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alt title(s): Sonic 
"You'll pay for this, Sonic!!!"
"I hate that hedgehog!!!"
-Dr. Robotnik, The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
"Not that irritating hedgehog again!!!"
-Dr. Eggman, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
A fast hedgehog, a two-tailed fox, and a Green Rocks-protecting echidna go down to the local pub. A floating fat man with a penchant for robots bursts in on their Happy Hour martinis to announce his schemes to take over the world with aforementioned Green Rocks. The hedgehog, fox, and echidna put down their drinks, mutter something along the lines of "Aw, hell no!", and proceed to kick the floating fat man's ass from here to New Brunswick. Rinse and repeat, adding Lots and Lots More Characters.
That's Sonic The Hedgehog in a nutshell. Created in 1991 for the then-fledgling Sega Genesis (and not-so-fledgling Sega Master System) by a group of fifteen people tasked with creating a mascot to compete with the face of video games, Sonic quickly became the gaming company's mascot, and grew in strength with each sequel to put its creators into a healthy competitive spot with Nintendo and other, lesser gaming companies during the 16-bit Console Wars.
The games were positively brilliant, and eventually spun off into no less than four cartoon series, two comic series (barring doujinshi, see Rule Thirty Four), and even an anime movie. For a while, Sonic even overshadowed Nintendo's poster boy, Mario, in the minds of some fans, due to the technical whizziness of its concept and the proto- Badass nature of its main character. (This was the predecessor to the eventual family-friendly versus mature games debate, with a hedgehog with an attitude standing in for killing beeyotches.) And the concept was so simple: The aforementioned trio of Sonic (the hedgehog), Tails (the fox kitsune fox), and Knuckles (the echidna) try to thwart Dr. Robotnik's (the floating fat man) attempts at world domination using the Chaos Emeralds (the Green Rocks). Run fast, collect rings, bash robotic critters, and it's all good.
But then, the series hit a rock. After the transition to 3D, the fans started to think that the Sonic games were getting worse. They felt that the new characters (who seemed to pile up each game) were stealing the spotlight from Sonic. Mix in a little bit of Villain Decay for Eggman, new Darker And Edgier rivals, Flanderization for some characters and the series' Unpleasable Fanbase, and we have the Sonic series today. (Although, as Nintendo Power put it, the 3D Sonics are pretty much Love It Or Hate It).
As such, depending on who you talk to, this decay is often attributed (along with the failure of the Dreamcast) to Sega's departure from the Console Wars to become a third-party distributer.
However, Sonic has not lost his place yet. As of 2007/08, he seems to climbing out of his slump, thanks to Flanderization being turned back, and some good games coming out, plus an appearance in Super Smash Bros Brawl. Has the hedgehog finally regained his footing?
The list of games and other franchises Sonic has appeared in includes, but isn't possibly limited to:
Video Games
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- Sonic The Hedgehog 3
- Sonic and Knuckles
- Knuckles Chaotix
- Sonic CD
- Sonic 3D Blast
- Sonic R
- Sonic Shuffle
- Sonic the Fighters (known as Sonic Championship in some regions)
- Sonic Chaos
- Sonic Triple Trouble
- Sonic Drift
- Sonic Drift 2
- Sonic Spinball
- Sonic Labyrinth
- Sega Sonic the Hedgehog (an arcade game)
- Sonic Adventure (remade as Sonic Adventure DX)
- Sonic Adventure 2 (remade as Sonic Adventure 2 Battle)
- Sonic Battle
- Sonic Advance (remade as Sonic N for the N-Gage)
- Sonic Heroes
- Sonic Advance 2
- Sonic Advance 3
- Sonic Rush
- Shadow the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2006
- Sonic and the Secret Rings
- Sonic Rivals
- Sonic Rush Adventure
- Sonic Rivals 2
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
- Sonic Unleashed
- Sonic and the Black Knight
Television Shows
Comic Books
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)
- Sonic the Comic (UK)
- Sonic X Comic
- Sonic the Hedgehog Manga
Tropes used in the video games:
- Actor Existence Failure: Deem Bristow, the original video game VA for Dr. Eggman, passed away in January 2005. Mike Pollock, who voiced Eggman in Sonic X was selected to be his replacement starting from Shadow The Hedgehog. However, due to unfortunate circumstances, this caused an Executive Meddling of sorts (See "Executive Meddling" below).
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier: Robotnik's favorite type of weapon, starting with Sky Base in the Game Gear Sonic and continuing with the Egg Carrier and its variations in the modern games.
