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[[File:sonic-heroes-gamecube.428823.jpg|frame|That's the real Super Power of TEAMWORK!]]
''Sonic Heroes'' is a video game in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series released at the end of 2003. It's notable for being the first ''Sonic'' game to have [[Multi Platform]] release on all three consoles after Sega quit making consoles (prior to this, ''Sonic'' stuck to the [[Nintendo
Team Sonic consists of Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. They get a letter from Dr. Eggman in which the evil doctor boasts that he has created the ultimate weapon to [[Take Over the World]], and tells the trio that they have three days to stop him from launching it.
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Team Dark consists of Shadow, Rouge, and E-123 Omega. All three are after Eggman, but for different reasons. Rouge wants Eggman's secret treasure, Shadow is currently amnesiac after being frozen in suspended animation and wants answers from Eggman, and Omega wants to kill the doctor for demoting him to secret base security.
Team Rose consists of Amy, Cream--with her Chao friend Cheese--and Mr. Big. Big must once again find his missing pal Froggy, Cream wants to reunite Cheese with his brother [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|Chocola]], and Amy, of course, wants to track down Sonic.
Team Chaotix consists of Espio, Charmy, and Vector. They are a group of detectives who are tasked with various missions from an unknown client that communicates with them via walkie-talkie. Vector and Charmy are eager to fulfill their client's tasks as they are promised a hefty cash reward; although skeptical, Espio is forced to join his comrades.
The game's reviews were rather mixed, but mostly positive, with the [[Game Cube]] version getting the highest overall scores, and the [[
Was later followed up by a semi-sequel called ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog (video game)|Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' that wrapped up several of the loose threads in Team Dark's storyline.
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* [[Actually a Doombot]]: Eggman, after you crash his Albatross. Once your back is turned, though, the robot melts and reforms into Metal Sonic.
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: Egg Fleet and Final Fortress.
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: {{spoiler|Metal Sonic}} spends the game scanning the heroes and gaining their powers: Sonic's speed, Tails's flight, Knuckles's strength, Shadow's Chaos powers, and (by way of proxies that have been in contact with him) Chaos's shapeshifting ability, manifested through metal instead of water.
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* [[Cut and Paste Environments]]: All the Teams go through the exact same levels at the exact same times and fight {{spoiler|Metal Sonic disguised as}} Eggman in the exact same fights. While there are enough differences in the actual levels, the storyline is a giant [[Contrived Coincidence]].
* [[Death Mountain]]: Rail Canyon and Bullet Station.
* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)]]: The Team Rose vs Team Sonic boss has you (as Amy) beat Sonic up because he refuses her romantic advances. Granted, you also play as Sonic in the same situation, but the in-game dialog has Knuckles assume that it's Sonic's fault and the opening to the next level implies that Sonic ran away rather than fight back. Having a male hero try to force a woman into marriage would probably not be considered appropriate for an all-ages game, but with the genders reversed it's [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Dreadful Musician|Dreadful Musicians]]: The Chaotix during their Team Blast.
* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: Team Sonic and Team Rose. Averted by Team Dark and Team Chaotix.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: {{spoiler|1=Metal Sonic. Surprisingly, its just [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iKTD-Lai1U Ryan Drummond's Sonic voice] given a robotic makeover.}}
* [[Fastball Special]]:
** The "Power" characters can pick up the other team members and perform this for their aerial attacks.
** Team Sonic's Team Blast, the Sonic Overdrive, has the teammates flinging each other over to the enemies close enough for Sonic to perform the Light Speed Attack..
* [[Flying Seafood Special]]: The Egg Fleet consists of ships that resemble sharks, sawfish and manta rays. The (huge) flagship, Final Fortress, is a whale shark.
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: When Team Chaotix is about to fight the Robot Storm at the Mystic Mansion, Vector calls "Eggman" a moustache moron, before asking his client if he's the real deal (they had earlier defeated a fake). The client takes an odd amount of offense to Vector's remark before stopping himself. {{spoiler|It's later revealed that their client was Eggman all along.}}
** Also, in the scene where Team Dark defeats Eggman at Sky Canyon, because of their {{spoiler|finding a destroyed Shadow robot, and later a large collection of Shadow robots in stasis}}, people had been speculating that {{spoiler|the Shadow they discovered in the beginning of the game may have been a robot.}}, however, the same scene as {{spoiler|their discovery of the destroyed Shadow bot}} had {{spoiler|Metal Sonic stating that the Ultimate Life-Form's data has been successfully copied,}} implying that yes, {{spoiler|the Shadow Rouge discovered is indeed the real Shadow.}}
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The dark tone of the Last Story in contrast to the generally [[Lighter and Softer]] feel of the rest of the game.
