite this, during his fight with Dark Tails in Episode 69, Tails does not lose control and [[LovecraftianSuperpower mutate into Shroud Tails]]. This is explained later on - Tails has to directly absorb Dark Chaos Energy to mutate. However, this doesn't explain his first mutation in Episode 67...when he wasn't exposed to any energy at all. This is handwaved later on that the transformation in Episode 67 was an angry "spasm" rather than a full evolution, but it's not much better.
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* WarIsHell: The entire galaxy is hit with this. Not many battles are described directly in story... but the aftermath of those battles are. The Metarex and Tsali steal the Planet Eggs of worlds to siphon Chaos Energy from them, turning the planets into lifeless rocks. Many of the planets Sonic and his friends land search are either beyond saving or [[JustBeforeTheEnd about to be destroyed]]. One world they find is nothing but a CorpseLand; another is obliterated by [[EarthShatteringKaboom an exploding Planet Egg]] before their very eyes. Others are corrupted by [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]] or infested with [[TheVirus Shroud]] feeding on have been reduced to wastelands by the Metarex conflict. A number of other planets are destroyed by remains. Disease and starvation run rampant. The war between the various factions during Demons and Angels is described just as brutally, with gigantic war machines the story itself.size of towns clashing in merciless battles of attrition that can scour whole worlds of life in days, and plenty of RapePillageAndBurn (on a planetary scale) from both sides.
** The best example comes at the end of Episode 68; a Demon after-action report details that the entire Leo constellation was eaten by Shroud, with "[[WeHaveReserves acceptable]]" losses of 36.8 ''trillion'' people.
** The best example comes at the end of Episode 68; a Demon after-action report details that the entire Leo constellation was eaten by Shroud, with "[[WeHaveReserves acceptable]]" losses of 36.8 ''trillion'' people.
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* WholePlotReference: The discontinued prequel, ''Fall of the Seedrians'', is basically a retelling of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' with the Seedrians as the Colonials and Tsali/the Tsali Endoskeletons as the Cylons. [[spoiler: The [[KillEmAll only difference]] [[TheBadGuyWins is that]] [[DownerEnding it ends much, much worse]].]]
* WorthLivingFor: A villainous example. Tsali tells Trinity that he probably would've lost his mind and/or killed himself years before, but his [[ThePowerOfHate genocidal hatred]] for the Seedrians (and his servitude to Lord Maledict) gave him a purpose.
* WorthyOpponent: This story has numerous examples.
** After being beaten in Episode 66, Astorath strongly respects Sonic and his friends as warriors -- to the point where after he defeats them in Episode 75, he spares their lives.
** Tsali considers Venus one of these, as she's "the only Seedrian who ever put up a good fight."
** Jesus Christ respects Astorath for his honor and his PetTheDog tendencies, even though the two are archenemies on opposing sides. And although he hates Maledict on principle, he privately respects Satan's intelligence and cunning.
* WorthLivingFor: A villainous example. Tsali tells Trinity that he probably would've lost his mind and/or killed himself years before, but his [[ThePowerOfHate genocidal hatred]] for the Seedrians (and his servitude to Lord Maledict) gave him a purpose.
* WorthyOpponent: This story has numerous examples.
** After being beaten in Episode 66, Astorath strongly respects Sonic and his friends as warriors -- to the point where after he defeats them in Episode 75, he spares their lives.
** Tsali considers Venus one of these, as she's "the only Seedrian who ever put up a good fight."
** Jesus Christ respects Astorath for his honor and his PetTheDog tendencies, even though the two are archenemies on opposing sides. And although he hates Maledict on principle, he privately respects Satan's intelligence and cunning.
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* YamatoNadeshiko: Deliberately subverted with Sonya the Hedgehog - she's brash, cocky, prideful, and hot-tempered ([[JerkWithAHeartOfGold but good underneath it all]]). She also considers women who follow this trope to be weak helpless doormats [[spoiler:although she has a FreudianExcuse to explain it]]. By contrast, Cosmo plays this trope completely straight as part of her AdaptationalBadass characterization.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Maledict gives one to [[spoiler: Jesus Christ]] while the two of them are dueling on the Typhoon's flight deck in Episode 75.
-->'''Maledict''': What would you know of courage and honor, slave? Listen to you and your wretches yelling of courage and honor, courage and honor, courage and honor! Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is doing what must be done, no matter the cost! You know nothing of courage. Honor is protecting ''my'' universe from scum like you! You know nothing of honor. You Christians and Muslims and Jews! You rape and pillage and burn, you oppress the weak, you torment the innocent, you keep the universe down with delusions of salvation! You and your Goddess take all they have, but that's not enough for you!
--> ''[[spoiler: Jesus]]'': [[ShutUpHannibal Then you're a slave as much as I am]] - enslaved by your power, blind to the future. Too hateful to learn. Too spiteful to prosper.
** Earlier in the same episode, Shadow also gives one the Maledict in response to the latter's WeCanRuleTogether offer.
-->'''Shadow''': I made a promise to to a human I loved named Maria. I forgot that promise and I nearly wiped out an entire race because of it. You despise humans... and yet a human taught me the most valuable lesson of all; there are still things worth fighting for. Demon or Angel, it doesn't matter. I'm nobody's slave Maledict, especially not yours.
-->'''Maledict''': What would you know of courage and honor, slave? Listen to you and your wretches yelling of courage and honor, courage and honor, courage and honor! Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is doing what must be done, no matter the cost! You know nothing of courage. Honor is protecting ''my'' universe from scum like you! You know nothing of honor. You Christians and Muslims and Jews! You rape and pillage and burn, you oppress the weak, you torment the innocent, you keep the universe down with delusions of salvation! You and your Goddess take all they have, but that's not enough for you!
--> ''[[spoiler: Jesus]]'': [[ShutUpHannibal Then you're a slave as much as I am]] - enslaved by your power, blind to the future. Too hateful to learn. Too spiteful to prosper.
** Earlier in the same episode, Shadow also gives one the Maledict in response to the latter's WeCanRuleTogether offer.
-->'''Shadow''': I made a promise to to a human I loved named Maria. I forgot that promise and I nearly wiped out an entire race because of it. You despise humans... and yet a human taught me the most valuable lesson of all; there are still things worth fighting for. Demon or Angel, it doesn't matter. I'm nobody's slave Maledict, especially not yours.
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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Trying to comprehend the true form of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] is a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation very]], ''[[MindRape very]]'' bad idea. Maledict -- who happens to be the biblical {{Satan}} and an immortal PhysicalGod -- is literally left ''stunned with terror'' after he sees it.
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* TheEmpire: The Demon Empire rules half of the entire universe; in the distant past, it ruled ''all'' of it. Bloated and autocratic, it is nonetheless the main governing body of the setting. The Milky Way lays on its frontier.
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* TheEmpire: The Demon Empire is an autocratic and top-heavy HegemonicEmpire that rules half of the entire universe; in universe. The Angel Federation is the distant past, it ruled ''all'' only thing keeping the Empire from ruling all of it. Bloated Slavery is legal (although heavily regulated) and autocratic, it Demon law is nonetheless both harsh and unbending. Despite all of it, it's considered the main governing body of closest thing to a unified culture the setting. The Milky Way lays universe has; nearly every world uses Demon kredits, even if they live far on its frontier.the frontiers.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Neither Sonic nor any of his friends like Eric very much due to how crazy and annoying he is, and how he apparently [[NoodleIncident nearly got all of them killed several times in the past]]. Even Sonic himself, who is a bit more sympathetic to Eric, simply tolerates him at best.
* TheLegionsOfHell: The Demon Empire is this trope turned into a political state, complete with extremely advanced technology and slavery. And [[CrapsackWorld it's saying something about the 'verse]] that [[BlackAndGrayMorality they're considered the "nice" faction]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Eric and the crew of the Dreadnought take this [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] - featuring Alice the Cat (a rescued orphan girl), Sonya the Hedgehog (a [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] Japanese Delinquent WrenchWench [[spoiler: who happens to be a former princess]]), Shadow the Hedgehog, Fang the Sniper, Mighty the Armadillo, and of course [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Eric]] [[IdiotSavant the]] [[GeniusDitz Hedgehog]] himself. They end up holding their own against Demon forces many times their size, and [[HeroOfAnotherStory indirectly]] help Sonic and friends save the galaxy.
* {{Reconstruction}}:
** The story starts as a deconstruction of Sonic the Hedgehog, from the concept of Chaos Energy and the Chaos Emeralds to throwing the kid-friendly characters into a [[CrapsackWorld not-so-kid-friendly]] [[CosmicHorrorStory universe]] filled with BlackAndGrayMorality. However, the second half - especially in the rewritten version - is spent showing that ThePowerOfFriendship and ThePowerOfLove can prevail even in the face of cosmic terror.
