Awesome / Sonic Heroes

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Awesome moments in Sonic Heroes.

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• Notable in Team Dark's opening is that Shadow, the second he is released from his containment chamber, tackles Rouge away from Omega's gunfire, before leaping into the fray to fight the berserk robot head-on. Via slow motion, one can also see clearly that he makes it out of there only about a second away from being blown up.
  Shadow: (moves Rouge to a safe corner) Stay here.
  • That Rouge was willing to get between Shadow and Omega to stop them fighting is pretty impressive when you consider how much more powerful they are than her individually. Not only that, but she is the one responsible for convincing them to work as a team. Without Rouge, these two would be completely aimless.
• While the Let's You and Him Fight scenes are Narmy, they can be pretty cool too. Especially the Team Dark vs. Team Sonic scene, which gives us this exchange:
  Sonic: Didn't you know? We have a date with Eggman, too!
  Shadow: (who has no clue who Sonic is) Is that so? Well then, it'll be a date to die for.
• When Team Chaotix corners Eggman in their ending. Also a Funny Moment.
  • Vector in particular, revealing that unbeknownst to Charmy or Espio he knew the Eggman they were fighting had been a fake all along and then revealing the real one trapped inside a sealed room inside the base. Even Eggman seemed shocked that he figured it out.
    Eggman: You knew it was me all along, didn't you?
    Vector: It's all part of being a good detective.
    • Even before this, right before Robot Storm, Vector baited the client into revealing himself as Eggman, by calling the fake one "mustache moron" and asking the client if he's the one.
      Vector: There you are, you mustache moron! He's the one, right?
      Client: "MUSTACHE MORON"?! I'M THE WORLD'S GREATEST... Ahem... Take him out, quickly.
      Vector: This is gonna cost ya extra!
  • Also, Charmy stinging the crap out of Eggman for ripping the team off.
    Eggman: H-hey, hold on, you guys! It's no trick, and besides, I plan on paying you! You'll be rewarded handsomely for helping me. As soon as I conquer the world... I WILL PAY YOU! (Beat)
    Vector: (cracking his knuckles angrily) Some nerve, promising what you ain't got!
    Espio: We've been had!
    Eggman: (the realisation dawns on him) It's just... w-wait a minute, just listen to me...!
    Charmy: Take this, you BAD MAN! (the scene cuts away to a nearby wall — the shadows of Charmy repeatedly diving into and stinging Eggman from every angle visible on them)
    Eggman: (unsuccessfully trying to swat Charmy away) UUUAAAAARRRRRGGGGH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH!
• Believe it or not, Big the Cat gets one in the form of defending Amy and Cream during their run-in with Team Chaotix when he tells them "It's not nice to tease my friends!" and does sort of get a defensive look on his face in the CGI cutscene.
  • Sort of, nothing. He's hissing at Vector. When a cat that huge starts making that noise and folding its ears back, it's a clear sign that you are in danger. Big just got badass.
  • Big in general in this game. While most of his story in Sonic Adventure is him bumbling around through the stories of other characters simply to find and fish for Froggy with his powers amounting basically to being able to jump high, powerlift and being clever with his trusty fishing rod, Big's involvement in Sonic Heroes shows what happens when he takes those raw skills and applies them to combat and true Sonic-style adventuring.
• Similarly Amy, who was a Damsel in Distress in both Adventure titles beforehand, is now almost on Sonic's level and takes on Eggman directly several times. Heck, she even manages to go toe-to-toe with Sonic himself!
• The very end of Sonic Heroes, when fighting Metal Sonic transformed. After playing through a game where the majority of enemies are funnily cutesy, the pre-final boss cutscene is of Metal Sonic dismantling a ginormous ship to transform into a beast of a robot, and all in a dark, seizure-inducing way too! And that's just the cutscene: as he fully transforms, you have to fight him using Super Team Sonic, where his main attacks are firing giant lasers at you, launching 50 or so bigger-than-you rockets at you, and throwing a large airship from the Egg Fleet at you too.
  • And let's not forget a 20-second long Chaos Control. By which point, you're pretty much dead unless you've been doing pretty good so far in the battle.
    • And despite this, Team Super Sonic can struggle it down to less than ten through sheer force of will.
  • "We'll show that creep the REAL SUPER POWER of TEAM WORK!" (Provided you're not just laughing.)
    • Not only that, it took an astounding twelve characters to take him down. That's more than it took to bring down Perfect Chaos, a godlike guardian, and Solaris, an interdimensional Cosmic Horror. Seems that determination he gets from Sonic is amplified just as much as his speed.
    • And keep in mind that it took 9 of those characters just to weaken him enough for the last three to finish it.
    • If that wasn't enough, it should be noted that Metal Overlord is impervious to all attacks save for a Team Blast. It takes five of these to defeat the guy, and that's only enough to forcibly revert him to his original Metal Sonic form, not outright destroy him. It therefore stands to reason that this incarnation of Metal Sonic is the toughest enemy Sonic has ever faced in series history, bar none.
  • And the best part? It's all to Crush 40's "What I'm Made Of".
    • The lyrics really help as they are perfect for any final boss! SHOW 'EM WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF!
