Web Animation / Sonic In X Minutes

What happens when you take the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, cover it in Stylistic Suck, and throw in lots of zany, irreverent humour and a whole lot of lampshades? You get Sonic in X Minutes, a series of parodies by Roger van der Weide of Kingdumb Hearts fame. It's effectively The Abridged Series of the entire Sonic franchise, with each instalment lampooning an individual Sonic game within a given number of minutes (until the later instalments, when the length constraints were done away with). The first one, parodying Sonic Adventure 2, was released in 2004, and since then almost every post-Adventure Sonic game has been parodied, as well as Sonic CD, the 1996 OVA, the 2020 movie, and Sonic and Tails R.

You can find them, including the older ones, on Roger's YouTube channel.

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This series provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Amy in most of her appearances, to the extent that Sonic will literally run away screaming every time he sees her. She actually exploits this in "Riders" by attaching herself to him with a piece of bungee cord, knowing that when he sees her approaching, he'll panic and run away at top speed. It works, and Sonic duly wins the Extreme Gear race.
• Accent Adaptation: In the games, Knuckles usually has a stoic American accent. In this series, since he is typically portrayed as The Ahnold, he instead has an Austrian accent.
• Adaptation Expansion: Forces starts out as a mostly faithful retelling of the original game, but it eventually goes beyond that and turns into a meta commentary of the Sonic franchise and its fanbase overall. However, even the plot points that are similar to the original game are given more detail than the original game shows. For example, there is a lot more emphasis on how Eggman's rule has turned the world into a dystopian nightmare for the citizens of... whichever planet this is (The video lampshades the ambiguity of the setting.) It also fleshes out several background characters, while the original game just has a few generic "soldier" NPCs with only a few lines. Finally, this version expands on Infinite's backstory more.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Infinite in the Forces series. His personality is almost a complete reversal of his portrayal in Sonic Forces. In the game, he was basically just a psychopathic bully who relied almost entirely on the Phantom Ruby's brute strength to hurt people, making him Unskilled, but Strong. He was also The Dreaded because of his sheer power. Here, he starts out as a stoic, perpetually bored minion who does very little, but later episodes give him more depth. In the series, Infinite uses his powers in much more creative, clever ways, like helping him and Eggman infiltrate the rebel base, manipulating Eggman into not firing him, and more. On the flipside, everyone sees him as a joke despite his skill. It's established that in this series, everyone knows that Infinite's illusions really are illusions, so nobody takes the illusions seriously. Infinite has to really concentrate to produce something (the sun) that will actually harm people. Basically, here he's Weak, but Skilled. Also, while Infinite is not quite The Starscream in the original game, he's not that loyal to Eggman either, as he frequently goes against Eggman's orders to sate his own ego. In this series, Infinite genuinely wants to serve Eggman, and he is frustrated when Eggman shows him no respect. Finally, instead of turning evil because of one bad incident with Shadow like in the original game, here it's shown that Infinite has been bullied for presumably most of his life, and that's what drove him to villainy. When Cream shows him sympathy, Infinite makes a Heel–Face Turn, unlike in the original game, where he stays evil to the end and has an Uncertain Doom.
• Adaptational Villainy: Princess Sara undergoes this in the OVA parody. In the original, she was hot-headed and got along well with Robotnik, but was still a good person and was horrified by the thought of Robotnik marrying her. Here, she seems to undergo Stockholm Syndrome to the extent that she becomes a bigger threat than Robotnik, especially after she divorces him and takes half his weapons of mass destruction at the end.
• Aesop Amnesia: After Sonic's impulsiveness in Lost World allows the Deadly Six to run rampant and gets Tails captured, Sonic resolves... to act even more rashly.
• Affectionate Parody: Averted, actually. While most parodies are done in good fun, Roger tends to be more negative and mean towards the games and characters he dislikes the most, which includes Sonic Free Riders. Amusingly, many fans call that one of his best parodies.
• The Ahnold: Played for Laughs. In this series, Knuckles is usually voiced with an exaggerated Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, complete with Austrian accent and (almost) No Indoor Voice. He's also the Dumb Muscle among the heroes who attacks people or objects whenever he's confused (which is often).
  • Averted in the OVA parody, where Knuckles retains the "treasure hunter" persona he had at that time... until the end, when a SEGA employee steals the golden brain he had collected earlier, and Knuckles suddenly reverts to his standard persona, complete with an anguished "I'M CONFUSED!"
