PREDICTION/PIPE-DREAM: Tails will PARALLEL Metal Sonic in Movie 4 (Art Credit: kamicciolo on DeviantArt)
So I've been thinking about what the filmmakers will do with Tails' character in future movies and came to this conclusion. This is half theory/half pipedream so bare with me.
In the games, Tails and Metal Sonic have one thing in common: they dislike living in Sonic's shadow. However, both deal with being viewed as Sonic's "lesser" in different ways: Tails frequently depends on Sonic and sometimes struggles to be heroic on his own while Metal does upgrade after upgrade to be faster and stronger than Sonic. Tails is frequently seen as just Sonic's sidekick while Metal was created solely to be a "loathsome copy." In other words, both struggle to have proper identities separate from Sonic. What if this dynamic was made a theme- the center of Tails' story in movie 4?
Tails could start the film FED UP with being seen as not as good as Sonic and tries really hard to emulate his brother. He then gets separated from Sonic for the majority of the film and faces challenges that he can only solve through using his unique engineering skills. Then, Tails ends the film by being a deciding factor in defeating Metal Overlord, who ultimately fails because he can't accept that he will never be a better version of Sonic. By contrast, Tails succeeds because he learns he can't be another Sonic, but the ONLY Tails.
Link to Artist: https://www.deviantart.com/kamicciolo/art/Metal-Sonic-vs-Tails-917525457
So I've been thinking about what the filmmakers will do with Tails' character in future movies and came to this conclusion. This is half theory/half pipedream so bare with me.
In the games, Tails and Metal Sonic have one thing in common: they dislike living in Sonic's shadow. However, both deal with being viewed as Sonic's "lesser" in different ways: Tails frequently depends on Sonic and sometimes struggles to be heroic on his own while Metal does upgrade after upgrade to be faster and stronger than Sonic. Tails is frequently seen as just Sonic's sidekick while Metal was created solely to be a "loathsome copy." In other words, both struggle to have proper identities separate from Sonic. What if this dynamic was made a theme- the center of Tails' story in movie 4?
Tails could start the film FED UP with being seen as not as good as Sonic and tries really hard to emulate his brother. He then gets separated from Sonic for the majority of the film and faces challenges that he can only solve through using his unique engineering skills. Then, Tails ends the film by being a deciding factor in defeating Metal Overlord, who ultimately fails because he can't accept that he will never be a better version of Sonic. By contrast, Tails succeeds because he learns he can't be another Sonic, but the ONLY Tails.
Link to Artist: https://www.deviantart.com/kamicciolo/art/Metal-Sonic-vs-Tails-917525457