Bee Bot


 * For the Badnik in Sonic X-treme, see Beebot.

The Bee Bot is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. They are bee-based robots created by Dr. Eggman which make up a part of the foot soldiers in his army. They are usually stationed at Dr. Eggman's lair where they guard Eggman's fortress as sentries and have been used against Team Sonic on numerous occasions.

Appearance
The Bee Bots are diminutive robots about as tall as Tails, though they can be smaller. As indicated by their template, they resemble mechanical bees. They have a sliver thorax with a cyan-glowing engine attached to each side by a short wing, a black and yellow-striped abdomen, a red stinger with a cyan tip, and two sets of transparent pink wings on their back. Finally, they have a rhombus-shaped head with a serrated mouth, two antennas and wide cyan eyes with slit-like pupils.

TV series
On several occasions, the Bee Bots have been deployed against Team Sonic, only to quickly be destroyed by the heroes one way or another. A squadron of Bee Bots were given to Orbot and Cubot which helped them rob a warehouse and keep Team Sonic busy while the pair escaped with their loot. Several Bee Bots also participated in Eggman's surprise party for Orbot and Cubot where they enjoyed the festivities until Eggman ended them. Later, when Eggman needed to practice his reflexes, a lone Bee Bots helped him with the exercise which it quickly lost.

When Rocky was discovered, a swarm of Bee Bots were deployed by Eggman to capture the giant for the doctor. The Bee Bots tried containing Rocky with their honeycomb cage, but he broke free, and Team Sonic fought them to defend Rocky. During the battle, Sonic tricked the Bee Bots to assault Eggman and made him retreat. A lone Bee Bot later attended Orbot and Cubot's departure when the duo felt neglected by Eggman in favor of his online friend Nominatus, where it got a fond farewell from Orbot. Shortly after, all Eggman's Bee Bots and other robots were taken over by the rogue Nominatus for the purpose of destroying all life forms, and had a swarm of Bee Bots pursue Eggman and his lackeys to Team Sonic's location. There, the heroes held off the Bee Bots while Eggman and his underlings stopped Nominatus with Tails' aid, thus shutting down all the Bee Bots.

Archie Comics
The Bee Bots have been used several times to battle Team Sonic, only for the heroes to destroy them quickly one way or another. When the Eggtoberfest was held, hordes of Bee Bots began attacking the villagers on Eggman's orders when he could not earn the villagers' trust. Fortunately for the villagers, the Bee Bots were wiped out by Team Sonic.

During the Go-kart Pan-island Grand Prix, a group of Bee Bots were deployed by Dr. Eggman to take Comedy Chimp out of the race. From above him, the Bee Bots created talking holograms of Comedy Chimp's shoulder devil and shoulder angel who convinced him to crash his go-kart.

Personality
The Bee Bots are silent, single-minded and unquestioningly dedicated to the doctor's orders, but also appear to possess personalities of their own, including festive and celebrative emotions. As per their programming, they will only obey orders after being threatened.

Powers and abilities
The Bee Bots are capable of very fast flight, almost matching that of Sonic's running speed, and are quite nimble and agile. Combined with their size, this make the Bee Bots hard to hit. For armaments, they possess a stinger than can fire small energy beams or deploy small orbs that can form a energy net, called a "honeycomb cage", around a target. They are quite fragile though, as a single hit is enough to destroy them.

The Bee Bots possess a couple of additional abilities. They have laser targeting system on their forehead and they are capable of projecting talking holograms.

Trivia

 * According to Dr. Eggman, the Bee Bots' honeycomb cage is very expensive.