History Fanfic / SonicExe

** [[spoiler:Tom is revealed to have hanged himself after the events of the first story]].

* TheBadGuyWins: Shadow and Sally are killed by X in Derek's playthrough. In Crystal's playthrough, X's killed Silver and Blaze, with Crystal refusing to finish the game as Mighty and Amy, and Derek refusing to finish the game as Rouge. [[spoiler:Outside the game, X has claimed many victims, thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: X kills Blaze, and [[UncertainDoom Amy's fate is left uncertain]].

* TheBadGuyWins: In Crystal's playthrough, X's killed Silver and Blaze, with Crystal refusing to finish the game as Mighty and Amy. [[spoiler:Outside the game, X has claimed many victims, thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: In Crystal's playthrough, he's killed Silver and Blaze, with Crystal refusing to finish the game as Mighty and Amy. [[spoiler:Outside the game, X has claimed many victims, thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next.]]

** The end has Crystal her screaming about X coming to get you at any moment, with descriptions of pure agony at what has happened written all over. The creepypasta ends here, with no indication of what happened to her.
** In Derek's playthrough, Rouge, Amy and Mighty also get this.

** From the original:
-->''I started to think Sonic was actually trying to talk to me through the game... But I was too scared to think that.''
** In ''[=Sonic.exe 2=]'':
-->''11:22 am October 24th, 2011\\
\\
Wow, pretty interesting way to start off a case on Halloween.''
* JustEatGilligan: Both stories rely on people failing to warn others about the cursed game, people failing to destroy the disc when they have the chance, and people playing the game even when the grave danger is obvious. There are slight hints that X can control his victims subtly enough to prevent these courses of action, but it's never shown outright.

** Derek given that the whole story is his diary recovered after his death. [[spoiler:He is kidnapped by Shannon Goldman who plays the Sonic game for X to steal his soul]].

* TheBadGuyWins: In-game, X succeeds in killing Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman in Tom's playthrough. In Derek's playthrough, he's killed Shadow and Sally, though Derek refuses to finish the game as Rouge. And in Crystal's playthrough in the official sequel, he's killed Silver and Blaze, with Crystal refusing to finish the game as Mighty and Amy. [[spoiler:Outside the game, X has claimed many victims, thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next.]]
* ContinuityNod: Tom and Kyle are mentioned in the sequel. Apparently, they weren't the first to play it...

* FullNameUltimatum: In the sequel, when X [[spoiler:cuts off his contact with Cole]], Derek exclaims, "Goddamn you Sonic.exe!!!"

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Tom (as revealed in the sequel) and Derek]] meet their fate by X.

* {{MST}}:
** WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} has done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wZhJ2vGj7E a reading of the creepypasta]] in their usual (cynical and negative) style.
** WebVideo/{{Yuriofwind}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVjkgX1rlSo has a reading]] of the story's "first" act, but he summarized the rest, because the rest is pretty much the same thing as the part he read. He also [=MSTed=] the sequel in a ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en64iwdyudk 52 minute]]'' video.
** ''WebVideo/BadCreepypasta'' has done an MST reading of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zO9rTlLip0 the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6cfX6z7tYE original]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKm9W7lBKjA story]] then later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOhoX4vjBxs riffed]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hKfjX1_Xyo the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd3YCpU33ok sequel]] while playing a drinking game, getting hammered while mocking the story.
** ''WebVideo/RandomEncounters'' went silly on the pasta [[http://creativehorror.com/uca/56 here]].
** ''WebVideo/TheAnnotatedSeries'' did this visually to the game version as a Hallowe'en special.
** ''Tales from the Consoles'' has riffed the creepypasta in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZIFewmNYaw the pilot episode]].
** ''Masterpiece of Shit Theater'' has offered [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqvgwkyYYzo its own reading.]]
** ''FanFic/FanficTheater3015'' of all people has also riffed this creepypasta --[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NZI1hR7I6fhhsDLKuDXKzqgjAilbbFaWmAhui7uPwAs/edit right here.]]
** Music/ManOnTheInternet does his own MST [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ALgxP3HQ0&list=PLU-TFjG0qugDLLvhBYOF5nb6GBGePaRq9 right here.]]

* PlaguedByNightmares: As revealed in the sequel, Crystal was haunted by the events of the game for an untold amount of time.

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Tom (as revealed in the sequel) and Derek]] meet their fate by X.

* UncertainDoom:
** Crystal in the official sequel. The end of the sequel has her screaming about X coming to get you at any moment, with descriptions of pure agony at what has happened written all over. The creepypasta ends here, with no indication of what happened to her.
** In Derek's playthrough, Rouge also gets this. So do Amy and Mighty in the sequel.

