History VideoGame / SONICTHEHEDGEHOG2006

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The Egg Carrier mkII, which looks more like a scaled-up fighter-style vehicle in this than the bulky flying base from ''SonicAdventure''.

* ContinuityNod: Wave Ocean features a whale chase a la Emerald Coast from the first ''SonicAdventure''. The Egg Carrier '06 is a fancier, redder upgrade to the ''Adventure'' Egg Carrier.

** Eggman, definitely. Granted, he was dangerous in the ''SonicAdventure'' series, but he was never menacing. In this game, [[TookALevelInBadass he's both of those things]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: to the SonicAdventureSeries.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Sonic has "His World," Shadow has "All Hail Shadow," and Silver has "Dreams of an Absolution". The {{Big Bad}}s have their own leitmotifs as well, with Eggman's being carried over to ''SonicUnleashed'' and ''SonicColors''.

* [=~Let's Play~=]: The [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Sonic2006/ video marathon playthrough]] (i.e. the whole game is played from start to finish with only breaks for bathroom and such) of the game done by pokecapn, Kung-Fu Jesus, medibot, and [=IlluminatusVespucci=] (and [=NoTimeForSocks=], but he leaves fairly early) is possibly one of the most popular [=LPs=] on the Internet, for reasons including their SanitySlippage throughout the ordeal, the many, many {{Cluster F Bomb}}s, and medibot's wonderful {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies.

* AbortedPlaythrough: The entire fucking game.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: Any vehicle that Shadow drives. The Armed Buggies respond to flipping over by exploding. If you take the Hovercraft over a ramp, it can explode upon landing in the water (and it's not like the developers weren't expecting players to use this ramp, considering that it had boost-pads at the top). And the Bike in Radical Train can explode ''for no visible reason whatsoever''.

-->''"[[MemeticMutation ...insufficient.]]"''

* LargeHam: ''[[DanGreen DAN GREEN]]'' as Mephiles. In both boss fights against him, he basically spends the whole fight chewing the scenery. JasonGriffith as Shadow might qualify as well, as he turns "Ack!" into "AAAAGGGGHHCK!"

* HehindTheBlack: A cutscene has Eggman literally hiding Elise there, pulling her on-camera from just off to the side after a wide shot showing only him, and nothing she could be hiding behind.

* BigNo: Shadow lets one out whenever he falls down a BottomlessPit during gameplay. Elise also delivers one during a cutscene in the Last Episode when [[spoiler:Mephiles kills Sonic]]. Silver also lets one out when he falls into BottomlessPits.

** Notably, [[LetsPlay/SonicTheHedgehog2006 the LP of the game]] from SomethingAwful has over ''eleven percent of the entire game'' spent in loading.

* SanDimasTime: One of the many flaws in the game's time travel plot. Lampshaded in the SomethingAwful [[LetsPay/SonicTheHedgehog2006 LP]].

Princess Elise of Soleanna is the key to the "[[SealedEvilInACan Flames of Disaster]]," which [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] wants to combine with the power of the seven [[MacGuffin Chaos Emeralds]] to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule through all time]]. Just happening to be around town, SonicTheHedgehog must protect Elise from Eggman and, with his friends, foil the mad doctor's scheme. Meanwhile, a telekinetic hedgehog from the future [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named Silver]] (even though he looks like he's actually white) and a cat named [[SonicRushSeries Blaze]] come to the present to prevent their BadFuture by destroying the "Iblis Trigger." Elsewhere, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat must contend with Mephiles the Dark, who wants to activate the Iblis Trigger.

* ContinuitySnarl: [[SonicRushSeries Blaze the Cat]]. A common fan theory is that Blaze's world in the ''Rush'' games is merely the "good" future, while the Blaze in this game is from the "bad" future. This doesn't hold very much ground, since ''Sonic Rush Adventure'' went into further detail about the nature of Blaze's dimension. The game explains that Blaze's world is bound parallel to Sonic's via the "Power of the Stars" contained within [[CosmicKeystone the Jeweled Scepter]]. It's pretty clear that it's intended to be more than merely the future of Sonic's universe.

** Notably, the LP of the game from SomethingAwful has over ''eleven percent of the entire game'' spent in loading.

* SanDimasTime: One of the many flaws in the game's time travel plot. Lampshaded in the SomethingAwful LP.

* XanatosGambit: Mephiles has a very confusing, FridgeLogic-inducing one.

* PracticalCurrency: Rings can be used to buy stuff.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Of the characters introduced in the game, [[BigBad Mephiles]] received a huge fan following, he's even a ''literal'' [[WorldwidePunomenon Dark]]horse. Being voiced by [[DanGreen Dan Green]] probably helps, as well as being one of the few to [[TheBadGuyWins successfully]] [[spoiler: kill Sonic]].

Princess Elise of Soleanna is the key to the "[[SealedEvilInACan Flames of Disaster]]," which [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] wants to combine with the power of the seven [[MacGuffin Chaos Emeralds]] to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule through all time]]. Just happening to be around town, SonicTheHedgehog must protect Elise from Eggman and, with his friends, foil the mad doctor's scheme. Meanwhile, a telekinetic hedgehog from the future [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named Silver]] (even though he looks like he's actually white) and a cat named Blaze come to the present to prevent their BadFuture by destroying the "Iblis Trigger." Elsewhere, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat must contend with Mephiles the Dark, who wants to activate the Iblis Trigger.

* AnyoneCanDie: Let's see the death count for this game; Duke Soleanna, his fellow researchers, Princess Elise and Dr Eggman (Until Sonic goes back in time to avert the disaster that kills them), Blaze (Presumably) and even Sonic himself in the last episode.

* FantasticAesop: Be a strong leader who never cries in the face of adversity and trials... because otherwise, [[spoiler:you'll release a demonic monstrosity that was sealed within you and tear apart the space-time continuum]]... wait, what?

An extremely popular LetsPlay video marathon session of the game was done by SomethingAwful goons {{pokecapn}}, Kung-Fu Jesus, medibot, and [=IlluminatusVespucci=]; to view the tropes used in those videos, [[Main/{{ptitlecuwhfhl9}} visit here.]]