- Animated Actors: Sonic Chronicles delivers the credits by having Sonic, Tails and Omega break the fourth wall to discuss the developers.
- Apologetic Attacker: Tikal
- Arabian Nights Days: Sonic and the Secret Rings
- Art Evolution: Here's what Sonic used to look like.
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- Back From The Dead: Shadow, in a way; and Sonic in the really bad 2006 Sonic game
- Band Land: Stardust Speedway in Sonic CD as well as Music Plant in Sonic Advance 2.
- Because Destiny Says So: Sonic explicitly in the games, and Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles in the Archie comics, are mentioned through ancient prophecies to be destined for great, messianic things.
- In the game Sonic & Knuckles, in the "Hidden Palace" level, there are mosaics on the background wall that clearly depict Super Sonic fighting Eggman's Final Boss Robot at the end of the game.
- Cosmo is revealed to be destined to help save the universe and resurrect her dead clan by dying in the Sonic X anime.
- Bottomless Pit: Relatively rare in the early Sonic games, but increasingly common as the series has gone on.
- Breaking The Fourth Wall: The end of Sonic Chronicles mercilessly beats the fourth wall into dust.
- Calling Your Attacks: "Chaos Control!"
- Character Derailment: Many of the secondary and/or one-off characters, especially in the cartoons and comics, though Robotnik himself has fallen into this trope.
- Character Name And The Noun Phrase: the Storybook series (Sonic and the Secret Rings/Black Knight)
- City Of Canals (Soleanna in 2006)
- Classic Cheat Code
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Amy Rose, who borders on Stalker With A Crush. This is another instance of Character Derailment, as this aspect of Amy's personality has been exaggerated over time.
- Colony Drop: The ARK space station in Sonic Adventure 2.
- Compilation Rerelease: Practically all of the original games from the Genesis/Master System up to the Dreamcast were rereleased on later (non-Sega) consoles in some form or another.
- Continuity Creep
- Continuity Nod: Sonic Chronicles contains references to past games, mainly Sonic Adventure and the mostly-forgotten Sonic Battle.
- In Sonic Adventure 2, Eggman finds a newspaper article that says a Chaos Emerald was given to "the boy who saved Station Square"—i.e., Tails received the Emerald as a reward for his heroics in Sonic Adventure.
- Cool Shades / Scary Shiny Glasses: Robotnik's ever-present round specs.
- Cool Ship: The Egg Carrier from Sonic Adventure, as well as Robotnik's "Egg-O-Matic" hovership that he uses at every possible opportunity.
- Crosshair Aware
- Crossover: With the Mario franchise, and a whole bunch of other game franchises. Archie comics has made a number of comic book crossovers, and Ken Penders made one as a shameless plug for The Lost Ones.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome: Crush 40 has written a lot of memorable tunes for the Adventure-era games, including Open Your Heart, Live and Learn, What I'm Made Of, among others. (Not that Crush 40 is the only one; take Julien-K's Waking Up and This Machine for example.) Let's just save time and say that even when plumbing the depths of So Bad Its Horrible, the music has remained one of the few if not the only redeeming features.
- Dark Magical Girl: Shadow, the oddly male version of this trope.
- Darker And Edgier: Shadow the Hedgehog and his self-titled spin-off game. Averted (At least for half the game) by the Bioware-developed RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.
- Dead Little Sister: Shadow the Hedgehog's memories of Maria Robotnik.
- Deader Than Dead: Sonic in Sonic 06.
- Death Course: Even in the middle of nowhere, out in the ocean or in the middle of a forest, Sonic and the gang will inevitably cross paths with crates, spikes, drills, and other nasty hazards.
- Eleventh Hour Superpower: The Super/Hyper/Darkspine/Whatever versions of the core Sonic Trio (and Shadow/Silver/Blaze).
- Enemy Mine: Robotnik's fatal derailing trope, starting from Sonic Adventure onward. Which is subverted in his favor by the end of Sonic Chronicles
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Originally Knuckles, then Fang/Nack, and then Shadow, but nowadays it appears to be Blaze the Cat, one of the few Sonic characters who evokes a generally positive response from the highly Unpleasable Fanbase when she is speculated to appear in a new game.
- Evil Counterpart / Evil Twin: Shadow (Who also has Shadow Androids) and the Mecha Sonics.
- Evil Laugh: Robotnik's weird "OH hohohohoho!" in the Japanese games (and English Sonic Rush, oddly enough).
