Sonic: Sticks/Tropes


 * Adaptational Angst Update: The film potrays Sticks' paranoia as the result if living in the jungle out of fear of Eggman finding her, and her gatred of technology being a response to a traumatic experience in childhood regarding Eggman experimenting on her.
 * Adaptation Expansion: The film delves into Sticks' past and shows her and Team Sonic's first meeting, both of which were never shown before.
 * Dark And Troubled Past: As a child, Sticks was captured by Eggman, planning to use her as a living battery for his Badniks. While she managed to escape, she was forced to hude in the forest so that Eggman's functioning Badniks could not find her. She then spent the next 13 years there, hidden and paranoid of being found.
 * Darker And Edgier: Sticks' paranoia and hatred of technology in Sonic Boom was Played For Laughs. Here? It is potrayed as the result of spending her life hiding from Eggman, who wanted to use her as a child to power his Badniks.
 * Establishing Character Moment: Sonic's first scene has him runming around, cracking jokes, and playfully racing with Tails, establishing as cocly and friendly.
 * Funny Moments: Sticks, upon meeting Sonic, tries to interrogate him. The problem? She keeps beating him before he can answer.
 * Mythology Gag:
 * The film opens with a flashback to Sticks childhood tha t shows her Dark and Troubled Past and how she ended up living by herself in the forest. This is pretty much how the first live-action film opened.
 * Sonic's first scene features Sonic and the Black Knight 's "Knight of the Wind".
 * Sticks believes Eggman can hear her througth trees, cal ling back to Gnarly's paranoia about trees in Sonic Prime.
 * Upon meeting Sticks and realizing she never heard of hi m, Somic calls himself "the fastest thing alive", hoping she would recognize the nickname.
 * Sticks calls Tails' two-tails a "buttcopter", like Sonic did in his second live-action film.
 * When Sticks meets Amy, she accidentally calls her "Sally".
 * Sticks at one point sees the same dress she wore in the Sonic Boom episode "My Fair Sticksy".
 * Eggman at the end says hos fqmouse catchphtase "I hate that hedgehog", througth also adding the species of Sonic's friends.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * The film delves into the process of animals being used as batteries for Eggman's Badniks, and hell, its really creepy. Imagine being stuck insode a killing machine whike your body is connected to cables that drain your life force while you are consciouss.
 * Eggman, as in live-action, is more depraved than usual thwn in thevgames. Not only he proofs himself to be geniunely intimidating in some scenes, but he isn't above using children to power his Badniks.
 * The scene where a young Sticks hides herself from the Badniks is quite unnerving, and ripped straight from a slasher film. The moment where Sticks mistakes a Buzzy Bomber with an animal can provide quite a Jump Scare.
 * The Other Darrin: Jessica DiCicco replaces Nikita Futterman as the voice of Sticks.
 * Role Reprise: Aside from DiCicco, most of the film's vast us compised by the characters' current game voice actors.
 * Shout-Out:
 * Sticks gets stuck in a washing mashing and screams for help, much like Harley Quinn in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Joker's Millions".
 * The moment Sticks first sees a shining object is a parody of Barbie and Ken's first meeting in Toy Story 3.
 * Take That!: Sticks and Sonic's first meeting is a lampashade of the narmistic aspects of Batman and Bane's final clash at the end of The Dark Knight Rises.
 * Tearjerker: In this film, Sticks has been living in the woods, fearing for her life, for 13 years.