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* DareToBeBadass: With the Mythos creatures' time travelling rocket [[spoiler: headed for the Big Bang, whereby, via the Chaos Emeralds, rearrange the universe to their purposes]], Sonic fears Kintobor's TimeTravel-modified treadmill won't get Sonic and Tails there fast enough.

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* DareToBeBadass: With the Mythos creatures' time travelling rocket [[spoiler: headed for the Big Bang, whereby, via the Chaos Emeralds, to rearrange the universe to their purposes]], Sonic fears Kintobor's TimeTravel-modified treadmill won't get Sonic and Tails there fast enough.
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* NecessaryFail: In order to save the universe Sonic must allow Dr Robotnik to exist; so he can steal the Chaos emeralds and thus prevent the Mythos from getting their hands on them.

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* NecessaryFail: In order to save the universe Sonic must allow Dr Dr. Robotnik to exist; so he can steal the Chaos emeralds Emeralds and thus prevent the Mythos from getting their hands on them.



* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: It's not impossible, but multiple versions of one person in the same time are not a good thing; Sonic and Tails accidentally merge with past versions of themselves when they just touch each other, although Sonic is able to 'weaponise' this to stop Cinos (a version of him created when he was exposed to the same chaos energy that turned Kintobor into Robotnik).

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* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: It's not impossible, but multiple versions of one person in the same time are not a good thing; Sonic and Tails accidentally merge with past versions of themselves when they just touch each other, although Sonic is able to 'weaponise' this to stop Cinos (a version of him created when he was exposed to the same chaos Chaos energy that turned Kintobor into Robotnik).
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* TemporalAbortion: After Robotnik gets his hands on a time machine, he starts eliminating all the heroes from existence by sending his robots back in time to kill their parents before they were born. He runs into trouble when he tries to do this to Sonic and Tails themselves, however, as they're both orphans whose real parents are unknown, so he has to send them back into prehistory to kill the first hedgehog and fox ever to evolve on Mobius (and then [[EvilGloating foolishly tells them about this]], giving them the chance to go back themselves and save their ancestors).
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* DraconicHumanoid: The first Mythos Sonic comes across are Dragonkin; snake-like creatures with arms and legs.

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* DraconicHumanoid: The first lead Mythos Sonic comes across are is Arctur the Dragonkin; a snake-like creatures creature with arms and legs.legs, and protrusions on the back of his costume that are suggested to be covering wings.
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* DareToBeBadass: With the Mythos creatures' time travelling rocket [[spoiler: headed for the Big Bang, whereby, via the Chaos Emeralds, rearrange the universe to their purposes]], Sonic fears Kintobor's TimeTravel-modified treadmill won't get Sonic and Tails there fast enough.
-->'''Dr Kintobor:''' This is where you prove yourself, Sonic. Are you really the fastest living creature in existence, as you claim? Prove it. Get on that treadmill and run as if your life depended on it. Even if you don't succeed, you have to try.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: With TimeTravel it's justified.

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* ShoutOut: Sonic, a [[SuperSpeed speedster]], acquires a time-travelling treadmill. [[Franchise/TheFlash Sound familiar]]?

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Sonic, a [[SuperSpeed speedster]], acquires a time-travelling treadmill. [[Franchise/TheFlash Sound familiar]]?familiar]]?
** Sonic bemoans an AlternateHistory Green Hill Zone cliff face to be "covered in oil and [[Series/RedDwarf smeg]]".
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: Carrie the Coypu, which is a large type of rat, also known as the nutria.
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Sonic and Tails must prevent Dr. Robotnik, who has discovered a time machine from changing the past, destroying the resistance and becoming supreme ruler on the planet Mobius. To help them traverse time they meet up with The Organizers, a group of extra-dimensional humans who guard the space-time continuum, who Robotnik had stolen his time machine from. They in turn help the Organizers fend off the Mythos creatures, a faction of mythological creatures fighting to gain a place in "reality", the dimension Sonic lives in, where logically they should not exist. The leader of the Mythos creatures, Arctur the Dragonkin, supplants Dr. Robotnik as the primary antagonist of this story.