- Executive Meddling: The unfortunate cause of Sonic X-Treme's Vaporware status, as well as the replacement of all Sonic game voice actors with their Sonic X anime counterparts.
- Exposition Fairy: Started out as the Floating Advice Reminder, then turned to the actual characters themselves noting your abilities, usually the NPC secondary characters.
- Fan Dumb: Oh god. No comment...
- Five Man Band: The core Sonic Team (Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles) with Amy Rose and Cream; could also apply to the Chaotix, when Mighty and Knux are present.
- Flanderization: Too many instances to count. Mercifully dialed back in Sonic Chronicles.
- Floating Advice Reminder: Started in the Sonic Adventure games with Tikal and Omochao, then exploded from there.
- Forgotten Phlebotinum: Sonic developed time-freezing and teleportation powers in Sonic Adventure 2, but you can count on one hand the times he's actually used these since...or you could, if the game in which he did so existed.
- Fungus Humongous: Mushroom Hill Zone.
- Genki Girl: Amy Rose
- Genre Roulette
- Goggles Do Nothing: Robotnik gained a pair of them in Sonic Adventure and never used them, maybe because he has the aforementioned Scary Shiny Glasses.
- This troper recalls them being used as welding goggles at some point in Sonic X.
- This troper seems to recall them being used in Sonic Adventure 2, in a cutscene shortly before Cosmic Wall.
- Gratuitous English: Once Sonic got a voice, though in all fairness, his 'tude pretty much justified it.
- Also, Sonic the Fighters.
- Gravity Barrier
- Green Hill Zone (Trope namer)
- Guide Dang It: Act 2 of the Carnival Night Zone from Sonic 3 still haunts people to this day.
- Half Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Healing Shiv: Shadow gets a healing gun in Shadow: the Hedgehog.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: Tails constantly reminding you to save your game in Sonic Chronicles.
- Hive Mind: The Voxai from Chronicles.
- Hollywood Nerd: Tails
- Hopeless Boss Fight: The Gizoid Centurions and Prefect Charyb, the first time you face them.
- Hostage For Mc Guffin: Subverted in Sonic Adventure 2, as not only was the exchanged MacGuffin fake, but the villain saw through the ploy and launched it and our hero into space.
- Interspecies Romance: The Narmfully awkward romance between Sonic and Elise in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time: Knuckles has some really odd, if not outright boneheaded, ways of protecting the Master Emerald from thieves.
- Sonic even says so in the third season of Sonic X after he used Chaos Control to send the Chaos Emeralds away.
- Jonas Quinn: E-123 Omega in Sonic Heroes as a replacement for E-102 Gamma who "dies" at the end of his storyline in Sonic Adventure.
- Killer App: The original Sonic games for the Sega Genesis, and arguably the Sonic Adventure games for the Dreamcast (at the time).
- Kill Sat: The ARK. Of course, when the "Kill Sat" part fails (And due to the machinations of Professor Gerald Robotnik), it's Colony Drop time.
- The Lancer / The Rival: Shadow, Sally and sometimes Knuckles.
- Laughably Evil: Robotnik/Eggman.
- Last Of His Kind: Knuckles Until Sonic Chronicles
- Lawyer Friendly Cameo: The Death Egg for the Death Star.
- Lets You And Him Fight: First came Sonic vs. Knuckles, then came Sonic vs. Shadow, then came Sonic vs. whoever Sega decided to pit him against, that game. Spilled over into the comics, as well, with some very painful results.
- Loads And Loads Of Characters: As each new game introduces more antagonists and (invariably hedgehog-like) protagonists, even the core characters (like Tails and Knuckles) are being pushed off to the side. And that's just the video games.
- Meaningful Name: Practically everyone has one, Sonic is faster than sound, Knuckles has spikes on his fists, etc.
- Subverted with Tails, as he gets the name from having two tails, as his real name is 'Miles Prower'
- Hell, probably the only major character without one is Amy.
- Meanwhile In The Future: The 2006 game is horrible about this. Characters will shout "WE'VE GOT TO HURRY!" and run as fast as they can... to save somebody 200 years in the future. Uhhhh...
- Mac Guffin Delivery Service: Robotnik used this trick against Sonic and Tails for the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic Adventure.
- Mad Scientist: Robotnik, obviously.
- Mecha Mooks: Eggman loves them.
- Mega Neko: Big the Cat is, well...a big cat.