** It also reconstructs the CosmicHorrorStory. [[spoiler:Not all of the all-powerful alien beings [[EternalRecurrence are evil]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality per se]]]], even if they seem to be at first glance.
* ReferenceOverdosed: This story could probably rival a Creator/QuentinTarantino movie with the sheer number of shout outs (both blatant and obscure) to other media, especially video games and movies.
** [[LampshadeHanging Hilariously]], one of them is an extended reference to Quentin Tarantino's ''Film/PulpFiction''.
* ReligionOfEvil: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Satan himself is worshiped as a literal god by many races of the galaxy, but the satanist churches are depicted as being rather friendly and helpful to their societies. Meanwhile, ''Islam'' (at least the [[TheThemeParkVersion version]] practiced by [[FantasyCounterpartCulture the Emirate of Mecca]]) and Christianity ([[LightIsNotGood to a lesser extent]]) are portrayed as this trope instead - [[DystopiaIsHard which is a major reason why many in-universe hate them even more than the Demons]].
* RememberTheNewGuy: * Lampshaded and PlayedForLaughs when Eric the Hedgehog shows up out of nowhere and Chris asks who he is.
-->'''Chris''': You guys never told me there was another hedgehog like Sonic on your planet!
-->'''Amy''': Yeah, and [[TheFriendNobodyLikes there's a reason for that]].
-->'''Knuckles''': Believe us Chris, you're lucky he didn't get teleported to your world with us last time.
* {{Retcon}}: The rewrite not only retconned huge parts of the original, but it also retconned nearly all of the author's prequel story ''Fall of the Seedrians'' as well - to the point where the author discontinued the prequel entirely.
* RevealingCoverUp: Maledict sends Tsali to kill Venus after she steals tons of classified information from the Demon government. Tsali eventually finishes her off -- but not before she reveals that bits of the information she found pertain to him. This makes Tsali intensely suspicious of Maledict and leads him to go find out what she learned [[spoiler: which ends up with him discovering the conspiracy behind both him the Metarex War -- and wrecking Maledict's entire master plan]].
* RockBeatsLaser: Played With in the background setting of the fanfic. The Demons initially thought that the Angel rebellion would be easy to defeat - the Demon Empire had technology that could ''destroy galaxies at the push of a button'' and ''control time'' versus [[FuturePrimitive simple projectile weapons and nuclear missiles]]. Turned out that the Jews, Muslims, and Angels had [[SchizoTech much more than that]], and used their more... advanced technology to fight the Demons into [[HopelessWar a bloody, eternal stalemate]]. It helps that the Jews of the Tribal Republic are the masters of stealth and guerrilla warfare, and the Muslims are suicidally courageous and fanatical in battle.
** And then the Shroud appeared, playing this trope straight. The Shroud have no technology at all, being a parasitic HordeOfAlienLocusts, and yet there are so many of them and they are so strong that they can easily fight both Demons and Angels at the same time.
* RockMeAsmodeus: {{Beelzebub}} is the one who originally invented both the guitar and rock n' roll [[NoodleIncident (by accident, during the mother of all drug binges)]]. His guitar, ''Fuckslayer'', is the very first guitar ever made and [[ThePowerOfRock is so strong it can obliterate warships]].
* {{Reconstruction}}:
** The story starts as a deconstruction of Sonic the Hedgehog, from the concept of Chaos Energy and the Chaos Emeralds to throwing the kid-friendly characters into a [[CrapsackWorld not-so-kid-friendly]] [[CosmicHorrorStory universe]] filled with BlackAndGrayMorality. However, the second half - especially in the rewritten version - is spent showing that ThePowerOfFriendship and ThePowerOfLove can prevail even in the face of cosmic terror.
** It also reconstructs the CosmicHorrorStory. [[spoiler:Not all of the all-powerful alien beings [[EternalRecurrence are evil]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality per se]]]], even if they seem to be at first glance.
* ReferenceOverdosed: This story could probably rival a Creator/QuentinTarantino movie with the sheer number of shout outs (both blatant and obscure) to other media, especially video games and movies.
** [[LampshadeHanging Hilariously]], one of them is an extended reference to Quentin Tarantino's ''Film/PulpFiction''.
* ReligionOfEvil: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Satan himself is worshiped as a literal god by many races of the galaxy, but the satanist churches are depicted as being rather friendly and helpful to their societies. Meanwhile, ''Islam'' (at least the [[TheThemeParkVersion version]] practiced by [[FantasyCounterpartCulture the Emirate of Mecca]]) and Christianity ([[LightIsNotGood to a lesser extent]]) are portrayed as this trope instead - [[DystopiaIsHard which is a major reason why many in-universe hate them even more than the Demons]].
* RememberTheNewGuy: * Lampshaded and PlayedForLaughs when Eric the Hedgehog shows up out of nowhere and Chris asks who he is.
-->'''Chris''': You guys never told me there was another hedgehog like Sonic on your planet!
-->'''Amy''': Yeah, and [[TheFriendNobodyLikes there's a reason for that]].
-->'''Knuckles''': Believe us Chris, you're lucky he didn't get teleported to your world with us last time.
* {{Retcon}}: The rewrite not only retconned huge parts of the original, but it also retconned nearly all of the author's prequel story ''Fall of the Seedrians'' as well - to the point where the author discontinued the prequel entirely.
* RevealingCoverUp: Maledict sends Tsali to kill Venus after she steals tons of classified information from the Demon government. Tsali eventually finishes her off -- but not before she reveals that bits of the information she found pertain to him. This makes Tsali intensely suspicious of Maledict and leads him to go find out what she learned [[spoiler: which ends up with him discovering the conspiracy behind both him the Metarex War -- and wrecking Maledict's entire master plan]].
* RockBeatsLaser: Played With in the background setting of the fanfic. The Demons initially thought that the Angel rebellion would be easy to defeat - the Demon Empire had technology that could ''destroy galaxies at the push of a button'' and ''control time'' versus [[FuturePrimitive simple projectile weapons and nuclear missiles]]. Turned out that the Jews, Muslims, and Angels had [[SchizoTech much more than that]], and used their more... advanced technology to fight the Demons into [[HopelessWar a bloody, eternal stalemate]]. It helps that the Jews of the Tribal Republic are the masters of stealth and guerrilla warfare, and the Muslims are suicidally courageous and fanatical in battle.
** And then the Shroud appeared, playing this trope straight. The Shroud have no technology at all, being a parasitic HordeOfAlienLocusts, and yet there are so many of them and they are so strong that they can easily fight both Demons and Angels at the same time.
* RockMeAsmodeus: {{Beelzebub}} is the one who originally invented both the guitar and rock n' roll [[NoodleIncident (by accident, during the mother of all drug binges)]]. His guitar, ''Fuckslayer'', is the very first guitar ever made and [[ThePowerOfRock is so strong it can obliterate warships]].
* RoyallyScrewedUp: The Emirate of Mecca is ruled by the House of Ishmael. How utterly corrupt and screwed up is it? The [[TheCaligula Prophet Muhammad]] (who happens to be a completely insane dictator who tried to irrigate fields with blood) is considered to be ''one of the better members''. The family is the primary reason for the Emirate being a nightmarish totalitarian theocracy. According to WordOfGod, it was explicitly based on the real life Saudi royal family.
* RuleOfCool: Most of the story runs on this with a generous topping of DarkerAndEdgier and [[{{Gorn}} graphic violence]] out the wazoo. From battlestations the size of ''stars'' to [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon six-necked demonic guitars that can blast warships apart]] to murderous killer androids to ''Franchise/DragonBall''-esque Chaos powers, it's here. According to WordOfGod, most of the physics and science run on this too.
* {{Satan}}: Lord Maledict is the titular Devil. Ruler of the [[TheEmpire Demon Empire]], he's also the maker of the Chaos Emeralds, and helped create the entire universe. [[spoiler: And he also [[LukeIAmYourFather created Sonic the Hedgehog]]]]. Uniquely for the setting, Maledict is portrayed as far stronger than Jesus [[CurbStompBattle as he proves in Episode 75]] - while Jesus is simply a powerful (but technically mortal) Angel, Maledict is literally divine.
* SatanIsGood: Played With. [[PhysicalGod Maledict]] is a FauxAffablyEvil ManipulativeBastard tyrant with semi-good intentions. However, compared to [[GodIsEvil Allysion]] and the Angels (especially the Muslims), he looks like a saint in comparison.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The story goes all over the place with this. The Jews are (ironically) Nazis, the Muslims are Fundamentalists, the Angels are a vague Communist/Fundamentalist hybrid, and the Demons are Conquistadores.
* SceneryGorn: The story vividly describes a galaxy torn apart. Sonic and his friends find many worlds devastated by the Metarex conflict and Shroud pandemics, and some changed beyond recognition from losing their Planet Eggs. Others have been turned into glassed hellholes by the Demon Empire or transformed into [[GeniusLoci living conduits]] of [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]].
