The Forgotten Cursed Sonic Character

Today let's look at the Sonic The Hedgehog Character that spawned countless creepypastas and scared children for decades. We're looking at the Tails Doll and his supposed "Tails Doll Curse".
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[@BC3602]

They should turn the Tails Doll into a little robot lab assistant for Tails. He’d look perfect stumbling around silently doing stuff for Tails.

[@IBL15]

And then he’d kill him

[@NinjaPickle]

That honestly sounds like a great way to take the character if you ever wanted him to not be a villain. Just imagining him walking around and his only expression being shown with his little antenna would be cool

[@gothnerd887]

I've thought of something funnier, what if he ends up as a keyring and wanders off 😆

[@SonicMaster519]

Just realized this would've been perfect for Sonic Boom, and at the end he'd get somehow controlled by Eggman or something.

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

@@SonicMaster519 The show or the game?

[@spinshocker]

can't believe i got a genuinely warm fuzzy feeling from seeing someone talk about a dumb creepypasta character that used to scare the shit out of me when i was a kid. but it's really fun seeing someone actually talking about this weird internet phenomenon. it felt like Tails Doll was a thing, and then everyone collectively forgot about it

[@j.ojo2004]

Same

[@Alien-Shenigains]

Mhm

[@10blinx]

I feel

[@Alien-Shenigains]

I kind of miss the days when things like the tails doll was so popular... it was cool to see how different people reacted to it... some people thought it was cool and drew pictures and wrote stories about it... others wanted nothing to do with it

[@TUCell-ps5mi]

Same here, I swear it’s been years since I’ve heard about Tails Doll. And by years I mean *_Sonic Paradox_* kind of years ago.

[@emberthefox4951]

When I found out about the Tails Doll Curse, I was less scared and more bizarrely curious. Never got to doing it since my family was almost never asleep by 11 p.m. (the version of the Creepypasta I knew of had that as a requirement) and I was too hesitant the two chances I did get. I think I'll try it for kicks sometime soon. Not like it works anyway. Edit: Forgot to update this when I tried it. It was weirdly fun, but didn't work. Guess this comment wasn't my last words.

[@cookieman8548]

Oh no

[@_EmperorWaluigi]

Famous last words

[@sluigi]

F

[@KeeganYF12]

Are you dead yet?

[@sylasexd]

F

[@Foxstorm1604]

Tails sitting ANYWHERE with a smile on his face and his legs comfortably wide appart is anyone's nightmare comming true.

[@RejectReef]

Especially... _...on a park bench._

[@1secondarysmile]

Nice pfp.

[@Foxstorm1604]

@@RejectReef Oh no...

[@jaynothinelse]

Remember that one doc x episode when tails was in a train sitting withe Chris the same way you discribed it 🙂

[@mr.outlaw231]

That or a dream come true... Not for me, but I just know those people exist in certain... places.

[@justaspectator9762]

Tails doll is a perfect example of how the internet will latch onto literally anything and obsess over it

[@Maragi08]

Somebody gets it

[@driveasandwich6734]

It is a creepy, weird, fluffy version of Tails. Why wouldn't people be intersted in it?

[@CrypticSpook]

Amen

[@RpgBlasterRpg]

CAN YOU STOP WITH THE TAILS DOLL JUMPSCARE *FOR 5 MINUTES* ??!

[@woobgamer5210]

Remember when people lusted over Ben Drowned?

[@ep1c878]

Tails doll was one of the scariest sonic creepypastas But now he's spitting bars in a rhythm game but seriously, he's good at spitting bars...

[@abcool1441]

*ROCK MUSIC INTENSIFIES*

[@Ilikecats25]

*sadder then sadder then saddest is my name*

[@SuperiorChaotic]

Sunshine

[@Therevengeforget]

*Hooo eee hooo oo aa ee hooo, hoo heee haha hi-i a-a-a hi a u a hooooo* (yes it's a part of that song)

[@MAC_00]

@@abcool1441 it’s about drive it’s about power we stay hungry we devour

[@andrewmanchiraju8005]

The scariest form of Tails Doll is... Tails Doll with a Gun

[@megacoli9651]

for his neutral special, HE WIELDS A GUN

[@kenwalkensdeadchannelcanal2886]

What about tails with a gun?

[@FoxyBoy-mz2ys]

How scary would Tails Doll would be if he was a stand user?

[@loafuwu]

OH GOD

[@josemiguelcaballerorestrep2101]

@@FoxyBoy-mz2ys, but what if he was the stand all along?

[@brolookatthatthingbehindyo1324]

"But what I wasn't expecting to see was this" *Totinos pizza rolls ad plays*

[@MrCubey-rl3wi]

*PIZZA ROLLS, PIZZA ROLLS. TOTINOS PIZZA ROLLS*

[@layerex3957]

You can do it, Sonic! You can beat the Totinos!

[@pokeblueblur2286]

Lol

[@BunnyTPerson]

No one expects the Totinos pizza rolls

[@ShiningTaiga]

TOTINOS TOTINOS HOW DID YOU KNOW!? TOTINOS TOTINOS EVERYBODY'S TALKIN BOUT TOTINOS TOTINOS HOT PIZZA ROLLS

[@ataraxia5808]

Holy shit, you have really taken me back through the Tails Doll segment of my Sonic obsessed childhood. I recognize like 95% of the references you’re making here lmao. Love this channel; keep it up!

[@Cybershell13]

Bring back Metal Knuckles god damnit

[@oshi_tv]

Yes

[@zd3781]

yup!

