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The time has come to finish what we started one thousand years ago. Now, go forth, and destroy every plant, every animal -- everything that lives and breathes. Then, together, we will build a glorious world of metal. Rise, my warriors!
~ Lyric addressing his troops

Lyric the Last Ancient is the overarching antagonist of the Sonic Boom franchise. He is a giant, monstrous cybernetic snake from an ancient race whose main goal is to create and strengthen a robot army in order to carry out his nefarious deeds to destroy the world. Before he could carry out his nefarious deed, however, he was imprisoned by a time travelling Sonic. Over a millennium later, Lyric was freed and resumed his mission, but met opposition from Sonic and his friends.

He was voiced by Patrick Seitz, who also voiced Zomom in Sonic Lost World and Dio Brando in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Appearance[]

Lyric is a long constrictor snake with dark green scales and brown spots at varied areas around him. He wears a sophisticated red robotic chest armor with a pair of three-fingered arms. He has a gray claw on the tip of his tail that resembles a rattler.

Personality[]

Described as darker, more foreboding, and more power-hungry than Dr. Eggman, Lyric is formidable with a serious tone. Having been driven mad by power, Lyric is an extremely cruel, ruthless, manipulative, and pitiless monster, and tech-savvy mastermind. He is also rather vengeful and treacherous, spending his time in his prison to plan his revenge.

Biography[]

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric[]

Lyric was a member of the race of Ancients, a scientific genius. However, in his work to study the Chaos Crystals he became incredibly ill, and as the medicine of the Ancients was helpless, Lyric created robot armor for himself to survive and was driven mad, thinking that only technology could be trusted. With the help of Chaos Crystals he nearly completed his plan to destroy organic life and replace it with machines, until he was struck by a mysterious hedgehog named Sonic, who said that they had unfinished business. Confused Lyric was attacked by Sonic's spin dash and then trapped by a rebellious MAYA unit, which allowed the Ancients to imprison Lyric in his tomb for the next millennia, as he turned to a statue.

A thousand years later, Lyric was accidentally released from his stone prison by Sonic and his friends, who were fleeing from Dr. Eggman. Recognizing Sonic as the one who ruined his plans, Lyric said they had unfinished business. However, this time Sonic was the one confused, as his intervention in Lyric's plan was a result of him time-travelling. Lyric was able to counter Sonic's spin dash and trap the team, and to escape from his prison and return to his original plan.

Lyric was encountered by Dr. Eggman with Lyric's reprogrammed robots, as Dr. Eggman started to threaten him, only for Lyric to use his belt-device to take control of the robots and nearly killing Dr. Eggman, as he stated that he could be helpful when it comes to disposing of Sonic and his friends. Lyric then made Dr. Eggman his henchman, ordering him to dispose of Sonic and his friends and retrieve the Chaos Crystals' Map. As Sonic and his friends presumably fall from the waterfall alongside with the map, Dr. Eggman told about it to Lyric, who was still satisfied as his worm robots were searching for the crystals anyway.

However, it appeared that Sonic and his friends survived the waterfall and both Dr. Eggman and Lyric started to chase him and his friends, only to end up losing them, as Lyric prepared to dispose of his companion, whom he stated to be even more annoying than Sonic. However, Dr. Eggman was planning to betray him too, so he charged Metal Sonic against Lyric, thinking that more powerful AI will make him invulnerable to Lyric's machine control. However, Lyric took control of Metal Sonic with his belt-device and made him blast Dr. Eggman away, before sending Metal Sonic on a rampage through Slowpoke Isle in search of the next Chaos Crystal.

Sometime later, Lyric was encountered by Dr. Eggman again, this time in his heavy weapon robot. As Lyric tried to control it too, he was shocked to learn that this robot can't be controlled by him, as Dr. Eggman controlled it manually. However, Lyric was lucky to survive the attack, as Dr. Eggman had a problem with the rocket navigating system.

As Sonic and his friends collected all the Chaos Crystals, Lyric ambushed them in Sky Citadel and had his robots hold Sonic at gunpoint, threatening to kill him if his friends wouldn't hand the crystals over to him. Still, as they did it, Lyric ordered to shoot Sonic down, burying him under the rubble. He still managed to survive, however, as Lyric thought Sonic to be dead, he started to accomplish his plan by arriving at his hidden lair and reviving his giant Sentinel army to eradicate all organic life on the planet. Lyric then encountered once again by Team Sonic in a final showdown, only for the heroes to shred Sentinels off the Chaos Crystals. Lyric was depowered, but still not defeated, as he was able to trap Team Sonic with their own Enerbeams, as they were originally his technology. When Lyric prepared to strike and finish them, Dr. Eggman unleashed his final attack on Lyric, hitting and distracting him long enough for heroes to escape and tie Lyric up. As Sonic disposed of his machine-control device, Lyric lost the last of his power only for Dr. Eggman to find this device and claim it for himself.