* WouldHitAGirl: X kills Blaze in the sequel, though [[UncertainDoom Amy's fate is left uncertain]].
* YouBastard:
** As Tom plays the game, Tails, Knuckles, and even Eggman ultimately fall prey to X. Following Knuckles' demise, Tom receives a message: [[spoiler:"So Many Souls to Play With, So Little Time...Would You Agree?" Tom then comes to the conclusion that he has sent these characters to their doom, just as Kyle had when he played it. When you get down to it, the game is deliberately designed as such.]]
** Even worse, in the sequel, [[spoiler:it's revealed that the Sonic characters who died are the representations of human souls who became X's slaves]].

* UncertainDoom: Crystal in the official sequel. The end of the sequel has her screaming about X coming to get you at any moment, with descriptions of pure agony at what has happened written all over. The creepypasta ends here, with no indication of what happened to her.

* TheBadGuyWins: In-game, X succeeds in killing Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman in Tom's playthrough. In Derek's playthrough, he's killed Shadow and Sally, though Derek refuses to finish the game as Rouge. [[spoiler:Outside the game, X has claimed many victims, thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next.]]

On October 31st, 2017, the author of ''Sonic.exe'' posted a remake of the entire story. If you wish to look at the tropes of the ''Sonic.exe'' remake, click [[Fanfic/SonicExeRemake here.]]

Currently, following the aftermath of Jack's deplatforming after being exposed for being a sexual predator (as well as his eventual abandonment of the creepypasta itself), ''Sonic.exe'''s ownership has been relinquished to ASTRANOMICONX, who attempted to work on a new canon before it was discontinued with ASTRA wanting his version of X to die off. Ownership was later again transferred to [=JoeDoughBoi=], who made a new canon for him.

Currently, following the aftermath of Jack's deplatforming after being exposed for being a sexual predator (as well as his eventual abandonment of the creepypasta itself), ''Sonic.exe'''s ownership has been relinquished to ASTRANOMICONX, who worked on a new canon.

* AllThereInTheManual: At one point, the author to the original Creepypasta [[http://masterggg.deviantart.com/journal/Sonic-exe-finally-revealed-333606342 revealed X's official Backstory]] which, amongst other things, explains his nature, his personality, why he resembles Sonic in the first place, how he's able to steal his victims' souls, and what he actually does to his victims.

''Sonic.exe'' originated as a {{Creepypasta}} by Sir JC the Hyena (seen [[https://trollpasta.com/wiki/Sonic.exe here]]) concerning a man named Tom who receives a bizarre CD in the mail from his friend Kyle, who hasn't been heard from in a while. [[GenreBlindness Disregarding Kyle's note telling him to destroy the CD]], Tom plays it and is disturbed by the title screen showing Sonic with [[RedEyesTakeWarning bleeding red eyes]] and [[BlackEyesOfEvil black sclera]]. As he plays the game further, Tom bears witness to just how monstrous [[BigBad X]], this incarnation of the blue hedgehog, really is.

Currently, following the aftermath of JC the Hyena's deplatforming after being exposed for being a sexual predator, ''Sonic.exe'''s ownership has been relinquished to Astranomiconx, who is working on a new canon.

In 2013, the [[https://lolpasta.miraheze.org/wiki/Sonic.exe/Round_2 official sequel]] was made. However, it doesn't focus much on the game itself (in fact, only two of the three new scenarios were described), rather what happens when you play the game.

''Sonic.exe'' originated as a {{Creepypasta}} by Sir JC the Hyena (seen [[https://lolpasta.miraheze.org/wiki/Sonic.exe here]]) concerning a man named Tom who receives a bizarre CD in the mail from his friend Kyle, who hasn't been heard from in a while. [[GenreBlindness Disregarding Kyle's note telling him to destroy the CD]], Tom plays it and is disturbed by the title screen showing Sonic with [[RedEyesTakeWarning bleeding red eyes]] and [[BlackEyesOfEvil black sclera]]. As he plays the game further, Tom bears witness to just how monstrous [[BigBad X]], this incarnation of the blue hedgehog, really is.

Currently, following the aftermath of JC the Hyena's deplatforming after being exposed for being a sexual predator, Sonic.exe's ownership has been relinquished to Astranomiconx, who is working on a new canon.

* AndIMustScream: According to the [[AllThereInTheManual backstory for the titular character]], this is the fate of all Sonic.exe's victims due to him simply taking their souls and placing them in bodies that look like Sonic the Hedgehog characters just so that he could "make them his slaves", as well as killing their "bodies" in gruesome manners.

* TheBadGuyWins: In-game, X succeeds in killing Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman in Tom's playthrough. In Derek's playthrough, he's killed Shadow and Sally, though Derek refuses to finish the game as Rouge. [[spoiler:Outside the game, X has claimed many victims thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next.]]

On October 31st, 2017, the author of ''Sonic.exe'' posted a remake of the entire story. If you wish to look at the tropes of the ''Sonic.exe'' remake, click [[WebOriginal/SonicExeRemake here.]]