[@backtothefutureman1]

Wasn’t expecting to see you here, Cybershell.

[@beyondhaircraze4418]

Nah bro we need knuckles doll now

[@34r343]

Agreed

[@TailsClock]

"I'm gonna say Teals a lot, don't make fun of it." Ok. Haha he said scurry instead of scary.

[@shadowz6848]

Oh man darn it you beat me to that by 7 months

[@mjrhmekssh]

What kinda dialect/accent does he have?

[@radpeashooter5493]

@@mjrhmekssh it's ligma

[@neB282]

Haha he said caese instead of case

[@DrakeValos]

@@radpeashooter5493 I thought it was from grabonda

[@Creeper43yt]

Let's be honest with ourselves here: most of us want Tails Doll back

[@Coolzrealomg]

Nah he can stay in sonic racers

[@Nyonthecat]

I miss those old times with TD being the best of the best in creepypastas for me.

[@santinoamin296]

god i remember having nightmares about tails doll and when it was christmas and suddenly everything goes dark i thought i was dead

[@The_One_Eyed_Rouge]

@@santinoamin296 Yea same here my 12 year old self was scared as shit when i saw those vids about how to summon him

[@slicklyndon1756]

@@The_One_Eyed_Rouge Ugh, I remember having nightmares of sonic.exe, tails doll and the secret screen from sonic CD When I was like... 6 years old... Now i can just laugh at them but still.

[@The_One_Eyed_Rouge]

@@slicklyndon1756 Sonic CD'S secret menu is scary as hell too and the American OST Version. At lease the JP version helps with my sonic CD american ost nightmares...

[@achomitiser]

Tower deffence?

[@EstherIsNotYoursHun]

How to summon the tails doll: -go to your bathroom -Play sonic songs in reverse -BEHOLD HES THERE IN YAH BATHROOM

[@hanezutchins2786]

Can you feel the sunshine Take me back in time Living in the city Work it out

[@filletofish2200]

Its Tails on a bench but he's sitting on the toilet

[@nivensmctwispo]

efil raed rof no dloh dna edisni petS ,yretsym ym otni klaW ?em fo lla ees uoy naC

[@VexatiousPunk]

Instructions unclear, I now have a 583 year old ghost that haunts my toilet lid. It can never close.

[@tailsdoll9932]

unless im doing something else

[@Thewaterspirit57]

The age old Tails doll creepy pasta stuff was def creepy. And my friend "pretending" to be possessed because of that, was most likely one of my most memorable times. Too bad I never got to tell my friend that :P

[@jeremygaming2287]

Funny timing with that since Sonic Twitter posted a Tails Doll meme

[@aaroncallahan1062]

And Facebook

[@brodiero-solar302]

and instagram

[@RedFriendGuy]

@Akseli Björkbacka are you fr?

[@yoshiigurl1176]

@@RedFriendGuy what do you think

[@DeepWeeb]

Tails Doll design is quite clever; with Sonic and Knuckles Eggman thinks of them as perfect blueprints for his machines as seen with Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles, but Tails? Eggman just slapped the basic machine on a doll he uses at shooting range and called it a day. (Although it's strange that the doll is capable of raising its arms when victorious)

[@deltaknight2764]

Tails = Lowest possible threat to Eggman

[@inendlesspain4724]

@@deltaknight2764 Except in SA1 and 2.

[@CJCroen1393]

I saw a fan theory that it was an attempt at replicating Tails' "fluffiness" in a robot.

[@mistermaxie6487]

I definitely feel like Tails Doll could be sentient due to a slip up from Eggman, and the gem on its head could be what gives it demonic powers. But that's just my guess.

[@BlueSmash_404]

@@inendlesspain4724 but after those games,he's weaker than a motobug

[@TheSilversepiroth]

I remembered Tails Doll. If anything I've been surprised at the amount of people who *DID* manage to forget what with the amount of art was floating around a relatively short time ago, whether you wanted to see it or not

[@TABBYMUSIC]

8:35 Tails sitting on a bench is even more traumatic than Tails Doll if you know the context...

[@Ryderboycolor9]

TABBY what are you doing here i see you everywhare man

[@Galvatron102]

oh hi mark

[@pewgun7832]

Why lol

[@Galvatron102]

@@pewgun7832 Two babies one fox.

[@m0j026]

What... is the context?

[@Ageblader111]

Considering the part of its bio: "As a last resort, Eggman manufactured this to catch Sonic unprepared. This, except for the power plant embedded in its head, is a mere stuffed animal." I think the Tails Doll itself is meant to be a funny joke or reference to Tails as a character. During the Genesis era, Tails's gameplay was sort of an afterthought compared to Sonic and Knuckles. In the original Sonic 2, despite him even being introduced and shown to fly when you play as Sonic & Tails, you cannot fly as Tails when you're playing as him solo. In Sonic & Knuckles, Tails is completely omitted from the game in place of Knuckles. And fully in S3&K, Knuckles has his own level routes to go through, whereas Tails sort of just apes Sonic's levels but doesn't even get to end the game with Doomsday. And let's not forget that he needed the Super Emeralds -just- to go Super unlike Sonic or Knuckles. Even in Sonic R, Knuckles got a Metal copy like Sonic. Tails Doll's bio is a joke that Tails is such an afterthought, that even his replica is an afterthought. But it also symbolizes that compared to Sonic and Knuckles, he's still a little kid who will grow into a strong person like those two that Eggman will be forced to acknowledge. (Such character growth that we would later see in the Adventure games, but uhhh... he's sort of regressed, huh?)