- Memetic Mutation: "Kids, there's nothing more cool than being hugged by someone you like. But if someone tries to touch you in a place or a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, that's no good."
- And Shadow wants to know "Where's that damn fourth Chaos Emerald?"!
- Vector wants you to "Find the computer room!"
- Mercy Invincibility: As long as you had at least one ring or shield to your name, this'll kick in when you're hit.
- Unless you're bouncing on spikes in the first version of the original game.
- Mike Nelson Destroyer Of Worlds: The whole reason behind Robotnik's Enemy Mine-fueled Character Derailment.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Robotnik, with his grandfather Gerald providing a Face Heel Turn variant.
- Ms Fanservice: Rouge the Bat, who looks and sounds quite like a prostitute at times.
- Multiple Demographic Appeal: The games, animated series and merchandising have all long been popular across many ages and both genders. This is probably at least in part due to the fact that many of the people who played the original games in the early nineties are now in their twenties and it's nostalgia setting in.
- Unfortunately, this means you get Fan Dumb from all directions.
- Multiple Endings: Dates all the way back to the first game, though it wasn't until Sonic & Knuckles that the difference was of any significance. Shadow the Hedgehog has 10 different endings, and 326 ways to get each ending.
- Narm: "This is WHO I AM!!"
- Nightmare Fuel: The Drowning Music. Oh god, the Drowning Music.
- For purposes of Illustration, watch here. You can hate me later.
- No Ending: Combined with Sequel Hook. Sonic Chronicles ends with Sonic and friends learning that Eggman has taken over the world. And then they thank Bioware for being awesome.
- Noblewomans Laugh: Robotnik's Santa-esque chuckle in the Japanese versions of the Sonic cartoons and games.
- Nostalgia Level: The extra 3D version of the original Sonic the Hedgehog's Green Hill Zone in Sonic Adventure 2.
- There are also Nostalgia Bosses in Sonic Advance, in the form of Sonic 1 and 2's first bosses in the X-Zone.
- Sonic Advance 3's Sunset Hill Zone certainly qualifies. It even has the music!
- Obvious Beta: Sonic 06 (nick name for Sonic the Hedghog for X Box 360 and PS 3).
- Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: No matter how much havoc Sonic wreaks on Robotnik's bases, he's always got enough badniks, eternal engines and wave motion guns for another world domination bid come next game. It reached a peak in Sonic Adventure, where after Sonic and co. spend the entire game taking down the Egg Carrier, he shows up with another Egg Carrier to try and subdue Chaos. See also Grand Unifying Guesses for the "logical" conclusion to all of this.
- Palette Swap: Shadow, Silver (to an extent), and all of the various Mecha versions of the core Sonic trio.
- Panty Shot: Amy and Cream. This may be Fan Disservice, because Cream is only six years old.
- People Jars: Possible variation. In the original games, Dr. Robotnik trapped animals within robots which Sonic had to destroy to set free.
- Personality Powers: Sonic — hyper and impatient, with superspeed; Knuckles — stubborn and quick-tempered, super-strong, etc.
- Pinball Zone: Almost every game in the series has at least one pinball-themed level, whether a regular level or a Bonus Stage. Sonic Spinball is a whole game based entirely around this concept. Despite the "zone", the Trope Namer is not from this series.
- Platform Game
- Plot Coupon: The ubiquitous Chaos Emeralds (and their daddy, the Master Emerald).
- Polygon Ceiling: The trope used to be called "Sonic Syndrome". You had three seconds to guess the correlation and any guesses after the first didn't count.
- Power Trio: Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles.
- Punny Name: Miles "Tails" Prower, and Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (and his legion of egg-themed machines)
- Puzzle Boss: Hardly used, but they do exist.
- Random Power Ranking (In Sonic Adventure 2 Battle)
- Red Eyes Take Warning: Super Sonic and Shadow.
- Ruined Forever: Many, even This Troper, bitched and moaned about the 4Kids voice actors voicing the characters for the games following Shadow the Hedgehog. As of Sonic and the Secret Rings, he has to admit they're pretty good. At least 4Kids has some talent in voice acting compared to this crappy dubbing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg And it is not a fandub. Seriously...
- Sealed Evil In A Can: It started with Chaos in Sonic Adventure and exploded from there. It's the other reason for Robotnik's Enemy Mine-fueled Character Derailment - he can't stay away from the darn things!
- The Scrappy: Big the Cat from Sonic Adventure.
- And to half the fandom, Shadow the Hedgehog. For the majority of the fanbase, Silver most definitely fits.