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Sonic and Tails must prevent Dr. Robotnik, who has discovered a time machine machine, from changing the past, destroying the resistance and becoming supreme ruler on the planet Mobius. To help them traverse time they meet up with The Organizers, a group of extra-dimensional humans who guard the space-time continuum, who Robotnik had stolen his time machine from. They in turn help the Organizers fend off the Mythos creatures, a faction of mythological creatures fighting to gain a place in "reality", the dimension Sonic lives in, where logically they should not exist. The leader of the Mythos creatures, Arctur the Dragonkin, supplants Dr. Robotnik as the primary antagonist of this story.
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[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where]] Sonic goes time trippin'.



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JustForFun/TheOneWith [[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where]] Sonic goes time trippin'.
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JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where]] Sonic goes time trippin'.
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* ShoutOut: Sonic, a [[SuperSpeed speedster]], acquires a time-travelling treadmill. [[Franchise/TheFlash Sound familiar]]?
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Sonic and Tails must prevent Dr. Robotnik from changing the past, destroying the resistance and becoming supreme ruler on the planet Mobius. To help them traverse time they meet up with The Organizers, a group of humans who guard the space-time continuum. They in turn help the Organizers fend off the mythos creatures, mythological creatures fighting to gain a place in reality.

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Sonic and Tails must prevent Dr. Robotnik Robotnik, who has discovered a time machine from changing the past, destroying the resistance and becoming supreme ruler on the planet Mobius. To help them traverse time they meet up with The Organizers, a group of extra-dimensional humans who guard the space-time continuum. continuum, who Robotnik had stolen his time machine from. They in turn help the Organizers fend off the mythos Mythos creatures, a faction of mythological creatures fighting to gain a place in reality.
"reality", the dimension Sonic lives in, where logically they should not exist. The leader of the Mythos creatures, Arctur the Dragonkin, supplants Dr. Robotnik as the primary antagonist of this story.



* AlternateTimeline: Several pop-up in the book but the one that Sonic and Co spend the largest amount of time in is the one where they prevent Dr. Kintobor from transforming into Dr. Robotnik.

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* AlternateTimeline: Several pop-up in the book book, but the one that Sonic and Co Tails spend the largest amount of time in is the one where they prevent Dr. Kintobor from transforming into Dr. Robotnik. Another exists where Robotnik has already "won".



* ClingyCostume: The mythos trick Sonic into putting one on which prevents any movement on voice activation, it can only be deactivated by somebody else but seemingly anybody else which means it's easy to get out of if somebody friendly finds you.

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* ClingyCostume: The mythos Several of the Mythos trick Sonic into putting one on which prevents any movement on voice activation, it can only be deactivated by somebody else but seemingly anybody else which means it's easy to get out of if somebody friendly finds you.



* DraconicHumanoid: The first mythos Sonic comes across are Dragonkin; snake-like creatures with arms and legs.
* DressedAllInRubber: The mythos are all dressed in form fitting rubber-like suits.

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* DraconicHumanoid: The first mythos Mythos Sonic comes across are Dragonkin; snake-like creatures with arms and legs.
* DressedAllInRubber: The mythos Mythos are all dressed in form fitting rubber-like suits.
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Considering I made that trope page, this book was definitely the reason I started it.

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* InTheirOwnImage: The time-travel plot of the Mythos Creatures, to make a home for them when the universe formerly didn't have the space or rules for them to exist. This book inspired the creation of that trope page.

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* CanonForeigner: Carrie the Copyu, Eric the Echidna and The Organizers.

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* CanonForeigner: Carrie the Copyu, Coypu, Eric the Echidna and The Organizers. Organizers.
* AChildShallLeadThem: The Elders of the Fourth Dimension are led by a kid. She's actually sensible and reasonable, teenaged messiness aside.



* EvilIsPetty: Before trying to erase Sonic and Tails from existence, Robotnik alters history so Tails has a clingy girlfriend. Who is one of his robots. When he takes over Mobius, he uses clones of Sonic's friends as henchpeople.



* FromBadToWorse: As one of the time police notes, during their meeting with Sonic and Tails, Robotnik's managed to climb in threat level twice.
* GaiasLament: What the world looks like under Robotnik. The Green Hill Zone becomes what Sonic and Tails dub the Brown Hill Zone, covered in oil and smog. It actually manages to get worse after they're away.



* HiddenElfVillage: The planet Mobius is one, hidden by higher powers to stop people abusing its beautiful scenery. The Mobians don't know this.



