History VideoGame / Sonny

** The City Council in Zone 5 and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Twin Guardians]] in Zone 7 act as this. Notably, they both [[TurnsRed become supercharged]] when one of the pair dies, with the surviving Councilor gaining the ability to charge up a OneHitKill attack every 3 turns, and the surviving Guardian shooting them right out of the box.

** The second game reverses the above, where Veradux is the only character to get a suit of armor specifically for him in the second BonusDungeon (Dr. Klima's gear). However, the second-to-last boss Yosuke drops his armor and weapon when you beat him, and they play very well to Roald's strengths. In addition, you can buy three sets of powerful armor in the last zone that focus on one specific stat each.

* UpdatedRerelease: An updated version of the first game was made for iOS systems as of January 12, 2017. It features a [[ArtEvolution more detailed art style]] and the ability to upgrade items, making them more viable, but comes with the cost of being limited to one class and the inability to search backgrounds and read flavor text. The gameplay, story, dialogue, and music are different in some areas, but remain largely the same.

* DualBoss: The City Council in Zone 5 and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Twin Guardians]] in Zone 7 act as this. Notably, they both [[TurnsRed become supercharged]] when one of the pair dies, with the surviving Councilor gaining the ability to charge up a OneHitKill attack every 3 turns, and the surviving Guardian shooting them right out of the box.

* FlunkyBoss: Sinjid's Shadow, Captain Hunt, the Hydra, and the Mayor are accompanied by two Shadow's Shadows, a sniper and a medic, two Fire Claws, and a Guardian Cannon, respectively.

* HealThyself: Gregor can rapidly restore its health with Roach Vitality and Terrify, while Apple Throw and Pity reduce the party's ability to damage it. In order to take it out, you need to mitigate its ability to heal itself.

** Baron Brixius in the second game has a huge health pool and some really nasty attacks. [[spoiler: He'll be forced to use a move that restores his focus but gives a debuff that deals big damage over time if his Focus is low, so you must ManaBurn him.]]

* {{Retcon}}: A few characters from the original game and its sequel have their traits changed in this game. The most notable in this regard are Veradux, who goes from being a sentient zombie to a human war veteran, and [[spoiler: Baron Bixius, who goes from being a sadistic zombie overlord who [[ForTheEvulz manipulates both zombies and humans into starting pointless conflict for his own amusement]] to [[AntiVillain a tragic figure who unintentionally starts the zombie apocalypse with his attempts to bring back his deceased wife]]]].

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Required for the {{Bonus Boss}}es of the first game.

-->'''Sonny:''' Just our luck. Why does everything break around us?

* ProtagonistTitle: Sonny.

** The Crowbar in Sonny 2, the [[VideoGame/HalfLife "weapon of Free Men"]].

* FlunkyBoss: Sinjid's Shadow, the Hydra, and the Mayor are accompanied by two Shadow's Shadows, two Fire Claws, and a Guardian Cannon, respectively.

* MegaCorp: Zombie Pest Control Incorporated, more commonly known as the ZPCI, make money hand over fist by exterminating zombies, and they even have an entire city in their pocket, with the city's taxes being used as protection money. They also try to ruthlessly quash anything with the potential for ending the ZombieApocalypse, such as the cure for zombification that Roald and his team were working on. Oh, and they also like to [[KillEmAll kill]] ''[[LeaveNoSurvivors everybody]]'' [[SinkTheLifeboats who]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch was]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses involved]] in said attempts to end the zombie threat.

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: Inverted with Mokoshotar and his Werewolf blood curse. Being turned into a werewolf makes you do [[LightningBruiser a huge amount of extra damage to him,]] which is pretty much the required way to beat him.]]

In 2017, a re-imagining was made available for smartphones and PC, featuring upgraded art and some big changes to the game and story mechanics, making it a completely different experience with only the characters really returning. You can find it [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonny/id851711277?mt=8 for iOS]] and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agk.sonny Android]].