• Armor-Piercing Question: In the movie parody, after Robotnik brags about having read Charlotte's Web, Major Bennington retorts, "Isn't that a children's book?" Robotnik is apparently quite shocked by the revelation.
• Art Evolution: The animation has improved over the years, thought the artwork still looks crappy in Roger's own word.
• Art Shift: In "Lost World", after The Deadly Six leave, the animation becomes poorly-drawn for the rest of the segment.
• Ax-Crazy: Amy is sometimes portrayed like this, most notably in "Heroes" where she chases just about everyone with her hammer at some point.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In the remake of "Rivals", Eggman Nega succeeds in turning the world into a card, but dies in the cold vacuum of space as a result.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In Rush Adventure, unlike the game, Sonic and Blaze go along with Marine's assertions that she is their captain - but insist that, as captain, it's her responsibility to do all the hard work (like hurtling through Plant Kingdom and battling Captain Whiskers) while they sit around doing nothing. This in turn backfires on them at the end - having to do everything herself causes Marine to grow strong enough to tear the final boss apart with her bare hands, at which point she forces Sonic and Blaze to start doing their share of the work (read: all of it).
• Be Yourself: Heavily parodied in "Rush". Everyone Blaze meets keeping telling her to "be herself". However, being herself in the parody does not mean figuring out what she truly wants, but sitting in the background so that Sonic can be the hero. She gets fed up when Sonic spells it out for her.
  Sonic: You should act more like yourself. Cower in fear and ask me for help!
• Berserk Button: Knuckles really doesn't like being confused.
• Big Brother Is Watching: In the Forces series, Eggman's empire seems benevolent at first, but starting in part 2, he drops all formalities and becomes a cruel, oppressive dictator. His minions are keeping close tabs on every citizen, and if someone says anything even remotely negative about Eggman, they will be put through Unwilling Roboticization.
• Big "NO!": Eggman gets in a pretty good one at the end of "Riders":
  Eggman: Umm, mind if I say a few words, that I have lost and all?
  TV Reporter: Sure, sure, go ahead!
  Eggman: Okay, thank you. Ahem... NOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!!
• Brick Joke: Early on in "Sonic 3 & Knuckles in 10 minutes", Sonic tries to use one of the Hand Launchers in Hydrocity Zone, only for Tails to get there first, causing Sonic to fall flat on his face. The Hand Launcher gives Sonic a sympathetic pat. Towards the end of the video, the same thing happens to Mecha Sonic when it tries to jump into its Egg-O-Matic, and Sonic gives it a sympathetic pat.
• Britain Is Only London: Parodied in London Olympics, with Bowser boasting that one of his and Eggman's fog machines is hidden in "the most well-known and important part of London: Stonehenge!"
• The Caligula: Dr. Eggman in Forces. While he initially seems to be a Designated Villain invoked who makes the world a better place after taking it over, it's later revealed that he's still his childish, egotistical self, and he's using his political power and robot enforcers to make everyone worship him.
• Character Shilling: The Avatar in Forces is constantly showered in praise, even when Blaze is the one doing the legwork.
• Chekhov's Gun: The Tornado 2 in "Heroes", which goes out of control after Tails and Knuckles jump out, then shows up during the final battle to slam into Metal Overlord.

Knuckles: Ha, told you the plane was gonna land fine!

• In "Adventure", Tails, Knuckles, and Amy's stories all briefly depict Chao being injured, seemingly as throwaway gags. In the final story, when Tikal explains that Perfect Chaos is only rampaging to "protect the Chao", they realize that those incidents are the reason he's attacking.
  Tails: No, Sonic! No Chao got hurt today at all!
• In part 4 of "Forces", Cream is only given a raisin cookie out of negligence. When the Phantom Ruby is about to burn everyone, Cream shows up with the raisin cookie. Infinite has a flashback to where he was offered a cookie in the past and rips out the ruby to get it, foiling the ruby's plan.

• Comically Missing the Point: When Robotnik confronts Sonic, Tom, and Maddie at the climax of the movie parody, they ignore his high-tech flying machine and drone army and comment solely on his new outfit. Lampshaded by Robotnik, who gets so worked up about them ignoring his creations that he falls out of his flyer.
• Crack Pairing: invoked Lampshaded during Adventure 2. Amy glomping Sonic, Rouge dragging Shadow away from Amy, and Shadow making an innuendo towards Sonic are all greeted by crowds of cheering shippers, but Eggman mockingly referring to Amy as Tails' "girlfriend" is greeted by a lone shipper whose cheer is lame in comparison.