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

Exactly. The thing is essentially just a Drone that Robotnik was forced to use against Sonic because Metal Sonic, Mecha Knuckles, and Egg-Robo all failed to stop him. Looking again at the picture of the doll posing under the spotlight, on retrospect you figure this was meant to show just how underwhelming and pathetic it is. "Robotnik put a drone in the head of a sockmonkey, _Ta-daaaa~~"_

[@wildfire9280]

thank sonic forces for that

[@rockhistoria2537]

@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 yeah but then the opposite happened

[@GAPSYO3O1]

Yea! I’m glad you were thinking exactly what I was thinking. Like tails is such an afterthought that the most egg man would do is just make something that looks like tails to atleast lure Sonic into a trap. It’s perfect considering how in the adventure games eggman is always playing mind games with tails and undermining his intelligence. Like eggman is so arrogant and full of himself he just cannot stand the fact that Tails thinks he can even go head to head with him lol

[@Ageblader111]

@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte "In the original Sonic 2, despite him even being introduced and shown to fly when you play as Sonic & Tails, you cannot fly as Tails when you're playing as him solo." I don't know about all the releases but I do know that the later iOS/Android version gives Tails the ability to fly when you play as him solo. But if you start the game as Tails alone in the original Genesis version, he has no ability to fly. Also, Tails's campaign in Sonic 2 is the same as Sonic's, the only thing setting them aside was his inability to go Super. Later in Sonic 3(&K) they fix the issue with playing as Tails solo and let you fly, but he still has the same levels as Sonic's other than his lack of Doomsday Zone. Kinda hard to say his levels are an "easy mode version" when they're the same levels -1. And if you really think about it, you could argue in Sonic 2's case that Sonic has the easier mode since he can go Super and become invincible in his campaign, while Tails can't, but I guess you can argue that Sonic 3 Tails has the easier mode since he can just fly over a lot of obstacles and levels.

[@ethanleong817]

He was never forgotten, he appears everywhere at least once

[@kingkrool_gx_6030]

"But I wasn't expecting this..." My ad: *RECESS PUFFS RECESS PUFF EAT THEM UP EAT THEM UP*

[@thegoodstuff4648]

Don’t worry your not the only one

[@Kuriet]

I got a grammarly ad-

[@Cleversta]

I got a new phone as

[@filletofish2200]

Mine was a Hyundai ad

[@jawoseye2902]

I got a Canadian tire ad

[@ilikethecokev2]

This legit happened to me once: Many years ago for Christmas I got the Sonic Gems Collection, and after I was done with Sonic CD, I decided to play Sonic R, with Tails Doll being the first character I unlocked. I then used him to get all the Chaos Emeralds so I could unlock Super Sonic, so I could then unlock everyone else. Beat the whole game in roughly an hour plus (counting bathroom breaks and such). That night, after I went to bed, I had a dream where I was in a large black void with a singular light hovering just above me, then suddenly, I kid you not, the Tails Doll materialized right in front of me, said "Thank you for playing with me," then disappeared. I didn't learn of the existence of any of those Tails Doll creepypastas for another FIVE YEARS.

[@bisli1235]

d a m n

[@caolanmeighan8669]

Fancy seeing you here

[@nopedot399]

The good ending

[@JugularJohn]

That’s…. So creepily wholesome…

[@bagel4943]

This is supposed to be creepy, but if I had the same dream I would be like “oh yeah sure, feel free to invade my dreams any time again, bye”

[@tofu-kun633]

And now Tails Doll has been introduced to the Friday Night Funkin community so it's only downhill from here

[@abcool1441]

rip

[@keylakettlemjardim8282]

Tails Doll walks this fine line of being forgotten, yet remembered, even by the wrong reasons

[@FoxyBoy-mz2ys]

Tails Doll needs to return to the sonic franchise as a anti hero. Also the curse is only made to scare people for the lols

[@kenwalkensdeadchannelcanal2886]

in my opinion he should return to the sonic series as... No nevermind i think he's better as an anti-hero.

[@Gamermario-lb3rq]

It’d be awesome if Tails Doll’s character was similar to Geno. Like he’s this otherworldly being that can only interact with the physical world through the Tails Doll. His character and motives can anything from there.

[@kenwalkensdeadchannelcanal2886]

@@Gamermario-lb3rq that would be pretty neat

[@FoxyBoy-mz2ys]

@@Gamermario-lb3rq Yeah i do want him a anti hero

[@zeroxlulu]

5:27 this shit had me laughing, 100% was me too when I was a kid. I remember always making sure I took out my copy of Sonic Gems Collection from my GameCube before going to sleep for fear of that somehow triggering the summoning of the Tails Doll lmfao

[@S-Fan2006]

Interestingly, the official Sonic Twitter shows to acknowledge the Tails Doll’s existence as if you go on to their twitter page, you’ll get a made-up book cover of a story featuring the Tails Doll with text on top of the image saying “Spoiler: Tails dies at the end.” So it’s likely that not even Sega has forgotten about the Tails Doll.

[@aaroncallahan1062]

And Facebook too

[@realvkurp5966]

Can you link it? I wanna see it

[@handlename88]

Please s-fan, we need you, we want to see the link.

[@S-Fan2006]

@@handlename88 I would, but KZbin just deletes the comment as I upload it. I’ll try sending you the name of the post “Sonic the Hedgehog on Twitter: "Spoiler: Tails dies at the end.””

