Next Top Villain

"Next Top Villain" is the thirty-seventh episode in the Sonic Boom television series. It aired on 1 August 2015 in the United States.

Synopsis
Dave the Intern inadvertently captures Dr. Eggman and hijacks his robots, finally achieving villainy.

Characters

 * Badnik
 * Crab Bot
 * Cubot
 * Dave's mother
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Lady Goat
 * Lightning Bolt Society
 * Dave the Intern
 * Tree Spy
 * Willy Walrus
 * Weasel Bandit
 * Octopus Bot
 * Orbot
 * Pepper People
 * Soar the Eagle
 * Team Sonic
 * Amy Rose
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Sticks the Badger
 * T.W. Barker
 * Wolfie

Plot
At the start, Dave the Intern is playing with action figures in his room, imagining that he is an evil supervillain fighting Team Sonic. He then hears his mother calling him, questioning him why he is with the Lightning Bolt Society instead of being like Dr. Eggman. The Lightning Bolt Society are then seen gluing a coin to the ground as a prank, and Dave tells them that his mother does not allow him to hang out with them. Dave then attempts to destroy Team Sonic by blowing a fan on a block of ice, resembling a freeze ray, using a reflecting mirror with the sunlight, and releasing rabbits on the team. None of these ideas work, however. Dr. Eggman is then seen applauding Dave for his efforts, and then shows Dave his new invention, the Electrocage. Suddenly, one of the rabbits accidentally knocks over a tree, trapping Eggman himself inside the cage.

The cage and Eggman inside it are then seen in Dave's room. Dave gloats about Eggman's capture, and then proceeds to mock Sonic and his friends on the news that he has taken over Eggman's position as the top villain. Sonic is then seen in an interview with Soar the Eagle, telling the reporter that he is glad Eggman is gone, and he thinks Dave is not much of a threat. Later on, Dave is seen piloting Octopus Bot, but he drives it poorly. Team Sonic has had enough, so Sonic goes to rescue Eggman. After freeing the doctor, Sonic asks how Octopus Bot can be turned off. Eggman initially refuses, but after seeing Amy and Knuckles destroy two of the tentacles, he complies. He explains that there is an off switch at the bottom of Octopus Bot's head. Luckily, as Dave takes a selfie, the Octopus Bot crashes onto his house, and Sonic easily turns off the robot. Dave's mother is then heard congratulating her son, saying that he is no longer a loser. Team Sonic heads home, but Tails sees the coin that the Lightning Bolt Society glued down. He tries to pick it up, but he cannot.

Continuity

 * Dr. Eggman recalls Dave the Intern's time as his intern in "Double Doomsday".

Trivia

 * The music that Team Sonic dances to is based off the "Y.M.C.A." song.
 * The bears that attack Team Sonic during Dave's fantasy use the same character models as the Stuntbears'.
 * The action figures Dave plays with uses the same models as the ones for the figurines used by the evil Team Sonic in "Eggheads" when they planned their attack on Sonic.
 * During the scenes where Eggman is trapped in Dave's room, you can see Dave has an action figure of T.W. Barker in his lawyer outfit from "Don't Judge Me." Also, he has figures of the pepper warriors from Knuckles's dream, from the episode "Chili Dog Day Afternoon."
 * The part where Knuckles is riding the Octopus Bot arm, and says "I'm Billy the Echidna", that was a reference to the western movie character named "Billy The Kid."