Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic Boom)

"Ingenious inventor, expert pilot and Sonic's best friend."

- Sonic Boom Official Website

Miles "Tails" Prower is one of the main characters in the Sonic Boom series. He is an anthropomorphic two-tailed fox and the best friend and sidekick of Sonic the Hedgehog. He serves as Team Sonic's aerial pilot, gadget specialist, strategist and overall brains.

Concept and Creation
Tails' attire was meant to emphasize his role as the "gadget guy" of the team. He received a belt to "really show" his gadgets and aviator goggles to reinforce that he was also the team's pilot.

The sports tape Tails wears is inspired by fighters and American football players and is meant to give him a sense of practical heroism by showing that that he is not vain, which is a trait more fitting for villains, when saving the world and to give him a more grounded approach.

Appearance
Tails is almost identical to his main series counterpart in appearance, except that he is slightly taller, with longer legs and thinner twin-tails. For attire, he wears a pair of brown goggles with orange lenses on his head, a brown work belt with a strap around his shoulder and a small emblem adorned with his signature symbol on the front, and white medium-long gloves with no cuffs. He also wears red sneakers with white toes and cuffs, which have white sports tape wrapped around the middle.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Tails was out foiling another of Dr. Eggman's evil plans with Sonic, Knuckles and Amy. They eventually arrived on an island where they find an ancient tomb sealed deep within the island where Tails and the gang come across a powerful villain named Lyric, who plans to power his army of war mongering robots with the Chaos Crystals to destroy everything organic and create a world of twisted metal and robots. To stop Lyric, Tails and his friends have to work together and find the Chaos Crystals before Lyric.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Tails came to rescue Sticks with Sonic, Knuckles and Amy when the badger was caught in a rockslide. There, Sticks claimed the rocks said an underground army would destroy them all, much to Tails' exasperation. Later, Tails teamed up with Sonic, Knuckles and Sticks to track down and save Amy who had been kidnapped by Lyric and his robot army, who sought to use her archeological knowledge to find a Lost Crystal of Power and seize its power.

TV Series
While fighting Dr. Eggman, Tails found Sonic facing Eggman's Burnbot in the Tornado, and helped Sonic combat the robot. However, Burnbot managed to damage the Tornado and Tails crashed. Tails later awoke at home, having been brought there by Sonic, who then fired him as his sidekick so he would not get hurt anyone. While Tails took it well, he soon after applied for Sonic's try-outs for a new sidekick, as he welcomed all qualified candidates. For Sonic's decisive test, Tails faced Fastidious Beaver and even Eggman in a race, but during the race, Eggman revealed his plan to get rid of both him and Sonic. As they raced in the air, Tails' Tornado was again clipped by Burnbot and he crashed in a frozen lake where Sonic saved him. Burnbot then used its fire upgrades to make Sonic fall into the water, but Tails dived in and save him, and together they beat Burnbot and escaped. With the venture over, Sonic and Tails reconciled, and Tails was made Sonic's sidekick once more.

When Dr. Eggman, Orbot and Cubot were in a need of a place to stay while their lair underwent repairs, Tails allowed them to stay in his house. In just one day though, Tails and Sonic were driven crazy by Eggman's obnoxious actions and they were ready to make him leave the house. Following a "roommate meeting" hosted by Amy though, they complied to giving Eggman one more chance. Regardless, Tails and Sonic were kept awake all night by Eggman with social activities. The next morning, Eggman revealed to Tails and his friends that he tricked them about his lair so he could exhaust them, and summoned Obliteratorbot to destroy them. Due to a glitch in its programing however, Obliteratorbot instead attacked Eggman's lair. In spite of Eggman's deceit, Tails and Team Sonic went to the lair to stop the robot where he, Sonic and Eggman went for the robot's kill switches in the lair while the others distracted it. Despite their drowsiness, Tails and Sonic succeed in stopping Obliteratorbot, though they were too late to save the lair.

