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#26: Jan 2nd 2024 at 10:47:27 PM

I think this is close enough to a keep/restore consensus that the only questions are whether the sandbox is launch-ready, and whether the resulting page needs a lock or not.

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#27: Jan 3rd 2024 at 12:36:37 AM

[up] Sandbox is not launch-ready yet. We still have to merge both trope lists into one trope list, cut defunct tropes, comment out ZCEs, and remove Flame Bait examples. However, such actions are easy to handle.

In the meantime, I would like to ask for permission to swap in the new description.

EDIT: I actually went forward and started to clean out and sort the tropes in my own sandbox. Some of the examples were ZCEs, but I commented them out according to TV Tropes practice.

If the page is launched again as is, it would have 5 trope examples, which is acceptable for a page on TV Tropes.

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jan 9th 2024 at 8:31:52 PM

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MysteryAgain Since: Aug, 2018
#28: Jan 9th 2024 at 4:14:02 PM

Posting some tropes here to help flesh out the page.

    Tropes 
  • Adaptational Jerkass: The Sonic in this fic is a self-centered, racist, homophobic asshole who is more interested in getting into Amy's pants than anything.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Tails shows up last minute to help Sonic in his fight with Vector.
  • Conflict Ball: Tails becomes absolutely furious at Sonic for missing his science fair presentation... despite missing it himself to go retrieve Sonic's diary. They remain angry at each other for half the story.
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • As punishment for entering the boy's bathroom, Amy and Rouge are locked in detention for days without food and water.
    • After believing Amy cheated on him with Cream, Sonic punches out all her teeth.
  • Last Disrespects: Sonic cuts off the head from Charmy Bee's dead body and gives it to the theater class to use as a mask. The rest gets thrown into a trash can.
  • Reduced to Dust: This is Vector's fate when he comes into contact with Sonic's diseased balls.
  • Secret Diary: It's not exactly secret when it's an English class assignment, but that doesn't stop Sonic from treating it as such by writing about his ball problems. Naturally, Mrs. Lesson reads that passage in front of the class.

Edited by MysteryAgain on Jan 10th 2024 at 3:47:54 AM

Chrisimo Since: Sep, 2020
#29: Jan 10th 2024 at 6:52:24 AM

My time has come.

I know, the YMMV entries aren’t separate from the mainspace ones. I also need help linking No OH&S Compliance and stopping a word with a capital in the middle from becoming a red link.

