Cubot (Sonic Boom)

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

TV series
Cubot was created by Dr. Eggman as the final model in his flawed Cubot Series. Instead of being scrapped though, Cubot became Eggman's lackey while his prototypes, whom Cubot held no knowledge of, fled to avoid being recycled.

In Eggman's lair, Cubot, Orbot and Dr. Eggman caught the news that Sonic was seeking a new sidekick. Despite Cubot voicing his opinions on Sonic's demands, Eggman silenced him. Cubot and Orbot later followed 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, Cubot and Orbot helped Eggman tire out the heroes. However, Eggman's plan backfired when Obliterator Bot malfunctioned and destroyed their lair due to Cubot and Orbot failing to fix its kinks.

When Eggman planned to use Tails' robot UT to break Team Sonic apart, Cubot and Orbot secretly replaced the real UT with a duplicate made by Eggman. When Eggman discovered Tails' new robot UT, Cubot and Orbot traveled to Tails' house and secretly replaced the real UT with a duplicate made by Eggman to break Team Sonic apart. As a bystander, Cubot watched as Eggman's plan was executed and subsequently failed. When sent on a mission to get Eggman needed materials, Orbot and Cubot robbed a 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, Cubot and Orbot 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, Cubot was dismantled by Eggman when he attempted to quit his job and could only watch as Team Sonic broke in and ravaged the lair, which cost the lair its spot in Modern Lair Magazine. When Eggman made Dave an intern in the lair, Cubot and Orbot feared Dave's enthusiasm would make them look bad. As Dave overhead them, Cubot was dismantled by the intern. Fortunately, Orbot brought Cubot's parts to Tails who repaired him. Fortunately, Eggman fired Dave and Cubot and Orbot got their assignments back.

During Eggman's work, Orbot and Cubot watched in horror as the doctor created his scheme to turn Sonic evil by feeding him with Evil Cookies. When the plan backfired by Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks eating the cookies instead, Cubot and Orbot 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 Cubot and Orbot's urging to improve their moral with a surprise party, Eggman had them set the party up. When they were done, Eggman erased their memories so the party could still be a surprise. As the amnesiac Cubot and Orbot recovered, they could not find Eggman and although Cubot used this as an excuse to relish his own freedom, the two went looking. After asking Sonic and in town, it appeared Eggman had been arrested. They tried earning bailout money, but they failed performing, getting donations from Amy and got the Eggmobile stolen. Having had enough, Cubot took charge and broke into the jail, but discovered the inmate was actually Willy Walrus, who told the two 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 his disappearance to them. As a demonstration, Cubot and Orbot got their memories erased again and could therefore not tell Eggman where the Eggmobile was due to Eggman being unaware that T.W. Barker had stolen it.

While Eggman pulled out his schemes with Cowbot, Cubot and Orbot 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. When Cubot participated in an laser tag exercise with Eggman, they learned the luck balance of the universe had tipped in Eggman's favor when he beat the participants by accident. With Eggman thinking himself invincible out of luck, Cubot and Orbot helped invade Bygone Island with the Mega. All went well, as even Team Sonic could not stop them thanks to Eggman's luck, until Knuckles, who had a case of bad luck, tried joining them and caused the Mega to destruct. As such, Cubot retreated with Eggman and Orbot.

Accompanying Eggman to seize a meteor from Sonic, only for Eggman to be knocked out, Cubot and Orbot brought him home, where he claimed to be Sonic, having swapped bodies with Eggman. The duo did not believe him until he showed some appreciation, but still accompanied him to Sonic's Shack where Team Sonic beat him up. Cubot and Orbot regrouped with Sonic, but they soon returned with their robot army for Sonic to fight Eggman with. When Tails arrived though, Cubot and Orbot 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, Cubot saw his master lose all motivation when he found himself unable to make choices. While Cubot could do nothing to get Eggman back in the game, Team Sonic ultimately did.

While Cubot was with Eggman and Orbot, they got the news that Tails had joined the Lightning Bolt Society, something which Eggman quickly set out to foil. Later, after having brought back Eggman after his latest defeat, Cubot and Orbot helped Eggman sue Sonic under the false pretenses that Sonic needlessly broke Eggman's neck. As Cubot and Orbot helped provide (false) evidence to support Eggman's case, Eggman almost won the trial but was foiled by Amy. During Eggman's scheme to control the Village with his Eggman's Tomato Sauce cans, Cubot and Orbot joined Eggman at his interview for the Comedy Chimp Show where Eggman's plan was inevitably foiled by Team Sonic. At the morning of the launch of the Egg Tank, Cubot helped prepare Eggman for departure, but was not long before Eggman created a time loop by accident which repeated the day's events endlessly, something which Cubot and everyone else were unaware of, except Eggman. Cubot would later repeatedly help Eggman break the time loop, which Eggman eventually did, and Cubot took a picture of the happy occasion the day after.

