Worst Sonic Quote Bracket

I took 32 of the worst Sonic quotes and put them against each other to find the true stinker of the bunch.
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[@wallaceprower]

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[@samworkbench9754]

On our way to the ark was a mistake line by Jason, who also played shadow. Shadow was supposed to say the they I guess we are going to the ark too as to feel inmpower and force Sonic to tag along.

[@coyotix]

Worst Sonic song- but you can't include anything from Dark Brotherhood

[@wallaceprower]

@@coyotix is the video even worth it at that point????

[@coyotix]

@@wallaceprower Fair, but it's a good challenge

[@loganjake8994]

Should’ve added “LOOK AT ALL THOSE EGGMAN’S ROBOTS” “I SMELL FROGGY” or “My names Big because I’m big and this here is Froggy because he’s a frog”

[@Help404xyz]

I feel like "because we're sonic heroes" gets considerably worse (or better) when you consider the fact that they 12v1'd metal sonic. They jumped him, and when he asks how they won, he gets hit with one of the cheesiest lines of all tine.

[@wallaceprower]

you put it so well oh my goodness LOL

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

To be fair, he was turned into a mega monster creature

[@orangeaurora]

i guess jumpings count as the power of friendship?

[@SonicMegaKing]

13v1 Cheese was there too.

[@bigpoggers6507]

To be fair, he DID lose because they were Sonic Heroes, if it was Sonic Singulars he'd be fucked

[@azenaku]

“Strange isn’t it” has more context. Robotnik had created a mental link between Sonic and Metal so that Metal could predict Sonic’s actions. After a bit, Sonic figured out that he could sync with Metal and turn the one-way link into a two-way link so that he could now predict Metal’s actions. He then taunts Metal by telling him that they can both predict the other now, with a smug rhetorical question at the end.

[@iananderson4754]

I also want to point out that the majority of the Heroes dialogue wasn't proofread and thats why some things like the "were sonic heroes" and amy's marriage proposal is so clunky. In the japanese version team sonic calling themselves that was to make fun of Eggman who suggested they call themselves that. and the marriage proposal was more along the line of Ill impress you enough you'll want to marry me. Also the line where sonic says that shadow was too stubborn to die is actually a callback to japanese SA2 where sonic says that stubbornness is his saving grace.

[@diogoc1541]

It's really weird that they didn't catch it was rhetorical and snarky. Was honestly surprised they thought it was just an actual question lmao

[@ScreenGemsa]

Yeah, but i really feel like that scene was too iconic for get in here.

[@MitchFromFBS]

Also Sonic is seen reaching out to Metal to see if he can get it to think independently, so asking it questions and taunting it helps toward that goal.

[@LannyLeArtist]

Yea

[@chaosspider5765]

"Taking candy from a baby" is true hero path, so yeah, let that sink in

[@spacedreamblue]

its so sad bc in japanese he just comments that he's fine with it being easy the english translation thought it wasnt edgy enough and through the baby in there 😭

[@ViltrumiteIsRite99]

Coughing Baby vs Shadow Fever

[@davidburton4836]

Of course it is! Candy's terrible for babies. Shadow's a true hero for making sure the babies are safe by taking their candy!

[@endosaurus1404]

I think it's supposed to be referring to how easy it is to steal since that is how that saying is used, but people tend to not interpret that way.

[@DaSheepKiller]

@@spacedreamblueI think the intention for the English line was that Shadow was okay with it being as easy as taking candy from a baby, not that he’s okay with taking candy from a baby. But with the way it’s worded, most people would assume the latter.

[@coyotix]

"Don't go there yet" is both hilarious and horrific. It's like saying "it MIIIIIGHT get better" but also you said that to a SUICIDAL PERSON

[@Valtronix_Sonic]

"Jump!" -Sonic in Sonic 06

[@pikachufrankie]

The mistranslation of Shadow’s game is so bad lmao

[@ViltrumiteIsRite99]

@@Valtronix_SonicSonic has a "jump!" Quote from Secret Rings as well, so i just heard Shahra's "O-okay..!"

[@aliasella488]

Don't kill yourself...YET

[@etonasama]

@@Valtronix_Sonic Jump They Say

[@MattGOnYT]

Honestly shocked that “Baldy McNosehair” didn’t make it in. That joke is still super despised to this day, which is unique compared to a lot of these lines, which have become ironically quotable

[@mr.penguindrewmateo8146]

That line alone would clear the entire bracket.

[@MattGOnYT]

@@mr.penguindrewmateo8146 Idk, the winner would be a tough one to beat.

[@ScreenGemsa]

Most overhated line in Sonic Universe

[@ScreenGemsa]

​@@MattGOnYT Remember people used to hate that line? Now people are quoting it ironically.

[@VestedUTuber]

People hate "Baldy McNosehair"? Most people I've talked to just consider it a silly throwaway joke line, but not really bad in any way.

[@ShadowGunR]

Honestly a crime that they didn't include "Hey look, ramps! We can use these as ramps!" or "You're weak, and you know what makes you weak? Your loyalty to your pathetic friends". But really, some of these lines are just ironically hilarious or just terrible, but that's what makes them so memorable. I hope I'm not the only one that recognized all of them (I need help)

[@NaXEthan]

tbf the ramps one isn't one line, it's two lines that often play right after each other

[@rokystuf]

the ramps one has to be added idc what anyone says 😊

[@Evoflare133]

They can’t do the ramps quote because it literally can’t lose to any other quote.

[@lightyearpig12]

BOUNCE PADS.

[@bug8639]

yeah i wouldve loved ramps but honestly its almost like cheating

[@raidenmei9064]

In defense of the "stealing candy from a baby" line, it was most likely another mistranslation. The intended meaning was that shadow was okay with it being easy, not being okay with stealing candy from babies.

[@maximyllion]

you can still get that with the english version of the line

[@maximyllion]

he says it's "like taking candy frol a baby" not "it's like i'm taking candy from a baby"

[@hallow-oda]

this is true! the english translation placed weird significance on "fine by me", but the original japanese line just talked about how stupid it was of them to leave a chaos emerald exposed.

[@maravreloaded]

One thing is just a saying for something easy. But then he reiterates about it. Like Mr. Burns trying to steal Maggie's candy.

[@radiotomatosauce99]

"this is too easy, which is fine by me, but it's like stealing candy from a baby"

[@Goofy_Stupid]

“ because, we’re sonic heroes! “ feels like “ this truly was an adventure… a Sonic Adventure 2! “

[@jamiegioca9448]

“Let’s go on an adventure. A Sonic Adventure! Get it? Hah!”

[@wholestick5986]

"consider this your bad omen"

[@literallynoone9923]

You forgot one thing... I am Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

[@odinlindeberg4624]

"No! I can't believe it! Sonic Forces me to lose once again!"

[@sushiroll3795]

"My perfect plan is being ruined by this Sonic Mania!"

