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* TookALevelInJerkass: While Shadow and Rouge are usually [[AntiHero far from the nicest folks around]] it is a little jarring to see them be quite so callous and mean.
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* SmugSuper: [[spoiler: Super Sonic]] is potrayed as being especially cocky in these games, taunting the other racers as he passes by and responding to his victories with only a disgustingly smug "As it should be..." Managing to loose a race with him has him respond with a dumbfounded [[WhatTheHellPlayer "WHAT HAPPENED!?"]]
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* LevelsTakeFlight: Babylon Garden and Sky Road in the first game. Taking place on the titular FloatingContinent, Both levels involve a lot of big jumps, dangerous drops and sections involving [[NotQuiteFlight using the turbulence off of fighter jets to soar along the skies]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome in a very badass fashion.]]
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* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Mobius Strip, the final track in ''Zero Gravity'', has you riding through a track in the starry sky full of red and purplish eclipses.
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* The Sega Carnival track. Pick up a Crazy Taxi cab? Check. Super Monkeyball platform? Check
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Although obviously not intended, the zero gravity wall-running section found in Dark Desert acts as a very accurate call-forward to the gameplay mechanics and [[spoiler: revelations concerning Babylon]] found in the sequel.
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** Dark Desert in the first game has an indoor section that has the riders jumping along the walls and ceiling.
** Metropolis Speedway and [[spoiler: Metal City]] from the third game also includes wall and ceiling running of the same style as Zero Gravity. [[FridgeLogic How that's possible when they don't have access to Gravity control is not explained.]]
** Metropolis Speedway and [[spoiler: Metal City]] from the third game also includes wall and ceiling running of the same style as Zero Gravity. [[FridgeLogic How that's possible when they don't have access to Gravity control is not explained.]]
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** Semi-averted in the Babylon story mode wherein you [[DayInTheLimelight play as Amy Rose for the Meteo(r) Tech Sparkworks stage.]] While in the previous Sonic Riders, Amy would be in her racing outfit whenever she was a part of the gameplay regardless of what she was wearing in the story, [[OneSceneWonder in this particular race]] she is instead wearing her regular dress and boots, making it the ONLY time the player is able to race as her in this form of dress.
** Averted in the Mobius Strip track. As per the plot, everyone is stripped of their gravity powers and their Arcs Of the Cosmos are absent from their character models. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything even the bonus characters!]]
** Averted in the Mobius Strip track. As per the plot, everyone is stripped of their gravity powers and their Arcs Of the Cosmos are absent from their character models. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything even the bonus characters!]]
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* GeniusBonus: The Kutta–Joukowski theorem that Tails mentions when asked about how gears work is a real theorem relating to aerodynamics.
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**During the original game's opening cutscene, Sonic is attacked by the Babylon Rogues while chasing after them. As he tries to get up, Jet exclaims, "So, you're supposed to be the [[WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM fastest thing alive]]?"
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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: The booby-trapped Gravity Ring Shrine in the beginning of the Babylon Rogues' story in ''Zero Gravity'', and Master Core: ABIS' third lap attack in the same game (he pulls in and throws flaming meteoroids at the player).
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Throughout ''Zero Gravity'', part of the plot is that berserking robots are chasing down Arcs of the Cosmos, and the people holding them; despite story-wise being chase sequences, the game plays out these chases like a standard three lap race with the robots simply trying to place first against you. Zig-zagged with Sonic's first race, with a unique intro following from the cutscene beforehand, but then it goes straight into just another race anyway.
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* Recurring Riff: Highflying Groove, Team Sonic's electronic instrumental theme from the first game has appeared in some form in all the games in the series thus far, usually in the form of a short fanfare and musical loop as the results music after finishing a race. It's also worked into Theme Of Metal City.
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* Recurring Riff: RecurringRiff: Highflying Groove, Team Sonic's electronic instrumental theme from the first game has appeared in some form in all the games in the series thus far, usually in the form of a short fanfare and musical loop as the results music after finishing a race. It's also worked into Theme Of Metal City.
