Metal Tails

Archie version vs. game version

I think these would be better served as two separate articles: Metal Tails and Metal Tails (Archie), with a disambiguation note at the top. They're essentially two separate characters with the same name and premise. Usually when a character from one medium appears in another medium it's an adaptation of the same character, but Metal Tails is a special case, since the Superstars version isn't an adaptation of the Archie version. The Archie Comics team and the Sonic Superstars team simply arrived at the same obvious idea independently. --Pecky (talk) 12:43, 20 October 2023 (EDT)

I disagree because crew that worked on the Archie comics i.e. Evan Stanley, Tyson Hesse, Ian Flynn, ect. worked on the game or its supporting media. The devs knew about the Archie Comics Metal Tails when working on Superstars most likely. --Levi (User talk:Levi Church) 12:19, 20 October 2023 (CT)

There's no indication that any of the people you named were involved with Metal Tails and Metal Amy in Sonic Superstars. Sonic Superstars' Metal Tails and Metal Amy were designed by Kazuyuki Hoshino: https://www.ntower.de/bericht/1261-sonic-superstars-discussing-the-new-classic-sonic-game-with-takashi-iizuka-and-n/ --Pecky (talk) 14:43, 20 October 2023 (EDT)

I'd argue "Metal Tails" isn't a character in Sonic Superstars, just a set of parts for battle mode. Make a page for the Metal Tails parts and you'd need pages for every set, of which the desription would be little more than "xxx is a set of parts in Sonic Superstars' battle mode".

We need to be listing all of the parts of battle mode, but that can be done on the main page (or split off into its own "Battle Mode" subpage if things get unwieldy) -Black Squirrel (talk) 13:55, 20 October 2023 (EDT)