Metallico Prower, also known as Boom-Boom, is a terrorist and enforcer, and eventual leader of the Bounty Guild. He is also the older brother of Miles Prower and is one of two main antagonists in Sonic the Hedgehog: Stranded Revelations and a recurring antagonist in the TV series Sonic: Revolutions. Here, he is the father of the show's protagonist Milo Prower, as well as a recurring antagonist in Season 1 and Season 2, then as the main antagonist of Season 3.
Biography
Introduction to the Guild
Metallico was the older brother of Miles Prower, well-known for a twin-tail mutation that seems to "run in the family". One day, while returning from a vacation on their stepfather's plane (it wasn't implied why they had a stepfather) and landed on Rocky Island, home of a series of mercenaries called the Bounty Guild, led by Killian Fredson. Killian took Metallico in as an enforcer, but Miles didn't want to do it, so an agent chased him into the forest.
First assignment
As Metallico's first mission, he was sent by Killian to Central City to find and kill a hedgehog woman who holds evidence that could get all of the Guild captured and convicted. Metallico manages to find the place and kills his target and retrieves the documents. When a little kid ran down to see this, Metallico was already gone. Killian took the documents and accepted the help.
Hunting rebels
Over the next few years of his involvement with the Bounty Guild's operations, he would rise to Killian's 2nd-in-Command, overseeing all of the Guild's operations. One day, a lead is found on his younger brother, Miles Prower, who was then tracked and chased by a mercenary with a machete. However, the agent never reported back, due to Sonic the Hedgehog intervening and killing the agent.
Later, Sonic is caught by mercenaries and brought to a camp where Metallico was waiting. He tortured Sonic with a machete to get him to tell where Miles is right now. Miles arrives and kills everyone there with a bow and a series of arrows. One was shot into Metallico's back and he dropped while Sonic fled.
For months, the Bounty Guild would be failing to keep control of the island, as Sonic and Miles (now known as Tails) were freeing so many prisoners of the guild and were burning the plants that they needed to deliver to their mysterious employer. One night, when a supply ship came with troops and supplies, the freed prisoners led by Sonic would sneak onto the ship and steal a submarine. During the assault, Metallico arrived on the ship and Sonic fires at him using his crossbow (air rifle in Death Edition). Metallico had apparently been killed by this shot, but since he has a presence in Sonic: Revolutions, he apparently lived past that day.
The affair
Years after, in 2023, he is hired by the convicted Moira Prower to break her out of prison. He decides to do so and gets her out in a violent assault. Over the next few months, he would date Moira, showing a love-hate relationship. Moira was already married to Peter Halifax, making this relationship a secret affair. Months later, Moira got pregnant and left Metallico, as they both knew a killer couldn't be a good father. She then had her child, named him Milo Prower and raised him as her own, not letting him know who his real father is. Metallico would spend the next 16 years displaying his role in the Bounty Guild.
Encounters with his son
Meeting Milo
In 2040, Metallico is promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Bounty Guild following the death of Killian at the new hooded vigilante's hands. He was hired by Dr. Eggman, CEO of Meteotech, to blow up Station Square City Hall and frame Teca Enterprises, Meteotech's rival. With his expertise in explosives, people in the Guild would call him Boom-Boom, a name that he decided to keep. As he was preparing the explosives one night, the hooded vigilante who had killed Killian arrives on-scene, bow at the ready. He fought Metallico and manages to stop the bombs. He rips Metallico's mask off, revealing a scarred fox face. He flees from the scene right after.
Though not explained how, Metallico had managed to discover that the vigilante was his own son, Milo Prower. With this revelation made, he prepared to strike at his son in high hopes of killing him as revenge for sabotaging "the biggest Guild contract ever." He meets Milo again when he shows up at a crackhouse of his, where he was to receive half the payment that Eggman promised him, when suddenly, Milo shows up and interrupts. He chases Metallico through the building and tackles him out the building and onto the street, breaking his neck and supposedly killing Metallico. As evidented by his later presence in the series, he survived, receiving a robot neck implant.