Cubot and Orbot were later sent out by Eggman, who joined them later in the Eggmobile, to capture a Granifier Giganticus so Eggman could enslave it. Their plan to trap the giant with Bee Bots at the scene failed though, and Sonic, who protected "Rocky", made their badniks turn against them. Having retreated, Cubot and Orbot joined Eggman in his meditation garden, only for Team Sonic to arrive with Rocky and make it fall sleep in the garden to horrid music, or it would go on a rampage. When Eggman fought Team Sonic, Cubot and Orbot arrived only to see him get trapped in Buddy Buddy Temple. The robots thus deserted Eggman to pursue their interests, but found their freedom too overwhelming and returned to the temple for help. There, they 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. Cubot and Orbot then happily reunited with Eggman before departing with him.

When Cubot and Orbot got fed up with Eggman's callousness during his chat with his new online friend, Nominatus (a computer virus), the robot duo left him to be friends with Team Sonic. After proving their deflection, they moved in with Tails where they fought over a laptop game from Tails. During this, they saw the laptop's surveillance system had caught Nominatus taking over Eggman's system and robots for his agenda to destroy all life forms. Cubot and Orbot came to warn Eggman, but were too late, and they fled with Eggman to Team Sonic when Nominatus sent their robots after them. There, the heroes provided cover while Cubot and Orbot got sent into cyberspace by Tails and Eggman to stop Nominatus, where they destroyed him with an illogical game. In the aftermath, Cubot and Orbot returned to Eggman's service. Not long after, Cubot was with Eggman and Orbot in their lair when it was hit by an Eggman missile, which had been launched by Amy and Sticks.

As Fly Bot showed Team Sonic's activities, Cubot 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. Eggman thus swore off technology and his lair, leaving Cubot and Orbot to do excessive labor for Eggman. Not long after, Sonic came to them as the island got attacked by Eggman's missiles and robots, which turned out the Lightning Bolt Society was behind by taking over Eggman's lair. Cubot and Orbot were shortly after deactivated remotely by the Lightning Bolt Society, so Eggman helped Team Sonic stop the group and restarted Cubot and Orbot in time to help reestablish themselves in the lair. When Eggman became co-owner of Chez Amy, Cubot and Orbot joined the kitchen staff until they were forced to flee when Eggman had his badniks tear the establishment down.

When the unpicked trash at the lair pilled up, Cubot and Orbot 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, Cubot arrived in Octopus Bot to provide Eggman with ink, only for the stamp to be destroyed. As Eggman plotted to enslave the villagers with a hypnotizing movie, Cubot served as boom operator and make-up artist during the filming. Then, when Eggman needed Sonic to battle Drill Bot for a scene, Cubot and Orbot tricked Sonic to participate by telling him that Eggman was mining metal for new robots which would make them obsolete. When Cubot came to the movie premiere though, it was revealed that Eggman forgot to install his mind-enslaver device, so Cubot and Orbot joined Eggman in watching their movie alone after everyone left.

Cubot later joined two of Eggman's attacks on the island which were both foiled by Team Sonic, the latter of where he was accidently shot out of the Eggmobile and injured Sonic's cohort Mike the Ox. When later spying on the Lightning Bolt Society and learning that Sonic had retired and Team Sonic was out of town, Cubot and Orbot proposed an attack, but Eggman had them wait for the right time to strike. Cubot, Eggman and Orbot soon launched 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.

Another time, Cubot and Orbot were sent by Eggman to find some renegade robots who were stealing his tools. The duo soon found them, which turned out to be the Cubot prototypes who needed to repair Cutebot. Cubot himself impressed his prototypes with his intellect and leadership. After Cubot and Orbot got Sonic and Tails to help the prototypes, Cubot opted to stay and lead his adoring prototype. However, when Eggman returned to destroy them, Cubot was tired of being surrounded by dopes and was convinced by Orbot that Eggman missed him. Accidently ensuring Eggman's attack was foiled by Sonic and Tails by caressing Eggman, Cubot return to the labor in the lair. While later hanging out in the lair, Cubot and Orbot had a suspicion something was missing, not realizing Eggman had been kidnapped in the meantime.

On New Year's Eve, Cubot and Orbot 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. To Cubot's surprise though, Eggman got the idea of making a Slow Motion Machine to give himself more time to beat Sonic, and saw him harness their slow cooker's power source for it. Joining Eggman for his surveillance of Sonic later on, Cubot uttlery failed to notice when Eggman saw an opprotunity to destroy his enemy. Another time, when Eggman framed Sonic for thievery, Cubot and Orbot would take visitors at Eggman's lair on guided tours around the lair, including showing the scene where Sonic supposedly stole Eggman's Particle Accelerator.

The Big Boom
On the day following Dr. Eggman's battle with Sonic and his allies, Cubot was serving the doctor his breakfast in his lair before it could get cold when Knuckles appeared on their doorstep and wanted to join the doctor. Teaming up with Knuckles, Cubot accompanied Eggman on his attack on Bygone Island where he helped Orbot stow away Sonic, Tails, Amy and Sticks in the Big Boy mech's cargo hold after Knuckles and Eggman had encaged them. On their way to attack the village however, Cubot, Eggman and Orbot were betrayed by Knuckles who threw the two robots away when protecting Eggman. Cubot and Orbot later asked Team Sonic for a lift home after Eggman was defeated, to which Knuckles complied to by throwing them out to Eggman as he retreated.