• Create Your Own Villain: "Shadow and Infinite" shows that it has become bad habit for Shadow. Anyone who considers themselves "Ultimate" is immediately put down by Shadow, causing them to become edgy Shadow-expies who want to destroy everything.
  Villain in the making: Hello, I am the Ultimate X.
  Shadow: Hmph. No, you're not.
  Villain in the making: RAAARRGGH! (Turns into a Shadow Expy and destroys the city)
  • This even leads to Sonic becoming Scourge.
• Crush Filter: Amy's account on the story of Adventure has her hearing Sonic eager to pair up with her should she prove herself a capable mother... in reality, he's running away screaming the second Amy calls out to him.
• Designated Villain: [[Invoked]] in Sonic Forces in minutes: after Eggman takes over the world, he actually makes it a better place. Sonic still acts like Eggman is doing terrible things and needs to be stopped. This is Played for Laughs, of course. Later Subverted, however, as Blaze exposes his corruption to everyone, and future episodes show that the world is actually worse under Eggman.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In Knuckles Chaotix U.S., Amy runs through where the action goes on to play nearly all the tracks simply by shaking her maracas (and a sad violin once the Team minus Knuckles cuts the juice on Eggman's duck ride).
• Didn't Think This Through: Eggman Nega describes his plan in "Rivals" thusly:
  Eggman Nega: You see, I came from the future, and went to the present to turn the world into a card, which I can't do in the future for some reason, and then after that, I'll... die in the cold vacuum of space...
  • In the remake, Eggman Nega actually succeeds in turning the world into a card, and really does die in the cold vacuum of space, his Evil Laugh petering out as he realises the mistake he's made. It also adds another example when Silver rescues those who got trapped in Eggman Nega's cards; when he rescues the Ifrit, it immediately attacks him.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In the movie parody, an echidna attacks Sonic and Longclaw, killing the latter^note though a parody trailer for the second movie reveals she's alive, albeit Brainwashed and Crazy and forcing the former into exile, purely because Sonic stole his flower.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Blaze the Cat in the Forces in minutes video keeps getting overshadowed by a ridiculous-looking bird rookie who does absolutely nothing, despite her doing all the actual work. She's understandably miffed.
• Dumb Muscle: Knuckles is depicted as such in "Rivals", and it caught on to the extent that it's become Roger's default characterization for not just Knuckles, but the entire echidna race.
  Knuckles: I'M CONFUSED!!! RAAAGH!!!
• Even Evil Has Standards: Infinite, Metal Sonic, Chaos, Shadow, and Zavok all leave Eggman in the Forces video when Blaze reveals he was planning to make towns themed after Sanic and Ugandan Knuckles.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Parodied in Free Riders, where everyone wants to have butt-sex with Sonic. That includes Metal Sonic.
• Face Doodling: During the events montage in "London Olympics", Shadow is seen doing this to Toadette and Rosalina on his way to winning the 100m hurdles, having stopped time with Chaos Control.
• Fartillery: Eggman uses this against Jet and Wave during "Riders". When he tries it later again, Cream throws a stick of dynamite at him, blowing him off-screen.
• Fun with Subtitles: The subtitles often indicate much longer sentences than the characters actually say aloud before they're interrupted.
• Good-Times Montage: Parodied and subverted in Rivals. After Eggman contacts Shadow, pleading to be saved, Shadow mournfully reminisces about "all the good things we did together"... cue a montage of Eggman threatening Shadow or expressing his hatred of him.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the Forces miniseries, Infinite casts off the Phantom Ruby, which is corrupting him, and turns good when Cream offers him a cookie. It's shown in his backstory that he was once offered a cookie and tripped while getting it, causing him to start being bullied, so in a way, Cream's offer was really a chance for him to go back to a time when he was happy.
• Helium Speech: More common in the earlier parodies, where many of the voices were just Roger's sped up to different speeds. The most notable example is "Riders", where everyone speaks like this, even Shadow. Cream still tends to speak like this, imitating her high-pitched voice in the games.
• Hijacked by Ganon: In "Lost World":
  Sonic: Ah, the machine!
  Eggman: Never mind the machine, I'm the new evil plot now!
• How We Got Here:
  • "Adventure" begins after the game has already ended, with Chaos defeated and Station Square a flooded ruin. The story is explained by Sonic and friends to a GUN officer who is interrogating them to try and find out just what the hell happened there and who's responsible for it.
