#archie tails

[steadymongerbatscissors]

Archie Tail meeting other Tails meme pack

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #archie sonic #adventures of sonic the hedgehog #sonic satam #satam #sonic prime #aosth #nine the fox #aosth tails #satam tails #x tails #cosmo sonic x #archie tails #boom tails #sonic boom

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Wait wait no I'm not over this I need to talk about it.

So I've been reading Archie Sonic. And besides the fact that the lore and plot of most of the comics is just a blindfolded guy throwing darts at a dartboard, random things will just like come back after 50 issues of no longer being relevant or not being talked about.

Two of these things? Shard/Original Mecha Sonic, and Sonic's experience during the Metal Madness special, during which he was the True Mecha Sonic.

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So for context, let's back up to the Mecha Madness special.

So, I will be so clear right now. As Sonic was roboticized, during his stint as Mecha Sonic he is completely fine doing what Robotnik instructs. I am completely aware that he lost his free will, and I do not blame him for this. He is under Robotnik's control (or his robotic "programming" if you will) when he starts attacking Sally, the freedom fighters, Metal Knuckles, and Knothole.

But part way through that special issue, something happens that allows him to regain some of that free will. It allows him to feel a moral dilemma, and it gives him the chance to fight against Robotnik's programming.

Again, I will be clear. Up to this point, unless one of the roboticized characters has had their free will restored, the only thing allowing them to "fight their programming" or become aware in any way was as long as they were holding a working power ring (and later, the sword of acorns). This tells us just how powerful a force the programming to be a mindless Robotnik slave built into roboticization is.

And yet Sonic M. Hedgehog, the true mecha Sonic, manages to gain awareness without the usage of a power ring.

How?

Is it because he just couldn't hurt Sally, his love interest? Is it because he couldn't hurt his friends? Is it because he couldn't stand destroying his home?

NOPE (don't believe me? Read Archie Sonic issue 39 and then the mecha madness special)

He starts to regain a semblance of his free will because he almost killed Tails.

It's such a small thing, and it doesn't end up amounting to much in the moment just because he and Metal Knuckles end up duking it out until Sonic falls, damaged, but it’s highly important.

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Now let's fast forward to the return of the original Mecha Sonic. This event spans issues 86 and 87.

Now, the big conflict of this arc is that Mecha/Metal Sonic has kidnapped Tails and restrained him at the top of a volcano that is going to erupt very soon. Tails spends most of the arc in the damsel in distress role and acts as motivation for Sonic to fight Metal.

And really, Sonic isn’t having any of this Metal kidnapping Tails business

He spends much of the issues fantasizing about/trying to destroy Metal while trying desperately to get to Tails, but there are two moments that stand out from this in issue 87. Namely, the moment when Sonic realizes how similar Metal is to him when he was Mecha Sonic, and during the Tails + Sonic vs Metal fight, where he tries to relate to Metal. During the former:

At this point, Sonic first realizes how similar he and Metal are, but he doesn't think too hard on this. Instead, he ops to think about what makes them different (Metal's lack of humanity, or at least the lack of attempt in keeping a semblance of humanity).

During the latter:

Here, although Sonic spent much of the arc trying to save Tails and dealing with his anger towards Metal, he tries to reason with Metal. Whether he really believes he can get through to him or not, the point is that he tries. Even if he can't convince Metal, at least he can distract him enough for Tails to fly to safety.

Now, here's what's also interesting about these scenes. Sonic doesn’t actually mention how he began to fight his programming, only that he had to to preserve his last bits of humanity. We will come back to this.

Now, during this scene, Sonic bids Tails to escape, but Tails will not.

This scene is important. Sonic is having difficulty getting through to Metal, he bids Tails to leave, and while Metal goes on about how feelings make them weak, and then about how Tails *is* actually going to leave Sonic, Tails flies back to his side.

"No! I'm coming to be at his side so we can stop you together!"

And then...

Metal saves them. He not only saves them, he stands in the way of the magma, melts down to his core, to save the Mobians he's been fighting and toying with all day.

