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Much like ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' did for [[Mario]], this title introduced the concepts and ideas that would be used for future 3D games in the ''Sonic'' series.

This was also the first ''Sonic'' game to have a highly involved plot. The game involves Sonic the Hedgehog trying to prevent the latest [[Take Over the World|world domination scheme]] of [[Big Bad|Dr. Robotnik/Eggman]], which involves using all seven Chaos Emeralds to unleash the full power of a creature named Chaos. Sonic's story is tied into other characters' stories as well, although their goals differ. Introduced Big the Cat and E-102 Gamma. It was also the first ''Sonic'' game to include a song by [[Crush 40]].

 

 

Received a direct sequel, ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'', in 2001 to commemorate the series' [[Milestone Celebration|10th anniversary]].

 

 

* [[Above the Ruins]]: {{spoiler|The cliff overlooking the ruined temple of Tikal's ancient Echidna tribe in the deep Mystic Ruins.}}

** Also, {{spoiler|the team looking down upon the flooded Station Square post-Chaos.}}

** For example, Sonic and Tails travel through the sewers of Casinopolis in order to find {{spoiler|the Chaos Emerald located there.}}

** This is also how Gamma and Amy choose to travel through {{spoiler|the Hot Shelter in the Egg Carrier.}}

* [[Almost Out of Oxygen]]: A staple of the franchise. That countdown music is unnerving.

* [[An Aesop]]: {{spoiler|[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]. The tragic story of the Echidna race and Chaos prove this.}}

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: {{spoiler|Getting all medals unlocks Metal Sonic, who is essentially a reskinned Sonic with slightly altered animations. You can only use him in Trial mode.}}

* [[Animated Adaptation]]: Was adapted into an arc in the [[Anime of the Game]] ''[[Sonic X]]''.

* [[Art Evolution]]: SA1 introduced the art style for Sonic and friends that would be used in future games. Amy was the one affected most by this, as she no longer looks like [[Distaff Counterpart|a pink Sonic in drag]]. However, the Sonic-themed pinball table in Sonic's version of Casinopolis ''does'' feature stock artwork from the earlier games.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Amy, originally a minor semi-recurrer beforehand, gained a prominent playable role in this and many titles following it.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: At the end of {{spoiler|Super Sonic}}'s story in SA1, Tails says "all's well that ends well," even though {{spoiler|all of Station Square had just been demolished and flooded by Perfect Chaos's rampage, and ''at least'' half of the population had to have been killed}}.

** And in some way, {{spoiler|Eggman becomes a [[Karma Houdini]] after having done the wrong to the city and its population and getting away scot-free, although getting the Egg Carrier II destroyed by Perfect Chaos arguably counts as karma.}}

* [[Blob Monster]]: Chaos, who's made of water.

* [[Book Ends]]: Knuckles's story begins and ends with him narrating how he was fated to stay forever on Angel Island guarding the Master Emerald. In the beginning, he mentions that he doesn't know why he was given this role in life, but in the end, he believes he is better off for that.

* [[Boss Rush]]: Beating a story unlocks a minigame where you fight each of the bosses faced in that story one after the other (the exception being {{spoiler|Super Sonic}} in SA1, whose story ''only'' consists of a single boss fight with some Adventure Field navigation beforehand).

** Also, Gamma only fights Beta {{spoiler|and Beta II.}} The other E-100s are left out.

** [[Sonic R|Tails Doll]] (along with puppet versions of Knuckles and Sonic) appear as training dummies in E-102's first level.

* [[Capital City]]: Station Square and the Speed Highway stage within it.

{{quote|''(the Egg Carrier changes its shape)''

'''Tails:''' Oh wow! It's changed shape! Did you see that?

'''Gamma'''(after seeing what happened to Beta after defeating him at the beginning): "This is the wrong room." }}

* [[Casino Park]]: Casinopolis.

* [[Character Development]]: Tails learns to take on troubles without Sonic's help, and he even musters the courage to stop Robotnik's attack on Station Square. Amy also goes from being a [[Damsel in Distress]] depending on Sonic to save her to an [[Action Girl]] beating up the very robot that constantly pursued her. Finally, E-102 Gamma learns about love and caring, which motivates it to stop being a mindless servant to Robotnik, go on its own mission, and make {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|the ultimate sacrifice in the end to free the bird trapped inside]]}}.

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: Was adapted in story arcs in [[Archie Comics|Archie]]'s ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' and also as what was notably the last new story arc in ''[[Sonic the Comic]]''.

** In the first Adventure, the music for Twinkle Park's hovercraft and Windy Valley's "The Air" segments are remixes of the Panic Puppet and Green Grove Zone themes from ''[[Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island]]''.

*** And the second piece of music for Emerald Coast is a redo of Act 2 of Green Grove.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Sonic and Gamma can survive just fine in the incredibly hot volcano section of Red Mountain, with lava and geysers being the only hazards that damage them. Then again, this is true of all ''Sonic'' games where the characters don't suffer any ill effects from standing only a few inches above a lava pit.