[@jadedfire4351]

I always thought the "Strange, isn't it!??" Line was more rhetorical. Like to rub it into metals face, as is kinda par with sonic's personality at the time lol

[@proyOFC]

it IS i was ENRAGED when they never got that

[@JazzyWaffles]

Literacy is dead, media literacy doubly so 😂

[@SnowWizard174]

Fr, the entire scene was basically just “we both know what the other is going to do, isn’t that a funny coincidence?” Like, no duh the last part is unserious, it’s Sonic jabbing at Metal Sonic for being essentially a copy of him. It frustrates me immensely that they couldn’t see that.

[@JoshuaIfidi]

How could they not get something so basic lol

[@theBrid-gv8je]

I genuinely thought it was rage bait for comments

[@VoidStorm016]

Just to play devil's advocate here, but when he says "which is fine by me" in the stealing from a baby line I'm pretty sure he's saying that he's fine with it being easy, not being fine with stealing from a baby.

[@poou4460]

Absolutely true but the fact that it leaves that ambiguity still makes it hilariously over the top because I'm pretty sure 90% of people would first assume he's okay with robbing the baby until they sat and thought about it.

[@eggymens]

given the game is in many places oddly translated, i can absolutely see this being the sort of intended effect of the translation and it was just perfectly distorted by faulty localisation, translation, or just time constraints that made this game what it was in general and the voice lines being what they are. i had honestly never even thought of this, it wasn't an option i saw in my brain until right now. thanks for playing devil's advocate fr, i think this is a super plausible explanation for why this line could be perceived wrong and not just jarringly edgy. Although, given the jarring edge of the game, I think it probably did have something to do with that too, but it was a sort of perfect disaster that made that particular line so edgy and misinterpreted in how it is remembered.

[@maximyllion]

that's exactly what happens

[@robertlupa8273]

The original Japanese line was something along the lines of: "Leaving a Chaos Emerald out in the open? How foolish of them!". IMO the second half should've been different to avoid misinterpretation, like "This is like taking candies from a baby, not that I'm complaining."

[@chaosproject91]

It bothers me that this possibility wasn't even brought up by anyone in the video. I say "possibility," but that was clearly the intention of the writers. "This is [simile for 'too easy'], which is fine by me." Pretty straightforward. The fact that there's room for ambiguity is hilarious and bad, but they consistently scored this line assuming the "mistake" was the intentional meaning of the line. Other lines got the benefit of context at least some of the time. They didn't much consider context for "disgusting creatures" either. No one knew they were from space yet, no one knew what they called themselves, at that point in the game they're literally just unknown creatures identifiable by their black scales/skin/exoskeletons/whatever. Of course the line looks horrifying sitting out of context, but what else was Shadow supposed to call them?

[@azenaku]

“Copyright law” was in response to an Eggman announcement that freeing the aliens or planet would violate the park’s copyright.

[@TurbopropPuppy]

yeah i've always loved that line idk what their vendetta here was

[@papersonic9941]

They are clearly biased against the 2010s lines, but forgave some garbage from Heroes.

[@gooeydude574]

I don’t care what anyone says, that line is funny

[@alliseeisgold09-gaming46]

​@papersonic9941 absolutely

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

I quite like the "copyright law" line in the context of the game, but the big problem I have with it is that after the whole Penders lawsuit situation, every time I hear the line it just reminds me that yes, in fact a copyright law can stop you - or at least prevent you from having good storytelling for over a decade and ensuring that we never see Shade the echidna again.

[@argonaut640]

Kind of surprised to not find Tails yelling “Sonic, HELP ME!” from Sonic Forces on this list, given how infamous that entire sequence is.

[@looperinga]

along with "look at all those eggmans robots"

[@sebastianmartinez5963]

Nah, It's not big of a deal

[@maravreloaded]

To be fair. Forces deserves a spot for every dialogue in that game.

[@sebastianmartinez5963]

​@@maravreloaded Every Sonic game 3D deserves its own spot for every single dialogue

[@GuessImaGuest]

Ashley would be great friends with Tails.

[@gamemaster2819]

I actually went to a convention and met Roger Craig Smith. I told him to put his favorite quote from the series on a poster....he went with the copyright line.

[@panafa3617]

Lmao, that's gold

[@PipesTheVlob]

tbf the line is actually pretty funny when you don't overthink it.

[@uberculex]

@@PipesTheVlob It feels like these guys hate that era of sonic and seem to be them making excuses for "that's how the character was". Yes and that's why they were hated back then.

[@airconditionedBreeze]

Which line is that?

[@Orang_Himbleton]

Incredibly common Roger Craig Smith W

[@AustinOnSugar]

"Special race" is just a bad translation. It's closer in meaning to "Not just a race, but a _specialized_ race, to see who's truly the fastest!" It still doesn't make sense, but it's absolutely intended to get under Sonic's skin.

[@mackenziewoloschuk7375]

So...they mistranslated it and didn't fix it.

[@AustinOnSugar]

@@mackenziewoloschuk7375 Thaaat's 2006 Sonic for ya!

[@lordkaijux5262]

It's just like in the Final Story for SA2 when the Biolizard learned to use Chaos Control. Shadow outright asked "Is that what Chaos Control is?" despite using said power several times in the story as that line was also a mistranslation as for the original Japanese dialogue Shadow asked "Was that Chaos Control?" which makes sense as he was the only character using it but seeing another looked strange for him.

[@egg_lord_gaming9]

Races are usually participated in for fun. But this SPECIFIC one's only purpose was truly to see who was the fastest. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

​@@egg_lord_gaming9 not quite. Most officiated races are for some type of recognition

[@Banoodles199]

An honorable mention would be Tails saying “I don’t know, but what I do know is… we all did it together!” After Eggman’s monologue in SA2

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

It reminds me a lot of the "We're Sonic Heroes!" line in that it begins with a villain offering a moment of vunerability and introspection to their characters, but is immediately cut off by a cheesy "We did it!" type line. That tonal whiplash just kind of ruins those scenes for me.

[@degeneratemale5386]

My favorite one is tails saying “alls well that ends well.” When he’s in the middle of a destroyed city from perfect chaos

[@immahamsteryogamer]

​@@degeneratemale5386 That city was full of criminals anyway.

[@Sleepnt117]

@@degeneratemale5386 I really hope there's an edit out there where there's just 5 seconds of silence after Tails says that and then Sonic just says "Tails, people fucking DIED!"

[@666blaziken]

That would win the tournament for me. Especially if SA2 actually ended up being the last game in the series, eggman being remorseful was really wholesome, and showed that he was willing to change his ways and the series would've ended on a good note... Only to have tails say some "we did it" line, now that would've left a bad impression as the final game in the series.

[@kaio-k5781]

Not including “Give me a break, what’s with all this drama” from Black Knight was such a missed opportunity after seeing “don’t go there… yet”😭

[@chiwara3619]

RIGHT

[@rainpooper7088]

Especially considering Knight Knuckles was just about to *slit his own throat.* If that's what Sonic considers "drama", what does he consider an actual problem?

[@jokx4409]

@@rainpooper7088 he considers it overblown to want to to do that after just losing a simple duel. It's just a "calm down, why would losing a simple fight want to make you want to do THAT?" It makes perfect sense in context and I don't see the line being anything else. I don't know what you're talking about tbh.