    My Folder 
  • Accidental Innuendo: “"Here I am, Tails, and here are my jewels," said Shadow as he grabbed his sack.”
  • Adaptational Jerkass:
    • Sonic assists in an attempted deceptive abortion, gropes his girlfriend uninvited, cheats on her, and kicks her as she starves in detention. He’s still the hero though.
    • Tails implicitly threatens to rape his crush, then barely reacts when he flies in on Shadow just having raped an unconscious Cream.
    • Cream in canon is a strongly positive character, with her negative traits being associated with being a young child. In Sonic High School, Cream calls her boyfriend “a fag ass”, celebrates his death by skipping class so she can screw her new boyfriend of three days (if you’re being generous) or mere seconds (if not), and when needing a lockpick, rather than buy one breaks into a schoolmate’s house and steals not just the lockpick but a gemstone too. She then cheats on her new boyfriend three days after their first sex.
  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In contrast to the unrequited love Amy has for Sonic in canon, this story begins with them as boyfriend and girlfriend
  • Adaptational Villainy:
    • Vector commits kidnapping and murder merely to hold his position as football team captain, despite canonically having a strong moral code.
    • Sonic following his face-heal turn
  • All Is Well That Ends Well: Implied for the surviving characters, despite the immense physical and psychological trauma one would expect most of them to have gone through.
  • Aluminium Christmas Trees: Though some readers find it odd that car fixing is a class offered, many high schools teach automechanics or similar.
  • Ambiguously Brown: The prom limo driver.
  • Anatomically Impossible Sex: Taken Up to Eleven in all five sex scenes.
  • And That's Terrible: The narrator tells us this about:
    • Rooms full of drugs and guns
    • Jumping out a high window instead of using a door
    • Tattoos with guns, “cigarets” motorcycles, middle fingers, and curse words
    • Leaving high school during school hours, but only the second time this is done. The first it’s treated by everyone as fine
  • Animate Inanimate Object: Seemingly downplayed with doorbells, which say “Ding dong” but otherwise appear to be just like their real world counterparts.
  • Angst? What Angst?: No one seems to bat an eye at Charmy Bee’s death, with the exception of his girlfriend who says “it relaxes me so much”; seeming downright thrilled.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Amy notes it was awful that Shadow “came into my room in the evening and tied me up on this bed and messed up the things in my room.”
  • Artistic License – Biology:
    • Amy looks “starved like African kids” after less than a day of being tied up
    • Rouge goes from showing no signs of pregnancy to being “really fat” in a day, and the next the baby’s born.
    • “Rouge eats salads because she is thin” the day after being “a really fat guy”.
    • Newborns can speak fluent English minutes after birth
    • Knuckle’s mom has “solid boobs that she had developed for decades.”
    • The Body Donation. An invention of “Inestine”, when someone’s love becomes sufficiently powerful they can be (literally) reborn as a child of the person they love
    • Women can have “a nerection” visible while clothed.
    • Being caring literally involves the use of the heart. Hence, caring people have the power to consciously increase their heart rate to spray blood from cuts
    • Gourds have throats which, if punched sufficiently hard, close up and leave them “unconscience”
    • Amy and Rouge have no food or water for a day, and it makes their boobs look bigger. After another two without hydration, they are “looking still skinny” but otherwise seem fine once they have a bite to eat.
    • Testicles, being “the most powerful spot on a man” are “like the information superhighway of your body”, so being kicked in them jolts one back to sobriety.
    • Amy’s mouth is a hole that goes “to her boobs and then vagina”
    • The dead (not undead or anything, just regular dead) can think
  • Artistic License – Chemistry: Tails puts his hand beneath Sonic’s crying face because “Tears can stain a carpet.”
  • Artistic License – Education: Many examples:
    • A teacher reads out loud to the class from a student’s private journal.
    • A student giving birth lies down in the lunchroom, then has a curtain placed around her while the school nurse assists the labor. No further help is given.
    • No attempt seems to be given to stop students fighting, but for using the wrong sex bathroom the punishment is over three straight days of detention in which one is given neither food nor water. The detention room is locked and has a security gourd.
    • Although we are told leaving the school “is really bad and will get you in big trouble” Sonic does this twice without any apparent consequences
    • The students attend high school for ten consecutive days
    • The school principal comes out one day each year
  • Artistic Licence – Engineering: One can glue two sets of baby teeth together to make a perfectly fitting set of teeth for an adult.
  • Artistic Licence – Explosives: A bomb is used as a play prop. When something unspecified falls on it, it explodes.
  • Artistic Licence – Law: One will not suffer any legal consequences so long as the person you kill is “a bad guy”
  • Artistic License – Medicine:
    • Abortion pills work minutes before birth (though maybe the characters just think that), and are subtle enough to be eaten unknowingly after being placed in salad
    • Babies are born anally and require third party assistance in the process because they “are too weak to do this on their own”
    • Doctors have data on the genital size of entire male high school student bodies, and are free to inform whoever is best endowed
    • Sonic’s ball disease comes along once every million years, and though he has it for weeks without serious issue someone else touching them leads to instant death.
    • Testicular disease analysis involves taking pieces of the balls in question and placing them in a test tube
    • Infants can remove their baby teeth like dentures
  • As You Know:
    • Sonic’s diary follows a mention of Amy with “(my girlfriend)”
    • Rouge says to Amy “thanks to Silver we have been escaped from detention” where “we” is Rouge and Amy.
  • Author Appeal: There’s a lot of focus on the female character’s boobs.
  • Back from the Dead: Sonic, thanks to the Chaos Emeralds.
