#Also didn't want to jinx it if Paramount did try to make shipping Sonic x Shadow difficult

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Slight sonic 3 spoilers...and also Family analysis.

Now that the movie is out and we have "concrete" (well. More like chicken wire that's gonna get built up.) evidence of where Shadow came from. Just wanted to say:

I was Genuinely Worried that Just Because they're both Hedgehogs, Sonic + Shadow would "somehow" be related. (For example, Distant uncle, both of them being Ultimate Lifeforms, or created by the Chaos Emeralds etc.) Because of emphasis on "family" in this whole series.

Also I now realize this is contrary to Everything that the movies say about Family. No one is a traditional "nuclear" family here.

Sonic + Longclaw weren't related but he still loves her. Team Sonic were all adopted.

Tom + Maddie don't need to have a bio kid to be "official", (Tom has living off screen brothers idk if that counts), Maddie has her sister and niece, Rachel + Jojo are officially a blended family with Randall.

we don't know the deal for Tails parents, Knuckles Had a father but he's gone. Maria just had Gerald, no mention of parents. Eggman was an orphan but got Gerald back...and it didn't turn out well.

The only actual blood family that shows up a lot is Wade's. And that's a mixed bag with Wendy being nice, Wanda being rowdy, + Pete being a criminal mess. So it's basically a divorced family + showing how a family can grow up but still stick together...that's maybe another reason the Knuckles series doesn't mesh as well with the movies?

And they all show that families come in different forms. That's... really neat.