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{{Quote|Processing... processing... processing... Whoa, cool!|MAIA, ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''}}
 
 
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{{Infobox character
|title = MAIA
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|title = MAIA
|image = [[File:Maia1.PNG|242px]]
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|image = MAIA_present.png
|caption = MAIA in the past
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|caption = MAIA
 
|first = ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]'' {{Only}}
|first =
 
 
|englishactor = [[Cindy Robinson]]
|media =
 
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|japanactor = [[Mayumi Yanagisawa]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/nothisiswindii/status/1086237159160537088 |title=Windii on Twitter |date=18 January 2019 |work=Twitter |accessdate=19 January 2019 }}</ref>
|games = ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''
 
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|otheractor =
|englishactor =[[Cindy Robinson]]
 
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*[[Marie-Eugénie Maréchal]] {{C|French}}
|creator = [[Lyric the Last Ancient]]
 
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*[[Benedetta Ponticelli]] {{C|Italian}}
|species = Robot
 
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*[[Nicole Hannak]] {{C|German}}
|age = 1,000+
 
 
|creator = [[Lyric the Last Ancient]]
|gender = None {{C|referred to as female}}
 
 
|species = Robot
 
|age = 1,000+
 
|gender = None {{C|referred to as female}}
 
|color scheme = Dark grey, silver, bright blue
 
|color scheme = Dark grey, silver, bright blue
|eye color = Bright blue
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|eye color = Blue
|alignment = Good
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|alignment = Good
|affiliation = [[Lyric the Last Ancient]] {{C|formerly}}
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|affiliation = [[Lyric the Last Ancient]] {{C|formerly}}
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|likes =
|skills =
 
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*[[Team Sonic (Sonic Boom)|Team Sonic]]
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*Helping
 
|dislikes = [[Lyric the Last Ancient]]
 
|skills =
 
*Levitation
 
*Levitation
 
*Optical scanning
 
*Optical scanning
 
*Interfacing with technology
 
*Interfacing with technology
|moves =
 
|likes = [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] and his friends
 
|dislikes = [[Lyric the Last Ancient]]
 
 
}}
 
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{{Quote left|I am MAIA. Long ago, I rebelled against my creator, Lyric, and helped imprison him. Now, a thousand years later, he has returned.|MAIA, ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''}}
'''MAIA''' is a character who appears in ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''. MAIA is a robot designed by [[Lyric the Last Ancient|Lyric]]. It rebelled against Lyric and is an ally to Sonic and his friends like [[Q-N-C]].
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'''MAIA''' is a character who appears in ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''. She is a robot designed by [[Lyric the Last Ancient]] and was one of the MAIA units that operated [[Lyric's Weapon Facility]]. However, she rebelled against her creator and helped ensure Lyric's downfall one thousand years ago.
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==Appearance==
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[[File:Maia1.PNG|200px|thumb|left|MAIA 1,000 years ago.]]
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MAIA is a spherical dark grey robot. She has a rounded, yet long and thin white plate that covers the middle of her front body and stretches far behind it, akin to a fin. This plate has [[Ancient]] runes on it and one large blue eye in the middle, along with a smaller lamp above and below it. She also has an oblong white and dark grey handle with lamps hovering on each side, two round black and blue lamps on the bottom of her body, and a ball on her rear. She also has a retractable antenna on one side.
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After one thousand years, MAIA has slightly changed in appearance. In addition to her eye being dirty and seemingly cracked, her body is covered in rust and green moss. Most of her lights have also gone out.
   
 
==History==
 
==History==
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===Games===
MAIA encounters [[Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic Boom)|Knuckles]] and [[Amy Rose (Sonic Boom)|Amy]] while searching for [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Sonic]] at the [[Abandoned Research Facility]]. After Knuckles tells it where Sonic is, it finds Sonic and Tails while they were looking for one of the [[Chaos Crystal]]s. MAIA then opens a portal for Sonic to enter the past. As Sonic and Tails are about to enter, they are distracted by [[Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Shadow]] who challenges them to a fight to prove he is stronger. Following a battle that took them through different time periods through MAIA's portals, Sonic kicked Shadow into a portal, which MAIA replied was leading to the near future separate than theirs. The two enter the portal once MAIA stabilizes it.
 
