History Narm / SONICTHEHEDGEHOG

* Sonic was apparently tortured for ''6 months'' after being captured, [[AngstWhatAngst yet is still as cheerful and snarky as ever, with no visible physical or mental repercussions]]. Notably, said torture isn't implied anywhere in the original Japanese script.

* Sonic was apparently tortured for ''6 months'' after being captured, [[AngstWhatAngst yet is still as cheerful and snarky as ever, with no visible physical or mental repercussions]].

* After Cosmic Fall, if you go for the Hero ending of the Hero pathway, Shadow will lament that he should never have been created. This TearJerker moment is then promptly ruined by Vector blurting out "Hey, don't go there... yet!" in his exceedingly goofy voice.

** [[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/t9EAAOSwKvRfTDI1/s-l1600.jpg The cover for issue #155,]] which shows Sonic angsting over Sally's arranged marriage while crying alone in some undisclosed dark room. Even if Sonic wasn't a CelibateHero to begin with, the drama would still come off as way over-the-top and more suitable to something like a soap opera.

* The fact that the trigger for the release of Iblis is Princess Elise crying. Not intense emotional trauma, not the loss of someone she holds dear... [[note]]At least [[TheHeroDies not until later]], which is what kicks off the endgame in the first place.[[/note]] just something, ''anything'', making her cry is enough to bring out Iblis and wipe out all of existence. It has led to various [[DoWrongRight snarky remarks]] that Mephiles [[StatingTheSimpleSolution could have achieved his goal with far more mundane methods]], like simply cutting up some onions right in front of her.

** It's because the line was made with the Japanese dub in mind, where Knuckles has more of a sharp intake of breath that would sound more like he's surprised in this scene. The English version overdramatized it with actual drowning gurgles that fit for gameplay.. but failed to account for the one time it's used in a cutscene. Dubbing errors make for hilarious mistakes.

* In the first stage of the game, Sonic gives us the infamous line: "Green Hill's looking a lot more like Sand Hill right now." Yes Sonic, very clever of you.

* Sonic in this game has a deeper voice to match his more sober personality and talks about topics like love, death and moving on with your life. Since Sonic is an (in)famous TotallyRadical FunnyAnimal, some feel he is just too impossible to take seriously here, especially given how almost no other media in the franchise has portrayed him as this sentimental before.

* The entire opening scene depicting [[TheBadGuyWins Sonic's defeat]]. What's supposed to be a DownerBeginning has Sonic comically pinballed between enemies while making cartoonish "ow!" grunts, Tails' "Woah, this guy is faster than Sonic!" coming across as both NarratingTheObvious and blatant CharacterShilling, as well as the sheer implausibility of [[CutsceneIncompetence none of Sonic's allies coming to back him up, except Tails who just stands there ineffectually trying to scan Infinite.]]

* Silver continues his run at hilarious lines with this gem:
-->'''Silver''': I'm an optimist, but I'm also a realist.

** Some of Sonic's location-sensitive comments are... stretches. For example, he compares the giant waterfall on Kronos Island to the waterfall in Mystic Ruins from ''Sonic Adventure'' of all places, which isn't that big of a waterfall and isn't the most memorable setpiece in that area anyway. Or he wonders aloud if the balloons on Chaos Island floated in from Spagonia from ''Sonic Unleashed'', as if that's the only place in the world with balloons.

** Some of Sonic's location-sensitive comments are... stretches. For example, he compares the giant waterfall on Kronos Island to the waterfall in Mystic Ruins from ''Sonic Adventure'' of all places, which isn't that big of a waterfall and isn't the most memorable setpiece in that area anyway.

*** Sonic also comments in the forest: "Smells lush and green... reminds me of Green Forest!", which to anyone unfamiliar with ''SonicAdventure2'' sounds like a case of DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment.

* While the references to previous games are a nice way to acknowledge the Sonic canon, the high amount of them can come across as hilariously bad attempts of nostalgia pandering for some-- maybe even coming off as the current devs desperately trying to prove to the player that they indeed know a lot about the franchise-- while others may instead consider it NarmCharm instead. It varies from player to player, and some in-game examples are more disputed than others.

* At one point, Eggman employs a gas trap against Shadow that he describes as "[[MadeOfEvil concentrated evil in gas form]]", as if "evil" was an actual chemical element.