[@nicholasaugello2534]

I specifically remember this from Vector in Shadow the Hedgehog and Shadow during that ending was fucking depressed from what I remember

[@fightingmedialounge519]

​@@jokx4409 the issue is that isn't a simple duel from knuckles(gwains) perspective and comes across like sonics is down playing his feelings

[@gll50]

The "Stealing candy from a baby" line is actually something you can encounter when doing nothing but hero mission in Shadow the Hedgehog, which is even weirder.

[@LiMe251]

You can technically reach it with 1 or 2 dark or neutral missions.

[@gll50]

@@LiMe251 Sure, but it's way more jarring to hear it when you've been doing nothing but good missions.

[@LiMe251]

@@gll50 Not really.

[@Buck_Bentley]

@@LiMe251yeah, ‘cause potentially the player has done nothing but good, and to get that line is jarring. There is a lot of jarring moments in that game for first time players. If I am a first-time player and I help Tails on Air Fleet to save the President then the game will “reward” me by sending me to Lava Shelter where I then get shoved into the middle of a jarring Shadow Android plotline. Regardless of how I finish Lava Shelter, the game will give me a Shadow Android ending. This ending only ever makes sense if the player does the neutral Misson for Iron Jungle. There is no connection between saving the president during the black arms invasion and confronting Eggman on the idea of being a robot. So yeah the stealing candy from a baby line being on the good path can feel like a huge disconnect from the player's motives. Especially since a lot of players will see that cutscene while doing a pure hero playthrough. This isn't even mentioning that this happens before the worst level in the game.

[@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox]

Yeah cause the line is mistranslated. In the Japanese version it loosely translates to 'leaving a chaos emerald out in the open? How foolish of them' The line is trying to say 'this is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me.' I.e he's fine with it being easy, not with taking candy from babies. A more proper translation would be 'This is like taking candy from a baby, not that I'm complaining' or maybe 'they're just asking for someone to swipe it with security like this' when you think about it with that meaning in mind it's honestly not even that bad of a line.

[@dotCHR]

Haven't watched the video yet if Ken Penders plagiarizing a famous poem about the holocaust and making it about echidnas isn't on here I'd be shocked.

[@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569]

ain't no way he did that sht💀

[@wallaceprower]

the archie comics need their own bracket trust me

[@RainingBeanz]

@@wallaceprower You need to make a second one where it’s ACTUALLY its own bracket, that would be hilarious.

[@artykeldeo]

whos gonna tell him he literally had knuckles be jesus

[@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569]

@@artykeldeo What☠️🗿

[@papersonic9941]

Tails has some more "bangers" that were left out: "Look at all those Eggman's Robots" "True dat" "We all did it together!" "I am horribly inconsistent" I don't know why Tails gets so many dumb quotes.

[@yoursonisold8743]

The "horribly inconsistent" line is just true. Sure, it's meta, but it also sounds like genuine self-reflection.

[@MsMvsc]

"I am horribly inconsistent" is real and based, what are you on about?

[@rainpooper7088]

@MsMvsc It's dumb because it's the writer winking at the audience in what's supposed to be serious scene, which ruins any immersion players may have had in Tails reflecting on his past failures. Just because you agree doesn't mean the line isn't stupid from an in-universe perspective.

[@MonsterSlam12]

"I am horribly inconsistent", nah that is actually a good line imo bc Tails is having a self-reflective crisis and this is a legitimate concern he has about himself that matches up with his performance and character in previous games. I feel like it's questionable to try and make all the games canon on part of Sonic Team, given how inconsistent Tails is and how objectively bad many of them are, but this line works for the context and for Sonic Team's goals. Plus it didn't make me go "huh?" like the other Tails lines in this comment. I am a bit biased toward Frontiers Tails bc I love how they wrote him in that game, best they've done him in a while.

[@thebananaman1185]

"You're that Sonic from another dimension, aren't you?"

[@WidgetVTuber]

"Disgusting black creatures" has the same vibe as some of the dubs in anime where the writers knew EXACTLY what they were doing, such as future trunks' "Hold your fire! This man isn't black!" And that one guy in JJK who kept talking about monkeys

[@ChrisWilliams-ur7fn]

Or literally any fucking thing from the Ghost Stories Dub.. 😅

[@samuellinn]

*THINK OF A BIG BLACK MAN CHASING YOU*

[@mutedups]

Well Geto (The monkey guy) was flat out calling non-sorcerers (Normal-people) Monkeys because he hated them. I get the idea though like that scene on the train from that old anime "I fucking hate Obama"

[@justice8718]

Because Shadow is one of them.

[@beatziegraham6928]

I’m surprised there was nothing from Lost World. I was sure that “I’m supposed to be the fastest, but I was too slow to save by buddy” was gonna be in there.

[@rayvenkman2087]

If you ever seen that Silver Age panel where Superman, Flash and Batman thinks to themselves that they failed their loved ones, it’s like that but someone says it out loud like they’re in a Netflix show.

[@bubbykins4864]

Not only that, but the line doesn't even make sense. At least Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik's -Mean Bean Machine- melodramatic lines that treat the cutscene like a fucking funeral had him pay attention to the events that transpired instead of making Flanderized Knuckles look smart by not listening to the guy relegated to being a cutscene sidekick that's supposedly his bestie _again_ and then deflecting the blame as if said "bestie" was the problem and not him, all the while trusting his arch-nemesis to do something that he could do completely solo and not expecting an obvious back-stab that didn't need to go unanticipated because the world-killer machine is controlled by a glorified cash register.

[@rayvenkman2087]

@@bubbykins4864 Rewrite the line and make the story less trash, that could have been a pretty sobering moment for Sonic like the Elise scene from 2006 except it's with a character people have an emotional attachment to. Or save it for a character that doesn't have plot armour and Sonic actually fails to save them. Let him fail and live with the consequences. If you're gonna do that, make it worthwhile.

[@anjoliebarrios8906]

No one remembers Lost World

[@Somefox5]

Fun fact! The taking candy from a baby line at 19:17 is NOTHING like the original Japanese version. He just says something along the lines of "man, they were stupid for leaving an emerald out in the open for me like this."

[@Tmitric]

Imagine being a Japanese writer, who wrote the script, a few years later after the game was released you see this line in the English version.

[@Somefox5]

More fun facts! Since they didn't know what rating they'd be allowed to have from higher-ups, there are unreleased version of almost every one of Shadows lines in his game where he swears. There is a very real chance that the line "its like taking candy from a baby, which is fucking fine by me" is a real line that was recorded and exists out there

[@rayvenkman2087]

@@Somefox5If Shadow was a wrestling heel, he’d be an AEW one with that quote.

[@BuruKyu]

@@Somefox5 schrodinger's fuck

[@itstuca4136]

all's well that end's well has to be funny on purpose because of the 10 sec of silence before hand

[@papersonic9941]

And it's the last line in the game! So that's the impression you're left with during the credits.

