Sonic's Scariest Moments.

We're touching on some of Sonic's scariest moments, characters, and concepts.

Step One: Mild & "Festive" 

There have been lots of  Halloween-like details within the games and outside of them, too.

• Sonic's gone through many "spooky" zones, from Mystic Mansion to Haunted Ship. 
• Even the "Megadrive" comic had an addition, the "Haunted Depths Zone."
• Sonic's had plenty of ghostly encounters, from human-like spirits in Night of the Werehog and Sonic 06, to the totally-not-copying-Mario round blobs like King Boom Boo and the ones in Sonic and Knuckles.
• Sonic turned into a "werehog" (werewolf/hedgehog) in Sonic Unleashed and the short, Night of the Werehog.  
• The chao can be "light or dark" and live in gardens alluding to "heaven and hell." 
• This was revisited in the Riders level, Digital Dimension. 
• Metal Sonic mocks Sonic in CD by waving his pointed finger back and forth.
• In the JPN soundtrack of Metallic Madness (bad future) there is evil laughter (similar to USA's boss theme) and voices taunting the player ("You can't do anything so don't even try"). 
• Ironically this is in English, and the US ended up with a different soundtrack.   
• Some cartoon episodes have had ghosts or "scary" tones (Ant!, Sonic the Hedgehog; A Hedgehog's Home, Sonic Underground; Sonic Scream Test, Sonic X;--arguably others)  

Step Two: The Light, the Dark, and the Uneasy

Taking this up a notch.

• Sonic games often have a light and dark theme. 
• Technically Sonic CD was the first game to show such a contrast of "good and evil" with its' possible futures.
• This started in Sonic Adventure 2, but Shadow the Hedgehog actually had the player "decide" the outcome, which may result in a more "evil" Shadow. 
• Though it's not clear, it's possible he kills GUN soldiers, Eggman, or Sonic.
• However, the games to feature these themes in a "creepy" way are Sonic the Hedgehog (06) and Sonic Unleashed. In Sonic Unleashed, light was "good," but in 06 both were villainous. 
• In Sonic and the Black Knight and Sonic and the Secret Rings, the enemies were evil spirits written into the story. 
• In Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic uses a "negative" transformation after his new friend is "killed." 
• Sonic also seemingly kills the Erazor. In the mid-credits scene, he drops the magic lamp (and the Erazor) into lava. 
• In Sonic X, Sonic transformed into "Dark Sonic." The moment was not very long but is noted for Sonic's vicious, past pissed-off attitude.
• In Sonic 06, Mephlies is a demonic-like creature with no mouth. He "only craves destruction" and is the true cause for most of the trouble in the game. Both Mephlies and Iblis have "evil" names. 
• In Sonic Unleashed, Dark Gaia would "possess" people at night and Sonic would have to "exorcise" them (by taking their picture and fighting minions). 
• Sonic R introduced the Tails Doll, which became one scary creature with the internet. This leaked into the Archie comics. 

Step Three: A Nightmare on Sonic Street

The title says it all.

• Death. Some characters died or "died" or "died and came back," but there was one moment that no one could get over...  
•  [Sonic 06] After Mephlies kills Sonic, his friends use the emeralds to bring him back to life (after getting the Chaos Emeralds from the "End of the World" stage).
• Most consider this the worst moment in Sonic history because A, his death was cheap & cheesy; and B, Elise did a "sleeping beauty/snow white/sorta' beauty and the beast" and kissed Sonic to life (this is especially controversial as Elise was a human girl). 
• Hey, End of the Word was a fun level, though. 
• In Sonic CD, Easter Eggs were found within the sound test. As if "DJ Mc Sonic" and "Batman-Sonic" weren't freaky enough, an odd image of Sonic meshed with a face was put in. It plays the US boss music (Robotnik laughing) and has words in Japanese that translate to "Fun is Infinite with Sega Enterprises" and supposedly signed, "the devil." 
• However, it is believed that the signature was someone's name misinterpreted. 

Well, did you make it though the list? There are other "dark" moments, too, but I had to limit it a bit. This is about what's frightening. "Spiders are scary...I'm scary...you? You're not scary." BOO.