[@handlename88]

@@S-Fan2006 update: I found it.

[@agentpocky7884]

The Tails Doll scared me so much growing up, you have no idea. My brother teased about buying me one for Christmas and it brought me to literal tears. I remember, I was walking to the kitchen in the dark at night. And there was a red light in my kitchen. I knew it was my mother’s phone charger, but the ‘what If’ played in my head. What if... it was the tAiLs DoLl. So I ran to the kitchen’s light switch. Underneath said light switch were 8 wine bottles that my family has been collecting for over 50 years. Guess who bodyslammed into the rack and broke all of them. Yeah, that was a hard one to explain.

[@min2793]

Dont laugh for me was sonic exe Jk hes not scary

[@m0j026]

I remember waking up and staying in my bed for like half an hour because I was scared that Tails Doll was waiting for me behind my door.

[@Zefrath]

@@m0j026 Bro same

[@sulfurfox8644]

When I was younger I remember wanting a tails doll plushie. But SEGA didn’t make them (of course and my parents had no clue what the tails doll was). So they bought me a normal tails plushie for Christmas. I was a weird kid.

[@Josuh]

@@sulfurfox8644 do you still have that plushie

[@MariusUrucu]

Incoming views because of the Friday Night Funkin' Vs Sonic.EXE mod

[@justinfitzpatrick013]

I had Sonic R on Saturn. Teddy Tails, as he was called, was the first unlockable character. The others were all robots so I just assumed Teddy Tails was a robot. Also, he was not the worst character. Although he had low top-speed, he could glide across water with no reduction in speed. Better than Amy and Robotnik

[@Therevengeforget]

Is Saturn a console? Sorry for my ignorance but I seriously don't know

[@phoenixmarktwo]

@@Therevengeforget Yep, the Sega Saturn.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

@@Therevengeforget It was released between the Genesis and Dreamcast, contemporary with the N64 and PS1.

[@angelganon8213]

TT was the best of the metal ones because of this and you could easily win the races with him until you got super sonic

[@aaaa_0484]

3:14 "But what I wasn't expecting to see was this:" * ad plays *

[@min2793]

Didnt happen to me

[@min2793]

Didnt happen to me

[@jameshowell8263]

BRO STOP F O R T N I T E

[@user-km4oi2ug9m]

Same

[@chakachakapingpong4940]

It happend to me

[@DrBigt]

To be fair, Sonic has ALWAYS been portrayed as "2Cool4School", heck that was literally his whole gimmick of being more cool than Mario.

[@tsukiyo2161]

Ah yes I remember when “can you feel the sunshine” played in reverse used to scare the shit out of me

[@JossPeura]

What a fucking mood bro

[@Josuh]

the memories bro

[@berserker3414]

I remember being traumatized by that thing, I got scared of Teddy bears. Same with that chipmunk parody

[@coffeeden5221]

I- Um- It, it uh, still does...

[@j.ojo2004]

Same

[@RpgBlasterRpg]

The tails doll scary image is so terrifying that i actually got PTSD i cannot bear looking at this image for more than 0,5 second

[@astromaxitox5026]

You're not alone, man, you're not alone....

[@greatball6103]

Same

[@irrelevant7782]

I was also screwed up for life because I watched that Creepypasta when I was 10. Despite the fact I know it's not real I still can't look at it.

[@poorly_drawn_RoR2_captain]

I forgot that tails doll existed

[@joseluissifuentes8639]

@@poorly_drawn_RoR2_captain In the comics, Tails Doll turned into a giant monster abomination

[@chipsleftwing]

1:50 THAT PANEL! THAT PANEL IS FROM MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SONIC COMIC CHAPTER!!!

[@masonpospech5586]

"But I wasn't expecting to see this..." The Ad I got: *BAKED PIE, ICE CHAI.*

[@willycalderon6969]

I got a nutri grain ad when he said that

[@shrimpsushi763]

For me, he wasn't expecting to see pizza rolls.

[@dootvevo7511]

*P A D T H A I*

[@AwesomeYena]

I got a pizza ad

[@kingkrool_gx_6030]

I got recess puffs

[@thatguynobodywants3716]

The people complaining of the characters of Sonic saying that there are "too many" don't say a word of how many characters Mario, Pac-Man or even Crash have.

[@rainpooper7088]

I‘m a Mario fan and I agree. Any validity this complaint might have had died the moment Dorkly included it in their „If Sonic was bought by Nintendo“ video and the example they listed, I shit you not, was Fang the Sniper. You know, this one pretty obscure character that had not been used in any game for like two decades at this point? And yes, I did take the time to list any and all obscure Mario characters that appeared in more than one game. Surprise, surprise, it was a very long list, way longer than it would have been if you did the same thing with Sonic. The total number of characters isn’t the problem, the way SEGA tosses older characters to the side whenever someone hip and new shows up is.

[@bubbythebear6891]

@@rainpooper7088 I don't really care for sonic games, but I wish Mario games would incorporate more of the characters. It's a shame they are only used for spinoffs.

[@sonicvlogs476]

They just hate me. :(

[@japhreal]

As a pac man fan the pac man characters are an bunch of them With many ghosts and then pac characters to humans to aliens

[@martmine4618]

Tbh most people don't care about any crash games after 3.

