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>Is there a word for this
It's called going against the writers' original plans.
Tails and Amy were clearly set up as a couple to-be in Penders' run on Archie and the artists fucked that over by drawing Mina when Penders explicitly told them to make Amy Tails' wife.
This is why Amy is so weirdly absent from this arc. Her place was overwritten by Mina, probably due to meddling by Bollers to make his donut steel seem more important.
It makes infinitely more sense to ship the two childhood friends together than the dude with his best friend's ex-girlfriend.