Orbot (Sonic Boom)

Orbot is an antagonist in the Sonic Boom series. He is a robot and the finalized model in the Orbot Series created by Dr. Eggman. He is one of Eggman's lackeys, who assists the doctor in his various schemes for world domination and the destruction of Team Sonic, alongside his partner Cubot.

TV series
Orbot was created by Dr. Eggman as the finalized model in the Orbot Series, the successor to the Cubot Series. Dubbed "the perfect Cubot," Orbot arose to become Eggman's lackey.

While residing in Eggman's lair, Orbot, Cubot and Dr. Eggman learned that Sonic was seeking a new sidekick. Despite Orbot voicing his opinions on Sonic's demands, he was silenced by Eggman. Orbot and Cubot later accompanied Eggman to Tails' house where Eggman planned to exhaust Sonic and Tails by living with them and then sic Obliterator Bot on them. Having been allowed to stay by lying that their lair needed repairs, Orbot and Cubot helped Eggman tire out the heroes. However, Eggman's plan backfired when Obliterator Bot malfunctioned and destroyed their lair due to Orbot and Cubot not having worked out the kinks.

When Eggman planned to use Tails' robot UT to break Team Sonic apart, Orbot and Cubot secretly replaced the real UT with a duplicate made by Eggman. When Tails came and offered to become Eggman's assistant in exchange for UT's release, Orbot was assigned to draw up a contract to make it official. However, when he had finished it, Tails was already being rescued by his team. When sent on a mission to get Eggman some materials, Orbot and Cubot robbed the DangerCo Deadly Equipment Warehouse of mechanical parts. As Team Sonic arrived, they used their Bee Bots to distract them and they escaped thanks to Buster who halted Sonic.

While helping Eggman with his mail, Orbot and Cubot hard their lair was considered to be featured in Modern Lair Magazine, so they were assigned to clean the lair up. When that was not enough however, Eggman assigned Amy to redecorate the lair, with Orbot and Cubot served as her workers, and the results earned them the magazine messenger's approval. After Eggman imprisoned Amy, Orbot could only watch as all of Team Sonic broke in and ravaged the lair, resulting in the lair losing its spot the magazine. When Eggman made Dave an intern in the lair, Orbot and Cubot feared Dave's enthusiasm would make them look bad. Later, Orbot found Cubot dismantled by Dave and when Eggman would not fix him, he took his parts to Tails. Fortunately, Eggman fired Dave and Orbot and Cubot got their assignments back.

During Eggman's work, Orbot and Cubot watched in horror as the doctor concocted his scheme to turn Sonic evil by feeding him Evil Cookies. When the plan backfired by Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks eating the cookies instead, Orbot and Cubot were forced to suffer under both them and Eggman when the latter taught his new allies about villainy. As such, they sought Sonic's help, who quickly restored his friends.

Upon Orbot and Cubot's urging to improve their moral with a surprise party, Eggman had them set the party up. Once they were done, Eggman erased their memories so the party could still be a surprise. When the amnesiac Orbot and Cubot recovered, they could not find Eggman and started looking. After asking Sonic and in town, it looked like Eggman had been arrested, so Orbot had them try earning bailout money. After failing performing, getting donations from Amy and having the Eggmobile stolen, they broke into the jail, but discovered the inmate was actually Willy Walrus, who told where Eggman was. At that scene however, they believed Eggman had been killed by his own weapon and went home mourning, where Eggman surprised them with the party and explained everything. As a demonstration, Orbot and Cubot got their memories erased again and could therefore not tell Eggman where the Eggmobile was.

While Eggman pulled out his schemes with Cowbot, Orbot and Cubot were confined to the lair. They eventually came out on their own, just as Eggman's schemes failed, where they tried eating some marshmallows which short-circuited them. During an laser tag exercise with Eggman and the badniks, Orbot noticed the luck balance of the universe had tipped in Eggman's favor when he beat them all by accident. As Eggman though his luck made him invincible, Orbot and Cubot helped start an invasion of Bygone Island with the Mega. Everything went well, as even Team Sonic were unable to stop them thanks to Eggman's fortune, until Knuckles, who experienced a case of bad luck, tried joining them and caused the Mega to destruct. As such, Orbot retreated with Eggman and Cubot.