* BrickJoke: In the beginning of the second game, Sonny and Veradux are attacked by [[FemmeFatale a female zombie named Felicity,]] who [[KnifeNut hurls a knife into Veradux's face,]] prompting him to cry out, [[LargeHam "MY FACE!"]] Later in the first zone, the pair catch up with Felicity, who after being defeated in battle, hurls a second knife into Veradux's face, to which he responds by yelling [[LargeHam "MY FACE! AGAIN!"]] before pulling the knife out of his face. By the time he does so, Felicity has already escaped. A weapon you get from Felicity in the battle (which she threw into his face [[RuleOfThree a third time,]] but this time you got to keep it) has the description "Felicity's knife. Keep it away from Veradux." Still later, you [[RuleOfThree meet Felicity a third time,]] and Sonny says to Veradux something to the effect of "Quick, cover your face." When she joins your party, one of her moves is "Knife To The Face".

** Neither Sonny's party nor the enemy group in a battle can be composed of more than three characters. Near the end of the first game, this is lampshaded by [[spoiler:Gailant the Paladin]], who mistakes Sonny and a fellow zombie named Veradux for two members of a three-person group of soldiers sent to help him, and wonders why the third person is missing. ([[spoiler:The answer: Because Sonny and Veradux just finished murdering said group of soldiers, and are now impersonating them... by accident. Veradux continues the lampshading further by telling Sonny to [[JustSmileAndNod play along]]. Good idea, because this is your ''first'' fight with Baron Brixius, and the only way you're getting his 40,000+ HP down to [[CriticalExistenceFailure nothing]] is with Gailant's help.]])

* AttackItsWeakPoint: If a boss has thousands and thousands and thousands and [[RuleOfThree thousands]] and [[OverlyLongGag thousands]] of health, it will [[PuzzleBoss have one of these.]]
** Omen and [[MadDoctor Doctor Herregods]] in the first game are this. Omen gives himself a buff that makes him [[GlassCannon deal 2000 more damage than usual but take 7000 more damage than usual]] when it's active. [[spoiler: Stun him when he does so, so he can't attack and kill you.]] Doctor Herregods will use a move that heals his max health in damage once he loses 10,000 hp. [[spoiler: Freeze him, and get his health below 990,000, then when his stun wears off use Subversion to make him kill himself]].
** The Police Colonel will cast a buff on himself that boosts his damage output by 400%, but always gets a debuff that boosts the damage he takes by 400% after it expires.
** The king of this is [[MadDoctor Dr. Klima]] from the second game, who has '''2,600,000''' HP and heals himself for 500,000 every 6 turns; the player has to carefully time an ability to switch damage/healing.

* TacticalSuicideBoss:
** When Baron Brixius runs out of Focus, he'll inflict the Deep Burning buff on himself to recover it, taking 5% of his max HP as damage every turn. Once his health gets lower than 50%, he will occasionally use the skill Holy Scars, which causes all damage dealt to him to be multiplied by 10. Without these skills, you aren't going to get through his HP pool.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: We don't even get to see Veradux's [=InfectAid=] comrades or Zakk's tribe; they're just killed off-screen to move the plot foward.

** Omen and [[MadDoctor Doctor Herregods]] in the first game are this. Omen gives himself a buff that makes him [[GlassCannon deal 2000 more damage than usual but take 7000 more damage than usual]] when it's active. [[spoiler: Stun him when he does so, so he can't attack and kill you.]] Doctor Herregods will use a move that heals his max health in damage once he loses 10,000 hp [[spoiler: Freeze him, and get his health below 990,000, then when his stun wears off use Subversion to make him kill himself]].

-->'''Cultist''': [[HumanSacrifice Sacrifice the intruders! Their blood will save us from death!]]\\

* BonusDungeon: The Infinity in the first game, Il Sanctus and the Sho'Tul Shelf in the second game. They are not part of the story, unlocked by defeating the FinalBoss, and home to various {{Bonus Boss}}es and shop(s) that sell powerful items.

** Gregor the cockroach. It looks like an average cockroach, right? WRONG. This bugger has a lot of health for a cockroach (and no trick to deal extra damage to it!), a debuff that reduces 50% of your damage, and also [[HealingFactor gives itself an uncancellable buff that makes itself heal 20% of its max health each turn!]]

