History GameBreaker / SonicTheHedgehog

* In VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2, all seven Chaos Emeralds could be gathered in ''the first zone'', since there are enough checkpoints in Emerald Hill Zone to get all the emeralds. This (naturally) allowed you to breeze through the game casually, the only challenge being the final level, in which the player has to fight Silver Sonic and Dr. Robotnik with no protection.

* Not even a "super" character, Tails in VideoGame/SonicAdventure becomes something like this in some of his levels due to his flying ability. In Windy Valley, you can skip the entire level just by flying over everything. Other levels, such as Sky Deck, become laughably easy once you find all of the short cuts that you can reach just by flying.

* Cream the Rabbit from ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Chronicles]]''. Seeing as you barely have to go out of your way to get her on your team, she definitely applies here. She has a move called "Refresh" that, when used, restores PP for everyone on the team. She can also heal everyone at once, rid everyone of status effects at once, etc. Her inputs kind of tricky? No problem. Equip her with Ferox, a Chao that makes all POW moves never fail, and watch the game suddenly become piss-easy.

*** [[FridgeBrilliance Suddenly, his name makes perfect sense]].

* Really, in the retro ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games, Super Sonic is a GameBreaker. Faster than normal Sonic, can jump higher, and is invincible to everything bar death pits, crushing and drowning. The only drawback is that once your rings run out you're defenseless unless you managed to pick up a shield, but rings are easy enough to come by, especially in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. Speaking of which, Hyper Sonic, Super Tails and Hyper Knuckles are even more Game Breaking because of their abilities. Hyper Sonic can destroy all enemies on screen by double-jumping, Hyper Knuckles can do it by gliding into walls, and Super Tails's Flickies will automatically home in on and destroy any enemy near them. Bosses with Super Tails become a joke because all you have to do is just stand there and let the Flickies do all the work for you. Super Sonic is such a GameBreaker that it's easy to see why Sega made it an EleventhHourSuperpower in their newer games. Another GameBreaker in a meta sense is the acquisition of emeralds in ''3 & Knuckles''; the giant rings come back if you leave the game and reload, so you can keep using the same one in Mushroom Hill, which means the only hard part is actually completing the Special Stages.
** Super/Hyper Sonic becomes an even worse GameBreaker in ''Sonic 3 & Knuckles'' once you pick up the electric shield, which magnetically pulls rings towards you, and as long as you can move through the level consistently quickly, you can pretty much stay Super/Hyper through the whole level.

* Amy Rose may be more of an example of DifficultButAwesome, but using her hammer attack on springs in ''Sonic Advance'' and ''Sonic Advance 3'' makes the spring launch her twice as far, often times sending her soaring over large chunks of the level. In ''Sonic Advance 3'', having her as your partner [[GameBreaker replaces everyone's ground attack with a hammer attack similar to hers.]] [[NotQuiteFlight Enjoy your flight.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Sonic Heroes}}'', there was Team Rose who was supposed to be the game's version of easy mode, but they took it to the next level considering that their Team Blast gauge charged up extremely quickly, and once it was at full power, their [[LimitBreak Team Blast]] destroyed all the enemies in the vicinity, gave them a shield, Power Sneakers, invincibility, ''and'' powered them up even further by instantly raising each character an entire level, which made reaching [[OverNineThousand the max level of 3]] all too easy. Combine this with the fact that their levels are about half the length of the other teams levels, and you have absolutely no reason whatsoever to struggle to beat their portion of the game.

* Super Sonic returns to his GameBreaker status in ''VideoGame/SonicColors''. Though sort of an InfinityPlusOneSword due to how long it takes to get him (you have to first obtain all Red Star Rings, which there are five of in every stage, then you have to complete all the Game Land stages, which are seven stages with three acts each), getting him will tear the game apart. The main reasons being that for one, he can boost infinitely, for two, you get a 2000-point "Super Sonic Bonus" every second you spend in Super form, and for three, just using him in a stage means you're guaranteed an S-rank, no questions asked if that stage has no Wisp other wise your not getting an S-rank anytime soon.
** Additionally, Super Sonic is literally a gamebreaker in Colors. In order to play as him, you have to activate a Super Sonic Mode in the options. When active, [[DungeonBypass Super Sonic mode alters the object layouts in ALL the acts so that Sonic can beat them without wisps, with the ability to transform into Super Sonic taking up the Wisps' slot on the HUD.]] This extends to acts were you aren't even able to scrape up enough rings to transform in the first place!

* Cream in ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Advance 2]]'' renders every boss powerless as her Cheese attack move will always hit from any distance during the fight. Simply pressing B repeatedly without even moving can guarantee an easy victory.
** Cheese does that in every single Sonic Advance game, trivializing all but the [[EleventhHourSuperpower Super Sonic]] bosses.
*** [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} Suddenly his name makes perfect sense.]]

* In ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Advance 3]]'', all you have to do is choose Knuckles as your main character and Tails as your partner. This combination increases both Knuckles' gliding ability and Tails' flying ability to an insane degree and allows you to beat most levels easily.

* Amy Rose may be more of an example of DifficultButAwesome, but using her hammer attack on springs in Advanced 1 and 3 makes the spring launch her twice as far, often times sending her soaring over large chunks of the level. In Advanced 3, having her as your partner [[GameBreaker replaces everyone's ground attack with a hammer attack similar to hers.]] [[NotQuiteFlight Enjoy your flight.]]

