History WebAnimation / SonicInXMinutes

* TakeThat: In the movie parody, Tom's shirt says "Hell" instead of "San Francisco", so that's where Sonic's rings end up. Tom then tells Sonic that the closest place to Hell ''is'' in San Francisco - specifically, ''Website/YouTube's customer service department''. Sure enough, Sonic finds his rings there.

* RealityEnsues:
** A bonus section in "''Unleashed''" shows a human NPC accidentally stepping on a dash pad and being propelled through one of the game's daytime levels, showing how AwesomeButImpractical the levels' architecture would be for an actual city.
** At one point in "''Forces''", Sonic attempts to do the Double Boost with the rookie, only to rip his arm off. This leads to a case of WhatTheHellHero from Tails and Vector.
-->'''Vector:''' What makes you think the poor rookie can keep up with you, Sonic? You're the FastestThingAlive!
** During the adaption of "''Sonic CD''", Sonic manages to jump so high off of a ramp in Collision Chaos [[GravityScrew that he actually leaves Little Planet's gravitational field]], [[GravityIsAHarshMistress tossing himself all the way back to where he started on the mainland.]] This comes back in reverse in his adaption of "''Sonic Mania''" where Sonic and friends chase Heavy Rider up the chains to Little Planet until gravity abruptly flips, sending them all plummeting into Stardust Speedway.
** In the opening of his "''Sonic Lost World''" adaption, the scene of Sonic trying to open the capsule is changed so that he manages to open it successfully instead of missing and having to chase it down in Windy Hill. However while all the Flickies were able to fly off without a hitch, the rest of the animals and Sonic himself end up crashing down painfully in Windy Hill anyway. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain And then they're crushed to death by the raining scrap from the capsule.]]

* {{Snowclone}}: Each episode's title takes the form "Sonic [game] in X minutes". Until the later editions started to subvert it.

* PhoneaholicTeenager: In the "''Forces''" series, Infinite starts off as a stoic, perpetually uninterested character who is always looking down at a smartphone. While it's unknown how old Infinite is, he has the spirit of this trope, and most of the animal characters in the Sonic franchise are teenagers anyway.

What happens when you take the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise, cover it in StylisticSuck, and throw in lots of zany, irreverent humour [[BetterThanABareBulb and a whole lot of lampshades]]? You get ''Sonic in X Minutes'', a series of parodies by Roger van der Weide of ''WebAnimation/KingdumbHearts'' fame. It's effectively TheAbridgedSeries of the entire Sonic franchise, with each instalment lampooning an individual Sonic game within a given number of minutes (until the later instalments, when the length constraints were done away with). The first one, parodying ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', was released in 2004, and since then almost every post-''Adventure'' Sonic game has been parodied, as well as ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' and [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 the movie]].

* PaperThinDisguise: In "''Heroes''", when the teams all meet up to fight Metal Overlord, Sonic puts a paper bag over his head so that [[{{Yandere}} Amy]] won't recognize him and try to marry him again. ''It works''.

** This even leads to [[spoiler:Sonic becoming [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Scourge]].]]

* MetronomicManMashing: [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Ken Penders]] is subjected to this by a tribal echidna during "''Adventure''".

* HeelFaceTurn: In the ''Forces'' miniseries, [[spoiler:Infinite casts off the Phantom Ruby, which is corrupting him, and turns good when Crema offers him a cookie. It's shown in his backstory that he was once offered a cookie and tripped while getting it, causing him to start being bullied, so in a way, Cream's offer was really a chance for him to go back to a time when he was happy.]]

** Averted in Roger's parody of the infamous first movie trailer, which exclusively pokes fun at its SoundtrackDissonance instead of Sonic's much-loathed design. Played straight in the parody of the actual movie, with ends with Robotnik crash-landing on the mushroom planet and crushing the original movie Sonic in the process.

* FaceDoodling: During the events montage in "''London Olympics''", Shadow is seen doing this to Toadsworth and Rosalina on his way to winning the 100m hurdles, having [[TimeStop stopped time with Chaos Control]].

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Infinite in the ''Forces'' series. His personality is almost a complete reversal of his portrayal in ''VideoGame/SonicForces''. In the game, he was basically just a bully who relied almost entirely on the Phantom Ruby's brute strength to hurt people, making him UnskilledButStrong. He was also TheDreaded because of his sheer power. Here, he starts out as a stoic, perpetually bored minion who does very little, but later episodes give him more depth. In the series, Infinite uses his powers in much more creative, clever ways, like helping him and Eggman infiltrate the rebel base, manipulating Eggman into not firing him, and more. On the flipside, everyone sees him as a joke despite his skill. It's established that in this series, everyone knows that Infinite's illusions really are illusions, so nobody takes the illusions seriously. Infinite has to really concentrate to produce something (the sun) that will actually harm people. Basically, here he's WeakButSkilled. Also, instead of turning evil because of one bad incident with Shadow like in the original game, here it's shown that Infinite has been bullied for presumably most of his life, and that's what drove him to villainy. [[spoiler:When Cream shows him sympathy, Infinite makes a HeelFaceTurn, unlike in the original game, where he stays evil to the end and has an UncertainDoom.]]

