History Fridge / SonicTheHedgehog2

* If you don't thoroughly complete the 8-bits version, it's implied that Tails ''died''.

** In the [=iOS=]/Android Port, [[spoiler:you find the Zone by falling in the place where the infamous spike pit resided]]. The last place you'd expect to locate it!

* If you don't thoroughly complete the 8-bits version, it's implied that Tails ''died''.

** Alternatively, Robotnik has realized he must RunOrDie, as he is unprotected and less than a meter away from the fasting thing alive, that put up with almost a dozen of his contraptions and an EvilKnockoff. Robotnik's ready for the last stand, and he is running faster than he ever has before out of pure fear(or determination.)
* Speaking of the Death Egg Zone. Why is it only a short level in this game and a full zone in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''?[[note]]It was actually intended to be a full zone but they ran out of time.[[/note]] Because here you hitched a ride on Robotnik's spaceship, leading you directly into the hangar, whereas in the latter game you had to ascend from it's entrance at the very bottom.

*** Dramatic effect. The ending wouldn't be that good if it ended with Sonic/Tails just landing on solid ground after a massive drop and just pose. Besides, they DID jump off the airplane to pose mid-air.

* Speaking of the Death Egg Zone. Why is it only a short level in this game and a full zone in ''Sonic3AndKnuckles''?[[note]]It was actually intended to be a full zone but they ran out of time.[[/note]] Because here you hitched a ride on Robotnik's spaceship, leading you directly into the hangar, whereas in the latter game you had to ascend from it's entrance at the very bottom.

** For that matter, the level's music (accessible in the sound test) is a truly mournful funeral dirge. As it wasn't in any version of the beta (Its music was originally that used for Mystic Cave Zone 2 Player in the final game), it was obviously composed for the sole purpose of giving the unused level its own theme to stop it crashing. A theme which represents the creator's sadness about the loss of the level, its presence in the sound test ensuring the level could never be forgotten.
*** That makes no sense. You don't need to compose a whole new music theme to prevent a game from crashing. It was clearly meant to be used as Hidden Palace Zone's BGM and was composed at some point in Sonic 2's development posterior to the betas we have, but in which the Zone hadn't been scrapped yet.

* The reason why Robotnik can seemingly outrun Sonic to his Death Egg Robot? Because Sonic ''lets'' him. He's [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim too noble to kill Robotnik]], so he just settles for destroying his machines and foiling his plans.

** In the [=iOS=]/Android Port, [[spoiler:you find the Zone by falling in the place where the infamous spike pit]]. The last place you'd expect to locate it!

AC: FridgeBrilliance

AC: FridgeHorror

** Wouldn't starfish badniks be more at home in the Oil Ocean Zone?

* FridgeHorror: The animals that Sonic and Tails rescue in Sky Chase Zone fall to their doom.

* FridgeBrilliance: Metropolis Zone contains starfish-like Badniks that explode and spread shrapnel. However, when they explode, there's no animal left behind. Conclusion? The starfishes are obviously some sort of proximity/timed mine made to look like a Badnik. When they detect Sonic, they move in; a timer (5 or so seconds) triggers the explosion.
** FridgeLogic: Wouldn't starfish badniks be more at home in the Oil Ocean Zone?
* FridgeBrilliance: In Hidden Palace Zone (A level that was removed from the final game) one of the giant emeralds is covering a tube that you can roll in, leaving you to wonder why it's even there. [[WordOfGod Apparently]], the emeralds were originally intended to be breakable objects, meaning you were actually supposed to access that.
* FridgeHorror: If you don't thoroughly complete the 8-bits version, it's implied that Tails ''died''.

* FridgeBrilliance: In Hidden Palace Zone (A level that was removed from the final game) one of the giant emeralds is covering a tube that you can roll in, leaving you to wonder why it's even there. Apparently, the emeralds were originally intended to be breakable objects, meaning you were actually supposed to access that.
* FridgeHorror: If you don't thoroughly complete the game, it's implied that Tails ''died''.

* FridgeBrilliance: In Hidden Palace Zone (A level that was removed from the final game) one of the giant emeralds is covering a tube that you can roll in, leaving you to wonder why it's even there. Apparently, the emeralds were originally intended to be breakable objects, meaning you were actually supposed to access that.

*** This could swing [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration one way]] or [[GameplayAndStorySegregation the other]]. While it is true that there's no fall damage, it's also possible to die if one falls into a [[BottomlessPits bottomless pit]], and there has to eventually be some ground to hit afterward, even if it's not seen in the game. [[TakeAThirdOption Alternately]], [[GameBreakingBug it is possible for Sonic and Tails to move so fast they die from a fall]], meaning that theoretically, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Sonic (or his animal friends) could move at such a velocity that they break reality, becoming integrated with the landscape as they die instantaneously]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Metropolis Zone contains starfish-like Badniks that explode and spread shrapnel. However, when they explode, there's no animal left behind. Conclusion? The starfishes are obviously some sort of proximity/timed mine made to look like a Badnik. When they detect Sonic, they move in; a timer (5 or so seconds) triggers the explosion.

**** ...Which should all be further evidence that those cute lil critters are boned.

*** This could swing [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration one way]] or [[GameplayAndStorySegregation the other]]. While it is true that there's no fall damage, it's also possible to die if one falls into a [[BottomlessPits bottomless pit]], and there has to eventually be some ground to hit afterward, even if it's not seen in the game. [[TakeAThirdOption Alternately]], [[GameBreakingBug it is possible for Sonic and Tails to move so fast they die from a fall]], meaning that theoretically, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Sonic (or his animal friends) could move at such a velocity that they break reality, becoming integrated with the landscape as they die instantaneously]].

*** This could swing [[IntegrationOfStoryAndGameplay one way]] or [[SegregationOfStoryAndGameplay the other]]. While it is true that there's no fall damage, it's also possible to die if one falls into a [[BottomlessPits bottomless pit]], and there has to eventually be some ground to hit afterward, even if it's not seen in the game. [[TakeAThirdOption Alternately]], [[GameBreakingBug it is possible for Sonic and Tails to move so fast they die from a fall]], meaning that theoretically, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Sonic (or his animal friends) could move at such a velocity that they break reality, becoming integrated with the landscape as they die instantaneously]].

*** He wanted to make sure Sonic wouldn't fall in the ocean and drown.