YMMV / Sonic Origins (Ri2)

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: There is an actual fast-food chain in real life that goes by the name Sonic.
• Continuity Lock-Out: Since this is an origin series, the references go back as far as the first game! And that is not including the two comic series and the two animated series.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Fang's crew rigging a nearby children's hospital that also doubles as a Chao garden AND kitten orphanage to explode is terrible indeed. The sheer amount of Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs when listing the bad outcome makes it so blatantly over the top that it ends up looping straight to Black Comedy.
• Fanfic Fuel: In light of all the bombshells the cast dropped on each other, it's nice to see the impact in the future.
• Growing the Beard: The early chapters are simple origin stories that you can just read for fun. Then come chapter 4 and onwards, the implications of Sonic's world are played straight to make the world a truly fleshed out place, dropping quite a lot of heavy and deep subjects. Unfortunately, it had the side effect of making the waiting time and the length of each chapter longer and longer....
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • When it was discovered that even the Rogues' own Extreme Gear boards suffer from the same radioactive defects that would turn the user into a walking fragile display despite one of their own being its inventor, it was implied in the next chapter that Wave may have rigged this on purpose for malicious reasons instead of typical corporate laziness.
  • In the prologue, Blaze discusses with Sonic the constant ramifications of letting Eggman escape/live, when it is clear that he would never change his ways while more people suffer as collateral. This would become the main complaint of Sonic in the IDW comics.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Vector's speaking in Noir about how the Chaotix became detectives in Chapter 4. One and a half years later, Sonic Universe #91-#94 has Vector speaking Noir in his opening narrations...only to crumple a few textboxes in due to a lack of vocabulary.
  • Blaze from Rush and 06 is the same character in here as revealed in Chapter 10, with Iblis being the original source of her fire powers. Around one and a half years after the chapter is posted, Shiro Maekawa (one of the main writers of 06) reveals that this was actually the planned intention behind Blaze's inclusion in 06, with her being brought to the Sol Dimension by Silver as the part that was left out of her backstory in Rush. It didn't go through due the game's abysmal reception and that plot point was dropped outside of references in other games.
  • The entire course of the fic takes apart the costs of being constantly second fiddle to Sonic, shows that the supporting casts can be heroes in their own right if they weren't constantly reduced to being moral support and calls out Amy's obsession with Sonic. Guess what happens in Sonic Frontiers?
  • Shadow becomes a grand-uncle due to Eggman having built a good daughter. Are we talking about Belle or Sage?
  • Nack the Weasel becomes the Gunslinger by changing his name and goes from a nobody to a legitimate terror while the Marvelous Queen is upgraded to a machine of death. Around five years later, Sonic Superstars would reveal that said character not only changes names on a regular basis due to his criminal activity, he also constantly upgrades his bike, the Marvelous Queen, with all sorts of gimmicks. His infamously hard boss fight in Trip's story would make people wonder if SEGA secretly read this fic.
• I Knew It!: The identity of Cream's father would be surprising if it wasn't for the huge amount of hints dropped in the chapters prior to Cream's that pretty much narrowed down the list of possible suspects to two or three people.
• Jerkass Woobie: Since the Djinn can only grant other people wishes but never their own, they keep getting attacked by pretty much everyone else in the galaxy. They are so sick of it that they blew up their own planet to trick everyone else that they are wiped out not before evacuating the entire population into ships like Babylon Garden and purposely isolating each ship from each other to ensure maximum stealth. If any ship was caught, they would kill themselves so that their would-be captors wouldn't just wish for the location of the othe colony ships. When Astral Babylon, Babylon Garden at that time, crashed on Mobius, upon realising that it is already inhabited, the denizens started a life of raiding as payback so that they will never be called upon to wish for others again.
• Unexpected Character: Shade of the Nocturnus makes a surprise return to test out the warp belts that would bring the races in Twilight Cage back to Mobius. Sadly, an Omochao triggered her PTSD and made her realize that its master is still alive, scaring her and by extension the rest of the inhabitants into remaining in Twilight Cage.