

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. Alternately, Yuji Naka claimed that the name "Tails" came up during his meeting with a producer from ABC at the time. 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 pleased. However, "power" was changed to "prower" due to making the character sound too powerful. The name "Miles Prower" is a play on the term " miles per hour," a unit of measurement for speed, and also the word "power". The character was going to hold a "deep admiration for Sonic". 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.Ī contest was held at STI in which Yasushi Yamaguchi, originally the main artist and level designer for Sonic Team, won. 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. The concept of Tails was known to be founded during the development of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
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Taken from the console/ PC version of Sonic Generations. Various sketches of Tails, from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit).

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. 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. He is able to use his twin-tails to fly by rotating them like helicopter rotors and is a mechanic genius and aerial pilot.Ī bright, energetic, and curious fox, Tails was initially timid and lacked courage. Tails soon after began following Sonic on his adventures and has since become his best friend and sidekick. One day, however, he met Sonic the Hedgehog and was inspired to become as cool as him after seeing him run like the wind. Due to his abnormality, Tails was a victim of bullying during his youth.

He is an anthropomorphic fox who, due to a genetic abnormality, was born with two distinct twin-tails, hence his nickname. Miles Prower ( マイルス・パウアー, Mairusu Pauā ?), better known as Tails ( テイルス, Teirusu ?), is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. I've changed a lot since I've started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever.