Lyric's fate after this was unknown but, assuming his life support hasn't run out and he can break out of the Enerbeams, he could have survived and made a comeback which didn't happen due to the Sonic Boom series' cancellation.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal[]

Lyric has a different backstory in this game. Similar to Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, he was imprisoned by the Ancients, but this time for trying to seize the Crystal of Power. He had awoken thousands of years later. He meets Shadow and, after the hedgehog rejects his offer of alliance, puts a mind control device on him.

In the game's intro, he is seen fighting Amy and manages to capture her by placing a mind control helmet on her head, hoping to use her archaeological knowledge to help him locate the crystal fragment. In Shadow Canyons, Lyric appears as a hologram telling Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Sticks, and Shadow that he is close to achieving his goal. In Cloud Sanctuary, the heroes catch up to Lyric, but he imprisons everyone but Sonic in a sphere. He is fought and defeated by the latter.

Lyric is seen crawling away and reveals his robot trump card which would let him destroy Team Sonic, but his plan is thwarted by Shadow, who attacks him. Sonic opens the hatch, causing the evil snake to fall out of the airship, presumably to his death.

Powers and Abilities[]

Lyric is one of the strongest enemies Sonic and his friends have ever faced. He is described as a formidable enemy and a force to be reckoned with, suggesting he is very powerful. As another testament to his power, he is the first person to dodge Sonic's spin attack, though he was already familiar to it when Sonic used it on him for the first time.

Lyric has proven himself to be a technological genius, having created an army of giant robots capable of wiping out all life on a planet. He has also been shown to have good deduction skills, able to quickly figure out that it was Sonic who stole his map. Also, as a reptile, he has a natural ability to regrow his parts.

Lyric's body is merged with a robot armor of steel, giving him a sophisticated robotic body which he uses to carry out his own nefarious deeds. This armor also drastically increases his lifespan, aHis llowing him to survive for over a millennium.

Lyric's armor contains a computer-like device that grants him limited technopathy, with but a press on the button on his torso, he is able to take control of virtually anything electronic around him and operate it with his mind alone, as long as it is not manually controlled. He lost this ability after Sonic discarded the device behind it.

Lyric has demonstrated the ability to levitate in the air and is also capable of shooting harmful energy beams from the hand-like tip of his tail. He can also use an ability similar to telekinesis by charging his hands with a green energy to lift things into the air without touching them.

Quotes[]

Lyric: The Ancients will rue the day they dared to hide my Crystals from me. Now that I've found their map, those Crystals will be mine once again. And then I will annihilate them and everything they hold dear.
Q-N-C: Just spit-ballin' here, boss, but can we just let 'em off with a warning this time?
Lyric: Did they warn me that working to unlock the power of the Crystals would make me sick? Did they warn me that their feeble organic medicines would never be able to heal me? No, they didn't! I had to make
this to keep myself alive. Technology is the only thing you can trust. Which is why I'm going to rid this world of all organic life forms -- and rebuild it, piece by robotic piece.
~ Lyric's motivation for his evil goal
I'll gather the crystal fragments and build my empire.
~ Lyric, Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
You! You and I have unfinished business.
~ Lyric when he spots Sonic after being freed from his imprisonment

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • His personality and goal are similar to the incarnation of Dr. Robotnik from the 1993 Sonic SaTAM cartoon.
  • His status as ancient, and his gigantism suggests he belongs to the Titanoboa species, a 40-foot long boa that lived 60-58 million years ago.
  • He has a very dark backstory, as a statue, unable to move and presumably see or hear either, but still conscious, which would make it somewhat understandable that he developed psychopathy, though it is entirely possible that he developed psycopathy even before his imprisionment.
  • Lyric is one of the darkest villains in the Sonic Boom continuity, considering the franchise's more lighthearted tone, due to his goal of wiping all organic life on the planet and for having no problem in outright murdering his targets, which was shown by ordering his robots to kill Sonic.
  • Lyric was never seen or mentioned again after the events of either Rise of Lyric or Shattered Crystal.
    • However, in the episode "Og Man Out," the titular Og mentions how the Ancients met their downfall by their own technology. This was likely an indirect reference to Lyric, since it is implied that Lyric used the Ancients' technology to destroy them.

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