History WhatAnIdiot / SonicTheHedgehog

** This game introduces Shadow, [[EvilCounterpart an anthropomorphic hedgehog who can move at very fast speeds, same as the title character]].\\
'''You'd Expect''': Anyone who has previously seen Sonic, even in passing, to immediately notice that Shadow is ''not'' Sonic. For one thing, Shadow's fur is black and has red stripes, whilst Sonic's is blue all over. Shadow also [[BadassBaritone sounds]] and [[ByronicHero acts]] nothing like Sonic does. Finally, when any character first meets Shadow, he can use the Chaos Emeralds to teleport and/or [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] with Chaos Control, something Sonic has never been shown to do.\\
'''Instead''': G.U.N., Eggman, Amy Rose and the general public all mistake Shadow for Sonic at some point in the story. It even gets Sonic arrested by G.U.N. and thrown in jail.\\
'''You'd Then Expect''': Seeing as how Shadow appears on TV when Sonic is still in a G.U.N. jail cell, which in [[Anime/SonicX Sonic X]] is heavily fortified to the point of being located underwater, the military would realize that they've got the wrong guy and let him go, especially with all the good karma Sonic's earned from his heroism.\\
'''Instead''': G.U.N. forgets all about Sonic, and it falls to Tails and Amy to break him out.\\
'''Even Better''': They still pursue Sonic and his friends, including Amy who isn't playable in single-player, and even though Knuckles is just looking for Master Emerald shards like in the previous Sonic Adventure, he had to deal with their robots since canonically ''before'' Sonic was apprehended in the first place. Even Rouge, who is their own agent, ended up having to deal with the same robots. It's a wonder G.U.N. even has jobs after this incident. And speaking of Rouge...
** As mentioned before, Rouge is an agent of G.U.N. who is investigating Project Shadow and the "UltimateLifeForm" while acting as TheMole and "joining up" with Eggman and Shadow. G.U.N. has three of the Chaos Emeralds hidden in Prison Island's Security Hall, and Rouge knows this. They arrive at the island with the intent of collecting them, with Eggman having Shadow plant a bomb on the island that'll be set to blow in 15 minutes.\\

* In "Slowwww Going", Robotnik invents the Slow-mo Ray, which slows down anything it zaps for one hour, which is powered by a Mobian Mega Crystal. By the end of the episode's first act, Scratch and Grounder successfully zap Sonic with it, then [[BadassInDistress lock him in a cage in a cave behind the waterfall]]. Then they call Robotnik to report their success, with Robotnik telling him he'll be there soon to collect Sonic. Meanwhile, Tails attempts to rescue Sonic.\\

* One more for Dulcy: "Drood Henge" has Sonic once again surrounded by Robotnik. His evac plan is Dulcy divebombing Robotnik and getting him out of there.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Dulcy to use her fire breath to roast Robotnik when he's within distance.\\
'''Instead:''' She only gets Sonic out and this allows Robotnik to continue with his plans, notably enacting his Doomsday Project. Even worse, she was carrying Tails and Sally while she made the rescue, and they should've realized this!

'''The Result:''' Sonic literally walks right into the unguarded base, steals the stone, and with Sally, unites the two halves. This in turn gives them power needed to completely destroy the Doomsday Project, and cripple Robotics forces.\\

'''Instead:''' Eggman ''rams'' Super Sonic, then blasts his Chaos Control shot, completely futzing up Mobius. On the plus side, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain the Freedom Fighters will be back to full force.]]\\

* There are a number of powerful masters of mystic arts in the comic, from the villainous Mammoth Mogul to the more noble Merlin Prower (Tails' uncle) to the neutral Brotherhood Of Guardians (Knuckles' dad and other relatives). They are all aware that Dr. Robotnik/Eggman is a major threat, who doesn't mind causing ''genocide'' in order to rule the planet.\\

** This game introduces Shadow, an anthropomorphic hedgehog who can move at very fast speeds, same as the title character.\\

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* Dr. Eggman/Robotnik has, time and time again, created mecha upon mecha to put a stop to Sonic's plan-foiling once and for all. Yet every time he faces the Blue Blur (or really, anyone else for that matter), his contraptions always get thrashed.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Eggman to wise up. He could pick environments that don't give Sonic an advantage, keep his cockpit out of reach so Sonic can't hit him, and/or stop using attacks that end up hurting his own mechs.\\
'''Instead:''' He keeps making the same mistakes, time and time again, in both the Classic and Modern eras.
* Ever since his introduction, and in most media, Knuckles is tricked by Eggman.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Knuckles would outright stop listening to Eggman, or at least adopt a "shoot on sight" policy with Eggman. Additionally, some of the other characters would spell it out to Knuckles that Eggman is not, and never will be a trustworthy individual.\\
'''Instead:''' Knuckles continually falls for Eggman's deceit, and often frequently messes up his friends attempts to save the world.
* Frequently, many villains try to manipulate or persecute Shadow the Hedgehog.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For said villains to realize that trying to antagonize a PersonOfMassDestruction with a HairTriggerTemper who's perfectly willing to kill if necessary is not a very smart idea.\\
'''Instead:''' Naturally, BullyingADragon occurs. The result? Humanity almost got nuked, the Black Arms were wiped out entirely, the GUN Commander was humiliated, and Mephiles was literally erased from existence after getting curb-stomped.