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* Recurring Riff: Highflying Groove, Team Sonic's electronic instrumental theme from the first game has appeared in some form in all the games in the series thus far, usually in the form of a short fanfare and musical loop as the results music after finishing a race. It's also worked into Theme Of Metal City.
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* HumongousMecha: In ''Zero Gravity'', SCR-HD uses the gravity rings to become [[http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Core:_ABIS Master Core: ABIS]], a titanic roaring monster merged with the core of the black hole he is generating, for the final race and boss fight of the game.
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* BackgroundMusicOverride: The ''Hang-On'' and ''Super Hang-On'' bikes will replace the background music of the track you are racing on with themes from their respective games.
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* CuteBruiser: In each game after the first, characters are no longer bound between Speed, Flight, and Power. You can make some very bizarre things happen, like Cream punching out giant stone pillars. In addition, Aiai and Billy Hatcher are assigned as Power characters by default, despite neither looking too threatening.
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* ShoutOut: The first two games had playable characters from other [=SEGA=] franchises. Both had NiGHTS. ''Sonic Riders'' had [[SpaceChannel5 Ulala]] and [[SuperMonkeyBall Aiai]]. ''Zero Gravity'' had [[SambaDeAmigo Amigo]] and [[BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg Billy Hatcher]].
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut[=/=]TheCameo: The first two games had playable characters from other [=SEGA=] franchises. Both had NiGHTS. [[VideoGame/NiGHTSIntoDreams NiGHTS]]. ''Sonic Riders'' had [[SpaceChannel5 [[VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Ulala]] and [[SuperMonkeyBall [[VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall Aiai]]. ''Zero Gravity'' had [[SambaDeAmigo [[VideoGame/SambaDeAmigo Amigo]] and [[BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg [[VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg Billy Hatcher]].
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** In addition, ''Zero Gravity'''s 80s Boulevard and 90s Boulevard tracks are packed full of references to [=SEGA=] games from their decades and has [[FantasyZone Opa-Opa]] and [[CrazyTaxi The Crazy]] as boards.
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** In a different sense, Rocky Ridge, also in ''Sonic Free Riders''. This is a still-inhabited Old West mining town. In other words, Sonic and his acquaintances are having a hoverboard race through a town whose citizens still travel about by steam locomotives and horse-drawn covered wagons. It's also quite anachronistic in the context of the series--whereas the rest of the series has a distinctively futuristic look, this place seems stuck in the 1850s.
** Basically any ruin level in the series really. Babylon Garden and Sky Road have a security system complete with planes, Dark Desert has some weird zero gravity machine, the Gigan Rocks has part of the track move while Gigan Device is putting itself together as you race, not to mention Digital Dimesion which is a virtual reality chamber on the centuries old floating city. Starts to make sense when you consider [[AlienTropes who made]] [[GenieInABottle all this stuff.]]
** Basically any ruin level in the series really. Babylon Garden and Sky Road have a security system complete with planes, Dark Desert has some weird zero gravity machine, the Gigan Rocks has part of the track move while Gigan Device is putting itself together as you race, not to mention Digital Dimesion which is a virtual reality chamber on the centuries old floating city. Starts to make sense when you consider [[AlienTropes who made]] [[GenieInABottle all this stuff.]]
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** Basically any ruin level in the series really. Babylon Garden and Sky Road have a security system complete with planes, Dark Desert has some weird zero gravity machine, the Gigan Rocks has part of the track move while Gigan Device is putting itself together as you race, not to mention DigitalDimesion Dimension which is a virtual reality chamber on the centuries old floating city. Starts to make sense when you consider [[AlienTropes who made]] [[GenieInABottle all this stuff.]]
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* CoolAirship: The Babylon Rogues travel in one when not racing. Jet has a jarringly formal looking office in there.
