Characters / Sonic Zombie

The character sheet for the Sonic Zombie series. This is currently just starting out and expanding entires would be appreciated.

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Main

Sonic

"Because I'm Sonic and you're not."

• Characterization Marches On: Sonic changes his "gimmick." In the second and third videos publish-wise, his shtick is that he speaks in monotone, acts like a Cloud Cuckoolander, and is a walking advertisement for things like Pizza Hut. Then Origins adds attitude and gives him his "douchebag" part, something that has stuck with him since.
• Dull Surprise: In the earlier videos.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: He briefly goes back to his old/canon heroic self in later videos; first to fight the sea monster in Doom Ship, (though after being eaten he nonchalantly decides to go back to being "a douchebag") and in Finale where he repeatedly hits Scourge with his famous spin dash. He's also unwilling to kill Big the Cat, even if it means preventing the zombie outbreak from ever occurring.
• Hypocritical Humor: Shopping Mall gives us an exchange where Sonic tries to get it on with Rouge after the rest of the team sets off to stop the Five-Man Band, where he's pushed away rather violently. He then exclaims "I feel bad when I do that to Amy", followed by Amy once more trying to "get" with him. Naturally he violently rejects her too.
• Idiot Hero: He's the title character of the series and is generally a dumbass.
• Jerkass: He's rude, selfish, mean and generally admits he's a douchebag multiple times throughout the videos.
• Medium Awareness: While the fourth wall is battered countless times by just about everyone, he addresses the audience much more often than anyone else. In fact, in Space the story "pauses" while the camera zooms in on him and he tells the viewers that this whole thing is purposefully badly done.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: He gets increasingly irritated with Amy's advances.
• Our Slogan Is Terrible: Sonic in this series is an employee at Pizza Hut, and throughout Thing, he makes up many poor slogans.
• Serial Rapist: Hornhog Sonic. The only one that sees this as a good thing is Amy, since she is constantly trying to bone Sonic.
• Sorry, I'm Gay: Early in Origins, Amy asks Sonic if he could "comfort her", followed by Sonic answering with this trope. By Dom Ship he mentions he tried this among other excuses and just tells her he's not sleeping with her.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He becomes considerably more rude starting from Origins, as noticed by Tails.
  Tails: You know, ever since you started working at Pizza Hut, you've become an unlikeable jerk!
• Verbal Tic: Starts saying "Hooba Dooba" often around Vengeance, but seems to tone this down after Space.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice switches from a deliberately bad Jason Griffith impersonation to a deliberately bad Roger Craig Smith impersonation after his debut appearance.

Tails

"You say racist, I say funny as hell."

• Berserk Button: He's very possessive of his tacos, and as learned the hard way by Charmy and Mega Man, will violently defend them if they're so much as nudged.
• Creepy Child: If his age is the same as it was in canon, then his actions in Shopping Mall cements him as this. Where he stalks and hides around from Mega Man trying to steal the tacos in a direct homage to those character types, before finally getting the jump on him.
• Companion Cube: His tacos, who he treats as if they were his own children and whom he insanely defends from anyone who so much as looks at them.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In the one time someone (Charmy) got dangerously close to taking a bite out of one of Tails' tacos, Tails grabs him by the shoulders and lets out an extreme flow of diarrhea on him, which knocks Charmy out of the room unconscious and completely blackened.
• Flanderization: Originally, he simply sounded high-pitched, and was barely referred to as Mexican. In Diaries he became Mexican and the stereotype overtook his entire character for the rest of the series.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Shopping Mall takes care to remind us that he can, in fact, fly.
• National Stereotypes: A very obvious stereotype of Mexicans including tacos and being cheap labor.
• Skyward Scream: Tails gives out one after his tacos go missing thanks to Silver.
• Spexico: How Tails is portrayed.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Tacos, which also double as his Companion Cube.

