@NewSkater3000 Yeah, that makes it a bit odd since Honey from Fighting Vipers (aka where the character originally came from and the Sonic version is a parody of said character) had the ponytails. Surely someone thought before 2011 that something wasn't right here or added 2+2 together...

I'm guessing most Sonic fans weren't aware, was aware but thought of a different reason (not the same character or had to follow the Sonic character design) or sadly don't care much about Sega's other output. Can understand Fighting Vipers since it wasn't the accessible of games unless you was either lucky to find an arcade machine or had the Saturn port (I think the recent port came out the same time as Sonic the Fighters for 360/PS3, done by a small team I think within RGG Studios aka the Yakuza developers).

Bit of a fun fact about this and the next Honey sprite. The sprite was made so long ago they didn't have her original design. Honey was found when modding Gems Collection, but her ponytail things did not render, so no one knew she had any. If you look at old art of her (pre 2011), none of the will have the ponytails, from what I've seen.
Edit: Honey wasn't found in Gems Collection, she was found in the og arcade game. Her model wasn't in Gems Collection, so they went back to the Arcade version and found her there

@Void-the-Bat Bruh, rude. The sheet says nothing about the site other than having a logo which only consists of "MFZ", and the comment only says "Honey from the Mystical Forest zone," neither of which do anything to clarify what it means.

@TailsTheFoxYT: Yeah, Doc's right. You shouldn't act all Mr. Know It All until you read the entire comment and look at the sheet itself.

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Mystical Forest Zone was a sprite hosting site that went down. ._.

@SketchAnimations Actually her first debut was as a unused character referencing another game in Sonic The Fighters

Oh neat! A slightly updated version of Honey from the Mystical Forest zone!