New Sonic Video Suggests That Tails Eats Chao

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Yesterday's Sonic Q&A gave us plenty of neat tidbits about the series. We found out why Sonic sometimes opts for a car instead of running (it looks cool), and why on earth normal humans have appeared in some of the games (they live on their own islands). But one of the most shocking - and pretty disturbing - bits of trivia was hidden in plain sight.

It's very possible that Tails eats Chao. In fact, Chao might just be a delicacy in the Sonic world. In the TailsTube broadcast, the two-failed fox had his desktop on display the whole time - featuring a folder named "Chao Dinner Recipes". He didn't comment on it at all, but the implications are even more disturbing than his chaotic folder placement.

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None of the other folders have these worrying undertones, simply referencing Tails' love of his friends, and inventing. This love apparently doesn't extend to the adorable, cuddly creatures we all raised in the Sonic Adventure games, however.

Okay, sure, we could be reading too much into this. It is very possible that these are simply a list of recipes for food that the Chao will eat, not consist of. But they only ever ate fruit in Sonic Adventure, so I'm not sure how willing I am to believe this excuse. Unless Tails is actually an exceptionally good Chao owner, so it's one extreme or the other.

This is a whole lot less adorable to another piece of Chao trivia discovered recently. As we reported last week, Sonic fans only recently found out that Chao can become ill - and can even be treated for these illnesses in Sonic Adventure 2. It's only a one in 6000 occurrence (yes, rarer than a shiny Pokemon in modern games), but for some reasons,