Moira's Contract
A year following the freak accident that almost cost him his neck, Metallico goes to a warehouse in Station Square downtown to meet his new employer and get his next contract. Unbeknowest to Metallico, Milo was following him from the rooftops to see what he intended. It turns out that Metallico was meeting with Moira Prower yet again, but not to "make intimate love like before". This time, it was so that Moira could pay Metallico to kill the CEO of Teca Enterprises, Niro Roberts, to stop his planning of a conspiracy against the city. Milo seemed to take this the wrong way and does an investigation of the matter. When he was about to kill Roberts with a sniper rifle, Milo fires an arrow at it, then kicks Metallico off the building. He survived, because he landed in a mattress factory.
Later on, while Metallico was talking with Moira in that same warehouse after the failed plot, Milo shows up yet again and interrupts the meeting, firing arrow after arrow at Metallico until he collapsed. Moira had managed to shoot Milo, unaware that she had shot her own son. Milo was gone by the time that Metallico had been taken to a medical facility run by the Guild. They saved their boss, but the contract had been cancelled.
Lance's Contract
Months after, Metallico was paid by a detective named Lance to find and kill the law-breaking vigilante. Metallico leaped at the chance to murder the kid that cost him his most well-paying deals and accepted. Within a week, Lance had provided Metallico a squad of policemen heavily-armed, "ready to take on dragons". A while later, when the cops attacked Milo, he fought them all off and snatches a document right from Metallico's pocket detailing that Lance was paying criminals to catch a criminal. When this was discovered, Lance was arrested and Metallico never got his money.
Destroying Main Station Bridge
Months following the death of Niro Roberts and the shut-down of Teca Enterprises, Metallico had been by an unknown man to destroy the Main Station Bridge. There, Metallico successfully destroys the bridge and frames Milo for it. With his money received, Metallico felt that nothing would happen, but then Milo attcks him in his own home and gets him to confess that he destroyed the bridge.
Crippling a city
Killing Moira
Metallico had decided to no longer fulfill contracts to kill Milo, but more rather use the resources of the Bounty Guild to get revenge on all the sabotage that his son had caused. His goal here is to raise an army of super-soldiers so as to destroy Station Square and cause so much havoc that the government would have to nuke the city and kill everyone there, which would prove how every government is corrupt and evil and would kill thousands to save their own lives but no-one else's lives. To start, he breaks into prison and kidnaps Moira (she was there because of her involvement in Roberts' genocidal plot). He then tells Milo to show at the warehouse downtown to get his mother back. He shows up, knowing that it was a trap. He watches Metallico make the claim that he has a new employer who requested the doom of Station Square, unaware that he was lying and this was personal. Metallico then impales Moira through the chest with a machete, killing her. Then, he is attacked by Milo's half-brother Max Prower. Then, Milo and Max flee.
Recruiting Eggman
At some point, Metallico had resurrected Eggman by putting his mind in the body of Metal Sonic, then inducts him into the Guild's membership.
Serum Collection
Metallico's plan required that he find and mass-produce a super-soldier serum made from Black Arms DNA. To start, he finds a sample in an armored truck and tests it on himself. When Milo finds out about this, he plans to steal all the samples so the Bounty Guild doesn't get its hands on them, planning to rob a scientist of all the samples. Metallico found out and sends Eggman to deal with this. He does, by stealing the truck that Milo was loading the samples into.
Weapons
The next step required weapons. Even with all the infinite resources the Bounty Guild had, he would still have to steal some. So he participates in a series of armored truck heists and robs them of their weapons. Eggman went to one, but was stopped by Milo. Later on, the Bounty Guild's chief source of funding (black-market robot-selling) was assaulted, with Max and Milo sabotaging a sell by triggering a riot.
Eggman's betrayal and alliance with Milo
When Eggman began stealing from convoys bound for a military outside Station Square, Metallico knew that he was up to something. He gets suspicious of his behavior and decides to investigate by heading to his last-known location; in a thick forest where Eggman had previously set camp. However, he finds that Eggman was gone, as was the supplies he stole. He finds a sign there reading "YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN". This officially meant that Eggman had betrayed the Guild and was now in pursuit of personal gain only. As this was a major crime in the Guild, Metallico decided to kill him before he could flee the country.
For a while, Metallico waited for one of Eggman's men to return to the camp and ambush him, but none showed. Nevertheless, he stayed and wound up ambushing Milo, who had arrived at the camp to retrieve the stolen supplies and return them to Commander Alan Mak. As neither of them could find Eggman alone and that they both wanted him "punished", they decide to team up, at least until they had killed Eggman.