* SchizoTech: Technology is all over the place, depending on the planet and aliens involved. The Demons (minus Astorath and the Nephilim) and Angels are consistently portrayed as SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, but the Jewish forces range from [[FuturePrimitive flying pieces of welded scrap with machine guns]] to [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm secret tech so advanced that it cannot be physically understood]]. Some races that Sonic and his friends encounter have little to no technology at all, using old wooden sailing ships (the Zeko natives) or straight up satanic BlackMagic (the Marmolims). The Muslims may be the king of this trope, combining fanatical spearmen and suicide bombers with golden nuke-flinging battleships and BodyHorror-filled genetic engineering. It helps that its a totalitarian theocracy that considers many common pieces of technology to be ''haraam''.
* ScienceFantasy: The universe of ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'', being essentially a twisted mixture of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', runs entirely with this. It combines SpaceOpera science fiction mixed in with magical Chaos powers, Lovecraftian horrors, and SufficientlyAdvancedAliens.
* {{Seppuku}}: In a flashback in Episode 74, Cosmo's mother Hertia committed seppuku with a plasma knife after Maledict devolved her to her original form. It's actually a case of BetterToDieThanBeKilled - Maledict explicitly gave her the choice between suicide or a FateWorseThanDeath. And in an interesting case of ShownTheirWork, Maledict ends her suffering by decapitating her as well.
* RuleOfCool: Most of the story runs on this with a generous topping of DarkerAndEdgier and [[{{Gorn}} graphic violence]] out the wazoo. From battlestations the size of ''stars'' to [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon six-necked demonic guitars that can blast warships apart]] to murderous killer androids to ''Franchise/DragonBall''-esque Chaos powers, it's here. According to WordOfGod, most of the physics and science run on this too.
* {{Satan}}: Lord Maledict is the titular Devil. Ruler of the [[TheEmpire Demon Empire]], he's also the maker of the Chaos Emeralds, and helped create the entire universe. [[spoiler: And he also [[LukeIAmYourFather created Sonic the Hedgehog]]]]. Uniquely for the setting, Maledict is portrayed as far stronger than Jesus [[CurbStompBattle as he proves in Episode 75]] - while Jesus is simply a powerful (but technically mortal) Angel, Maledict is literally divine.
* SatanIsGood: Played With. [[PhysicalGod Maledict]] is a FauxAffablyEvil ManipulativeBastard tyrant with semi-good intentions. However, compared to [[GodIsEvil Allysion]] and the Angels (especially the Muslims), he looks like a saint in comparison.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The story goes all over the place with this. The Jews are (ironically) Nazis, the Muslims are Fundamentalists, the Angels are a vague Communist/Fundamentalist hybrid, and the Demons are Conquistadores.
* SceneryGorn: The story vividly describes a galaxy torn apart. Sonic and his friends find many worlds devastated by the Metarex conflict and Shroud pandemics, and some changed beyond recognition from losing their Planet Eggs. Others have been turned into glassed hellholes by the Demon Empire or transformed into [[GeniusLoci living conduits]] of [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]].
* SchizoTech: Technology is all over the place, depending on the planet and aliens involved. The Demons (minus Astorath and the Nephilim) and Angels are consistently portrayed as SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, but the Jewish forces range from [[FuturePrimitive flying pieces of welded scrap with machine guns]] to [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm secret tech so advanced that it cannot be physically understood]]. Some races that Sonic and his friends encounter have little to no technology at all, using old wooden sailing ships (the Zeko natives) or straight up satanic BlackMagic (the Marmolims). The Muslims may be the king of this trope, combining fanatical spearmen and suicide bombers with golden nuke-flinging battleships and BodyHorror-filled genetic engineering. It helps that its a totalitarian theocracy that considers many common pieces of technology to be ''haraam''.
* ScienceFantasy: The universe of ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'', being essentially a twisted mixture of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', runs entirely with this. It combines SpaceOpera science fiction mixed in with magical Chaos powers, Lovecraftian horrors, and SufficientlyAdvancedAliens.
* {{Seppuku}}: In a flashback in Episode 74, Cosmo's mother Hertia committed seppuku with a plasma knife after Maledict devolved her to her original form. It's actually a case of BetterToDieThanBeKilled - Maledict explicitly gave her the choice between suicide or a FateWorseThanDeath. And in an interesting case of ShownTheirWork, Maledict ends her suffering by decapitating her as well.
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* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Somewhere in the middle. While the story itself is ([[BlackComedy usually]]) treated quite seriously, the background material and setting is so blatantly tongue-in-cheek that the tongue goes right through the cheek.
* SlaveRace: The Jews were enslaved by the Demon Empire, before many of them rebelled and created their own nation. The Demons also tend to do this with many planets they conquer, if they do not exterminate them outright.
* SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters: This fanfic is heavy on the plot side, although the rewrite does add more characterization to everyone to help explain the plot.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Somewhere in the middle. While the story itself is ([[BlackComedy usually]]) treated quite seriously, the background material and setting is so blatantly tongue-in-cheek that the tongue goes right through the cheek.
* SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters: This fanfic is heavy on the plot side, although the rewrite does add more characterization to everyone to help explain the plot.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Somewhere in the middle. While the story itself is ([[BlackComedy usually]]) treated quite seriously, the background material and setting is so blatantly tongue-in-cheek that the tongue goes right through the cheek.
* TheSpartanWay: Heavily deconstructed. Cosmo's race tried to turn the ten year-old [[spoiler: Tsali]] into the "Ultimate Weapon" by replacing every single body part with robotics (without anesthesia), infusing his mechanical body with [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]] abilities, and putting him through TrainingFromHell that would make a Space Marine wince. [[TheDogBitesBack It]] [[CameBackWrong backfired]] ''[[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters horribly]]''; by the time it was over, [[spoiler: Tsali]] was nothing more than a bloodthirsty AxCrazy berserker -- he promptly committed genocide upon the entire Seedrian race in revenge the instant he escaped.
* SpoilerTitle: Episode 77 is titled "''Tails's Work''". If you know that the original episode's Japanese title was "''Cosmo's Work''" and that Cosmo dies in that episode...
* SpoofAesop: Muslims are all psychopathic pedophile fundamentalists who enjoy rape and torture [[ArtisticLicenseReligion because Islam says they should]]. Both Christianity and Judaism - and their followers - are depicted as stupid and naive at best or complete ReligionOfEvil at worst. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Episode 68:
-->'''Eric:''' Remember kids, Islam is bad and if you're a Muslim, you should feel bad!\\
'''Sonya:''' That's an... odd lesson.
* SpoilerTitle: Episode 77 is titled "''Tails's Work''". If you know that the original episode's Japanese title was "''Cosmo's Work''" and that Cosmo dies in that episode...
* SpoofAesop: Muslims are all psychopathic pedophile fundamentalists who enjoy rape and torture [[ArtisticLicenseReligion because Islam says they should]]. Both Christianity and Judaism - and their followers - are depicted as stupid and naive at best or complete ReligionOfEvil at worst. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Episode 68:
-->'''Eric:''' Remember kids, Islam is bad and if you're a Muslim, you should feel bad!\\
'''Sonya:''' That's an... odd lesson.
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* SummonBiggerFish: Episode 63. Tsali is finally cornered and on the verge of defeat. Cue Maledict himself appearing to face Sonic personally.
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* StealthParody: According to WordOfGod, the rewrite is this trope to grimdark "edgy" ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fanfics via both deconstruction and BlackComedy. The background materials are also scathingly satirical of Judeo-Christian religion rather than the author's actual views.
* StrawNihilist: Tsali the Ultimate Weapon is one of these [[spoiler:until TheReveal in Episode 74]]. He decides that all morality and compassion is meaningless to him; only revenge has any meaning for him.
* SummonBiggerFish: Episode 63. Tsali is finally cornered and on the verge of defeat. Cue Maledict himself appearing to face Sonicpersonally. personally.
* SuperPrototype: Tsali himself was this to the Tsali Endoskeletons. It's later revealed to be a JustifiedTrope -- the endoskeletons were built in the last days of the Demon-Seedrian War, with the Seedrians nearly wiped out and scraping together anything to slow the Demons down.
* StrawNihilist: Tsali the Ultimate Weapon is one of these [[spoiler:until TheReveal in Episode 74]]. He decides that all morality and compassion is meaningless to him; only revenge has any meaning for him.
* SummonBiggerFish: Episode 63. Tsali is finally cornered and on the verge of defeat. Cue Maledict himself appearing to face Sonic
* SuperPrototype: Tsali himself was this to the Tsali Endoskeletons. It's later revealed to be a JustifiedTrope -- the endoskeletons were built in the last days of the Demon-Seedrian War, with the Seedrians nearly wiped out and scraping together anything to slow the Demons down.
