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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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...

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bring back Metal Knuckles god damnit

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

He was never forgotten, he appears everywhere at least once

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

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

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

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...)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?)

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

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.

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

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

I'm so glad I know someone with such a similar story as yours, my older brother thought it would be funny to introduce me to sonic.exe when I was 6-7 just to scare me as a joke, ended up making me afraid of my sonic plushies, making me not touch any of my sonic games, and completely loose intrest for several years

Quite late but I remember first seeing the clip at 3:50 by a dude called Boozer Man, a member of sonic paradox. Loved his stuff growing up.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Man, I can really feel the sunshine. It's brightening up my day!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

i had a stroke seeing that AMV i used to watch that alot and it unlocked so many memories

4:54 Tails doll: ROAR Windows: Beep

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

that tails doll video makes me think of those sonic volume videos, i forget exactly the name of the videos, but ill gladly make an update to when i find them.

Its unreasonable how emotional that frowning car at the computer made me feel... How dare you do that without warning. You're a fucking artist. My hat is off, sir.

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

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

“But I wasn’t expecting to see this.” *add starts*

i’d like to thank sonic paradox for creating sonic shorts and making this character extremely terrifying for me as a child.

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

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.

Tails just punching tails doll after waking up is hillarous

I remember that doll being the scariest thing in the Sonic fandom back then alongside Sonic.exe as well as the Gerald Robotnik execution conspiracy theories

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.

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

8:42 “You-a comin’ with meee… Fowevaaaaah…”

“What I wasn’t expecting was this” **ad pops up on my phone**

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.

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)

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

I remember the memes and wondered where Tails doll came from. Good video

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

I am feeling like watching the Garfield movie today.

I remember that video of Tails Doll! Very nice!

That thing scared me so much back then I didn’t want to be alone

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

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.

2:53 I watched that exact amv when I was a child and now I'm cringing at my younger self, help. Also the mental anguish picture is me rn-

You just brought me back when you mentioned the disaster movie with the Alvin and the chipmunks part🤯

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

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

I remember a channel called the sticky paddle talked about this and I was so intriqued

Splashdash: but what I was not expecting to see was this: Just dance ad plays*

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

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

I had a similar story as a kid, but it was with pokemon creepypastas. I didn't watch creepypastas because I knew it would scare me. But a guy at school just watched each one to supposedly scare his other friend (when I know today that it was to fuck with me) and he told me the king unown and the ghost creepypastas, when I was just getting into lavender town in my pokemon red cart. I couldn't get thru the tower for months.

I love how a Rythim game lead me into finding more about a Sonic character.

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

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

I read that creepy pasta as a kid and it frightened me from anything involving sonic r.

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