#people need to stop mischaracterizing him so bad or i might punch someone

[justcallmevodka]

The TM artists that draw everyone normal and then make Rigsby the "stupid friend that says stupid things and is only strong" stereotype make me so angry because thats NOT what he is! He is very smart and not everyone has to fit those weird steretypes people have.

Like dude can be considered a chemist he knows everything about fires and because of it he has solved cases or aided a lot on them, like the time where Jane got kidnapped and he got fingerprints because he knew how fire affects cars and where to look.

People underestimate his habilities for moments like when he got hypnotized and its like. That doesnt make him dumb? the person that did it was very skilled and not even Jane could break the hypnosis until way later? like yall watched the show with your eyes closed.

[birdsareblooming]

since i already have people agreeing with me so im no longer scared to say it. yes one of the things this is about is the metal virus arc and before.

"shadow wouldn't be so mean" yes he would. he calls people useless and stupid all the time and is mean to sonic specifically on a daily basis. sometimes not even a fun rival mean just mean for no reason. he threatened to kill sonic multiple times both before and after sa2 especially in sonic x. and lest we forget how he was in the entirety of rivals 2 mr "i have no time to explain it to you so i'll just knock you out." every time sonic shows up he's almost always like "oh my god this bitch again."

"shadow wouldn't be so arrogant" he calls himself the ultimate lifeform still. "you're not even good enough to be my fake," he literally will not shut up about how he's "better than sonic" and does basically everything to prove that. also shadow was raised on the idea that he couldn't get any diseases, so his assumption may be impulsive but not completely unfounded. He can both hate himself and be arrogant at the same time it's a defense mechanism let him have it "shadow wouldn't be so impulsive" shadow does everything in his life on a whim.

just because he makes fun of sonic for the same thing doesn't make him better. "He wouldn't try to kill someone without full reason because maria i guess" Emerl. Cosmo. mr tinker was the third time he did this and previous two were children. These were more examples of shadow doing shit on a whim without explaining things to anyone. sonic was like "here's my new son :D" and shadow immediately went "he has to die"

and people say he's well characterized in prime. he's doing the exact same shit. like exactly. he's beating up sonic on a whim. he's being a bitch for no reason. he held sonic back to fight him for no fucking reason while sonic needed to go save his friends (btw if he hadn't done that the whole prism thing might not have happened but no one brings that up) by the way which he did by punching him in the face. ya'll also say he's well characterized again in the newer idw issues when once again he is doing the exact same shit.

i'm gonna be honest, he wasn't even that bad in forces. he jokes with rouge. he shows genuine concern for sonic. him disheartening for a while and then just showing back up is what he does every day of his life. as stated before him being mean is normal and he literally was mean to him in the way a 15yo boy would usually be. literally called his face dumb and left. but "forces bad" so. this is amplified on ya'lls silence about tails is sonic heroes being horribly mischaracterized but it's the game you grew up with so it's good and has no faults i guess.

some of the shit ya'll say about people "mischaracterizing shadow" makes me say "have ya'll MET him???" shadow's a little bitch. he's mean, he's impulsive, he's self-centered as a coping mechanism and as his weird sense of duty, he'll beat people within an inch of their life or kill people. and those qualities are what make shadow shadow. ya'll read too much fanfiction and had too much downtime to stew to belive shadow is this guy bound to be a good person bc of maria when he literately isnt and never has been. He's not open about his emotions, and let me be clear, his intentions are always good and he wants whats best for the world and for people. he's allowed to be a little shit while doing so.

it's been YEARS of ya'll doing this. i'm so fucking tired of it. ya'll need to stop looking at the speck in the writer's eye and take the plank out of yours. you claim mischaracterization when y'all are actually the ones who forgot who shadow is. i'm tired of "he was mischaracterized in idw and forces" being a "common fandom knowledge" thing when it literally wasn't. he wouldn't make the choices you would make or the right choices, he'd make shadow's choices, and sometimes his choices are fucking stupid. that's his right as a character.

were their issues? fuck yes. Sega decided he had no friends, they told the boom crew that he couldn't make jokes in a comedy show, and also couldn't allude to but neither contradict his backstory. but idw shadow didn't suddenly get better bc sega decided he can have friends now. if you look that's affected none of idw so far, except the one choice where shadow decided to stay behind and save rouge instead of the massive resort being overtaken by an avalanche, and rouge has to convince him otherwise. a dumb decision but the only difference from his other ones is rouge is there. look. sometimes their's a speck in their eye of the writers who literally have a character bible and do this as their job. shadow was better in tmosth because sega lifted shit we didn't know about and because of circumstance. lest we forget while getting amy a present he originally forgot one, and was a general bitch to tails and the main character as well as amy herself while trying to keep it a secret. because he's a bitch and y'all need to learn to be ok with that.

im gonna be honest, half if not more of "shadow is mischaracterized here" moments he's not mischaracterized, y'all just didn't have good shadow content since 2006 and built up a false idea of him in your heads, so once he was back in media more y'all had the time to think your brains' fanfiction version of him was real. as someone who watched like all the media in the better part of half a year i literally saw no difference and then saw people yelling about it online.