Lyric the Last Ancient

"You... You and I have unfinished business!"

- Lyric the Last Ancient, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Lyric the Last Ancient is the main antagonist of both Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal. He is a giant and monstrous snake-like creature from the Ancients who turned on his peers and seeks to create and strengthen a robot army using power crystals to destroy the world. Before he could carry out his nefarious deed, however, he was imprisoned. Over a millennium later, Lyric was freed and resumed his mission, but met opposition from Sonic the Hedgehog and his crew.

Concept and Creation
Lyric is supposed to be an extreme embodiment of everything the Sonic franchise has come to stand for surrounding its central conflict of nature versus technology, with Lyric representing the love of technology. According to Bob Rafei, the CEO of Big Red Button Entertainment, the concept of the main villain involved many creatures until he decided that "the snake design really fit" and was compelling for Big Red Button Entertainment. Lyric parallels the role of the snake in the Biblical Garden of Eden, which was then decided to make the villain of the Sonic Boom continuity a snake; it represented dark sides and evil things, the opposite of Sonic's can-do heroic attitude.

Appearance
Lyric is a monstrous and large snake with green scales and brown spots around. He wears a sophisticated brown robotic chest armor with a pair of three-fingered arms. He has a rattle-like object on the tip of his tail that is a gray claw, essentially resembling a hand.

Personality
Described as darker, more foreboding and more power-hungry than Dr. Eggman Lyric is a vile, devious and deadly villain and an extremely tech-savvy mastermind.

Powers and Abilities
Lyric is the strongest enemy Sonic and his friends have faced yet. He is described as a formidable enemy and a force to be reckoned with, suggesting he is very powerful.

Lyric's body is merged with a robot armor of steel, giving him a sophisticated robotic body which he uses to carry out his own nefarious deeds. This armor also drastically increases Lyric's lifespan, allowing him to survive for over a millennium.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Lyric seems to have an unspecified relationship with Sonic the Hedgehog. He recognized Sonic upon his re-awaking, claiming that they both had unfinished business, even though Sonic had no idea of what he meant.

Dr. Eggman
In the present day, Lyric formed an uneasy partnership with Dr. Eggman, even though the doctor is less powerful than him.