[@wileecoyotegenius5955]

But every line in Sonic Adventure is preceeded by long awkward silenced

[@SylviaGrome]

@@wileecoyotegenius5955or by someone cutting the other person off there wasn’t a normal amount of silence it was either getting cut off or 10 seconds of nothing

[@demi-femme4821]

It's funny, but it doesn't work for the character, so it still sucks.

[@itstuca4136]

@@wileecoyotegenius5955 thatsmore so because of translation error and them tryna keep up with the animation heroes as far as ik didnt have that problem

[@CurtRichy]

Yall TWEAKING. “STRANGE ISNT IT” IS A FIRE QUOTE WITH FIRE DELIVERY. SHOULDNT HAVE MADE IT PAST ROUND 1

[@hallow-oda]

YOURE SO REAL FOR THISSSS

[@JoshuaIfidi]

CURT YOU AINT EVER LIEEEE

[@PushingFriend28]

🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@robotasb8551]

PREECH KING 🗣️

[@noahmaldonado5461]

Same for mincemeat, that was a cold eggman line

[@MichaelV118]

"Strange isn't it" has kept me happy over the years. No one I know understands the reference, but I say it at every opportunity examples the weather says it won't rain, then it rains, "Strange isn't it!" The directions for the microwave don't actually heat the food up, "Strange isn't it!" The bride doesn't show up to my friend's wedding, "Strange isn't It!"

[@HungryWarden]

You sound like a very fun person to be around.

[@soulless9081]

When Amy says, "If I had to choose between the world and Sonic, I would choose Sonic!" I take it as though, it's because she KNOWS Sonic. The military did turn on him before, so she knows at times like that she would rather side with him than those who persecute him. If Sonic were to turn out evil or do some really bad shit, she wouldn't even believe it, cuz that's not the Sonic she knows. Hence, "Sonic would never do that!" And she was right, he didn't. I fully believe Amy was just devoting herself to her friend who she believed in, not being a crazy fangirl like most call her.

[@sebastianmartinez5963]

"If I had to choose between the world and Sonic, I would choose Sonic!" That line would have worked if they ONLY HAD added other lines to give Amy's words more weight and impact. For example: After Amy said that, she would say the following: "Because he is the purest and noblest person I have ever met!" "So, tell me... Do you really think that killing someone would save the world?" In this way, Amy's words would have a genuine impact on Silver, in such a way that he himself begins to rethink the action of killing Sonic, as seen in the following cutscene where Silver and Blaze were debating precisely about that killing someone would save the world is morally right or not. Seriously, this would have made Amy has that line well supported, and It would not be left to misinterpretations.

[@doomsdayrabbit4398]

Choose between the world and Sonic - you know, the Sonic whose theme literally says "it doesn't matter now what happens, I will never give up the fight, long as the voice inside tells me to run and fight, it doesn't matter who is wrong and who is right".

[@RadikAlice]

I don't know you, but I do know. You get her, she'd believe in him even when nobody else, even himself doesn't. The whole "OMG Sonic" is not necessarily false, but just a phase she grew out of. We all did cringe things when we were younger

[@hamstersandwich9917]

the intention is there, but the lack of any elaboration makes so that the clearest meaning is her choosing sonic even if it meant the end of the world, th eline could've used more work.

[@rayvenkman2087]

@@hamstersandwich9917I’m not surprised that happens in Sonic’s story for 2006 because most of his cutscenes are riddled with lines that sound like they’re in need of a revision or clunky sounding in a way that could only come about from a rushed development. Meanwhile Shadow and Silver’s stories don’t have this problem and at least come off like they had time spent on their scripts which is to be expected when they’re the ones that actually has something resembling plot progression from A to C. Sonic’s just a series of events that happens because they have to.

[@CharlotteML1]

"Top secret disc" reminds me of the line in Heroes where Vectors talking about needing (casino) chips and he goes "Chips!? Like potato chips!?" Like, he's just a little kid who absolutely shouldn't be there, but Vector and Espio are too broke to hire a babysitter so they taught him to fight and take him on dangerous missions with them, it's hilarious.

[@LiMe251]

Tbf, I've seen one person say that the top secret discs line was in English in the og Japanese, which would make a lot of sense.

[@cosplayingchao]

"Taking candy from a baby" was supposed to signify he's ok with them making it easy for him to take the chaos emerald. That being said, it's so easy to misinterpret that line that most people do. *AND* it's on the True Hero path, so why is he making this simile?

[@bathilra5364]

i think this is a falure on the part of the translation of shadow 05 in genrel with swearing being added and lines being altered like in the original japanese version he says somthing along the lines of "how foolish of them to expose me to an easy to grab chaos emerald

[@bubbykins4864]

The question you should be asking is "why is this phrase even a simile at all?" It implies a false belief that all easy things are both unrewarding relative to the required amount of effort and illegal, which is not a thing you should want to instill into common slang.

[@KiddKyle67]

Amy saying "There's no way out of marrying me" is clearly playful. Its silly that so many people take the line so seriously

[@BigLadStudios]

How the fuck is the mincemeat line even here? Surely there's more quotes that suck other than that.

[@manjackson2772]

I think the logic is that it's a jarring shift in the tone, and it probably wasn't even intended. They were trying a couple of different kinds of read for Eggman, since he had all those different portrayals in the west before, so that one line slipped in from a different take on the character than the entire rest of the game has

[@TARDISES]

@@manjackson2772 Honestly, it's not even that much of a shift - all of Eggman's cutscene lines have a more menacing delivery in Tails' story compared to Sonic's. And here Tails is having to confront Eggman on his own.

[@martinaguiluz4063]

Eggman's "Let's get to Woooork" is by far Deem Bristow's worst delivery in a sonic game.

[@monotonesammy]

The mountain of handkerchiefs quote will NEVER come off as a bad quote to me. The context and meaning behind it are too good. Sonic’s actions and quote symbolises that she needed time to get over the loss of her implied abusive partner, and a mountain of handkerchiefs would give her all the time she needed to grieve. Is it cheesy? Yeah. But most Sonic quotes are.

[@thepizzaman6310]

I love the "mincemeat" line, as it established Robotnik as a real threat, especially to a lonesome scared fox. Made it even more satisfying when I toppled that mech. No one disrespects Adventure-Era Tails.

[@pokelily_7799]

This isn't even mentioning that it's also a callback to the beginning of the game where sonic wished for a mountain of handkerchiefs

[@Narutass43]

"This is like taking candy from a baby" = "This is stupidly easy" + ",which is fine by me" = "This is stupidly easy and that's fine by me"

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

Yeah but taking candy from a baby is not just stupidly easy, but also evil. So Shadow is saying "This is very evil and very easy, and that's fine by me!"

[@McShmoodle]

Im surprised there weren't any lines from Boom or Lost World. Lost World in particular had a lot of questionable moments just because of how all over the place the tone of the story was

[@callmekanda5662]

"eggman, you bite!" definitely couldve been on here.

[@rainpooper7088]

Boom needs its own contest. The random character dialogue during the gameplay of Rise of Lyric alone could probably fill a whole yearbook of stupid lines.

