Soar the Eagle

Soar the Eagle is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. He is an anthropomorphic eagle and a television personality who runs a business as a motivational speaker and life coach. Aided by the Walrus Camera Man, he is also the local news journalist and anchorbird for the television network on Seaside Island.

Concept and creation
According to Bill Freiberger, Soar the Eagle was added to the series for the purpose of the plot of "Aim Low". Soar originally came from Alan Denton and Greg Hahn who were very specific about his design to emphasize his role as a motivational speaker. However, because the show had a limited budget for how many characters they could produce, Soar was given another profession to fill out the cast, and it was decided that newscaster seemed as the logical choice for him. This morphed Soar into a television personality for the series.

Appearance
Soar is a very muscular, wingless, and tall humanoid bird at Dr. Eggman's height. His plumage is mainly turquoise while white around his head, neck, chest and tail feathers. Additionally, he has a pair of feathers sticking out from his forearms, chest and back of his head, and he has bushy eyebrows, a sharp yellow beak with uneven teeth, and orange eyes with black rims behind them. His attire consists of a pink and dark pink polo shirt, a pair of dark blue headphones with a microphone, white gloves, long yellow socks, and white, turquoise and red sneakers. Both his shoes and shirt are emblazoned with his logo.

Past
Supposedly, Soar did not have the best of relationships with his father and wanted to show him up. At some point, he also had a daughter and would pay for her private school with the money he had saved up for some golf cubs. Soar would also join an awards ceremony for journalism, but only got an award for participation out of it.

Season one
Having launched his advertisement for his life coaching seminar, Soar was contacted by Dr. Eggman who needed help getting his confidence back. Seeing a challenge in Eggman, Soar got the doctor fired up and rebuilt him by having him achieve some small evil successes. In the middle of Soar's seminar however, he was fired by Eggman when he got arrogant, making Soar warn him of the consequences of his choice.

Soar later did a live news report on the trial between Sonic and Eggman when the latter sued Sonic, right from the beginning to its aftermath which concluded in Eggman's defeat. Being the television personality he is, Soar later helped promote the "Survival Skills Made Easy" show on TV. Returning to the news business, Soar would do news reports on the Battle of the Buns and on how Sonic's infamous "just a guy" comment sent the Village into an uproar by interviewing an angry mob.

Receiving a video from Dave the Intern declaring he had caught Eggman and hijacked his forces, Soar did a news report on it. As Soar interviewed Sonic on what he made of this, both of them agreed that Dave was no threat. When New Year's Eve later arrived, Soar came to the party in the Village Center where he not only did a TV report on the events alongside Comedy Chimp, but also got to enjoy the festivities. Amidst this, Dr. Eggman used his Slow Motion Machine to slow down time long enough for him to beat Sonic in something before New Year, though Soar did not see Eggman's victory as it happened too fast for him to notice. Soar soon after had a new assignment where he did a coverage on Justin Beaver's rise to fame, though Soar was little bitter about it as Justin made his daughter think he was not cool anymore.

When Knuckles became a celebrity, Soar tried in vain to interview him. When Comedy Chimp then had to take a temporary leave, Soar offered to guest host the Comedy Chimp Show, secretly hoping the network would make him the permanet host. Instead however, Knuckles was chosen. Soar later joined an angry mob at the town hall when Sonic was apparently robbing the Village, where Knuckles volunteered to find Sonic. Soar and some other villagers followed Knuckles on his hunt to help, but soon lost both him and Sonic. They then tried looking for Sonic alone, unaware Sonic had cleared his name in the meantime. Another time, Soar came to the Robot Battle Royale, where he saw Eggman steal Tails' Hypno-bot at the end.

Upon the completion of his self-help book Counter Productive, Soar made an appearance on the Comedy Chimp Show to tell the viewers about his new book.

