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* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: When playing as Sonic with Tails tagging along, the Tornado-1 gets shot down at the beginning of Wing Fortress Zone--with Tails inside. Sonic has to face the last two levels alone.
** Inverted if you're playing as Tails: the Tornado gets shot down with Sonic inside.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Few American kids might have caught the reference in '92, but looking back, itIt's hard to observe Sonic powering up to an absurdly high level by sporting gold fur and wildly upright spines (after collecting [[Gotta Catch Em All|seven artifacts of power]], no less) and not be reminded of [[DragonballDragon ZBall|a certain anime series]]. AlsoFor Japanese children, that'sit nowas moona pretty obvious reference. ItBut few American kids might have been on the uptake in 's92, aseveral years before Toonami picked up Dragonball Z; looking back, they would come to realize that the "super" shtick was [[StarOlder WarsThan They Think|DeathOlder Than They EggThought]].
** Also, that's no moon. It's a [[Star Wars|Death Egg]].
** For Japanese children, it made perfect sense; however, Dragon Ball Z did not become popular in the United States until Toonami picked it up several years later. So for many American children, the "super" shtick was more of an [[Older Than They Think]] .
* [[Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom]]: Mystic Cave Zone and Metropolis Zone have most of them in this game.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Several levels follow the same themes as those in ''Sonic 1''.
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* [[Under the Sea]]: Aquatic Ruin Zone is a fairly halfhearted attempt, given that it's quite easy to pass both acts without going underwater once. It may represent fan backlash over Labyrinth Zone, but annoyed players who didn't automatically view water levels as [[Down the Drain]].
** Ironically, you could easily spend more time under-'water' in the Chemical Plant Zone.
* [[Unwinnable By Mistake]]: When you finish the stage as Super Sonic--i.e. run past the spinning sign at the end--you immediately power down. If you jump again, you'll transform into Super Sonic, immediately power down, and be stuck running in place in midair. Sonic [[Exit Stage Right|runs to the right and offscreen]] when the sign finishes spinning; but if he's stuck in midair, the stage doesn't register as finished and you have to reset.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Tails may be immortal, but the level design offers ample opportunity to "kill" him by squashing him with obstacles. This potential became a [[Running Gag]] in Cybershell's ~Let's Play~ of this game and ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'' in retaliation for Tails's [[Artificial Stupidity]].
** This is also the entire point of the Tails abuse Machinima series by Whoisthisgit on Youtube (the ones that use actual gameplay at least).
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