Line #17 NightmareFuel/SonicForces


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[HumongousMecha Humongous Mechas]], SceneryGorn, and the world facing its DarkestHour... [[MoodWhiplash definitely one of the happier]] ''[[BlatantLies Sonic]]'' [[DarkerAndEdgier games]]!]]
3	After several lighthearted entries in the series, ''Sonic Forces'' decides to go in the [[DarkerAndEdgier opposite direction]] by having a plot where [[TheBadGuyWins Eggman finally wins and conquers the world.]] Naturally, there's bound to be plenty of scary moments.
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10	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfj6XXuWNc Eggman's Capitulation Message]] has him state that he's won and that the Resistance should give up. Even the one FreudianSlip he has just shows how badly things have turned out.
11	-->'''Eggman:''' Join me and I will provide three meals per day and time to rest. [[FreudianSlip In an underground prison —]] I mean... [[BlatantLies a clean and beautiful room just waiting for you!]] I hope you'll make the correct decision.[[note]]Unofficial translation.[[/note]]
12	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDe1b-NGjXk&feature=push-u&attr_tag=RWoyTRSELcAvDZpv-6 "Come Join the Eggman Empire"]], a jaunty, [[BlackComedy blackly comedic]] propaganda piece about the best way to live a good life under the Doctor's regime: giving yourself up to [[UnwillingRoboticization become a robot.]]
13	-->'''Eggman''': Perks include: never having to eat, sleep, or ''think'', ever again!
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17	* The simple fact that ''[[TheBadGuyWins Eggman]] [[CueTheFlyingPigs won]].'' After countless defeats at the hands of the Blue Blur, Eggman finally had his one good day and managed to conquer 99% of the world, with only pockets of resistance rising against him. The transition from the IneffectualSympatheticVillain we got from ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' and ''Videogame/SonicLostWorld'' games to a world-ruling dictator is jarring, to say the least.
18	** What's more frightening is the cabal of villains Eggman has formed to aid in his quest for world domination. There's [[RoboticPsychopath Metal Sonic]], [[PhysicalGod Chaos]], [[UltimateLifeform Shadow]], and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Zavok]]. Even though they aren't technically real, they share the real ones' personalities. ''And they're just as strong as the originals.''
19	** And then, there's the Death Egg Robot Sentinels, pictured above. While the original Death Egg Robot is one of the series' most iconic bosses, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 having previously]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog4 been featured]] [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations in five]] [[VideoGame/SonicMania separate]] [[VideoGame/LegoDimensions games]], it was never seen as too threatening due to looking similar to Eggman in both design and color, capped off by a goofy-looking smile that almost no one could take seriously. But here? [[HumongousMecha They're much taller than any previous design]], [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver painted black with glowing red decals]], and have a [[CyberCyclops single]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eye]] that can fire giant lasers. Their cold, expressionless faces make it clear that this model was not simply meant to be Eggman's personal mech; these are machines made for war on a grand scale. [[SarcasmMode And to make matters even better]], just one Sentinel is powerful enough to level an entire city... [[FromBadToWorse and there's a whole]] ''[[FromBadToWorse army]]'' [[FromBadToWorse of them]]!
20	*** Speaking of Death Egg Robots, the final boss is Eggman piloting a Death Egg Robot... only it looks absolutely '''nothing''' like the Death Egg Robots we've come to know and love, looking more like a huge mechanical, yet almost organic-looking version of [[VideoGame/SonicBoom Lyric]] fused with [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Dark Gaia]], and it's powered by an overclocked Phantom Ruby, basically making it a RealityWarper. Also, after defeating the first two phases, the robot shuts down... only for a smaller robot that resembles a freakier version of the Nega Wisp Armor from ''Colors'' to smash against the aperture of its core like a beating heart and emerge from its chest in a frightening ShoutOut to the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise.