And despite the conversation he JUST had with Sonic, not even a page or two ago, he's going off about how he understands compassion, what it means to have the ability to go past your programming.

What happened between point A and point B? How did Metal flip flop so quickly even though Sonic's words didn't do anything.

Well, here's how Sonic puts it:

"But I think you turned the tide, Tails."

"Me? How?"

"Whatever words I said to the metal guy were just words. But when you wouldn't abandon me... That's when what I said became real to him...as if he gained some kind of robotic soul."

Now that's interesting.

If I remember correctly, later character bio type stuff on Mecha Sonic/Metal Sonic/Shard just mentions that he changed his mind after seeing Sonic and Tails' display.

But what Sonic says is pointed. It's not just after seeing Sonic and Tails' bond that Metal opened his mind. To him it's specifically what Tails did.

And I think there's some truth we can see to that! Metal would not listen when Sonic tried to relate to him using his time as Mecha Sonic, but when Tails expressed that he wouldn't leave Sonic, that he'd stay and fight to the end...

Suddenly Metal understood what Sonic is saying. Suddenly...he understood what it meant to feel, to have something to fight for.

While issues after Mecha Madness are vague about what exactly caused the true Mecha Sonic to try to fight his programming, the evidence speaks for itself.

It is so highly interesting to me that it was seeing Tails that allowed the Mecha Sonic to fight his programming, and then it was seeing Tails and his demonstration of fighting with Sonic til the end that inspired Metal Sonic to fight his own programming and give his life for Sonic and Tails.

It drives me crazy that if you boil it down, one thing that makes Original Metal/Shard so similar to Sonic/The True Mecha Sonic is that it was due to Tails that they fought their programming.

And given the evidence (using Uncle Chuck, Muttski, and both iterations of Mecha Sally as examples) of just how hard it is to maintain any sense of free will, the fact that Tails existence helped Mecha Sonic and his actions helped Metal/Shard means a lot.

#sonic the hedgehog #archie Sonic comics #shard the metal sonic #mecha sonic #tails the fox #archie tails #archie sonic #miles tails prower #mecha madness special #archie sonic issue 86 #archie sonic issue 87 #sontails #metails #shardails #sonmetails #shardsontails #Sometimes you think 'how come no one is talking about this??' until you finally just become the person who talks about it #Honestly read issues 86 and 87. The writing isn't amazing and neither is the pacing. But it is just so good for the sontails/metails/metonic #I actually couldn't BELIEVE that they made this arc and especially that they very explicitly put that it was because of Tails that both #Sonic and Metal/Shard fought their programming #Not to mention how they made Tails a damsel in distress and just had Sonic so fucking driven to get his little buddy back at all costs #Mind you none of this has to be romantic per se. But to me this is just some of the major proof that Sonic's bond with Tails is stronger #than all others (even with his love interest in this media)‚ and that the Tails/little buddy effect is even powerful enough to extend to #Sonic's robotic double #essay time #I just be ramblin #This is honestly why it's criminal that in Ian Flynn era Shard and Tails barely get to talk about this event. Like Tails brings the event up #and Shard just says he's sorry for the 'volcano thing'. I so wished they put more time into dealing with it #But I digress I digress #unbreakable bond

[tailsshowdown]

[ROUND 1]

#round 1 #brackets #idw tails #archie tails #polls

[000marie198]

Who is the nicest out of the Tails Squad?

Keep in mind that the members I haven't mentioned here are the ones I know nothing about (like STC Tails and Shogakukan's Tails) because I haven't consumed those iterations yet.

Now, let's see here;

AoSTH and SatAM are little guys but they are the squad's certified manipulators. They can be absolute menaces anytime they want. AoSTH will make so much fun of whichever villain makes the mistake of encountering him that the other would regret ever seeing this child

Classic is a sweetheart. He also killed an entire armada of birds by using bombs

Nine won't hesitate to shoot and kill and destroy if he finds an incentive. This child craves violence.

Depending on the matter and his mood, Boom Tails would either be a nice child or the 'gang up to bully this specific adult' child. He won't hesitate to whine and complain when annoyed.