  • Big Applesauce: Downplayed. Even with the presence of Al-Qaida built robots and wish-granting emeralds in what’s implied to be New York, the objectively most significant event of the story is Shadow’s murder of three gang members.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Tails’ rescue of Sonic from Vector’s house.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The faux prom on Ghost Island.
  • Bigger Is Better in Bed: Implied in most of the story’s sex scenes, particularly Sonic’s climatic consummation with Amy
  • Big "NO!": Vector upon being smacked in the face by Sonic’s balls.
  • Bile Fascination: The reason the story gets attention
  • Black Comedy Rape: One downplayed example, and a straight one, both of which are unintentional if the fic is serious. First Tails only agrees to give Cream time to break up with Charmy “As long as you promise me your sex”, and later Shadow knocks her out in the middle of coitus but keeps going.
  • Bland-Name Product:
    • The internet chat feature used is called “Sonic Messager”
    • Cream’s room features a mountain of these, all of which contain the word “Sonic” for no apparent reason.
  • Blatant Lies: The log line says “This story contains no graphic descriptions”
  • Bound and Gagged: Eggman ties Amy’s feet and hands together, with a third rope around her head and a lock in her mouth. Later Shadow performs a similar act, though the text gives a less detailed description.
  • Brainless Beauty: A rare overwhelmingly positive example in Amy
  • Brainy Baby: Slightly downplayed with Knuckles Jnr, and fully downplayed with Knuckles. Though they can speak fluent English, neither are geniuses, and Knuckles doesn’t show any particular insight beyond the average child.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Told that he should stop going on adventures because high school is more important, Sonic thinks “he was right because its called Sonic high school and it should be more about the high school part”
  • Broken Aesop: Shadow says, “High school students should be nice and caring and not talk about themselves like they are the best because that will only make us all assholes”.
  • This is impossible to take seriously, partially because Shadow commits rape and murder, but mostly because the narration routinely and inaccurately praises Sonic while he behaves badly and everything ends up great for him eventually.
  • Butt-Monkey:
    • Amy is bound and gagged twice by two different characters, spends days in detention with nothing to eat or drink, and has all her teeth punched out by Sonic. His suicide also leaves her miserable.
    • Charmy Bee, who is “used to being hectored”, is kidnapped and held hostage by Knuckles. He’s taken from the cage Knuckles imprisons him in by Vetor who kills and partially eats him. After being found by Sonic, he has his face turned into a mask and his body thrown in the school trash.
  • Buxom Is Better: Though the narrator clearly thinks this, it’s confirmed just once in universe: “None of them could not say that Rouge was not attractive because she had the absolute biggest boobs in the tri-state area.”
  • Calling Your Attacks: Both Amy and Rouge do this in their fight with Charmy Bee’s robot lookalike in the men’s bathroom, in the form of a two-word noun phrase: “Girl Blood!” for the former and “Romance Bite!” for the latter.
  • Camp Gay: Charmy Bee looks and sounds like a girl, uses the whole rainbow in every picture in art class, is the best at dancing and singing, is bad at fixing cars and the worst at sports. It doesn’t stop him having a girlfriend, though she calls him “a total gay” and “a fag ass”.
  • Captain Obvious: Many examples, such as “he was crying, which was out of his eyes”
  • Coitus Ensues:
    • Sonic “sex thanking” the lunch lady
    • Shadow’s instant seduction of Cream
  • Complexity Addiction: Vetor’s plan is very elaborate, involving switching a robot double for the victim of someone else’s kidnapping..
  • Crack Pairing:
    • Espio the Chameleon and Rouge the Bat
    • Tails the Fox and Cream the Rabbit
    • Shadow the Hedgehog and Cream the Rabbit
  • Crunchtastic: Words created for the story include “breathwash”, “bumpful”, “disappointy”, “disrespection”, “gunproof”, “idiotly”, “nightmaring”, “respondingly”, “semensphere”, “shoutingly”, “tightfully”, and “togetherly”
  • Damsel in Distress: Amy is kidnapped first by Eggman, then by Shadow.
  • Dark Is Evil:
    • The aptly named Shadow is Sonic’s token evil teammate
    • Sonic dyes his fur black upon entering an angry, depressed phase
  • Darker and Edgier: As well as kidnappings which also occur in canon, characters, including canonically neutral or good ones, commit rape and murder.
  • A Date With Rosie Palms: Shadow while driving, and, in his emo phase, Sonic instead of going to lunch.
  • Defiled Forever: Eggman tries but fails to invoke this, saying “I kissed Amy and now you can never date her again because I am going to do sex to her tonight.” Oddly, the trope is completely averted for the rest of the story.
  • Demoted to Extra: Eggman is mentioned 27 times, 22 of them in chapters 2 and 3, where he makes his only appearance. Instead, Vector is the most significant villain.
  • Denser and Wackier: Quite the shift despite the source material’s already substantial wackiness. Anally delivered infants speaking fluent English minutes after birth, murder victims being honoured, unbeknownst to them, by their faces turned into play props, school detention in which one is brought to the cusp of death by starvation, and penises so enormous that they require people to duck or jump over them are just a few of the insane things that occur in Sonic High School.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: One great example is on terminating a pregnancy: “Rouge's baby would not survive it. In fact, Rouge's baby would die.”
  • Designated Hero: So long as one counts his emo phase, Sonic is easily the fourth least sympathetic character in the story, behind only the two unambiguous villains and Shadow who commits rape and several murders.
  • Digging to China: Discussed by the narrator, who compares Amy’s toothless maw to a hole to China.
  • Disappeared Dad: Unlike Sonic’s mom, who’s a significant minor character, Sonic’s dad is never mentioned.
