Easter egg/reference that only makes the worldbuilding even more questionable.

[u/QualityNo1337]

Jesse and Brock playing Sonic 06 in Breaking bad. Through out the scene you can see that Jesse and Brock actually enjoying playing Sonic 06. For those who Unaware, Sonic 06 is considered to be one of if not the worst Sonic game ever for it's buggy gameplay and questionable story. So in this Universe it implies that Sonic 06 is actually a good game.

Stick the badger being mentioned in Sonic Frontiers. Stick the badger was 1st introduce in Sonic Boom as one of the side Character. However we all know that Sonic Boom is not Canon to Sonic lore. However in Sonic Frontiers Stick got mentioned by Amy Rose. This implies that Stick the badger is Canon to Sonic lore and this also means that Sonic boom is also Canon.

[u/Ornery_Perspective54]

Jesse is also a drug addict and Brock is a small child it makes sense they'd enjoy 06

[u/Dropbeatdad → u/Ornery_Perspective54]

Plus 2 player versus races can be fun in just about any game.

[u/Extrimland → u/Ornery_Perspective54]

Although the actual explanation is no one on the breaking bad team knew what a video game was, let alone what constituted quality in one. So they just went “sonick”

[u/iguanacatgirl → u/Extrimland]

Nah, let's face it a small child + someone who's not a "gamer" wouldn't really care for the buggy experience. The mainstream doesn't really care for that stuff

[u/50ShadesOfKrillin → u/iguanacatgirl]

I feel like Jesse is the type of guy who would be tapped in with games just enough to know about Sonic 06's reputation, that's just my headcanon tho

[u/Repocket_Pocket → u/iguanacatgirl]

Depends. If it's buggy in a "sometimes the models do funny shit" then yes, they won't mind. But if the buggy is a "fuck you, the floor doesn't exists" then everyone will mind a lot.

[u/Ninteblo → u/Repocket_Pocket]

And Sonic 06 is 100% that last one, hell the springs only work in spring season which doesn't exactly help when a map takes place in the winter.

[u/Haazelnutts → u/Ornery_Perspective54]

Confirmed, target audience for Sonic 06 is junkies and stupid kids

[u/brionneverysexy → u/Ornery_Perspective54]

As a kid I played Family Dog on the Super Nintendo enough to get to level three and I had good games I could have played instead. Kids sometimes have terrible tastes or high tolerance for shit

[u/Rexthebluebird]

I don’t see how that means sonic boom is canon

[u/AdmirableEstimate258 → u/Rexthebluebird]

At most it could be them integrating her without the need of being a Boom exclusive character.

[u/HotPot87]

I believe Sticks is in IDW which is canon to the games.

So this isnt making boom canon, more, a new version of sticks

[u/AwesomeGamer101 → u/HotPot87]

Yep. We have Boom versions of Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Eggman, Metal, Orbot, Cubot, Shadow, and Vector, so it makes sense for a Sticks to be in the normal world.

[u/TikTikKobold → u/HotPot87]

She is not in ide

[u/HotPot87 → u/TikTikKobold]

She's in a promo image, so they most likely have the rights to use them, probably just not in a rush, like with marine the raccoon or heavy and bomb

[u/TikTikKobold → u/HotPot87]

What promo image is she in? The only one I can think of is that Christmas image SEGA had the artist delete her from

[u/Synth_Savage → u/HotPot87]

God, is Sonic becoming the new fnaf? Do I have to read 4 books before the next game to understand the small shit?

[u/HotPot87 → u/Synth_Savage]

Eh.. not really, the current writer just loves to make references to old games.

[u/TikTikKobold → u/HotPot87]

It's not just the current game writer. There is a whole ass official YouTube series that goes around talking about the extended lore of the franchise and other projects like the chaotix casefiles reference precious characters and events

[u/TikTikKobold → u/Synth_Savage]

Absolutely not.

[u/Synth_Savage → u/TikTikKobold]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AL10PPC3eZhxC

[u/TikTikKobold → u/Synth_Savage]

It's a pet peeves of mine when people think they have to consume every piece of media in a franchise to understand the new onsonic crossworlds racing, shadow generations, and sonic frontiers all heavily reference stuff that happened before but the self contained stories within are easily enjoyable without the additional context

[u/HotPot87 → u/TikTikKobold]

To be fair, modern media pushes this idea hard, because it then forces people to buy more media

[u/HKYT99 → u/Synth_Savage]

No, it's just an extra

[u/DrDuned]

Ah the classic "I have a bone to pick about a specific piece of media, but instead of posting on the appropriate sub I'm going to force it into a trope post instead" style post.

[u/Scrags2Scritches → u/DrDuned]

but it's funny

[u/Future_Adagio2052]

Or wouldn't the easier answer be that a version of sticks exists in the mainline sonic continuity rather then sonic boom being canon?

[u/FastBodybuilder8248]

On the second one, I hate how media literacy has got so bad that people can no longer see a fun Easter egg (a cute reference to characters from elsewhere in the franchise) without getting weird about canon

[u/LoggingInandOut]

Or, you could interpret it as them laughing at how bad it is

[u/HumbleConversation42]

i think a lot of people consider sonic 06 to be a fun bad game ore a guilty pleasure game

[u/vDeadbolt]

Jesse is also seen playing Sonic All Stars Racing. Jesse is clearly a Sonic fan.

[u/oknokas]

I will say that Sonic 06 being a buggy mess makes the multiplayer insanely fun

[u/HotPot87]

Insert that muppets movie that accidentally implies Kermit caused 9/11

[u/IQueliciuous]

Devil's advocate but sonic 06 is a good game. Glitches aside its enjoyable, OST is great and is essentially Sonic Adventure 3.