* PlayingWithFire: Roald and soldier-type enemies tend to specialize in fire attacks, as do the BonusBoss Yosuke, who drops items which give incredible bonuses to fire piercing.

* RecurringBossTemplate: Nostalgia, a BonusBoss in the second game, is a combination of the four Bonus Bosses of the first game. He changes phases for every 25% (or 10000) of his HP lost, each of which has the same distinguishing gimmick as one of the old bosses:

** In his second phase, he has the Earth Titan buff, which causes him to take only 5% damage from all sources (which gives this phase an effective HP of 200000) in order to simulate Omen's HP pool of 320000. And like Omen, he can buff himself with Dark Omen, which causes him to deal and take a lot of additional damage, forcing you to stun him and let your allies attack.

* SuperMode: The second game has several: The Biological {{splat}} has Predator and [[PoisonousPerson Toxicant]] forms, the Psychological has the [[CastingAShadow Psychopath]] and [[PsychoElectro Wraith]] forms, and the Hydraulic has the Avenger and [[AnIcePerson Guardian]] forms. These abilities all visually change Sonny's appearance in addition to providing buffs.

* VendorTrash: The Ghost Medallion, Convoy Package and Champion's Trophy in the first game, and the Broken Emerald Shard in the second game have no uses other than being sold for money.

* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted. What zombie activity there is [[spoiler:played up by the ZPCI in order to stay in business and make a massive profit]].

** Dr. Herregods goes from a nondescript BonusBoss in ''Sonny 1'' to a fully-fledged party member in the mobile reboot. [[NotThatKindOfDoctor He also changes from a medic-type doctor to a PhD in zombie biology]].
** Dr. Klima, who was a BonusBoss in ''Sonny 2'', [[spoiler: is promoted to TheDragon in the mobile reboot, aiding [[GreaterScopeVillain Carbon]] in his plans to turn all of humanity into super zombies]].

A series of Flash games made by [=KrinLabs=] and published by Website/ArmorGames, ''Sonny'' puts the player in the shoes of a recently deceased young man who, through some sort of experiment, was brought back from the dead as a zombie. On top of this, the man has [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memory of his life before death]]. A blind man by the name of Louis finds him aboard a research vessel, and leads the first man (whom Louis named Sonny because the man cannot recall his real name) to lifeboats that will allow Sonny to escape from the vessel.

* KnightTemplar: The Warden in the second game is this, judging by his armor's combined FlavourText.
--> "Everyone is guilty of something. Everyone deserves to be punished. But isn't there crime in punishment?"

* LoneWolfBoss: Templar Arcanis is the only major boss who isn't involved in the ZPCI's attacks on civilian witnesses or [[spoiler:Carbon's plan to turn all of humanity into super zombies]], instead being a cult leader who brainwashed many people, including Zakk's tribe, into blindly worshipping and sacrificing themselves for the Frozen God, a malevolent spirit sealed away for its wrath, and slaughtering any zombies in their path, believing that the spirit will bless him and his cult for it.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Many of the zombies encountered later in the game are cyborgs, with the most notable example being Celestia, a top InfectAid engineer who willingly became a roboticized zombie samurai with an angel motif and electric powers.

** Terminators have a rather damaging attack that powers them up with each use, but it has a very long cooldown period, and during this period, they can't attack at all due to it being their only attack, leaving them vulnerable to attack.

* EliteZombie: [[TheHero Sonny]], [[TheDreaded Vileclaw]], [[PlantPerson Corruptor]], [[AffablyEvil Grosk]], [[GadgeteerGenius Celestia]], [[spoiler: [[MadDoctor Dr. Klima]], and [[GreaterScopeVillain Carbon]]]] are of the Zombie Person type, [[spoiler: and the latter three intend to kill off humanity and turn them all into these, claiming that they're simply "making humanity great again."]] Like the original game and its sequel, various other types can be found as you advance through the game.

* NamedInTheAdaptation: In the original game, the ZPCI captain who orders Louis's murder and tries to kill Sonny was simply known as the ZPCI Captain. Here, he's known as Sgt. Meiers, though this isn't revealed until after Sonny kills him, with him being referred to as the ZPCI Elite until then.

