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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 23 (S02E23) |
| Episode no. | 75 of 104 |
| US premiere | 15 April 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · Nominatus : l’élévation |
| Written by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| Storyboard | Gael Leroux & Lola Etrivert |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 0.13 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Muckfoot (S02E22) |
| Next | Eggman’s Brother (S02E24) |
Nominatus Rising is episode 23 of Season 2 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by Technicolor Animation Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 15 April 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Tails’ upgraded Build-it Box can turn digital characters into real ones, shrunk by a file-size throttle, and its first test, a pint-sized Ms. Tomatopotamus, causes chaos until Knuckles’ gentle touch sends her to sleep. Watching from cyberspace is Nominatus, the virus that once turned on Eggman. While the team is out fighting Eggman, he uses the machine to step into the real world with his sidekicks, Retro and Beta.
The catch: they’re tiny too. Crossing Tails’ workshop to switch off the throttle becomes an epic trek, with a cat batting them about and a hawk Nominatus has to hijack to reach the laptop. Once he does, they’re full size, Ms. Tomatopotamus suddenly towers over Meh Burger, and the villains make off with the laptop and the Build-it Box.
Tails’ security footage shows three strangers, and the team blames Eggman until he sees the tape and recognises his old enemy. So hero and villain team up, Mantis and Scorpion Bots alongside Team Sonic against a horde of Caterpixels. Eggman blasts the laptop back into Tails’ hands, the throttle goes back on, and the shrunken villains end up in a terrarium in Eggman’s lair, while Knuckles keeps Ms. Tomatopotamus as a pet.
Trivia
- Wally Wingert voices Nominatus, as he does Cubot.
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume Two (September 2021), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Nominatus : l’élévation. The episode aired in France on 9 April 2017, before its US premiere.
- About 0.13 million US viewers watched the premiere broadcast (Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia).
Watch the Episode
NCircle Entertainment, the show’s US home-video label, has not uploaded this episode on its own to YouTube at the time of writing, though its official channel carries two-episode compilations and Season 2 marathons. Season 2 is on DVD from NCircle (The Complete Season 2, 2021) and has been on Hulu and Netflix; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 2 guide. See the series page for the cast, the redesigns, the games and the comics.
Sources: air dates, writers and storyboard artists from Luke’s original Sonic Scene episode list, cross-checked with Wikipedia, Sonic Retro (Wayback copy) and Sonic Wiki Zone; synopsis written for Sonic Scene from the episode summaries on those sites; title card and screenshots via Sonic Wiki Zone, copied to our media library.