Tangle the Lemur

**Tangle the Lemur** is a character that appears in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing. She is an anthropomorphic ring-tailed lemur from Spiral Hill Village and a member of the Restoration. She first became acquainted with Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends during the fallout after the Eggman War, when she sprang into action to defend her village from one of the Badnik hordes terrorizing villages across the world.

## Appearance

Tangle is an anthropomorphic ring-tailed lemur with primarily light gray fur and purple eyes. She possesses a small black nose and a long bushy tail with gray stripes. She also has gray fur around her muzzle and between her eyes, and gray fur around the sides of her eyes and on her eyelids and round ears. She also has extra fur on top of her head and chest, and small cheek tufts.

Tangle wears a short-sleeved black bodysuit with dark orange stripes down the sides, a yellow sleeveless top, and detailed yellow hi-tops with white laces and soles, black details, and dark orange cuffs. She also wears yellow sportstape around her forearms and fingerless black gloves made of black sportstape with dark orange backings.

## Personality

Heroic and just as fearless as Sonic the Hedgehog, Tangle is scrappy and loves to tangle with bad guys. Not intimidated by danger in the slightest, she has a thirst for adventure and excitement. As such, she is capable of heading into mortal peril and face deadly odds, all while wearing a smile on her face and having the time of her life. However, her desire for adventures makes her reckless and prone to jump head-first into danger without a care in the world. She can also be somewhat careless in battle, like using her tail in a way that gets it injured and focusing more on cheering than watching out for enemies.

Tangle is loud and excitable, but also friendly, polite, helpful and open. While having seen and overcome her own fair share of challenges in the form of Badniks, she is a novice heroine, and has thus seen little of the more outlandish subjects that exist out there, like a pyrokinetic princess from another dimension who guards fiery Emeralds. While such signs tend to leave her speechless, she is nonetheless quick to be amazed by them. Whenever she sees or reflects on something exciting, she tends to get starry-eyed. When reacting to a sudden sound or event, the hairs on her tail stand up.

Because of her outings with Sonic and other heroes, Tangle grew bored of her life at home in Spiral Hill Village, and would grow hyperactive staying there since she could not stand the peace and quiet. She later admitted to Jewel that she was both paranoid and nervous on leaving it behind, as the village would be left defenseless without her and that she would not have anyone to watch her back. Despite her newfound boredom, she remains loyal to her hometown and has gone through with staying when necessary and ensuring its safety despite how she felt.

Tangle is more than willing to aid her friends in any way that she can even when she is denied. This was shown when she persisted on helping Whisper out in bringing down Mimic, even though the lone wolf rejected her pleas to aid her, a trait of which caused Whisper to note that Tangle could not be discouraged. This lack of discouragement was shown even further when Tangle was infected with the Metal Virus, as she kept fighting Zombots with an optimistic attitude and even bolstered a despondent Sonic's spirits, despite knowing she did not have long before becoming one herself.

Tangle has a bit of a mischievous side to her. When she played cards with Silver, she would deliberately try to mess with him while using her tail to peek at his cards. Tangle also has a bit of an ego. For example, after finding out that some local children started a Sonic Fan Club, she told them they should make a Tangle Fan Club instead.

## Powers and Abilities

Tangle's main draw is a highly prehensile tail that she can use and manipulate in various ways as if it was a third arm. In practice, her tail can whip, snap, grip, curl, and even make a hand to form a fist with. In addition, her tail can extend and contract at will, thus allowing her to wield it as a rope, a bungee cord, a slingshot, or even a pully for herself. By curling it up like a coil, Tangle can also use her tail like a spring to bounce around. It also has enough strength to dent Badnik armor with a single strike.

Physically, Tangle is very fit and agile, possessing the same level of athleticism as Sonic the Hedgehog.

## Relationships

### Jewel the Beetle

Jewel has been Tangle's best friend ever since childhood. As the two grew up together, they would often go adventuring and would collect artifacts they found along the way, which, once they hit their teen years, were enough to make up their own museum, dubbed "Mineral Museum." Though the two eventually separated once Tangle joined the Resistance full-time and left Spiral Hill, they never stopped writing to one another and talking about the way their lives were going to the point where when Jewel got word of Tangle being missing in action, she dropped everything to find her.