• In a character analysis video by ThePJShow detailing Eggman's bouts of Villain Decay throughout the series as a result of frequent tonal shifts and questionable writing, it's argued that Eggman's defeatist reaction to Metal Sonic's transformation and its supposed invincibility is widely out-of-character for the doctor, especially when he was willing to fire upon an ancient god of destruction in its strongest form just two games prior. However, as debated in the comments section (and acknowledged in a follow-up video about Metal Sonic himself), it's a testament to the sheer threat of a completely unfettered Metal Sonic who has copied the power of Sonic, Shadow, and Chaos (among others) and has completely taken over Eggman's robot army (which, given the size of the Egg Fleet and Final Fortress, is probably at the strongest it's ever been prior to Forces), all in the name of defeating Sonic. Eggman is fearful because, having built Metal Sonic and understanding him best, he knows exactly what our heroes are dealing with, and correctly guesses that the only chance of success lies in the Chaos Emeralds.
• It's a subtle one, but Cream in particular is willing to take on giant armed bird-like hoverjets, armies of enemy robots, a heavily armed Humongous Mecha, and heck, even Team Sonic and Team Chaotix just to get Chocola back. And you have to remember, she is only a little six-year-old rabbit! Plucky doesn't even begin to cover it.
• Egg Fleet. The sense of just flying through the air, while Eggman's ships unload several shells at you, dodging the whole way. The best part: Sonic, with nothing but his Rocket Accel, destroys entire battleships! And he gets to do it twice.
  • How about each team's speech after Eggman gloats about his battleship at the start of the level? Heck, even the Team Rose speech that Amy gives there when she calls Eggman a bloated buffoon is epic, simply because they're mostly close to the weakest characters in the game and basically were fighting an entire armada of battleships with a hammer, a Chao in a bowtie, and a fishing rod as their weapons.
    Amy: You want a fight? You've got one! Let's get that bloated buffoon!
  • Part of what really makes this sequence work is the payoff. The entire game, particularly if you picked Team Sonic and saw Eggman's "I'm going to take over the world in three days" declaration, has been building up to this one moment, with Rail Canyon (see below) being when a sense of urgency starts to kick in.^* Even more so with Team Sonic, as Tails outright says they only have until sunset to make it to Eggman's lair. Then, following the Egg Albatross battle, the Egg Fleet launches and the player gets the first real look at Eggman's armada — perhaps not as intimidating as that time half the moon was blown to smithereens and the world was held hostage by an orbital death laser, but not too far off either. Several stages later, your hasty pursuit culminates in the doctor's evil monologue blaring over speakers as you find yourself extremely high up in the sky (the upper atmosphere if Team Dark's exchange is anything to go by), his message daring you to brave the gauntlet of countless battleships. Cue a fearsome guitar riff as the camera focuses on your team of choice, with the Speed character taking point and delivering a pretty awesome speech of their own before the opening run. All this, just to make it to the actual beginning of the level, which features the player navigating multiple branching paths while facing constant bombardment as the Egg Fleet attempts to prevent you from reaching its flagship. It's little wonder why Egg Fleet is frequently brought up as the level that should have represented Heroes in Sonic Generations over Seaside Hill.
    Eggman: Muhahahaha! You fools must all have a death wish? Witness this invincible battleship, built by the hands of a genius. Its power... unmatched throughout the universe!
    Sonic: (in a lower, more serious tone of voice than usual) All right, Eggman, let's get this party started.
• While most would consider it That One Level, Rail Canyon is really where Sonic Heroes begins to push the HSQ into the red. Starting off as a simplistic crash course in rail grinding with a few switch puzzles, Rail Canyon quickly introduces things such as Rhino Trains, exploding rails, and entire networks of rails to grind. Pretty soon you'll find yourself free fall-grinding through wildly flipping light rails, racing Rhino Trains down wildly waving rail sections and going through triple-rail loop-de-loops at breakneck speed before finally reaching the climax of the stage with your team grinding down the center of a giant corkscrew of rails with two GIGANTIC trains flying down the corkscrews just ahead of you in order to block your path, with the rail system after that dumping you off into another giant network that drops you off at the goal. Final Rush, the final stage of the previous game and (in)famous for being composed of 95% railways, doesn't even begin to match the sheer awesomeness that Rail Canyon brings to the party!
  Knuckles: They're pulling out all the tricks!
• Final Fortress is this for all the teams. A final exam of everything you've learned with massive battles around every corner and jaw droppingly cool light rail segments with laser cannons. Eggman truly tosses EVERYTHING HE HAS at you in this stage, leading up to a massive battle royale against a troop of all Eggman's Elite Mooks, finishing off with a duel against THREE Egg Hammers on a tiny platform! Near the lip of the platform is a hint orb. Going through it has your teammates all not suggest, but INSIST that you gotta break out a Team Blast! After getting through that, you're given a final gauntlet of laser dodging...except this time you have to dodge across TWELVE OF THEM! And by the midpoint, they're firing at you in pairs of three instead of one or two at a time! Meaning you have rail hop across sets of rails in one swift movement to keep from taking a laser to the face. After that, you're finally tasked with outrunning the charging sequence of a MASSIVE laser cannon before finally landing on one last detonator that completely obliterates Eggman's blaster installation while launching you directly into the heart of the freshly destroyed base, the only thing waiting for you being a lone Goal Ring in the center. Hell yeah!
  • It also helps that the level's music really complements the epicness of the level.