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* ThatsNoMoon: This is the reaction of the Chaotix when they detect into the reactivated ''Galaxy Crusher'', a Demon battlestation the size of a red giant.
-->'''Vector:''' I thought stars were supposed to be, you know, bright.\\
'''Espio:''' That's not a star.
-->'''Vector:''' I thought stars were supposed to be, you know, bright.\\
'''Espio:''' That's not a star.
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* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
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* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Maledict's response to Cosmo's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before the final battle, combined with HannibalLecture.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: This trope is the pretty much the only reason Sonic and friends even let Eric anywhere near them. Despite being an IdiotSavant CloudCuckoolander, he's got the technical skills of Tails with the fighting skills of Sonic - and he's genuinely good (most of the time) under all his insanity. This is also the reason why Sonya deeply loves him despite his craziness.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday:Maledict's response to Cosmo's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech In Episode 75, Cosmo calls [[{{Satan}} Maledict]] out on all the people he's killed and the horrible things he's done, including slaughtering the Seedrians and ruining Tsali's life. After a moment of silence, Maledict openly admits that for him, the Seedrians' extinction and the slaughter of Tsali's family was "just another day", before the final battle, combined following up with HannibalLecture.a HannibalLecture.
-->'''Maledict''': Do you know what I have seen in my immortal lifetime? I have watched the Big Bang scatter all the matter through the canvas of creation. I have seen whole galaxies collapse into oblivion. I have watched time itself expand and shrink in its eternity. I have seen countless civilizations rise and fall. And you think you are unique in your suffering? I have stood knee-deep in mud and bone. I have seen murdered dissidents and masses starved into faith. The innocent, the ''innocent'', Sonic- trod and bled and starved and beaten and killed! ''This'' is your galaxy! ''This'' is the lawlessness of nature!
* ButForMeItWasTuesday:
-->'''Maledict''': Do you know what I have seen in my immortal lifetime? I have watched the Big Bang scatter all the matter through the canvas of creation. I have seen whole galaxies collapse into oblivion. I have watched time itself expand and shrink in its eternity. I have seen countless civilizations rise and fall. And you think you are unique in your suffering? I have stood knee-deep in mud and bone. I have seen murdered dissidents and masses starved into faith. The innocent, the ''innocent'', Sonic- trod and bled and starved and beaten and killed! ''This'' is your galaxy! ''This'' is the lawlessness of nature!
* CassandraTruth:
** It's revealed that Astorath originally told Maledict to his face that his GambitRoulette would backfire spectacularly, but Maledict ignored him.
** Nobody believes any of Eric's ramblings about [[spoiler:Maledict's cloning process or his Ultimate Weapon plan]], even though he was [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight entirely right]].
** It's revealed that Astorath originally told Maledict to his face that his GambitRoulette would backfire spectacularly, but Maledict ignored him.
** Nobody believes any of Eric's ramblings about [[spoiler:Maledict's cloning process or his Ultimate Weapon plan]], even though he was [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight entirely right]].
* CerebusSyndrome: The story starts a lot like the original third season of Sonic X. [[DarkerAndEdgier It doesn't take long]] before the heroes realize [[CrapsackWorld just how messed up the galaxy really is]]. And then there's [[WhamEpisode Episode 74]]...
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* ClarkesThirdLaw: In the science fiction universe of ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'', it turns out this trope is why [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ]] was able to perform miracles in the Bible. He discovered a forgotten cache of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien insanely advanced]] [[AncientAstronauts Angel technology]] in a desert cave, which he was able to use thanks to his mutated genetics.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: In the science fiction universe of ''Sonic X: Dark Chaos'', it turns out this trope is why [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ]] was able to perform miracles in the Bible. He discovered a forgotten cache of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien insanely advanced]] [[AncientAstronauts Angel technology]] in a desert cave, which he was able to use thanks to his mutated genetics.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Eric the Hedgehog from embodies this trope. He's an IdiotSavant TalkativeLoon who loves breaking the fourth wall and talks to his weapons like they have personalities. Deconstructed later on - not only is it revealed that he's physically brain-damaged [[spoiler: due to imperfections in Maledict's cloning process]], but he's fully aware that his thoughts aren't entirely normal and has hidden crippling depression as a result.
* CombatPragmatist: Beelzebub is one of these. Rather than using a gigantic continent-sized flagship like Astorath, he uses a small battleship armed with a cloaking device so he can surprise foes.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The rewrite of Episode 68 gives us [[BlackComedy this gem]] when Jesus starts angsting about all the people killed in the Angel invasion of the galaxy. Two of his fellow Angel leaders try to reassure him;
--> '''al-Walim''': Look on the bright side, [[TakeThat at least they weren't aborted]].\\
'''Tobit''': [[CrossesTheLineTwice And you got rid of the gays]]. I mean, you know how much Allysion hates fags.
* ContrivedCoincidence: A common event in this story. The characters (especially [[DeadpanSnarker Knuckles]]) frequently lampshade it.
* TheCorruption: Dark Chaos Energy. The negative energy of the Emeralds of Power given physical form, it is a highly toxic blue substance that is extremely radioactive, highly corrosive, and mutagenic. It is capable of corrupting and twisting anything.
* CombatPragmatist: Beelzebub is one of these. Rather than using a gigantic continent-sized flagship like Astorath, he uses a small battleship armed with a cloaking device so he can surprise foes.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The rewrite of Episode 68 gives us [[BlackComedy this gem]] when Jesus starts angsting about all the people killed in the Angel invasion of the galaxy. Two of his fellow Angel leaders try to reassure him;
--> '''al-Walim''': Look on the bright side, [[TakeThat at least they weren't aborted]].\\
'''Tobit''': [[CrossesTheLineTwice And you got rid of the gays]]. I mean, you know how much Allysion hates fags.
* ContrivedCoincidence: A common event in this story. The characters (especially [[DeadpanSnarker Knuckles]]) frequently lampshade it.
* TheCorruption: Dark Chaos Energy. The negative energy of the Emeralds of Power given physical form, it is a highly toxic blue substance that is extremely radioactive, highly corrosive, and mutagenic. It is capable of corrupting and twisting anything.
* CrapsackWorld: The bleak [[DarkFantasy Dark]] ScienceFantasy setting of this fanfic could possibly give ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' a run for its money - [[CosmicHorrorStory the Milky Way Galaxy is not a nice place]]. A civil war between the [[PlantAliens Metarex]] and [[AIIsACrapshoot Tsali the Ultimate Weapon]] has decimated countless worlds and murdered billions of people. Meanwhile, GodAndSatanAreBothJerks who wage eternal cold war on each other and are responsible for most of the bleakness, manipulating and dooming whole galaxies to annihilation in order to further their plans. A [[TheEmpire corrupt and repressive autocratic empire]] of [[TheLegionsOfHell Demons]] and [[TheFederation a divided federation]] of [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]] battle in a ForeverWar across the whole universe, with genocide and RapePillageAndBurn being [[BlackAndGrayMorality the rule rather than the exception]]. [[TheVirus Shroud parasites]], led by their Primes, devour entire worlds on a regular basis. Torture, rape, starvation and disease run rampant, forcing innocents [[spoiler: such as Molly and Leon's refugee group]] to resort to cannibalism to survive. By the end of the story, it's implied that the galaxy has been depopulated so much that it may never recover. [[FromBadToWorse And that's all]] before [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] [[spoiler: and [[AbusivePrecursors the Forerunners]]]] enter the fray...
** Zigzagged with the alternate endings. Ending B manages to top even that where [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins and opens up a supercluster-sized NegativeSpaceWedgie, with the resulting Shroud invasion bringing about a universe-wide dark age]]. However, Ending D is [[WorldHalfFull notably more hopeful and upbeat on a small scale]].
** [[WordOfGod The author's background materials]] makes it worse. One of the most sacred traditions of the Angels is ''ritual child molestation''. The Jews and their society are [[ANaziByAnyOtherName obsessed with racial purity and genocide,]] and often [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything exterminate worlds with toxic gas]]. The Muslims routinely inflict AndIMustScream on their women and female captives. And so on.
* CrazyPrepared: In Episode 67, Beelzebub put a shield over himself in case Tails tried to attack him, planted a self destruct mechanism in his lair in case Sonic and friends tried to free the slaves there, and installed an escape pod - complete with Warp drive and communications - in his chamber in case Sonic and his friends attacked him directly and he was forced to flee.
** Maledict doesn't pull any punches in the Episode 75 rewrite either. He puts a Warpspace jamming field to prevent the heroes from fleeing and [[spoiler: summons the Galaxy Crusher to take the entire Milky Way Galaxy hostage and bully Sonic into submission]]. He also was prepared to change his master plan if something failed - [[spoiler: when Tsali betrayed him, Maledict shut his body down with a reset phrase he programmed into Tsali years before]]. He also [[spoiler: knew exactly where the Metarex were if needed, in case his pawns ever found out the true identity of his "M" alter ego]].
