Dave the Intern

"They'll pay for this... they're all gonna pay! Wuhahahahaha! Do you want fries with that?"

- Dave the Intern, "Double Doomsday"

Dave the Intern, real name David, is a minor antagonist in the Sonic Boom franchise. He is an anthropomorphic teenage nutria and small-time crook employed at Meh Burger. He is also a founding member of the Lightning Bolt Society. Living with his mother, he aspires to become a supervillain despite his extreme shortcomings and constant ridicule from people deeming him a loser.

Appearance
Dave is a tall and skinny humanoid nutria about half of Dr. Eggman's height. He has aqua fur with bangs mimicking a hairline, cowlicks on his head and neck, green eyes, and an almost complete white muzzle. He also possesses a wide black nose, three freckles/zits on each cheek, and two overly large buck teeth. For attire, he wears a lavender shirt depicting yellow leaves and a name tag, white gloves, and a pair of red and cyan sneakers. He also has two braces on his buck teeth.

When attending the Lightning Bolt Society, Dave wears a purple robe with a long hood and a red fez emblazoned with the Lightning Bolt Society's symbol. Dave also has a costume created in the likeness of his supervillain persona, which include a cardboard box cutout as a helmet, a table cloth for a cape, brown gloves, and blue covers strapped to his shoes.

TV series
Living with his mother, Dave would constantly be pestered by her to become a villain, but could never live up to her expectations. During Dr. Eggman's infamous carrier, Dave became a fan of the doctor and aspired to become like him. When attending his junior prom, Dave spent the entire event standing alone in the corner while his classmates had fun. Eventually, Dave helped found the Lightning Bolt Society, a group of low-time crooks, of which he became a member. With his lodge, Dave would search Eggman's trash for noteworthy weapons.

After a year and a half in the fast food industry, Dave met Eggman at his work at Meh Burger where he managed to impress Eggman who made him his intern. While working at Dr. Eggman's lair, Dave heard Cubot's dislike of him and dismantled the robot in secret. Dave was soon promoted to Eggman's protégée, but when Eggman told him to wait for the bigger projects, Dave snapped and locked himself in Eggman's lab where he activated the countdown on Eggman's doomsday device to prove himself evil. As he and Eggman then competed for who could destroy the planet best, Tails came to help Dave improve his device. However, it was in truth a trap which rendered Dave's doomsday device moot. Dave was then fired by Eggman and he returned to his old job, swearing revenge.

Back at work, Dave once made an order for Eggman, only for the doctor to take it without paying. Dave and the rest of the Lightning Bolt Society later got the news that Tails destroyed an orchard. Thinking it meant Tails was evil, they went to recruit him. After Dave helped Tails reseed the orchard with the Mutant Seed Gun, they got him to their clubhouse where he was made their new leader. As Tails revealed he was not evil though, Sonic, Amy and Eggman broke into the club, and Dave was commandeered by Eggman to attack Sonic. However, his attempts utterly failed and the heroes got away.

In the Village, Dave and the villagers were sold Eggman's Tomato Sauce by Eggman himself. After Sonic involuntary proved it was safe, Dave bought some sauce cans. A few weeks later however, he was attacked by his workplace's cash register, which had been turned into a weapon by Eggman's sauce cans. Fortunately, he was saved by Team Sonic who put a stop to Eggman's scheme. While later at work, Dave served his last chili dogs to Fastidious and an impatient Sonic. As Dave revealed his chili dog status to Eggman when the doctor tried getting one, he mentioned they had more at the warehouse, setting Sonic off to appease Eggman. Nonetheless, Dave would continue serving Sonic, Knuckles and Tails when they came to Meh Burger.