Having perfected his invention UT, a robot capable of translating any language, Tails took to his friends for a demonstration. However, Tails' optimism was broken when the others took a disliking to UT when it translated their private thoughts from the subtext of their speech. The next day, Tails tried to appeal to his friends again with UT when the robot began "translating" their conversations into insults. Upon examination, Tails discovered that this UT was a fake, planted by Eggman to tear the team apart. Tails therefore left to rescue the real UT, but without his team who did not want UT saved. At Eggman's lair, Tails made a deal with Eggman: he would become his assistant in exchange for letting UT go. Eggman accepted, so Tails send a message with UT to his friends, telling them he was staying with Eggman. However, because Tails had planned for UT to translate his message into a distress call, Team Sonic soon after arrived at the lair and freed him while destroying Eggman's sentry. Thanking his team, Tails looked forward to more adventures with UT, but Sticks quickly threw it into the sea.

When Eggman's Anti-fire Bot attacked the local village, Team Sonic arrived and stopped it. However, because Sticks had show bad treatment of animals during the mission, Tails and the others convinced her to get a pet to learn animal compassion. However, Sticks ended up choosing a disgusting robo-dog named Buster for a pet. Over the next week, Buster was an annoyance to Tails and the others which culminated in Buster keeping them from stopping a robbery committed Orbot and Cubot. Tails and the others tried to make Sticks give up Buster when Eggman came with a gift for Buster, revealing he created him. However, the gift turned Buster into a colossal robot that caught Tails and the others, but Sticks managed to assume control over Buster, who released Tails and the rest and got rid of Eggman. As Sticks released Buster because he was too dangerous, Tails found a octopus he wanted as a pet but changed his mind when it swallowed him.

During a visit to the village, Tails and his friends found it and themselves being hit by meteors. However, Sticks saved them thanks to her own defense system. Shortly after, Tails and the rest learned from Sticks that she had been nominated for an Awardy Award for her heroism, but she would not go to this elegant event because she would embarrass herself with her feral behavior. Tails therefore helped Sticks with her training to become a proper lady. Coming with his friends to the gala, Tails learned before the award was handed out that Eggman had been nominated as well (by cheating). However, when Eggman did not get the award and attacked with his robots, Tails and his team tried to fight but was trapped, Fortunately, Sticks saved Tails, and his team managed to drive Eggman away and save the gala.

As the team was having lunch, Tails messed up Amy's decorative instructions for the meal when tinkering with the music, making her feel unappreciated. Suddenly, Eggman showed up to hire Amy to redecorate his lair for Modern Lair Magazine which Amy accepted to Tails' shock. Eventually, the team began to really miss Amy, so Tails and the others went to Eggman's lair to check up on her. Here, Eggman claimed Amy had chosen to stay with him, but they did not buy this and broke into the lair where Tails freed her from a cage, and they made peace. Team Sonic then trashed Eggman's lair and his robots on their way out, which resulted in Eggman's lair not getting a place in Modern Lair Magazine.

When Tails was testing his Reverse-polarizer with Sonic, Orbot showed up and asked Tails to repair Cubot. Not long after, the duo went to Eggman's lair after discovering the signals from two planet-destroying doomsday devices there. When they got there, they learned Eggman and his intern Dave competed to see who could destroy the world better with their doomsday devices. Tails and Sonic therefore tricked them into calibrating their devices so they would cancel each other out. When they were activated however, they created a black hole instead, so Tails gave Sonic his Reverse-polarizer to destroy the black hole, which he succeeded in.

During a tinkering mood, Tails created a vacuum-robot which went out of control, so he called for Sonic's help. Once the robot was stopped, Tails accompanied Sonic to his shack where he had a cookie from an unknown sender, and Tails convinced Sonic to let him have it. However, it was actually an evil cookie made by Eggman which turned Tails into a clone of the doctor. Now evil, Tails joined Amy, Knuckles and Sticks (who had also eaten the evil cookies) under Eggman's tutelage to plot Sonic's destruction. When Sonic came to save them, Tails and the others attacked, but when they had Sonic cornered, they began fighting over who deserved the honor for capturing him. During the fight though, Tails and the others were restored to normal by Sonic and Eggman (who Sonic turned good with a cookie containing his DNA). The good Eggman thought they would work together from now on, but Team Sonic did not like the idea and turned the doctor back to normal.