* CuteBruiser: In each game after the first, characters are no longer bound between Speed, Flight, and Power. You can make some very bizarre things happen like Cream punching out giant stone pillars. In addition, Aiai and Billy Hatcher are assigned as Power characters by default, despite neither looking too threatening.
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* TheMole: The robot Shadow and Rouge recruited at the last minute in ''Sonic Free Riders'' turns out to be [[spoiler:Metal Sonic, who has been collecting data on all of the racers]]. Doubly so, as [[spoiler: Metal Sonic passed bogus data to Dr. Eggman and saved the real data for himself]].
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* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Snow Valley, one of the Battle tracks from the first game as well as Ice Factory; Snowy Kingdom from ''Zero Gravity'', and Frozen Forest from ''Sonic Free Riders''. Each game seems required to have at least one. The latter two actually have iced-over segments that make steering difficult.
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* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler: Metal Sonic]] hijacks the conflict of ''Sonic Free Riders'' just before the final race.
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** While the entire cast doesn't seem to be too bright, Eggman holds it for ''Zero Gravity''. To sum up his scheme for world domination: He lets his robots go berserk and run amok so he can go to the Crimson Tower, take control of them again, and rule the world. With a {{MacGuffin}}-stealing robot who has an odd habit of exploding at inopportune times.
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* ShoutOut: The first two games had playable characters from other [=SEGA=] franchises. Both had {{NiGHTS}}. ''Sonic Riders'' had [[SpaceChannel5 Ulala]] and [[SuperMonkeyBall Aiai]]. ''Zero Gravity'' had [[SambaDeAmigo Amigo]] and [[BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg Billy Hatcher]].
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** Ark of the Cosmos? Sounds familiar? ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', perhaps? Or...the TheBible?
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** Ark of the Cosmos? Sounds familiar? IndianaJones, perhaps? Or...the TheBible?
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A RacingGame {{spinoff}} series of SonicTheHedgehog. Started in 2006, it stars Sonic and his pals as they meet a new PowerTrio of characters known as the Babylon Rogues, composed of Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross. Together, they race at high speed using devices known as Extreme Gear.
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A RacingGame {{spinoff}} series of SonicTheHedgehog.Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog. Started in 2006, it stars Sonic and his pals as they meet a new PowerTrio of characters known as the Babylon Rogues, composed of Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross. Together, they race at high speed using devices known as Extreme Gear.
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--> "Even without wings, I can still fly!"
A RacingGame {{spinoff}} series of SonicTheHedgehog. Started in 2006, it stars Sonic and his pals as they meet a new PowerTrio of characters known as the Babylon Rogues, composed of Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross. Together, they race at high speed using devices known as Extreme Gear.
There are currently 3 games in the series - ''Sonic Riders'', ''Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity'', and ''Sonic Free Riders''.
!!'''Sonic Riders provides examples of:'''
* AnachronismStew: Metropolis Speedway in ''Sonic Free Riders'' resembles an old western European city, but has flying cars and hovering trains. See FridgeBrilliance below.
** In a different sense, Rocky Ridge, also in ''Sonic Free Riders''. This is a still-inhabited Old West mining town. In other words, Sonic and his acquaintances are having a hoverboard race through a town whose citizens still travel about by steam locomotives and horse-drawn covered wagons. It's also quite anachronistic in the context of the series--whereas the rest of the series has a distinctively futuristic look, this place seems stuck in the 1850s.
** Basically any ruin level in the series really. Babylon Garden and Sky Road have a security system complete with planes, Dark Desert has some weird zero gravity machine, the Gigan Rocks has part of the track move while Gigan Device is putting itself together as you race, not to mention Digital Dimesion which is a virtual reality chamber on the centuries old floating city. Starts to make sense when you consider [[AlienTropes who made]] [[GenieInABottle all this stuff.]]
* AscendedExtra: Shadow, Rouge, and Cream are plot-relevant in ''Free Riders'' when they were bonus characters in the first two.
* BareYourMidriff: Wave the Swallow and Rouge the Bat.
