#Shadow The Hedgehog 05

[theocddiaries]

Shadow: But… Abe: This discussion is over. Leave before I have you removed from the premises. Sonic: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on. There are aliens about to destroy us, and you’d rather doom us all than simply listen to him because of some stupid feud you unilaterally made up in your head when you were… what? Twelve, ten, eight years old???? Abe [his eye twitches]: I don't understand the question. Sonic: … You know what? I'm done with you. [to Shadow]: That thing is basically your other parent. If you pretend to like it and speak well of us, could we save ourselves?

[beach-bear-enjoyer]

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TO SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG 05 🗣️🗣️🗣️

THIS SHIT CHANGED 8 YR OLD ME’S BRAIN CHEMISTRY

[chubbidust]

i participated in a shadow the hedgehog zine!!!!!

yall should go look (please) here's their blog: @neverturnbackzine

[bottle-of-harpoons]

Black Doom's VA roleplaying on twitter is great

[sparklingjay]

Parallels

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

i think she shouldve changed outfits each game it wouldve been cool

kinda redraw of these

[big-cheesy-productions]

THE THING!

[thefakehedgehogaroundhere]

here these shots are side by side to show how well synced they are

[shootyrefutey]

the faint light of tomorrow

[momentomori24]

Can we put this somewhere in the top 5 sexiest things Shadow has done please

[the-sky-queen]

True. But one thing we need to keep in mind is that speech was recorded before Gerald lost his mind. In addition, I feel like Shadow flips back and forth on his opinion of Gerald.

At that moment, Shadow was vulnerable and Gerald was a strong figure from his past, an anchor to drag himself back to control. Let's also not forget that Maria was in that recording as well, which I feel like, one again, is the biggest reason why Shadow was able to do what he did.

Personally, I see Gerald as a very morally gray character. His actions can be interpreted in many different ways. Though if you don't see it that way, that's okay. I understand.

Gerald may have seen Shadow as a son at a certain point, but I don't think he did by the end, and I don't think Shadow saw things that way either. That's just my headcanons though. Shadow’s and Gerald’s relationship is complicated.

The thing that's so cool about Shadow is that his original motives actually make sense, regardless of Gerald brainwashing him. He went through so much pain on the Ark so that they could find the formula for immortality. So they could cure Maria, his SISTER. And then she was killed. It was all for nothing.

Shadow had every reason to hate humanity. They took everything from him and it was about time he returned the favor.

It was only because of the fact that Maria means so much to him that he changed his mind in the end. Shadow made a promise to Maria and he NEVER breaks his promises. Ever. If it weren't for his pure integrity, Shadow would've destroyed Earth without a second thought.

And he would’ve gone down with the ship. We saw what Shadow was doing when the Ark started falling. He was just standing there, looking out the window. He wasn't trying to save himself in any way. He was just done. So tired of fighting and ready for it to be over.

It was only Amy reminding him of his promise to Maria that gave him the motivation to keep going. To do everything he could to reverse all the damage he'd done.

He had no reason to care. But Maria means that much to him.

[hishighnesstheprincess]

Shadow terrorizing GUN Soldiers and then letting them go is so funny to me. 3 foot 3 anthropomorphic hedgehog in heels with magic sparkly powers and eyeliner who makes grown men piss themselves in fear and terror when he shows up. I like to imagine he shows up at the GUN cafeteria sometimes to steal the coffee beans and the entire room is dead silent and still while he's there. Nobody dares breathe until 5 minutes after he's gone. And he still has to crane his neck 45 degrees to look any of them in the face

[fycoren]

my experience playing through shadow the hedgehog (2005) /hj

[pyrabluearts]

Black Doom Chao!

[tomboymikayla]

What sucks about the Sonic franchise is that people only seem to like it when the franchise isn't being itself

Sonic Colors is liked by non Sonic Fans because it's kiddy and lighthearted and not dark and edgy like the 2000s games, which is considered cringe to them and the only time people "like" the 2000s games is when they're talking about those obnoxious Snapcube dubs which they's been spamming for 4 years now

New Fans also praise the current voice cast, which sucks because a majority them don't fit the characters

New Fans also praise how Ian Flynn writes the characters, which also sucks because Flynn's version of the characters don't act like the actual Sonic Characters, (Sonic considering himself as a hero, Tails being Jimmy Neutron, Amy chooses to keep her feelings for Sonic secret and having Tarot Cards be her whole personality, Shadow being an edgy dick, etc) but the New Fans keep insisting that the new versions are better

Also to this day, misconceptions about the franchise and 90s boomers who refuse to let go of the US Lore still persist:

His name is Eggman, not Robotnik

Sonic lives on Earth, not Mobius

Sonic is not obsessed with Chili Dogs

Amy is not a stalker

Sonic has never fucking said "Gotta Go Fast"

Shadow is not an edgelord

People thinking the cartoons and movies are canon

People thinking the Snapcube Dub is canon

Majority of the characters are teens (For some reason people think every Sonic character is a grown adult, even characters like Charmy and Tails)

Also a lot of people seem to forget that the franchise was niche/hated during the 2010s, people didn't give a flying fuck about Sonic and even if they did, they brought it up just to shit on it, it was especially worse when Forces and the Ugly Sonic design came out, everything about Sonic in the 2010s was mocking it, nonstop memes and people saying the franchise only works in 2D (What's worse is that Sonic Mania indirectly proved them right)/was never good, etc

Sonic hate is a lot less common nowadays due to the movies, (mocking Sonic 06 is still brought up to this day tho), however i feel like most of it is people pretending to like Sonic, majority of Sonic praise nowadays comes from the Movies or Frontiers's vocal tracks (because of Kellen Quinn), it also goes back to my previous point with people liking the mischaracterised versions of the characters better

The big two Sonic content coming out this year are Sonic x Shadow Generations and Sonic Movie 3, which has a lot of people hyped because of Shadow the Hedgehog, but it also goes back to my previous point of people pretending to like Sonic, Shadow was heavily disliked by critics and the general audience for being a "edgelord" and looking like a Deviantart OC, so why are people switching up now?

Also from a majority of reactions I've seen, they'll say shit like "Shadow has always been my favorite character" but they don't even know his backstory and when see Black Doom, Maria or Gerald, they go "Who is this!?" (Or make an obnoxious Snapcube joke), I've even seen people ask for Silver, who is a character who was more hated than Shadow and know less about, I doubt they even know he's from the future

All this shit makes me scared that by the time both of these come out, that I'm gonna have to gatekeep the fuck out of this franchise, which is something don't wanna have to do, I just wanna live in a world where the franchise isn't a laughing stock and people actually the franchise unironically

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