CHARACTER · SONIC CD
Miles "Tails" Prower
- Appears in
- Sonic CD (1992)
9 archived facts 5 topics
Miles "Tails" Prower is a character in the video game Sonic CD (1992).
9 Interesting Facts About Miles "Tails" Prower
Interesting Facts (1)
- #001
Contains a major spoiler — show
Sonic treats the race in the Wachowskis' opening scene as serious business, pulling ahead whenever Tails and Knuckles close the gap and gloating over what he assumes is a win. The sibling rivalry stays friendly here, but it also points to the flaw he admits himself: acting on impulse and going it alone, seeing Tails and Knuckles as an obstacle rather than a team. His refusal to stop taking races seriously even after learning teamwork is what sets up the stinger, since he reaches New York only because he overshot the finish line, gets attacked by the army of Metal Sonics and is rescued by Amy Rose.
Deeper Meaning (1)
- #002
Contains a major spoiler — show
Maddie's shirt in the final battle or ending of each Sonic film is colored to represent a character who debuts in the next installment. In Sonic the Hedgehog she wears yellow-orange, for Tails. In Sonic the Hedgehog 2 it is a red shirt under a black jacket, for Shadow. In Sonic the Hedgehog 3 she wears a pink sweater, for Amy Rose.
About Sonic CD and its cast (7)
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The creative closing credits use polygonal models for the characters that recall the Sega Saturn. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles in particular are introduced performing their animations from the Sonic Adventure character select screen. Their models, like Shadow's, are rendered in a style very close to Sonic the Fighters.
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The character, first seen in a 2022 episode of the TailsTube video series, is officially named Professor Victoria. Her identity came out in a quiet moment of a New Year's Eve TailsTube episode, in which Tails holds a book titled The Mystery of History with Professor Victoria on the cover. Director Jeff Fowler said in an interview that Sega most likely asked for her to be included in the film, though he had few details about her.
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The game's Sound Test held Secret Screens that let players view Hidden Screens while music from the game played. Entering 40, 12, 11 unlocks a screen with Tails and a car reading "SEE YOU NEXT GAME." 44, 11, 09 unlocks an anime-style Sonic with Japanese text saying "You Are Cool!" 42, 04, 21 unlocks a strange Batman-like Sonic accompanied by the final boss theme. 42, 03, 01 unlocks a screen reading "The Fastest DJ MC SONIC" with Sonic, Metal and Robotnik as rappers. 46, 12, 25 is best known from the US version, which plays an eerie theme over several creepy-looking Sonics and Japanese text translating to "Fun Is Infinite With SEGA Enterprises Signed By Majin." The line is often mistranslated; it is actually the nickname of the person who inserted the screen, and the Sonics in the background are meant to have his face.
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Takashi Iizuka, lead producer of the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series since 2008, said Shadow is his favorite character in the franchise, but admitted that Shadow's popularity among fans surprised him and the developers at Sega, who had planned to retire the character after Sonic Adventure 2 (2001). He explained, "Now the third movie is out, and the popularity of Shadow has been on the rise. Before that, the most popular characters were Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, and it has always been that way. But now, Shadow has been rising up to the same popularity as Sonic. And me, personally... [Shadow's] my favorite character. I want to have more places where Shadow can appeal more. I want to focus on him a little bit more... We were originally intending to just kind of [retire] the character, but the character Shadow was just so very popular that we decided to revive him in Sonic Heroes (2003)."