  • The movie parody lampoons the film's use of this trope by having Sonic run up to a random guy on the street mid-chase and give his "I know what you're thinking" introductory speech. When the plot catches up to itself again, Sonic runs off and the man is immediately blown up by a missile fired by the pursuing Robotnik.
• Idiot Plot: invoked The parodies in general tend to invoke this by taking the Idiot Plot elements of whatever game they're parodying and blowing them up to comical proportions. Of all the parodies, though, Riders takes the cake. Instead of keeping the Chaos Emeralds safe, Sonic literally tosses them away just so he can find them again; once they've been collected, Eggman tricks the gang into handing them all over in exchange for being able to enter a race; Eggman then enters the race himself so he can win the Chaos Emeralds he already has, instead of just making off with them; and after winning the race and the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic decides to throw them away again so he can look for them again.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Parodied. According to Cream, Sonic is only interested in people who want to hurt him.
  Eggman: I'm going to enslave you!
  Sonic: Robotnik! Let's play!
  Knuckles: I'll mortally wound you!
  Sonic: Let's be best buds!
  Shadow: I'm going to kill you, faker!
  Sonic: Shadow, I love you!
  Silver: I came from the future to destroy you all!
  Sonic: Have butt-sex with me!
  Amy: Sonic, I genuinely love you.
  Sonic: [screams in horror]
• Let's You and Him Fight: Played with in "Heroes" where, like the original, some of the team battles are justified (Team Rose think Team Chaotix are the Chao-nappers), others have completely ridiculous excuses (Team Dark vs Team Chaotix), and then there's Team Sonic vs Team Dark:
  Sonic: [to Shadow] Hey, buddy! I'm so happy you're still okay, that's great! Say, we were just on our way to Eggman.
  Shadow: So are we.
  Sonic: Huh. [beat] Let's kill each other!
  • Also parodied in the "Rivals" remake: thanks to Knuckles and his constant confusion, everyone is so busy fighting each other that they forget about Eggman Nega, and he's able to carry out his evil plan unopposed.
• Loads and Loads of Loading: Naturally, "Sonic '06" parodies this, along with the infamous guard puzzle, by inserting a brief loading screen between almost every line of dialogue. Eventually Knuckles gets so fed up that he rips away the loading screen and beats the guard senseless with it.
• Long Runner: Roger started making the parodies in 2004 and is still going nearly two decades later.
• Loony Fan: Amy, naturally. Exaggerated in "Adventure" where she sees Sonic running from her screaming and hears, "If you prove yourself to be a capable mother then I'll marry you". In Forces, when one fan shows off his fanart of a muscular Sonic, Amy asks if she can have it.
• Malicious Misnaming: In Forces Part 3, when Eggman interviews new henchmen to join his team, the first one insults Infinite by calling him "Infant."
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The Forces miniseries has Sonic's team interact with characters from all across the Sonic franchise. There are also several fan characters, as well as generic OCs meant to represent Sonic fans in general. The final episode has two more big additions: One, Infinite summons various YouTubers such as the Game Grumps, RecD (who voices Sonic in this miniseries), and more. Two, Eggman uses his new powers to steal magical artifacts from characters in other works of fiction, including Gollum, Thanos, Saitama, Ganon, and more. These other characters later raid Eggman's lair to take back their artifacts.
• Mama Bear: Amy in "Adventure", very much so. When Zero kidnaps Birdie and then insults her parenting skills, she literally roars with anger and smashes him to pieces with her hammer.
• Memory-Wiping Crew: In Team Sonic Racing, a Sega employee wipes Orbot and Cubot's memories of Zavok so they don't question why he's suddenly Eggman's lapdog.
• Metronomic Man Mashing: Ken Penders is subjected to this by a tribal echidna during "Adventure".
• Mood Whiplash: Played for comedy in "Lost World".
  • Tails goes from laughing along with Sonic's playground insults toward Eggman to a screaming rage over Sonic "betraying" him for merely starting to suggest an alliance with Eggman. Mere seconds after his outburst, Tails goes right back to laughing along with Sonic.
  • Halfway through his rant at the Deadly Six for their rebellion, Eggman suddenly loses interest in making them suffer and calmly walks away.
  • Near the end, it gets surprisingly somber with Sonic realizing he's alone and seeing a mechanized Tails about to kill him. Right after Tails reveals it was a trick and turns on the Deadly Six, Sonic hogs the rest of the screentime and the animation drops to Roger's old style while the plot becomes a generic "Sonic beats Eggman in a comical manner" situation. Right afterward, the Deadly Six use the Extractor to drain Sonic of his life force.