[@aaronkeith9859]

Shout-out to the time in Lego Dimensions where Sonic asked a Ghostbuster to check out a strange doll of tails he had seen

[@reddy64]

Headcanon: The Tails Doll is an unfinished Metal Tails. Dr Robotnik was not able to finish it in time for the plot of Sonic R, so he just stuffed the unfinished body into a doll. Also i think that the real bean fang and bark are the ones that damage the tornado before act 2 of mirage saloon

[@soup8888]

Pretty sure it was confirmed that the fang that shot down the tornado in mania was the real fang

[@Sonicjan]

They reappear in the 30th Anniversary Mania Comic, so they probably are the real ones in Mania aswell.

[@SirMato]

I still remember finding a tails doll video as a six year old and getting nightmares from the jumpscares. Ah the good times.

[@nameunderrenovations1878]

One vid that scared me was the Smile HD video of MLP that shit ruined it for me I still can't watch it 8 years later. Memories

[@ricketybridgesubs]

@@nameunderrenovations1878 that vid was beginning of me losing my childhood

[@bobuboi4643]

@@nameunderrenovations1878 I loved that thing as a child :) gives me nostalgia, ya, ik I have problems.

[@katievincler]

same here dude ;-; constant super scary nightmares until i was old enough to grow out of it

[@bluep3rz]

@@nameunderrenovations1878 i was like 7 when i saw it and i didnt get scared

[@cjthefox]

Oh man, the nostalgia here hit me like a truck with this video... Sonic was probably the first video game series I ever got into and when I found the tails doll it SPOOKED me to the core yet I also kept playing and wanting to know more. I played tail's nightmare SO many times back in the day and on a first playthrough that jumpscare got me so bad... All the creepypasta gameplays alongside the ones of Pinkamina Diane Pie I was watching at the time kept me WAY up into the night and now as somebody who's grown up to LOVE horror looking back on this gives me a weird yet cozy feeling of how far I've come. Maybe it's cause I was in a dark place at the time I got into those things and as I grew up they stayed with me despite how drastically much my life changed over the year? I don't know... Either way, this is a great video and unlocked a lot of both nostalgic yet horrifying memories for me. I also got the original Archie comic where the tails doll first appeared in Sonic Universe almost immediately after finding out about him online playing bootleg Sonic games. At the time the coincidence terrified me but now it makes me laugh at how great the timing was. Hope anyone who actually reads this comic enjoys the story! (maybe I'll make a video about it one day...)

[@kingkracko9111]

I remember watching those Google voice acted Sonic, Shadow, and Silver roommates thing as a kid. Tails Doll was just like a snarky ghost

[@backtothefutureman1]

You mean speakonia?

[@MinatheRaichu]

I know exactly what you're talking about. I enjoyed Return of the Tails Doll when I was a youngun. With the whole stolen Spiderman 3 subplot.

[@tailsdoll7916]

I'm tired of only being playable in Sonic R. If Tails keeps showing up I should. I have so many fans in the sonic fandom so if many people show some love and respect for me Sega is just being heartless and i deserve to be back into the franchise and even get my own game. This is why I'm titled *Sega's Waluigi* Edit: Thanks for all the likes and support I hope you spread stuff on the internet like bring tails doll back into the sonic franchise because this is a new decade and i must come back as a anti hero

[@megacoli9651]

#Tailsdollforsmash

[@SplashDash_]

Amen brother

[@kenwalkensdeadchannelcanal2886]

good job at getting pinned!

[@theminecraft2516]

Actually Big the Cat is Sega’s waluigi

[@tailsdoll7916]

@@theminecraft2516 But im highly requested to be in more sonic games

[@Nemmy72]

As someone who was never intrested in spookyspagetti, I never thought Tails Doll was creepy He looked goofily cute

[@jeiku5041]

I'll never forget the Tails Doll stories, they were a big part of my late childhood in the late 2000s. I remember doing the curse with my GameCube and not being able to sleep that night. I remember Tails Doll story boards where you could submit your own stories to be seen by anyone that visited the site. Tails Doll > Sonic EXE any day.

[@j.ojo2004]

Facts

[@liamdunkintownsendbach9679]

I agree with you,jeiku

[@garrlawproductions]

"But what I wasn't expecting to see was this:" ADBREAK

[@superkonijn988]

Not even a sonic fan but i remember tails doll being such an odd curiosity and i kind of like its off-putting design. Its just there and looks ominous as fuck in its official render, no wonder this turned into a creepy pasta phenomenon

[@ColorHeartCarlie42]

I once had a dream with this guy in it. I wasn't a typical nightmare, and I've gotten over this fear. All I remember was that I was in a house in the middle of foggy nowhere when I look out my window and Tails Doll was there. We made eye contact, as he just floated there. The doll then tried to get in by throwing itself at the window. It was glass so he bounced off. And then he flew away over the hill and disappeared.

[@ASnowWhiteAvali2006]

He acted like a bird. Hit your window, recovered, and flew away.

[@therealisaacmoriahtboi]

He just slammed into your window, and then flew over a hill lol

[@combater5649]

that doll got some skill issue

[@Christian-gr3gu]

Guy was like "welp I tried"

[@selentia404]

LMAO

[@lovelovemiraclesunsetgirl]

this video for me is _incredibly_ vindicating, because tails' nightmare is what introduced me to the doll when i was around 7 and i had the _exact_ same experience of seeing that ending without hearing the audio after they popped up behind tails and the screen went black and it lived in my nightmares seeing it with audio a couple of years later was so _ridiculous_ and i have to wonder how much terror i would've been spared if i knew tails just gets annoyed and beats him up after it fades to black ! hearing someone in a video with this many views mention the exact same thing feels incredibly cathartic

[@bigbaddoggie8794]

11:58 Ayo sonic????????????????????