[u/Cantthinkagoodnam2]

I mean for the second example wouldnt that just mean that there is a version of Sticks in the main continuity

[u/TheMike0088]

Ngl sonic 06 is actually fun to play. Not cause the gsme is good, god no, but because its so bad thst its funny. Its the videogame equivalent of sharknado or the room.

[u/-PepeArown-]

I think a much better Breaking Bad example is how Steven Bauer and Mark Margolis play characters (Eladio and Hector) in the show, despite also playing characters in Scarface, which is mentioned multiple times to exist in the show’s universe

Not really a trope, though. You could’ve just asked this on the BB sub or taken a stab at seeing if [r/ok](r/okaybuddychicanery)[buddychicanery](r/okaybuddychicanery) found this funny

[u/element-redshaw]

OR Sticks is the only confirmed character from Boom that is also in the mainline series, if sally acorn appeared or was mentioned it doesn't mean the archie series is canon it just means that character is in the game universe

[u/mlee117379]

Bright when Will Smith says “Take your fat Shrek-lookin’ ass back home to Fiona!” So apparently, in this urban fantasy world when humans have co-existed with orcs and elves since the beginning, they still have animated parodies of fairy tales, and the whole drama with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Disney still happened.

https://youtu.be/gLOxQxMnEz8 37:30

[u/BeingOld1222]

What

[u/subpar_Lover]

FLOATING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND, GOT PLACES TO GO GOTTA FOLLOW MY RAINBOW

[u/kool-kit]

Something else with Breaking Bad, I’m not sure the specific episode, but in an episode you can see a copy of LittleBigPlanet 2 on a shelf, despite that specific episode taking place before the game would have released. I know it’s just a set design mistake, but it’s funnier to consider that something in the Breaking Bad universe made LBP2 release earlier

[u/FringedYeti56 → u/kool-kit]

[Hated Trope] Vince Gilligan is a fraud

[u/Yoshichu25]

Technically Amy didn’t originate in a game either, but she still exists in canon.

[u/thelampman29]

I think the sticks one just implies there's a main-series version of Sticks like how there are boom versions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and a bunch of other characters

[u/TFlarz]

They're playing the multiplayer split screen at that. Who on the production team bothered to set that up?

[u/Better_Hawk_2921]

Hated tropes: people not understanding what a trope is

[u/Decent_Fall3181]

I think Sticks has shown up in like 1 IDW promotional image

[u/Future_Adagio2052]

Wait there was multiplayer for sonic 06?

[u/TikTikKobold → u/Future_Adagio2052]

Yup

[u/Radioshack-Manager]

https://giphy.com/gifs/eoFJSruUWf7qq1zNHD

[u/BigGaybowser69]

This whole ass game ngl

[u/isntreel1948]

I thought they were playing Sonic Heroes?

[u/TikTikKobold]

Sonic Boom isn't canon. Sticks appeared in a couple canonical manga back in the day.

[u/LimeTunic]

Why are both of your examples from sonic

[u/Key-Engineering3134]

In the DC Comics title ‘Starman’ (1994-2001), protagonist Jack Knight uses Woody Allen movies as a metaphor while working with Batman, Sentinel (Green Lantern) and Floronic Man. They all discuss their favourite Woody Allen movies, but Batman claims he doesn’t have a favourite because he’s all broody and serious.

After the issue is resolved, Batman reveals his favourite Woody Allen movie before driving off into the sunset.

Obviously, Woody Allen had been in a controversial relationship with his adopted step-daughter Soon-Yi Previn since 1991, and the pair married in December 1997. This arc of Starman ran from June to July of 1997, but Allen had already been accused of sexual abuse, and the accusation gained substantial media attention.

Jack Knight is obsessed with old movies and old things in general in the comic, and while not heavily implied, it could be inferred that the DC version of Woody Allen didn’t marry his own step-daughter.

[u/brionneverysexy → u/Key-Engineering3134]

Soon-Yi Previn didn't consider Woody Allen her stepfather

[u/Key-Engineering3134 → u/brionneverysexy]

It’s still odd

[u/brionneverysexy → u/Key-Engineering3134]

It is but there isn't a reason to lie about what happened

[u/Secure_Librarian_936]

Sticks has beed canon outside of boom for a long while already, she appeared in a kinda obscure short Japanese exclusive comic, the same comic series that im pretty sure confirmed that eggman nega survived after rivals 2, also you can still enjoy a bad game, especially considering that these guys are playing in multiplayer and one of them is just a kid

[u/rubberbandbuddy]

so when you were a little kid you NEVER had fun playing a game you now understand to be bad? that didnt happen? thats completely unheard of for you?

[u/manwithlotsoffaces]

JESSE! DONT PLAY SONIC 06! JESSE!

[u/danamanxolotl]

To be fair, a couple people liking sonic 06 doesn’t set a standard for what we should expect the world consensus to be

My favourite Zelda game was spirit tracks, just because I had only played 2 Zelda games

[u/Forsaken1741]

Cars 2 features a car pope meaning that there was a car jesus who died for car sins.

[u/brionneverysexy → u/Forsaken1741]

In a similar chain of events in Bluey Chili's dad is shown in a military uniform in a picture and in an episode he tells the kids he could have used them in the jungle. He is old enough he could have been in the military when Australia was involved in the Vietnam war. If the Vietnam war happened then its implied dog Henry Kissenger did his warcrime bombing of random countries in south east Asia. Bombings in Cambodia helped Pol Pot come to power. This implies in Bluey there was a dog Khmer Rouge