• Mundane Utility: In Knuckles Chaotix U.S., Eggman steals the Master Emerald... to fuel a duck ride.
• Never Learned to Talk: In the Sonic Generations video, it's explained that the reason Classic Sonic is completely silent is that he jumped out of the window of the hospital when he was a newborn baby and ended up on his own in the wilderness, thus his parents never taught him how to speak. Oddly enough, he can still understand other people when they talk to him.
• Never Recycle Your Schemes: Averted in "Riders". When Eggman is pondering what to do next, one of his minions reminds him of the time he tricked a bunch of bank security guards into entering a kart race in exchange for them turning off all the security, allowing Eggman to waltz in and steal all the money while the guards were otherwise occupied. He duly decides to pull the same trick again, throwing an Extreme Gear race in exchange for everyone giving him their Chaos Emeralds. It works just as well as it did the first time, and only fails because Eggman stupidly enters the race himself instead of just doing a runner.
• Noir Episode: Knuckles' story in "Adventure" is presented as one, complete with Chaos disguising itself as a Femme Fatale to get Knuckles on the case.
• Nostalgia Filter: Parodied. In Forces, the Sonic fans are constantly fighting over their differing opinions on the Sonic franchise, particularly the later games in the franchise. The only thing that they can agree on liking is Classic Sonic (represented by a gameplay clip from the first Sonic game), who makes them cheer.
• Obviously Evil: Dodon Pa in Team Sonic Racing. The cast are constantly muttering that they don't trust him... while continuing to compete on his deadly race tracks anyway.
• Paper-Thin Disguise:
  • In "Heroes", when the teams all meet up to fight Metal Overlord, Sonic puts a paper bag over his head so that Amy won't recognize him and try to marry him again. It works.
  • In "Rivals", after Eggman Nega reveals himself, Sonic one-ups him by putting on a hat and declaring, "I'm not Sonic! I am... Sonic wearing a silly hat!" Eggman Nega seems to genuinely fall for it.
  • At one point in the OVA parody, Robotnik, who's having the crap beaten out of him by Knuckles, places a fake Robotnik moustache on Tails and hides. Knuckles immediately mistakes Tails for Robotnik and punches him to the ground. Bear in mind that this is not the Dumb Muscle Knuckles from Roger's other parodies.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: In the "Forces" series, Infinite starts off as a stoic, perpetually uninterested character who is always looking down at a smartphone. While it's unknown how old Infinite is, he has the spirit of this trope, and most of the animal characters in the Sonic franchise are teenagers anyway. But later in the series, as Infinite starts getting more focus, he stops using the smartphone and takes a more active role in the story.
• Pinball Protagonist: Except for Knuckles himself, all the protagonists of Knuckles Chaotix U.S. simply wanted to have fun in Eggman's themed park but were thrown in jail because the echidna refused to let them in. After Knuckles is thrown into jail himself, they are forced to follow him because of the magic ring and because of Eggman's traps, they effectively bounce in every corner, making them literal pinball protagonists.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In "Heroes", as Metal Sonic shows off the powers he's stolen from each character, Shadow and Big's powers barely register on his gauge, but Cream's nearly send it flying off the screen. Cream then points out how she's been carrying Big around all day. Cheese also counts, as during the Egg Fleet sequence he's seen ripping apart an entire flying battleship from the inside.
• Precision F-Strike: The echidna from the movie parody yells "FUCK YOU" before pelting Longclaw with arrows.
• Product Placement: Roger's parody of the second movie's trailer pokes fun at the first movie's prominent product placement for Olive Garden. Even after Dr. Robotnik shows up, Sonic ignores him and continues to plug Olive Garden.
• "Rashomon"-Style: Like the game it's based on, "Adventure" has each character telling their story one at a time (except for Gamma, whose story is "told" by Dr. Eggman). Each character's recollection differs, but the differences are greatly exaggerated compared to the game: in Sonic's story, for example, he's hyper-competent while everyone else (especially Tails) is a complete idiot, while in Tails' story, it's the other way around.
• Reasonable Request Rejected: In ''Sonic Forces in minutes Part 2," a news anchor asks a bear named Mrs. Brown if she has any questions about the oppressive Eggman Empire. Mrs. Brown asks why she should worship Eggman, and what Eggman has done for her. The news anchor says that's a good question, and then it cuts to Mrs. Brown being roboticized.
  News anchor: That's a good question!
