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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.

A [[Racing Game]] [[Spin-Off]] series of [[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.

There are currently 3 games in the series - ''Sonic Riders'', ''Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity'', and ''Sonic Free Riders''.

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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Metropolis Speedway in ''Sonic Free Riders'' resembles an old western European city, but has flying cars and hovering trains. See [[Fridge Brilliance]] below.

** In a different sense, Rocky Ridge, also in ''Sonic Free Riders''. This is a still-inhabited Old West mining town. In other words, Sonic and his acquaintances are having a hoverboard race through a town whose citizens still travel about by steam locomotives and horse-drawn covered wagons. It's also quite anachronistic in the context of the series--whereas the rest of the series has a distinctively futuristic look, this place seems stuck in the 1850s.

** 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 A Bottle|all this stuff.]]

** 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 a Bottle|all this stuff.]]

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Shadow, Rouge, and Cream are plot-relevant in ''Free Riders'' when they were bonus characters in the first two.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Wave the Swallow and Rouge the Bat.

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

** Aquatic Capital and Torrential Waterway are a utopian technological haven that's also apparently a water park.

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

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

** Magma Rift is a [[Lethal Lava Land]] combined with Roman-like ruins.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Why anyone would enter Eggman's Grand Prix in the original game to begin with. When Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is asking everyone for Chaos Emeralds, it should be blatantly obvious he's up to no good.

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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: By ''Zero Gravity'', the Babylon Rogues have discovered they are genies [[Recycled in Space|from space]].

* [[Nostalgia Level]]: {{spoiler|Metal City}} from the first Sonic Riders appears in Free Riders.

* [[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.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: ''Free Riders'' is the first North American game to use the new voice cast, beating ''[[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.

** "I'm King Doc! Of, uh, Toreggmania!"

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

* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: Sand Ruins.

* [[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 ~~The~~ Giant Egg|Billy Hatcher]].

* [[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 the Giant Egg|Billy Hatcher]].

** Hang-On and Super Hang-On are vehicles that will change the background music to the ones for the respective games.

** In addition, ''Zero Gravity'''s 80s Boulevard and 90s Boulevard tracks are packed full of references to SEGA games from their decades and has [[Fantasy Zone|Opa-Opa]] and [[Crazy Taxi|The Crazy]] as boards.

*** Both of these stages sure feel like something from [[Crazy Taxi]], music and all.

** {{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]]''.

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

** Sonic characters hoverboarding? [[Sonic Underground|That sounds familiar]]. Additionally, Jet and Wave's appearances seem to have been partially inspired by Manic and Sonia.

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

** Ark of the Cosmos? Sounds familiar? ''[[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 ~~The~~ 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.

* [[Sympathy for the 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.

* [[Talking to Himself]]: Jason Griffith voices Sonic, Jet, and Shadow.

** Dan Green voices Storm and Knuckles.