- For every Sonic fan, Omochao.
- Scrappy Level: Carnival Night Zone, anyone?
- Judging by, oh let's say; the entire internet, I'm the only person who figured out the barrels on the first go. And I have to say CNZ is a great level. For bigger scrappies, see Cosmic Fall, and...pretty much the entirety of Sonic Heroes and Sonic 06. Pits and bugs, man. Pits and bugs.
- Oh, yes. ThisTroper, who admits that Shadow The Hedgehog is a fine game, just ha-ted Cosmic Fall (Vector's voice had nothing on that stage)
- I disagree. Central City and Lost Impact were much worse.
- Also, Sonic CD has Wacky Workbench. Oh god, the coils...
- Scrappy Mechanic: Anything that is not a speed stage, most infamously fishing (Adventure) and "Werehog" combat (Unleashed).
- Scylla And Charybdis: The names of two of the space sectors in Sonic Chronicles.
- Shout Out: Sonic X is chock full of these, not only to the previous Sonic cartoons, but Eggman's various mecha manage to include Thunderbird 2, Great Mazinger, and the USS Enterprise.
- Small Annoying Creature: Chip from Sonic Unleashed.
- Space Pirates: In one of the Sonic Chronicles sidequests, accompanied by a huge Lampshade Hanging.
- Spell My Name With An S: Sonic the Fighters gives us, "REVENGE OF DR. ROBO-TONIC". Even the English translation of Sonic Mega Collection spells his name as "Robotonik". No wonder they decided to keep his name "Eggman"...
- Spikes Of Doom
- Strange Bedfellows: Sonic Adventure 2's memorable Cannon's Core level.
- Super Drowning Skills: Since his first appearance in 1991, Sonic has never been able to swim. His allies, Tails and Knuckles, can. Sonic sinks like a rock in water and relies on air bubbles to survive underwater. The drowning music has been Nightmare Fuel for many.
- The above applies only to the 2D games. In the 3D games, water generally behaves as a Bottomless Pit, even when it's only a few feet deep.
- Tomato In The Mirror: Subverted and/or averted in Shadow The Hedgehog. Eggman convinces Shadow that he is an android, and he even accepts it in the two neutral endings. However, in the Last Story, this is proven false by Eggman himself. About 7 to 8 minutes into the Final Boss fight with
Black Devil Doom, the doctor, afraid he'll soon die, admits to Shadow that he lied to him. He was found by one of Eggman's robots after his fall from the Ark and tells him that he suffered amnesia and really was the same Ultimate Lifeform created by his grandfather, Gerald Robotnik, 50 years ago.
- Toy Time: Toy Kingdom in Sonic Advance 2.
- Uncanny Valley: The 2006 game, with the Anthropomorphic characters compared to semi-realistic humans.
- Underwater Ruins: One level in almost every game is set amidst underwater ruins.
- Unpleasable Fanbase: "Too many characters, how about a Sonic solo game? (right afterwards) What do you mean you can only play as Sonic in this game!?"
- Vaporware: Sonic X-Treme
- Verbal Tic: Like Yoda the Kron speak. At the end of their sentences their verbs they put.
- Villain Decay: Robotnik.
- Wave Motion Gun: The ARK's Eclipse Cannon in Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog.
- Also, the Blue Typhoon in the later series of Sonic X (a Cool Ship Tails happened to have lying around, just in case) has a Wave Motion Gun that fires Sonic as ammunition.
- Another one shows up in one of the teaser trailers for Sonic Unleashed. One wonders where Robotnik got another orbital laser.
- He's a Mad Scientist, they're expected to have a few spare death rays lying around.
- And don't forget the Death Egg(s). Considering the insane amount of trouble Eggman went to just to get the original Death Egg back into space in Sonic3&Knuckles, it was apparently powerful enough to conquer the world all by itself. One assumes those giant eyes shoot lasers.
- Wheel O Feet: Pretty much all characters, though Shadow is a subversion with his "air skates".
- A much earlier subversion is Tails, who used his... ahem... tails as propulsion once he got into high gear.
- Replaced a Bird Run pose from Sonic Jam onward.
- White Gloves: Again, pretty much all the characters, even with some of the humans.
- Year Inside Hour Outside: the Twilight Cage in Sonic Chronicles
- Your Mileage May Vary: Most of the newer games, the cartoons... in fact, Sonic in general.