Meeting with up with the Lightning Bolt Society, Dave learned from the Tree Spy that Eggman had left his lair. Dave and the Lightning Bolts thus took over the lair, but could not figure out its systems, and, in the process, launched many random attacks on Bygone Island. Dave in particular shut down Orbot and Cubot. As Team Sonic and Eggman tried to stop them, Dave and his associates prepared an ambush after seeing them on surveillance, but had to flee when the unlikely allies outsmarted them. One time when Dave provided Amy with poor service, he ended up competing with Chez Amy over Meh burger's customers. Using various gimmicks, Dave gained the upper hand, but was later left unemployed when Amy's partner Dr. Eggman, who too was upset about Dave's service, blew up Meh Burger. Dave was soon hired by Amy, but his poor service of Eggman drove the villain to attack him and Chez Amy. Though Dave survived, Chez Amy was ruined, but Team Sonic helped Dave rebuilt Meh Burger, giving Dave his job back. It was later with some glee that Dave helped Mayor Fink banish Sonic when he lost a race to Swifty the Shrew. He soon after voted against the Village Council's decision to unbanish Sonic and have him stop Eggman, but it was for naught. As the annual Chili Dog Cook-Off arrived, Dave was confident he would win with his secret chili recipe. Much to his dismay though, Sonic was easily able to discern his ingredients when Dave tried bragging to Team Sonic.

Dave eventually went to Knuckles while he served as deputy major to have him outlaw cheap sandwiches so that Meh Burger could stay in business and so that he could keep his job, but his proposal was ejected. As Dave continued his job at Meh Burger, he was hired by Eggman to serve as the caterer and an actor on his movie set, where Dave portrayed Sonic. However, he was demoted during the filming once the real Sonic took over his role. When Dave and the village were in a uproar over Sonic's supposed insensitivity, Dave provided Sonic with poor service at his job as retribution. Attending the Lightning Bolt Society later, Dave and his lodge learned from the Tree Spy that Sonic had retired and that Team Sonic was out of town, so they used this chance to harass the Village. However, after they set a sheep stampede loose, Sonic returned to stop their activities. As Dave moped over being showed up, he and his lodge were forced to attend Amy's sensitivity seminar after Willy Walrus made an offensive comment. While at work later on, Dave met an alternate Knuckles who mistook him for a genius, something which Dave took complete disinterest in.

Under his mother's nagging, Dave sought to live out his supervillain dreams by destroying Team Sonic, but all his attempts failed to even get their attention. As Eggman then showed Dave his new Electrocage to condescend, Dave accidently knocked out Eggman. Dave took this chance to imprison Eggman in his cage and announce himself as Eggman's successor to the public. When Sonic mocked him though, Dave brought out Octopus Bot. However, he could not control the robot and had to be saved by Team Sonic, who also freed Eggman. In the process, Dave smashed his mother's house which finally made her acknowledge him as a villain. When New Year's Eve then arrived, Dave worked a late-night shift at Meh Burger to serve the party guests visiting the Village Center.

Continuing his job, Dave brought Tails his raw steak at Meh Burger when he tried to impress Zooey, although he ruined the mood by giving Tails a toy. Dave and his "bro" Lady Walrus later came to the auditions for Bro-Down Showdown and got chosen for participation. Thanks to their good relationship and some well-timed disqualifications, Dave and Lady Walus won the prize (a new couch) though they quickly ruined it. Another time, while Knuckles was a celebrity, Dave was able to sponsor Knuckles on behalf of Meh Burger after giving him a store discount. When Sonic was believed to have become a thief, Dave joined an angry mob at the town hall. After Knuckles volunteered to find Sonic, Dave and some villagers followed him to help. After losing Knuckles and Sonic, Dave's group kept looking for the latter while Sonic was proven innocent in the meantime.

Dave would later participate in the Robot Battle Royale using a deep-frier robot of his own making. However, he lost to Tails' Hypno-bot in the first round. When the Fuzzy Puppies craze came, Dave quickly became a fan and had many meetings with his Fuzzy Puppy fan group, where he helped fellow fan Eggman learn the game. At Puppy Con though, Dave got arrested when the Lightning Bolt Society seemingly attacked with a rockslide, although it turned out he had been framed by Eggman. Dave could thus resume his job at Meh Burger. When Team Sonic then put up A Rose Without Thorns, Dave was given the main role of "Annie Rose." Alongside the team, Dave put on quite a show, though as a storm began after the finale, he took Sonic's offer to seek shelter in Amy's House. Dave would later stay impartial as the new supervillain Charlie began bullying Knuckles, eventually coming to see a fight between them, a fight which Knuckles won.

Dave soon after joined the Lightning Bolt Society and other local rogues and villains at a meeting held by Eggman at his lair, who wanted them to form a team to beat Team Sonic. After some leadership disputes leading to team exercises, Dave helped encourage Eggman to lead the group so they could prove themselves after Shadow the Hedgehog had left the group criticizing them. At the attack on Team Sonic, Dave joined his faction of Team Eggman for an ambush on Amy and Sticks, but was beaten.

