Old Tucker

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.

Template:Character Old Tucker is a character from the Sonic Boom series that appears in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. He is an millennium-old anthropomorphic turtle and residential farmer who mistakenly took the easy route to grow his village’s crops. Thanks to Team Sonic though, Tucker was able to correct his mistake and ensure himself a happy life.

Appearance

Old Tucker is an anthropomorphic turtle with green skin, golden eyes and possesses a brown shell with a tan underbelly and a raised edge behind his neck resembling a collar.

Young Tucker

As a young man, Tucker was about as tall as Sonic, his shell's underbelly was more round with less grooves and his neck was thinner. His skin was also more brightly green and without wrinkles. His attire back then consisted of teal gloves, black boots and yellow safety glasses.

A thousand years later, Tucker had noticeably aged, though he has gotten slightly taller. Both his skin and shell have grown darker and paler in coloration, and his shell is rounder at the bottom with more groves and displays damage, most noticeably having a recess in its collar and a cut on the right side. His neck is also thicker, but hunched forward. His current attire consists of a straw hat with red band, tattered brown gloves and camel moccasins with brown straps.

History

In his youth, Tucker was a great scientist, who participated in a project to improve upon his people's fertilizer formula for their crops in Slowpoke Isle. Tucker worked on the formula in Lyric's Weapon Facility, but he screwed up and mistook some poison for boysenberries when they their crops were to be planted. As a result, the crops mutated into viney and deadly weeds that destroyed every plant around it and infested Tucker's village. These plants came to be regarded as a curse that would plague Tucker and his family over the next thousand years

In the present day, Tucker moved to Cliff's Excavation Site to look for something from Lyric or the Ancients that would let him correct his error in the past. In that time, he stayed away from the local camp with a kind of sad and lonely expression. A few weeks later, he met Team Sonic, whom he told his history and requested them to keep a lookout for anything the Ancients could have to improve his past, which the team accepted.

True enough, Sonic and Tails found a way into the past where they met Tucker's younger self and stopped him from taking the poison. In gratitude, young Tucker gave the heroes a Power Glyph. Due to this change, history was altered so that Tucker came to live a perfect and charmed life as his village prospered. In the present, Tucker soon after returned to Slowpoke Isle and welcomed Team Sonic when they passed through his village.

Personality

Old Tucker is a happy go lucky farmer who, despite having some setbacks, is able to spread his funny, southern charm with the villagers.

Power and Abilities

Tucker is said to have once been a great scientist, suggesting that he is a quite intelligent individual, though he would make simple mistakes like mistaking poison for boysenberries. He also has an incredible long lifespan, having lived for over a thousand years.

Trivia

• If the player is unable to complete Old Tucker's side-quest before reaching Slowpoke Isle, his village in that area will be overgrown with orange thorn bushes that cause damage upon touch and prevents the player from reaching different collectibles. If the player does complete the side-quest though, they will have free access to the entire village.

Gallery

Gallery
First revealed artwork of Old Tucker, along with Sticks the Badger. Concept artwork Old Tucker's Japanese profile for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.