'''You`d Expect:''' That although he has an IQ of 300, nobody would let Eggman work on repairing the broken machinery. By this point in the series, he`s made it clear to the world that he can craft deadly weapons and machinery that could give the military a real challenge to take down. And as mentioned before, he had also built a device that blew up half the moon and didn`t give the impression that he was scared to use it.

'''However:''' Sonic ''did'' have the first Chaos Emerald, so it's because of that did Eggman saved Sonic.

'''Instead:''' Sonic instructs Tails to hang out in the nursery while he fights Scratch and Grounder, thinking it will be safe. Tails discovers that the babysitter works for Robotnik too little too late. She sends Tails down a trap door in the ball pit and Robotnik captures him.

'''Instead:''' He sends Scratch and Grounder to use the gadgets to catch Sonic every single time. Being too dumb to use the gadgets properly, they fail miserably every single time. Robotnik pins the blame on Weasely, accusing him of selling defective products, and demanding refunds. As Weasely points out, his gadgets work too well, and are incompetent hands.

'''You'd Expect''': Shadow would ask her help in uncovering his past, given their former relationship. This way, Rouge can tell Shadow everything she knows and Shadow would decide what to do from there.\\

'''Instead:''' He swoops in and ''saves his arch-enemy'' so he can make him fight his Antlion Mecha. Who Eggman proceeds to accidentally destroy anyway. Nice going, Egghead!

'''Instead''': Not only does he not tell ''any'' former allies he's confused about his past, but the guys he does turn to are Eggman, a pathological liar and infamous villain, and an ALIEN INVADER''.

** Early on, we get a cutscene in which Sonic and Tails find out that Eggman is controlling the Deadly Six with a magic conch shell.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Sonic to listen to Tails while he figures out what the shell is.\\
'''Instead''': Sonic runs up to Eggman and kicks the conch shell away. The Deadly Six rebel against Eggman, forcing him into [[EnemyMine working with Sonic]].

* In ''[[VideoGame/SonicChronicles Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood]]'', Imperator Ix, after taking a thrashing from the entirety of SonicTheHedgehog's team, taps the VillainBall long enough to blurt out how he plans to conquer the world like he tried four thousand years ago. Procurator Shade, who has demonstrated tactical competence up to this point, happens to be within earshot and immediately questions his motives.\\

Sonic may be the fastest thing alive, but sometimes his worlds don't have the smartest of individuals.

'''You'd Expect''': Shadow would ask her help in uncovering his past, given their trusting relationship. This way, Rouge can tell Shadow everything she knows and Shadow would decide what to do from there.\\
'''Or At Least''': Shadow would ask ''anyone'' who apparently knows him well in ''Heroes'', especially after they end up on the same side aside from the occasional LetsYouAndHimFight.\\
'''Instead''': Not only does he not tell ''any'' of his established friends or acquaintances that he's looking for clues to his past, the only people who he tells this to are Black Doom and Eggman, both of whom are the ''bad guys''.
** The game introduces the G.U.N. Commander, who apparently was there when Gerald and Black Doom created Shadow, which traumatized him for whatever reason and made him think he had something to do with the ARK's destruction. 50 years later and he's...well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the commander of G.U.N.]] and sees that Shadow has been spotted with [[AlienTropes the Black Arms]].\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Anyone with a basic knowledge of astronomy to become suspicious. After all, objects don't need to move under their own power to remain in orbit, and the Egg Moon wouldn't be able to remain in one position without some form of propulsion, lest it get pulled into the Earth by the planet's gravity, a fact that completely contradicts Eggman's claims. Hell, Sonic does all of the above and doesn't bother telling anyone because he assumes that they'd be able to figure it out themselves.\\

** After Eggman blows up half the moon during the show's retelling of ''Sonic Adventure 2'', he replaces the destroyed half of the moon with robotics and artificial terrain he developed, seemingly to make amends. Shortly after this, the new Egg Moon gets stuck right in front of the sun, causing a permanent solar eclipse. Eggman claims that the Egg Moon has become uncontrollable incapable of moving itself, and builds a series of artificial light sources for the planet.\\

* In one episode, Sally, Bunnie and Antoine are at one of Robotnik's factories. Antoine accidentally falls on a conveyor belt and turns it on by pulling its lever ''at the same time''. Then he gets carried by it towards the machinery, and is too petrified with fear to get out of the conveyor belt. Sally and Bunnie to the rescue.\\

* In another episode, Robotnik catches Sally and creates a robotic duplicate of her to impersonate her so that Sonic takes it to Knothole and Robotnik finds out the hidden village's location.\\

* Another facepalm Robotnik moment in yet another episode: Robotnik and Snively have the Freedom Fighters trapped in a force field, and are hovering over them in an aircraft, ready to drop a cage over them and imprison them. Snively asks "Shall I throw the cage, sir?", and Robotnik's response is: "Negative. Let them sweat a while. There is no way for them to get through that force field. Even the hedgehog is trapped."\\

* A major facepalm occurs in an episode where Sally and Dulcy manage to infiltrate Robotnik's base in order to rescue Sonic from a deathtrap. They break into Robotnik's own control room, catching Robotnik completely off guard, whereupon Dulcy immediately freezes him and Snively solid with her ice breath.\\