Accompanying Eggman to seize a meteor from Sonic, only for Eggman to be knocked out, Orbot and Cubot brought him home, where he claimed to be Sonic, having swapped bodies with Eggman. The duo did not believe him, but still accompanied him to Sonic's Shack where Team Sonic beat him up. Orbot and Cubot regrouped with Eggman, but they soon returned with their robot army to fight Sonic. When Tails arrived though, Orbot and Cubot learned that Sonic and Eggman actually had switched bodies due to the meteor, a process which was soon reversed. When Eggman recovered from a slump, Orbot witnessed his master loose all motivation when he found himself unable to make choices. While Orbot could do nothing to get Eggman back in the game, Team Sonic ultimately did.

While Orbot was with Eggman and Cubot, they got the news that Tails had joined the Lightning Bolt Society, something which Eggman quickly set out to foil. Having brought back Eggman after his latest defeat, Orbot and Cubot helped Eggman sue Sonic under the false pretenses that Sonic needlessly broke Eggman's neck. With Orbot and Cubot providing (false) evidence to support Eggman's case, Eggman almost won the trial but was foiled by Amy. Amidst Eggman's scheme to control the Village with his Eggman's Tomato Sauce cans, Orbot and Cubot joined Eggman at his interview for the Comedy Chimp Show where Eggman's plan was soon after foiled by Team Sonic. On the morning of the deployment of the Egg Tank, Orbot enthusiastically provided Eggman's breakfast. However, Eggman soon after created a time loop by accident that endlessly repeated the day which Orbot and everyone else (except Eggman) were oblivious to. As Eggman tried to solve this problem, Orbot helped him several times until the loop was broken, and Orbot was embraced by Eggman the day after.

Orbot and Cubot were later sent out by Eggman, who joined them in the Eggmobile, to capture a Granifier Giganticus for Eggman to enslave. At the scene, Orbot deployed Bee Bots to capture the giant, but it failed and Sonic, who protected "Rocky", turned their badniks against them. Retreating to the lair, Orbot and Cubot joined Eggman in his meditation garden, but Team Sonic then came with Rocky who they got to fall sleep in the garden to horrid music, or it would go on a rampage. In a skirmish with Team Sonic, Cubot and Orbot arrived to see Eggman get stuck inside Buddy Buddy Temple. Free to pursue their interests, the robots deserted Eggman, but found their freedom too overwhelming and returned to the temple for help. There, the duo and Team Sonic fell into the temple as it caved in, where they met Sonic and Eggman. Having found an escape route, the two enemies got everyone out just in time. Orbot and Cubot then happily reunited with Eggman before leaving with him.

As Orbot had a rough day, he and Cubot got fed up with Dr. Eggman's callousness while he chatted with his new online friend, Nominatus (a computer virus). The two thus left to be friends with Team Sonic and moved in with Tails after proving their deflection. There, they fought over a laptop game from Tails until they discovered the laptop's surveillance system had caught Nominatus taking over Eggman's system and robots for his agenda to destroy all life forms. Orbot and Cubot tried warning Eggman, but were too late, and they fled with Eggman to Team Sonic when Nominatus sent their robots after them. While the heroes covered them, Orbot and Cubot were sent into cyberspace by Tails and Eggman to stop Nominatus, where they destroyed him with an illogical game. In the aftermath, Orbot and Cubot returned to Eggman's service. Sometime later, Orbot was with Eggman and Cubot in their lair when it was hit by an Eggman missile, which was launched by Amy and Sticks.

When learning of Team Sonic's activities from Fly Bot, Orbot came with Eggman to destroy the heroes, only for Eggman to fall for a prank Team Sonic had lured him into by messing with Fly Bot. With Eggman swearing off technology and his lair, Orbot and Cubot had to do Eggman's excessive labor. When Sonic came to them as the island got attacked by Eggman's missiles and robots, Orbot revealed by accessing Eggman's computer that the Lightning Bolt Society was behind this by seizing Eggman's lair. Orbot and Cubot were shortly after shut down remotely by the Lightning Bolt Society, so Eggman helped Team Sonic stop the group and restored Orbot and Cubot in time to help reestablish themselves in the lair. When Eggman became co-owner of Chez Amy, Orbot and Cubot joined the kitchen staff until they had to flee when Eggman had his badniks tear the establishment down.

