Why Tails Was A Hero And How He Was Butchered

So what do all you guys think about Tails and his character? Do you have similar thoughts to me, or different. Either way it will be interesting to read. Leave your thoughts below.

I feel the Sonic Boom cartoon treated Tails better than the recent games have. He's smart, brave, and isn't sidelined. We see him help Sonic and friends many times.

Tails went from "I will believe in myself" to "I will go hide in the corner".

Sega has a real bad habit of taking great characters and boiling them down to one word husks of what they started as. Amy went from a caring girl that idolized sonic and could see the good in everyone including seemingly heartless robots to just the girl that likes Sonic. Knuckles went from a noble, albeit gullible warrior who has a hard time understanding the nuances of other people but once you get to know him he's a good friend and strong ally, to just the dumb guy that punches things. Shadow went from a brooding loner who struggles with his own identity, but has a surprising amount of love in his heart for those he grows close to, to just edgy the hedgy. And of course Tails went from the scared kid who had to grow out of Sonic's shadow and become his own hero, to just the coward who's also pretty tech savvy. Half of the Sonic cast can be described with a single meme, "Look how they massacred my boy"

How many people remember that when tails was introduced he was one of a few characters that could actually keep up with sonic which made him the perfect partner?

Point that I missed in Forces. So, Tails can't fix Omega. An Eggman Robot. Can fix and reprogram literally any of the other Eggman machines in Lost World. What.

I PRAY that the next Sonic movie does him justice, he deserves it, he needs a good comeback to the way he's supposed to to be written

Sonic X is a pretty significant growth for him, too. He was portrayed much like he was in the Adventure games, and once he befriended Cosmo, he became so dedicated and brave enough to defend her that he even attempted to fight Shadow. It seems like a continuation of his character from Sonic Adventure.

Sega was so desperate to have Mario's success, they tried to turn Tails into Luigi.

Tails wouldnt be such a spoiled brat if he wasnt on that DANG PHONE

If you're a Tails fan, you've played Sonic Adventure. I can't imagine anyone seeing tails in any other game and really liking him as much as you would if you played Sonic Adventure that's how bad they butchered his character

It doesn’t matter how many times I rewatch this, it still hurts to see tails being so completely worthless.

Fun fact: In the DS version of Colors, Tails tells Sonic that he wants to fight the Nega Wisp along side him. He is slightly more in-character in this port than in the console versions.

Tails in 1998 to 2009: A boy genius who grows a backbone. Tails in 2010: Whiny brat/ Mr. Know-it-all sidekick. EDIT: It hurts me to say that, but it's true.

"Tails has just lost it" was a mistranslation. The original Japanese script said that his whereabouts were unknown. That "Tails is lost", not that "Tails has lost it". It can't be used as an excuse for his deteriorating character.

Tails was the role model I looked up to when I was younger. Low self-esteem, socially insecure, smart kid of the class, you name it. Seeing him written as the whiney backseat kid bothers me so much. I feel Sonic Forces could have been a redemption of sorts. Replace classic Sonic with tails in the scenes before reuniting with the resistance and it just fits. You can replace tails with classic Sonic seamlessly since Tails had his own 2d rendition. Even the cutscenes and voicelines are framed like Tails could have flown solo. And for the SA2 nostalgia have him do a last stand mission in the cyclone mech against Eggman robots before going down under overwhelming odds (fits the war theme going on and sonic 'n pals fighting against overwhelming numbers). Such missed potential... thankfully the recent sonic movie brings a return to form. Or at least the beginning is promising.

I absolutely LIVE for the moments when Tails is written as a badass. I feel like that’s who he is at his core but he constantly gets shoved into the coward role.

Tail’s transition from hero to Coward started after Unleashed. He wasn’t as integral to the story, but he at least helped you out by fearlessly flying you into enemy territory against a fleet of Eggman robots, and 2 Egg Cauldrons.

Tails is my all time favorite, and has been for ages now. Seeing someone like him, who was bullied, scared to do anything on his own, then having his confidence return and bring him back into his hero state, then immediately go back to being a coward for no apparent reason, just hurts me. Sometimes I feel like the fans know the characters more than Sega themselves do. And when that happens, my faith in the original creators start to dwindle very fast Edit: it seems like the movie is making Tails go back to his old self, thank god

About that scene with Tails being tricked in to revealing the Fake Emerald: if you play through the Dark Story, and going off of what Tails said "It has the same wavelength & properties as the original, but is less powerful", Eggman already knew it was fake, both through process of elimination (discounting the Master Emerald, there are only 7 Chaos Emeralds, and they have 6 in their possession aboard the ARK). "Hmph! They really thought they could trick me with a fake Emerald?" Knowing both sides, I've read that scene as Eggman ALREADY knowing the Emerald is fake, but just wanted to trick Tails in to thinking he just screwed Sonic, Tails' best friend in the whole world, in to a one-way trip to his demise whilst simultaneously gambling on confirming which of the two Emeralds they had in their possession was a fake. It's one of the smartest, most diabolical things Eggman has ever done, and to think he ALMOST got away with it. Had Sonic and Shadow never met up until then, Sonic would be dead! O.O