* TheBadGuyWins: Dr. Eggman [[spoiler:manages to get the treasure]] in ''Sonic Riders''. He doesn't like what happens, however, and calls it a day.
* BoastfulRap: Jet's theme "Catch Me If You Can", especially the ''Zero Gravity'' version.
* BrutalBonusLevel: Every course in ''Sonic Free Riders'' has a very tough counterpart. While previous games had course counterparts for the Babylon Rogues which were tougher than the Heroes courses, ''Sonic Free Riders'' took this concept and stretched it incredibly far.
* CobwebJungle: Green Cave and White Cave are filled with enormous cobwebs. They are used as trampolines.
* CoolAirship: The Babylon Rogues travel in one when not racing. Jet has a jarringly formal looking office in there.
* CuteBruiser: In each game after the first, characters are no longer bound between Speed, Flight, and Power. You can make some very bizarre things happen like Cream punching out giant stone pillars. In addition, Aiai and Billy Hatcher are assigned as Power characters by default, despite neither looking too threatening.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In all three games, they have ridiculous rubberbanding and play as if they have a full stock of Rings. In ''Zero Gravity'' and ''Sonic Free Riders'', they will try to grab Rings when in front of you to prevent you from stockpiling them.
* DieChairDie: Power-type racers work this way, with them punching any obstacles out of the way. All of the courses in ''Zero Gravity'' are also filled with random props one can destroy or fling into the sky with Gravity Control and Gravity Dives. Particularly large ones will stay in one place in midair, allowing you to touch them to slide along them and refill your boost gauge for each object. These objects subsequently fall and [[MadeOfExplodium explode]] upon hitting the ground.
* EternalEngine: Egg Factory, Ice Factory, parts of Dark Desert, [=MeteorTech=] Premises, [=MeteorTech=] Sparkworks, Crimson Crater, Security Corridor, Astral Babylon, and Final Factory.
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Dr. Eggman in ''Zero Gravity'', who starts out bad, then becomes good, then becomes bad again for the climax.
* {{Fartillery}}: Eggman's level 3 attack.
* FloatingContinent: Babylon Garden.
* GadgeteerGenius: Wave the Swallow with Extreme Gear; Dr. Eggman with robots (when in a helpful mood); Miles "Tails" Prower with appliances.
* GravityScrew: The entirety of the second game, obviously.
* HailfirePeaks: Egg Factory is both EternalEngine and LethalLavaLand.
** Egg Factory gets frozen over into SlippySlideyIceWorld as Ice Factory.
** Aquatic Capital and Torrential Waterway are a utopian technological haven that's also apparently a water park.
** Frozen Forest is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, combining a forest in the wintertime with what seems to be a dragon graveyard full of gigantic skeletons.
** Magma Rift is a LethalLavaLand combined with Roman-like ruins.
* IdiotBall: Why anyone would enter Eggman's Grand Prix in the original game to begin with. When Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is asking everyone for Chaos Emeralds, it should be blatantly obvious he's up to no good.
** While the entire cast doesn't seem to be too bright, Eggman holds it for ''Zero Gravity''. To sum up his scheme for world domination: He lets his robots go berserk and run amok so he can go to the Crimson Tower, take control of them again, and rule the world. With a {{MacGuffin}}-stealing robot who has an odd habit of exploding at inopportune times.
* JungleJapes: Green Cave in the original game, Botanical Kingdom in ''Zero Gravity'', and Forbidden Tomb in ''Sonic Free Riders''.
* LandOfDragons: Gigan Rocks and Gigan Device have a distinctly ancient Chinese theme.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Cream the Rabbit in the original game. She has the lowest top speed of any character and is a lightweight, tossed around if anyone makes contact with her. However, because she's so light, if she gets a boost for any reason, she will sustain it for an incredibly long time. Put Cream on the Light Board (which decreases a character's weight), and a sufficiently skilled player can spend pretty much the entire race in a boost, initiating another one roughly when the previous one goes out.
