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A sequel was announced, [[Vaporware|but nothing's been seen of it yet]].

 

* [[Action Commands]] - During special skills, and non-damage dealing ones fail completely if you miss even one; see [[Useless Useful Spell]], below.

* [[Animated Actors]] - The credits are delivered by having Sonic, Tails and Omega [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Break The Fourth Wall]] to discuss the developers.

* [[A Taste of Power]] - Sort of. {{spoiler|Dr. Eggman has a lot of HP, a lot of PP and a ridiculously powerful and easy-to-execute special attack in Bombardment, aswell as an instant kill attack against robots when used in conjunction with Tails. It's not a typical Taste of Power in that you don't start out with him, but he does leave the party about halfway through the game.}}

* [[Badass in Distress]] - The game's plot kicks off by having Knuckles kidnapped by the Marauders after they overwhelm him and Tails in a fight. By the time the heroes track him down, he's [[Redundant Rescue|already managed to break free.]]

* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]] - Emerl was picked up from ''Sonic Battle'', dusted off, and woven into the Nocturnus' history.

* [[Can't Catch Up]] - Averted by giving earned experience points to everyone, whether they're in your party, back at the safehouse, [[Leaked Experience|and even the characters that haven't met you yet]].

* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]

** [[Continuity Porn]] - The game makes a ''huge'' point to tie itself in with most of the games of the series.

** [[Continuity Snarl]] - ...But falls flat because it gets ''a lot'' of details wrong.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Rouge

* [[Dialogue Tree]] - As Tails explains it, you usually can choose between getting through the conversation as fast as possible, being nice, being neutral, and being snarky and rude.

* [[The Dragon|The Dragon(s)]] - Scylla and Charyb.

** Also, General Raxos.

* [[The Empire]] - Ix certainly runs the Twilight Cage like one. His title is "Imperator" for crying out loud.

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Mine]] - subverted}}

** There's even an expied ''area'' with the Twilight Cage. Bioware admittedly just took Archie's echidna history and adapted it to the games.

* [[Evil Albino]] - Imperator Ix

* [[Evil Overlord]] - Imperator Ix

* [[Fastball Special]] - Rather common in Sonic's special attacks.

* [[Final Exam Boss]] - The last battle with Ix tests to see how good you are with the Action Commands. And the one right before it checks your skill at the fleeing/catch-the-fleeing-enemies minigame.

** [[The Hero]] - Sonic

** [[The Lancer]] - Rouge, Knuckles, Shadow

* [[Hive Mind]] - The Voxai.

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Amy.

** A [[Hannibal Lecture]] by Ix later in the game suggests him to be a [[Knight Templar]] himself, claiming he intends to make the world a better place {{spoiler|by conquering it of course.}}

** Near the end of the game, Knuckles confesses that he's worried ''Sonic'' might be this towards the Nocturnus Clan, leading Knuckles to give Ix a [[Last Second Chance]] before Sonic can get there.

* [[Lost Forever]] - Due to the multiple [[Point of No Return|Points Of No Return]], almost everything. Most notably, both [[Optional Party Member|Optional Party Members]] and a lot of rings.

* [[Mass Teleportation]] - Any civilization that ended up in the Twilight Cage.

* [[Mighty Glacier]] - Omega and Knuckles.

* [[Mythology Gag]] - Sort of. The game uses a ''lot'' of plot threads that [[Aborted Arc|Sega discarded or forgot about]], especially from ''Sonic Battle''. And then there's plenty of actual franchise references.

* [[Noble Demon]] - Shade {{spoiler|pre-[[Heel Face Turn]]}}.

* [[No Ending]] - Combined with [[Sequel Hook]]. The game ends with {{spoiler|Sonic and friends learning that Eggman has taken over the world. And then they thank Bioware for being awesome.}}

* [[Odd Friendship]] - {{spoiler|During Eggman's stint as a member of your party, he and Tails strike up a friendship.}}

* [[Optional Party Member]] - [[Game Breaker|Cream]] and Omega, both of which can be [[Lost Forever]].

* [[Point of No Return]] - Multiple. Whatever you do, make absolutely sure you follow {{spoiler|Eggman}}'s advice and don't go into Metropolis unless you're sure you've got everything you need. Also, make sure to get everything ''in'' Metropolis before trying to recapture the Master Emerald. And after that, get everything in Metropolis Ground Zero before finishing the chapter, and ''then'' make sure you have everything from the Twilight Cage before starting chapter 10.

* [[Required Party Member]] - Often, especially when the team splits up.

* [[Scylla and Charybdis]] - The names of two locations as well as two robot guardians.

** And speaking of ''[[Star Wars]]'':

** One of the sidequests in Chapter Three has you retrieve a man's prized stapler. [[Office Space|The stapler in question is bright red.]]

** The whole concept of a still-living echidna race, exiled to the Twilight Cage, sounds like what the Archie Comics did with their echidna race first.

* [[Snake Talk]] - The N'rrgal Colony.

* [[Space Pirate]] - In a sidequest, with [[Talk Like a Pirate]] epically mocked by Rouge.

* [[Stone Wall]] - Big.

* [[There Is Another]] - {{spoiler|There's an entire clan of echidnas that were exiled to the Twilight Cage long ago.}}

* [[Useless Useful Spell]] - Several special skills are ''completely useless'' if you don't input every single [[Action Commands|action command]] perfectly. If you didn't, congratulations, you just lost a turn and a bunch of PP.

** There is a Chao that will automatically grant you perfect results... too bad it takes a while to get.

* [[Verbal Tic]] - Like Yoda, the Kron speak.

* [[What Could Have Been]] - This game is almost an [[Unfinished Beta]] - the one we have now is a ''very'' stripped down version of what was originally planned. Hackers have discovered that the opening cutscene was to be A LOT longer and have ''an actual battle''. The music would probably be actually good instead of strangely retro soundly. But no! All of this is likely the result of Bioware being bought by [[Electronic Arts]] roughly a year before the game released, and Bioware completed enough of the game to fulfill their contract to Sega so that they could concentrate on ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]''.

 

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