* Not even a "super" character, Tails in VideoGame/SonicAdventure becomes something like this in some of his levels due to his flying ability. In Windy Valley, you can skip almost HALF the entire level just by flying over everything. Other levels, such as Sky Deck, become laughably easy once you find all of the short cuts that you can reach just by flying.

* Not even a "super" character, Tails in VideoGame/SonicAdventure becomes something like this in some of his levels due to his flying ability. In Windy Valley, you can skip almost HALF the entire level just by flying over everything. Other levels, such as Night Chase and Sky Deck, become laughably easy once you find all of the short cuts that you can reach just by flying.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Sonic Heroes}}'', there was Team Rose who was supposed to be the game's version of easy mode, but they took it to the next level considering that their boost charged up extremely quickly, and once it was at full power, their [[LimitBreak special boost]] destroyed all the enemies in the vicinity ''and'' powered them up even further by instantly raising each character an entire level, which made reaching [[OverNineThousand the max level of 3]] all too easy. Combine this with the fact that their levels are about half the length of the other teams levels, and you have absolutely no reason whatsoever to struggle to beat their portion of the game.
** Team Chaotix counts for this to a certain degree considering that their special boost destroys all enemies ''and'' turns them into rings which power up your boost, [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill which can chain endlessly on certain areas]] [[CurbStompBattle and make several boss fights a complete joke as a result, especially when they were at max level.]]

* Super Sonic returns to his GameBreaker status in ''VideoGame/SonicColors''. Though sort of an InfinityPlusOneSword due to how long it takes to get him (you have to first obtain all Red Star Rings, which there are five of in every stage, then you have to complete all the Game Land stages, which are seven stages with three acts each), getting him will tear the game apart. The main reasons being that for one, he can boost infinitely, for two, you get a 2000-point "Super Sonic Bonus" every second you spend in Super form, and for three, just using him in a stage means you're guaranteed an S-rank, no questions asked.

* In VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2, All seven Chaos Emeralds could be gathered on ''the first zone'', since there were enough checkpoints in Emerald Hill Zone to get all the emeralds. This (naturally) allowed you to breeze through the game casually, the only challenge being the final level, in which the player has to fight Silver Sonic and Dr. Robotnik with no protection.

*** The Super and Hyper mode were 100% completion type bonuses which took a while to unlock and gave you the true ending, so it was seen as an award for doing so (the first Sonic had emeralds but no Super/Hyper mode and they added in there to reward the player) so it doesn't intrinsically ruin a normal runthrough of a game, and it *is* optional. Also, to get super emeralds, you have to first give away your chaos emeralds, which means no Super Sonic while gathering emeralds for Hyper Sonic. It might have been removed because using it at insane speeds on casual stages would have been more difficult. The lightning shield did make some fights easier (like the fire shield did on fire bosses since you were immune to all of their attacks), but the game wasn't a cakewalk with it. So YMMV.

*** Also, even without Super/Hyper Sonic in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', each of the shields in the game trivialized bosses and several levels. whether it was the fire shield to allow players to stand underneath most bosses and jump. or the electric double that ruin the whole point of the boss being out of reach. Heck, even Sonic's Insta-Shield's reach is just enough to break several boss battles if you time it correctly.

* Really, in the retro ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games, Super Sonic is a GameBreaker. Faster than normal Sonic, can jump higher, and is invincible to everything bar death pits, crushing and drowning. The only drawback is that once your rings run out you're defenseless unless you managed to pick up a shield, but rings are easy enough to come by, especially in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. Speaking of which, Hyper Sonic, Super Tails and Hyper Knuckles are even more Game Breaking because of their abilities. Hyper Sonic can destroy all enemies on screen by double-jumping, Hyper Knuckles can do it by gliding into walls, and Super Tails's Flickies will automatically home in on and destroy any enemy near them. Bosses with Super Tails become a joke because all you have to do is just stand there and let the Flickies do all the work for you. Super Sonic is such a GameBreaker that it's easy to see why Sega made it an EleventhHourSuperpower in their newer games.

*** The Super and Hyper mode were 100% completion type bonuses which took a while to unlock and gave you the true ending, so it was seen as an award for doing so (the first Sonic had emeralds but no Super/Hyper mode and they added in there to reward the player) so it doesn't intrinsically ruin a normal runthrough of a game, and it *is* optional. It might have been removed because using it at insane speeds on casual stages would have been more difficult. The lightning shield did make some fights easier (like the fire shield did on fire bosses since you were immune to all of their attacks), but the game wasn't a cakewalk with it. So YMMV.

* In VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2, All seven Chaos Emeralds could be gathered on ''the first zone'', since there were enough checkpoints in Emerald Hill Zone to get all the emeralds. This (naturally) allowed you to breeze through the game casually, the only challenge being the final level, in which the player has to fight Metal Sonic and Dr. Robotnik with no protection.

* In VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2, All seven Chaos Emeralds could be gathered on ''the first level'' via a bug in which you chose Sonic Alone in the options, started the game, and jumped into the warp gates to finish each Emerald Stage. This (naturally) allowed you to breeze through the game casually, the only challenge being the final level, in which the player has to fight Metal Sonic and Dr. Robotnik with no protection. Could be an example of being broken in both ways.
** What do you mean bug? There's enough checkpoints in Emerald Hill Zone to get all the emeralds!

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