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** Roald's accent is sometimes hard to take seriously.

* ThatOneBoss: Baron Brixius in the second game. Most other enemies in the game at that point have had health levels- at most- in the mid-to-high thousands. How much does the Baron have? ''[[MarathonBoss 82058]]''. The boss fight can be nigh impossible without the right build/ ammount of LevelGrinding.

* GameBreaker: Biological class happens to have one when the player combines Predator Form, Toxicant Form, Shadow Blend, Crystallize, Agile Exposure, and most importantly, Withdrawal. Almost always kills the victim in one shot of Withdrawal.
** How the last boss was defeated by Biological: http://youtu.be/WvUhZaC8o70
** It is even listed on walkthroughs posted on the Armor Games page. http://cache.armorgames.com/community/thread/3143035/sonny-2-biological-speed-build

** The Shadow Psychological build. Using the "Overdrive" ability doubles your damage and healing over time, but at the cost of 10% of your health each turn.

* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/158209 And]] ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/205308 how]]''.

* GoddamnedBats: potentially almost any enemy on higher difficulty levels. The monsters have just as many tricky spells as you do, and even a pair of lowly prison guards can keep one of your characters stun-locked for the entire battle. And that's not getting into all the [[StoneWall healing and ablative shields]] being thrown around...

* NightmareFuel: Some of the skill descriptions for a Shadow Psychological can be this.

* ThatOneBoss: Baron Brixius, in both games. In Sonny 1, only your GuestStarPartyMember can do enough damage to get the Baron's HP down to 0 in anywhere under 100 turns, which means that Sonny and Veradux are pretty much stuck with the jobs of keeping him healthy and helping him do even ''more'' damage. [[spoiler:Then you get {{Player Punch}}ed when said GuestStarPartyMember becomes the FinalBoss ''in the very next fight''.]] The Baron is even ''worse'' in Sonny 2. First of all, you don't get a GuestStarPartyMember to help you. Furthermore, the Baron has some ''very'' annoying new tricks. First and foremost among these is Tick Tock, a debuff which lasts for 10 turns, takes away 10% of the victim's life every turn, ''and reduces all healing done to them by 50%.'' '''And it can't be dispelled. And just to make this ''worse'', Baron Brixius ''loves'' to use it as much as he can... which is about every 6 turns.''' And he has just as much health as he did the last time (48,269... and that's in the ''[[VideoGameDifficultyTropes easy]]'' mode.) Your only hope is to whittle down Baron Brixius's Focus to near nothing in order to force him to use Deep Burning, a move which fully restores his Focus at the cost of about 10% of his life. And once he can no longer use Deep Burning, he starts wasting his turns with actions which do nothing but weaken him. Good luck pushing him to that point, though - unless you've maxed out Disrupt (a move that you can only get with the Biological class,) '''''you'll need it.''''' [[hottip:*:Oh, and just to insult you, Baron Brixius is [[strike: practically the epitome of AmbiguouslyGay]] an imitation of TimCurry (same difference). Who the hell is his voice actor?!?!?]]
** On the other hand, if you ''have'' maxed out Disrupt, and have Integrity at at least level 2, Baron Brixius is a total joke. Put it on your action bar 4 times, use it nonstop, and watch the Baron eat himself alive.
** The Psychological class can also handle the Baron pretty well, as Traumatize strips away his focus and Implosion vastly increases the damage he takes from Deep Burning.
** The Hydraulic class has Regulate, a no-cost, no-cooldown ability that kills 30 focus per hit.
** The Biological class has Disrupt in the second game as well, capable of killing 100 focus with one hit.
** Sometimes Brixius will get bored of repeatedly casting Tick Tock on you and your teammates and will [[EpicFail inflict it]] [[BloodKnight upon]] [[CombatSadoMasochist himself.]]

* ZombieApocalypse

** BadassNormal: Roald is the only non-zombie on your team. He does just fine.

** [[BFS "Burk's Precision"]] is a ShoutOut to Krin's other game, Tainted Kingdom.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: If a boss has thousands and thousands and thousands and [[OverlyLongGag thousands]] of health, it will have one of these. [[spoiler: The police colonel, for example, will cast a buff on himself that [[OhCrap boosts his damage by 400%]], but always gets a debuff that boosts the damage he takes by 400% after it expires.]]

** The "Shadow" Psychological build. Using the "Overdrive" ability doubles your damage and healing over time, but at the cost of 10% of your health each turn.

** Sometimes Brixius will get bored of repeatedly casting Tick Tock on you and your teammates and will [[EpicFail inflict it upon himself.]]

* PsychoElectro: The other (and more popular) build for the Psychological class. Electro Bolt is also an extremely useful skill in the first game.

* Badass Boas: Sonny gets one in the second game.

* {{Arbitrary Headcount Limit}}: Neither Sonny's party nor the enemy group in a battle can be composed of more than three characters. Near the end of the first game, this is lampshaded by [[spoiler:Gailant the Paladin]], who mistakes Sonny and a fellow zombie named Veradux for two members of a three-person group of soldiers sent to help him, and wonders why the third person is missing. ([[spoiler:The answer: Because Sonny and Veradux just finished murdering said group of soldiers, and are now impersonating them... by accident. Veradux continues the lampshading further by telling Sonny to play along. Good idea, because this is your ''first'' fight with Baron Brixius, and the only way you're getting his 40,000+ HP down to nothing is with Gailant's help... seriously, Gailant's damage output is insane. Shame that Gailant ends up being the FinalBoss immediately afterwards... and, no, can't hurt ''you'' quite as badly as he could hurt the Baron [because he'd easily OHKO you if he could,] though [[SlapOnTheWristNuke you still don't want to let him whale on you.]]]])
* {{Badass Boast}}: Sonny gets one in the second game.