** Zigzagged with the alternate endings. Ending B manages to top even that where [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins and opens up a supercluster-sized NegativeSpaceWedgie, with the resulting Shroud invasion bringing about a universe-wide dark age]]. However, Ending D is [[WorldHalfFull notably more hopeful and upbeat on a small scale]].
** [[WordOfGod The author's background materials]] makes it worse. One of the most sacred traditions of the Angels is ''ritual child molestation''. The Jews and their society are [[ANaziByAnyOtherName obsessed with racial purity and genocide,]] and often [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything exterminate worlds with toxic gas]]. The Muslims routinely inflict AndIMustScream on their women and female captives. And so on.
* CrazyPrepared: In Episode 67, Beelzebub put a shield over himself in case Tails tried to attack him, planted a self destruct mechanism in his lair in case Sonic and friends tried to free the slaves there, and installed an escape pod - complete with Warp drive and communications - in his chamber in case Sonic and his friends attacked him directly and he was forced to flee.
** Maledict doesn't pull any punches in the Episode 75 rewrite either. He puts a Warpspace jamming field to prevent the heroes from fleeing and [[spoiler: summons the Galaxy Crusher to take the entire Milky Way Galaxy hostage and bully Sonic into submission]]. He also was prepared to change his master plan if something failed - [[spoiler: when Tsali betrayed him, Maledict shut his body down with a reset phrase he programmed into Tsali years before]]. He also [[spoiler: knew exactly where the Metarex were if needed, in case his pawns ever found out the true identity of his "M" alter ego]].
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* CrapsackWorld: As if the introduction didn't get that part across.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Several characters receive this treatment.
** Tails goes from being a weak, shy GadgeteerGenius into a MagnificentBastard captain who gains a LovecraftianSuperpower [[spoiler:and ends up saving the entire universe from an EldritchAbomination at the cost of his own life]].
** Cream stays with Sonic and friends to the end, even after seeing things that would make most adults break down. In Episode 66, she and her chao Cheese ends up beating Astorath the Prince of Darkness on her own.
** Cosmo saves several planets before becoming acting captain of the Blue Typhoon, and she is also appointed leader of the Metarex during the final battle. And in the rewrite, when Astorath and Beelzebub land on her ship, ''she runs out onto the flight deck with Venus' demon scythe and rips them a new one.''
** Chris Thorndyke goes from being a whiny, dependent brat to a GeniusBruiser, pulls off a BigDamnHeroes and unleashes DeathFromAbove with the Typhoon in the rewrite of Episode 69, and later on fights Beelzebub and Astorath alongside Cosmo during the final battle.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The Metarex were changed from a group of faceless robots trying to destroy the galaxy to a group of {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s who want to kill Tsali and rebuild the Seedrian species by any means necessary.
* AfterTheEnd: This fanfic is this for most of the Milky Way Galaxy, largely devastated by thirty years of the Metarex War and Shroud infestation. Most of the worlds in the galaxy are either lifeless or actively malevolent too, with Demons and Angels fighting over the scraps that still remain.
** Tails goes from being a weak, shy GadgeteerGenius into a MagnificentBastard captain who gains a LovecraftianSuperpower [[spoiler:and ends up saving the entire universe from an EldritchAbomination at the cost of his own life]].
** Cream stays with Sonic and friends to the end, even after seeing things that would make most adults break down. In Episode 66, she and her chao Cheese ends up beating Astorath the Prince of Darkness on her own.
** Cosmo saves several planets before becoming acting captain of the Blue Typhoon, and she is also appointed leader of the Metarex during the final battle. And in the rewrite, when Astorath and Beelzebub land on her ship, ''she runs out onto the flight deck with Venus' demon scythe and rips them a new one.''
** Chris Thorndyke goes from being a whiny, dependent brat to a GeniusBruiser, pulls off a BigDamnHeroes and unleashes DeathFromAbove with the Typhoon in the rewrite of Episode 69, and later on fights Beelzebub and Astorath alongside Cosmo during the final battle.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The Metarex were changed from a group of faceless robots trying to destroy the galaxy to a group of {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s who want to kill Tsali and rebuild the Seedrian species by any means necessary.
* AfterTheEnd: This fanfic is this for most of the Milky Way Galaxy, largely devastated by thirty years of the Metarex War and Shroud infestation. Most of the worlds in the galaxy are either lifeless or actively malevolent too, with Demons and Angels fighting over the scraps that still remain.
* AnAesop: The system is broken and needs to be replaced by something better. Also, [[AuthorTract religion is bad]].
* AndIMustScream: This is the result of [[MindRape hearing the voice of]] [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] or [[spoiler: being killed by him]]. He completely hijacks their bodies while the victim is aware and ForcedToWatch the whole time. And then, when they die, he takes their souls and assimilates them into his own, [[FateWorseThanDeath using their screams of eternal torment as conduits of Dark Chaos Energy]]. Both [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian]] and [[spoiler: Trinity]] suffer this fate.
** If you're a woman in the Emirate of Mecca, the Muslims turn you into a living broodmother and force you to constantly give birth after being raped by impregnation machines - and make you nearly immortal so you won't die in childbirth.
** [[spoiler: Tails]] ends up in this fate during the final battle. Dark Tails possessed him and rapidly mutates his body, causing his limbs and body parts to start rotting off. Then they begin to regrow and fall off again and again and again. And for bonus points his jaw falls off, leaving him unable to even scream. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Cosmo gives him a MercyKill]].
** Interestingly, this trope could describe Maledict himself; he's a HumanoidAbomination trapped in a decaying physical body for the past five hundred trillion years, slowly watching his empire and the universe come to ruin - and if he dies, it'll spell the end of everything he's worked for.
** Tsali's body never physically accepted his [[spoiler: UnwillingRoboticisation]]; his remaining biological parts are completely infected and gangrenous, keeping him in constant agony. He never grows or ages either, and he's nearly impossible to destroy. Of course, this simply causes him to [[AxCrazy unleash his terrible pain and rage upon others instead]].
*** The Episode 71 rewrite reveals he was awake and aware the entire time during his [[spoiler: roboticisation by the Seedrians]]. No wonder he [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge murdered the entire Seedrian race]] when he finally freed himself]]...
* AncientConspiracy: Both played straight and subverted. The backstory runs on the idea that both Christianity and Islam are nothing more than fronts for the Angel Federation. However, [[spoiler: Maledict's gigantic "Ultimate Weapon" gambit to defeat the Angels is less than a century old]].
** If you're a woman in the Emirate of Mecca, the Muslims turn you into a living broodmother and force you to constantly give birth after being raped by impregnation machines - and make you nearly immortal so you won't die in childbirth.
** [[spoiler: Tails]] ends up in this fate during the final battle. Dark Tails possessed him and rapidly mutates his body, causing his limbs and body parts to start rotting off. Then they begin to regrow and fall off again and again and again. And for bonus points his jaw falls off, leaving him unable to even scream. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Cosmo gives him a MercyKill]].
** Interestingly, this trope could describe Maledict himself; he's a HumanoidAbomination trapped in a decaying physical body for the past five hundred trillion years, slowly watching his empire and the universe come to ruin - and if he dies, it'll spell the end of everything he's worked for.
** Tsali's body never physically accepted his [[spoiler: UnwillingRoboticisation]]; his remaining biological parts are completely infected and gangrenous, keeping him in constant agony. He never grows or ages either, and he's nearly impossible to destroy. Of course, this simply causes him to [[AxCrazy unleash his terrible pain and rage upon others instead]].
*** The Episode 71 rewrite reveals he was awake and aware the entire time during his [[spoiler: roboticisation by the Seedrians]]. No wonder he [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge murdered the entire Seedrian race]] when he finally freed himself]]...
* AncientConspiracy: Both played straight and subverted. The backstory runs on the idea that both Christianity and Islam are nothing more than fronts for the Angel Federation. However, [[spoiler: Maledict's gigantic "Ultimate Weapon" gambit to defeat the Angels is less than a century old]].
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* AncientConspiracy: Both played straight and subverted. The backstory runs on the idea that both Christianity and Islam are nothing more than fronts for the Angel Federation. However, [[spoiler: Maledict's gigantic "Ultimate Weapon" gambit to defeat the Angels is less than a century old]].
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* AncientConspiracy: Both played straight TheAntichrist: [[spoiler: Sonic the Hedgehog himself]] and subverted. The backstory runs on [[spoiler: Shadow the idea that Hedgehog]] are both Christianity and Islam are nothing more than fronts for the Angel Federation. However, [[spoiler: Maledict's gigantic "Ultimate Weapon" gambit revealed to be this, as they were literally created by Maledict to be "Ultimate" creatures who would defeat the Angels is less than a century old]].and cement his rule. [[AntiAntichrist Neither of them accept it]].