Amy

• Age Lift: Mentions that she's 16 during her song in Space, while she's 12 in the games.
• Flanderization: Amy progressively gets more Sonic-obsessed as the series goes on.
• I'm a Woman; I Can't Help It: During the entire series Amy repeatedly tries to get romantic with or outright requests to have sex with Sonic. It's gotten to the point where she tries to engage with Sonic when he's transformed in Vengeance, then a clone of him in Space only to be dissatisfied because they're not "really Sonic" and finally, a Sonic recolor in Finale. When even he doesn't satisfy her, she angrily swears off hedgehogs. In the good timeline, she hooks up with Silver after he claims to be "hung like a whale".
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In yet another attempt to "do'' Sonic, Amy instead decides to have sex with one of the many Sonic clones on Blaze's starship, accidentally releasing everyone else's clones, including Dr. Eggman's. This ruins the cloning project and causes Blaze to angrily evict everyone off of the ship.

Shadow

• Adaptational Nice Guy: Compared to the aloof Shadow of the games or the Vegeta-like Shadow of the IDW comics, this version of Shadow doesn't mind hanging out or acting friendly toward the gang, or helping those in need or expressing distress over the deaths of certain characters. He even has no qualms about allying with Eggman after the latter tried to kill them. While he still considers Rouge just a friend in Finale, its more than what Sega will even allow him to in official materials. Really, his only hangup is his attachment to his gun, and even that makes sense for him.
• Back from the Dead: Happens to him three times. Once, when he's killed along with almost everyone else in Apocalypse 3 (and Rouge fixed everybody), then in Thing 2 where he's flung off a building but revealed to be fine later into Diaries 3, and finally for now he gets himself killed again in Vengeance just to come back via a clone in Space.
• Gag Penis: An easy-to-miss scene in Thing 2 has him holding a number of guns at once, one of those guns being at his groin. His X-like pose during this makes it more obvious.
• Gun Nut: His first and only resort towards zombies and other hostiles is shooting them, he starts with an SMG in earlier videos and a shotgun in later videos and as Shopping Mall shows, is very happy to hang around the mall's gun store. When told to leave his shotgun behind in Finale, he's rather distressed by the request.
• Large Ham: He's happy to shout as he guns down the zombies.
• Motor Mouth: Nearly everything he says is quick and all bunched together.
• Only Sane Man: Somewhat downplayed. While eccentric, he's more focused on the task at hand and is generally more capable than the others.

Rouge

• Ass Shove: Somehow, as seen in Doom Ship, Tails managed to hide an entire boat up her rear without her even knowing.
• Express Delivery: Has a very quick pregnancy with Baby Sonic, who's born the day after Rouge and Sonic conceive him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She makes the mistake of turning her back on Scourge in Finale right after he gave her an ultimatum. So he shoves his pipe right through her.
• Male Gaze: Every time Rouge is in focus, the camera will almost always zoom into her breasts, often with sexual remarks from the narrator.
• Nice Girl: She's generally friendly and polite towards others, showing irritation only towards blatant perverts.
• Only Sane Man: Downplayed. She's rather eccentric, but more down-to-earth than the others.
• Sacrificial Lion: In Finale, as she's not protected by plot armor like Sonic is.

Knuckles

• Ascended Extra: He was probably just going to be a one-episode character in Origins, but his popularity allowed him to come back in Vengeance and become a regular from then on.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: In Doom Ship and Shopping Mall. The latter shows he can barely rap properly, being all out of tune and out of rhythm.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His mannerisms and speech are based on Eddie Murphy, hence the Shrek cameos.
• Our Vampires Are Different: He becomes one after taking a bomb while in his monster form in Origins. They apparently look no different from normal echidnas, and when their powers are fused with that of a hornhog's, the person wielding both will turn into... some giant zombie thing.
• Straight Gay: Turns out to be this in Doom Ship, where he falls in love with Espio.

Cream

• The Ahnold: She talks like the namesake. Later, in Doom Ship, she fulfills the action hero part by killing a bunch of zombies.
• Ascended Extra: Officially considered part of the main cast as of Doom Ship, after three episodes of not appearing and one as being fodder.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: While preparing the escape in Shopping Mall, she flies up towards the hot air balloon. Apparantly just to let the viewers know that Billy didn't forget the fact that she can fly.
• Nonstandard Character Design: She and Shrek are the only characters to have their facial features regularly stretched out.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her speech is clearly based off of Arnold Schwarzenegger. She even references a lot of his movies.

Secondary

Blaze

Blaze the Cat makes her debut in Sonic Zombie in Space, running the spaceship for reasons unknown.