On October 31st, 2017, the author of ''Sonic.exe'' posted a remake of the entire story. If you wish to look at the tropes of the ''Sonic.exe'' remake, click [[Fanfic/SonicExeRemake here.]]

On October 31st, 2017, the author of ''Sonic.exe'' posted a remake of the entire story. If you wish to look at the tropes of the ''Sonic.exe'' remake, click [[WebOriginal/SonicExeRemake here.]]

On October 31st 2017, the author of Sonic.exe posted a remake of the entire story. If you wish to look at the tropes of the ''Sonic.exe'' remake, click [[WebOriginal/SonicExeRemake here.]]

* ForTheEvulz: All the things X does like trapping Sonic's best friend into hellish dimension for torture and/or kill them are simply to satiate his sadistic and depraved instinct.

** WebVideo/BadCreepypasta has done an MST reading of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zO9rTlLip0 the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6cfX6z7tYE original]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKm9W7lBKjA story]] then later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOhoX4vjBxs riffed]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hKfjX1_Xyo the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd3YCpU33ok sequel]] while playing a drinking, getting hammered while mocking the story.
** WebVideo/RandomEncounters went silly on the pasta [[http://creativehorror.com/uca/56 here]].
** WebVideo/TheAnnotatedSeries did this visually to the game version as a Hallowe'en special.

** FanFic/FanficTheater3015 of all people has also riffed this creepypasta [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NZI1hR7I6fhhsDLKuDXKzqgjAilbbFaWmAhui7uPwAs/edit right here.]]

* SchmuckBait: Tom is advised by Kyle's letter [[DontTouchItYouIdiot not to play the hacked game.]] Guess what Tom does.

* TooDumbToLive: Tom in a nutshell. He is told [[SchmuckBait not to play the game,]] but he does so anyway.
* WouldHurtAChild: X kills Tails. {{Subverted|Trope}} if you know via [[AllThereInTheManual X's official backstory]] that they're actually X's previous victims trapped in a body resembling Tails'.

** As Tom plays the game, Tails, Knuckles, and even Eggman ultimately fall prey to X. Following Knuckles' demise, Tom receives a message that tells him [[spoiler:"So Many Souls to Play With, So Little Time...Would You Agree?" Tom then comes to the conclusion that he has sent these characters to their doom, just as Kyle has when he played it. When you get down to it, the game is deliberately designed as such.]]

''Sonic.exe'' originated as a {{Creepypasta}} by Sir JC the Hyena seen [[https://lolpasta.miraheze.org/wiki/Sonic.exe here]]) concerning a man named Tom who receives a bizarre CD in the mail from his friend Kyle, who hasn't been heard from in a while. [[GenreBlindness Disregarding Kyle's note telling him to destroy the CD]], Tom plays it and is disturbed by the title screen showing Sonic with [[RedEyesTakeWarning bleeding red eyes]] and [[BlackEyesOfEvil black sclera]]. As he plays the game further, Tom bears witness to just how monstrous [[BigBad X]], this incarnation of the blue hedgehog, really is.

* TheBadGuyWins: In-game, X succeeds in killing Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman in Tom's playthrough. In Derek's playthrough, he's killed Shadow and Sally, though Derek refuses to finish the game as Rouge. [[spoiler:Outside the game, X has claimed many victims thanks to Shannon Goldman and the Cult of X distributing the game, and will go after anyone else next.]]

* SchmuckBait: Tom is advised by Kyle's letter [[DontTouchItYouIdiot not to play the hacked game.]] Guess what Tom does.

* WouldHurtAChild: X kills Tails. {{Subverted|Trope}} if you know via [[AllThereInTheManual X's official backstory]] that they're actually X's previous victims trapped in a body resembling Tails'.

** Creator/ManOnTheInternet does his own MST [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ALgxP3HQ0&list=PLU-TFjG0qugDLLvhBYOF5nb6GBGePaRq9 right here.]]

* SchmuckBait: Tom is advised by Kyle's letter [[DontTouchItYouIdiot not to play the hacked game.]] [[WhatAnIdiot Guess what Tom does.]]

!!''Sonic.exe'' the story provides examples of:

* WouldHurtAChild: X kills Tails. {{Subverted|Trope}} if you know via [[AllThereInTheManual X's official backstory]] that they're actually X's previous victims trapped in a body resembling Tails'.

* NoNameGiven: The original creepypasta never does give a name for the demonic EldritchAbomination that terrorizes the narrator, with "Sonic.exe" being the most popular FanNickname to distinguish him from the original Sonic. According to [[http://masterggg.deviantart.com/journal/Sonic-exe-finally-revealed-333606342 the original author's follow-up]], [[AppropriatedAppellation the character has taken the nickname as his own name]]. The sequel validates this name, as well as giving him the alias "X".