Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26973802-20140828003900/@comment-477304-20140901002239

So you think Tails wants to be friends with Wave, and you think the best way for him to do that is to name a vessel in another dimension after her that she'll never see? Tails has a generally polite personality, he's no nicer to Wave than he is anyone else, so why you'd think he'd name something after her over a close friend such as Sonic or Knuckles is rather baffling. Also, I don't recall an instance in which Sonic refers to Jet outside of the Riders series.

Everything you said there is speculation and therefore pointless to mention.

Metal Sonic doesn't talk, so there's no indication that Metal is responding to anything Sonic said or did. There's no proof that Metal "died" in Sonic Rivals 2 either, even if he did, you're forgetting one import thing: Metal Sonic is a robot that Eggman can simply repair/replace.