* {{Jerkass}}: Sonic has a few sudden, unwarranted mean thoughts towards Tails. Admittedly, Sonic's supposed to be an arrogant teenager, but they're pretty unfair all the same.



* OneNationUnderCopyright: A sign of Robotnik's rule is that everyone and everything, right down to the individual ''rocks'' are branded with his copyright.



* SeldomSeenSpecies: Carrie the Coypu, which is a large type of rat, also known as the nutria.



* TimeTravel: Key component of the plot.

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* TimeTravel: Key component of the plot.plot.
* VictoryIsBoring: After rewriting the timeline so Kinotobor doesn't become Robotnik, Sonic quickly becomes ''extremely'' bored.
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''SonicTheHedgehog in the Fourth Dimension'' is a book released in 1993 and the second title written by the collective {{Pseudonym}} Martin Adams.

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''SonicTheHedgehog ''Sonic The Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension'' is a book released in 1993 and the second title written by the collective {{Pseudonym}} Martin Adams.

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* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: It's not impossible, but multiple versions of one person in the same time are not a good thing; Sonic and Tails accidentally merge with past versions of themselves when they just touch each other, although Sonic is able to 'weaponise' this to stop Cinos (a version of him created when he was exposed to the same chaos energy that turned Kintobor into Robotnik).



* ProductPlacement: At one point sonic is playing on his "sleek" Game Gear.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Questioned at one point but never really explained.
* SanDimasTime: At one point Dr. Robotnik claims who heroic duo only have fifteen minutes to exist; as his robots have found (and are about to kill) the first evolved hedgehog and fox on the planet.

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* ProductPlacement: At one point sonic Sonic is playing on his "sleek" Game Gear.
* RetGone: Robotnik mounts his first attack by erasing Porker Lewis, and later attempts to erase Sonic and Tails by going back to find and kill the first hedgehog and fox to evolve on Mobius (unable to just eliminate Sonic and Tails' parents as their orphan status meant that nobody knew who their parents were).
* ResetButton: The novel concludes with everything that happened erased and only Sonic and Tails remember everything.
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RippleEffectProofMemory: Questioned at one point point- to the extent that Sonic and Tails remember the real history before they've even done any time-travelling themselves- but never really explained.
* SanDimasTime: At one point Dr. Robotnik claims who the heroic duo only have fifteen minutes to exist; exist, as his robots have found (and are about to kill) the first evolved hedgehog and fox on the planet.



** And later in the book Sonic's reverse Cinos appears.

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** And later in the book Sonic's reverse Cinos appears.appears when a time-travelling Sonic is infected by Chaos energy, requiring another Sonic to merge with Cinos to stop him.
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* TakeANumber: Sonic and Co had to take one before meeting with the Science Council of the Organizers; with was up in the 4000's while the current number called was 24. Needless to say this didn't go down well with one impatient hedgehog.

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* TakeANumber: Sonic and Co had to take one before meeting with the Science Council of the Organizers; with was up in the 4000's 4000s while the current number called was 24. Needless to say this didn't go down well with one impatient hedgehog.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Utahraptor's are apparently the size of a small skyscraper.

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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Utahraptor's Utahraptors are apparently the size of a small skyscraper.
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Somewhere A Palaeontologist Is Crying is now Artistic License Paleontology. Bad examples and ZCE are being removed.

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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Utahraptor's are apparently the size of a small skyscraper.

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* HamsterWheelPower: The time-travel device Sonic and Tails use near the end of the book is cobbled together using a treadmill as the power source. The faster the duo run the quicker they travel in time, this becomes a plot point.



* Super Speed: It’s Sonic!

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* Super Speed: SuperSpeed: It’s Sonic!
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* MechaMooks: Badniks.


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* Super Speed: It’s Sonic!

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* AlternateTimeline: Several pop-up in the book but the one that Sonic and Co spend the largest amount of time in is the one where they prevent Dr. Kintobor from transforming into Dr. Robotnik.



* DelayedRippleEffect: The climax of the book sees Sonic and Tails outrunning (literally, they're on a time-traveling treadmill) the blast of the corrupted big-bang traveling through time.



* EnemyWithout: Sonic gets (another) alter-ego with Cinos; the reverse of Sonic which Tails fails to cure forcing Sonic to merge with it.