[@yeethittter1285]

I always thought Tails Doll was way more interesting than Sonic.exe, especially design wise. He definitely should've kicked off instead of exe. Also I'm never forgiving the sonic shorts series for what they did.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

The best thing is this; Exe tried to be scary- one could argue a little too hard, and people lampooned him, and his creator for the pretentious hack he is. Meanwhile the Tails Doll is little more than a joke racer in a bad Sonic game. it was never intended to be scary, and yet the internet memed it into a true eldritch nightmare regardless!

[@kero232]

what did the sonic shorts do???haven't been in touch with this fanbase for a decade

[@yeethittter1285]

@@kero232 Late but it was a shorts series I adored when I was like 9 or 10 and in episode 3 there was a tails doll cameo that gave me nightmares lol 3:46

[@sharzinlalebazri5673]

"Tails Doll is scary" _Mephiles staring from distance with limp body parts.

[@Josuh]

Who's Mephiles? I only know Memphis Tennessee

[@sharzinlalebazri5673]

@@Josuh oh no one important. Just the greatest villain in any platformer game ever.

[@zorendorf6727]

I do hope you know he was referencing the Sonic 06 fan dub where they call Mephiles Memphis Tennessee

[@sharzinlalebazri5673]

@@zorendorf6727 I know. I don't live under a rock... it's just kinda tragic for me that one of the best villains in platformer history is reduced to "mr alpha male gamer pad tilted towers" in the eyes of the fandom... but I suppose it reflects the state of the whole franchise.

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

Perfect Dark Gaia: Am I a joke to you?

[@RosieAnims]

As someone who didn’t grow up with the creepypasta stuff, it was really weird seeing everyone scared of the tails doll. I just find him really dopey and pretty endearing. For me it’s like being scared of the Yellowhead costume in the original Little Big Planet.

[@pewgun7832]

I remember I used to have trouble falling asleep because I had like,a bootleg Tails Doll in my room. One day, i cut its head off with scissors. This helped my sleep, allot.

[@RandomAhhChannel]

uh, you alive? I hope so

[@papayayeet9041]

Lol

[@bagel4943]

THAT WOULD N O T HELP MY SLEEP Creepy ass headless doll? No thanks

[@TABBYMUSIC]

Oh don’t worry, my childhood trauma doesn’t let me forget about the Tails Doll.. :D

[@reynardthesniperfoxxo8490]

Same :)

[@darkdragon_xd2537]

Sub tabby

[@tacocats2244]

Why do I see you in the comments section of half the Sonic videos I watch

[@tacocats2244]

@C. Frymier oh

[@iivaporeonandiimagikarp492]

Same

[@cee-jay0900]

4:54 Tails doll: ROAR Windows: Beep

[@AgentExeider]

It would be kind of funny if we come to find out Tails Doll is just tails from some effed up eldritch horror version of Mobius and he's actually the hero there, and what we see as creepy is just the emotional damage he's suffered and quietly deals with and all he wants is just to find peace and be loved.

[@InkSans_FandomSoda]

This is so wholesome, I love this.

[@petthepirate3115]

wait I think I got something for that In this universe, Tails was captured by Eggman and was turned into a puppet used as a killing machine. He was forced to chase around his friends and kill them out of his will, including Sonic of course. When all of his friends were gone, he couldn't take it anymore, he snapped out of control and killed Eggman in revenge, but even that didn't help with all of the trauma he had to face. Tails Doll was alone with no one left, until he went to another universe where a similar thing is happening(?). Tails Doll tries to save the other Tails and his friends from suffering a similar fate that he went through, but they thought that he was an enemy made by eggman

[@guy.animations2935]

Oh that's depressing

[@parasitic777]

I am feeling like watching the Garfield movie today.

[@danceypants1170]

Crap, now I want to watch it too.

[@user-mn7uo9ch4b]

oh god now i want to

[@anaig9599]

I have it on dvd

[@min2793]

I kinda want too lol

[@DamageMaximo]

I remember being afraid of Tails Doll when I was little but at the same time finding him so interesting and fun to see the creepy and scary fanarts, animation and games made for him, good times, it was almost the same with Sonic.exe but Tails Doll is a more special memory to me 4:43 I remember this jumpscare getting me really bad too, even if I knew this would happen it always made me jump

[@ecksdii]

"what i didn't expect to see is this" *fortnite ad plays*

[@Airy101skibidibopmmnndada]

Sandwich

[@sketchbookonline2040]

For me it was Dominos

[@dwldjon]

i got a insurance ad

[@a_guy_who_exists]

Hahaha

[@a_guy_who_exists]

Phone case ad then 5 hour energy ad

[@lalo3841]

I remember another version of the creepypasta being told to me by a friend (being more of a sonic fan than me at the time ) when i was a kid. It was basically about a kid who spent a whole night trying to unlock the tails doll character, but by the next morning when his mom goes to his room, she founds him dead. Next week, His parents give away the console and games to his best friend and when he checks it out, he finds out that the kid had just unlocked the Tails Doll character. So, definitely more credible than the original. This was the first time i hear about the original creepypasta.

