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Shadow had a transatlantic accent?

Oh, yes! When David Humphrey originally did VA work for Shadow, he gave him a very slight accent. It sounds slightly British, but also distinct enough to still sound American. The transatlantic/mid-Atlantic accent is an upper-class accent spoken in the early 20th century (roughly 1900s to 1940s). It wasn’t just a sign of elite status in American either. The transatlantic accent was also seen extensively in classical black and white films to help provide a clearer sound in what actors were saying to film enjoyers.

(Puts on anthropology cap) The vowels are stretched and some letters for specific words are dropped at the end. For example:

Americans may pronounce “water” as /wuh-odder/. They may turn the pronunciation of “t’s” as “d’s” when they speak, specifically those who region along the East coast.

The English/British way pronounce “water” as /whoo-ottah/ or even /wha-tah/. There may be an emphasis on the “t” to halt the stretched vowel sound, but again, this depends on the region where they’re located.

Individuals who speak with a transatlantic may pronounce “water” as /whuuaa-tah/. This provides an emphasis on both vowels and consonant. Words like “dance” may be pronounced as /dahnss/. 

We can hear some of the transatlantic traits in Shadow’s voice, especially in SA2. A video here is provided for listening pleasure if you wish to follow along: “Shadow Voice Clips (David Humphrey) Sonic Adventure 2:”

Some words like “power” are pronounced as /pouh-wah/.

“Maria” is also pronounced as /Merh-ree-ha/ and /Mah-ree-hah/. 

“Ark” is “/Ahhrk/.

“Research” is pronounced as /rheh-sea-er-ch/.

These are all linguistic characteristics of the transatlantic/mid-Atlantic accent. If this is being interpreted as me wishing for Shadow to have an accent in the third film, then yes! This is what I hope for. I truly hope that Shadow has a slight accent. It’s been done before, I hope that it’s done again.

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I will hold this headcanon to my heart for the rest of my days.

Shadow the Hedgehog with a transatlantic accent because he's from the 1950s

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Sirens in the distance.

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I’m about sixteen days younger than these games.😂

HAPPY 19TH ANNIVERSARY

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Shadow the Hedgehog’s game released 19-years-ago today in the United States.

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Aventio swap au but Veritas rocks these

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lalalalala

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(And also, this applies to any other fandom)

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I love the way Shadow and knuckles end up saying the nicest things to each other or about each other in the Twitter takeovers

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I love reading fanfics with Boom!Shadow. They can make him as ridiculously edgy as they want.😂

I actually love boom shadow. Totally different character. But i love an asshole. He stands there holding himself, like okay man.

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Silly thing I made that got like 1.2k likes on Twitter for no reason lmaooo

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This scene which is after the hero mission in Westopolis is one of my favorite cutscenes in this game for all the wrong reasons.

1.The way that Shadow quickly pockets the emeralds when he hears Sonic as if he's worried that the blue blur is gonna try and swipe one or something.

2. Sonic doesn't even question why in the middle of an alien invasion Shadow is collecting all the chaos emeralds for unknown reasons. Like, I know he's your pal Sonic but last time he wanted to collect all the emeralds almost ended with the earth's destruction. Half of the moon got blown up thanks to Shadow convincing Eggman to make a "demonstration"

3. Sonic also suggests that they have a "friendly competition" in the middle of an alien invasion. You'd think he'd be more upset by all the humans getting slaughtered.

4. The way that Black doom casually flies in, blurts out that they found the next emerald, and flies away before Shadow can formulate a response or even begin to register this new information.

5. KEEP IN MIND: This is after the hero mission. Which means Shadow has just finished decimating all the black arms in that area of the city. And yet, Black Doom doesn't even acknowledge Shadow destroying his forces at all. All he says is that "Our mission here is done, now get going!" as if Shadow's still following his orders. Bruh.

6. Black doom not even remotely acknowledging Sonic's presence or existence. Dude doesn't even glance at him, he just wants to tell Shadow "Go get the emerald".

7. So, the leader of the alien race that is attacking your home planet and killing all of your people literally pops up right in front of you, and commands one of your friends to go and get the third chaos emerald, implying that this alien warlord wants all the emeralds to himself for presumably something bad and evil. Instead of doing a normal Sonic hero line and challenging the evil with a line like "You must be behind this!" or "We won't let you get the emeralds you alien!" Sonic instead just smiles and says "Welcome to the next level!" and WILLINGLY follows after Black Doom. Like no dude, he's literally trying to take over the planet. You don't say "YEA LET'S GO" and follow him, you're supposed to stop him.

I swear Shadow is the only one in this scene with a brain

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these are literally the exact same picture

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Same.

why did he do that?

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my favorite part about this is that this is more of an explanation than we ever got canonically

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The 2D vs 3D contrast of the sonic and shadow generation hubworlds cracks me up the more I think about it

Bonus:

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All my dreams have come true.🥺🥹

GIVE THESE BOYS A WEEKEND YAOI FISHING TRIP !! GAT DAMN!! i actually have so many thoughts about Big getting Shadow into fishing istg im gonna make a whole comic on it im in too deep