Archie Comics
Dave was amongst the villagers who went to Dr. Eggman's Eggtoberfest, where he got to try the high-velocity rollercoaster.

Personality
Overall, Dave is a complex individual. Outward, he is a nerdy, dorky and awkward teenager who still likes playing with action figures. He is also a devout fan-boy and suck-up, being overly enthusiastic about any menial task given to him by the subject of his admiration. Apparently unhappy with his job, Dave acts rather mindless and indifferent on his workplace in the fast-food business, paying little interest to the customers' needs and displaying sloppy dedication to his work. However, Dave does seem to care about his job on some level; he sank into a depression after Meh Burger was destroyed, and grew anxious over being late for a shift. He will also not sit around when his workplace is threatened. His lack of enthusiasm has left him with a near-constant moody expression.

Beneath Dave's non-threatening exterior, he is an angry, terrible, and mentally unstable kid who seeks absolute anarchy and world destruction, and is driven by an overly ambitious goal of becoming a supervillain, which he lives out with a vivid and great imagination. Though he is small-minded and not very clever as his evil schemes rarely amount to anything threatening, he is still ruthless and merciless in his own way; when hearing Cubot's dislike of him, he coldly dismantled him, and when Eggman told him to wait for the bigger projects, he snapped and would go as far as to destroy the world to prove himself evil. Because no one shows him any respect though, Dave is at constant odds with others as he just want to be bad, which manifest as a bad temper. He can also be vengeful, promising retribution at whoever gets in his way.

Powers and abilities
In addition to poor health and below average physical skills, Dave has no special powers. However, he has a vivid and great imagination and some stander planning skills, but lacks the resources and IQ to go through with them. He does have a few skills at robotics though, having constructed a primitive robot with an A.I. He is also skilled at marketing, being able to keep Meh Burger as the top establishment in the Village using various gimmicks despite Meh Burger's mediocre standards.

Equipment
Dave acquired the Mutant Seed Gun which was thrown out by Dr. Eggman after he deemed it a failure. So far, Dave has shown proficient skill in using it. In addition, Dave has also been seen using a seperate gun that fires Meh Burgers, which he not only uses to draw customers towards his workplace, but also as a somewhat ineffective projectile weapon.

Dr. Eggman
Dave is a big fan of Dr. Eggman and know all his work. In fact, when Eggman let him be his unpaid intern, Dave considered it an honor and loved doing all his menial tasks. However, when Eggman told him to wait a few weeks before he could work on the bigger subjects, Dave's admiration of Eggman turned into hatred and they ended up competing for who could build the better doomsday device to show who was the better evil genius. After Eggman fired him, Dave swore revenge against the doctor and is willing to overthrow him and take his place as the dominant supervillain of Bygone Island.

Mrs. Dave's Mom
Dave had a very strained relationship with his mother. In addition to being irritated over her degradation of his interests and childish treatment, Dave lived long under the pressure from her expectations to become a villain. Because he is not very competent though, Dave would get no appreciation from her, prompting Dave to lash out at her in the belief she thought he was a loser. Nonetheless, Dave always obeys his mother's orders, like when she told him to stay away from the Lightning Bolt Society. Deep down, all Dave wants is to make her proud of him, prompting him to take extensive actions to prove his maliciousness. He eventually did when he destroyed their house.

Lady Walrus
Dave is very close friends with Lady Walrus, so much that they won Bro-Down Showdown which test partners of their knowledge of each other, showing they both know a great deal about the other. They both view each other as "bros" and have their own fistbump. Despite the ridicule Dave receives about their bro-lationship, he does not like to label it.

Friends/allies

 * Dr. Eggman (formerly)
 * Lady Walrus
 * Lightning Bolt Society
 * Willy Walrus
 * Weasel Bandit
 * Tree Spy

Enemies

 * Dr. Eggman
 * Orbot
 * Cubot
 * Team Sonic
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Sticks the Badger

Trivia

 * Dave has asthma.
 * Dave works at Meh Burger for less than a minimum wage.
 * Dave is the only member of the Lightning Bolt Society with a revealed relative.
 * In "It Takes a Village to Defeat a Hedgehog", Dave mentions his junior prom, implying that he is a high school senior, or at the very least, almost done with his junior year.