  (Mrs. Brown is roboticized)
  News anchor: We don't tolerate good questions!
• Roger Rabbit Effect:
  • "Sonic 3 in 4 Minutes" features a scene where Knuckles punches Sonic and Tails out of the Sega Saturn playing Sonic Jam and into the real world, then punches the Saturn and the game so they can't get back in. Sonic and Tails then go into a computer logged into the Pirate Treasure Cove Roms and Emulators website to get back into the game.
  • "Sonic and Knuckles in 5 minutes" repeats the gag and then one-ups it, with Knuckles punching the emulator website to get it DMCA'd. Sonic has to download the game via torrent to get back in.
• Running Gag: Most of the videos have one:
  • "Rivals": Knuckles getting confused and attacking the person closest to him while yelling, "I'M CONFUSED! RAAAGH!" This one became the Running Gag for the whole series, with Knuckles saying it at least once every video.
    • This one gets a Call-Back in "Adventure" where Pachacamac's warriors (Knuckles' ancestors) have "I'M CONFUSED!" as a battlecry.
  • "Adventure 2" has everyone mistaking Shadow for Sonic. Even Sonic.
    Shadow: [after Amy confuses him for Sonic] For the last time, I am Sha- er, no wait, actually, I am Sonic. How about a romantic dinner at-
    • "Adventure 2" also has crowds popping up to cheer at random points - for example, when Eggman threatens Amy, a crowd labelled "Amy Haters" appears to cheer. When Shadow rescues Rouge from Prison Island, a single Shadouge shipper cheers, then immediately adds, "Uh-oh" as he realises the place is about to explode.
  • "Battle": Everyone's immediate reaction to meeting Emerl, and later Chris, is to yell "PUNCHBAG" and beat the crap out of him.
  • "Heroes": Rouge breaking up people's fights and asking why, instead of fighting, they can't all be friends and help her look for jewels.
    Knuckles: [staring at Rouge's breasts] Yeah, babe. I'd love to help you look for your... jewels.
    Rouge: [backing away] Never mind, keep fighting.
  • "Rush": Just about everyone Blaze meets tells her to not fight on her own, be herself, and ask Sonic for help.
  • "Free Riders": Amy, Jet, Eggman, and Metal Sonic want to impress Sonic with their skills so he'll have butt-sex with them!
    • The Sonic Riders In Minutes episodes all end with a character declaring some variant of "I will never, EVER appear in any Sonic game again", only to be contradicted by the time the next Riders game comes out. Made even more hilarious (and somewhat Harsher in Hindsight) by the fact that even with the Riders sub-series seemingly coming to an end after the weak showing of Free Riders, the Babylon Rouges STILL show up in other games.
  • "Olympic Games": "I know London is known for its fog, but this is ridiculous!" [canned laughter] Eventually Running Gagged at the end when Mario and Sonic beat Toad and Omochao to death.
  • The OVA parody takes Sonic's infamous "Shut up, Tails!" line and turns it into pretty much the only thing Sonic can say. Then Metal Sonic gets cloned from his DNA, and...
    Sonic: Shut up, Metal Sonic!
    Metal Sonic: Shut up, flesh Sonic!
    Sonic: No, you shut up!
    Metal Sonic: No, you shut up!
    [they begin fighting]
  • "Sonic 3 and Knuckles": Sonic trying to use something (rope swing, dash pad, etc), only for Tails to use it before he can do so. Becomes literally Running Gagged when Sonic tapes him to one of the switches in Sandopolis Zone to keep it stuck on. The real payoff, however, comes in Sky Sanctuary, when Metal Sonic tries to jump into the Egg-O-Matic, only for Tails Doll to jump in first and fly off with it.
• Running Time in the Title: Naturally. Some later episodes play with this by listing an absurd number of minutes ("Sonic Adventure in 5 million minutes" is actually 22 minutes long), listing the number of seconds as well as the minutes, or just not listing the minutes at all. Others (such as "Sonic 3 and Knuckles in 10 minutes") only reach the stated length due to some blatant filler added onto the end.
• Sequel Escalation: The episodes kept getting longer and more elaborate to the point that Roger stopped putting the number of minutes in the episode titles, because the numbers were getting silly. "Adventure", for example, is 22 minutes long (not the "5 million minutes" claimed in the title, but still very long for a Flash animation). "Heroes" was shorter at 12 minutes but boasted 3D backdrops in both Grand Metropolis and Egg Fleet, an impressive feat for a Flash animation (especially the latter, which featured dozens of crudely-rendered ships).
