Respect Tails!

I'm a lot stronger than some people think.

Biography

Tails the Fox is Sonic's faithful sidekick with a penchant for stating the obvious and having ridiculously good luck. While he starts off as only a tag-along kid, he grows over the course of his adventures into an adventurer just as heroic as Sonic (and a lot nicer).

He usually fights with his bare hands and tails, but will sometimes pick up a weapon if the situation calls for it (even if he says that cool dudes don't need weapons). While not as fast as his idol, in some ways he's a lot more slippery from his flight ability. Don't count him out too quickly; he's a lot stronger than some people think!

Hover over each feat to see which issue it can be found in.

I. Strength

Unarmed Attack

• Tackles Sonic while Roboticized.

• Punches apart a Badnik.

• Destroys a tank though he attributes it to time travel shenanigans.^Outlier

• A punch makes a robotic disguise crumble.

• Destroys an upgraded Badnik.

• Destroys multiple upgraded Badniks in a row.

• Smashes a large snake Badnik in half.

• Downs a polar bear in one hit.

• Hurts Super Sonic with a punch, though this may be from surprise.^Outlier?

Armed Attack

• Dazes a pirate with a thrown rock.

• Takes out a Sentinel offscreen with a staff which Sonic later states is slightly superior to a standard Badnik.

• Causes a machine to explode by stabbing it with Johnny Lightfoot's staff.

Tail Spinning

• His tails shred apart a parachute.

• Spins his tails in a giant food dish hard enough to send its contents flying; also counts as a speed feat.

• Clears some fog.

• Generates wind to blow back poison gas.

Other

• Carries Sonic but can only do so for a few minutes.

• Pulls down a tree with a vine.

• Pushes a giant snowball.

• Pushes a flying saucer down to make it crash into the ground, although it's already weighed down by gold.

II. Speed

Long Range Movement

• Able to trail Sonic.

• Runs from gunfire.

• Flies through an entire tunnel before it could close in on him.

• Evades a lot of attacks from an upgraded Badnik, though at one point he is caught and slips out.

• Evades a homing missile tracking him.

• A shuttle craft is too fast to catch.^Limit

• Tails behind a near light-speed flying saucer.^Outlier

• Flies away from an explosion while carrying someone.

Short Range Movement

• Dodges a griffon, does so again while both are falling.

• Ducks under a laser shot.

• Dodges a laser and uses it to burn off a rope.

• Evades close range gunfire.

• Dodges a lightning bolt moving in reverse.^Outlier

• Helps someone he's carrying dodge a laser blast.

• Dodges an upgraded Badnik's electric attacks.

• Narrowly dodges an upgraded Badnik's laser.

• Dodges a pistol shot in the fog.

• Barely dodges an attack from a brainwashed Sonic, though Tails knew the attack was coming.

III. Durability

Blunt

• Punched in the face.

• Slammed into a tree.

• Lands on his face and recovers quickly.

• Rammed into by an upgraded Badnik and recovers quickly.

• Choked out by Super Robotnik and gets up quickly.

• Punched by a mind-controlled Sonic.

• Dazed but okay after being hit by a Christmas tree used as a weapon.

• Punched through a concrete wall and gets back up quickly.

Explosive

• Hit by a tank shell's explosion in reverse but fine enough to comment on its reversed sound.^Outlier

• Hit by a Badnik's explosive blast but gets downed.

Other

• Shot by an upgraded Badnik's laser, gets up quickly.

• Dazed but unharmed inside of a tornado.

• Only worried about drowning in an arctic sea rather than freezing.

• Blasted by an eye laser from Super Sonic intended to be lethal, gets up after.^Outlier?

IV. Gear

• Lightweight armor that enhances his flight and a sword that only work in the Nameless Zone.

• Flock gear which includes a trench coat and a laser gun (although Tails never uses it himself).

• A wrench.

V. Intelligence

• Tricks an enemy into making a chimney fall on her.

• Finds a villain's address in the phone book.

• Tricks a bunch of ghosts that disappear at midnight into hopping time zones.

• Reverses the polarity of a neutron flow to depower enemy power suits.

VI. Other

• Doesn't take the chance to assassinate Robotnik with a sniper rifle and is deemed a good person for it.

• Speaks bird.

• Knows first aid.