When the unpicked trash at the lair pilled up, Orbot and Cubot were made the target of Eggman's frustrations before he went to city hall. As Eggman later got control of the Village with the mayor's approval stamp, Orbot were summoned, this time riding Stuffer Bot, to find a form Eggman needed to pass a law. However, Orbot was knocked out by Knuckles and the stamp was subsequently destroyed. As Eggman plotted to enslave the villagers with a hypnotizing movie, Orbot served as camera man and make-up artist during the filming. When Eggman later needed Sonic to battle Drill Bot for a scene, Orbot and Cubot tricked Sonic to participate by telling him that Eggman was mining metal for new robots which would make them obsolete. At the showcase of the movie though, Orbot told Eggman that he forgot to install his mind-enslaver device, so Orbot and Cubot joined Eggman in watching their movie alone after everyone left.

Orbot later joined two of Eggman's attacks on the island which were both foiled by Team Sonic. As they later spied on the Lightning Bolt Society and learned that Sonic had retired and Team Sonic was out of town, Orbot and Cubot proposed an attack, but Eggman insisted on waiting for the right time to strike. Eventually, Orbot, Eggman and Cubot began a sneak attack on Sonic with the Eggmobile as he returned to handle a sheep stampede, but their attempt was foiled when Mike warned Sonic, who used the Eggmobile's weapon to herd the sheep and disorient the evil trio before defeating them.

As Orbot and Cubot were out for Eggman to find renegade robots who were stealing his tools, they noticed it was the Cubot prototypes when they found them. As the prototypes revealed they needed to fix Cutebot, Orbot and Cubot brought in Sonic and Tails for aid. However, Orbot was forced to return alone as Cubot chose to stay with his prototypes. When Orbot reported back though, he was probed by Eggman for the prototypes' location he so he could destroy them. During the attack, Orbot got Cubot to come back by lying that Eggman missed him. After Eggman's attacked failed thanks to Sonic, Tails and in part Cubot, Orbot welcomed his partner home as they resumed their labor. While later hanging out in the lair, Orbot and Cubot had a suspicion something was missing, not realizing Eggman had been kidnapped.

On New Year's Eve, Orbot and Cubot tried cheering up Eggman, who was moping over not getting one decisive victory over Sonic this year, with a New Year's Eve party, but with no success. When Orbot presented his slow-cooked roast though, Eggman had the idea of building a Slow Motion Machine to get more time to beat Sonic, and Orbot watched him harness his slow cooker's power source for it (at the cost of his roast).

The Big Boom
When Dr. Eggman was having his breakfast served in his lair, Orbot answered the door when someone was calling. There, Orbot met Knuckles who wanted to join the doctor. With their new ally, Orbot accompanied Eggman on his attack on Bygone Island where he helped stow away Sonic, Tails, Amy and Sticks in the Big Boy mech's cargo hold with Cubot after Knuckles and Eggman had encaged them. On their way to attack the village however, Orbot, Eggman and Cubot were betrayed by Knuckles who threw Orbot and Cubot away when they tried to protect Eggman. The duo later asked Team Sonic for a lift home after Eggman was beaten, to which Knuckles complied to by throwing them out to Eggman as he retreated.

Back in the lair, Orbot and Cubot were assigned to repair the Big Boy. There, Orbot found Cubot inside the Big Boy, fooling around with the piko hammer which had been stuck. Orbot insisted they gave the hammer to Eggman, but when Cubot refused to hand it over, they began fighting over it, which Orbot quickly wanted for himself too. However, their fight trashed the Big Boy as it took off and when they lost the grip on the piko hammer, it ricocheted away while making the Big Boy fall apart. The robots soon found Eggman amongst the parts and tried explaining themselves. After repairing and upgrading the Big Boy again, Orbot and Cubot accompanied Eggman as he when out for his appointed battle with Team Sonic. While fighting, Eggman contemplated on going home after several humiliations, until Orbot restored his resolve. However, Sticks used the Rock of Justice on the Big Boy which ricocheted into the mech and destroyed it from the inside. Orbot therefore retreated back to the lair with Eggman and Cubot, where Eggman revealed to him that he had another creation ready for Team Sonic.

