#genuinly didn’t he just wanted to be happy and universe said nope

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Guys… Can we talk about how movie Shadow body’s languaje ressembles the body language vibes of a dog? I mean, here some examples

—The sad puppy eyes at the flashback scene

—When he meets Gerald again he was on the defensive until he recognized him (he caught him by surprise in the middle of his mourn) and when he hears that Sonic, Tail, Knuckles and Eggman were arriving he was about to attack until Gerald tells him “calm down, we are going to receive them properly”. And only because of that he changes the strategy to ambush (Goes from agressive stance to tense, head is peerk up and eyes focused on Gerald, listening to his command)

—After ambushing them he leaves them tied up and while the crazy people do the infodumping and start to monologue he stays still and quiet, only when Gerald gives him the order to look for the key is when he intervenes in a somewhat aggressive way (when watching that scene I can't help but think an attack dogs. Well, first one he’s tensed and with angry expression, trying to look bigger to intimidate them. Then he kinda lounges towards them while demanding for the key, defintly this has a ressemblance to an attack dog barking to either a threat or prey)

—When they were going to steal the second key Shadow wanted to do the job and his body language, again, is reminiscent of a guard dog pulling on the leash and barking to attack. Only when Gerald convinces him to leave the job to the mad scientists in exchange for “getting revenge like never before” does he calm down and stay behind (lounges while talking, again, ressemblance to an attack dog aggressive barking)

—Interferes when he realized the Robotniks plan failed, so he headed straight onto searching the second key and after attacking Tom he just went back to his master, protecting him and giving the object to him (I don’t think I need to elaborate this)

—Also the fact that whenever he is near Gerald he’s just there, watching in silence and his body tensed, attentive and waiting for the next command as if he was a trained dog (body tensed, eyes focused on Gerald, defintly waiting for the next command)

Movie Shadow’s life is just simple miserable because he was probably conditioned by G.U.N into obedience and Gerald exploited this to use him as a tool for his revenge plan. And remember, he might be dubbed by Keanu, but mentally he’s a teen like Sonic. So yeah, here we have fucked up symbolism, showing throught non verbal languaje how due to bad luck, manipulation and grief Shadow got dehumanizated and turned into a tool.

Also yes, due to how mad Gerald was in this movie and as pointed by other posts, he stopped caring for Shadow or even he never cared, forcing this confused, lost kid into a master-servant bond all his life