Soon after, Tangle was busy busting up Egg Pawns. Landing then on Angel Island, Tangle and Whisper were assigned to protect Tails while the fox cub did his thing. Fortunately, Tangle and her allies got off the ship before it crashed. As soon as their ship approached Angel Island however, the Egg Fleet shot it down. On the way to Angel Island, Tangle spent the time playing cards while messing with Silver. Eventually, Tangle was assigned to help two of the assembled group's factions with breaking the Egg Fleet's control over Angel Island while Sonic and Knuckles confronted Neo Metal Sonic. During the meeting, Tangle became a little lost when the others began talking about Burning Blaze, but understood (with amazement) after Blaze gave a brief explanation (and demonstration). To make matters worse, Neo had also secured the Master Emerald for himself on the island. There, she and the Resistance's other allies were informed that the Resistance needed their help to liberate Angel Island, which had been conquered by Neo Metal Sonic and turned into a flying fortress. Battle For Angel Island Įventually, Tangle was called to Resistance HQ. Amazed by Blaze, Tangle accepted her help and thanked Sonic for his help before he left the village. After Blaze decided to stay until she knew what her purpose here was, she offered to help Tangle quell the fires in her village. Upon hearing from Blaze that she had come to Sonic's world to prevent some kind of 'terrible event' however, Tangle brought up the possibility that the recent organized Badniks could be a sign that something worse was on the way. After the Badniks had been dealt with, Sonic introduced Tangle to Blaze, whom she thanked for her aid. Fortunately, Blaze soon showed up and joined the fray. No sooner, the two got cornered by multiple Badniks. While fighting Badniks together with Sonic, Tangle heard from Sonic that the Badnik gangs had become more organized as of late. While dealing with a large and much more organized Badnik attack on her village, Tangle met Sonic the Hedgehog when he came to help save her village. Tangle and Sonic fighting Badniks together, from Sonic the Hedgehog #4. Īfter the Eggman War between the Eggman Empire and the Resistance ended, Tangle would defend her home village by fending off the raids committed by Dr. Tangle is also a regular customer of Spiral Hill Village's salon as she usually buys their brushes to keep her tail neat. Over the years, Tangle would find several items during her adventures, which Jewel used to curate the Mineral Museum. Jewel would constantly look out for Tangle, as she had a tendency to run into danger head first. She grew up with Jewel the Beetle, who became her best friend. Tangle has been a resident of Spiral Hill Village for years. She also wears amber sports tape around her forearms and fingerless black gloves made of black sports tape with dark orange backings. She also has extra fur on top of her head and chest, and small cheek tufts.įor attire, Tangle wears a short-sleeved black bodysuit with dark orange stripes down the sides, an amber sleeveless top, and detailed amber hi-tops with white laces and soles, black details, and dark orange cuffs. She also has gray fur around her muzzle and between her eyes, and dark gray fur around the sides of her eyes and on her eyelids and round ears. She possesses one eyelash on each eye, a small black nose and a long bushy tail with gray stripes. Appearance ĭescribed as pretty, Tangle is an anthropomorphic ring-tailed lemur (with the fur colors for the Coquerel's sifaka) with primarily light gray fur and orchid purple eyes. Finally, she was given the name 'Tangle' as a reference to how she likes to 'tangle' with bad guys. After brainstorming for animals who could do cool stuff with their features such as bendy rabbit ears and anteater type noses, the staff decided on a ring-tailed lemur, whose tail could prove a very versatile weapon. One of the concepts for Sonic was a rabbit that could use his ears to pick up and throw objects, and as such, she was originally pitched as 'Tangle the Hare'. īefore even being given a name, IDW wanted Tangle 'to be like a lot of other great Sonic characters and have a special ability tied to one of her features.' She was ultimately inspired by the prototype Sonic design.

She was conceptualized by writer Ian Flynn, while artist Tyson Hesse handled the character design. Since none of the main female Sonic characters were able to fit that occupation, Tangle, who would be able to easily go on Sonic's adventures and look cool while doing it, was conceptualized. Tangle came about when the staff at IDW Publishing wanted a kick-butt female Sonic character who could accompany Sonic on his adventures.

Female sonic characters