* LoonyFan: Amy, naturally. Taken UpToEleven in "''Adventure''" where she sees Sonic running from her screaming and hears, "If you prove yourself to be a capable mother then I'll marry you".

* TheAhnold: Knuckles in this series is usually voiced with an exaggerated Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, complete with Austrian accent and (almost) NoIndoorVoice. He's also the DumbMuscle among the heroes who attacks people or objects whenever he's confused (which is often).

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Infinite in the ''Forces'' series. His personality is almost a complete reversal of his portrayal in ''VideoGame/SonicForces''. In the game, he was basically just a bully who relied almost entirely on the Phantom Ruby's brute strength to hurt people, making him UnskilledButStrong. He was also TheDreaded because of his sheer power. Here, he starts ouf as a stoic, perpetually bored minion who does very little, but later episodes give him more depth. In the series, Infinite uses his powers in much more creative, clever ways, like helping him and Eggman infiltrate the rebel base, manipulating Eggman into not firing him, and more. On the flipside, everyone sees him as a joke despite his skill. It's established that in this series, everyone knows that Infinite's illusions really are illusions, so nobody takes the illusions seriously. Infinite has to really concentrate to produce something (the sun) that will actually harm people. Basically, here he's WeakButSkilled. Also, instead of turning evil because of one bad incident with Shadow like in the original game, here it's shown that Infinite has been bullied for presumably most of his life, and that's what drove him to villainy. [[spoiler:When Cream shows him sympathy, Infinite makes a HeelFaceTurn, unlike in the original game, where he stays evil to the end and has an UncertainDoom.]]

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Infinite in ''Forces''. In the original game, he was basically just a bully who relied almost entirely on the Phantom Ruby's brute strength to hurt people, making him UnskilledButStrong. Here, he uses his powers in much more creative, clever ways, like helping him and Eggman infiltrate the rebel base, manipulating Eggman into not firing him, and more. On the flipside, everyone sees him as a joke despite his skill, which is the opposite of his status as TheDreaded in the original game.

* DesignatedVillain: [[invoked]] In ''Sonic Forces in minutes'', after Eggman takes over the world, he actually makes it a better place. He's still the main villain of the video, however. This is PlayedForLaughs, of course. Later Subverted, however, as Blaze exposes his corrptio and future episodes show things are actually wors under Eggmn.

* DesignatedVillain: [[invoked]] In ''Sonic Forces in minutes'', after Eggman takes over the world, he actually makes it a better place. He's still the main villain of the video, however. This is PlayedForLaughs, of course.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: His adaptation of ''Adventure'' subverts the canon Super Sonic finale by having Amy calm Chaos down by showing it cute things, specifically the Chao it once tried to protect. Her reasoning is that because Chaos is full of negative emotions, she should show it positive, happy things, and it works.

* TakeThat: In the movie parody, Tom's shirt says "Hell" instead of "San Francisco", so that's where Sonic's rings end up. Tom then tells Sonic that the closest place to Hell ''is'' in San Francisco - specifically, ''YouTube's customer service department''. Sure enough, Sonic finds his rings there.

* DumbMuscle: Knuckles is sometimes depicted like this, most noticeably in "''Rivals''".

What happens when you take the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise, cover it in StylisticSuck, and throw in lots of zany, irreverent humour [[BetterThanABareBulb and a whole lot of lampshades]]? You get ''Sonic in X Minutes'', a series of parodies by Roger van der Weide of ''WebAnimation/KingdumbHearts'' fame. It's effectively TheAbridgedSeries of the entire Sonic franchise, with each instalment lampooning an individual Sonic game within a given number of minutes (until the later instalments, when the length constraints were done away with). The first one, parodying ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', was released in 2004, and since then almost every post-''Adventure'' Sonic game has been parodied, as well as ''VideoGame/SonicCD''.

* ChekhovsGun: The Tornado in "''Heroes''", which goes out-of-control after Tails and Knuckles jump out, then shows up during the final battle to slam into Metal Overlord.

** In the remake, [[spoiler:Eggman Nega actually succeeds in turning the world into a card, and really ''does'' die in the cold vacuum of space, his EvilLaugh petering out as he realises the mistake he's made.]] It also adds another example: Silver rescues those who got trapped in Eggman Nega's cards, but one of them contains the Ifrit, which then attacks him.

