Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper Issue 3

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## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Evan Stanley
(Cover A)
* Nathalie Fourdraine
(Cover B)
* Priscilla Tramontano
(Retail Incentive Cover)

## First Appearances

### Characters

* Badniks
	+ Blaster (Tank Variant) (flashback)
	+ Shadow Androids (flashback)

**Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper Issue 3** is the fourth issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper* miniseries published by IDW Publishing.

## Official solicitation

*"Betrayal." The origin of Whisper the Wolf is revealed! All your (and Tangle's) questions answered! Where did her Wisps come from? How did she get her Variable Wispon? Why does she hate Eggman so much? And who betrayed her? Whisper's secret origin is revealed-and what secrets from her past will help her and Tangle in the present?!*

## Featured stories

### Betrayal

After the explosion, Tangle used her tail to punch out the safe door. At Tangle's insistence, Whisper gives Tangle her mask, showing the playback of her last few missions. Meanwhile, Mimic is riding his extreme gear, stopping to give Eggman an update on the elimination of Whisper. Eggman, knowing that he has lied about his job previously, wants proof that she has been eliminated, resorting to Mimic riding back to the wreckage site. Seeing the burst open safe, he realizes that the two were most likely alive. Whilst being berated by Eggman, he follows some tracks leading to a message ("we end this where we started"). After calming Dr. Eggman down, he then tells him that he needs some reinforcements to help him finish the job.

#### Appearances

**Characters**:

* Amy Rose ***(Mentioned)***
* Badniks
	+ Blaster Tank ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
	+ Egg Pawn (multiple) ***(Flashback)***
* Diamond Cutters
	+ Claire Voyance ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
	+ Mimic
	+ Slinger the Ocelot ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
	+ Smithy the Lion ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
	+ Whisper the Wolf
* Dr. Eggman
* Metal Sonic ***(Mentioned)***
	+ Neo Metal Sonic ***(Mentioned)***
* Miles "Tails" Prower ***(Mentioned)***
* Resistance ***(Mentioned)***
* Shadow Android (multiple) ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
* Shadow the Hedgehog ***(Flashback)***
* Silver the Hedgehog ***(Flashback)***
* Sonic the Hedgehog ***(Mentioned)***
* Tangle the Lemur

**Races and species**:

* Human
* Wisp
	+ Blue Wisp
	+ Cyan Wisp
	+ Green Wisp ***(imprint)***
	+ Orange Wisp
	+ Pink Wisp

**Locations**:

* Sonic's dimension
	+ Sonic's world
		- Diamond Cutters Base ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***

**Items**:

* Egg Spear ***(Flashback)***
* Wispons
	+ Cube Wispon ***(Flashback)***
	+ Hover Wispon ***(Flashback)***
	+ Laser Wispon ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
	+ Rocket Wispon ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
	+ Spike Wispon ***(First appearance)*** ***(Flashback)***
	+ Variable Wispon

**Vehicles**

* Omnipotence ***(First appearance)***

**Misc.**:

* Eggman War ***(Mentioned)***

## Other features

* ***Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2019* - Free Digital Ashcan**

## Trivia

* On page three, when the Diamond Cutters first approached the Eggman base, Mimic and the guarding Egg Pawn show an exclamation point and a question mark inside a speech bubble, respectively. This is a reference to the same speech bubbles with exclamation points and question marks inside them that the enemies in Sonic Heroes show when they notice or do not notice the playable characters.

* On page eleven, Dr. Eggman indrectly references the events of Sonic Colors.
* On poage twelve Mimic's line, "It should be criminal to be this smooth." is a reference to the song "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson.

## References

*IDW Sonic Comics*