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Where Was My Hero...?

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  • Awesome Art: While the original story and SonAmy continuation already were fairly well drawn, special mention goes to the Interquel; especially noticeable for the backgrounds, which went from rather underdetailed to gorgeously drawn.
  • Bizarro Episode: The "Time of Month" short, which is rather lighthearted compared to the other parts.
  • Catharsis Factor: As the Hate Sink page explains. Miles' murder of his bullies gets played as this, and is pretty much Karma for their mistreatment towards Miles and his precious bird. As he finally manages to release all of his bottled-up hatred on them, with the only method that they can understand. The Interquel makes Miles terrified of what he did to them, but he gets over it very quickly, and doesn't express any regret, which makes him come to a point that he felt he did what he had to do to remove this sad trash out of nature.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Miles' backstory in this story eerily matches up to the backstory of Nine in Sonic Prime, with both forced to grow up all alone and becoming colder because of it due to not having Sonic save them from bullies. Some viewers even called the take from Sonic Prime a rip-off from this comic due to how similar the two Tailses ended up. They both even have some form of cybernetic enhancement that takes the form of additional limbs or appendages (Miles' six spider-like tendrils and Nine's seven additional robotic tails respectively.) Thankfully, Nine never crosses the Moral Event Horizon as of Season Two like Miles does, choosing instead to grow a spine by constructing his seven additional mechanical tails in order to defend himself from his bullies, though he is still very isolated and hardened in his personality and eventually steals the Paradox Prism for himself to create a dimension where he can be all by himself. But he folds to Sonic at the end, which left his battles to be All for Nothing, as he gets convinced by Sonic to not shatter the universe. In return, Nine was left with nothing but to watch Sonic leave him; once again, all alone.
  • Informed Wrongness: Paired with Values Dissonance. Both Sonic and Miles experience this when they manage to do something that seems in character to them, but yet... so out of place.
    Miles: I never thought that something so wrong, could feel so right.
    Sonic: I never thought that something so right, could feel so wrong.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Miles, you can't feel nothing but sad for the guy, after seeing him go through such abuse and even ultimately becoming a Villain at one point.
  • Like You Would Really Do It: Despite Miles's threats of destroying the city, he never does so, as it was all a bluff. There was never a explosion or anything when the timer ended, it was his time that will come to an end.
  • More Interesting as a Villain: Before Miles had gone off the deep end, his story was boiled down to rolling with all the punches from his village, and then proceeding to sleep it off at his home. Although this concept was not new, he is more interesting when he is a villain rather than the local punching bag of the week.
  • Moral Event Horizon: The moment Miles made the order to execute everyone, even children, as Sonic deems him as Beyond Redemption in their last speech. This results in Miles being stabbed in the heart with his own invention.
  • Signature Scene: Miles sitting on his throne, like the king he is.
  • Stoic Woobie: Miles, as he never complains and says that he is fine being on his own. Although Cream still becomes part of his company.
  • Special Effect Failure: While the artwork for the most part is beautifully drawn, one odd occurrence happens in the Interquel where the village fire uses obviously edited-in fire effects. Considering the original story had them drawn in like normal, this makes the failure even stranger.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Although the Interquel series tries to show what Miles did after burning the village, it never got finished, and his time at the village or prison is never shown. It would have been so interesting to watch Miles try to pick himself up and follow his Badass Creed to some extent, how he would burn bridges, take over the city, and find something to live for.

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