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====''Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric''====
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[[File:MAIAMeetsSonicAndTails.png|thumb|left|200px|MAIA meets Sonic and Tails.]]
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Long ago, MAIA was one of the MAIA units running [[Lyric's Weapon Facility]], where [[Lyric the Last Ancient]] created an [[Sentinel (Sonic Boom)|army of robots]] to destroy all organic life on [[earth]]. However, MAIA would go rogue and plot against her creator. She eventually met [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Sonic]] and [[Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic Boom)|Tails]] who had been sent from the future by MAIA's future self to get the map to the [[Chaos Crystal]]s to stop Lyric in the future. Understanding the situation, MAIA had the duo clear a path to a [[Sentinel (Sonic Boom)|Sentinel]]―the only weapon powerful enough to stop Lyric―in exchange for helping them. Once a Sentinel was secured, MAIA interfaced with it and lead Sonic and Tails to the map room before trashing Lyric's facility and helping imprison Lyric.
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One thousand years later and still active, MAIA met [[Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic Boom)|Knuckles]] and [[Amy Rose (Sonic Boom)|Amy]] while searching for Sonic at the [[Abandoned Research Facility]], having learned of Lyric's return. Thanks to Knuckles' slip-up, MAIA found Sonic and Tails (who had yet to meet MAIA at that point) as they looked for a Chaos Crystal. MAIA thus instructed them to activate a time machine which they could use to find the map to the Crystals in the past (thereby leading to MAIA's first meeting with Sonic and Tails). As MAIA calibrated a time portal though, [[Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Shadow]] attacked, the fight taking him, Sonic and Tails through several time portals. Once Shadow was disposed into a portal leading to the near future, MAIA took Sonic and Tails to their intended location and presumably helped them get back later.
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==Personality==
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MAIA is an artificial intelligence, capable of making independent decisions. While she uses a very robotic and computer-based speech pattern and follows protocols accordingly, she is remarkably life-like. Not only can she express both gratitude and closeness, but she can also give into peer pressure and say rather emotional quotes, albeit in a controlled manner. Though she sometimes require time to process inputs, she has shown noteworthy understanding of complex explanations.
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MAIA appears to have a strong sense of justice for a [[Lyric the Last Ancient|Lyric]] robot, given how she went rogue on her own and rebelled against her creator to protect organic life forms, and stayed true to that goal even after a thousand years.
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==Powers and abilities==
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MAIA is able to levitate and can scan objects with her eye. Being a prime component in [[Lyric the Last Ancient|Lyric]]'s operations, she can interface with any machine in the [[Abandoned Research Facility]]/[[Lyric's Weapon Facility]], allowing her to take complete control of them.
   
 
==Relationships==
 
==Relationships==
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===Enemies===
 
===Enemies===
 
*[[Lyric the Last Ancient]]
 
*[[Lyric the Last Ancient]]
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==Quote==
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{{Quote2|Peer pressure acknowledged. Acquiescing in 3... 2... Blue hedgehog is necessary to stop Lyric. Disclose hedgehog location immediately.|MAIA giving into peer pressure, ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''.}}
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{{Quote2|Scanning life forms... Hedgehog and fox confirmed. It is agreeable to see you both once again!|MAIA meeting [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Sonic]] and [[Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic Boom)|Tails]] again after a thousand years, ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''.}}
 
{{Quote2|Processing... processing... processing... Whoa, cool!|MAIA impressed, ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''}}
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{{Quote2|Processing... that makes sense.|MAIA understanding the complexity of time paradoxes, ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]''.}}
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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*MAIA is the second of [[Lyric the Last Ancient]]'s robots to go rogue and convert to good, the other being [[Q-N-C]].
 
*In one cutscene, Q-N-C's dialogue suggests that MAIA is mass-produced.
 
*In one cutscene, Q-N-C's dialogue suggests that MAIA is mass-produced.
*An unused character profile for MAIA in ''Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric'' says that her name stands for "Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Administrator" and that she is the boss program that runs [[Lyric's Weapon Facility]].
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*An unused character profile for MAIA in ''[[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric]]'' says that her name stands for "'''M'''anufacturing '''A'''rtificial '''I'''ntelligence '''A'''dministrator" and that she is the boss program that runs [[Lyric's Weapon Facility]].<ref name="CutContent">{{Cite web|url=https://tcrf.net/Sonic_Boom:_Rise_of_Lyric |publisher=The Cutting Room Floor |title=Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric |accessdate=6 March 2015}}</ref>
   
 
==Gallery==
 
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==References==
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{{Reflist}}
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{{Rise of Lyric info}}
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[[Category:Heroes]]
 
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[[Category:Ancients' creations]]

Revision as of 13:01, 19 January 2019

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This character exists primarily or exclusively within the Sonic Boom continuity.
Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.