21	** Even the simple Egg Pawns look incredibly menacing. Since their debut in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', the Egg Pawns have been designed to basically resemble a robotic Eggman, giving them unique weapons and giving them a wide range of expressions, making them too cute to take seriously. Here, they have been redesigned to every bit resemble the soulless automatons they are. Their design is a simple ghostly white body with glowing red eyes or a red visor. Their movements are stiff, militaristic, and entirely mechanical. The first cutscene with them had them marching towards Tails and some civilians, preparing to kill them. Thankfully, Sonic arrives at the nick of time since, in a FreezeFrameBonus, a pair of the Egg Pawns had just raised their Gatling gun hands to fire on Tails and the civilians before Sonic intervened a split-second before they opened fire, forcing the remaining Egg Pawns to turn their fire on Sonic instead.
22	* [[ContinuityNod Fun is]] [[VideoGame/SonicCD infinite]] [[BlatantLies with]] [[TheHeavy Infinite]]. Let us count the ways:
23	** His character design feels ''[[NonStandardCharacterDesign off]].'' While it's in the same CartoonCreature style as everyone else, there are also some foxlike traits and the hairstyle used by both hedgehogs and echidnas. His voice is [[EvilSoundsDeep deep]], [[PowerEchoes distorted]], and [[VoiceOfTheLegion borderline demonic]]. And unlike every other character in the series, his design is rather asymmetrical. He also has a [[PowerGlows red outline around him, with a purple aura]] that occasionally [[OminousVisualGlitch flickers with red, glitching static]], like he's out of sync with reality.
24	** Infinite's first meeting with Sonic [[TheWorfEffect is a nightmare in every sense of the word]]. To call his fight with Sonic a CurbStompBattle would be the ''nicest'' way to describe it. [[LightningBruiser He's fast enough to dodge a point-blank Sonic Boost and strong enough to literally kick Sonic around like a big blue ball.]] Both Tails and Sonic are naturally freaked out by him, and Tails [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale can't make sense of the readings Infinite gives off on the Miles Electric]]. It's incredibly hard to watch Sonic endure the most savage beatdown he's ever had to endure at the hands of some of his greatest foes. Tails screaming Sonic's name as Sonic loses consciousness pretty much seals the scene.
25	** The Avatar's first meeting with Infinite. A flashback shows the Avatar and his squadmates fighting in vain against Infinite. Infinite simply responds by firing a sweeping laser beam from his hand... [[GoryDiscretionShot and the camera cuts to a White Wispon clattering to the ground right next to the frightened Avatar.]] Yes, we have just witnessed a ''Sonic'' villain actually '''''murder people onscreen'''''. The game doesn't hide the view of their bodies either - although it's only brief, you can see them discarded and unmoving around the rubble. It only gets worse when the Avatar grabs the Wispon and attempts to continue the fight, but is obviously too scared to do so. All the while Infinite delivers a crushing BreakingSpeech, relishing in his terror. [[Creator/LiamOBrien Liam O'Brien's]] chilling voice acting captures the scene.
26	--->'''Infinite:''' (''To the Avatar'') I can taste your terror, child. All that anxiety and doubt... it's delicious. (''Fires an energy blast in front of the Avatar, [[{{Troll}} intentionally missing just to startle them]]'') Give in to your fear. Flee, screaming, and I'll let you live. (''EvilLaugh'')
27	** The Phantom Ruby's true power. It doesn't actually [[RealityWarp warp reality]], but [[{{Pun}} in reality]], it essentially induces MindRape onto anyone within its field of effect. [[MasterOfIllusion It directly screws with your brain through illusions and hallucinations]] that seem so real that [[YourMindMakesItReal whatever happens to you in said hallucinations happens for real]]. In Vector's own words, one flip of the Phantom Ruby switch causes the entirety of LaResistance to be thrown into chaos. No wonder Eggman won so easily!
28	** Upon arriving at Metropolis, The Avatar comes face to face with Infinite who takes over the rest of the level. This means the player has to tackle gravity constantly changing, Infinite following them as they continue in the level, and giant elongated versions of himself looming over the city. Going in for the first time, you have no idea they will appear, and the Avatar is just as shocked as the player is.