Season two
While Tommy Thunder was in town, Soar did several news reports on the action movie star and his activities, including Tommy's latest movie promotion, his "capture" of the Weasel Bandits, and his supposed victory over Obliterator Bot. Hearing later that an asteroid would impact the earth, Soar showed up to buy a spot in Eggman's bunker to ride out the impending apocalypse in. Although Soar did not get a spot, Team Sonic would stop the asteroid. Soar later did a news story on a new scissor factory before being inspired by Sticks to interview Mayor Fink, but on his new puppies instead of his relation to the current water crisis as Sticks wanted. Soar was later fired as a journalist, but got his job back when his replacement Sticks quit, and was soon back to doing fluff news despite a newfound appreciation for his job.

Soar was soon called in by Team Sonic to help Sonic's aquaphobia. After a small mishap with water, Soar threw Sonic into the sea as the first step of his system. He later returned to Sonic at a bad time for his system's second step. Soar later flew around with his jetpack when Orbot and Cubot asked him for a ride. Soar, however, got them to meditate while he got away. Then, as a crime wave hit the Unnamed Village, Soar would do a live news report on the criminal activities currently being conducted. Soar would go on to interview Dr. Eggman on his victory in a referendum to determine a new town name, during which Eggman revealed that he had used the referendum to get elected as the new Village leader. On a slow news day, Soar would report live and commentate on a contest between Dave the Intern and a new robot employee at Meh Burger, which ended in Dave's defeat. He later also did a news coverage of the Science Fair Awards with the Walrus Camera Man. Soon after, Soar was back to do a reportage on the "Muckfoot Mania" that followed after Tails seemingly proved Muckfoot's existence.

Soar soon let Sticks in on Knuckles' recent exile, but he did not like that she called him a "little birdy" when mentioning him.

Personality
Soar is confident, charming, encouraging and all-inspiring, driving others to be the best they can be by following his motto "soar like an eagle." He is fully dedicated to his jobs and always faces them to the best of his abilities. However, he is far from overconfident and stays realistic before idealistic, keeping a clear and rational view on the tasks ahead of him and understands the consequences of the wrong choices. That said, he is not above talking radical approaches to help his clients, like leaving the aquaphobic Sonic stranded in the sea so he could conquer his fear.

As a life coach, Soar can be quite stern and assertive when he has to, to the point where he appears scary, and he will downright insult his clients to push them to better themselves. However, he is a focused businessman first and foremost, going to the extend of bluntly asking for his payment and cleverly convincing his clients to buy his products. As a news journalist, Soar will also occasionally twist the words of the people he interviews.

Soar is normally cool-head, but is pretty angry beneath the surface. He also has a strong need to earn and showcase noteworthy achievements. He has been known to embellish his otherwise minor accomplishments and has shown an interest in presenting his success to others. Having the significance of his achievements called into question can quickly make his temper flare up. Along those lines, Soar is, as a journalist, not motivated by the ideals of his profession, but rather by the promise of personal recognition. At first, Soar also took the power he had as a journalist for granted, but after getting fired for a time, he came to understand the power of the truth and swore not to squander it again, though it still does not stop him from doing fluff news stories.

Soar is a germaphobe and does as such not like others touching him and vise versa. He can be self-sacrificing in his own way though, giving up his own money to pay for his daughter's school despite his own wishes.

Powers and abilities
While not shown on the level of superhuman, Soar is in peak physical condition, capable of jumping as high as a professional basketball player and breaking a thick wooden plank with a single chop. As a life coach and motivational speaker, he is also very skilled in inspiring others and can instill confidence in even the most esteem-deprived individuals. Alternatively, Soar can use his motivational skills to manipulate others.

Equipment
Soar owns a highly technologically jetpack which he can use for flight and/or propulsion. It consists of a grey metal frame extending behind the neck and over the his shoulders like backpack straps, a faster in front of the chest and an engine on the back that is aligned horizontally. It is controlled by four red buttons on the "straps".

Trivia

 * A running gag occurring in the series is Soar appearing in the subsequent scene after someone expresses their believe in the occurrences of events to state that the complete opposite has occurred.
 * Many fans has liken Soar to Silver the Hedgehog due to his black eye rims and busy eyebrows resembling Silver's.
 * The network Soar broadcasts for is sponsored by Meh Burger.