[@SylviaGrome]

@@rainpooper7088yeah and “Hey look ramps. We can use these as ramps.” Exists as a line

[@KeltkeGH]

I'm surprised how they missed the "You're weak, and you know what makes you weak? Your loyalty to your pathetic friends" line

[@andrewsheiman8574]

For a bracket of 'worst lines', there's a bunch of classic (good) lines. For instance, why is 'mincemeat' here?? But also, neat idea for a video. Would love to see the reverse, too.

[@LucaGlitchy]

I think the mountain of handkerchiefs was supposed to be comforting because he couldn't stay to comfort her and she just got out of a bad relationship, so i think he was trying to tell her, "It's ok to cry, here's a mountain of handkerchiefs to dry your tears" It was just not executed well. I think i see the intent, but it missed.

[@smbsuperfan271]

I just have to say, despite the copyright law line being bad... you shouldve had representation from that game for a true enduring classic. "BALDY NOSEHAIR!"

[@themightygallium9509]

I think they definitely had the right idea with the copyright law line, but they just made it a bit too basic. How would I have done it? "If you think your copyright laws are gonna slow me down, you've got another thing comin'! I'm not gonna cease OR desist from doing what's right!"

[@BronzeAgePepper]

​@@themightygallium9509 That sounds even worse tbh. If the joke about copyright law had any bearing on the context of the dialogue it'd be clever, but it's just a response to a throwaway joke about "no photos/recording on the theme park ride" in Eggman's line.

[@Ramusican]

I think the worst sonic quote comes from unleashed, where Eggman asks SONIC THE HEDGEHOG "How'd you get here so quickly?"

[@arjunmenon1796]

"No way out of marrying me" is a line I unironically like. Stuff like that made me love Amys character, she was so funny. She was always entertaining. To be fair, I loved 90% of lines in the first round. I never understood people finding Sonic dialouge too cringe.

[@yoursonisold8743]

But she wasnt trying to be funny. She is serious about beating the crap out of Sonic and forcing him to marry her. That's messed up even if it's also funny.

[@crimsonzone8984]

​@@yoursonisold8743that's misconception made by the dub.

[@uberculex]

It's annoying because she's basically the only girl character in the series for a long time and her only character trait was obsessed with sonic. It was literally all she would talk about.

[@evdestroy5304]

​​@@crimsonzone8984...no? I mean that's literally the line.

[@crimsonzone8984]

@@uberculex you have not met people like us, my guy. We all have unhealthy obsession over sonic. You have no idea how obnoxious the fans are that I've encountered.

[@yuikitsuneko]

Tails' "they're all dead" line from heroes not being on here is an atrocity

[@ethered5391]

Sam was cooking the fuck out of Mike Pollock

[@BronzeAgePepper]

I'm a fan of his work, nothing but love and respect for him (especially since he is the only actor who carried over from the 4Kids handover, and has now voiced Eggman longer than anyone in English OR Japanese), but for someone with as prolific of a voice career as him, he spends way more time replying to random twitter followers than he should and produces some really awful takes.

[@SuperShadowify]

@@BronzeAgePepper and he’s a zionist

[@sinfulpuritan3430]

I like to headcanon that the Wave Ocean quote is just a really awkward, newbie G.U.N agent on his first day. I know it was unintentional but I just love the concept.

[@rayvenkman2087]

Same agent who called the Scepter of Darkness as Book of Darkness.

[@darkychao]

35:15 man, I didn't think about this before, but Vector really did just send the 6 year old child that he takes care of into a warzone unsupervised to steal top secret files.

[@spidermacho123]

i can't believe you didn't include "i was on a snooze cruise, i guess" but included "comon ya big drip! where ya going" and "away! before i make mincemeat out of you!" even though these two are good quotes

[@thekeybladeninjaturtle7380]

For me, the worst Sonic quote is... Literally anything Sonic's friends spout during the Time Eater fight, because they spell out every single attack ad nauseum "That looks like a Homing Shot!" "Be Careful, Sonic!"

[@Ice-Bear]

to me the worst is every in game dialogue from rise of lyric

[@thekeybladeninjaturtle7380]

@@Ice-Bear **BOUNCE PAD!!**

[@thepizzaman6310]

Every time something even mildly homes in a game, I yell "UH OH! IT LOOKS LIKE A HOMING SHOT SONIC!"

[@rayvenkman2087]

The whole Meta Era is full of bad dialogue and unlike the 2000’s Era there’s no charm like Sonic Adventure, delightful cheese like Sonic Heroes or unintentional hilarity like Shadow The Hedgehog because they’re trying hard to be funny but like telling a nuclear bomb joke in Hiroshima, it goes over like the victims of the bombings. Then when it tries to be dramatic, it’s got that irritating Weadonist aura to the writing which undermines any emotional weight. Sonic Heroes is cheesy and sincere which makes you fall in love with it. Sonic Forces is stupid and just gets under your skin which makes you want to drown it in a lake.

[@Condescending_Absol]

Meanwhile none of them actually tells you what to do, and you spend like 15 minutes just dashing forward and hoping for the best, wondering if there's any benefit to switching between 2D and 3D

[@JezElectroAlt]

Imagine if this whole time, the "which is fine by me" wasn't about stealing candy, but about it being easy.

[@evdestroy5304]

Can't even imagine...

[@SuperShadowify]

that’s exactly what it was about

[@MetaKaios]

@@SuperShadowify Imagine if that's exactly what JezElectroAlt meant.

[@katerina13aar]

The, "On our way to the ARK," is a translation error. Jason Griffith did actually mention it to the director and was told to go ahead reading it anyway, but that's a translation error, it has been since confirmed.

[@Steam_Attack]

My problem with the line "No copyright law in the universe is going to stop me" is that could have worked if they simply removed the word 'copyright'. It doesn't makes sense as it is, Eggman is enforcing his rules in the wisp planet, he's saying basically "do not destroy my generators", copyright has nothing to do with it

[@ksherrard84]

Eggman's line playing over the speakers in the park is something about a copyright law and Sonic is responding directly to that

[@BronzeAgePepper]

​@@ksherrard84 Eggman's line included a throwaway joke about "no photo/video recordings allowed in the theme park" (paraphrasing), so they thought it'd be funny for Sonic to slip in a comeback themed around the joke that sounds even more absurd out of context. It's adequately funny for how unexpected it is and Roger's delivery is pretty good at highlighting the absurdity, although he might be overemphasizing it a bit to the point that some people don't like it. I think it has only gotten hate more recently because of how tired people are of snarky self-aware humor, it wasn't as lazy and overdone in 2011 as it is now and before Colors, it wasn't what you expected of Sonic. However those people probably aren't aware of just how many meta-jokes were in the original Japanese script of Sonic X, so it wouldn't be nearly so unexpected in that context even if the joke was only added in the English translation (not sure if there's an equivalent joke in Colors' Japanese dialogue)

[@thinkabout42]

Vector's line also reminds me of that one IDW moment, where Belle admitted that her heart was broken and our good intended crocodile goes "like, literally? Cause Tails could fix that probably" So I guess it's a part of his character now 🤣

[@jamiegioca9448]

I think it’s a good one, tho

[@thinkabout42]

@@jamiegioca9448 yeah, our guy just being supportive, not always knowing the right words to choose. But you gotta appreciate the effort. 😁

[@Miju001]

The "candy from a baby" line deserves the win imo. Let's not forget it's immediately preceded by "You've gotta be kidding me, guys!" which makes it even funnier

[@aliasella488]

It sounds like he's talking to an invisible Twitch chat

[@Miju001]

@@aliasella488 LMAO you're right

[@blanthos445]

“chat, this is too easy”

[@NotAdriana03]

You don't even have the stellar line "Hey ramps! We can use these as ramps!"