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: As in most games in the franchise, Sonic and the cast can take any amount of damage, from a barrage of Eggman's launched missiles to an explosion a third the size of the Egg Carrier, without any outward sign of injury, but after their last ring is lost, brushing against a robot chimp is enough for a K.O.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: In the final route of the game, {{spoiler|Robotnik hops into the Egg Carrier 2 to tame Perfect Chaos. It's onscreen for maybe 30 seconds before Perfect Chaos blows it up.}}

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: At least in comparison to most ''Sonic'' games released before it. This game literally starts off with its opening cutscene depicting a city being flooded by Perfect Chaos, and later in the game, {{spoiler|the echidna tribe crosses a [[Moral Event Horizon]]}}.

* [[Deadly Rotary Fan]]: E-06 Spinner and E-16 Electro Spinner are fitted with these. Speed Highway also features a [[Helicopter Blender]] obstacle.

** [[Co-Dragons]]: E-102 Gamma to a lesser extent plays a similar role to Robotnik {{spoiler|prior to a [[Heel Face Turn]]}} helping in preserve his alternative Dragon.

* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: Chaos only helps Eggman to get the Emeralds so that {{spoiler|Chaos can go [[One-Winged Angel]] and destroy the world}}.

* [[Easter Egg]]: Cream the Rabbit [[Early-Bird Cameo|makes a short appearance]] in the remake. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wexxG6IaNi4&feature=related See video here.] Also, E-105ζ "Zeta" is made of 6 Sega Dreamcast consoles [http://info.sonicretro.org/File:E105.png located around the grey blocks under his cannons.]

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Super Sonic, at the very end.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Chaos.

* [[Elite Mook]]: The E-100 series robots. Oddly despite their more advanced intelligence and power than Eggman's usual badniks (apparently enough to rival Sonic individually abiding by Gamma's story) they are mostly given mundane tasks by the doctor such as searching for a frog in a beach.

* [[Fanfare]]: While addressing his robots, Eggman plays his own [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3ezY6aDV4 canned fanfare music]. Pretty amusing.

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Chick]]: Amy Rose

** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: E-102 Gamma

** OOOH NO! OUR WEAPONS ARE USELESS!

* [[Fixed Camera]]: Made more adjustable in the ''DX'' version.

* [[Free Rotating Camera]]: Not universal though.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Pachacamac retroactively gets one through ''Chronicles''.}}

* [[Futureshadowing]]: Some of the visions of the past do this. No, seriously.

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Windows will crash in certain times in ''DX''. Most notably the fight with Dr. Eggman in the Mystic Ruins.

* [[Game Mod]]: Sonicretro has made one for both PC versions [http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=25301&st=0 that fixes much of the bugs and other oddities in the original release].

** In the backstory, Tikal tries to defend the Chao and the Chaos Emeralds from her dad and his soldiers. Said soldiers brusquely push her aside and proceed to incur Chaos' wrath.

** In the aftermath of Sonic's (or Tails') fight with Gamma, [[The Rashomon|regardless of who wins]], Amy intervenes to convince the victor to let the other live.

* [[Gravity Screw]]: Most notably in Lost World, where panels on the wall glow when orientated correctly by hitting a switch, allowing Sonic and Knuckles to simply walk up the wall. The last part of Sky Deck changes orientation as well, and Knuckles can actually control this.

* [[Hall of Mirrors]]: A segment exclusive to Amy's version of Twinkle Park.

** {{spoiler|Also Gamma, who self-destructs, or at least ''planned to'' if you prefer to think Beta Mk. II's final attack is what really took him out, in order to release the last Flicky bird.}}

* [[Hub Level]]: Station Square, Mystic Ruins, and the Egg Carrier.

* [[ISO Standard Urban Groceries]]: The brown paper bag Amy carries in the introductory cutscene to her story.

* [["I Want" Song]]: Tails's and Amy's themes: ''[[I Just Want to Be Special|Believe in Myself]]'' and ''[[Stalker with a Crush|My Sweet Passion]]''.

* [[Ignorant of the Call]]: Most of the cast react this way to Tikal's flashbacks. Near the end of his story Sonic fails to get the message that he should go after Chaos instead of Robotnik.

* [[Incoming Ham]]: Oh yes, Robotnik's ''first line in the game'' is this. "You know NOTHING, fools! It's ''CHAOS'', the '''GOD''' of '''DESTRUCTION!!!!'''"

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: There was going to be a dragon boss in the Sky Chase minigame, but it was removed...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqLh2U7Mv2s not entirely, however...]

