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{{quote| "Even without wings, I can still fly!"}}

A [[Racing Game]] [[Spin -Off]] series of [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]. Started in 2006, it stars Sonic and his pals as they meet a new [[Power Trio]] of characters known as the Babylon Rogues, composed of Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, and Storm the Albatross. Together, they race at high speed using devices known as Extreme Gear.

** Basically any ruin level in the series really. Babylon Garden and Sky Road have a security system complete with planes, Dark Desert has some weird zero gravity machine, the Gigan Rocks has part of the track move while Gigan Device is putting itself together as you race, not to mention Digital Dimesion which is a virtual reality chamber on the centuries old floating city. Starts to make sense when you consider [[Alien Tropes|who made]] [[Genie in Aa Bottle|all this stuff.]]

* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]: Power-type racers work this way, with them punching any obstacles out of the way. All of the courses in ''Zero Gravity'' are also filled with random props one can destroy or fling into the sky with Gravity Control and Gravity Dives. Particularly large ones will stay in one place in midair, allowing you to touch them to slide along them and refill your boost gauge for each object. These objects subsequently fall and [[Made of Explodium|explode]] upon hitting the ground.

** Egg Factory gets frozen over into [[Slippy -Slidey Ice World]] as Ice Factory.

** Frozen Forest is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]], combining a forest in the wintertime with what seems to be a dragon graveyard full of gigantic skeletons.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: ''Free Riders'' is the first North American game to use the new voice cast, beating ''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]'' by eleven days.

* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]: The World Grand Prix organizer in ''Sonic Free Riders'' looks like a hairier Dr. Eggman in an Eggman-red carnival ringleader outfit voiced by Mike Pollock. One guess as to who he really is.

* [[Second -Person Attack]]: In the opening, Knuckles punches Storm like this a few times.

* [[Shout -Out]]: The first two games had playable characters from other SEGA franchises. Both had [[Ni GHTS]]. ''Sonic Riders'' had [[Space Channel 5|Ulala]] and [[Super Monkey Ball|Aiai]]. ''Zero Gravity'' had [[Samba De Amigo|Amigo]] and [[Billy Hatcher and Thethe Giant Egg|Billy Hatcher]].

** {{spoiler|Metal Sonic's scheme to gather data from the main characters to destroy them is exactly what he tried}} in ''[[Sonic Heroes (Video Game)|Sonic Heroes]]''.

** Ark of the Cosmos? Sounds familiar? ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', perhaps? Or...the [[The Bible]]?

* [[Slippy -Slidey Ice World]]: Snow Valley, one of the Battle tracks from the first game as well as Ice Factory; Snowy Kingdom from ''Zero Gravity'', and Frozen Forest from ''Sonic Free Riders''. Each game seems required to have at least one. The latter two actually have iced-over segments that make steering difficult.

* [[Sympathy for Thethe Devil]]: Well, for the anti-hero at least. All the teams seem rather disgusted by Team Dark's apathy to their malfunctioning teammate (E-10000G). By the end of their story, Cream is essentially begging them to get it treated.