** Super Sonic from all three games can count as one as well. He eats up Rings like Joey Chestnut at a hot dog competition. However, in the first game, he can grind on rails, use flight hoops, and punch obstacles whereas all other characters can only do one of the above. In subsequent games, he can attract Rings to sustain himself. In multiplayer, this gives the additional effect of preventing other players from gaining Rings (which provide upgrades after reaching certain amounts) if the Super Sonic player can obtain an early lead.
* LethalLavaLand: Egg Factory in the original game and Magma Rift in ''Sonic Free Riders''.
* LightningBruiser: Any character with the Power attribute, in addition to being as fast as the other racers, can punch obstacles away effortlessly. Other characters are bumped backwards, but Power characters not only don't slow down, but gain Air (or Gravity Points in ''Zero Gravity'') for doing so.
* MadeOfExplodium: All objects affected by gravity shifts in ''Zero Gravity'' will either explode immediately or will be flung far away, then explode, regardless of what it is.
* TheMole: The robot Shadow and Rouge recruited at the last minute in ''Sonic Free Riders'' turns out to be [[spoiler:Metal Sonic, who has been collecting data on all of the racers]]. Doubly so, as [[spoiler: Metal Sonic passed bogus data to Dr. Eggman and saved the real data for himself]].
* {{Nerf}}: Experienced players in ''Sonic Riders'' would do nothing but boost from beginning to end because it was so easy to gain Air. This was fixed in ''Zero Gravity'' by not only substantially increasing the cost to boost, but now gave it a charge-up time and made Gravity Points (equivalent to Air) harder to accumulate. The end result is that there are only one or two viable spots per course to boost in. ''Sonic Free Riders'' reverted back to the boosting as seen in the first game but kept the high cost to boost in ''Zero Gravity'', striking a good middle ground.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: By ''Zero Gravity'', the Babylon Rogues have discovered they are genies [[RecycledInSpace from space]].
* NostalgiaLevel: [[spoiler:Metal City]] from the first Sonic Riders appears in Free Riders.
* TheOtherDarrin: ''Free Riders'' is the first North American game to use the new voice cast, beating ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' by eleven days.
* PaperThinDisguise: The World Grand Prix organizer in ''Sonic Free Riders'' looks like a hairier Dr. Eggman in an Eggman-red carnival ringleader outfit voiced by Mike Pollock. One guess as to who he really is.
** "I'm King Doc! Of, uh, Toreggmania!"
** Played with since ''no one'' falls for it.
* RollercoasterMine: The last portion of Rocky Ridge in ''Sonic Free Riders'' consists of this. [[RockBeatsLaser Interestingly, the mine carts go faster than the hoverboards they're racing on]].
* SecondPersonAttack: In the opening, Knuckles punches Storm like this a few times.
* ShiftingSandLand: Sand Ruins.
* ShoutOut: The first two games had playable characters from other [=SEGA=] franchises. Both had {{NiGHTS}}. ''Sonic Riders'' had [[SpaceChannel5 Ulala]] and [[SuperMonkeyBall Aiai]]. ''Zero Gravity'' had [[SambaDeAmigo Amigo]] and [[BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg Billy Hatcher]].
** Hang-On and Super Hang-On are vehicles that will change the background music to the ones for the respective games.
** In addition, ''Zero Gravity'''s 80s Boulevard and 90s Boulevard tracks are packed full of references to [=SEGA=] games from their decades and has [[FantasyZone Opa-Opa]] and [[CrazyTaxi The Crazy]] as boards.
*** Both of these stages sure feel like something from CrazyTaxi, music and all.
** [[spoiler:Metal Sonic's scheme to gather data from the main characters to destroy them is exactly what he tried]] in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''.
** Sonic characters hoverboarding? [[SonicUnderground That sounds familiar]]. Additionally, Jet and Wave's appearances seem to have been partially inspired by Manic and Sonia.
