Line #3 Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory


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3	''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog In Robotnik’s Laboratory'' is a book written by the collective {{Pseudonym}} Martin Adams published in 1993. The first part of a series of books penned under that name at the time, starring the eponymous videogame character.
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5	Sonic and Tails have been away on holiday and upon returning, discover that all of their friends have been kidnapped; turns out Robotnik is once again attempting to conquer Mobius. It’s up to our bodacious spiky sprinter and his awesome twin tailed fox, Tails, to save their pals, stop Robotnik and to get something to eat!
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7	!!The Book Contains Examples of the Following Tropes:
8	* AdventurerOutfit: Tails wears the pilot version them momentary before Sonic does a DoubleTake and tells him to take them off.
9	* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Wing Fortress makes a return.
10	* AsskickingPose: Tails gets one as he wades through the smoke of a destroyed door and faces Robotnik down with a toaster. Rather ruins the effect when he tries to ‘’sound’’ badass.
11	* AttackPatternAlpha: Flying badniks will often creature squadrons while receiving these types of orders.
12	* BigEater: The book rarely goes a page without mentioning either somebody eating something or somebody worrying about running out of food, the amount of food the characters go through is staggering, and it’s all junk food; pizzas, nachos, peanuts, ice-cream, sodas and crisps with bizarre combinations (no chilidogs though). Sonic at least has the excuse that he requires vast amount of food because of his hyper metabolism; other characters don’t.
13	* UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish: Mickey the Monkey speaks in Cockney rhyming slang and liberal use of British phrases, a counterpoint to our heroic duos lexicon. Sonic and Tails calls his slang outdated
14	-->'''Tails:''' “Sonic, people stop saying things like that ages ago. It’s awful!”
15	* CanonForeigner: Eggor, Stevie, Caesar, and Mickey.
16	* CarnivoreConfusion: Sonic and Tails wish they could sit at home with a bucket of chicken at one point; despite the fact they have a Rooster as a friend.
17	** Also Stevie the mole is worried when Sonic and Tails turns up looking for their friends. He asks sheepishly if their friends are worms…
18	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The author is fond of these; ''“A huge ship lumbered across the sky. It was mega-mega-ginormous. Gigantic to the max. Endlessly vast. Totally, unbelievably massive. [[OverlyLongGag Look, it was BIG]]”.''
19	* EvilLaugh: Robotnik is prone to trail off his sentences with one of these.
20	* FacePalm: Tails does one after Sonic lies that Computer-Terminal is actually code for blueberry ice-cream soda.
21	* FunWithAcronyms: There are few; Fabulously Advanced Robotnik’s Original Universal Transmogrifier (FAROUT) for example.
22	** And again with Stevie’s Wideband Interfacing Minimaxing Polyphonic Outreaching Unisunthesizing Toppgraphizer (WIMPOUT)
23	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Caesar wears boxers with big yellow flowers on them. Tails laughing at them gets the pair thrown into the coliseum.
24	* GreenAesop: Gets a couple of lines from Sally and the book follows after the games; GreenHillZone good, Scrap Brain Zone bad.
25	* TheIgor: Robotnik’s new robot assistant Eggor.
26	* MechaMooks: Badniks.
27	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: When Tails says he works out every day Sonic says he better be careful or he’ll end up facing a [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Schwartzneggbot]].
28	** Later Eggor wishes he could be a robot movie start like [[Creator/RobertDeNiro Robot Di Nero]].
29	* NoFourthWall. The author is constantly talking to the reader, even going so far as to not tell us what FAROUT acronym stands for when Sally overhears because it would scare us, or breaking away from the action and telling the people in the back to stop booing.
30	* NotQuiteFlight: Tails can fly using his normal method while Sonic jumps, spins and otherwise uses his momentum to go high distances. The book does get confused over whether Sonic can fly or not sometimes though.
31	* Main/{{Objectshifting}}: Robotnik has invented a machine that will physically transform anyone put in it into an inanimate object. (The victims mostly turn into electrical appliances, but Johnny Lightfoot becomes a mop).
32	* PieInTheFace: What kicks of the events of the book. Sonic and Tails are bored so they dress Tails up as a ghost, make a luminous custard pie, and attempt to lure Router out with a “special delivery”.
33	* PreMortemOneLiner: Tails goes into full action-hero mode when he gets to use an automatic toaster as a gun; “Eat hot waffle death, you ‘orrid ratniks!”
34	* ProjectileToast: After Sonic is transformed into a toaster Tails and Mickey covert him into a waffle-gun. Tails uses him to launch an assault on Dr. Robotnik's lab.
35	* PungeonMaster: Robotnik is constantly cracking [[IncrediblyLamePun eggstremely lame puns]], but it’s not him as it turns out to be rather infectious.
36	** LamePunReaction: Pretty much every furry character in the book has one of these to the constant puns, Sonic even calls him out on one where it doesn’t make sense.
37	-->'''Robotnik:''' Eggor, prep the eggscape capsule!\
38	'''Sonic:''' That’s cheating.\
39	'''Robotnik:''' What, eggscaping?\
40	'''Sonic:''' No, escape doesn’t even have a “X” in it.
41	* OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles: following on from the games this is how Sonic and Tails breathe underwater for their extended search of the lake.
42	* SapientEatSapient: Almost happens to Chirps the chicken; after Robotnik realises that he doesn't lay eggs, he plans on roasting him for lunch (pretending the oven is a spaceship that will take him to "the planet Kentuckee"). For no apparent reason other than ForTheEvulz, Robotnik also plans on cooking him ''alive'' (never mind that a chicken cooked with its head, feathers, intestines and gall bladder still in place wouldn't be remotely edible).
43	* SawItInAMovieOnce: repeatedly used as justification for why Sonic and Tails know something they realistically shouldn’t is “I saw it on a video”.
44	* SdrawkcabAlias: The book uses the Dr. Kintobor created Sonic and turned into Dr. Robotnik in a failed experiment as the backstory.
45	* SheatheYourSword: The only way to get out of the spring traps (which are literally coiled springs) was to stop struggling at which point they just break apart.
46	* SpaceRomans: Like Earth Mobius has Romans, unlike Romans on Earth they’re scared of Lions.
47	* SpikeBallsOfDoom: Some activate when they “hack” into the master system.
48	* SpikesOfDoom: It’s sonic, of course there are spike traps hidden around!
49	* SuperSpeed: Again, it’s Sonic.
50	* TimeForPlanB: What’s Plan B? I don’t know I haven’t thought of it yet.
51	* TotallyRadical: from start to finish the book is filled with the most bodacious, rad and totally hip dialogue ever devised by man or beast. It start’s Sonic “Way Past Cool” The Hedgehog and it was written in the early nineties so it’s to be expected.
52	* UnwillingRoboticization: Robotnik’s plan is to transform every living organism into a machine while they’re fully sentient. Johnny Lightfoot for example gets turned into a mop and is used to clean the floors.

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