• Berserk Button: Don't let her find out you used one of her clones for sexual desires (as Amy learned the hard way) or else she'll evict you off her ship immediately.
• Only Sane Man: She appears to be remarkably more rational than most of the other characters (along with Satan and Bowser), and speaks a lot more clearly and seriously. Yet she still rolls with the oddity of the storyline.

Captain Vector

• Chekhov's Gun: His Swedish meatballs give everyone..bowel problems...including giant sea monsters, which Sonic and Tails are able to use to escape the monster's stomach.
• Despair Event Horizon: According to "Captain's honor", he is required to go down with the SS Ikea when the sea monster damages it and causes it to sink.
• Honor Before Reason: He believes in drowning with the SS Ikea should it sink. "Captain's honor to go down with the ship."
• Lethal Chef: His Swedish Meatballs really give people the runs. Thankfully, Sonic and Tails are able to use this to beat the giant sea monster.

Espio

• Spirit Advisor: He briefly returns along with Charmy and Captain Vector in Shopping Mall to help Knuckles out with Pikachu.
• Straight Gay: Falls in love with Knuckles in Doom Ship.

Charmy

• Humiliation Conga: He is attacked and knocked out by Tails and coated in diarrhea, followed by being killed and eaten alive by zombies once they invade the ship.
• Motor Mouth: Nearly all of Charmy's lines have him spouting almost unrecognizable nonsense.

Shrek

"YOU'RE GOING TO BE FINE, DONKEY!"

Shrek appears randomly from Origins onward, and with one exception he's always shouting enthusiastically at Knuckles and with an exaggered grin. He calls him Donkey.

• Big Damn Heroes: After merely making pointless cameos throughout the series, Shrek actually serves a purpose in Finale when he saves Knuckles from being killed by one of the recolors. Knuckles even acknowledges his existence.
• Large Ham: He's able to out-ham most of the cast.
• Mind Screw: A lot of evidence suggests he doesn't even exist. Is he a ghost? A hallucination? What?
  • Finally subverted in Finale when he saves Knuckles.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He actually talks normal in his cameo in Shopping Mall, and isn't stretched out. Knuckles finally takes note of him and goes "Uh, what?" before Shrek goes back to his previous self, getting a "Much better" reaction from Knuckles.
• Verbal Tic: He calls Knuckles, or rather everyone if his appearance in Space is anything to go by, "Donkey."

Billy

"Why? Because I'm twelve!"

The faux-creator of the Sonic Zombie series, and its narrator.

• Butt-Monkey: For a period of time, videos would end with him being abused or getting his computer taken over by a strange popup, but by Shopping Mall this seems to come to a close.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Seems to have one, as later in the series videos would mostly end with him being abused, until Shopping Mall
• This Loser Is You: A light-hearted jab at people who make poor G-Mod videos.
• Vague Age: Many of the things Billy says and does throughout the series are fitting of someone in their early to mid teen years (such as his constant obsession over Rouge and citing Left 4 Dead, a M-rated game, as a personal favorite), yet on two separate occasions he says he's 5 (in Thing and Diaries) and 12 (in Diaries)
• The Voice: We have yet to see him in any form. He doesn't even have an Author Avatar that gives him a virtual visualization. The closest thing to one is the intentional Special Effect Failures where the player character is visible.

Baby Sonic

"I wanna be your friend!"

The child of Sonic and Rouge.

• Kill the Cutie: Is killed by Silver soon after being introduced.
• Like Father, Like Son: A splitting image of his father, Sonic.

Villains

Eggman

"Hey. Who decided to give this video a budget?"

• Back for the Dead: He often returns just to be killed off or otherwise harmed in some way. He suffers an apparant defeat in Thing 2, but recovers. Then he's attacked by the Hornhog in Vengeance, but is revived via cloning in Space. That same video has him eaten by a Monster Silver clone, but then another clone of him goes around in Doom ship, which is the only video where he explicitely survives seeing as he's axed in Shopping Mall later.
• Enemy Mine: To save his own life, Eggman is forced into joining the heroes during the zombie attack in Doom Ship. He remains loyal to Sonic's team in Shopping Mall, suggesting that he underwent a full Heel–Face Turn.
• Fat Bastard: Billy makes a lot of remarks on Eggman's weight throughout the series and he is at his most evil in Vengeance (when eh turns Sonic into a hornhog) and Space where his clone awakens and leads the other clones in a takeover attempt. He attempts yet another evil plot in Doom Ship before the presence of zombies causes him to switch sides in a panic.
• Heel–Face Turn: Goes through one in Doom Ship, and stays loyal to Sonic's gang in Shopping Mall. By Finale, Alternate Timeline Robotnik finds a way to stop the zombie nightmare before it even begins, though it does involve killing a subjectively innocent Big the Cat.
• Overly Long Name: According to Billy in Vengeance, his full name is "Dr. RoFatassf***ingFatFattyFatf***ingf***ingFatSonOfAB***F***ingFattyFat".
• Trilling Rs: Done by the now Russian Robotnik.