  • The Ditz: Sonic’s Mom seems like this, though it’s not clear the author intended it that way. She leers at her son for skipping breakfast when he only makes it to the school bus seconds later, fails to realise (or just doesn’t care) that he’s lying about nothing being wrong after she hears him scream from his room, seems almost non-existent when Sonic suffers from severe psychological problems (even by the story’s standards) and claims “Being a teen is the hardest thing in the world. It is harder than being in a war or in jail.” Sonic saying “Sonic's Mom is the best at cooking and cleaning” just comes off as damning with faint praise.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Sonic’s consistently in a foul mood after he turns emo due to thinking Amy cheated on him. Realising he’s punched all her teeth out is the final straw.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: The penalty for using the boy’s bathroom as a girl is detention for over three days. What’s more, in this universe one is given neither food nor water during detention, and there seems to be nowhere to lie except the ground.
  • Driven to Suicide: Sonic, seemingly from guilt at having punched all Amy’s teeth out.
  • Drugs Are Bad: High on “Marowana” Sonic breaks into Amy’s house and punches her in the face until all her teeth fall out. He soon regrets it.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Charmy Bee
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: The lunch lady is a big hit among readers.
  • Easily Forgiven: Sonic upon dying, and nothing changes when he comes back to life.
  • Ethnic Scrappy: Sonic’s Chinese doctor can’t cry because his eyes are too small.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Sonic’s mom is called “mom” by sonic and “Sonic’s Mom” by everyone else, including when they are speaking to Sonic.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Following his discovery of his girlfriend’s apparent infidelity, the narrator tells us “Sonic had really changed now from being the one with the best morals to the ones with the worst”
  • Fortune Teller: Knuckles Jnr
  • Gag Boobs: Possibly unintentional; “It is a rumor about the town that you can see Rouge's boobs from space.”
  • Gag Penis: Shadow’s becomes so large it becomes hard for him to see while driving. Tails has his compared to “an upside down couch sofa”. Sonic’s “was so big and long and wide that you could fit families inside”.
  • Gay Guy Dies First: Charmy Bee is the both the first character to die and the only gay one.
  • Giftedly Bad: If the author’s serious, he’s totally oblivious to why people hate the story, attributing it to “because you do not get or understand adult material” in an Author’s Note.
  • Glurge: Sonic’s funeral to some degree, but it’s soon turned up to eleven with his resurrection and celebratory sex
  • Going Commando: The lunch lady around the time she forces open a window for Sonic at night
  • Gratuitous Rape: Shadow’s decision to seduce then knock out Cream has a purpose, but unless society has zero problem with unprovoked assaults or rape it’s a strategy with far more downside than telling the truth or trying to dupe her into leaving her room
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Knuckles is so outraged that Espio had sex with his girlfriend (despite their relationship being secret) he takes a hostage to coerce Espio into fighting him
  • Groin Attack:
    • Amy’s response to a stoned Sonic punching her teeth out.
    • Tails to Shadow for arriving late to Sonic’s funeral
  • Hanging Judge: Implied in that someone must have decided to give Amy and Rouge over three days of detention without food or water as punishment for using the wrong bathroom
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: A literal example, as because Amy is “so good at being nice and caring, which is using your heart” she also has the ability to spray blood out of a leg wound “like a Super Soaker filled up by vampire”. Downplayed because it turns out she was fighting a robot, making it ineffectual in this instance.
  • The Hero Dies. He doesn’t stay dead though.
  • High School AU: By far the worst example of a common thing to do with Sonic. Probably not a coincidence.
  • His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Downplayed. Mrs (or Ms) Lesson is Sonic’s English teacher.
  • Hollywood Autism: Emo Sonic punches an autistic kid for laughing at him. No information is given beyond this.
  • Hormone-Addled Teenager: Most of the main characters.
  • Hotter and Sexier: With characters that are canonically children made post-pubescent, quests for sex making up most of the plot, and five sex scenes plus two borderline cases described explicitly, this definitely qualifies.
  • Human Resources: Following his death, Sonic turns Charmy’s face into a mask because he “thought Charmy would like it.”
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: Tails is this to Sonic.
  • Hypocrite: Sonic performs oral sex on the Lunch Lady one night, and the next day learns something that makes him conclude his girlfriend had “hand sex” with some else. He then calls Amy a “loose woman” and “a concubine and a bitch” before running around for hours, crying and screaming.
  • Hypocritical Humor: A meta example as an author’s note includes “Just because you do not get or understand adult material does not mean you should pass judgement on it”
  • I Have You Now, My Pretty: Eggman says of his prisoner: "I kissed Amy and now you can never date her again because I am going to do sex to her tonight".
  • Impossibly-Low Neckline: Rouge wears a “tiny baby dress” that leaves her “unlimited boobs nearly jumping out of her clothing”.
  • Impressive Pyrotechnics: A bomb used as a stage prop makes a huge explosion “like a bunch of horses made of fire running through the place”.
  • Incest Subtext: His boast “I am gonna kiss and sex [Rouge] tonight!" is immediately followed by “Espio was like a little boy looking at his mom's boob for the first time.”
  • Informed Attribute:
    • The story repeatedly tells us that Sonic has the best morals. This is despite him assisting in an attempted deceptive abortion, groping his girlfriend uninvited, cheating on her, and kicking her as she starves in detention, and all that’s before he turns evil with its only apparent cause being the weak evidence for his girlfriend being unfaithful. Sonic’s only notable good deed is caring (poorly) for two infants for under a day.
    • Both Cream and Sonic are described as “pretty smart”. Besides taking a hard science class for which no further description is given, Cream’s only indication of intelligence is using her position as hall monitor to smuggle a lockpick into detention. This fails because her vagina is too tight for Amy to extract it. Sonic’s only such moment has him deduce what password Eggman would use but describe it incorrectly.