* HowWeGotHere: "''Adventure''" begins after the game has already ended, with Chaos defeated and Station Square a flooded ruin. The story is explained by Sonic and friends to a GUN officer who is interrogating them to try and find out just what the hell happened there and who's responsible for it.

--> '''Eggman:''' I'm going to slave you!

--> '''Amy:''' Sonic, I geniuenly love you.
--> '''Sonic:''' ''Screams in horror''.

** In "''Rivals''", after Eggman Nega reveals himself, Sonic one-ups it by putting on a hat and declaring, "I'm not Sonic! I am... Sonic wearing a silly hat!" Eggman Nega seems to genuinely fall for it.

** Forces consists of multiple episodes.

** "''London Olympics''" targets no less than three Scrappys: Toad, Omochao, and Bowser Jr.

* TheEndOrIsIt: ''Riders Zero Gravity'' ends with a humorous example. Jet makes the same promise he did at the end of the first ''Riders'' parody - namely, [[TemptingFate that he would never appear in any Sonic game again]] - but this time it's followed by a shot of fans staring expectantly at Roger with the caption "The End...?" [[VideoGame/SonicFreeRiders Sure enough...]]

* AffectionateParody: Averted, actually. While most parodies are done in good fun, Roger tends to be more negative and mean to the games he dislike the most, which includes ''Sonic Free Riders''. Amusingly, many fans call that one of his best parodies.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In ''Rush Adventure'', unlike the game, Sonic and Blaze go along with Marine's assertions that she is their captain - but insist that, as captain, it's ''her'' responsibility to do all the hard work (like hurtling through [[JungleJapes Plant Kingdom]] and battling Captain Whiskers) while they sit around doing nothing. This in turn backfires on them at the end - having to do all the work herself causes Marine to grow strong enough to tear the final boss apart ''with her bare hands'', at which point she forces Sonic and Blaze to start doing their share of the work (i.e. all of it).

* BritainIsOnlyLondon: PlayedForLaughs in ''London Olympics'', with Bowser boasting that one of his and Eggman's fog machines is hidden in "the most well-known and important part of London: Stonehenge!"

* HeliumSpeech: More common in the earlier parodies, where many of the voices were just Roger's sped up to different speeds. The most notable was "''Riders''", where ''everyone'' spoke like this. Cream still tends to speak like this, imitating her high-pitched voice in the games.

* IdiotPlot: [[invoked]] Exaggerated in "''Riders''" for comic effect. Instead of keeping the Chaos Emeralds safe, Sonic literally tosses them away just so he can find them again; once they've been collected, Eggman tricks the gang into handing them all over in exchange for ''being able to enter a race''; Eggman then ''enters the race himself so he can win the Chaos Emeralds he already has'', rather than just making off with them; and after winning the race and the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic decides to throw them away ''again'' so he can look for them ''again''.

* NeverRecycleYourSchemes: Averted in "''Riders''". When Eggman is pondering what to do next, one of his minions reminds him of the time he tricked a bunch of bank security guards into entering a kart race [[WhatAnIdiot in exchange for them turning off all the security]], allowing Eggman to waltz in and steal all the money while the guards were otherwise occupied. He duly decides to pull the same trick again, throwing an Extreme Gear race in exchange for everyone giving him their Chaos Emeralds.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: In "''Heroes''", as Metal Sonic shows off the powers he's stolen from each character, Shadow and Big's powers barely register on his gauge, but Cream's nearly send it ''flying off the screen''. Cream then points out how she's been carrying [[TheBigGuy Big]] around all day. Cheese also counts, as during the Egg Fleet sequence he's seen ripping apart an ''entire freaking battleship'' from the inside.

** The adaption of "''Sonic CD''", Sonic manages to jump so high off of a ramp in Collision Chaos, [[GravityScrew that he actually leaves Little Planet's gravitational field]], [[GravityIsAHarshMistress tossing himself all the way back to where he started on the mainland.]] This comes back in reverse in his adaption of "''Sonic Mania''" where Sonic and friends chase Heavy Rider up the chains to Little Planet until gravity abruptly flips, sending them all plummeting into Stardust Speedway.

** Also invoked in the last minute or so of Lost World in Minutes. After spending the entire animation using his current level of quality and art, the art suddenly nosedives down to the kind of quality he had when he first started animating a decade ago in order to reflect his feelings on [[AntiClimaxBoss the quality]] [[LeftHanging of the]] [[AWinnerIsYou ending.]]

