Designer Yasushi Yamaguchi, who is part of Sega’s Sonic team, designs Miles Prower inspired by the character ‘Kitsune’, which has an important place in Japanese folklore. Miles Prower has multiple queues, just like kitsunes.
Yamaguchi wants to name the character Miles Prower in a pun that is made in an hour in the name of the character in the first place – Miles Per Hour. The name is also a reference to Sonic’s famous speed.
However, Sega’s American arm thinks the name Tails is more appropriate. As a result, there are some disagreements about the character’s name.
After behind-the-scenes discussions, a conclusion is reached and the name of our little friend; Miles ‘Tails’ Prower.
Introduction to the Sonic Universe
Released in 1991, Sonic undoubtedly shakes up the industry. Sega’s new mascot, the blue hedgehog, saves the firm’s life at one point.
As a result, the team is gearing up for the second game and will launch Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in 1992, almost a year later.
This is where our friend first appeared.
Tails can fly by rotating their tails like a helicopter propeller. I think in this context, we can say that Tails was the first character in the Sonic universe to fly. On the other hand, as a mechanical genius and a skilled pilot, he will also appear in later games, comics and cartoon series. Because tails is the character who will make many inventions for Sonic the hedgehog.
Solo Games – Tails Skypatrol and Adventure
This cute fox, which appeared in Sonic’s second game and gained a lot of acclaim, is becoming more and more popular by the day. After the third game was released in 1995, two more games, ‘Tails Adventure’ and ‘Tails Skypatrol’, were released. These two games are SOLO games released exclusively for Tails.
But when something becomes popular, it manifests itself even in those years when the idea that everything that is done in his name will be great is wrong. In two productions that are presented to the liking of the actors, Sonic is not very well-kept by lovers.
Tails Skypatrol, for example, is a shoot em up style game. Tails Adventure is a platform just like Sonic, but the biggest thing it has in common in its two games is that it’s quite ‘SLOW’ compared to sonic games.
Third Most Popular Character
Tails is the third most popular character among the many characters who have entered the lives of us actors with the Sonic universe, which began in the early 90s. According to an official 2009 survey by Sega, Tails is the third most popular character in the series, behind Sonic and Shadow.
But the thing about Tails is that it exists on every platform. Game, comic book, comic series, etc., so Sonic is almost tails.
Who knows, maybe that’s because of the competition with Nintendo in those years. So what could tails be missing from Luigi walking alongside Super Mario?
Who Voices Tails?
Tails has been performed by many voice actors over the years. If you count the dubbings made in Japanese, this number is close to 20. Of course, when we look at it globally, it has been performed by Colleen O’Shaughnessey since 2014 with Sonic Boom. Our artist, who has a very difficult surname to pronounce, has performed Tails in the same way in sonic films.
Now let’s take a look at the story.
Oh, yes, yes. What’s this fox? What’s what? Let’s see where it came from.
Tails Story
Tails’ story isn’t told in games, just like sonic. Comics or comics fill this void, just like Sonic. For example, I mentioned an alternative background story told in comic books in dr. Robotnik’s article . The same is true with Tails. There are different alternative stories.
In one story, for example, Tails comes across as a child born in the middle of war, who lost his parents in a world oppressed under Eggman’s dictatorship, while in another story he comes across as a resident of an island called the West Side, but who is despised by those around him and is bullied. Which is the second time I’ve said it’s more accepting.
One day, when our hedgehog friend arrives on this island, he meets Tails. Tails, as I said, is a fox that is excluded because of its intelligence, with two congenital tails. So it’s a different creature. He’s been despised all his life for his difference, which makes him feel pretty bad. That’s why as soon as he sees Sonic, he admires him and wants to be a hero like him. That’s how the friendship of these two friends, which we often see together, begins. Tails is Sonic’s best friend. He helps her with almost every adventure.
Finally, it’s not known if Tails is now alive or just for the story, it’s an astraphobic creature. He’s a man who’s overcome a lot of his fears, but he’s still afraid of thunder. Which one of us isn’t, though?
Finale
And yet, as a cheerful, loving, loving, environmentally pleasing, inventor, such a cute fox, he has won the admiration of all of us, if not all of us. With the recent sequel to Sonic, let’s say it finally takes its place in the cinema and let’s finish our article here.
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