* InvisibilityCloak: The Mythos ship has one; Sonic walks into it.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: At one point there are three Sonics and Tailses; at the end they trick Robotnik into beliving the whole dimension is populated by Sonic and Tails look-a-likes with this paradox.
* NecessaryFail: In order to save the universe Sonic must allow Dr Robotnik to exist; so he can steal the Chaos emeralds and thus prevent the Mythos from getting their hands on them.
* TheNeutralZone: One floor in the Fourth Dimension is set up as one.
* PeaceConference: One happens at the end of the book; it's of course Sonic that manages to come up with the idea and force the two forces to talk to each other.



* RippleEffectProofMemory: Questioned at one point but never really explained.



** And later in the book Sonic's reverse Cinos appears.



* TimePolice: The Organizers.

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* TimePolice: The Organizers.Organizers; who actually have a sub-division called the Time Police (they're not very good at their job).
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* AnachronismStew: The pair travel back to the Cretaceous period to have fun with dinos, yet somehow meet a proto-hedgehog and fox; almost identical to Sonic and Tails.


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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: With TimeTravel it's justified.
* EvilGloating: With Tails captured, Sonic unable to damage his improved egg-o-matic and their only escape route destroyed what does Robotnik do? Oh yeah; gives a run down of his plans and how the two are doomed to non-existence. This of course gives Sonic time to escape his grasp.


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* SanDimasTime: At one point Dr. Robotnik claims who heroic duo only have fifteen minutes to exist; as his robots have found (and are about to kill) the first evolved hedgehog and fox on the planet.

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SonicTheHedgehog in the Fourth Dimension is a book about Sonic the hedgehog accidentally changing time and being sent to the fourth dimension.

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''SonicTheHedgehog
in the Fourth Dimension Dimension'' is a book about released in 1993 and the second title written by the collective {{Pseudonym}} Martin Adams.

Sonic the hedgehog accidentally and Tails must prevent Dr. Robotnik from changing the past, destroying the resistance and becoming supreme ruler on the planet Mobius. To help them traverse time and being sent to they meet up with The Organizers, a group of humans who guard the fourth dimension.
space-time continuum. They in turn help the Organizers fend off the mythos creatures, mythological creatures fighting to gain a place in reality.



* BadFuture
* CanonForeigner: Carrie the Copyu, Eric the Echidna
* TimeTravel

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* BadFuture
BadFuture: Robotnik manages to succeed by by the first chapter of the book making Sonic and Tails set off to fix it.
* BeleagueredBureaucrat: All the Organizers are hampered by their system but they do seem to genuinely care about protecting the universe.
* CanonForeigner: Carrie the Copyu, Eric the Echidna
Echidna and The Organizers.
* TimeTravelClingyCostume: The mythos trick Sonic into putting one on which prevents any movement on voice activation, it can only be deactivated by somebody else but seemingly anybody else which means it's easy to get out of if somebody friendly finds you.
* DraconicHumanoid: The first mythos Sonic comes across are Dragonkin; snake-like creatures with arms and legs.
* DressedAllInRubber: The mythos are all dressed in form fitting rubber-like suits.
* EndlessCorridor: Literally endless, the fourth dimension is nothing but rows and rows of corridors on-top of endless floors of similar looking corridors.
* EvilLaugh: ''"Two things float in the air around him at all times: the horrible smell of rotten eggs, and a high-pitched chortling laugh which he will break into at a moment's notice."''
* ProductPlacement: At one point sonic is playing on his "sleek" Game Gear.
* SdrawkcabAlias: The book uses the Dr. Kintobor created Sonic and turned into Dr. Robotnik in a failed experiment as the back-story.
* TakeANumber: Sonic and Co had to take one before meeting with the Science Council of the Organizers; with was up in the 4000's while the current number called was 24. Needless to say this didn't go down well with one impatient hedgehog.
* TimePolice: The Organizers.
* TimeTravel: Key component of the plot.
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SonicTheHedgehog in the Fourth Dimension is a book about Sonic the hedgehog accidnetally changing time and being sent to the fourth dimension.

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SonicTheHedgehog in the Fourth Dimension is a book about Sonic the hedgehog accidnetally accidentally changing time and being sent to the fourth dimension.
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SonicTheHedgehog in the Fourth Dimension is a book about Sonic the hedgehog accidnetally changing time and being sent to the fourth dimension.

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* BadFuture
* CanonForeigner: Carrie the Copyu, Eric the Echidna
* TimeTravel

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