29	*** Special mention goes to those elongated Infinite clones mentioned above. They look so unnatural and disturbing that you'll have a hard time unseeing their blank, pink-eyed gazes.
30	*** It gets worse when you remember that Infinite killed the Avatar's squadmates, so imagine the terror the Avatar must be feeling at that moment, coming face-to-face with the monster that murdered their friends.
31	*** The second boss fight with him starts off with Infinite floating around and summoning cubes of his red voxels, but once you reduce him to half health, we get a sudden close-up of his pupil ''jumping around in his eye.''
32	* The UhOhEyes and FishEyes that the Avatar can have, although this is most likely unintentional.
33	* The jungle level has a giant snake appear as a quick-time event. Failing has it eat Sonic and you die... but if you succeed it eats Sonic anyway, though he lives regardless of what happens afterward.
34	* Null Space. A seemingly endless dimension of nothing. The music playing is the solemn piano bridge of Fist Bump, which only adds to the helplessness of the situation.
35	* After Infinite is defeated, he's teleported away against his will. Tails tracks his Phantom Ruby... leading directly to Eggman's final mecha powered by the Phantom Ruby, but Infinite is nowhere to be seen. Even creepier is it's explicitly stated the Phantom Ruby's path led through the place Eggman 'built' Infinite... Exactly what did Eggman ''do''?
36	** According the the Sonic Encyclo-speed-ia, Infinite and the Phantom Ruby prototype were "consumed" by the Phantom Ruby itself. While it's not elaborated as to what that means, [[AndIMustScream the implications aren't pretty]]...
37	* Tails saw his best friend be defeated and possibly die right in front of himself. Not helped that from a scientific standpoint, the situation made no sense. Later on, we learn that the resistance considers Tails a lost cause, and we see Tails failing at repairing Omega while being rather nonchalant despite everything going on. Has Tails become a little insane?
38	* Sonic spending months as Eggman's prisoner is dark enough already, but the English version [[SpiceUpTheSubtitles makes it even worse]] by adding the detail that he was ''[[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]]'' during his captivity. While the fact that it's only in certain localizations makes it dubious how canon this is, if you believe it did happen, this makes Eggman that much more cruel and horrifying.
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42	* Omega's defeat. The first indication something is wrong is when he reports that he has no idea where he is. Later, we get an indication of [[GasLighting what he's seeing]] as he reports that Rouge has become a casualty [[note]]She was MissionControl and never physically present[[/note]] and that [[ThisIsUnforgivable Shadow must be destroyed]]. As Shadow asks him what's going on, Omega shouts out that he is the ultimate and [[KilledMidSentence abruptly cuts off.]]
43	* Infinite's SanitySlippage as a result of being defeated and humiliated by Shadow after having his whole mercenary squad wiped out. His MadnessMantra of "I'm not weak" adds a whole new layer onto Infinite who, under his seemingly calm and cocky demeanour, is really a petty, aggressive mercenary. The Japanese version of the scene is even worse, as it better captures Infinite's descent into full-blown insanity. That enraged roar at the end is an agonized scream with Japanese voices turned on, as though Infinite has been completely and utterly broken.
44	* During the third level, Shadow manages to get back in communication with Rouge, who says that they are retrieving Omega [[TimeSkip three months after his destruction]]. However, when he reaches the place Omega was attacked, Rouge cheerfully claims it never happened while Omega chimes in saying that he's not weak, he's not weak, HE'S NOT WEAK, HE'S NOT WEAK. Infinite's MadnessMantra coming out of Omega is just unnerving.
45	-->'''E-123 Omega''': I am not defeated, I am not weak, I am not weak, ''I AM NOT WEAK...'' '''I AM NOT WEAK...''' '''''I AM NOT WEAK...'''''
46	* The [[NeverSayDie implication]] that Shadow killed the rest of the Jackal Squad. GoodIsNotNice.

Context NightmareFuel / SonicForces