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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 28 (S02E28) |
| Episode no. | 80 of 104 |
| US premiere | 20 May 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · Les robots venus du ciel – partie 3 |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn and Bill Freiberger |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
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Robots from the Sky: Part 3 is episode 28 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 20 May 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
So much for stealth: Sonic trips an alarm within seconds, and the city’s hypnotised citizens chase him and Tails into a dead end, where Bolts’ stretchy arms yank them down a chute to the Robot Resistance, led by Mighton. Lead walls shield the rebels from the signal but keep them indoors, so the immune Sonic and Tails head for the Central Power Core.
Lost among identical streets, they let the guards capture them and deliver them there. The mastermind is Hypnobot, Tails’ old Robot Battle Royale entry, blasted into space and forgotten. Rescued and upgraded by the city’s robots, he gained a mind and a grudge, hypnotised his rescuers and turned the world’s robots against all living things. At home, Knuckles rallies the villagers to defend their stuff.
Tails can’t bring himself to shoot his own creation, and a fumbled shot holes the city’s dome. He tumbles out, his tails bound by a bola, and Sonic, his leg badly hurt, kicks Hypnobot over the edge and grabs his friend. Hypnobot’s plunge into a frozen lake breaks the spell everywhere, leaving Tails with the guilt and Eggman with a frozen new recruit to fish out of the ice.
Trivia
- Part three of four. Hypnobot, Tails’ forgotten invention, was built at the end of “Robot Battle Royale”.
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume One (May 2021), Robot Uprising! (2020), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Les robots venus du ciel – partie 3. The episode aired in France on 9 April 2017, before its US premiere.
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.