Silver

• Anti-Climax: His death in Shopping Mall. Shadow flat-out says that he was shot so quickly to save time.
• Batman Gambit: Pulls off a massive one in Vengeance just so he can drain Sonic and Knuckles' hornhog/vampire powers and turn into a Kaiju.
• Big Bad: Of Vengeance and Shopping Mall to an extent.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: Claims to be "hung like a whale" at the end of Finale, leading to a very, very desperate Amy to hook up with him.
• Butt-Monkey: Especially during his appearance in Shopping Mall, where he is left in a poor state and ridiculed by the others.
• Hijacked by Ganon: He may not get the chance to be the final villain of Diaries 3, but he comes out of nowhere and fills the role in Vengeance. He is also the true identity of Metal Sonic.
• Joker Immunity: The guy has a habit of continually coming back. He's been in about every other video so far, usually appears to die, then makes a return in some way. Even after being shot by Shadow point-blank in Shopping Mall, he still turns out to have grabbed on the rope. Even after a hawk sends him falling off the hot air balloon to his death, it turns out he survived that and returns in Finale to cause more trouble. And then the giant worm eats him.

Metal Sonic/Metal Silver

• Big Bad: Of Shopping Mall.
• National Stereotypes: A snooty "hon hon!"-ing Frenchman with an arrogant streak. Rather different from Silver's Goofy voice.
• Robotic Reveal: Inverted. By catching him taking a piss, Sonic finds out that he's not really a robot.

Pikachu

• Piss-Take Rap: The rap battle between Knuckles and Pikachu. What Knuckles sings does not rhyme or even really match with the beat, and Pikachu is knocked out before he can give his verse.

Bowser

• Devoured by the Horde: When the zombies entered the mall in Shopping Mall, he is immediately targeted and eaten alive before having a chance to recover from his getaway attempt.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Bowser does nothing over his only episode that can be considered villainous and doesn't try to fight back when Cream suddenly attacks him because of the orders she and Eggman heard him receiving from Metal Sonic. While he does reply to Metal Sonic's "Kill them all!" order with "Yeah that sounds nice", its a reply that's more offhand than anything.

Mega Man

"This place appears to have nourishment."

The Dolphin

"MIMIMIMIMIMIMI..."

A dolphin from Super Mario World, part of Metal Sonic's bike gang.

Not to be confused with the re-occuring dolphin from Doom Ship, although they do have the same Verbal Tic.

• Anti-Climax: Instead of fighting the team, he just tries to come on to Amy and/or Rouge, and promptly gets captured off screen.
• Back from the Dead: Gets eaten by Monster Bowser in Shopping Mall, along with Pikachu and Mega Man, but then comes back in the finale to try (and fail) to have sex with Scourge.
• Shout-Out: His voice is based on a let's play of Super Mario World, where one of the co-players jokingly tries to give the dolphins dialogue. The same applies for the dolphin from Doom Ship.
• The Unintelligible: He only says "MIMIMIMIMI" and "sex."

Scourge

"There's plenty of room at Outback Steakhouse, mate! Oy, Icepick, give these lads the tour, and I'll take this sweet Sheila for a tour of the park!"

• Big Bad: Of Finale.
• Canon Foreigner: The cast of this series are all taken from the games, thus Scourge stands out as the only character from the Archie Comics series.
• National Stereotypes: A violent Australian who fancies Rouge as his "Sheila" and is as obsessed with Outback Steakhouse as Sonic is with Pizza Hut.
• Villainous Crush: Has one on Rouge. Until he kills her, that is.

