In Sonic Adventure 2, he gained the ability to use the mystic melody, which caused something to happen when played in front of a certain kind of strange object. In Sonic Heroes , he is the Flight member of Team Sonic, which means that he can also use the Thunder Shoot attack, whereby he electrically charges Sonic and Knuckles and kicks them at his enemies.
When alone, Tails can also throw fake rings, which electrocute enemies who blunder into them. He can also swim quite well, which is an ability Sonic never had. This, when combined with his flying ability, actually makes him quite an unfairly skilled character in some games. Tails plays major roles in almost all Sonic games released since his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
However, it's likely that in the unreleased Sonic X-treme , which was in development for the Sega Saturn platform, Tails would not have appeared. He is bright gold, with four gold Flickies around him which can attack enemies. He needs the 7 Super Emeralds to transform. The Archie Comics feature a wider range of transformations. In the continuity, Tails can still become the traditional Super Tails, but his coloring does not change and he achieved this through absorbing an unknown multitude of Power Rings.
However, Tails' main transformation is into Turbo Tails. In this version, his fur changes from orange to brown or brown to orange depending on the colorists of the comic issue , and he wears a cape and gloves reminiscent of a super hero. Finally, Tails' ultimate transformation, the strongest and least likely to appear again, is Titan Tails.
In this incarnation, Tails merged with countless versions of himself from alternate dimensions to battle Mammoth Mogul. The result was a giant, muscular Tails with cosmic abilities. He also was part of "Team Super Sonic" in the climactic fight against Metal Sonic in Sonic Heroes, however many fans are disheartened by the lack of any appearance of "Super Tails". Tails has not been shown to transform in any of the cartoons. Sonic Project, the team behind Sonic X , apparently wanted the power of Chaos Control to stay limited to those of "greater" importance a.
Tails was first seen on Sonic 2 for the Master System, where he was kidnapped by Robotnik for ransom. He was first made playable in Sonic 2 for the Megadrive Genesis , where he played the part of Sonic's sidekick and also as a playable character from the second controller. Then, in Sonic 3 Tails made his second major appearance also able to fly, which made him pick up Sonic when possible. This was a big step forward for Tails; he became much better known and respected at this point.
To unlock him, rescue him as Sonic the Hedgehog at the beach. His gameplay is to destroy the capsule or get to the Chaos Emerald before Sonic or Dr. However, in the sequel, Sonic Adventure 2 and it's remake, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, his gameplay changed. Eggman got the gameplay too.
In Sonic Riders , Tails is a playable character, and one of the main characters of the game. Wave the Swallow makes fun of his board design, sparking a rivalry between them throughout the game. When racing, he has the best cornering of all characters. In Sonic 2 , Sonic 3 and Sonic Adventure , when the player has opted to play in 'Sonic and Tails' mode controlling Sonic while the AI makes Tails follow him , it's not readily stated in the manual, but a second player can use the 2P controller to use Tails.
The action will continue to follow Sonic on the screen, making him the focal point, but Tails is fully controllable in every way that he is when playing as Tails alone.
This can potentially be exploited by players who are having trouble with some problem areas or bosses, as Tails has the benefit of being completely invulnerable, with any "death" he suffers being quickly resolved as the character flies harmlessly back onto the screen after a few seconds. Moreover, in Sonic 3 , Tails is granted the ability to fly as he pleases, which can allow the Tails-using player to airlift Sonic wherever he might need to go, though Tails does have an endurance limit to his flight.
Sonic Advance allowed this mode as well via a code entered at character select , however, Tails couldn't be controlled by a second player this time. After becoming Super Sonic through whatever means necessary code or legitimately , the player can use the in-game debug mode to place a normal item monitor on the ground, giving himself a monitor with the teleport item normally only available in 2-player split screen.
After jumping on this, the characters will stay in their location, but while Super Sonic's abilities will be apparently gone, Tails will now have an invincibility ring surrounding him. Sonic must collect another 50 rings and jump to return to Super status. Super Tails will remain in his state for as long as he doesn't "die" through drowning, crushing or falling, and he actually runs as fast as Super Sonic, though he lacks the height of his jumps. However, he is absent from Sonic Underground.
In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog , he is a lot younger than his game self this is one reason he became often seen as Sonic's little "groupie". He is often, in Sonic's opinion, a slight annoyance due to his irritating tendency of being captured easily, often by one of Robotnik's creations or Robotnik himself.
But still, Sonic sees him as like a surrogate brother and best friend, and is usually overprotective of him this often leads to his or Sonic's capture.