- You Suck: Get an E-rank (C-rank in the Wii/PS2 version) or fail a mission in Sonic Unleashed and you get a rather badly done version of the results music
Tropes used in the various comics and animated series:
- Action Girl: Bunnie Rabbot in the Sonic The Hedgehog Saturday Morning cartoon. In Archie both Bunnie and Sally (after character derailment) became action girls. Rouge tends to fill this role when required in the game.
- Adaptation Decay: The early Sonic cartoons, and the comic books. Pretty much all they have in common with Sonic is some of the characters.
- Ancient Tradition: The Brotherhood of Guardians in the Archie comics.
- And Knowing Is Half The Battle: "Sonic Sez" segments at the end of the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon.
- Butt Monkey: Antoine in SATAM. Tails in the Fleetway comics. Coconuts in AOSTH.
- Catch Phrase: The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog had a ton of these, the most famous being "I hate that hedgehog!".
- Chickification: Sally in the comics once they started to adapt the 3D games, although this was reversed much later (and too late for many readers).
- Comic Trio: Sonic, Sally and Antoine in SatAM
- Egopolis: Dr. Robotnik takes over Mobotropolis and renames it Robotropolis in Sat AM.
- Evil Overlord: Robotnik in the SatAM, Sonic Underground, Archie, and Fleetway continuities.
- Evil Twin: Scourge, the anti-Sonic, and negative-dimension versions of all of the other Freedom Fighters in the Archie comics. The anti-Robotnik is a good twin—and is skinny.
- Five Man Band: SATAM had Sally as the leader, Sonic as her lancer, Rotor as the smart guy, Bunnie as the brawler and Antoine as the Chick.
- Foe Yay: One episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog has Sonic dress up as Robotnik's high school crush and then marry Robotnik, kissing him five times while he's at it.
- Funbag Airbag: "Tails! Get off!"
- Jerk Ass Stu: Sonic in Sonic the Comic.
- Jerk With A Heart Of Gold: Knuckles in the games & Sonic X. Antoine in SatAM and the earlier comics. Ash the Mongoose later in the Archie comics.
- La Resistance: The Freedom Fighters in SatAM.
- Memetic Mutation: Robotnik's "Pingas!" phrase. See above.
- Mirror Universe: In the Archie comics.
- No Fourth Wall: Frequently in Adventures of Sonic occasionally in the earlier episodes of Sonic X. There was even one instance at the end of the SATAM season 2 premire episode.
- Non Lethal Warfare: The rules of the game in SatAM.
- Not So Fast Bucko: The unintentional final episode of the Saturday morning Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, and subsequent comic adaptations, and sometimes even being adapted into the later video games... ironic, since Sonic's trademark is speed.
- Oddly Named Sequel: The Sonic anime series is called Sonic X.
- The Psycho Rangers: Scourge and the Suppression Squad in the Archie Comics.
- Surrounded By Idiots: Robotnik in most incarnations.
- Take That: The British comics continuity (and the novels) included a lot of jabs at the Mario Bros, some less subtle than others. The later comics also had a storyline where Sonic was trapped on a planet in the Special Zone and kept encountering thinly veiled parodies of Marvel Comics superheroes and villains (given that it was the Dark Age, one can imagine the material).
- Theme Naming: Knuckles' entire family (the Brotherhood of Guardians) in the Archie comics has a strange affinity for naming their kids after Earth-style explorers and philosophers...and body parts.
- Those Two Bad Guys: Eggman tends to be paired with these kinds of characters in most of the animated shows (Scratch and Grounder in AoStH, Sleet and Dingo in Sonic Underground, and Decoe and Bocoe in Sonic X).
- Team Rocket: The Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad in Adventures of Sonic.
- Totally Radical: "Way past cool!" shivers
- Lampshaded in some of the later Archie comics when Sonic joins the extended Chaotix for a mission. They turn to a De-Powered Knuckles for suggestion, but Sonic butts in with his stock line: "Let's do it to it!" The Chaotix stare.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Sonic and Tails' diets consited solely of chilidogs in the old cartoon, as did Robotnik have eggs every meal, "Everyday for the last ten years!".
- The Wesley: Chris Thorndyke in Sonic X (though he was partially pulled out of the Heap toward the end of the series). Dulcy (albeit to a lesser extent) in SatAM.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: The "Sonic Sez" segment from Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog.
- Although this is averted since it was written by (then) four-year-old Tails, and then Sonic corrects him by writing "Says".
- Yandere: Rosy Rascal, the anti-Amy Rose.
- You Tube Poop
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