Tangle cares very deeply about Jewel, and vice versa, as hearing the beetle's voice while she was on Angel Island was enough to move Tangle to tears and was overjoyed upon reuniting with Jewel in the flesh. She knows that Jewel will do what she can to protect her on missions, and both appreciates and counts on the beetle's presence, but she also worries a lot about her friend, often trying to avoid putting Jewel in danger, such as telling her to stay behind when the rumbling happened. She feels comfortable enough with Jewel to playfully tease her, but it's all in good fun, as she is genuinely as supportive and loving towards her friend as they come.

In the end of the day, the two have always been, and always will be, best friends, and will watch each other's backs no matter the risk.

### Sapphy the Fox

Ever since their meeting in Green Hill Zone, Sapphy has been one of Tangle's best and most trusted friends. Tangle will often try and steer Sapphy in the right direction when she's upset or angry, such as when she convinced her to spare Limit's life when Sapphy came close to killing him and comforted her afterward when she confided in the lemur about how Infinite killed her family. Tangle will often try and go out of her way to positively re-enforce the fox, sensing she needs the emotional support.

It goes both ways, as Sapphy has often lead Tangle back home when she's gone astray, such as when she was briefly under the Phantom Ruby's mind control, and Sapphy's presence brought her back from the amnesia she suffered. The fox has also helped Tangle when it comes to training, and is equally as comforting when Tangle is in distress.

### Murphire Tangle the Lemur

Tangle and the other variant of herself from Murphire's world get along extremely well, being each other's unending emotional support and backup. The two mutually take being counterparts from other universes extremely well, affectionately calling one another "other me." Despite their status as counterparts, the two act more like twin sisters than anything else. Murphire Tangle is often very protective of Tangle, as her getting hurt in any way is enough to set her off to her demon form, whereas Tangle also does what she can to protect her doppelganger in a fight, despite not having the same abilities as Murphire.

Similar to Sapphy, Tangle also acts as Murphire's emotional rock, and has managed to talk her down even from her demon form. One example is during the initial Rumbling incident, where Tangle refused to fight the other lemur, and convinced Scar and Corosai not to rush into fighting her as well, in order to reach Murphire from behind the demon's eyes. She succeeded, after bringing up Limit and how he, as well as the rest of their friends, would potentially get caught in the crossfire if she succeeded in her attempted genocide on the Eggman Empire and Infinity. When the two reunited, they shared a tight hug, and after the demon was fully expelled by Corosai, Tangle was overjoyed, bringing her and the recently arrived Limit in for a group hug, telling the pair she loved them.

### Lucas "Red" Eracenae

While not as close to him as she is with Sapphy, Tangle has known Red for a good, long while, and as such, she sees him as a close friend. She worries about him anytime he's injured, such as when she and Red both were shot by Vanguard in Green Hill Zone, and is loyal as anything, happy to follow him even into danger. That said, the pair do occasionally poke fun at one another, such as when Tangle chuckled at Red's pain after the aforementioned shooting, and he did the same for her afterwards as karma. The two are casual friends, and don't always get a lot of time to hang out, given the different directions life takes them in, but Tangle's always happy to see him and fight at his side.

As mentioned, she's incredibly loyal to him, as she is with her other friends, happily following him into danger at Sunset City, in order to help him save Azriel Vulpesino from the Zombots. However, once Red was infected in the process, Tangle was forced to leave her friend behind for the sake of everyone else. Heartbroken and horrified by her loss, Tangle blamed herself for Red's infection, and made it a more primary goal to look after Azriel in his stead.

### Azriel Vulpesino

Similarly, Tangle is quite close with Azriel, finding him a close and endearing friend. While the two didn't get much time to interact one-on-one at the start, Tangle's never once been unfriendly towards Azriel, and has accompanied the fox on missions before, such as their raid of Infinity's base, which ended up leading to Tangle's brief mind control with the Phantom Ruby, and Azriel's near-fatal shooting.

After Red's infection in Sunset City, however, Tangle became more gung-ho about protecting Azriel, as Red's last act before getting infected was to protect his adoptive brother, and she wanted to see to it that Azriel remained protected, not to mention her own care for Azriel and instincts told her to keep close to him. She also blames herself for Azriel's emotional suffering in the fallout, believing Azriel would have been much happier had she been infected instead. This wasn't far from the truth, as Azriel secretly thought that the pain wouldn't have been as bad had it been Tangle instead of Red, but he also knew he would have been devastated had it been Tangle, as well.

## Sources

https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Tangle\_the\_Lemur