[@monahaidar4669]

Idk if this is fake, but if this is real I’m literally going to freak out

[@LoiValdes]

I like how they made him an Eldritch abomination in Archie and just a creepy doll that appears out of nowhere in IDW

[@chanceenglish7769]

"What I wasn't expecting to see was this" *gets a t-mobile ad* Well shit this is terrifying

[@dragonmaster3030]

Same except mine was more horrifying A pregarU ad

[@soup8888]

I got a car commercial

[@shapeswitch_mood7221]

Finally, someone who consider Tails Doll by itself to be an interesting character. Despite the bad stories and stuff linked to it. I agree with ya.

[@jaylenbutler899]

1:12 I don't know, the IDW annuals and the 30th Anniversary comic!?!

[@PlayerCraft]

"but what I didn't expect to find is this..." *OLD NAVY AD*

[@artemismoore4176]

I love how the comics back in the day just ran with the creepypasta idea and made Tails Doll to be an eldritch abomination

[@howtoavenge1016]

They pulled it off really well, too

[@lusaminehq]

I love what Somecallmejohnny did with the tails doll in his review series, even if it became less antagonistic as years went on

[@mangaymer]

Actually, around 2008-2009 I had discovered an online story about a man discovering the tails doll in a dumpster or something. Unfortunately most sonic websites I used to frequent are completely gone, so I can’t exactly figure out when/where the story was published. He sort of became an obscure icon of the fan base alongside other characters. The whole “scary tails doll” idea had been in the fandom far before anything like Sonic.exe kicked off

[@arkham02k0mbat7]

Really!? No replies saying, they know where that stories from? The story sounds so good too ...

[@shadowvolcanogatomonxdreem3945]

Tails Doll will always...and will remain my favorite Sonic Character, no matter what... i did over come his curse, cuz i grew quite fond of him when he saw him appearing in my own nightmares, even made a O.C. that looks like him, but slight changes and different intentions

[@Ham_Sandwich69420]

Splash dash: "but what I wasn't expecting was this" 𝘼𝘿 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙎 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙔𝙄𝙉𝙂

[@rosaparks6479]

Broke: Metal knuckles Woke: Robotized knuckles

[@altigojira]

"What I wasn't expecting was this" A KZbin premium ad

[@MrCubey-rl3wi]

*b u y y o u t u b e p r e m i u m f o r a d f r e e v i d e o s*

[@marcuswkyhere8362]

friday night funkin community: hold my beer

[@Zachx]

I don't understand how people complain about the other characters. I LOVE playing as the others. Honestly, usually don't even like playing as Sonic...to be completely honest... I love Sonic, don't get me wrong, but it's fun to use the other characters' abilities!!

[@Ryderboycolor9]

I like Playing as Tails the best

[@Zachx]

@@Ryderboycolor9 ME TOO.

[@Josuh]

Honestly most characters already have Sonic's basic moves so it's... o d d (please suppose i had something relevant to say)

[@Zachx]

@@Josuh Haha, yeah! I just love the other little details. I enjoy the franchise. It makes me so angry/sad that they're just letting it tank.

[@JaredThe]

"haha your voice sounds weird" Anyways I unironically love the doll lol, I just think it's cute and enjoy the eerie vibe. I just like him as-is without any of the additional crap like blood, claws, "emotion", it's just cute funny doll. Loved hearing about your experience with him and getting some extra background about the character I never knew about. I don't normally enjoy Sonic channels or their communities anymore, but I can say you seem like a pretty decent, newer creator lol.

[@BurnedTail]

Creepypastas looked scary when i was younger, but now it feels nostalgic

[@kimberlykenyon9440]

"Forgotten" I was scared of the bathroom mirror for at least a month

[@cfl565656]

I can appreciate the clear effort and love for the Tails Doll you put in this video. But the way you structured it is a bit misleading, no offense. When mentioning creepypasta you start with Sonic.exe which implies that Sonic.exe (which came out around 2012) came before. The Tails Doll curse 100% began in the 2000's as evidenced by numerous deviantart drawings, it being featured in Sonic Shorts 2 in 2008, and the mid 2000's quacker and bowen site "Tails from the Crypt" which you used in your video. I know in previous instances you mention youtube amvs, the 2008 Newgrounds flash game "Tails' Nightmare" and how this was apart of your childhood; but to younger viewers who didn't live through this stuff like we did, the references are not enough to explicitly state the timeframe. I find this important to point out because Sonic.exe (for better or for worse) is a culmination of tropes from early creepypasta forerunners like Tails Doll. So to structure it in a way that somehow attributes Sonic.exe as somehow being a fresh take when creepypasta as a term had been already established in the mid to late 2000's is muddying the already not well documented history of Tails Doll and creepypasta on the internet. I still must thank you for bringing this topic to the light of new people, I only wish that you had made it more clear how much of a seasoned contributor Tails Doll was to creepypasta and internet culture. Sources: knowyourmeme.com/memes/sonicexe#fn2 (Sonic.exe history) www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/467276 (Tails' Nightmare) www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/436074 (Sonic Shorts 2) web.archive.org/web/20051018073343/quackerandbowen.com/sonicr.htm (Archive of Original Tails from the Crypt website) web.archive.org/web/20071011015350/quackerandbowen.com/sonicr.html (Archive of the revised Tails of the Crypt website) knowyourmeme.com/memes/creepypasta (Creepypasta history) knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-tails-doll (some Tails Doll history)

[@sydneysynder3062]

It's nice to see someone put in some research these days.

[@t.dmattocks6119]

Better said than whatever I was probably going to type. Thanks for bringing this up.

