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Fridge Brilliance
- Compared to everyone else who know they're playing different roles and occasionally break character to be serious, Blaze is the only one who embraces her role wholeheartedly, even going along with the suggestion to pretend to be her spouse to get past the Chao guard by requesting the player character's heritage. She could just be The Comically Serious… or, due to her status as princess in her home dimension, she's genuinely interested in such a thing and may wish to study a potential suitor before sealing the deal.
- Shadow mentions that he's not great at computers after accidentally printing out the ticket webpage while trying to use the lounge's computer. This may just seem like an "old man" joke with the hedgehog, but Shadow's technobane troubles have existed before. In his titular game, the Chaotix were trying to access Eggman's database, with Shadow making his appearance known to them. With the Chaotix having no luck, Shadow's solution to access Eggman's files is to karate chop the machine, which ends up opening a portal to the Mad Matrix level. In addition, the last computer he used was likely on the Space Colony ARK (for the Eclipse Cannon's controls), which is also several years out-of-date from modern technology.
- While it may seem confusing for Vector to be in the library, considering both his role and his personality, consider that the library has a secret passageway to access the lounge, which has a computer. He can find the computer room.
- On the subject of Vector, it might seem weird that known ace detective Vector wouldn't get the detective role, but given that the Mirage Express was using the murder mystery party to capture Sonic without anyone knowing, of course it wouldn't want Vector investigating. The same would apply with Espio, along with him being the best person to "murder" Sonic in the game.
- In the same vein, the characters the train did pick to be the investigators have a certain logic to them. Amy tends to leap to conclusions, making her a good distraction for the detective. As for Tails... on the one hand, he's the youngest and smallest of the bunch, which the train may have thought might slow him down during the investigation due to the others potentially intimidating him (the train apparently had underestimated Tails's bravery, or hadn't expected Tails to pick up a Watson in the PC, or both). On the other hand, perhaps the train picked him because he was the most intelligent of the group—the train wanted him occupied with the murder mystery, so he wouldn't notice the oddities with the train as much, until it was too late.
- An alternative less serious interpretation, Vector and Espio are detectives as their jobs. They're at a party, so they're there to have fun not work.
- The image for the game in one's Steam library (also the one used on the main TV Tropes page for this game) shows Sonic (the victim) alongside the only two characters who are, by the murder mystery game's rules, not the culprit (Tails the detective, and Amy the reporter). Every other guest to Amy's birthday party appears faded in the background as a potential culprit/answer to the mystery. What else is? The train itself.
- Why doesn't the train just actually kill Sonic while he's incapacitated? It's likely due to Eggman's own pride that he also programs into his creations. In the IDW comics, the doctor wants to defeat Sonic (i.e. break his spirit and prove his superiority) and not just merely kill him. In this case, the doctor would love to have the train deliver Sonic and his friends while they're still alive, just so he could gloat in Sonic's face that he was defeated by a train and incapacitated by one of his own friends, before killing him properly.
- The game doesn't dwell on it much and the cities are stated to have gotten back their trains in the epilogue, but Eggman discreetly converted multiple other trains into Badniks before the events of the game. In other words, Eggman managed to tamper with public transport across multiple cities without anyone noticing. If he can pull off a stunt like that, he could easily convert numerous other forms of public services and infrastructures for his own ends, or even take over an entire city from within just by silently converting all their stuff. Everyone would likely be on high alert after what he did to the trains, but it's still a good dose of Paranoia Fuel.
- What makes this even more frightening and more likely to be possible is this isn’t even the first time we’ve seen the good doctor’s inventions making into the public; if you remember Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, he was the CEO of MeteorTech, a security company.
- The Mirage Express is a badnik, yet remembers the 32 years it spent with the Conductor. Which means that Eggman, its creator, has been scheming in-universe for at least 32 years. And the Flicky was trapped inside the train for at least 32 years. Eggman has been trapping animals inside machines for at least 32 years.
- Well, yes, he has.
- Real question is: Did the Mirage Express have the same Flicky powering it for 32 years straight, or did it have multiples with each one needing to be replaced as they died of old age/overwork?
- To be fair, while the train may have always had a digital personality of sorts, it's possible that Eggman only recently reprogrammed it and converted it into a badnik, albeit allowing it to retain its relationship with the Conductor.