[@Yuti640]

No idea why Big Drip is there, big drip works really well with the story and Sonic’s perspective on what Chaos is, originally seeing him as just a minor joke bad guy who runs away when easily defeated, then Chaos is taken more seriously as it’s revealed what he is

[@rayvenkman2087]

Plus it’s something Sonic would say to a foe just to get under their skin Spider-Man but with more attitude. It’s a very Fleetway type of comment from him and Fleetway Sonic is known for some fire quips.

[@wesshiflet2214]

FYI, the “candy from a baby” line plays only on the Hero route. It’s a mistranslation of the original: “this is ridiculously easy, which is fine by me.”

[@MacAttack891898]

“Strange, isn’t it?” Is perfect and I can’t believe it’s even on this list. I always loved that line because is a little abnormal

[@joshuafick7561]

Honorable mention to Sonic Lost World “That was cool… pun entirely intended”

[@myri_the_weirdo]

It's a good line though

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

I'm honestly not sure if that line was supposed to be funny because of the pun or if it was supposed to be ironically bad or something. The joke is just so painfully mediocre but is delivered in such an awkward way that I'm pretty sure it's meant to be intentionally bad.

[@HeistGrande]

I feel like the intent for stealing candy from a baby is "I'm okay with this being as easy as stealing candy from a baby," but it just doesn't get read that way

[@wesshiflet2214]

it is, it’s clearer in the original translation

[@yousif693]

What no "find the computer room", "gates of hell" or "how'd you get here so quickly"?

[@daanhuisman1040]

''Talk about a low budget flight'' too

[@jamiegioca9448]

@@daanhuisman1040 Quit your tweaking, that line is goated and you know it

[@-redde-]

i really feel like you guys went waaay too hard on the mountain of handkerchiefs line. out of context you can say it’s kinda funny but that line literally literally gives me chills (i know im a loser lol). context is that the game is an allegory for an abusive relationship and sonic just stopped shahra’s abuser and he lets shahra feel the emotions she needs to feel and helps her through it. i really don’t see that as a bad line and i don’t really mind the symbolism there i think it hits.

[@MattTOB618]

Exactly! I couldn't have said it better myself.

[@ViltrumiteIsRite99]

Dude.... I get it, but.. Jason's voice didn't help that line. Its still p-goofy.

[@-redde-]

@@ViltrumiteIsRite99 don’t you DARE diss my goat jason👹

[@polocatfan]

yeah (And I hate to say this but) it comes off as a bit ableist? I dunno. As someone who's on the spectrum and can't always read the room, I find it shitty whenever people get mad at someone for something intended as an act of kindness. people really need to do better.

[@MattTOB618]

@@polocatfan As someone who's also on the spectrum: Yeah, it's unfortunate that they found it cringe-worthy, but it's not inherently ableist??? Like, if you feel that way, then I can't deny that, but they're only sharing their own views on how a cutscene was portrayed; they're not even getting mad, just laughing and expressing their disappointment/incredulity.

[@blastimbre]

Have you all ever heard of a rhetorical question before? The "strange, isn't it," quote is quite clearly not a literal question. I'm surprised three people managed to miss this. Also, you know the quote "like stealing from a baby," is a normal saying, right? It implies that whatever youvwere doing is very easy. So Shadow was saying, "This is too easy, but thats fine by me." Im just suprised y'all missed these two. Its just kind of bizarre.

[@pinkcupcake4717]

If the "stealing candy from a baby" line was phrased or emphasized better, it wouldn't sound so literal. The "fine by me" needed to be broken into its own thought. "This is easier than stealing candy from a baby. Fine by me." And there's definitely been a loss in understanding idioms around, it's so bizarre.

[@pokkiheart]

​@@pinkcupcake4717strange, isn't it?

[@uberculex]

See I think the "strange, isn't it?" line is weird just because of the stilted fast delivery makes it sound like he's spiraling into some weird conspiracy theory.

[@danielmartin2116]

I'm gonna attempt to clarify what Sonic was trying to say with that ARK line. When he said, "So I guess that means we're going too", he was referring to the context of space. So the line should be interpreted as "Looks like those black creatures are headed out to space. We're on our way to the ARK, so I guess that means we're going [to space] too." Needless to say, someone should've taken another look at that line to clarify what Sonic meant

[@feiradragon7915]

I always interpreted the line as "We (Sonic's group of friends already inside the ship) are on our way to the Ark so I guess that means you're joining us."

[@hamstersandwich9917]

that's still kinda aeird tbh, the ark is in space, where else would they go; I feel they shoudve said as "we're on our way to the ark, so i guess were gonna bump into those creatures too."

[@MetaKaios]

It's still a bad line with that interpretation.

[@milesstorzillo7650]

I think it should've gone "Since we're on our way to the ark I guess that means we're going out there too".

[@Baconator2558]

It's a shame that "Look at all those Eggman's robots!" didn’t make it, but this was still a pretty good selection.

[@semmieb3e127]

“That tornado’s carrying a car!” *Gets hit by car* *load screen* “That tornado’s carrying a car!”

[@rayvenkman2087]

It’s one of those quotes that’s infamous by where it is placed in Retail 2006 since in Project-06, I think that’s moved to the Mach Speed section and the line comes off as Sonic being in disbelief at what he’s seeing rather than stating the obvious.

[@kittykake44]

Fun Fact: the "Stealing Candy from a Baby" line is another example of poor localization. In the original the literal translation would be something along the lines of "This is ridiculously easy, which is fine by me" and they added the saying stealing candy from a baby to mean that it was easy, but accidentally made it much edgier in the process.

[@destroyerkitty9434]

I think “mountain of handkerchiefs” is a very cute line. It’s in character for Sonic to give someone sympathy, telling them it’s okay to cry, but it’s even more in character for him to use one of his wishes to make a gag out of it. That’s just the kinda guy he is. Plus it’s a callback to the first cutscene of the game where she asks what he requests first as lamp’s master, responding “how about a handkerchief for starters” due to him sneezing.

[@goofball2237]

“None of this is good Vector… that’s why it’s called Sonic Forces”

[@LaymoSupraymo]

Inaccurate bracket: Didn’t feature single quote from Lost World I’m truly disappointed

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

"That was cool . . . pun entirely intended." "Eggman, you bite!" "Tails fought for the greater good. Let's make sure his sacrifice wasn't for nothing." (or something like that) These were the ones that immediately came to mind.