Back in the lair, Cubot and Orbot were assigned to repair the Big Boy. Inside the mech, Cubot found the piko hammer and claimed it for himself. When Orbot found him with the hammer, he wanted to turn it over to Eggman, but Cubot refused and they began fighting for the weapon. Unknown to them, 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. Soon after, they found Eggman amongst the parts and tried explaining themselves. Having fixed and upgraded the Big Boy again, Cubot and Orbot accompanied Eggman as he went to fight Team Sonic. While fighting, Eggman contemplated on going home after several insults, but Cubot helped restore Eggman's resolve. No sooner, Sticks used the Rock of Justice on the Big Boy, which ricocheted into the mech where and destroyed it from the inside. As such, Cubot retreated back to the lair with Orbot and Eggman, where Eggman revealed that he had another creation ready for Team Sonic.

Boom Shaka-laka and Worlds Unite
When Eggman sought to get the villagers' trust for his future schemes, Cubot accompanied the doctor through his schemes which ended in the Eggtoberfest which was meant to buy the villagers' trust. Though Cubot assisted in the Eggtoberfest, the carnival was laid to waste when Eggman unleashed his army on the villagers which was stopped by Team Sonic. Cubot then tried to cheer Eggman up as he moped over his defeat. Not long after, when Eggman enacted his scheme to get Team Sonic's bio-data for Project Hodge Podge during the Go-kart Pan-island Grand Prix, Cubot and Orbot participated in the competition to aid Eggman. As the race began, Cubot tried running Tails off the road with Orbot, but the duo accidently hit each other. They quickly started fighting over who's fault it was which made them crash while their master lost the race to Sonic despite getting his data.

Shortly after the race, Cubot and Orbot 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.

Receiving a gorilla Eggman had ordered through the mail, Cubot and Orbot brought it to Eggman, but snuck away once the gorilla went berserk. Though Sonic took care of the gorilla, Eggman soon ordered another who also beat him up, while Cubot watched on.

Personality
Compared to Orbot, Cubot is described as the "funbot" and has a rough-edged personality. 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 is very dim-witted and slow on the uptake, having trouble solving a puzzle meant for babies, and is gruff and gritty like a beat cop. Beneath his bumbling exterior though, lies more violent and aggressive tendencies, as Cubot took charge to get Eggman out of jail "his way" after several failed attempts, which involved blowing the jail up with a disintegrator ray. What separates Cubot from his prototypes is that he learns from his mistakes, allowing him to grow progressively wiser with experience (if only slightly).

Cubot has at times shown a lot of self-consciousness and low self-esteem. He is somewhat depressed over being a soulless machine, often longs for more in life beyond his service to Eggman, and ponders over whether he has the making of a good minion or is just redundant comic relief.

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

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

Cubot is equipped with a number of additional functions. His mouth works as a paper shredder for shredding letters, he possesses a vacuum breath which lets him function like a vacuum cleaner, his head is equipped with an airbag, and he even has a button on his back that can erase a day worth of memory files.

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

Dr. Eggman
Cubot is one of the closest things Dr. Eggman has to friends. While Cubot tries to earn the doctor's respect as much as possible, he gets noting but terrible treatment in return. In turn, Cubot has a dislike of Eggman to the point of being rebellious, going so far as to celebrate his liberation from him when Eggman was incapacitated, and likes to play pranks on him. In spite of this, Cubot depends on Eggman since he cannot cope with being on his own and does genuinely care about him, having wept when he thought Eggman 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 Cubot is loyal to Eggman, it is not absolutely; as put by Orbot, he is only "mostly-loyal" to the doctor. and he has been known to go behind Eggman's back to seek out Sonic's help when Eggman becomes too much or keep things which he should otherwise deliver to Eggman. He also has a tendency to say things Eggman does not want to hear, such as when he said that Eggman sleeps with an evil night-light and sings in the shower, though he says these things less diplomatically than Orbot. Nevertheless, Cubot is very afraid of Eggman's wrath and would rather face Knuckles in a fight.

Orbot
Orbot is Cubot's companion in the service of Dr. Eggman. Despite their conflicting personalities, they are an inseparable pair. Whenever Cubot messes things up, he is usually the target of Orbot's frustrations. While he does not appear to mind Orbot's criticism, he is genuinely sorry whenever he has been treating Orbot badly, like when he apologized for ditching him to rule his prototypes. He can also not be apart from Orbot very long without missing him, like when he tried having a dialogue with Orbot out of habit despite leaving him.

Friends/allies

 * Orbot
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Badniks
 * Cubot prototypes

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 Cubot is the same as the one for his main series counterpart in Sonic Colors.
 * Unlike his counterpart, he does not display any voice chip malfunction.
 * Cubot is the first character based on a character from the main game series in the Sonic Boom franchise with a confirmed family member.
 * Along with Orbot, Cubot did not have any design changes for the Sonic Boom franchise.