  • Informed Flaw: The lunch lady’s deafness, though it has given her a speech impediment, doesn’t stop her understanding anything that’s said after her first mention.
  • Karma Houdini:
    • Eggman never suffers any comeuppance for his kidnapping and planned rape
    • Shadow’s kidnapping, murder spree and rape have no consequences, though he is hit in the groin for arriving late to Sonic’s funeral
    • Sonic’s repeated efforts to bed his girlfriend come to fruition following his resurrection just two days after he brutally assaulted her.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After knocking Amy’s teeth out, she kicks Sonic in the balls. This is so painful “all of the drugs fell off his brain” and Sonic is so horrified at what he’s done he kills himself.
  • Lemony Narrator: This trope kicks in every now and again, with the most blatant example going “her voice was breaking like a talking toy that had one of its batteries half way out and my brother spilled juice on it so it didn't work right anymore”.
  • Literal Metaphor: By the narration, which describes Shadow’s date with rosy palms as having “redecorated the inside of Omega with white curtains.” A few paragraphs later, Shadow is told by Silver “Silver. "Cool curtains you put up."
  • Mary Sue: Sonic declares himself “the best at being fast, being moral, relieving others, and most other things" to which everyone else says “Yeah!”
  • Making Love in All the Wrong Places: A school closet, the school garden, a front lawn (though in that case the participants were invisible)
  • Men Act, Women Are: The most plot impacting choice of any female character is Cream’s seduction of Tails. Aside from that, Rouge’s trysts (sensing a trend here?), and Amy and Rouge using the boy’s bathroom, all other plot advancing decisions and actions are done by male characters. Also noteworthy is that there are four kidnappings, all done by males, two to Amy and two to camp gay duke looks like a lady Charmy Bee.
  • Men Don't Cry: Sonic doesn’t cry about Tail’s hatred of him because “he was too big and a man for that”
  • Mills and Boon Prose: Zig-zagged, as the sex scenes contain plenty of both this and very upfront descriptions
  • Mood Whiplash: “Sonic's Mom made Chinese Food and Sonic ate it and at the end there was a Fortune Cookie and Sonic broke it open and ate the cookie part and kept the paper that was inside that held a magical fortune on it. Sonic looked at the fortune and read it to himself inside of his head.
"The path to glory begins at the base of your friend's penis,"”
  • Mrs. Robinson: The lunch lady
  • Ms. Fanservice: Despite being immensely buxom, Rouge repeatedly wears tiny bras
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg: At Sonic’s funeral, almost every surviving character is given a brief description of what they’re doing there. It ends with “Blaze the Cat was not there because no one liked her and no one invited her.”
  • My Girl Is Not a Slut: The lunch lady assures Sonic that Bangladeshi sex thanking “is not slutty”.
  • My God, What Have I Done??: Due to being kicked in the balls Sonic has “all the drugs fall off his brain”, making him realise he’s punched all Amy’s teeth out.
  • Narm: Almost continuous from beginning to end
  • Narm Charm: Most of the story qualifies for many readers, but the peaks are the extremely elaborate similes and the sex scenes
  • No One Could Survive That!: Subverted. The “funeral man” says “The other day a security camera in the woods saw Sonic run off a cliff and he fell all the way down and hit the ground at the bottom next to the river. His body got so messed up, he is dead for sure." The funeral man’s right. It’s then doubly subverted when Sonic is resurrected.
  • Nobody Poops: Averted, as Sonic does so twice. Though the first time it doesn’t really impact anything, the second it proves critical to defeating Charmy Bee’s robot double.
  • No OHANDS Compliance: Storing a live bomb backstage in a high school.
  • Not Himself: Charmy Bee in the run up to the school play, as it turns out he’s been replaced by a robot.
  • Obligatory Swearing: This take on a children’s franchise features eight F-bombs and as many lesser swears
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Silver rescuing Amy and Rouge from gulag-esque detention
  • Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Tails is capable of inventing a hat that makes the wearer invisible, can glue sets of baby teeth together to construct a set of teeth that perfectly fit an adult, and has access to robot killing electronics and killer robots that he presumably built himself, all while still in high school.
  • Only Sane Man: Despite the narrator’s negative opinion of him, Charmy Bee is by far the most significant character who doesn’t commit or condone horrific violence and/or undertake any sexual misconduct.
  • ""Open!" Says Me:
    • Vector to a barricaded door in his house
    • Tails to Sonic’s locked garage door
  • Overly Narrow Superlative: “Espio thought she looked like the hottest woman in the world that he could see from here.” There’s no mention of any other women in Espio’s line of sight.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A minor example in that the “gang men” whom Shadow murders to steal the Ultra Chaos Emerald only appear in two paragraphs. Though “they looked dangerous” for all the reader knows they are just presumed to be gangsters because they’re black and loiter on a dark city street.
  • The Plague: Sonic’s ball disease. Subverted as it only effects one other person before his death.
  • Police Are Useless: despite four kidnappings, no one ever contacts them. Their only appearance has them stop Shadow when he speeds and drives erratically, then fail to pursue when he speeds off. This is despite him committing a triple homicide minutes earlier.
  • Power Perversion Potential: Using an invisibility hat to have discrete sex on a front lawn
  • Precision F-Strike: The only spoken F-bomb not from Sonic is by a day-old Knuckles Jr, directed at the world due to a single instance of violence.
  • Protagonist-Centred Morality: People are very upset when Sonic dies, but don’t seem to care at all when other characters do. His cheating with the lunch lady is never remarked on later, much less negatively, while Sonic is portrayed as justified in his outrage when he thinks Amy cheated on him.
  • Quest for Sex: While not the sole driver of the story ark, Sonic’s quest drives an awful lot of it, and combined with Espio’s and Tails’ make it what most of the story is about.
  • Rape as Drama: Averted, as Sonic manages to scare Eggman off before he can “do sex to” Amy. The story’s subsequent explicit rape is treated as totally insignificant.