[@LaymoSupraymo]

@@JohnSmith-mk5jt “I’m suppose to be the fastest, but I was too slow too save my buddy”

[@nickscott27]

@@LaymoSupraymo How is that bad, though? Not that I'm complaining

[@LaymoSupraymo]

@@nickscott27 It honestly sounds like a parody of a Sonic fan fiction. It also feels pretty out of character for Sonic to say that’s not. There’s other terrible dialogue in that game to pull from also.

[@Sigsang]

If Shadow the Hedgehog ever gets remade, they better include a scene of Shadow ACTUALLY stealing candy from a baby fr fr 👶

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

Or put it in the Sonic 3 movie. After all, the first one had a picture of Sanic, and the second had Robotnik quoting Uganda Knuckles, so they're probably going to put a Shadow meme reference in it. My money was on mentioning the DAMN fourth chaos emerald, but seeing him steal candy from a baby would work too.

[@DiegoCapybara]

shadow the hedgehog cutaway gag mini game where you steal candy from babies

[@immahamsteryogamer]

​@@minimalbstolerance8113 Or, they do the dumb thing and find a way to use Disgusting creature again.

[@EpicMegaman64]

Honestly shocked that Silver’s lines “I’m an optimist but I’m also a realist” and “Tails has just lost it” aren’t on here. I think both could have gone far on this bracket.

[@sebastianmartinez5963]

"I'm an optimist but I'm also a realist" That line is not too bad. Taking into account the context of the scene, it doesn't seem so out of place to me. However, the other line, "Tails has just lost it" does not quite work.

[@feliscatus4922]

@@sebastianmartinez5963 “Tails has just lost it” was lost in translation from the Japanese to the English version. It was meant to be “Tails is lost without him”. Still should be on the list though

[@jamiegioca9448]

@@sebastianmartinez5963 I guess the point is that Silver ISN’T a realist. That’s an easy fix, though: “I may be an optimist, but this time, I gotta be a realist.”

[@tsukinoakuma]

The mountain of handkerchiefs line is the equivalent of Sonic going to the store because you're on your period and spending way too much because he doesn't know what to get you.

[@samt3412]

"What size is your pussy" -Sonic the Hedgehog

[@RadikAlice]

This is a _God-tier_ analogy🤣

[@rayvenkman2087]

@@RadikAliceI get Gene L. Coon vibes off that comment. If he had written a Sonic story and it’s got his (better than Pontac’s) style of comedy, I’d expect him to write Sonic doing exactly that.

[@TripleSakaTrip]

How did Lost World not get a single entry here? “As long as I can still strangle a Zeti, my hands are fine” has gotta be a bottom 20 Sonic quote, minimum. What about when Amy says “I’m sorry, I never got a chance to say…” before passing out… like she’s implying she’s never expressed romantic interest in Sonic before lol. Honestly between Lost World and all the other missed bad Sonic quotes that people are mentioning in the comments, I think there just might be enough material for a second bracket.

[@chronox1269]

I don't see a problem with that first quote at all.

[@manjackson2772]

What if she was about to say "I've actually been over you for a while"

[@variumi]

“I was too slow to save my buddy”

[@naitsabes6222]

Lol lost world was an amazing story of dogshit qoutes

[@GottaBGlitches]

The "taking candy from a baby" line is literally from the pure hero route

[@stagelights_]

as an editor the wave ocean line really gets to me, i always triple check my shit before sending it down the production line, them not catching that feels bonkers to me

[@rayvenkman2087]

It’s the fact he calls it *The* Wave Ocean as if we’d get it confused with all the *other* Wave Oceans that does it for me. If we were making characters out of the most random things, that G.U.N Operator would be characterised as a malapropist character who’d pronounce Blaze as Blitz, call Baron Von Barron as Lord Sam Sinister, says idea as idear and mangle the story of Raiders of the Lost Ark in his summary.

[@peterh2223]

> Doesn't know the "Stealing candy from a baby" metaphor

[@RagnorokKing]

"No copyright law in the universe is going to stop me" is still one of the funniest and most Sonic-ass Sonic quotes I've ever heard.

[@bucks6360]

Here's the thing that gets me about the special race line, "It's a SPECIAL race to see who's the fastest." Isn't that ALL races??? Like forget the performance, figuring out who's faster is what a race is!

[@bellowingsilence]

Me, seeing some of these quotes: “Long time, no see!”

[@cottoncandycat2506]

I bet about 1 line being in there and I'm glad I was right. 'Hey don't go there... yet' Why make Vector say THAT after the whole computer room thing

[@koplopbopthecatsikune9502]

19:50 nobody tell them this quote came from the HERO route lol

[@Theserperiortrainer497]

This line is fine....people seem to have forgot that thats a real saying that means something shadow is just fine with something being easy.

[@LegendryHeropon]

​@Theserperiortrainer497 it's not the fact that "taking candy from a baby" is a popular phrase, it's what shadow says afterwards that makes the line so infamous

[@LiMe251]

​@@LegendryHeropon"What he says after" that... that he's fine with his main goal being easier?

[@sharen7553]

​@@LiMe251 point is, the line is easy to misinterpret as shadow saying that he's okay with stealing candy from babies

[@LiMe251]

@@sharen7553 It's only easy to misinterpret if you have no concept of metaphors.

[@AidenHD99]

With Metal Sonic in the OVA, he could respond to Sonic (and he does later) but as far as I can tell, only Sonic could actually be aware of it. Also, call me crazy but I will defend Elise this one time. Being forced to bury and not show her emotions for most of her life, her outburst at the end of Sonic 06 to me, makes sense. For the first time in a very long time, she is able to just let her emotions out and when you’ve been in that position of having to detach from your emotions for most of your life, not caring about anything is realistic. Oh and Evan’s “this is the sauce that makes me who I am” at 48:03 was hilarious 😂

[@vampire_catgirl]

The copyright law quote was a follow up to an earlier line by eggman, it didn't just come out of nowhere. And "STrAnGE, ISnT IT" is a god tier line and you need to give it the respect it deserves

[@HanyouGoddess]

"We all did it together!" from SA2 irks me so much. Tails, Eggman is pouring his heart out to you.

[@Minnow_mann]

I think “we all did it together :D 👍” is one of the worst lines in sonic history when you know the context

[@goldenjoe1676]

Need this for Kingdom hearts. "That was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers!”

[@JosephRobinsonSMBX]

..."candy from a baby" was *pure good.* The path that's probably most in character for Shadow.

[@polychromevirusvods]

I feel like the concept of sonic team writing from the MC's perspective follows with how sa1 was written too. even when characters have basically identical lines in different stories, they're worded slightly differently based on who's story it is. and i always thought that was really neat.

[@wesshiflet2214]

i assumed that was what they were mainly referring to

[@justcallmexen]

Bit surprised that "my head's spinning!" was put in over "look at all these Eggmans robots!"

