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Tails the fox

Tails the fox

Sonic's best friendfrom Chub

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A bright, energetic, and curious fox, Tails was initially timid and lacked courage. After meeting Sonic, however, he has become more confident, eventually growing into a more outgoing, brave, independent individual and a hero in his own right. Since encountering Sonic, Tails has looked up to him and stood by his side in order to help him whenever he can, having travelled around the world and far beyond alongside him, usually to stop the ambitions of the evil Dr. Eggman. The concept of Tails was known to be founded during the development of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. After some discussion about making a sequel to the original Sonic the Hedgehog, a fraction of the Sonic Team went to work with Sega of America's Sega Technical Institute. A new element they wanted to introduce was a character that would both serve as a companion to Sonic the Hedgehog and hopefully draw the attention of new players to the franchise.

A contest was held at STI in which Yasushi Yamaguchi, originally the main artist and level designer for Sonic Team, won. The character was going to hold a "deep admiration for Sonic".[16] The name "Miles Prower" is a play on the term "miles per hour," a unit of measurement for speed, and also the word "power". However, "power" was changed to "prower" due to making the character sound too powerful. Yamaguchi's entry won, but marketing director Al Nilsen and product manager Madeline Schroeder convinced the team to change the name from "Miles" to "Tails", in which Yamaguchi was not please. Alternately, Yuji Naka claimed that the name "Tails" came up during his meeting with a producer from ABC at the time. The team and Yamaguchi came to a compromise: the name "Miles" would serve as the character's legal name, while "Tails" would be his nickname, resulting in the full name of Miles "Tails" Prower.

Yuji Naka has stated that the character was originally intended to be a tanuki (a raccoon-like canine native to East Asia and extremely popular in Japanese folklore), who had been modeled after a UFO catcher plushie.[20] However, Yasushi Yamaguchi has stated that was misinformation regarding a different project, and Tails was intended to be a fox from the beginning.[21] Naka had told Yamaguchi to make Tails cute, like Kitsune in Urusei Yatsura. Yamaguchi also wanted to make Tails cute to appeal to Japan, as the first Sonic game wasn't as popular there compared to America. Initially Tails was designed with only one tail, but he received his twin-tails for a stronger impact inspired by Myau from Phantasy Star, and to grow more of a personality. Tails was also always intended to be a boy despite wild rumors of him being mistaken as a girl at the time. Tails was originally not going to have sclera, only completely black, round eyes. Yamaguchi also created Tails with the image of him being five years old, despite his official age ending up being eight. Despite Tails' three bangs usually being depicted erupting from the middle of his head, his creator intended them to be coming from the right side. The relationship between Tails and Sonic was also inspired by the relationship between the characters Gohan and Piccolo from the Dragon Ball franchise.

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