* TheAntiNihilist: This is the primary aesop of the story. Despite the extreme CrapsackWorld and JerkassGods around them, Sonic and friends decide that helping others is the only hope to make things better.
* AntiVillain: Lord Maledict from is definitely this, mostly due to his strong PragmaticVillain tendencies. In fact, [[BlackAndGrayMorality most of the "villain" characters in the story are this]], minus some of the obvious evil characters like Beelzebub and Muhammad.
* AntiVillain: Lord Maledict from is definitely this, mostly due to his strong PragmaticVillain tendencies. In fact, [[BlackAndGrayMorality most of the "villain" characters in the story are this]], minus some of the obvious evil characters like Beelzebub and Muhammad.
* AuthorTract: This story is pretty much an anti-religious, anti-right wing tract wrapped in a DarkerAndEdgier ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fanfic story.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The ''Galaxy Crusher'' is a Demon superweapon the size of a ''red giant'' that's capable of erasing an entire ''galaxy'' (and the ones around it) with a single shot. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the sheer collateral damage it causes, mind-boggling logistic requirements, and the threat of it being hijacked]] led Maledict to deactivate it after it was only used once.
* AxCrazy: Tsali. While moderately calm and [[FauxAffablyEvil even somewhat civil]] when he's not in battle, all bets are off in a fight. His greatest joy is murdering Seedrians in the most gory ways he can think of; everyone else is fair game too. And [[SanitySlippage as the story goes on]], the "Crazy" part comes to the forefront.
** The Muslims are basically an entire faction of violently insane pedophile fundamentalists.
* BadassBoast:
** [[spoiler: Maledict]] introduces himself with an epic one in Episode 63.
---> "I am who I AM. I am the Master of the Emeralds. I am the god of this world, the Evil One, prince of the powers of the air. My eyes bring perdition, my hands reap what is sown. My words strike fear into the hearts of mortals. I am Lord of the Demons, Conqueror and Unifier of the universe. I am the roaring lion that devours the souls of my enemies! I am the Old Serpent, the Dragon that cleanses the stars, maker of all the dark places of creation. I am the devil, the one called Satan!
** In Episode 75, Jesus gets an awesome one too;
--> "The Son of Man didn't come to be served... but to ''serve up your ass on a platter''!"
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: This story has some particularly disturbing examples, most of them combined with a DealWithTheDevil. [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian]] wished for the power to kill Tsali and prevent the destruction of her race. [[spoiler: Not only did she fail to save her people, but her wish doomed her to slowly turn into a robot and damn her soul forever]]. Tsali made a similar wish for the power to get revenge on the Seedrian race for what they did to him. He got what he wanted - at the cost of his soul, sanity, and the utter destruction of most of the galaxy.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Eric the Hedgehog is definitely this. Sure, he seems like a harmless crazy version of Sonic at first glance... until he unleashes his machines. And his ''[[IdiotSavant starships]]''. And his Super form -which allows him to [[MoreDakka create huge guns from thin air]]. [[spoiler: Oh, and it's implied he's [[HumanoidAbomination far more than just a loony on top of that]]]].
* BittersweetEnding: Two of the alternate endings for the rewrite are this. Ending A has Tails dying to stop Dark Tails, the galaxy left in ruins and the [[EldritchAbomination Forerunners]] invading the universe... but Sonic and his friends got their Planet Egg back and everyone joins forces to stop them. Ending D is [[EarnYourHappyEnding the "happiest" of the endings]] - the above still happens, except Tails doesn't die which (while leaving Dark Tails alive) stops the Forerunner invasion entirely.
* BlackComedy: This fanfic is dripping with dark comedy, as the extreme DarkerAndEdgier nature of the setting is combined with the typical cheesy humor of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise. And the rewrite goes all out. The background materials have so much scathing satire that [[NarmCharm they become more funny than scary]].
** Episode 67 is filled with so much dark humor - from its AccidentalInnuendo title to pretty much everything Beelzebub says - that its NightmareFuel-riffic premise [[spoiler: involving ColdBloodedTorture and male-on-male demon pedophilia]] becomes NightmareRetardant to some readers. The last line in particular qualifies as either [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilarious]] or horrific depending on the reader;
---> [[spoiler: '''Chris''': Why... Why does my butt hurt so much...?]]
** In the rewrite of Episode 73, Tails refuses to hand Cosmo over to Tsali. Tsali responds by throwing Tails to the floor, opening his ribcage, and ''ripping his heart and lungs from his chest with his bare hands''. Complete with a BondOneLiner;
---> '''Tsali''': I guess you didn't [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure open your heart]] enough!
* BlessedWithSuck: Tails gets infected by Shroud, which ends up giving him a LovecraftianSuperpower and makes him immune to the influence of Dark Tails. Except he still feels the corrupting influence of Dark Tails at every moment, and he starts to gain BizarreAlienBiology by the bucketload. And his temper gives him the chance of losing control of said superpower at any moment - he nearly destroys the Blue Typhoon and devours his friends at the end of Episode 73.
** Venus the Seedrian gains nearly divine power from a literal DealWithTheDevil. Except she's [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul slowly being turned into a robot]] - and she's [[AndIMustScream been rendered nearly immortal]].
* BlueAndOrangeMorality:
** Maledict the Devil literally [[EvilCannotComprehendGood does not understand why Sonic and his friends want to stop him,]] nor does he see anything wrong in manipulating mortals to do horrific acts in his name, and he's obsessed with secretly interfering in events. Being a PhysicalGod slash HumanoidAbomination who is [[TimeAbyss over five hundred trillion years old]] [[spoiler: and using cybernetics to keep himself from physically disintegrating]] has something to do with it. Allysion, Maledict's archenemy, is even more odd. Her entire belief system revolves around "Demon=bad" and she also sees nothing wrong in manipulating mortals to defeat the Demons by any means necessary. She is also completely fine with exterminating innocent Demon subjects. She believes they are "living in sin" and therefore need to be shown "Christian love" (read: [[EarthShatteringKaboom planetary annihilation]]). [[MoralMyopia She cannot fathom why any mortal would follow Maledict,]] even though she is [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different]].
** Downplayed considerably in the rewrite, which depicts Allysion as being simply batshit insane from [[AndIMustScream several trillion years of being a ghost]] and Maledict as a FauxAffablyEvil tyrant with [[WellIntentionedExtremist semi-good intentions.]]
* BodyHorror: The story is filled to the brim with this. [[TheVirus The Shroud]] in particular live and breathe this trope, with Tails' Shroud infection taking it up a notch as [[LovecraftianSuperpower it radically changes his biology]]. And then there's [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]] and its {{Squick}}y effects on the body.
** Thanks to the story's deconstruction of UnwillingRoboticization, Tsali [[spoiler: and Venus]] take this trope [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul to a whole new level]]. [[spoiler: Especially Venus, being cursed to have all of her body parts slowly transform into machines]].
** Actually PlayedForLaughs in Episode 74 - when Tails discovers he can dislodge his eyes from his sockets and move them around, one of the first things he does is use it to [[PowerPerversionPotential look up Amy's skirt]].
* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: A core trope of the story. Not only Jesus, but Satan, Muhammed, all the angels, and a large majority of the Jewish prophets from the Old Testament were as well.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The ''Galaxy Crusher'' is a Demon superweapon the size of a ''red giant'' that's capable of erasing an entire ''galaxy'' (and the ones around it) with a single shot. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the sheer collateral damage it causes, mind-boggling logistic requirements, and the threat of it being hijacked]] led Maledict to deactivate it after it was only used once.
* AxCrazy: Tsali. While moderately calm and [[FauxAffablyEvil even somewhat civil]] when he's not in battle, all bets are off in a fight. His greatest joy is murdering Seedrians in the most gory ways he can think of; everyone else is fair game too. And [[SanitySlippage as the story goes on]], the "Crazy" part comes to the forefront.
** The Muslims are basically an entire faction of violently insane pedophile fundamentalists.
* BadassBoast:
** [[spoiler: Maledict]] introduces himself with an epic one in Episode 63.
---> "I am who I AM. I am the Master of the Emeralds. I am the god of this world, the Evil One, prince of the powers of the air. My eyes bring perdition, my hands reap what is sown. My words strike fear into the hearts of mortals. I am Lord of the Demons, Conqueror and Unifier of the universe. I am the roaring lion that devours the souls of my enemies! I am the Old Serpent, the Dragon that cleanses the stars, maker of all the dark places of creation. I am the devil, the one called Satan!
** In Episode 75, Jesus gets an awesome one too;
--> "The Son of Man didn't come to be served... but to ''serve up your ass on a platter''!"
