The most annoyingly-placed badniks/traps?

In before CNZ drum.

That Shellcracker Badnik can go fuck itself.

 

CNZ drum.

Also that grasshopper enemy in Metropolis Zone was probably the most annoying of the lot.

Or how about every game since Sonic Advance 2 whose idea of replayability is "memorize when we're going to blatantly throw you into a spike wall"?

 

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Gets my vote.

Was either between those or the seahorses in OOZ. They get me every single time, despite me knowing they're there.

 

I was immediately reminded of that stupid pit. Of course, you're image doesn't truly convey why I hate it so much. It's when you're Super Sonic and waiting for your rings to run out that gets me.

This comic really says it all.

 

Badniks that always manage to hit me: grasshopers from metropolis and the Flasher enemy from Mystic Cave. Since I manage to zip past the latter without getting hit every single time, but not the former, my vote goes for the grasshopers.

I don't have a specific obstacle I dislke however.

 

Not strictly a badnik.

You know what im gona say when I say 'Wing Fortress Act 2'

That one Launch tray. It will undoubtably kill you at least once on every play through.

Also those turtles on Act 1, when a bird flys through them forcing you to land your attack on the turtle causing no damage to the bird, but the bird hits you.

Those two and teh above Mystic Cave pit of DOOM!

 

That one double-piston section in Sandopolis Act 1 right after a giant ring is the obstacle voted most-likely-to-kill-me, with the second place going to a couple of spikeball/piston combos in Marble Garden.

 

All the bumpers in Carnival Night Zone are always annoying. They are always placed in the most stupid places.

 

THIS.

Since you don't even have way to escape, why teh fuck did they put spikes in there?

 

LOL, I use to get stick in that thing a lot and it always made me frustrated.

 

There's a series of corkscrew loops in Power Plant Zone that ends with a bumper.

It's the one obstacle I have the most chance of screwing up in Heroes, actually (at least where super hard mode comes in).


Also basically any place the egg-hammer-helmet dudes are.

 

Those Starfish from Metropolis Zone don't make the whole place ANY more pleasant.

I also dislike those spears in Labyrinth Zone.
The robots in Sonic Adventure were overall very annoying in total, their bad programming doesn't help, either.

And then there's Spring Yard Zone with it's somewhat faulty assumption that those moving block thingies could physically crush Sonic.

 

It's because the engine in Sonic 1/2/3 doesn't like Sonic/Tails being pressed against walls, So in Sonic 1 it kills you instead of pushing you through a wall.

Anyway that pit in Sonic 2 probably takes the cake.

 

Because the spike bug wasn't a bug. =P