  • Forces consists of multiple episodes.
• Shout-Out: "Adventure 2" features cameos from Batgirl, the Ghostbusters, and Gollum. They all make sense in context.
  • The Forces episodes, too. Except take out the whole making sense in context part.
  • The movie parody has several:
    • Jim Carrey's Robotnik is replaced with Ace Ventura.
    • When Sonic shoves Tom and Maddie through a ring, they come out in Sonic Robo Blast 2's Greenflower Zone instead of Green Hills.
    • When Sonic defeats Robotnik at the end of the parody, Robotnik ends up in the Mushroom Kingdom.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: invoked Parodied in Rivals, as Eggman Nega's race is interrupted within seconds when Sonic finds a collectable card.
  Sonic: Hey, a card! Look, guys, I found a card!
  Knuckles: I want a card too!
  [everyone runs around collecting cards]
• Skyward Scream: Robotnik's Big "NO!" at the end of "Riders" is framed as one.
• Something We Forgot: At the end of "Sonic 3 and Knuckles", Sonic Face Palms as he remembers that he left Tails duct-taped to a switch in Sandopolis Zone. When he gets there, it seems for a moment as though Tails has died and become one of the ghosts, but it's just a prank set up by Tails, who's perfectly fine.
• Spared by the Adaptation: While the movie strongly implies that Longclaw is dead, Roger's parody trailer for the sequel ends with Knuckles revealing that she's still alive, albeit Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Spy Fiction: Amy's story in "Adventure" is told similarly to an action spy thriller, with Amy even being referred to as "Agent Rose".
• Stylistic Suck: Like all Roger's animations. Especially so in the earlier episodes, when Roger's English wasn't as good, he did a lot of the voices himself, and his (still deliberately crude) art style wasn't as refined. "Adventure 2", the first parody, actually has a disclaimer in the preloader stating that it's supposed to look that crappy.
  • Also invoked in the last minute or so of Lost World in Minutes. After spending the entire animation using his current level of quality and art, the art suddenly nosedives down to the kind of quality he had when he first started animating a decade ago in order to reflect his feelings on the quality of the ending.
  • "Adventure 2 IRL" translates this flawlessly into live-action. The characters are visibly dragged around by hand or on pieces of string, King Boom Boo and the space rocket are monochrome paper cutouts, and the explosion effects are somehow even cruder than the original.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • A bonus section in "Unleashed" shows a human NPC accidentally stepping on a dash pad and being propelled through one of the game's daytime levels, showing how Awesome, but Impractical the levels' architecture would be for an actual city.
  • At one point in "Forces", Sonic attempts to do the Double Boost with the rookie, only to rip his arm off. This leads to a case of What the Hell, Hero? from Tails and Vector.
  Vector: What makes you think the poor rookie can keep up with you, Sonic? You're the Fastest Thing Alive!
  • During the adaption of "Sonic CD", Sonic manages to jump so high off of a ramp in Collision Chaos that he actually leaves Little Planet's gravitational field, flinging himself all the way back to where he started on the mainland. This comes back in reverse in his adaptation of "Sonic Mania", where Sonic and friends chase Heavy Rider up the chains to Little Planet until gravity abruptly flips, sending them all plummeting into Stardust Speedway.
  • In the opening of his "Sonic Lost World" adaption, the scene of Sonic trying to open the capsule is changed so that he manages to open it successfully instead of missing and having to chase it down in Windy Hill. However while all the Flickies were able to fly off without a hitch, the rest of the animals and Sonic himself end up crashing down painfully in Windy Hill anyway. And then they're crushed to death by the raining scrap from the capsule.
• Take That!:
  • In the movie parody, Tom's shirt says "Hell" instead of "San Francisco", so that's where Sonic's rings end up. Tom then tells Sonic that the closest place to Hell is in San Francisco - specifically, YouTube's customer service department. Sure enough, Sonic finds his rings there.
  • In "Sonic 3 in 4 Minutes", after Knuckles kicks Sonic and Tails out of the Sega Saturn playing Sonic Jam, Sonic and Tails go into a computer logged into the Pirate Treasure Cove Roms and Emulators website to get back into the game. On the website, the options for Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Nintendo 64 games are faded to grey, and on the left side of the screen, there's an image of a Nintendo lawyer fighting a pirate. This is a reference to how Nintendo would take down websites that host ROM dumps of their games, considering them piracy.