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: This story has some particularly disturbing examples, most of them combined with a DealWithTheDevil. [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian]] wished for the power to kill Tsali and prevent the destruction of her race. [[spoiler: Not only did she fail to save her people, but her wish doomed her to slowly turn into a robot and damn her soul forever]]. Tsali made a similar wish for the power to get revenge on the Seedrian race for what they did to him. He got what he wanted - at the cost of his soul, sanity, and the utter destruction of most of the galaxy.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Eric the Hedgehog is definitely this. Sure, he seems like a harmless crazy version of Sonic at first glance... until he unleashes his machines. And his ''[[IdiotSavant starships]]''. And his Super form -which allows him to [[MoreDakka create huge guns from thin air]]. [[spoiler: Oh, and it's implied he's [[HumanoidAbomination far more than just a loony on top of that]]]].
* BittersweetEnding: Two of the alternate endings for the rewrite are this. Ending A has Tails dying to stop Dark Tails, the galaxy left in ruins and the [[EldritchAbomination Forerunners]] invading the universe... but Sonic and his friends got their Planet Egg back and everyone joins forces to stop them. Ending D is [[EarnYourHappyEnding the "happiest" of the endings]] - the above still happens, except Tails doesn't die which (while leaving Dark Tails alive) stops the Forerunner invasion entirely.
* BlackComedy: This fanfic is dripping with dark comedy, as the extreme DarkerAndEdgier nature of the setting is combined with the typical cheesy humor of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise. And the rewrite goes all out. The background materials have so much scathing satire that [[NarmCharm they become more funny than scary]].
** Episode 67 is filled with so much dark humor - from its AccidentalInnuendo title to pretty much everything Beelzebub says - that its NightmareFuel-riffic premise [[spoiler: involving ColdBloodedTorture and male-on-male demon pedophilia]] becomes NightmareRetardant to some readers. The last line in particular qualifies as either [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilarious]] or horrific depending on the reader;
---> [[spoiler: '''Chris''': Why... Why does my butt hurt so much...?]]
** In the rewrite of Episode 73, Tails refuses to hand Cosmo over to Tsali. Tsali responds by throwing Tails to the floor, opening his ribcage, and ''ripping his heart and lungs from his chest with his bare hands''. Complete with a BondOneLiner;
---> '''Tsali''': I guess you didn't [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure open your heart]] enough!
* BlessedWithSuck: Tails gets infected by Shroud, which ends up giving him a LovecraftianSuperpower and makes him immune to the influence of Dark Tails. Except he still feels the corrupting influence of Dark Tails at every moment, and he starts to gain BizarreAlienBiology by the bucketload. And his temper gives him the chance of losing control of said superpower at any moment - he nearly destroys the Blue Typhoon and devours his friends at the end of Episode 73.
** Venus the Seedrian gains nearly divine power from a literal DealWithTheDevil. Except she's [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul slowly being turned into a robot]] - and she's [[AndIMustScream been rendered nearly immortal]].
* BlueAndOrangeMorality:
** Maledict the Devil literally [[EvilCannotComprehendGood does not understand why Sonic and his friends want to stop him,]] nor does he see anything wrong in manipulating mortals to do horrific acts in his name, and he's obsessed with secretly interfering in events. Being a PhysicalGod slash HumanoidAbomination who is [[TimeAbyss over five hundred trillion years old]] [[spoiler: and using cybernetics to keep himself from physically disintegrating]] has something to do with it. Allysion, Maledict's archenemy, is even more odd. Her entire belief system revolves around "Demon=bad" and she also sees nothing wrong in manipulating mortals to defeat the Demons by any means necessary. She is also completely fine with exterminating innocent Demon subjects. She believes they are "living in sin" and therefore need to be shown "Christian love" (read: [[EarthShatteringKaboom planetary annihilation]]). [[MoralMyopia She cannot fathom why any mortal would follow Maledict,]] even though she is [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different]].
** Downplayed considerably in the rewrite, which depicts Allysion as being simply batshit insane from [[AndIMustScream several trillion years of being a ghost]] and Maledict as a FauxAffablyEvil tyrant with [[WellIntentionedExtremist semi-good intentions.]]
* BodyHorror: The story is filled to the brim with this. [[TheVirus The Shroud]] in particular live and breathe this trope, with Tails' Shroud infection taking it up a notch as [[LovecraftianSuperpower it radically changes his biology]]. And then there's [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]] and its {{Squick}}y effects on the body.
** Thanks to the story's deconstruction of UnwillingRoboticization, Tsali [[spoiler: and Venus]] take this trope [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul to a whole new level]]. [[spoiler: Especially Venus, being cursed to have all of her body parts slowly transform into machines]].
** Actually PlayedForLaughs in Episode 74 - when Tails discovers he can dislodge his eyes from his sockets and move them around, one of the first things he does is use it to [[PowerPerversionPotential look up Amy's skirt]].
* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: A core trope of the story. Not only Jesus, but Satan, Muhammed, all the angels, and a large majority of the Jewish prophets from the Old Testament were as well.
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* BrokenAesop: This fanfic emphasizes with the Angels that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are bad. [[AndThatsTerrible Really, really bad.]] However, compared with the Demons, they were portrayed as the more honorable and nicer faction overall. The rewrite fixes this somewhat by making the Angels [[BlackAndGrayMorality far more morally gray than the original]], even with some of more sympathetic Angel characters like Jesus. It also makes the Demons more gray too, to emphasize the fact that both sides are flawed and similar.
* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: A core trope of the story. Not only Jesus, but Satan, Muhammed, all the angels, and a large majority of the Jewish prophets from the Old Testament were as well.
* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends pretty much fit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights and severely damage the Demon fleet.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about the people he rules over and has great fondness for his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: A core trope of the story. Not only Jesus, but Satan, Muhammed, all the angels, and a large majority of the Jewish prophets from the Old Testament were as well.
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* BrokenAesop: This fanfic emphasizes with BreakTheCutie: Pretty much '''everyone''' from are either pre-broken before the Angels that Christianity, Judaism, story even begins or become this. There are some particularly dramatic and Islam are bad. [[AndThatsTerrible Really, really bad.]] However, compared with the Demons, they were portrayed as the more honorable and nicer faction overall. The rewrite fixes this somewhat by making the Angels [[BlackAndGrayMorality far more morally gray heartbreaking examples though;
** Cosmo is left ''even worse off'' than theoriginal]], even with some of more sympathetic Angel characters like Jesus. It also makes original ''Anime/SonicX'' show. [[spoiler: Killing Tails at the Demons more gray too, to emphasize the fact that both sides are flawed end]] certainly didn't help.
** Cream is utterly traumatized early on andsimilar.
* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small groupeventually refuses to go to sleep because of them led by their leader Astorath nearly defeats the entire Metarex armada and the Blue Typhoon during the final battle. Sonic and his friends nightmares.
** [[spoiler: Tsali's]] backstory/StartOfDarkness was pretty muchfit this trope too, as they manage to beat back said Hell Knights the mother of all cutie-breaking stories - he [[spoiler: watched his family die and severely damage his entire world destroyed, lived through the Demon fleet.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. DespiteDemon-Seedrian War, got roboticized into an android by his manipulative tendencies, he genuinely cares about own adopted father Luke, committed genocide on the people he rules over Seedrians, made a DealWithTheDevil, fought a thirty-year galactic civil war, and has great fondness for then got betrayed by his servants. [[BerserkButton Just don't attempt]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to betray his trust]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: A core trope ofclosest friends. ''All at the story. Not only Jesus, but Satan, Muhammed, all age of ten'']]. Needless to say, by the angels, and a large majority of time the Jewish prophets from the Old Testament were as well.story begins, he's [[AxCrazy barely even remotely sane]] anymore.
** Cosmo is left ''even worse off'' than the
** Cream is utterly traumatized early on and
* BadassArmy: The Hell Knights/Nephilim are essentially the [[NamesTheSame Hell Knights]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' crossed with Chaos Space Marines from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A small group
** [[spoiler: Tsali's]] backstory/StartOfDarkness was pretty much
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Maledict mostly subverts this. Despite
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: A core trope of
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* BoisterousBruiser: [[TheBrute Astorath]] is one of these.
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* OmnicidalManiac: Dark Tails wishes to recreate the entire universe in his own image by corrupting it with Dark Chaos Energy. Of course, this puts him at odds with Maledict and Allysion -- who both want to do the same thing in their own images.
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* OmnicidalManiac: ObliviouslyEvil: The Shroud are animals following their natural instincts, those instincts being to infect and [[BodyHorror hideously mutate]] organic matter.
* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter:
** Averted. Tsali got the funds to build his own PMC and have his own private asteroid base from Maledict himself, who gave Tsali basically unlimited access to the Demon treasury so that money wouldn't be a concern. Also justified with the Demons themselves, which have the resources of ''half the universe'' in their control.