** Ark of the Cosmos? Sounds familiar? IndianaJones, perhaps? Or...the TheBible?
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Snow Valley, one of the Battle tracks from the first game as well as Ice Factory; Snowy Kingdom from ''Zero Gravity'', and Frozen Forest from ''Sonic Free Riders''. Each game seems required to have at least one. The latter two actually have iced-over segments that make steering difficult.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Well, for the anti-hero at least. All the teams seem rather disgusted by Team Dark's apathy to their malfunctioning teammate (E-10000G). By the end of their story, Cream is essentially begging them to get it treated.
* TalkingToHimself: Jason Griffith voices Sonic, Jet, and Shadow.
** Dan Green voices Storm and Knuckles.
** In ''Free Riders'', Wave and Tails are both played by KateHiggins. The Knuckles/Storm parallel is kept; they're both voiced by TravisWillingham.
* {{Tomorrowland}}: Future City.
* TronLines: Final Factory from ''Sonic Free Riders'' is packed to the brim with this.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Indirect example. When Team Dark's E-10000G breaks down after the end of the finals, Cream begs Rouge to help her teammate. She points out they aren't teammates anymore and leaves it to frazzle.
--> "Even without wings, I can still fly!"
A RacingGame {{spinoff}} series of SonicTheHedgehog. Started in 2006, it stars Sonic and his pals as they meet a new PowerTrio of characters known as the Babylon Rogues, composed of Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross. Together, they race at high speed using devices known as Extreme Gear.
There are currently 3 games in the series - ''Sonic Riders'', ''Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity'', and ''Sonic Free Riders''.
!!'''Sonic Riders provides examples of:'''
* AnachronismStew: Metropolis Speedway in ''Sonic Free Riders'' resembles an old western European city, but has flying cars and hovering trains. See FridgeBrilliance below.
** In a different sense, Rocky Ridge, also in ''Sonic Free Riders''. This is a still-inhabited Old West mining town. In other words, Sonic and his acquaintances are having a hoverboard race through a town whose citizens still travel about by steam locomotives and horse-drawn covered wagons. It's also quite anachronistic in the context of the series--whereas the rest of the series has a distinctively futuristic look, this place seems stuck in the 1850s.
** Basically any ruin level in the series really. Babylon Garden and Sky Road have a security system complete with planes, Dark Desert has some weird zero gravity machine, the Gigan Rocks has part of the track move while Gigan Device is putting itself together as you race, not to mention Digital Dimesion which is a virtual reality chamber on the centuries old floating city. Starts to make sense when you consider [[AlienTropes who made]] [[GenieInABottle all this stuff.]]
* AscendedExtra: Shadow, Rouge, and Cream are plot-relevant in ''Free Riders'' when they were bonus characters in the first two.
* BareYourMidriff: Wave the Swallow and Rouge the Bat.
* TheBadGuyWins: Dr. Eggman [[spoiler:manages to get the treasure]] in ''Sonic Riders''. He doesn't like what happens, however, and calls it a day.
* BoastfulRap: Jet's theme "Catch Me If You Can", especially the ''Zero Gravity'' version.
* BrutalBonusLevel: Every course in ''Sonic Free Riders'' has a very tough counterpart. While previous games had course counterparts for the Babylon Rogues which were tougher than the Heroes courses, ''Sonic Free Riders'' took this concept and stretched it incredibly far.
* CobwebJungle: Green Cave and White Cave are filled with enormous cobwebs. They are used as trampolines.
* CoolAirship: The Babylon Rogues travel in one when not racing. Jet has a jarringly formal looking office in there.
* CuteBruiser: In each game after the first, characters are no longer bound between Speed, Flight, and Power. You can make some very bizarre things happen like Cream punching out giant stone pillars. In addition, Aiai and Billy Hatcher are assigned as Power characters by default, despite neither looking too threatening.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In all three games, they have ridiculous rubberbanding and play as if they have a full stock of Rings. In ''Zero Gravity'' and ''Sonic Free Riders'', they will try to grab Rings when in front of you to prevent you from stockpiling them.
