Tropes seen in Sonic's Adventure:
- Adaptation Deviation: Quite a lot of changes were made to the story.
- Adaptation Distillation: A lot of scenes are shorter in the episode.
- Age Lift:
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier: Egg Carrier 1 and 2.
- Birthday Episode: This was released exactly 28 years after the original Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis was released in the United States. note
- Compressed Adaptation: Some scenes were cut.
- Denser and Wackier: While there is a sense of drama and action, there is also a lot of comedy, mostly pointing at the game's flaws.
- Extra-Long Episode: Over 5000 words.
- Plot Hole: Eggman could've just built Eggman Land somewhere else, it's even lampshaded.Sonic: Why don't you just build it somewhere else...
- Running Gag:
- Mentioning flaws in the game.
- Amy doing something and someone saying "Aren't you a bit young for this?."
- Cutting back to Big for a short scene, before returning to the action.
- Something exploding.
- Shout-Out:
- Amy's line "I always knew Eggman would be the death of me!," is a reference to the video-game SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
- Tails' theme Believe in Myself is referenced.
- Eggman's line "I hate that hedgehog!" is a reference to Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
- The last line "We need an explanation for the next game," is a reference to a plot hole in Sonic Adventure 2, where a newspaper said the mayor gave Tails a Chaos Emerald despite there being no opportunity in the game to do so.