** Played straight with Dark Tails, [[EldritchAbomination although he isn't exactly "natural"]]...
* OmnicidalManiac:
** Tsali, who declares that if he has to burn and murder the entire universe to gain his revenge, [[AxCrazy he would be more than happy to do it]]. Only slaying fresh victims gives him any hope for his future; the bloodier, the better.
** The Shroud wants to consume all life in the universe, with Dark Tails then intending to turn all life including the Shroud into [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]].
** Dark Tails wishes to recreate the entire universe in his own image by corrupting it with Dark Chaos Energy. Of course, this puts him at odds with Maledict and Allysion -- who both want to do the same thing in their own images.
* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter:
** Averted. Tsali got the funds to build his own PMC and have his own private asteroid base from Maledict himself, who gave Tsali basically unlimited access to the Demon treasury so that money wouldn't be a concern. Also justified with the Demons themselves, which have the resources of ''half the universe'' in their control.
** Played straight with Dark Tails, [[EldritchAbomination although he isn't exactly "natural"]]...
* OmnicidalManiac:
** Tsali, who declares that if he has to burn and murder the entire universe to gain his revenge, [[AxCrazy he would be more than happy to do it]]. Only slaying fresh victims gives him any hope for his future; the bloodier, the better.
** The Shroud wants to consume all life in the universe, with Dark Tails then intending to turn all life including the Shroud into [[TheCorruption Dark Chaos Energy]].
** Dark Tails wishes to recreate the entire universe in his own image by corrupting it with Dark Chaos Energy. Of course, this puts him at odds with Maledict and Allysion -- who both want to do the same thing in their own images.
* OrderVersusChaos: Despite having created the ''Chaos'' Emeralds, [[{{Satan}} Maledict]] Maledict firmly believes in imposing absolute order upon the universe - courtesy of his Demon Empire - and he will do anything to accomplish his goal.
-->'''Maledict''': That is why the universe belongs to me. We bring order upon the chaos. Without it, life and civilization would not exist. Brother would fight brother, parents would destroy their children. Darkness would swallow all.
-->'''Maledict''': That is why the universe belongs to me. We bring order upon the chaos. Without it, life and civilization would not exist. Brother would fight brother, parents would destroy their children. Darkness would swallow all.
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* PhysicalGod: Maledict the Devil is one of the creators of the whole universe and is essentially omnipotent. Allysion is as well, although the "physical" part is debatable.
* PlantAliens: Cosmo and the Metarex.
* PlantAliens: Cosmo and the Metarex.
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Angels are HumanAliens who were originally slaves to the [[TheEmpire Demon Empire]] before they launched a massive rebellion and gained their independence. Humans themselves are descended from them. Their close ethnic counterparts, the Jews and the Muslims, are also HumanAliens.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The story has the Shroud, which is essentially a combination of the Flood from ''Halo'' and the Necromorphs from ''Dead Space''. Large parasites cause rapid and BodyHorror-filled mutation in organic matter, and the resulting monster is both extremely fast and extremely deadly. Multiply them by several ''trillion'' and it's not hard to see why Shroud are considered the greatest threat to the denizens of the galaxy. [[spoiler: And Dark Tails can control them]].
* OutrunTheFireball: The heroes escape the incinerated remains of the Metarex battlestation ''Tryphon'' in episode 64.
* PhysicalGod: Maledictthe Devil is one of the creators of the whole universe and is essentially omnipotent. an interesting {{Deconstruction}}. He's actually a HumanoidAbomination that was forced to take physical form in order to survive his injuries after his epic battle against Allysion is as well, although that created the "physical" part is debatable.
*entire universe. And he's trying to keep his physical form at all costs, as dying will unleash his power and cause the end of the universe.
%%* PlantAliens: Cosmo and theMetarex.Metarex.
* PoweredArmor: Lord Maledict has one of these under his cloak that keeps his horrifically-mutilated and decaying physical body from falling apart. [[RuleOfCool And its]] "studded with sacred pentagram sigils and spikes, hewn from gold and rubies, adorned with screaming souls, flanked with flaming goat skulls on the shoulders and inscribed with six hundred and sixty-six prayers."
** Tsali's metal endoskeleton is actually one of these, powered by Dark Chaos Energy which allows him to absorb impacts and tank nearly impossible amounts of damage.
* PraetorianGuard: The ''Kompanions'' serve as Maledict's personal bodyguards, as the most elite of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Nephilim/Hell Knights]]. Their job is mostly ceremonial, and they spend more time guarding important diplomats and foreigners than Maledict - [[PhysicalGod who doesn't need guards at all]]. However, Episode 75 shows that they're so skilled and well-trained that they can each individually battle Jesus himself in one-on-one combat.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors:
** The Metarex are depicted as an extremely powerful version of this, funded and controlled by both their [[spoiler: Seedrian cyborg]] leaders and the mysterious "M" [[spoiler: who happens to actually be Maledict]].
** Tsali also founded his own private military company, although it's been almost completely destroyed by the start of the story (he's the only member of it left).
* ProphecyTwist: In the backstory of the fanfic, the Seedrians prophesied that they would be destroyed from within by the Black Wind. [[spoiler: The prophecy never said a Seedrian would be the "Black Wind" though]].
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The all-male Hell Knights, also called the Nephilim, are an entire race of these who have dedicated themselves to Maledict as an eternal warrior class. In a similar vein to Vikings, they are utterly relentless in battle, but have extremely strong -- [[BlueAndOrangeMorality and unusual]] -- honor codes.
* PurpleProse: Invoked, though the story itself typically averts this. Whenever Demonish is translated for the reader, it's quite flowery and dramatic. [[AllThereInTheManual Background material]] indicates that it's also pretty much all {{Woolseyism}} too, since Demonish is [[StarfishLanguage basically impossible for humans to even speak]] (let alone translate). This trope is also deliberately invoked whenever a character prays to Maledict or Allysion, with plenty of religious references to go with it.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The story has the Shroud, which is essentially a combination of the Flood from ''Halo'' and the Necromorphs from ''Dead Space''. Large parasites cause rapid and BodyHorror-filled mutation in organic matter, and the resulting monster is both extremely fast and extremely deadly. Multiply them by several ''trillion'' and it's not hard to see why Shroud are considered the greatest threat to the denizens of the galaxy. [[spoiler: And Dark Tails can control them]].
* OutrunTheFireball: The heroes escape the incinerated remains of the Metarex battlestation ''Tryphon'' in episode 64.
* PhysicalGod: Maledict
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%%* PlantAliens: Cosmo and the
* PoweredArmor: Lord Maledict has one of these under his cloak that keeps his horrifically-mutilated and decaying physical body from falling apart. [[RuleOfCool And its]] "studded with sacred pentagram sigils and spikes, hewn from gold and rubies, adorned with screaming souls, flanked with flaming goat skulls on the shoulders and inscribed with six hundred and sixty-six prayers."
** Tsali's metal endoskeleton is actually one of these, powered by Dark Chaos Energy which allows him to absorb impacts and tank nearly impossible amounts of damage.
* PraetorianGuard: The ''Kompanions'' serve as Maledict's personal bodyguards, as the most elite of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Nephilim/Hell Knights]]. Their job is mostly ceremonial, and they spend more time guarding important diplomats and foreigners than Maledict - [[PhysicalGod who doesn't need guards at all]]. However, Episode 75 shows that they're so skilled and well-trained that they can each individually battle Jesus himself in one-on-one combat.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors:
** The Metarex are depicted as an extremely powerful version of this, funded and controlled by both their [[spoiler: Seedrian cyborg]] leaders and the mysterious "M" [[spoiler: who happens to actually be Maledict]].
** Tsali also founded his own private military company, although it's been almost completely destroyed by the start of the story (he's the only member of it left).
* ProphecyTwist: In the backstory of the fanfic, the Seedrians prophesied that they would be destroyed from within by the Black Wind. [[spoiler: The prophecy never said a Seedrian would be the "Black Wind" though]].
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The all-male Hell Knights, also called the Nephilim, are an entire race of these who have dedicated themselves to Maledict as an eternal warrior class. In a similar vein to Vikings, they are utterly relentless in battle, but have extremely strong -- [[BlueAndOrangeMorality and unusual]] -- honor codes.
* PurpleProse: Invoked, though the story itself typically averts this. Whenever Demonish is translated for the reader, it's quite flowery and dramatic. [[AllThereInTheManual Background material]] indicates that it's also pretty much all {{Woolseyism}} too, since Demonish is [[StarfishLanguage basically impossible for humans to even speak]] (let alone translate). This trope is also deliberately invoked whenever a character prays to Maledict or Allysion, with plenty of religious references to go with it.