[@czms922]

No copyright law in the universe will stop this video!

[@hpfan1330]

You guys do realize a voice actors job is to voice act right. What Mike Pollock said was completely understandable. His job isn't to question the director.

[@robertmarlow6674]

Directors can be wrong too. In most jobs if you let a mistake you notice slip by you can still be held accountable even if you aren't directly responsible. And it should be that way

[@Arcsin27]

Exactly! I’m surprised they’re mad at him for… following his boss’s orders? He’s not a writer or director, he’s an actor. It’s understandable he’d leave the character decisions and line delivery details to someone else

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

15:15 "Didn't Elise say the same thing?" Not only that, but this is basically a core theme of the game; nearly every major character in Sonic '06 has to choose between the world and somebody they care about. Silver has to seal Blaze away with Iblis to save the world, but he can't bring himself to let her go, so she has to do it herself. Shadow has to choose between saving Rouge and the Scepter of Darkness. He picks Rouge, which results in Mephiles getting out of the staff and ending the world. Rouge learns that the world is going to turn against Shadow someday, but promises to still be on his side and not theirs. And the start of everything is the Duke of Soleanna toying with Solaris and risking ending the world because he wants his dead wife back. It would arguably be good writing IF they went anywhere with this successfully, but the tragedy of the situation is undercut by everything about the game being terrible and hard to take seriously, especially Sonelise.

[@rayvenkman2087]

It’s like Star Trek V: The Final Frontier or a number of the less than stellar TOS Season 3 episodes where there’s a strong emotional elements to the parts that are done well like McCoy’s father scene but you also have plenty of absolute duds to put up with.

[@Splatomix]

Man, I really wanted to enjoy the video, but I had to stop watching because that censorship soundbite got way too annoying.

[@sandy_shark]

I agree, at least change it up

[@champion_ofcloud-var]

19:09 stealing candy from a baby because we're sonic heroes

[@kirbythe64]

I'm surprised that "We all did it together!" wasn't included at all

[@ScreenGemsa]

Nah, that line was iconic

[@ScreenGemsa]

And, that scene was the only scene in Sonic history were Eggman showed an verge of emotion. And btw, what-else Tails supposed to say? I mean he's 8. Him saying "Yay Teamwork" when an 40+ year old man opening his feelings, what the hell, he's supposed to say "Like damn man, pretty rough life huh?"

[@kirbythe64]

@@ScreenGemsa I do agree with that, that's something to consider. But it's such a sentimental moment, especially hearing Eggman say that, so the line and it's delivery sort of ruin it

[@casinopolis]

nah, like screengemsa said, tails is only 8 and is definitely not equipped to comfort eggman of all people. it makes sense for a kid his age to say something dumb like that, but it's made a bit heartwarming when you see how eggman agrees with him.

[@BronzeAgePepper]

​@@casinopolis it's just the delivery that makes people facepalm. Eggman has real character development to have grown a big enough heart to respond "you're right 🙂" instead of just thinking "man what a stupid kid." The way he responds ALMOST sounds like he's patronizing Tails and his moment of immaturity, but given how weird some line deliveries in the SA games are I don't think that was the intent.

[@chiwara3619]

There are so many weird/awkward Sonic lines that would’ve been great contenders for the bracket yet weren’t included Just off the top of my head: “My hands are fine….” from Eggman in Lost World, “Gimme a break!” from Sonic in Black Knight, “Does anyone but YOU believe your LIES?!” from Silver in Forces. If you include adaptions you get even more classic memes like “That’s no good!” and “Delicious Banana”

[@rainpooper7088]

At least the delicious banana was meant to be a comically bad excuse on Eggman's end, if you're laughing at that one, it's done its job.

[@rayvenkman2087]

@@rainpooper7088It’s one of those lines that matches the context of the scene and the other characters are aware he’s so full of it. There’s also the soap line which is masterfully absurd when you start thinking about it.

[@PhillipOnTakos]

I don't remember the direct quote but Sonic's "stand up comedy routine" when he see's a boss in Sonic Colours about how he's taking this seriously because he's stretching is PAINFUL.

[@Somefox5]

Before the dev team knew what rating they'd be allowed to get, they recorded versions of most lines in Shadow the Hedgehog where he swears. "Wheres that fucking fourth chaos emerald" could've been a real line and it might exist out there

[@rinoakirova1548]

On the flip side, any of these lines would be absolute FIRE in an Abridged series.

[@meaninglesswords1082]

"The world and Sonic" is missing context. Silver tells her Sonic is going to destroy the world, she says that can't be true, then Silver doubles down, to which she says if she had to choose between the world and Sonic, she'd choose Sonic. So not only does she value Sonic more than the lives of everyone on the planet, she still would if he was the one who ended them.

[@FuryMcpurey]

the reason why I think "STRANGE, ISN'T IT?" works is because it's a taunt. Sonic is taunting Metal with a rhetorical question he can't answer anyways.

[@diamonddust4486]

I just realized that Shadow calls the Black Arms black creatures throughout the entire game, Even after he learns their name. So... There's no excuse for this. Also, the the aliens barely look black. Most of them look blue.

[@Rusty_Spy]

Shadow doesn't dignify them with their actual names.

[@megablueman]

Black is a term used for darkness though even if they are blue they are dark

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

​@@megabluemanlike dark pit being called "Black Pit" in japanese. or in the sonic OVA eggman's mech is called. like, Black Eggman

[@hamstersandwich9917]

@@megablueman why not call them the dark creatures then?

[@squiddler7731]

​@@hamstersandwich9917 alien creatures would also be acceptable given that they literally dropped down from some kind of space portal

[@JemiDove]

If I may offer some cultural insight from another part of the world --- I'm surprised that the "Disgusting black creatures" line made it that far. As someone who lives in a country/culture where we barely have anyone of African descent here, and if we do have the rare visitor/acquaintance, we usually just refer to them as "African" like "Oh that African friend". I grew up neither associating Caucasians with "white" nor Africans with "black", and only knew about that from exposure to the internet later in life that it was a very American/European culture/history thing that these terms came about. In fact in my parents' generation, they thought it was offensive / derogatory / a joke if people referred to a race of people by colour, rather than using the actual name of their race. (E.g. calling East-Asians "yellow people", Caucasians "white people", Africans "black people"). I grew up thinking this as well. I remember when the whole "Black lives matter" thing was on world news, I remember feeling a bit strange, like, "Isn't it derogatory to refer to an entire race by colour? Times have changed") (For more context, I grew up and currently live in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore where we have many Asian races living together, but Caucasians and Africans are a very small minority) So the "Disgusting black creatures" line mentally didn't enact any knee-jerk shock/cringe reaction from me at all, because I had view them as just that, a colour, not associated with race --- and it's interesting to see how others from other parts of the world react differently.

[@Krantzingoing]

Interesting perspective. Maybe it’s because the world - especially America ? - is on edge towards those things. That quote made me laugh out loud because the double meaning was hilarious. The idea somebody could be so racist to say something like that seriously is so over the top it becomes funny.