I am MAIA. Long ago, I rebelled against my creator, Lyric, and helped imprison him. Now, a thousand years later, he has returned.


— MAIA, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

MAIA is a character who appears in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. She is a robot designed by Lyric the Last Ancient and was one of the MAIA units that operated Lyric's Weapon Facility. However, she rebelled against her creator and helped ensure Lyric's downfall one thousand years ago.

Appearance

Maia1

MAIA 1,000 years ago.

MAIA is a spherical dark grey robot. She has a rounded, yet long and thin white plate that covers the middle of her front body and stretches far behind it, akin to a fin. This plate has Ancient runes on it and one large blue eye in the middle, along with a smaller lamp above and below it. She also has an oblong white and dark grey handle with lamps hovering on each side, two round black and blue lamps on the bottom of her body, and a ball on her rear. She also has a retractable antenna on one side.

After one thousand years, MAIA has slightly changed in appearance. In addition to her eye being dirty and seemingly cracked, her body is covered in rust and green moss. Most of her lights have also gone out.

History

Games

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

MAIAMeetsSonicAndTails

MAIA meets Sonic and Tails.

Long ago, MAIA was one of the MAIA units running Lyric's Weapon Facility, where Lyric the Last Ancient created an army of robots to destroy all organic life on earth. However, MAIA would go rogue and plot against her creator. She eventually met Sonic and Tails who had been sent from the future by MAIA's future self to get the map to the Chaos Crystals to stop Lyric in the future. Understanding the situation, MAIA had the duo clear a path to a Sentinel―the only weapon powerful enough to stop Lyric―in exchange for helping them. Once a Sentinel was secured, MAIA interfaced with it and lead Sonic and Tails to the map room before trashing Lyric's facility and helping imprison Lyric.

One thousand years later and still active, MAIA met Knuckles and Amy while searching for Sonic at the Abandoned Research Facility, having learned of Lyric's return. Thanks to Knuckles' slip-up, MAIA found Sonic and Tails (who had yet to meet MAIA at that point) as they looked for a Chaos Crystal. MAIA thus instructed them to activate a time machine which they could use to find the map to the Crystals in the past (thereby leading to MAIA's first meeting with Sonic and Tails). As MAIA calibrated a time portal though, Shadow attacked, the fight taking him, Sonic and Tails through several time portals. Once Shadow was disposed into a portal leading to the near future, MAIA took Sonic and Tails to their intended location and presumably helped them get back later.

Personality

MAIA is an artificial intelligence, capable of making independent decisions. While she uses a very robotic and computer-based speech pattern and follows protocols accordingly, she is remarkably life-like. Not only can she express both gratitude and closeness, but she can also give into peer pressure and say rather emotional quotes, albeit in a controlled manner. Though she sometimes require time to process inputs, she has shown noteworthy understanding of complex explanations.

MAIA appears to have a strong sense of justice for a Lyric robot, given how she went rogue on her own and rebelled against her creator to protect organic life forms, and stayed true to that goal even after a thousand years.

Powers and abilities

MAIA is able to levitate and can scan objects with her eye. Being a prime component in Lyric's operations, she can interface with any machine in the Abandoned Research Facility/Lyric's Weapon Facility, allowing her to take complete control of them.

Relationships

Friends/allies

Enemies

Quote

"Peer pressure acknowledged. Acquiescing in 3... 2... Blue hedgehog is necessary to stop Lyric. Disclose hedgehog location immediately."
—MAIA giving into peer pressure, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
"Scanning life forms... Hedgehog and fox confirmed. It is agreeable to see you both once again!"
—MAIA meeting Sonic and Tails again after a thousand years, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
"Processing... processing... processing... Whoa, cool!"
—MAIA impressed, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
"Processing... that makes sense."
—MAIA understanding the complexity of time paradoxes, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

Trivia

  • MAIA is the second of Lyric the Last Ancient's robots to go rogue and convert to good, the other being Q-N-C.
  • In one cutscene, Q-N-C's dialogue suggests that MAIA is mass-produced.
  • An unused character profile for MAIA in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric says that her name stands for "Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Administrator" and that she is the boss program that runs Lyric's Weapon Facility.[2]

Gallery

Concept artwork

References

  1. Windii on Twitter. Twitter (18 January 2019). Retrieved on 19 January 2019.
  2. Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved on 6 March 2015.

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