Soar the Eagle

"Who is ready to soar like an eagle!?"

- Soar the Eagle, "Aim Low"

Soar the Eagle is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. He is an anthropomorphic eagle and a television personality who runs a seminar as a motivational speaker and life coach. He is also the local news reporter on Bygone Island.

Concept and creation
According to Bill Freiberger, Soar the Eagle was added to the series for the purpose of the plot of "Aim Low". Soar originally came from Alan Denton and Greg Hahn who were very specific about his design to emphasize his role as a motivational speaker. However, because the show had a limited budget for how many characters they could produce, it was decided to give Soar another profession to fill out the cast, and it was decided that newscaster, which was needed for setting, seemed as the logical choice for him. This morphed Soar into a television personality for the series.

Appearance
Soar is a very muscular, wingless, and tall humanoid bird at Dr. Eggman's height. His plumage is mainly turquoise while white around his head, neck, chest and tail feathers. Additionally, he has a pair of feathers sticking out from his forearms, chest and back of his head, and he has bushy eyebrows, a sharp yellow beak with uneven teeth, and orange eyes with black rims behind them. His attire consists of a pink and dark pink polo shirt, a pair of dark blue headphones with a microphone, white gloves, long yellow socks, and white, turquoise and red sneakers. Both his shoes and shirt are emblazoned with his logo.

History
At some point, Soar had a daughter, whom would attend private school. Though Soar would rather buy some golf clubs, he used his money to pay for his daughter's school.

Having launched his advertisement for his seminar, Soar was soon contacted by Dr. Eggman who needed help getting his confidence back after sinking into a slump. Seeing a challenge in Eggman, Soar got the doctor fired up about his coaching and rebuilt him by making him accomplish some small evil successes. In the middle of Soar's seminar however, he was fired by Eggman when he got arrogant, but not before Soar warned him of the consequences of his choice.

Sometime later, Soar did a live news report on the trial between Sonic and Eggman when the latter sued Sonic, right from the beginning to its aftermath which concluded in Eggman's defeat. Being the television personality he is, Soar later helped promote the "Survival Skills Made Easy" show on TV. Returning to the news business, Soar would do a news report on the rivalry between Meh Burger and Chez Amy using various food puns, and later on how Sonic's infamous "just a guy" comment had sent the Village into an uproar where he interviewed an angry mob.

When receiving a video from Dave the Intern where he declared he had caught Dr. Eggman and hijacked his forces, Soar did a news report on it. As Soar interviewed Sonic live on what he made of this, both of them agreed that Dave was no legitimate threat. When New Year's Eve later arrived, Soar came to the party held in the Village Center where he not only did a television report on the events alongside Comedy Chimp, but also got to enjoy the festivities. During this, Dr. Eggman used his Slow Motion Machine to slow down time long enough for him to beat Sonic in something before New Year, though Soar did not see Eggman's victory as it happened too fast for him to notice it. Soar soon after had a new assignment where he did a coverage on TV about Justin Beaver's rise to fame, though he was little bitter about it as Justin made his daughter think he was not cool anymore.

Personality
Soar is confident, charming, encouraging and all-inspiring, driving others to be the best they can be by following his motto "soar like an eagle." He is fully dedicated to his jobs and faces them to the best of his abilities. However, he is far from overconfident and instead remains realistic, keeping a clear view on the tasks ahead of him and understands the consequences of the wrong choices.

Soar can be quite stern and assertive when he has to, which makes him seem scary, and he will downright insult his clients to push them to be better people. However, he is a focused businessman first and foremost, going to the extend of bluntly asking for his payment and cleverly convincing his clients to buy his products. Being a typical news reporter, he will also occasionally twist the words of the people he interviews.

Soar is a germaphobe and does as such not like others touching him or vise versa.

Powers and abilities
While not shown to be superhuman, Soar is in peak physical condition, capable of jumping as high as a professional basketball player and breaking thick wooden planks with a single chop. As a life coach and motivational speaker, he is also very skilled in inspiring others and can instill confidence in even the most esteem-deprived individuals.

Equipment
Soar uses a highly technologically jetpack which enables him to fly through midair.

Trivia

 * A running gag occurring in the series is Soar appearing in the subsequent scene after someone expresses their believe in the occurrences of events to state that the complete opposite has occurred.
 * Many fans has liken Soar to Silver the Hedgehog due to his black eye rims and busy eyebrows resembling Silver's.