Archie Comics
On a bright day on the beach, Tails came to help Sonic fight Dr. Eggman and his Big Boy. As Tails analyzed and fought the robot, Knuckles and Amy joined the fight, where Amy made a plan. Joined his friends according to Amy's positions, Tails attacked the mech at a critical point with the others, making it fall and driving Eggman away.

Shortly after, Tails and the other met Sticks who told them that Tails' house had been robbed. While initially concerned, Tails saw to his shock and bafflement when they got to his home that his entire house was gone: what Sticks meant was that Tails' whole house had been stolen, and she described the thief as a "cyborg rock golem" that rose from the ground and left with his house. As Tails complained over his loss (and dealt with Knuckles' difficulty with the situation), Sticks seemingly caught the scent of the robot and the whole group followed her. Though it turned out Sticks was only smelling the grass, the team still found the Rock-cyborg by following its footprints and Tails flied up to his house to see that it was intact. Sticks soon joined him to check his gutters for wired taps and Tails told her leave but failed. When the group set up an ambush for the Rock Cyborg, Tails and Sticks hit it on the back, making it fall over and allowing Sonic to utterly destroy it, which made Tails' house fall back on its foundation. Tails then joined his friends in celebrating their victory and he promised Sonic that he could visit his home anytime as long as he looked out for robots.

Not long after, Tails, along with Sonic, Amy and Sticks fought Eggman when he returned in his Big Boy. Tails soon realized that the mech had been poorly patched up, only to face Knuckles who had teamed up with Eggman because he had had enough of Amy's criticism of him. In his carelessness over the betrayal, Tails got himself captured along with his friends and put into the Big Boy's cargo hold. There, Tails heard from Knuckles that he was pretending to work for Eggman to fool him, but when Amy depressed him over his plan's flaws, Tails devised a plan where they restored Knuckles' confidence and had him attack Eggman by convincing him that his plan was brilliant. Tails and the others soon escaped thanks to Sonic while Knuckles drove Eggman away where they dealt with the stray Orbot and Cubot. However, Tails soon found Amy panicking over her piko hammer being gone.

Personality
Tails is a friendly young fox with a plucky "can do" attitude. He is a prolific tinkerer, constantly furnishing his mind with dreams of epic inventions to not only give his team the edge but also make life easier, though while some of his creations are brilliant, some are questionable and not always reliable. Unlike Sonic who runs headlong into trouble, Tails plans out the best possible approach to take on a challenge. Sometimes though, he feels like he has to prove himself to his tougher teammates, like when applied to be Sonic's sidekick again after Sonic fired him to protect him.

Powers and Abilities
Gifted with a pair of twin-tails, Tails can utilize these unique appendages to achieve flight by twirling his twin-tails around like rotary blades, like a helicopter. He can also use them as a turbine to propel himself forward, allowing him to move almost as fast as Sonic. By using his twin tails as rear propellers, Tails can also move underwater with great ease.

Tails is a genius-leveled mechanic and inventor, capable of creating many forms of robots, programs and even devices capable of bending the laws of physics. His remarkable intelligence and skills are so well-founded that he can create advanced programs in a very short time and invent a car that can circle the earth on half a jar of kosher pickles while busy with other tasks. He is well an expert air pilot and one of the best aerial fighters that can use a plane in battle.

Combat-wise, Tails' fighting style mostly revolves around the use of long-ranged gadgets, including smoke-bombs, homing bombs that stick to their targets, and small robots that can attack enemies.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Tails is the best friend and sidekick of Sonic the Hedgehog. He has a brotherly relationship with him and is Sonic's equal partner in his adventures. They are extremely close and both are willing to sacrifice their life for the other. However, Tails is not afraid to tell Sonic that he is wrong whenever that happens.

Trivia

 * The promotional artwork for Tails is the second artwork of him depicting him holding a wrench; the first being in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.
 * Tails' design is a bit similar to the design of Tails from Light Mobius.
 * Tails can play the drums.
 * Tails is the one who taught Knuckles how to ride a bike, wrap his sports tape and count.