  • Right Through His Pants: A rare female example, as Amy wearing “a panty” doesn’t stop her coitus with Sonic.
  • Robotic Reveal: Charmy Bee. In this case the switch happened during the course of the story.
  • Rouge Angles of Satin: Occurs frequently. Some of the highlights include:
    • “Erection” is spelt consistently as “nerection”
    • “Abortion” is always spelt “bortion”
    • Thinking about Amy’s body sets Sonic’s mind at “E’s”
    • “doctor zepointmint”
    • “rockened roll”
    • “Windowsel”
  • Sadly Mythtaken: In-Universe, the Nativity Story school play. In this version, Jesus’s father is Joseph, Mary receives a letter from an angel, she and Joseph leave London for Jerusalem on bikes because the King won’t let babies vote, and Jesus is born in a barn because the hospital is full.
  • Said Bookism: Common throughout, but taken to an extreme with two mentions of things said “in an explaining way”
  • Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Espio’s and the lunch lady’s doorbells say “Ding dong” and Omega the car says “"Brrrrrrrrrrvvvvvvvv," as it drives and “Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeek," as it turns.
  • Seers: Knuckles Jr
  • Shaped Like Itself: Ultra Chaos Emeralds were “a secret until they were found out.”
  • Sophisticated as Hell:
    • Sonic writes in his journal “A sickness still ravages my balls”
    • Believing his girlfriend cheated on him, Sonic calls Amy “a concubine and a bitch.”
  • Speech Impediment: The lunch lady, due to her deafness
  • Spikes of Villainy: Emo Sonic’s school outfit sometimes includes “spiky collars that made him look bad”
  • Stacy's Mom: “Sonic also noticed that Knuckles's Mom was kind of hot, with solid boobs that she had developed for decades.”
  • Stealth Parody: A popular interpretation is that the story is a deliberately terrible satire of high school alternate universe fics, many of which are noted for being little more than excuses to take famous characters and turn them into avatars of people the teenage author knows, where (s)he encounters them.
  • Taken for Granite: Vector after being hit in the face by Sonic’s diseased balls
  • Teen Pregnancy: Rouge has one
  • Talking Is a Free Action: Despite the story anviliciously reminding the reader how fast Sonic is, he doesn’t react to his teacher reading an embarrassing part of his diary to the whole class until she’s finished an 84-word paragraph
  • Talks Like a Simile: The narration
  • That Makes Me Feel Angry: One scene alone features:
    • “"I am so sad!" said Amy in a crying way”
    • Sonic’s mum says "so am I. "
    • “"Yes, I am sad," said Tails”
    • “I am so sad”, this time said by Knuckles Jr
    • “"this is the saddest," said Knuckles”
  • Their First Time: At least three, and possibly all five, of the sex scenes in the story.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Despite murdering unnamed minor characters, threatening to kill his own parents, kidnapping Amy and raping Cream Shadow is ultimately on the side of Sonic
  • Troll Fic: What many readers suspect it is
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Just about everything Knuckles Jr does.
  • Two-Teacher School: Though much of the story takes place at high school, only Mrs/Ms Lesson is named, and only two other staff are described, though the history teacher and the Principal also make cameos
  • Understatement: The narration notes that caring for a baby “is harder than having a dog.”
  • Unfortunate Implications: The prom limo driver “looked like a person but darker colored”
  • Unusual Euphemism: The three that really stand out are “creamy Italian salad dressing”, “New England Clam Chowder” and “fresh and creamy smores” for “semen”
  • Values Dissonance: Frequently occurs in the fields of romance and reproduction despite the story being written in the 2010s, and likely by an American. If not deliberate as part of a troll, this is due to the authors immaturity. In the world of Sonic High School:
    • Agreeing to a date is also an agreement to sex and makes one boyfriend and girlfriend. It is, however, possible to be boyfriend and girlfriend without agreeing to sex. A boyfriend has the seemingly unrestricted right to grope his girlfriend. Sex makes a couple “True [Boy Friend=Not A Wiki Word=] and Girlfriend”
    • Whether to have an abortion is the father’s sole decision
  • Voodoo Shark: The explanation for Knuckles becoming a baby.
  • Wangst: Upon learning that his girlfriend’s bracelet was in Cream’s vagina, Sonic calls Amy a “loose woman” and “a concubine and a bitch” before the story tells us “Sonic did not know where he was running to, and to be real, he was not running anywhere. He was running in a really big circle around the town and crying and screaming because Amy cheating on him made him feel worse than anything. Sonic ran around for hours until all of his feelings were out and he was tired from running and being sad and mad and feelings that are hard to say what they are.”
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Dr. Eggman plays a large antagonistic role in Chapters 2 and 3, only to never appear later, though if Shadow is to be believed he has impact from offscreen.
  • Writers Cannot Do Math:
    • Rouge’s pregnancy is a severe case of either this or Artistic License: Biology, as her baby bump goes from unnoticeable to large in a single day, and the baby’s born the next. Even the smallest bats’ gestation lasts weeks.
    • Amy and Rouge get detention one day, and the next “had been in detention for days now.” As “they had not eaten or drinken at all” “they looked really skinny and hungry. It made their boobs look bigger but they also looked steps from death.”
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Knuckles Jr repeatedly offers sage advice, at least some derived from psychic visions
  • Write What You Know: A reimagining of a popular franchise in High School written by a(n ostensibly) 7th Grader
  • Your Cheating Heart: three examples:
    • Rouge is secretly Knuckles’ girlfriend. It doesn’t stop her having a tryst with Espio. Knuckles is the only person upset and oddly blames Espio. No one points out the flaw in his logic.
    • Though Amy is his girlfriend, Sonic has oral sex with the lunch lady. She excuses it as an ancient tradition of sex thanking. No one seems bothered.
    • Shadow breaks into Cream’s house to take back the last Chaos Emerald. When Cream spots him, rather than tell the truth he improvises that he’s there to seduce her. It works because she regrets the way her boyfriend treated him.