X! Tails is a very nice and helpful fellow. He doesn't hold grudges and even ignores the hurt he feels at possibly being replaced (I swear, I love anime Sonic but he lost a lot of points for ignoring his lifelong best bud in favor of a selfish & over possessive rich boy who just wouldn't leave it). Anyways, that rant aside, he is one of the nicest fellows but he will go full kill mode if sleep deprived and you bother him & there's no Sonic present to reassure him. Also, he is a determined fighter and the captain of a space craft.

Mangey is feral. Unless he gets spooked enough to hide or you're a Sonic, he growls or pounces or scratches or bites

OVA Tails has a temper. Annoy him or upset him in any way and he'd scold back tenfold with a few curses mixed in.

Detective Tails means no harm but he will accidentally find out and reveal your most embarrassing secrets.

IDW Tails has several moods. He's a nice kid if you're a friend, he will gang up with his fellow counterparts to trick people, he will be ready to help you out even in the middle of the night, he has inescapable prisons ready and takes no nonsense when serious, he has camping equipment that's much more complex and dangerous than any regular camping supplies, he will crash a giant shuttle without a warning, he uses the elements of deception and surprise, he will also create blasters with nothing but rusted junk in the matter of barely minutes if given the incentive, is an expert hacker, inherited Sonic's sass and recklessness.

Prime Tails never gets upset unless it's something serious and forgives easily.

Modern is a genius. Gets quite angry and upset when annoyed and pretty much unstoppable when determined. He is a good boy but he banters with Sonic on the daily and has thousands of comebacks and sassy quips in his arsenal. He will tease and annoy someone on purpose if in the mood.

Archie Tails once nearly killed his lifelong best friend and brother because he felt deeply hurt and betrayed over losing his crush to the other (as if romantic crushes are so much greater than familial love 🙄). Also abandoned that person in an alternate future over something I am unable to recall. He is the exact opposite of nice when he gets upset. And it's not too difficult to get him upset.

Smithy is sweet, helpful, kind and skilled. He also has a good eye for all kinds of blades and creates the most expertly crafted weapons. He is probably the nicest person in Camelot.

Going by the stories, Ali has probably allowed 40 beings to be burnt alive with boiling oil. Do not try to attempt anything against him. He is patient and wise but he doesn't fear to inflict the most disturbing horrors on those who he feels deserve it. And people who... OH NO... I am so darn glad rn that Sonic's counterpart in Secret Rings is supposed to be Aladdin and not Qasim! (When I tell you that the Arabian Nights tales were horrific and not for kids, know that I am dead serious.) Just... Don't get on his bad side. If he is given a genuine reason to take someone down, he'd put even Nine to shame with how violent and painful his methods can get.

Sails is a swordsman and a pirate. He might not be the most genius but is definitely among the most skilled in combat. He also enjoys stabbing and slashing and electrocuting people and holds a thirst for thrill & adventure.

Tails Wachowski. Little guy, sweet child, carries highly advanced weapons in his backpack and stole two vehicles in the span of 24 hours. Also hit Knuckles with a car and later let the car fall down a cliff with the echidna still on it. Almost gave their dance fight competitor a heart attack by pulling out life like holograms. Has a cute little, deceptively childish looking laser gun and has a plasma ray blaster in his backpack. Uses the power of puppy eyes to get what he wants every time. 'The baby with a knife' so to speak.

.......

I believe that Prime, Smithy and X!Tails are the nicest ones.

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sth #miles tails prower #classic tails #modern tails #aosth tails #sonic satam #sonic prime tails #mangey the fox #nine the fox #sails the fox #idw tails #archie tails #tails wachowski #boom tails #blacksmith tails #satbk ali baba #detective tails #ova tails #sonic x #tails squad #i can't wait for Tails Wachowski to go killer mode feral on Eggman in Sonic 3

[andtails]

Sonic's apology to his little brother.

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #tails #tails the fox #miles prower #sonic and tails #archie sonic #archie tails

[gracefuldisasters]

I might make an Eggman later ;) But here's some more!

