Multiverse Unity: Sonic and the Tomb Raider/Tropes

A list of TV Tropes for Multiverse Unity: Sonic and the Tomb Raider.

Tropes
"So, I know what you’re thinking. 'Why is that incredibly handsome hedgehog joyriding with a incredibly cute teenage girl in a super fast motorbike?'. Dare I say it's the chapter of a beautiful friendship that started in the day we first met, and worked together against a mutual nemesis seeking to overthrow every rich man on Earth. 'How did it all start?', you may ask... well, you might say... it's a long story."
 * Action Girl: Lara Croft and Sally Acorn
 * Age Lift:
 * Lara Croft was in her late 30s in the second timeline video games (Tomb Raider Legends, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and Tomb Raider: Underworld). The show, however, depicts Lara as a 16-year-old teenager. Also aged down to teenage years are Allister, Zip, and Amanda.
 * Artificial Intelligence:
 * Nicole the Holo-Lynx, Sally's best friend and surrogate sister.
 * WINSTON, Lara's AI butler.
 * Beam-O-War:
 * In "Timeless Bond", Sonic's roboticized future self engages the future Natla into one: he fires a concussive canon beam, while Natla counters with dark lightning. He wins when Natla gets distracted in her attempt to stop Sonic and Lara from reaching the dais of time.
 * Big Bad: Larson Stone
 * Body Horror:
 * The post-apocalyptic Earth (set in a alternate future) explored by Sonic and Lara is infested with nearly countless Mobians having been roboticized. Most of them have the most hideous transformations. Hopefully, this alternate future is altered for a better one when Sonic and Lara return to their place in time, and destroy the files for Robotnik's Doomsday Project.
 * The Hybrid (the merging between Metal Sonic and the Doppelganger) has a rather terrifying appearance, resembling a hideously roboticized Lara. Most of her cybernetic limbs even look like metal skeleton bones.
 * Casting Gag:
 * Several voice actors from Marvel's Spider-Man voice major and supporting characters in the miniseries. Those include:
 * Robbie Daymond, who voiced Peter Parker / Spider-Man, voices Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * Melanie Minichino, who voiced Anya Corazon / Spider-Girl, voices Lara Croft.
 * Felicia Day, who voiced Mary Jane Watson, voices Sally Acorn.
 * Nadji Jeter, who voiced Miles Morales, voices Chip.
 * Laura Bailey, who voiced Gwen Stacy / Ghost-Spider, voices Sophie Fletcher and Tikal the Echidna.
 * Max Mittelman, who voiced Harry Osborn, voices Allister Fletcher.
 * Zeno Robinson, who voiced Randy Robertson, voices Zip.
 * Clancy Brown, who voiced Lex Luthor (another mad scientist, and nemesis of a protagonist) in DC Animated Universe, voices Dr. Robotnik.
 * Jim Meskimen, who voiced Ultron (another villainous robot/android/A.I.) in Avengers Assemble, voices Metal Sonic.
 * Composite Character:
 * Mari "Cosmo" Corazon is an amalgam of Cosmo the Seedrian from the anime Sonic X with Mari (a character from the Tomb Raider comics).
 * Larson Stone is an amalgam of Larson Conway (one of the main antagonists appearing in the classic Tomb Raider video game, and the 2007 remake Tomb Raider Anniversary) with Agent Stone (Robotnik's henchman from the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film).
 * Crossover: As the title suggests, the miniseries is a crossover between Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider.
 * It's All About Me: One of the most common and typical attitudes of the show's antagonists: their main motivations are for the sake of their own future, and no one else. Not even their most loyal servants.
 * Previously On…: All episodes after the first one use this trope. The second and fourth episodes begin with Sonic saying "Previously on Sonic and the Tomb Raider", the third and fifth episodes with Lara saying it, and the sixth and final episode with both saying it together.
 * Related in the Adaptation:
 * Chip is depicted as the demigod son of Tikal the Echidna and Tihocan.
 * Speak in Unison: Happens random times, such as:
 * The final episode's recap sequence, on which both Sonic and Lara say: "Previously on Sonic and the Tomb Raider".
 * Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: There are plenty of these between the villains.
 * As in Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Jerome "The Kid" Johnson and Kold Kin Kade are both loyal to Natla, but they very much dislike each other since Kin Kade slaughtered Johnson's gang members.
 * Tears of Joy: In "Timeless Bond", Lara sheds some tears of joy after Sonic gives her the letter from her mother, and Lara (viewing Sonic as family) thanks him with a warm hug.
 * The End... Or Is It?: In "Timeless Bond", it seems like all is well after Sonic and Lara destroy the data which Metal Sonic and the Doppelganger were planning to use to recreate Robotnik's Doomsday Device, and prevent the Post-Apocalyptic future they saw from happening. Plus, leaving Metal Sonic and the Doppelganger stranded in the future. But this is not the end for both clones (yet), because not only do they manage to return to their own place in time, but also (as a result of Sonic and Lara altering the future) end up hideously fused together as one mindless, monstrous hybrid.
 * The Starscream: Also Stone, who is backstabbing both Jacqueline Natla and Dr. Robotnik for his own purposes.
 * Thinking Up Portals: As in the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film, the main power of the Rings themselves is to open up doorways to different places and worlds. Sonic and Lara would potentially use them for their travels around the planet.
 * This Is My Story: First episode opens with Sonic and Lara joyriding happily in Africa. Sonic narrates up to the point which the story catches up.
 * This Is My Story: First episode opens with Sonic and Lara joyriding happily in Africa. Sonic narrates up to the point which the story catches up.
 * Three-Point Landing: Sonic and Lara very much enjoy doing this.