Even though, Tails seems to have a vast intelligence in mechanics and can operate independently in drastic situations, such as in one instance lacing an entire building with booby-traps in a manner similar to those seen in Home Alone in order to revive Sonic from a nasty ailment.
He is also evidenced to have a large appetite, and like Sonic, his favorite food is chili dogs. He has a rather sharp tongue towards Scratch and Grounder losers, morons, dumbclucks, etc especially when cornered. He also appears in the British Sonic the Comic , published by Fleetway, where he hails from the Nameless Zone, a region which can apparently only be accessed by a space warp.
A misunderstanding led Tails to the Emerald Hill Zone, where the streets of which he believed were paved with real emeralds, but once there, Tails immediately became fascinated with Sonic, and eventually became his sidekick and eventually best friend. Unfortunately for him, though, he exaggerated the relationship in letters home, professing that HE was the great hero of Mobius and that Sonic was HIS sidekick, which resulted in the elders of the Nameless Zone often calling him back, and gifting him with a suit of enchanted armor to defend their Zone from assorted evil - and poor old Tails never did quite manage to explain the truth.
One time, Knuckles accidentally joined Tails and was mistaken for Sonic by everyone in the Nameless Zone. Knuckles played along and kept it all secret from Sonic. Tails also accidentally found himself seen as an valiant and unstoppable Zonerunner a Freedom Fighter who travels between Zones by the Chemical Plant Zone rebels known as the Flock.
On occasions, he would save someone and they would grumble he wasn't a more famous hero! Tails also appears in the American Archie Sonic Comics, where he is developed upon as the chosen one and the son of Rosemary and Amadeus Prower, also having an uncle named Merlin.
In the Archie Sonic comic, he seemed to have lost his parents at an early age, and admired the Freedom Fighters , particularly Sonic. He has grown pretty close with the Princess Sally , as he calls her Aunt Sally.
He is also Sonic's surrogate little brother. Jules and Bernie Hedgehog Sonic's parents in the comic version also view Tails as a son to them. During his journey through space, Sonic met Tails' parents on Argentium, home planet of the Bem aliens.
When he absorbs fifty rings and seven Chaos Emeralds, he becomes Turbo Tails. His fur color changes from orange to dark orange, all natural abilities are upgraded and he is, like Super Sonic, immune to all attacks that come his way. He has only once made an appearance as Super Tails after he had absorbed the power of a thousand power rings in a battle along side Ultra Sonic against the evil wizard Ixis Naugus. He was aided by four flickies that have chaos energy and that will attack whatever he wishes them to.
Tails, like Sonic, has multiple other-dimensional counterparts, whom he teamed up with to fight his nemesis, Mammoth Mogul. Get used to it. The comics are far from the only version of Tails and his tragic origin, though. There are plenty of different takes, like the otherwise kid-friendly and incredibly bizarre Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon.
It aired in , starred Jaleel White as Sonic, and was apparently made by people who decided that just having dead parents wasn't quite bad enough for everyone's favorite two-tailed fox. In the seventh episode of the cartoon, "Tails' New Home," it's revealed that Tails was "lost for a long time," wandering alone through the strange wilderness of Mobius.
Just before meeting Sonic, he attempted to live with a family of birds because, since he could fly, he assumed he was one. In response, the birds physically threw him out of their nest, sending him crashing down onto Sonic, who just happened to be passing by. The good news, of course, is that this is first meeting eventually led to Tails finding some form of acceptance and family with Sonic, which had been denied him for his entire life up to this point.
The bad news is that it took a while to actually get to that point — after Tails relates his heartbreaking tail of woe, Sonic's immediate response is, "Well I can't slow down for stuff like that. Gotta juice, kid! It's only after Tails proves he can keep up with Sonic by flying that the Hedgehog agrees to give him a home. Good thing he was useful to someone, right?
If you think Tails' origin story is bad in the regular continuity, just wait until they start diving into alternate universes. That's where things really get dark. That's not exactly unexpected, though. Most alternate universe stories that you find in comics tend to present the main timeline as the only one where things even came close to working out okay.
Pretty much every issue of Marvel's What If series, for instance, ends in misery and despair, even the one about what would happen if the Punisher's family hadn't died. Spoiler warning: they die anyway. For the British Sonic the Comic , the starting point is already grim. In this continuity, Tails' parents are very much alive, but they're in another dimension, with Tails trapped in Sonic's native reality instead.
When that comic did a standard-issue "what if the bad guy won" story called "Robotnik Reigns Supreme," however, it got way worse. In this reality, Tails still found himself transported to Sonic's dimension and plopped down in the swamp from which Sonic rescued him.