Back in Station Square, Metallico is being told by a Guild spy that Eggman is hold up in an abandoned brewery, guarded by traitorous Guild members. Later on, Milo arrives and they devise a plan of infiltration, breaking into the brewery, only to find that Eggman AND the cargo were already gone, having taken a boat to Rocky Island (which the Guild had abandoned after Stranded Revelations). The two fight off the attackers and flee while the brewery burns down behind them.
Metallico waits at the long pier for Milo to appear. Later, he does, but with Max and Sonic at his side. Sonic had already purchased a boat, so they use it to go to Rocky Island and kill Eggman. Upon arrival, they see that the old fort on the island was in perfect condition, with guards everywhere and Eggman being in an unknown part of the fort. Sonic plans an infiltration of the base, using some of Metallico's soldiers to do so. The plan was jeapordized mid-way when Metallico attacks Eggman. They all got caught because of this. Milo and Metallico get out, but find that Sonic was already gone, to kill Eggman. Milo rushes to stop this while Metallico frees Max and they run to the boat. Milo stops Sonic and they all flee on the boat.
Eggman was now preparing to send the supplies away. In an attempt to stop him from doing this, the four make it to Eggman's location, a boat headed for Station Square. They fight everyone there, with Eggman being murdered by Sonic and the supplies sent back to Alan Mak. Metallico then reveals to Milo that he planned to destroy Station Square by unleashing an army of super-soldiers upon it, forcing the government to nuke the city.
Death
Metallico then spent a month in hiding and then, he unleashed his army on the city he wanted gone. Knowing that Milo couldn't beat them, he waited atop a building for Milo to confront him. And while the chaos was happening, Max Prower had sabotaged Alan's nukes and ensured that they wouldn't be used. When Milo came to Metallico, they fought each other. Mid-way in, a blue cloud starts emitting from a robot flying overhead (this was Sonic's new antidote to the super-serum) and the cloud manages to kill everyone in the city affected by the drug. And while Metallico was dying in front of Milo, he stuck a pipe bomb into his father's melting and decaying body and kicks him off the building, where he explodes and dies.
Characteristics
Metallico is well-known for being rather greedy. He doesn't appreciate not getting his wishes, to the ponit that he would level all of Station Square as revenge against his son. His greed also led to him choosing to join the Bounty Guild's ranks and murder his little brother. He seems to like killing a lot. To show this, he doesn't hesitate to lop his brother's head off with a machete if it meant lots of money. He doesn't even fell bad when murdering innocents, seeing anyone in his way to be an enemy. He also proves this to such an extent that he didn't even feel bad about killing his prisoners despite what members of the Guild would protest against.
He upholds the rules of the Bounty Guild quite seriously. As an example, he had memorized the entire "Bounty Guild principles" book and could recite it rather flawlessly. Another thing to note is how unlike his boss Killian, Metallico doesn't hesitate to leap into action on his own when needed. As such, he has a brilliant tactical mind and an excellent planner, far more directly-involved in his organization's plans than is safe. But nonetheless, he could always fight his way out of a troublesome situation.
He doesn't take kindly to traitors: rather than send assassins from his own creed after Dr. Eggman when he had turned on the Bounty Guild, he instead decided to hunt Eggman himself, using scouts and very few mercenaries and resources from the Guild to accomplish this, as he could easily track his opponents without help.
In terms of emotion, he mainly displays one: anger. As Milo puts it, "if you get him angry, run and never be seen by him again", showing how dedicated he is.
Skills
Metallico is rather skilled in the business of death. He mainly uses machetes worn on his back, and an expert swordsman. He could easily take on enemies superior to him and still beat them. He even said "2000 of my enemies dead, ALL OF THEM, by MY own machetes". He is also a good marksman, rarely missing a gunshot and when he does, it's usually on purpose. He is also rather strong and durable, as even when a crossbow bolt/bullet went through his back, he survived. Even when he had constantly been put through things normal people would find fatal, he lives.
Trivia
- If one thinks about it, Metallico is basically to blame for putting the events of all the Sonic the Hedgehog games in motion.
- Due to his actions, roles and menacing appearance, Metallico is essentially the true main antagonist of the entire Sonic: Revolutions TV series, in that he makes more appearances in the show than any other villain, the only villain to actually be biologically-related to Milo, leadership of the terrorist mercenary organization the Bounty Guild and the fact that he is the only villain in the show to be featured in 3 of the 4 seasons of the show.