Beth the Shrew

Beth the Shrew is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. She is a young anthropomorphic shrew who lives on Seaside Island.

Concept and creation
Beth the Shrew was named after Bill Freiberger's wife.

Appearance
Beth is a pink-furred, anthropomorphic shrew with pale peach skin and dark blue eyes. She has a long and sharp muzzle with a black snout, dark eyelids, a short tail, a longer-than-average torso, two round ears, thin limbs and four horizontal quills arranged in a line down the back of her head. Curiously, she also has a dark pink streak on top of her head. For attire, she wears a white t-shirt with puffy sleeves, short-legged blue overalls, white gloves, and greenish-grey boots with white soles.

Season two
Hearing that an asteroid would impact the earth, Beth showed up to buy a spot in Eggman's bunker to ride out the impending apocalypse in. Although Beth did not get a spot, Team Sonic would stop the asteroid. She would soon after flee from the Village Center when Eggman launched an ambush on said location.

Another time, Beth came to Career Day to hear other people elaborate on their careers. She soon tried asking Sonic for his autograph, only to scare Sonic, who had just escaped an insane fan, away. Later hypnotized by Dreamcaster's TV broadcasts, Beth became Dr. Eggman's zombie slave, who had her and the hypnotized villagers build a world-controlling satellite. She would later attack Sticks when she came to the rescue, but was freed as Team Sonic foiled Eggman's plan. Beth was later inspired to buy some Fuzzy Puppy figurines from Orbot and resell one of them to a mystery buyer, unaware that Orbot was manipulating her. She would also run from the Egg Tank when Orbot invaded the Village. During a power outage in the Unnamed Village soon after, Beth would riot alongside the others villagers.

While at a town meeting, Beth learned that their village was named after Sticks' evil ancestor, Jebediah Badger. Eventually wanting the town renamed, Beth agreed to a referendum between Amy and Eggman's name propositions at another meeting. Beth later had to be evacuated from the youth center when Eggman attempted to destroy it. Coming to Meh Burger, Beth received premium service from the new robot employees (courtesy of Eggman) before watching Dave the Intern lose his job to one of these robots in a contest. Upon attenting the reopening of the improved Meh Burger however, Beth and the villagers got trapped in a force-field and sent towards space in Meh Burger by Eggman. Thanks to Team Sonic and Dave though, Beth was rescued, along with Meh Burger.

Winning the Science Fair Awards with her solar system diorama, Beth got a trophy and the right to observe the Village's top scientist, Tails, for a week. While amazed by Tails' work, Beth got more interested in seeing Knuckles break stuff after seeing Team Sonic fight Eggman while accompanying Tails. However, Beth soon got overlooked when Tails and Knuckles got caught up in a shared experiment, and she began following Sticks when she got enticed by the badger's theories.

Personality
Speaking in a slight country accent, Beth is soft-spoken, sweet, polite and well-mannered. However, her manner of speaking has a few quirks: she always refers to others as "mister" (including females) and she often uses the word "betcha." Like many other villagers, she appears to be a fan of Sonic.

Beth is a smart girl, having won the Science Fair Awards all on her own, although her intelligence is tempered by a child-like innocence and attention span. Highly curious, she often asks questions, some of which turn out to be very profound. She is also very impressionable, being instantly fascinated by anyone's outstanding qualities, be it either Tails' intellect, Knuckles' simple brute strength, or Sticks' conspiracy theories.

Trivia

 * Beth is the first background character introduced in the second season of Sonic Boom with a confirmed name.