* DieChairDie: Power-type racers work this way, with them punching any obstacles out of the way. All of the courses in ''Zero Gravity'' are also filled with random props one can destroy or fling into the sky with Gravity Control and Gravity Dives. Particularly large ones will stay in one place in midair, allowing you to touch them to slide along them and refill your boost gauge for each object. These objects subsequently fall and [[MadeOfExplodium explode]] upon hitting the ground.
* EternalEngine: Egg Factory, Ice Factory, parts of Dark Desert, [=MeteorTech=] Premises, [=MeteorTech=] Sparkworks, Crimson Crater, Security Corridor, Astral Babylon, and Final Factory.
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Dr. Eggman in ''Zero Gravity'', who starts out bad, then becomes good, then becomes bad again for the climax.
* {{Fartillery}}: Eggman's level 3 attack.
* FloatingContinent: Babylon Garden.
* GadgeteerGenius: Wave the Swallow with Extreme Gear; Dr. Eggman with robots (when in a helpful mood); Miles "Tails" Prower with appliances.
* GravityScrew: The entirety of the second game, obviously.
* HailfirePeaks: Egg Factory is both EternalEngine and LethalLavaLand.
** Egg Factory gets frozen over into SlippySlideyIceWorld as Ice Factory.
** Aquatic Capital and Torrential Waterway are a utopian technological haven that's also apparently a water park.
** Frozen Forest is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, combining a forest in the wintertime with what seems to be a dragon graveyard full of gigantic skeletons.
** Magma Rift is a LethalLavaLand combined with Roman-like ruins.
* IdiotBall: Why anyone would enter Eggman's Grand Prix in the original game to begin with. When Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is asking everyone for Chaos Emeralds, it should be blatantly obvious he's up to no good.
** While the entire cast doesn't seem to be too bright, Eggman holds it for ''Zero Gravity''. To sum up his scheme for world domination: He lets his robots go berserk and run amok so he can go to the Crimson Tower, take control of them again, and rule the world. With a {{MacGuffin}}-stealing robot who has an odd habit of exploding at inopportune times.
* JungleJapes: Green Cave in the original game, Botanical Kingdom in ''Zero Gravity'', and Forbidden Tomb in ''Sonic Free Riders''.
* LandOfDragons: Gigan Rocks and Gigan Device have a distinctly ancient Chinese theme.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Cream the Rabbit in the original game. She has the lowest top speed of any character and is a lightweight, tossed around if anyone makes contact with her. However, because she's so light, if she gets a boost for any reason, she will sustain it for an incredibly long time. Put Cream on the Light Board (which decreases a character's weight), and a sufficiently skilled player can spend pretty much the entire race in a boost, initiating another one roughly when the previous one goes out.
** Super Sonic from all three games can count as one as well. He eats up Rings like Joey Chestnut at a hot dog competition. However, in the first game, he can grind on rails, use flight hoops, and punch obstacles whereas all other characters can only do one of the above. In subsequent games, he can attract Rings to sustain himself. In multiplayer, this gives the additional effect of preventing other players from gaining Rings (which provide upgrades after reaching certain amounts) if the Super Sonic player can obtain an early lead.
* LethalLavaLand: Egg Factory in the original game and Magma Rift in ''Sonic Free Riders''.
* LightningBruiser: Any character with the Power attribute, in addition to being as fast as the other racers, can punch obstacles away effortlessly. Other characters are bumped backwards, but Power characters not only don't slow down, but gain Air (or Gravity Points in ''Zero Gravity'') for doing so.
* MadeOfExplodium: All objects affected by gravity shifts in ''Zero Gravity'' will either explode immediately or will be flung far away, then explode, regardless of what it is.
* TheMole: The robot Shadow and Rouge recruited at the last minute in ''Sonic Free Riders'' turns out to be [[spoiler:Metal Sonic, who has been collecting data on all of the racers]]. Doubly so, as [[spoiler: Metal Sonic passed bogus data to Dr. Eggman and saved the real data for himself]].