The Recolors

Scrouge's army who live with him in the carnival.

• Take That!: They're all jabs at poorly made Sonic OCs, being recolors of GMod models of the main cast, and having over the top backstories. Some of their dialogue also have jabs to Minecraft and Tumblr SJWs.

Monsters

General Tropes

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Tank and the zombies (and Hornhog if he's counted) are the only modestly-sized monsters in the whole lineup. Everything else is the size of a house at least and absolutely dwarfs the main characters at the most. If it doesn't start big, it becomes big, such is the case with Knuckle's and Bowser's transformations.
• Monster of the Week: Many of these are only in one episode. Monster Silver and Hornhog clones make a cameo in Space, but with rather minor roles.

The Zombies

• Demoted to Extra: They went from the main source of the conflict to Make Way for the New Villains in the second video, and from then on their relevancy decreases. Later appearances just seem to serve to remind you that, yes, this isn't called Sonic Zombie for no reason.

The Tank

The Brute

Godzilla

• Disc-One Final Boss: Despite supposedly being the Lord of the Zombies, his defeat does not mark the end of the series. Chronologically, there are still at least five more videos to go.
• Teeny Weenie: According to Sonic, he has a tiny thing.

Satan

"No-one can ever defeat me! I am the monster!"

• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite sounding incredibly chill, he is still a villain, and tries to cause an apocalypse.
• Fantastic Racism: He calls Sonic and his group "puny humans," even thought none of them are human.
• Smug Snake: He believes himself to be invincible and refers to his opponents as ”puny humans”.

Transformations — Unmarked Spoilers Inside! (Hornhog, Monster Knuckles, Monster Silver, Monster Bowser)

The Hornhog

"What did you do to me? I'm feeling kind of furry, and uh... antsy, and... frisky at the same time!"

• Non-Standard Character Design: Briefly. His intro animation is done in Source Filmmaker up until Eggman questions who decided to give the video a budget.

Monster Knuckles

Knuckles transforms into a beast in Origins after getting bitten by a zombie.

Monster Silver

Silver's form after taking both Sonic's Hornhog powers and Knuckle's vampire powers.

• Humanity Ensues: Silver’s New form is quite humanoid compared to the antropomoprhic hedgehog.
• One-Winged Angel

Monster Bowser/The Worm

Bowser's transformation after he becomes a zombie.

• Call-Back: He transforms twice, just like Knuckles did.

The Sea Monster

• Combat Tentacles
• Hope Crusher: Destroys Sonic’s hummer before anyone can use it to escape the ship.

The Mario Crew

Mario

• Early-Installment Weirdness: Mario made his first appearance in "Sonic Zombie Diaries part 3/12" and sounded more like his original counterpart. When he came back in "Mario Ghosts", he sounded more like Sylvester Stallone.
• Expy: He talks like Rocky Balboa in "Mario Ghosts".

Luigi

• Expy: He talks like Hank Hill.
• Perma-Shave: Luigi appears without his mustache.

Princess Peach

• Airplane Arms: She has her arms out horizontally throughout the video.
• Congestion Speak: Whenever Peach speaks, her voice sounds congested.
• Fish Eyes: Her eyes are diverged in opposite directions.

Joeshi

• The Ace: Joeshi has saved the day more times than anyone else in the Mario Crew.
• Adaptational Name Change: His name is Joeshi instead of Yoshi.
• Breakout Character: Reactions to Joeshi were so positive that he would go on to star in a few more videos of his own.
• Catchphrase: "[sharp inhale]….OK."
• Gag Nose: His nose is more bulbous than his original counterpart's.
• The Silent Bob: Joeshi's actions speak louder than his words.

Wario

• Ambiguously Jewish: He speaks in a Jewish accent and spouts Jewish phrases.
• Cowardly Lion: Unlike his original counter part, this Wario is easily frightened.
• Jaw Drop: His mouth is always open with his jaw hanging low.

Inspector Walurambo Brown

• Catchphrase: "I'm better than you."
• Expy: He talks like Inspector Gadget. He also has long hair and sports a bandana like Rambo.
• Gag Nose: His nose protrudes over his chest.
• Heroic Build: He has a more muscular build than his original counterpart.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He has a very high opinion of himself.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He is shirtless in "Mario Ghosts".