* UnwillingRoboticization: Presented in the second ''Forces'' Episode.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Amy in most of her appearances, to the extent that Sonic will literally run away screaming every time he sees her. She actually abuses this in "''Riders''" by attaching herself to him with a piece of bungee cord, [[BatmanGambit knowing that when he sees her approaching, he'll panic and run away at top speed]]. It works, and Sonic duly wins the Extreme Gear race.

* ArtShift: In "Lost World", after The Deadly Six leave, the animation becomes poorly drawn for the rest of the segment.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In ''Rush Adventure'', unlike the game, Sonic and Blaze go along with Marine's assertions that she is their captain - but point out that, as captain, it's ''her'' responsibility to do all the hard work (like hurtling through [[JungleJapes Plant Kingdom]] and battling Captain Whiskers) while they sit around doing nothing. This in turn backfires on them at the end - having to do all the work herself causes Marine to grow strong enough to tear the final boss apart ''with her bare hands'', at which point she forces Sonic and Blaze to start doing their share of the work (i.e. all of it).

* PintSizedPowerhouse: In "''Heroes''", as Metal Sonic shows off the powers he's stolen from each character, Shadow and Big's powers barely register on his gauge, but Cream's nearly send them ''flying off the screen''. Cream then points out how she's been carrying [[TheBigGuy Big]] around all day. Cheese also counts, as during the Egg Fleet sequence he's seen ripping apart an ''entire freaking battleship'' from the inside.

* SpyFiction: Amy's story in "''Adventure''" is told similarly to an action spy thriller, with Amy even being re ferred to as "Agent Rose".

* TakeThatScrappy:
** Invoked. Roger is not afraid to take it out on characters he hates. Not in the slightest. Targets include [[Anime/SonicX Chris Thorndyke]] ("''Battle''", "''Riders''"), Amy Rose ("''Adventure 2''"), Big the Cat (practically every single one of his appearances), and [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Ken Penders]] ("''Adventure''").
** If his hatred of Chris wasn't obvious enough, he created a short flash game based on his "''Battle''" parody called "''[[http://rogerregorroger.deviantart.com/art/Punchbag-the-game-28727161 Punchbag the game!!]]''". The object of the game? Beat up Chris to your heart's content.

* TooDumbToLive: Big's usual characterization, along with his obsession with his pet Froggy. Hilariously subverted in "''Adventure''", where he's depicted as a sophisticated, intelligent zoologist who was in Station Square doing research, but before he can properly begin his story he's chewed out by the GUN general for his Froggy obsession ''despite having not mentioned Froggy's name once''.

* SpyFiction: Amy's story in "''Adventure''" is told similarly to an action spy thriller, with Amy even being referred to as "Agent Rose".

* NeverRecycleYourSchemes: Averted in "''Riders''". When Eggman is pondering what to do next, one of his minions reminds him of the time he tricked a bunch of bank security guards into entering a kart race [[WhatAnIdiot in exchange for them turning off all the security]], allowing Eggman to waltz in and steal all the money while the guards are otherwise occupied. He duly decides to pull the same trick again, throwing an Extreme Gear race in exchange for everyone giving him their Chaos Emeralds.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: In "''Heroes''", as Metal Sonic shows off the powers he's stolen from each character, Shadow and Big's powers barely register on his gauge, but Cream's nearly send them ''flying off the screen''. Cream notes that she's been carrying [[TheBigGuy Big]] around all day. Cheese also counts, as during the Egg Fleet sequence he's seen ripping apart an ''entire freaking battleship'' from the inside.
* RashomonStyle: Like the game it's based on, "''Adventure''" has each character telling their story one at a time (except for Gamma, whose story is "told" by Dr. Eggman). Each character's recollection differs, but the differences are greatly exaggerated compared to the game: in Sonic's story, for example, he's hypercompetent while everyone else (especially Tails) is a complete idiot, while in Tails' story, it's the other way around.

*** The Sonic Riders In Minutes episodes all end with a character declaring some variant of [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere "I will never, EVER appear in any Sonic game again."]] [[BrickJoke only to be contradicted by the time the next Riders game comes out.]] Made even more hilarious(And somewhat HarsherInHindsight) by the fact that even with the Riders sub-series seemingly coming to an end after the weak showing of Freeriders, the Babylon Rouges STILL show up in other games.

* SequelEscalation: The episodes kept getting longer and more elaborate to the point that Roger stopped putting the number of minutes in the episode titles, because the numbers were getting silly. "''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Adventure]]''", for example, is ''22 minutes long'' (not the "5 million minutes" claimed in the title, but still very long). "''[[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Heroes]]''" was shorter at 12 minutes but boasted 3D backdrops in both Grand Metropolis and Egg Fleet, an impressive feat for a Flash animation (especially the latter, which featured dozens of crudely-rendered ships).