    • The sequel, "Sonic and Knuckles in 5 Minutes", has Knuckles kick Sonic and Tails out of the Saturn for a second time, then punch them out of the emulator site, which manifests as a DMCA takedown initiated by Nintendo. The ending also portrays Michael Jackson's lawyers as being overtly malicious for getting Carnival Night and Ice Cap's themes removed from the more recent re-releases of the game.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Adventure subverts the canon Super Sonic finale by having Amy calm Chaos down by showing it cute things, specifically the Chao it once tried to protect. Her reasoning is that because Chaos is full of negative emotions, she should show it positive, happy things, and it works.
• The End... Or Is It?: Riders Zero Gravity ends with a humorous example. Wave makes the same promise that Jet did at the end of the first Riders parody - namely, that they would never appear in any Sonic game again - but this time it's followed by a shot of fans staring expectantly at Roger with the caption "The End?" Sure enough...
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • As mentioned above, this is Big's usual characterisation, with the notable exception of "Adventure".
  • In his parody of Sonic X's Baseball Episode, Albert jumps in front of the X-Tornado to try and stop it from crashing into the baseball stadium, despite the fact that the stadium is set to be demolished anyway. He is naturally killed instantly, and Saint Peter is so gobsmacked by his stupidity that he kicks him out of heaven and back to life.
• Unwilling Roboticization: Presented in the second Forces episode.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While it's unclear exactly how old he was (or is), in Forces, it's shown that Infinite used to be an adorable, wide-eyed youngster. But then he became a victim of bullying, and that's what led him to become evil.
• Villain Ball: Lampshaded with Eggman in "Riders", after he organizes an Extreme Gear race with the Chaos Emeralds as the entry fee:
  Eggman: Muahahaha, it worked, I have all the Chaos Emeralds! Now I'm going to... join in that race, so I can win the Chaos Emeralds I actually already have! Muahahaha!
• Villain Decay: Played for Laughs. In "Forces," Black Doom has fallen a long way since he was the Big Bad of Shadow the Hedgehog. Here, he comes to Dr. Eggman looking for a job. Eggman hires Black Doom simply because Black Doom can mindlessly shoot lasers all over the place, causing untold destruction. Black Doom is portrayed as a comical buffoon who still thinks of himself as a brilliantly evil genius. His two strategies for dealing with enemies are one, shooting lasers all over the place, and two, setting up doors that only open when his enemies defeat all the guards nearby.
• Wangst: invoked In both "Riders" and "Rivals", Shadow is depicted as a big whiny ball of angst, lampooning his depiction in ''his eponymous game.
  Shadow: Maria... Maria, why... why me? Who am I, where do I come from, what is my purpose, who stole my wallet, why is everyone against me, why do I- [crashes into a dumpster] -ugh... why me...
• We Need a Distraction: In "Heroes", Sonic tells the others to dress up in silly costumes to distract Metal Overlord while he goes off and defeats him all by himself. Partway into the battle, Metal Overlord ends up getting distracted by Big the Cat dancing the hula, complete with grass skirt and coconut bra, giving Sonic an opening to attack him.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Lampshaded. In "Forces," the news anchor can't figure out if the game takes place on Mobius, Earth, or somewhere else. He eventually says that the planet's name is (mumbling incoherently.)
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Sonic Boom 3DS has the cast reluctantly spouting off constant childish jokes until Lyric, who'd seemingly been the most dedicated to his performance, flies into a rage over the script, which gets smoothed over by an outtake.
  Lyric: WHO THE HECK WROTE THIS? MY GOD! THIS IS LIKE A KINDERGARTEN VERSION OF TEEN TITANS GO!^note He doesn't actually get past "kindergarten" before he's cut off.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit:
  • In "Adventure", Eggman tells the GUN General that everything he did was completely above-board (his "secret base" was a puppy orphanage, and his missile was a scientific rocket), and that Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles conspired to destroy all his good work. Not only does the GUN General believe him, he even gives Eggman a map to Prison Island and an admission pass, leading to the events of Sonic Adventure 2.
  • He pulls the same trick again in "Sonic 3", persuading Knuckles that he's an innocent victim of Sonic's bullying to trick Knuckles into attacking Sonic. It gets Played for Laughs when Knuckles watches Flying Battery bombing the shit out of Angel Island Zone and Eggman has to pause mid-Evil Laugh to reiterate that Sonic is the evil one, not him.
• Yandere: Amy in several parodies, but most prominently in "Heroes", where her idea of a marriage ceremony is to knock Sonic off the top of a skyscraper.

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