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Welcome back to Top 10 Gaming, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
We just got a taste of the new IDW Sonic comics coming in April, and every teaser makes me
more and more psyched for it.
It looks awesome.
The release of the new Lemur character Tangle has me pretty excited… and it’s gotten
the Zoboomafoo theme song stuck in my head, but that’s fine!
Now, Tangle has just been announced and I’m sure many of you are excited, but maybe too
lazy to look her up.
So, if you don’t feel like reading through the release announcements, I’ll do it for
ya.
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And if you want more, check out our video on Facts about Shadow!
But before you do that, get ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Surprising Facts about
Tangle the Lemur!
Number 10: Tangle is the first Lemur character in Sonic!
It seems the roster of different animals is always expanding in Sonic, and personally
I couldn’t be happier.
Adding new species allows for cool new abilities, something that could make the new comics take
on a life of their own!
Of course, it’s still Sonic, and we’re all in it for the speedy hedgehogs, but it’ll
be cool to see the new powers the lemur brings to the table!
Speaking of new abilities…
Number 9: Abilities.
Based on the release, it looks like Tangle will have super speed to keep up with the
rest of the gang, but that’s not all she’s got.
She also has a prehensile tail, that can be used for a variety of things.
From the photos, you can see that she has incredible dexterity with her tail, even able
to make a fist with it to take Sonic’s hand.
It’s looking like Tails the Fox might have competition in the powerful tail department.
Number 8: That Tail Though.
Turns out it’s no accident that her tail is a huge part of her character.
According to IDW associate editor David Mariotte in an IGN interview, they knew they wanted
her to have a special ability connected to one of her features before she even had a
name!
Taking a page from Tails’ book, they decided to go with a ring-tailed lemur, who could
use her tail like a whip, or like a fist.
Which they thought was super cool.
And frankly, I’m inclined to agree.
The only problem is that ring-tailed lemurs don’t actually have prehensile tails, but
hey, hedgehogs can’t break the sound barrier either, we gotta go with the flow.
Number 7: Origin of her name.
You might wonder where Tangle gets her name.
Tails is named after his tails, Shadow is shadowy, Knuckles has big knuckles… but
why Tangle?
Does her tail get tangled up a bunch?
Apparently not.
According to Mariotte, she was named Tangle because she enjoys Tangling with enemies.
Yeah.
Not the best explanation, considering that’s true of most Sonic characters, and frankly
it isn’t a word that’s used all that much to describe fighting in the first place.
Don’t get me wrong, the name’s FINE, it just doesn’t seem quite as inspired as some
of the others.
Number 6: She may be loosely based on Tiara the Manx.
If you watched my video on the hottest Sonic characters, trust me, don’t ask, you’ll
know about Tiara the Manx.
She was a planned love interest of Sonic’s, meant to match his spunk and attitude, but
ended up being scrapped.
Based on what we’ve learned so far about Tangle being Sonic’s kindred spirit, and
having similar attitudes to him, it seems like they’ve taken some aspects planned
for Tiara and given them to Tangle.
They both even have names starting with T. And the lower case t looks like a cross…
Illuminati confirmed!
Okay, might have taken the theory too far now, but the Tiara thing could totally be
true!
Number 5: She was designed by Tyson Hesse.
This might not mean a ton to some of you, but I’m sure the hardcore Sonic comic fans
will recognize the name.
Hesse worked as an artist for the Archie Sonic Comics from 2014 to 2017, although he’s
probably best-known for creating Diesel from Boom Comics.
And it seems that Tyson will be working a fair bit on the IDW comics, having led the
design of Tangle, with the help of other artists including J.N.
Wiedle and Matt Herms.
Number 4: She was created by Ian Flynn.
While Hesse did end up designing the character, it was based on the concept created by Ian
Flynn.
Some fans will find it pretty awesome that Flynn created this character, since many fans
have a soft spot for the guy.
He was actually an amateur comic writer, but just sent in a bunch of proposals to Archie,
and ended up becoming a writer for the Archie Comics.
And now he’ll be working on IDW’s Sonic comics!
Talk about a Cinderella story.
Number 3: Slow reveal.
A lot of people only learned about Tangle when she was straight up released on January
24th, but IDW actually had a much more prolonged reveal.
Starting with a dark silhouette of a mystery character, for the next 4 days they revealed
a bit more of the picture.
It was a bit of a troll, because it totally looked like Sally, which I think is pretty
hilarious.
This got a bunch of fans pretty psyched for what was to come, and I think it’s something
they should continue to employ.
With the comic still a while away, they need to keep people interested, and this is a great
way to keep Sonic on the mind of fans.
Number 2: Species.
Tangle isn’t just a generic lemur, they’ve gone further and specified that she’s a
ring-tailed lemur.
This can allow us to draw some conclusions as to other powers she might have.
For example, lemurs are highly social animals, often huddling together to keep warm and reaffirm
social bonds.
This is sometimes called a Lemur Ball.
And you know what would make a pretty awesome special ability?
Lemur Ball.
It sounds like it could be Tangle’s version of Sonic’s Homing attack, and the name would
actually fit with her species.
Eh?
Maybe she could even hug her allies to make it even stronger!
IDW if you want it you can have it, just give me credit!
Number 1: Blaze is back!
It looks like Tangle is a friend of Blaze, based on the issue descriptions.
We’ve now learned that Issue 4 will be the introduction to Tangle, and that she and Blaze
will be encountered in the same town, defending an attack from Badnicks.
This could mean that Tangle is from that town, or it could be that she’s already friends
with Blaze.
Or both!
Which sounds nice, but if Blaze has a new friend, that might close the door to Silver
being involved in the near future, which would kinda suck for Silver fans out there.
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I know we don’t know much yet, but from the looks of things she’ll fit right in.
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Until next time, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey with Top 10 Gaming.
Later gamers!