* [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]]: Right towards the end of Twinkle Park for Sonic, there's an iron gate blocking you from getting to a spring if you end up on the right side of it. You can barely jump higher than it by yourself and you can definitely jump higher than it if you get up some speed with a Spin Dash. However, the game won't let you pass it from that side, you have to circumnavigate the entire circular roof to approach the spring from the other side.<ref>However, unlike other examples, this CAN be circumvented by simply jumping at the spring from one of the floating platforms leading to the roof. If you execute a homing attack at it, the game won't block your progress, which is good for the A Emblem.</ref>

* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Not directly stated, but E-102 Gamma's resolve to rescue the animals trapped inside the E-Series robots was partly due to Amy saving its life. {{spoiler|Gamma brings the trope to its natural conclusion by giving up its own life so that the Flicky powering it could be reunited with the bird Amy was taking care of.}}

** Said act by Amy was also provoked by Gamma freeing her and Birdie from Eggman's cell inside the Egg Carrier (which would later crash land into the ocean) making it both issued and returned at the same time.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: E-102 Gamma states this in his story recap following releasing Amy and Birdie and disobeying Eggman's orders.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: [[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog|"Ooh, I hate that Sonic!"]]

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Chaos in ''Sonic Adventure'' becomes Perfect Chaos when he drains the negative energy out of the Chaos Emeralds.

* [[Palmtree Panic]]: Emerald Coast.

* [[Pals with Jesus]]: Tikal and Chaos, God of Destruction.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Rather than talk to Sonic about why he's after the Master Emerald shards, Knuckles instead immediately starts a fight with Sonic and Tails without reasonably asking the two directly about it, which could of prevented the whole fight in the first place.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: The bond of Sonic with his [[Nakama]] allows him to unlock the full potential of Super Sonic with the Chaos Emeralds, although Tails does say that Chaos only absorbed the negative energy of the Emeralds.

* [[Rashomon Style]]: Who won in the character vs. character fights? It depends who you ask. Most of the dialogue was re-recorded for each story even when it doesn't need to be.

** In Sonic and Tails's stories, the character played as is the one who fights most of the bosses and puts the keys in the Mystic Ruins.

** [[Star Trek|Resistance is futile]], {{spoiler|hand over the bird!}}

* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: Icecap, with an [[Ice Palace]] section.

* [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|Stupid Statement Rap Mix:]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzwRbWCbjnA GET A LOAD OF THIS GET GET GET A LOAD OF THIS]

* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: ''Everyone''. The early games didn't even have ''subtitled lines''.

* [[Team Rocket Wins]]: Playing E-102 Gamma's story at least, which allows you to fight and defeat Sonic in battle (though Amy stops him just short of finishing the job). So far Gamma is the only Eggman droid to individually defeat Sonic in the games storywise (albeit [[Rashomon Style|branching]] storywise).

* [[Temple of Doom]]: Lost World.

* [[Theme Song Power Up]]: Subverted, Inverted, and Averted all in the final battle against Perfect Chaos. "Open Your Heart" (the game's main theme and Super Sonic's personal theme, more or less) plays during the first half of the battle. After you hit Chaos a number of times, it revives and the second half plays out under Perfect Chaos' own theme. It's subverted because Super Sonic doesn't defeat the creature for good while his own theme is playing, inverted because Perfect Chaos' own theme is what plays during the second half (after it's rejuvenated) so Chaos is the one powering up to its own theme, and averted because it doesn't do a lick of good anyway (it's already losing by the time its music starts up; you just have to land the finishing blow).

* [[Understatement]]: Gamma's concise nature of speaking creates such gems as "This is the wrong room" after accidentally walking in on his older brother being seemingly cannibalized for parts and upgraded while still active, or "This presents a problem" after being seemingly ''teleported back in time''.

* [[Underwater Ruins]]: Lost World, in parts.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: {{spoiler|Pachacamac's reasoning for wanting the Chaos Emeralds taken from the shrine. It does nothing to cover up his power hungry nature and lack of regard for life at that point.}}

* [[Video Game 3D Leap]]

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Likewise, you can hit the Chao, throw it, put it in water and watch it flail if it doesn't know how to swim, make it starve, and all other sorts of things. Such abuse will result in the Chao crying a fountain of tears, blowing a raspberry at you, or if it's aggressive enough, it'll charge at you and futilely throw punches. If the Chao is more sad/angry than happy, it ''won't'' reincarnate at the end of its life...

* [[The Voiceless]]: Chaos.

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: E-102 Gamma's story deconstructs this trope by virtue of being a playable [[Mook]]. (Well, an [[Elite Mook]], but still).

** Which doesn't make a great deal of sense when you remember that they're ''the Egg Carrier's crew''. How is Gamma meant to keep the place running by himself?

** Admittedly, the rest of the Egg Carrier "crew" [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|weren't really seen doing much]] outside trying (and failing) to collect Froggy (Gamma attempted to collect Birdie and destroy Sonic and again failed at both). Not to mention Eggman was nearly at the brink of completing Chaos, at which point [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|they would likely be needless to his plan]].

 

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