Edited by Chrisimo on Jan 11th 2024 at 4:21:31 AM

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#30: Jan 10th 2024 at 7:06:10 AM

[up] Maybe put it into a folder or on a Sandbox/ page?

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#31: Jan 10th 2024 at 6:58:36 PM

Amonimus, are you replying to me?

I can do that, but the issue is I haven't done this before and don't know the procedures, so I don't know why I would be exactly and hence don't know how to judge whether it would be a good idea.

Genuine question: why even have a folder? Why not just put them on the sandbox page?

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#32: Jan 10th 2024 at 8:42:03 PM

A Sandbox would be better out of the two.

For a simple reason that having an entire page inside a forum post makes it super huge and inconvinient to scroll through if needed.

Edited by Amonimus on Jan 10th 2024 at 7:42:17 PM

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#33: Jan 10th 2024 at 11:06:59 PM

Or better yet, add it to the existing sandbox Sandbox.Sonic High School Rework

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#34: Jan 10th 2024 at 11:39:17 PM

Here's my final description rewrite. Thoughts?

    Description rewrite and partial trope list 
SONIC HIGH SCHOOL is a Sonic the Hedgehog High School AU Crack Fic/Troll Fic created by fanfiction author DarkDoomFireMaster. The fanfic parodies stereotypical High School AU fanfics, with its deliberate usage of bad grammar, horrible wording, and lack of logic. 

The fanfic centers on Sonic going through high school, and for the year there, there is a lot of stuff going down, including scenarios such as Sonic getting diagnosed with a fatal disease, a classmate getting murdered, and a bomb accidentally going off in the auditorium.

The fanfic can be read here.

Internet Historian also produced an animated adaptation of the first three chapters.


Tropes seen in Sonic High School include:

  • Adaptational Jerkass: The Sonic in this fic is a self-centered, racist, homophobic asshole who is more interested in getting into Amy's pants than anything.
  • Anatomically Impossible Sex: Characters have penises the size of their entire upper body or bigger (Shadow's erect penis obscured his vision while driving, and Sonic's penis looked "like he had the World Trade Center sitting on his balls." Vaginas are just empty holes that lead straight to the character's internal organs. There's even a scene where Sonic shoves his entire head into the Lunch Lady's vagina.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Tails shows up last minute to help Sonic in his fight with Vector.
  • Conflict Ball: Tails becomes absolutely furious at Sonic for missing his science fair presentation... despite missing it himself to go retrieve Sonic's diary. They remain angry at each other for half the story.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: As punishment for entering the boy's bathroom, Amy and Rouge are locked in detention for days without food and water. After believing Amy cheated on him with Cream, Sonic punches out all her teeth.Last Disrespects: Sonic cuts off the head from Charmy Bee's dead body and gives it to the theater class to use as a mask. The rest gets thrown into a trash can.
  • Obligatory Swearing: There are a lot of hilariously excessively profane insults in this fanfic, including "nerd ass", "fuck" (used as a noun to describe Knuckles), "shit dick", "fag ass", and "fag nips."
  • Questionable Consent: Shadow, after properly seducing Cream, gets her to give him oral sex before he knocks her unconscious and rapes her.
  • Reduced to Dust: This is Vector's fate when he comes into contact with Sonic's diseased balls.
  • Secret Diary: It's not exactly secret when it's an English class assignment, but that doesn't stop Sonic from treating it as such by writing about his ball problems. Naturally, Mrs. Lesson reads that passage in front of the class.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Knuckles Jr. is a baby that was conceived by Knuckles and Rouge. He can tell the future and can carry on normal conversations with everyone else in the story, mere weeks after he was born.

[down] Alright, I decided to remove the Sex Equals Love example.

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jan 11th 2024 at 10:56:12 PM

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#35: Jan 11th 2024 at 4:30:34 AM

Thanks Amonimus; I've put it in a folder for now.

I don't think Sex Equals Love is accurate; while Sonic High School sometimes treats them as interchangeable, that's not what the trope is about. Its about sex inevitably causing love, which is not the case in Sonic High School where sex thanking the lunch lady and Shadow raping cream don't cause love.

Callmeamuffin, while I think that the old opening excerpt was too long, I think Vandagyre goes to far and the intro shouldn't just treat it as a normal fic; the core bottom quality should at least be alluded to.

