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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 ''[[
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 (
A teamwork gimmick would also be used in ''[[Sonic Advance Trilogy
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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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* [[Continuing Is Painful]]: Losing a life results in not only losing all your points, but it also resets your level-ups, making whatever killed you before more likely to kill you again.
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** [[Sonic Adventure
** [[Sonic Adventure
** [[Sonic Adventure 2
** [[Sonic Adventure
** [[Sonic Adventure
** [[Sonic Adventure 2
** [[Sonic 3 and Knuckles
* [[Costume Copycat]]: {{spoiler|Metal Sonic disguising as Eggman through the entire game, while the real one is locked up and gives orders to Team Chaotix.}}
** {{spoiler|Also, presumably the "Sonic" seen in the newspaper article that kicked off Team Rose's quest was also Metal Sonic in disguise.}}
* [[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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* [[Jungle Japes]]: Frog Forest and Lost Jungle.
* [[Kung Fu-Proof Mook]]: Shiny mooks that only power characters can damage (such as the giant mooks).
* [[Leaning
* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Tons of it. Let's put it this way: all the teams are technically on the same side, but they continually fight each other for petty reasons and misunderstandings throughout the game anyways. This is especially noticeable with Team Dark, who kept attacking people just in case their opponents might have saved the day before they could for their own reasons.
* [[Levels Take Flight]]: Egg Fleet and Final Fortress. The former involves the player hopping from airship to airship as they gradually tear through Eggman's aerial armada before landing on his flagship.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: In comparison to ''[[
* [[Limit Break]]: Hitting enough enemies increases a power meter that allows you to use a Team Blast.
* [[Loud of War]]: Team Chaotix's blast uses their horrible singing to cause the robots in their radius to explode.
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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
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Later Team Dark stages.
** And the optional [[Exactly What It Says
** Even the Hero stages (which is what a lot of newcomers are going to play automatically, this being a ''Sonic'' game) are rather difficult when they rely mostly on rails. The broken camera and controls brought over from the ''Sonic Adventure'' series aren't really helping, either.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: {{spoiler|Throughout the story, all of the teams pursue Eggman when he unleashes the Egg Fleet to conquer the world. However, it is later revealed in the endings that not only is Eggman, for once, not responsible for the world domination plan, but in fact he was locked up by the one actually responsible: Metal Sonic.}}
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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
* [[Scenery Porn]]: In true ''Sonic'' tradition.
* [[Shout-Out]]: {{spoiler|Metal Sonic}} mimics the liquid metal shtick of ''[[Terminator (
* [[Story Arc]]: Team Dark's story continues the story of Shadow the Hedgehog that was introduced in ''[[
* [[The Spiny]]: One of the Egg Flappers sprouts red spikes every few seconds to make itself Homing Attack proof.
* [[Stock Subtitle]]: "Heroes."
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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
* [[Tomorrowland]]: Grand Metropolis and Power Plant.
* [[Totally Radical]]: Sonic and Knuckles dip into this on occasion with lines like "That was tight!" and "Too cool!" It makes sense for Sonic, to an extent, but Knuckles? Not so much.
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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
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