[@fluffcake]

Making Tails Doll a Mimikyu like creature should honestly be another thing they should do, little abomination hides in the doll and wants to be Sonic's friend.

[@goosethehonker340]

I am a tails doll fan since 2007 and yes he was a internet meme legend like Weegee. But Tails Doll needs to come back into the series because if he does not show up in the next few sonic games I'm done with Sonic

[@kenwalkensdeadchannelcanal2886]

Same, i think he has a chance of it being more people's favorite sonic character if they do him right. But my question is, when he comes back will he have a voice?? That's the part that horrifies me the most, in my opinion i think he should stay silent, like classic sonic.

[@yeeoof1995]

@@kenwalkensdeadchannelcanal2886 Maybe think of a way to make that crystal do something, like sort of mentally transplanting visions into the mind.

[@kenwalkensdeadchannelcanal2886]

@@yeeoof1995 hmm, that's a good idea

[@jackleviant]

Wait what sonic forces wasn’t the next sonic game you could play as another character in it was sonic boom

[@pugman9672]

@@Comical1984 never forget never forgive

[@averagebritishguy7082]

It was the next one we choose to acknowledge.

[@gamingandstuff1522]

He’s talking about mainline games.

[@plaroshiexploshi4661]

What’s sonic boom?

[@blackdot105]

@@plaroshiexploshi4661 That's the spirit

[@SicMetalMaggot4life]

I actually was told about this when I was in Elementary by a classmate of mine. Without knowing about what Sonic R was, my child brain came up with some pretty disturbing imagery for the Tails Doll and I had to spend quite a few nights sleeping with my parents, eventually getting so bad I threw out my 6 inch scale Sonic X toy of Tails that I got with Sonic and Knuckles for my birthday (the Sonic Heroes demo and Megacollection were my first Sonic games at the time). Time passed and I eventually forgot all about it until I got into High School and I became an active internet user...aaaaand as soon as I saw it and all the fan stuff surrounding it, I immediately felt disappointed. An entire childhood of anxiety and fear completely thrown out the window by the most wanna-be edgy and dark thing I've ever seen. Fuckin' lame. :[ Good video on the topic, tho, I must say!

[@AMNH-5027]

Who is this splashdash guy and why does he have ls marks voice.

[@plaroshiexploshi4661]

He’s marks friend

[@FKDart]

It’s LS Mark’s brother SL Mark

[@LittleLexi24]

He’s a car apparently

[@theradionicrevival8068]

He sounds hotter than mark tho, besides mark is irish, this guy is clearly scottish

[@Airy101skibidibopmmnndada]

@@FKDart SL Kram

[@dabluepittoo-aqua4213]

Finally Someone actually remembers that Metal Knuckles exist

[@g.s.4318]

Coulda sworn that Tails Doll as a popular creepypasta is older than Sonic.EXE

[@KeleuHerdley]

The Tails’ Nightmare I remember only had music and the jump sound effect. No dialogue from Tails. Interesting to know it was a lot less scary with that audio.

[@CJ-ln5ov]

Ok, but I find some of those LEGO Dimensions interactions to be unironically wonderful. Especially Sonic’s interaction with Lumpy Space Princess where he almost reminds himself of Elise and panics.

[@SuperSan1c]

I used to be so scared of Tails Doll as a kid that I was scared of listening to Can you feel the sunshine because I thought it would summon him. Good times, good times.

[@DanteKingOfSin]

This doll scarred me so much as a poor impressionable 10 y/o that now it is literally a cognitive representation of stress in my dreams. Thanks, Sega.

[@waterfallx4674]

I've been trying to remember that movie with the crazy Alvin & the chipmunks characters for so many years... I can't believe I finally found the name of it when I least expected to as I would usually forget about it before I'd be able to look it up. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!! Never thought it would be a spoof/comedy, huh weird.

[@crepe_loaf]

I used to think that tails doll is just a creepypasta created by the fans Never thought that it was real

[@tanman7568]

The weird thing about his voice is that he sounds like LS Mark.

[@asyu7287]

I know right

[@camkid5866]

I thot this was his second channel for a sec

[@aight5926]

@@camkid5866 Oh yeah, I also "thought" that too haha! ʸᵒᵘ'ʳᵉ ᵇᵉᶦⁿᵍ ˢᵃʳᶜᵃˢᵗᶦᶜ ʳᶦᵍʰᵗˀ

[@thelostmessenger]

@@aight5926 what? I also thought that too

[@DeevDaRabbit]

I cracked the code... There are one of two possibilities. 1. He's a clone of Mark created by one of the people he collaborated with. He has a flaw where he can only talk about Sonic as compared to the real Mark's flexibility. 2. He's his own best friend.

[@nernerman]

Sonic Forces expect the big bad villain revealed is Tails sitting on a bench.

[@AuthenticKale]

"but what I wasn't expecting to see was this --" **youtube shorts ad plays** You know, I wasn't expecting to see that either.

[@dangarbagecanman]

As much as I love Can You Feel The Sunshine, I cannot resist having paranoia due to my trauma from this creepypasta

[@memesta2204]

3:30 i remember seeing the full thing and it traumatizing me as a kid

[@KantaInekoto]

“What I wasnt expecting to see is this” random ad: “Amazon employees earn at least $15 an hour”

[@alcerdemon9768]

I didn’t noticed this wasn’t a LS Mark video until it ended

[@McDaid509]

Me too

[@Autokendo17]

Oh, yeah! Time to grab the booty!