Edited by Chrisimo on Jan 11th 2024 at 4:33:44 AM

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#36: Jan 11th 2024 at 4:53:00 AM

I made a giant edit adding the tropes I brought up. I replaced at least one trope description where I thought my description was better, but left others and mixed still more together to hopefully get the best of my descriptors and what was there before.

I also removed Sex Equals Love. Does anyone object?

There's also the issue of two different trope lists, one on main and another on fanfic.

Edited by Chrisimo on Jan 11th 2024 at 4:53:28 AM

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#37: Jan 11th 2024 at 4:55:01 AM

[up] I brought that up on the last page.

Alright, I have rewritten the description to describe the absurdity of the fanfic. If there are still issues with it, please tell me. Otherwise, I will swap it in.

EDIT: Decided to swap it in.

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jan 12th 2024 at 10:13:43 PM

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#38: Jan 14th 2024 at 2:37:42 AM

Callmeamuffin, why did you remove Designated Hero, Narm Charm, Not Evil, Just Misunderstood, Stealth Parody, Values Dissonance, and Your Cheating Heart? The others I understand, but those seemed to have plenty of context. Were they deleted for some other reason?

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#39: Jan 14th 2024 at 4:50:50 AM

I was supposed to move the Designated Hero entry to the YMMV section, but forgot. It's now in.

I was worried if Narm and Narm Charm were Zero-Context Examples, but I have reinstalled them, just in case.

Not Evil, Just Misunderstood has a nattery entry attached. I decided to rewrite the entry to be more objective.

Stealth Parody reads as speculative.

Values Dissonance is a YMMV item and is misuse.

Your Cheating Heart is now a redirect to Infidelity Index, which is an index and is therefore not a trope.

The entries that have been removed have been commented out, excluding Values Dissonance and Your Cheating Heart, and can still be seen when in edit mode.

Actually, I'm curious about an issue. Zero-Context Example states that tropers should not add commented-out examples to work pages. Would the rule apply in the sense of restoring a work page that received a cleanup in its sandbox form?

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jan 14th 2024 at 11:46:35 PM

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#40: Jan 14th 2024 at 10:41:37 AM

I guess it doesn't matter for sandboxes, but I do always feel weird when we hide non-ZCE examples.

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#41: Jan 14th 2024 at 1:56:16 PM

Added in my tropes and separated general tropes into folders for space.

Chrisimo Since: Sep, 2020
#42: Jan 14th 2024 at 6:43:50 PM

Why is Values Dissonance a misuse?

To clarify, I can re-add tropes that were deleted for lacking context so long as I provide context, right?

MysteryAgain Since: Aug, 2018
#43: Jan 14th 2024 at 8:38:33 PM

Values Dissonance is more for cultural differences or value shifts over time, where something was considered normal where/when is was made, but problematic in other places/times. This is a troll fic, so the author was deliberately being offensive even to their own group.

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#44: Jan 14th 2024 at 9:03:56 PM

Speaking of Troll Fic (It is likely a Troll Fic, and the author returned in 2020 to release another fanfic, with a focus on the movie Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)), we also need to clean up any speculative troping, since some of the background information is rather spotty. The previous description, which has been cleaned up, even had stated that it is "likely a parody".

And as for ZCEs, if enough explaniations are added to the examples, they can be uncommented or readded, making them visible in viewing modes.

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jan 15th 2024 at 11:25:02 PM

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#45: Jan 14th 2024 at 9:58:58 PM

How did the author confirm that it's a trollfic?

MysteryAgain Since: Aug, 2018
#46: Jan 21st 2024 at 3:37:05 PM

Went through and removed a few tropes that seemed to be incorrectly used. Looks like the sandbox is close to being ready for launch.

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#47: Jan 22nd 2024 at 5:30:04 AM

We're almost ready. The only thing we need to discuss is whether we should label it as a Troll Fic, especially since I now believe Chrisimo has brought up a good point, since there is such little background information on why the fanfic was made, and the author has not explained whether the fic is a Troll Fic as well.

Obviously, speculative troping is a no-no, but how should we handle this fanfic? Should we remove trope examples that question if the fanfic is a Troll Fic? Should we (objectively) discuss about the speculation in the description?

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jan 22nd 2024 at 8:44:43 PM

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#49: Jan 22nd 2024 at 11:20:14 PM

I'd concur, if it's not clear whether this is a Troll Fic it shouldn't be labelled as such.

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#50: Jan 23rd 2024 at 12:58:51 AM

Alright, I decided to remove the Troll Fic entry, and will remove any other references to Troll Fic as well. I also have planned to rewrite the description to remove any references, and I would like to ask for some feedback for this new description:

SONIC HIGH SCHOOL is a Sonic the Hedgehog High School AU fanfic created by fanfiction author DarkDoomFireMaster. The fanfic is known for its use of weird grammar, wording, and lack of logic. 

The fanfic centers on Sonic going through high school, and for the year there, there is a lot of stuff going down, including scenarios such as Sonic getting diagnosed with a fatal disease, a classmate getting murdered, and a bomb accidentally going off in the auditorium.

The fanfic can be read here.

Internet Historian also produced an animated adaptation of the first three chapters.

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jan 23rd 2024 at 7:21:38 PM

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