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The Giant Robot is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. It was a robot built by Dr. Eggman, based on an existing design and powered by the Power-absorbant Insoles worn by Sonic.

Appearance
Because it is based on its design, the Giant Robot greatly resembles the Mega. It has a black upper torso with broad and round yellow shoulders with short spikes, thick grey arms with yellow and black hazard stripes and four-fingered hands. Its lower body consists of a red pelvis with grey tracks for legs and yellow and black hazard stripes on the front. On its back it has an exhaust pipe and large vent-like tubes next to the shoulders. For head it has a red eye with a slit-like pupil and thick yellow neck. Unlike the Mega, it also has red energy shields on its forearms.

History
The Giant Robot was designed by Dr. Eggman to utilize the power conducted from his Power-absorbant Insoles. When Eggman tricked Sonic, whose speed was the ultimate power source, to wear the insoles, the doctor sent the Giant Robot at Team Sonic. The heroes tried fighting it, but with Sonic constantly running around with the insoles, the Giant Robot grew powerful enough to easily beat the heroes back and counter their attacks. However, the Giant Robot's power source proved to be its undoing when Sonic began running around excessively, thereby generating too much power for the robot to contain and causing it to explode.

A repainted Giant Robot was later used by Eggman during the filming of his mind-enslavement movie where it performed fighting scenes with Sonic, only for Sonic's stuntman, Knuckles, to come and take Giant Robot's beating in Sonic's stead.

Powers and abilities
The Giant Robots possesses many of the same abilities as the Mega, along with some unique to itself. Like a tank, it is very durable, being unfazed by even Knuckles' punches, and is strong enough to topple palm trees. Additionally, it can fire an energy beam from its eye and generate energy shields on its forearms which it can use to deflect projectiles and even block Sonic's spin attack.

The Giant Robot has no internal power source, instead receiving power remotely from the Power-absorbant Insoles which draw energy from Sonic's running. The more power the Giant Robot receives, the stronger and faster it becomes. However, it has an upper limit for much power it can contain as too much will cause it to overload.

Trivia

 * The Giant Robot was given its name because Dr. Eggman was too busy to plan his trap with the Power-absorbant Insoles to name it properly.
 * The reason the Giant Robot resembles the Mega is because Sonic Boom's limited design budget required them to reuse pre-existing designs to make new robots.