The thing is, in true It's a Wonderful Life fashion, Sonic wasn't there to save him since he never existed, leaving Tails to drown in dirty swamp water without anyone ever knowing he was there. Hey, you ever wonder if there's a such thing as a fate worse than death? You will if you read Sonic Universe , the Archie Comic that's focused on the larger supporting cast of Sonic rather than the speedy blue hedgehog himself.
Not because it's bad in and of itself, but because it actually raises that question. Sonic Universe 25 kicked off a story about Silver, one of many different hedgehogs that have spin-dashed their way into the franchise over the years.
He's a time traveler, and through a series of the exact sort of complicated events that always accompany time travel in comics, he finds himself in an extremely bad timeline known as "Dark Mobius. His preferred method of dealing with his enemies was, as you might expect from a comic for children, literally punching their souls out of their bodies and then displaying their lifeless husks as trophies, which is what happens to Tails in this reality.
Sonic begins dating Fiona Fox, Tails' crush, which causes a rift between them. When the two return Tails' parents to Mobius, the rift widens when the two get involved in a political schism started by Amadeus, Tails supporting his father and Sonic remaining loyal to the House of Acorn. Eventually, after an argument, the two reconcile after Sonic apologizes and explains that he had dated Fiona in the hopes that it would help Tails get over his feelings for her. He later helps in the fight against his fellow Freedom Fighters anti-counterparts once again.
He then helped in the recent battle against Dr. Eggman, which results in Eggman descending into complete insanity. Tails also appears in the British Sonic the Comic, published by Fleetway. In this series Tails was older than his other incarnations, and was frequently the butt of many of Sonic's cruel jokes, most often being called "pixel brain". He is initially portrayed as a bit of a push-over, who constantly allows Sonic to insult him, gets flustered in dangerous situations, and had a significant inferiority complex.
As time went on, Tails became more competent and heroic. On occasion he would return to his home land 'The Nameless Zone' where he would get a suit of silver armour and a short sword. When the comic began adapting Sonic Adventure, Tails' eyes remained brown while Knuckles and Sonic had their eyes changed to match their in-game counterparts. Throughout most of the anime series Sonic X, Tails mirrors his game role in various stories and game adaptations, though he often plays a smaller role in the series due to the presence of Chris Thorndyke.
He quickly befriends fellow inventor Chuck Thorndyke, who built the X-Tornado jet with him. In a tournament for a Chaos Emerald, Tails shows that he is stronger than he looks, but is defeated by Rouge the Bat when she kisses him. In the third season, Tails is the captain of the Blue Typhoon, and over the series develops leadership skills.
Tails has a crush on Cosmo, a plant-like female alien introduced during this season. Cosmo starts to show signs of affection towards Tails as the season progresses. Their relationship is confirmed when they fall into a love trap placed by Amy that was meant to catch Sonic. He emotionally broke down in tears at the conclusion when Cosmo asked him to kill her to defeat the Metarex, but kept one of the seeds she released. In the original Japanese version, Tails even confessed his love for Cosmo, before shooting her.
Unlike the other main characters, his personality and design is left mostly the same as his mainstream counterpart, but is shown to be more blunt with Sonic and willing to show skepticism to others. While not physically appearing in the Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph, a drawing of Tails can be seen at the Tapper bar. Also, he can possibly be seen when Ralph is exiting Pac Man.
Reception to Tails has been generally positive. He was awarded "Best New Character" in Electronic Gaming Monthly's video game awards, stating "not only is he as cute as Sonic, but he actually serves a major purpose in the game. Brawl, citing his importance in the series and his abilities. Tails is remembered for symbolizing sidekicks and two-player gameplay in the s,[22] and as helping Sonic 2 become the second highest-selling game for the Genesis through allowing a second player to join the game.
ScrewAttack listed him as the greatest sidekick in gaming. However, IGN staff writer Levi Buchanan stated that when Sega noticed the popularity of Tails, and later, Knuckles, they "just kept stuffing new faces and names into the game, pulling attention away from their hero.
This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences. Concept and creationEdit Yasushi Yamaguchi, originally the main artist and zone designer for Sega'sSonic Team, designed Tails for an internal competition for a sidekick to the speedy hedgehog.
CharacteristicsEdit The character of Tails is portrayed as a very sweet-natured[6] and humble fox[7]who, before he met Sonic, was often picked on because of his twin tails. Adventures of Sonic the HedgehogEdit In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, he is supposedly significantly younger than in the games; he is "only 4 and a half," while in the games, he is eight years old.
Sonic XEdit Throughout most of the anime series Sonic X, Tails mirrors his game role in various stories and game adaptations, though he often plays a smaller role in the series due to the presence of Chris Thorndyke. Likes 8. Comments 0.
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