* {{Nerf}}: Experienced players in ''Sonic Riders'' would do nothing but boost from beginning to end because it was so easy to gain Air. This was fixed in ''Zero Gravity'' by not only substantially increasing the cost to boost, but now gave it a charge-up time and made Gravity Points (equivalent to Air) harder to accumulate. The end result is that there are only one or two viable spots per course to boost in. ''Sonic Free Riders'' reverted back to the boosting as seen in the first game but kept the high cost to boost in ''Zero Gravity'', striking a good middle ground.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: By ''Zero Gravity'', the Babylon Rogues have discovered they are genies [[RecycledInSpace from space]].
* NostalgiaLevel: [[spoiler:Metal City]] from the first Sonic Riders appears in Free Riders.
* TheOtherDarrin: ''Free Riders'' is the first North American game to use the new voice cast, beating ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' by eleven days.
* PaperThinDisguise: The World Grand Prix organizer in ''Sonic Free Riders'' looks like a hairier Dr. Eggman in an Eggman-red carnival ringleader outfit voiced by Mike Pollock. One guess as to who he really is.
** "I'm King Doc! Of, uh, Toreggmania!"
** Played with since ''no one'' falls for it.
* RollercoasterMine: The last portion of Rocky Ridge in ''Sonic Free Riders'' consists of this. [[RockBeatsLaser Interestingly, the mine carts go faster than the hoverboards they're racing on]].
* SecondPersonAttack: In the opening, Knuckles punches Storm like this a few times.
* ShiftingSandLand: Sand Ruins.
* ShoutOut: The first two games had playable characters from other [=SEGA=] franchises. Both had {{NiGHTS}}. ''Sonic Riders'' had [[SpaceChannel5 Ulala]] and [[SuperMonkeyBall Aiai]]. ''Zero Gravity'' had [[SambaDeAmigo Amigo]] and [[BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg Billy Hatcher]].
** Hang-On and Super Hang-On are vehicles that will change the background music to the ones for the respective games.
** In addition, ''Zero Gravity'''s 80s Boulevard and 90s Boulevard tracks are packed full of references to [=SEGA=] games from their decades and has [[FantasyZone Opa-Opa]] and [[CrazyTaxi The Crazy]] as boards.
*** Both of these stages sure feel like something from CrazyTaxi, music and all.
** [[spoiler:Metal Sonic's scheme to gather data from the main characters to destroy them is exactly what he tried]] in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''.
** Sonic characters hoverboarding? [[SonicUnderground That sounds familiar]]. Additionally, Jet and Wave's appearances seem to have been partially inspired by Manic and Sonia.
** Ark of the Cosmos? Sounds familiar? IndianaJones, perhaps? Or...the TheBible?
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Snow Valley, one of the Battle tracks from the first game as well as Ice Factory; Snowy Kingdom from ''Zero Gravity'', and Frozen Forest from ''Sonic Free Riders''. Each game seems required to have at least one. The latter two actually have iced-over segments that make steering difficult.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Well, for the anti-hero at least. All the teams seem rather disgusted by Team Dark's apathy to their malfunctioning teammate (E-10000G). By the end of their story, Cream is essentially begging them to get it treated.
* TalkingToHimself: Jason Griffith voices Sonic, Jet, and Shadow.
** Dan Green voices Storm and Knuckles.
** In ''Free Riders'', Wave and Tails are both played by KateHiggins. The Knuckles/Storm parallel is kept; they're both voiced by TravisWillingham.
* {{Tomorrowland}}: Future City.
* TronLines: Final Factory from ''Sonic Free Riders'' is packed to the brim with this.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Indirect example. When Team Dark's E-10000G breaks down after the end of the finals, Cream begs Rouge to help her teammate. She points out they aren't teammates anymore and leaves it to frazzle.