* [[Multi Mook Melee]]/[[Wolfpack Boss]]: The boss battles following Bingo Highway and Mystic Mansion are this.
* [[Multi Platform]]: The fact that the game was being released for all three of the then-current gen consoles was a major selling point. The [[
* [[Musical Nod]]: The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTj9XD9sds4 "upside down" theme to Hang Castle] is composed almost entirely of an ambient remix of a riff from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2|Sonic 2]]'''s Mystic Cave BGM.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Later Team Dark stages.
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* [[Power of Friendship]]: More like the '''real superpower of teamwork!'''
* [[Power Trio]]: All four teams.
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Subverted in English with the Corkery family: son William voices Tails, while his father Bill and sister Emily respectively voice [[True Companions|Chaotix members]] Espio and [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Charmy]].
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: {{spoiler|Super Sonic and Metal Sonic, whether it's the normal one, Neo Metal Sonic, or Metal Overlord.}}
* [[Rewrite]]: [[Word of God]] confirmed that this game did not bring back the Chaotix, but reinvented them for the game, meaning that ''[[Knuckles Chaotix]]'', their debut game, [[Canon Discontinuity|has been written out of]] the ''Sonic'' canon.
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* [[There Can Only Be One]]: {{spoiler|[[Robot Me|Metal Sonic]]'s [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|desire to beat Sonic]] [[Sanity Slippage|progressed]] into a full-on insanity in this game as he believed himself to be the ''real'' Sonic (all the while still acknowledging that [[Evil Knockoff|he was built with the purpose of defeating Sonic]]) with lines like, "No long time no see, Sonic, my loathsome copy" and "I am the ''real'' Sonic!"}} To a lesser extent, {{spoiler|Shadow's identity crisis is further compounded when he discovers a broken robotic copy of himself}}, although he doesn't say anything about it and it is instead {{spoiler|Rouge and Omega who briefly muse about the development at endgame.}}
* [[Title Drop]]:
** The beginning of Team Sonic's story when they get the "invitation" from Doctor Eggman. He starts the letter off by exclaiming, "Guess WHAT, Sonic Heroes?!"
** The ending when {{spoiler|Metal Overlord reverts back to Metal Sonic.}}
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{{spoiler|'''Sonic''': "Because we're Sonic Heroes."}} }}
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: In Team Dark's ending, Rouge and Omega discover a {{spoiler|room full of robo-duplicates of Shadow aboard the Final Fortress in tubes that looked suspiciously like the one the playable Shadow was kept in in their opening cutscene. This casts doubt on whether or not the Shadow that joined them on their quest was the ''real'' Shadow or just a robot, but Eggman reveals in the final battle of ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog (video game)|Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' that he ''is'' the real Shadow, whom Eggman recovered after ''Sonic Adventure 2''}}.
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* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The characters find a statue of Dr. Eggman at Hang Castle. They comment on it. Then they flip the level over, revealing a statue of {{spoiler|Metal Sonic}}. Not a single word is said about it.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Metal Overlord, upon his defeat.}}
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* [[Villain Song]]/[["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: Depending on how one interpret the lyrics, "What I'm Made Of," the theme of the {{spoiler|([[True Final Boss]])}} [[Final Boss]] is either {{spoiler|Metal Sonic telling Sonic about his maddening motive to finally defeat him and prove his worth ''or'' Sonic's [[Badass Boast]] to Metal, daring him to try and copy his power and see how that works out for him.}}
* [[Wall Jump]]: Sonic, Shadow, and Espio can perform this.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Of a sort. More like, I can rule, and you can benefit, but mostly an attempt to get out of skinflinting the Chaotix.
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* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: The first stage, [[Palmtree Panic|Seaside]] [[Green Hill Zone|Hill]] has gotten a form of this, as it has appeared in ''[[Sega Superstars|Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]'', ''[[Mario
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