* TechnicalPacifist: The Pacifist achievement invokes this by forcing you to kill the Hydra without dealing more than 2000 damage throughout the whole fight. Basically it can be summed up as acting as a support character and leaving the damage to Roald and Veradux.

* WhyWontYouDie: Ingame example, as many enemies on low health will often use healing spells on themselves or others to bring them back to full life. This happens multiple times a battle until the enemy runs out of focus, since, by the time you bring their health back down, the healing spell will be ready for use.

* AchillesHeel: The War Lizard has an unstable fusion reactor at its core that burns it over time, draining its health. Taking advantage of this weakness is all but required to defeat it, as it has [[DamageSpongeBoss high health]] and [[SuperToughness durable armor]] that make it almost impossible to kill without doing so.

* TheDragon: Grosk and [[spoiler: [[MadDoctor Dr. Klima]]]] are this to [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Carbon]]]], assisting him in the creation of super zombies.

* EliteZombie: [[TheHero Sonny]], [[TheDreaded Vileclaw]], [[PlantPerson Corruptor]], [[AffablyEvil Grosk]], [[spoiler: [[MadDoctor Dr. Klima]], and [[GreaterScopeVillain Carbon]]]] are of the Zombie Person type, [[spoiler: and the latter three intend to kill off humanity and turn them all into these, claiming that they're simply "making humanity great again."]] Like the original game and its sequel, various other types can be found as you advance through the game.

* TakeThat: [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Carbon's]] boasting about his money, frequent mockery of his opponents, dismissive attitude towards veterans, doctors, women, and foreigners, intentions for the [[FantasticNuke SEED]], and claims of wanting to "make humanity great again" were all meant as jabs toward UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump for his controversial behaviour and policies]].

** [[spoiler: The Police Colonel will cast a buff on himself that boosts his damage output by 400%, but always gets a debuff that boosts the damage he takes by 400% after it expires.]]

** The Bomb in Sonny 2, which can't even attack. It just has lots and lots of health and has to be destroyed before it [[NonStandardGameOver detonates]].

* FlunkyBoss: Sinjid's Shadow, the Hydra, and the Mayor, accompanied by two Shadow's Shadows, two Fire Claws, and a Guardian Cannon, respectively.

* HardModePerks: Beating the second game in heroic mode unlocks [[BonusDungeon the sixth zone]] and doing so without using training fights or repeating bosses unlocks [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon the seventh zone]].

* LowLevelRun: Getting the Legend achievement on Heroic difficulty is basically this, since you're ''not allowed to replay boss battles or use training fights at all''.[[invoked]]

* NonStandardGameOver: Taking too long to destroy the Bomb will immediately cause the game to end in defeat, no matter how much HP your party has.

** Baron Brixius in the second game, who has a huge health pool and some really nasty attacks. [[spoiler: He'll be forced to use a move that restores his focus but gives a debuff that deals big damage over time if his Focus is low, so you must ManaBurn him.]]

* PlayingWithFire: Roald and soldier-type enemies tend to specialize in this. There is also a flame-based boss in Zone 7 that drops a suit of armor and a sword, both of which give incredible bonuses to fire piercing.

** The Crowbar in Sonny 2, the [[VideoGame/HalfLife "weapon of Free Men"]]

** Doctors "Leath" and "Hedger" make an appearance in the second game. [[Film/TheDarkKnight Guess who they sound like]].
** The Host: a "man" in a white tux in the middle of a zombie invasion. [[{{Film/Zombieland}} Hmm...]] And he wears a "Bugo Hoss" suit.

* SuperMode: The second game has several: The Biological {{splat}} has Predator and [[PoisonousPerson Toxicant]] forms, the Psychological has the [[CastingAShadow Psychopath]] and [[PsychoElectro Wraith]] forms, and the Hydraulic has the Avenger and [[AnIcePerson Guardian]] forms.

* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted. What zombie activity there is [[spoiler: is played up by the ZPCI in order to stay in business and make a massive profit]].

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Sonny's "evolutions" are more like useful, temporary mutations. More to the point, evolution can't happen to an individual, it happens to, at least, a bloodline.

In 2018, the sequel to Sonny 2 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkJpHEghqWk has been announced]] to be in development.