Boom Shaka-laka
As Eggman sought to get the villagers' trust for his future schemes, Orbot provided the doctor with a couple of suggestions which culminated in the Eggtoberfest which Eggman planned to buy the villagers' trust with. Though Orbot helped Eggman run the Eggtoberfest, the carnival was laid to waste when Eggman unleashed his army on the villagers which was stopped by Team Sonic. With Eggman's plan ruined, Orbot tried cheering him up. A short while later, when Eggman enacted his scheme to get Team Sonic's bio-data for Project Hodge Podge during the Go-kart Pan-island Grand Prix, Orbot and Cubot joined as participants in the go-kart race to aid Eggman. Shortly after starting the race, Orbot tried running Tails off the road with Cubot, but the duo ended up hitting each other. They quickly started fighting over who was at fault which made them crash while their master lost the race to Sonic despite getting his data.

Worlds Unite
Shortly after the race, Orbot and Cubot got back to Eggman's lair where they met Team Sticks and the Maverick Hunters, and tried to make them leave. Threatened into submission by Zero, they agreed to help them by using a machine made by Eggman to create a Genesis Portal to their destination. The duo's encounter with the group would later be erased when Xander Payne rewrote history so that the Maverick Hunters never arrived.

Personality
Orbot is the described as the "stiffbot" of him and Cubot, and has a polished demeanor which goes along with his smooth surface. While not perfect of character, he is loyal by default, though he will only obey orders after being threatened as dictated by his programming. He speaks calmly, formally, and without a filter. He is honest to a fault and offers unsolicited, withering assessments of his master. Supposedly, he is also a natural raconteur.

While capable of pursuing his own endeavors, Orbot is unable to be alone as he is extremely dependent on having others to rely on, and having total freedom overwhelms him with anxiety at choosing for himself. Supposedly, Orbot also has "Bot-holm syndrome" which makes him ultimately agree with anything Eggman says.

Powers and abilities
Orbot has the ability to retract his body into a travel-sized sphere. He is also capable of levitation and can move at speeds compatible to the Eggmobile in midair.

Orbot is equipped with a number of additional functions. His mouth works as either a paper shredder for shredding letters or a juicer for making drinks, his eyes double as both flashlights and movie projectors,  and he has a button on his back that can erase up to a day worth of memory files. He is also connected to Eggman's computer, allowing him to access various forms of data in their lair remotely.

Orbot has his own kill switch in Dr. Eggman's lair which can deactivate and reactivate him remotely.

Dr. Eggman
Orbot is one of the closest things Dr. Eggman has to friends. While Orbot tries to earn the doctor's respect as much as possible, he gets noting but terrible treatment in return. In turn, Orbot has a subtle, but noticeable dislike of Eggman, going as far as to celebrate his liberation from him when Eggman was incapacitated and play pranks on him. In spite of this, Orbot depends on Eggman as he cannot cope with being on his own and does genuinely care about him, having wept when he thought he was dead and embraced him caringly on a few occasions. He also dislikes to see Eggman emotionally in the dumps and will offer him unwaveringly moral support.

While Orbot is loyal to Eggman, it is not absolutely; as put by himself, he is only "mostly-loyal" to the doctor, and, like Cubot, he has been known to go behind Eggman's back to seek out Sonic when Eggman becomes too much or keep things he should hand over to Eggman. He also has a tendency to say things Eggman wishes not to hear, even in front of Team Sonic, and offers true, unspoken judgements of him. Nevertheless, Orbot is very much afraid of Eggman's wrath and would rather face Knuckles in a fight.

Cubot
Cubot is Orbot's companion in the service of Dr. Eggman. Despite their conflicting personalities, they are an inseparable pair. Between them, Orbot usually has his patience tested by Cubot's stupidity to the point where he will lash out at him, and is often the one who has to take charge of him. Regardless, this does not damage their relationship very much as Orbot has come to expect this behavior for Cubot and so always forgives his mess-ups. Orbot also deeply cares for Cubot's well-being as he was horrified when he found him disassembled by Dave and was determined to put him back together.

Friends/allies

 * Cubot
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Badniks

Enemies

 * Team Sonic
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Sticks the Badger
 * Dave the Intern
 * Nominatus

Trivia

 * The official artwork used for Orbot is the same as the one for his main series counterpart in Sonic Colors.
 * Orbot is no. 347 on Dr. Eggman's ranking list.
 * Along with Cubot, Orbot did not have any design changes for the Sonic Boom franchise.