* {{Brick Joke}}: In the beginning of the second game, Sonny and Veradux are attacked by a female zombie named Felicity, who hurls a knife into Veradux's face, prompting him to cry out, "MY FACE!" Later in the first zone, the pair catch up with Felicity, who after being defeated in battle, hurls a second knife into Veradux's face, to which he responds by yelling "MY FACE! AGAIN!" before pulling the knife out of his face. By the time he does so, Felicity has already escaped. A weapon you get from Felicity in the battle has the description "Felicity's knife. Keep it away from Veradux." Still later in Sonny 2, you meet Felicity a third time, and Sonny says to Veradux something to the effect of "Quick, cover your face." When she joins your party, one of her moves is "Knife To The Face".

* {{Demonic Spiders}}: This happens a few times, but Gregor the cockroach stands as the most prominent (aka most annoying) example.

* {{Everybody Must Get Stoned}}: As mentioned in the below {{Mind Screw}} and {{Mushroom Samba}} examples, Sonny and his party get stoned in Zone 4 due to a toxic gas. At one point, Veradux begins to sing "You are my Sunshine" before Sonny tells him to stop, and later during a fight with a hippie zombie, after the first time the zombie casts a particular attack, Sonny says, "I'm... freaking out, man...".

* {{The Lancer}}: Obviously, this distinction goes to Veradux, being Sonny's main companion/support character for the majority of both games, unless he's dropped from the party during Zone 4 of Sonny 2 (which is unlikely, due to his value as a healer).
* {{Laser Guided Amnesia}}
* {{Mac Guffin}} A cassette tape given to Sonny by Louis before Sonny escapes the White November research vessel in the first game; its exact purpose is unknown. After completing the first zone in the second game, Sonny learns the contents of the tape [[spoiler:(it's the popular children's song "You Are My Sunshine",)]] but is confused as to how it helps him.
* {{The Medic}}: For both games, Veradux acts as the team medic, although Sonny can sometimes fulfill this role in either game depending on which class/abilities he takes.
* {{Mega Corp}}: Zombie Pest Control Incorporated, more commonly known as the ZPCI, as shown when [[spoiler:it is revealed that they are trying to stop people like Roald's insurgents from creating a cure, so that they will always have more business. Seeing as they control everything because of the zombie outbreak and the fear that it instilled, they fit this trope quite nicely.]]
* {{Mind Rape}}: The Psychological class in the second game does this.
* {{Mind Screw}}: The fourth zone in Sonny 2 is one big {{Mind Screw}}. Justified due to the fact that the sewer is filled with a toxic gas that causes hallucinations in all who inhale it. The weird things found in there include a zombie hippie, a clone of Sonny, and a pink rabbit that periodically [[strike:gets blown up by]] blows itself up like a HolyHandGrenade. No, really, that's what the game calls it.

* {{Mega Corp}}: The ZPCI make money hand over fist by exterminating zombies, and they even have an entire city in their pocket, with the city's taxes being used as protection money. They also try to ruthlessly quash anything with the potential for ending the Zombie Apocalypse, such as the cure for zombiism that Roald and his team were working on. Oh, and they also like to [[KillEmAll kill]] ''[[LeaveNoSurvivors everybody]]'' [[SinkTheLifeboats who]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch was]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses involved]] in said attempts to end the zombie threat.
* {{Mushroom Samba}}: Referenced in the above {{Mind Screw}} example; Sonny and friends find themselves in a sewer that is full of a hallucinogenic gas. They're rescued by a group of miners at the very end, but not before fighting some really weird enemies that themselves may have been hallucinations.
* {{Nightmare Fuel}}: Some of the skill descriptions for a Shadow Psychological can be this.
* {{No Plans No Prototype No Backup}}: This is played straight in the first game when Veradux steals a suit of armor from the ZPCI that is meant for use by medics, but then subverted in Sonny 2 with one of the {{mooks}} of the Zone 2 boss wearing armor very similar in appearance to Vera's armor.

* {{Powered Armor}}: The soldiers of the ZPCI wear these in battle. Veradux also starts out with one when Sonny first meets him in the first game, and starts out with it at the beginning of Sonny 2. Veradux's armor is a prototype armor stolen from the ZPCI that was meant for medics to wear in combat zones.
* {{Psycho Electro}}: The other (and more popular) build for the Psychological class. Electro Bolt is also an extremely useful skill in the first game.

* {{Zombie Apocalypse}}

* StatusBuff; oh so many

* {{Brick Joke}}: In the beginning of the second game, Sonny and Veradux are attacked by a female zombie named Felicity, who hurls a knife into Veradux's face, prompting him to cry out, "MY FACE!" Later in the first zone, the pair catch up with Felicity, who after being defeated in battle, hurls a second knife into Veradux's face, to which he responds by yelling "MY FACE! AGAIN!" before pulling the knife out of his face. By the time he does so, Felicity has already escaped. A weapon you get from Felicity in the battle has the description "Felicity's knife. Keep it away from Veradux." Still later in Sonny 2, you meet Felicity a third time, and Sonny says to Veradux something to the effect of "Quick, cover your face."

--> '''Veradux''': Wait, that wasn't a zombie!
--> '''Sonny''': Well, I didn't want to give him our hard-earned cash.

--> '''Sonny''': But nothing will save you from me.

* {{Badass Boast}} Sonny gets one in the second game.