Nicole, Shard, and Knuckles are my favorites out of these I think. The Chaotix will probably be next, but feel free to suggest more!

The original set the next ones another bit

#sth #my stuff #sonic #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #fang the sniper #bean the duck #bark the polar bear #nicole the holo lynx #shard the metal sonic #archie sonic

[bayboyzone]

into the tailsverse

#tails #miles prower #tails the fox #miles tails prower #tails fanart #sth #sonic the hedgehog #sonic au #sonic movie #sonic prime #archie sonic #anti-tails #tails doll #kitsunami the fennec #kit the fennec #tails nine

[fernsnailz]

HUGEASS ARCHIE SONIC ARTDUMP i read the entire series recently and i had so many thoughts

#archie sonic #sth #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #miles tails prower #shadow the hedgehog #scourge the hedgehog #rouge the bat #oh girl i am NOT tagging all of those characters #fern's sketchbook

[nightfurylover31]

Shadow joins the "Being Carried Bridal Style by Sonic" club!

#sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #amy rose #knuckles the echidna #miles tails prower #cream the rabbit #princess elise #sally acorn #chris thorndyke #helen (sonic x) #tangle the lemur #belle the tinkerer #sonic x #archie sonic #idw sonic #sonic boom

[paint-baby]

Kinda sorta endlessly preoccupied with the death egg???

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #archie sonic #sonicthehedgehog #sonic and tails #tornado #x tornado #sonic x #sonic cd #sonic heroes #idw sonic #sonic tornado #tails the fox #death egg #robotnik #eggman #sonic fan artists #sonic community

[archiesoniconline]

Sonictober2023 Day 26! Theme: Free Will.

As the inventor of the roboticizer, Uncle Chuck now wonders if the opposite is also possible. Can a non-living object like a puppet be granted new life? It would certainly require a lot of tinkering…

Art by @arantarisuyamu

#archie sonic online #sonictober #sonictober 2023 #uncle chuck #sonic the hedgehog #aso #puppets #pinnochio #archie sonic #amy rose #miles tails prower #espio the chameleon #big the cat #froggy #chao #tornado #day 26 #free will

[cephalosaur]

Shard and Nicole, but Wall-E

again

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sth #sonic art #sonicthehedgehog #sonic archie comics #sonic archie #archie sonic #sonic comics #nicole the holo lynx #shard the metal sonic #shardicole #i've done redraws twice now. it's because the next item on my drawing to-do list has involved me making a 3-D model of Tail's workshop #it's taking a bit but i don't want to just 3d model #i want to draw #so i have drawn and i will continue to draw

[neurotypical-sonic]

want more of this!!!!! theyre playing!!!!!

#god I cant wait to start reading archie #sonic #tails #sonic&tails #egg.txt #archie

[9474s0ul]

I can never get enough of this guy. So I drew the other guys-

#my art #sonic #metal sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #sonic au #mecha sonic #mecha sonic archies #archie sonic #rocket metal sonic #silver sonic prototype #sonic cd #yes i did the yotsuba pose meme thing #shadow the hedgehog #rouge the bat #dr eggman #tails the fox #miles tails prower #metal knuckles #tails doll #eggette #cream the rabbit #cream and cheese #thats all of them right? #jfc oh shit wait #organic metal sonic #th e r e

[000marie198]

It's crazy that SATAM!Tails, who looks exactly like the youngest Tails, AOSTH!Tails, is the second oldest of the Tailses at 10 (Pre-Reboot Archie!Tails is a year older)

Maybe he has extra stunted growth due to the ongoing war (same with pre reboot Archie Tails)?

#sonic the hedgehog #or maayyyybe they messed up his age during writing that episode. your honor that boy is barely four #sonic #sth #miles tails prower #satam tails #archie tails #sonic satam #sonic archie comics #ask answered #anon ask

[andtails]

Sonic and Tails' heads in the clouds (Archie #61; August, 1998)

#sonic the hedgehog #tails the fox #sonic #miles tails prower #tails #sth #miles prower #archie tails #sonic archie #fan art