Shadow, love 'im or hate 'im?

[Thalia]

Dimension said:

Alright so I see there are lots of shadow fans around here, just curious how much of the community do actually like him.

I know, people are going to lynch me for being a fangirl and liking Shadow. But, to be honest, I think he has the most potential out of all of the new characters... very interesting look and personality, and brings in a much needed darker, more mature element into the games.
Plus, he's absolutely great to write about in fanfics
--Thalia

[Omega Wants Cake]

So long as those fics don't involve Mary Sues

[Dimension]

so it seems the shadow fans have done their bit yet again, interesting to see that not everyone loves shad though, 14 for and 10 against or not bothered, maybe the shadow fans aren't that strong a force after all!

[Omega Wants Cake]

[maybe the shadow fans aren't that strong a force after all]

Wise it is not, to underestimate those that follow the Shadow young one.....

[Dr. Robotnik]

i like shadow. Everyone says he's this clone character of sonic but its not really.


-He has a completely different personality. YET! he is not the complete opposite.
-If you took SA2 on its own you wouldnt have much to go on BUT with the addition of Sonic Battle and Sonic Heroes he is in fact the character who has the most development in the new games. (prob due to the others being well established in past)

He is the wolverine(vegeta) of the sonic universe and in all fairness look at the other copy characters in games. Wario does sweet F*** all. and all the other ones are stupid.

-in fairness the real copy character of the sonic series is Metallix but with Sonic Heroes they have changed him into this vengeful power crazed Brutus style character.

-in the end Sonic = Spierman (wise cracking fun and cool yet will be serious if needed hero) Shadow = Wolverine (Anti-hero personality and coool)


and on the sonic\knuckles rivalry. Thats more on personality these days then on actual rivalry while Shadow is this more physical presence on sonic (not to be outdone)

[JA]

Shadow's cool man. You've gotta love him! I think the colours on him black and red suit him;cool. Does anyone think that Shadow's better than Metal Sonic and Silver Sonic?

[Omega Wants Cake]

Yes ;D But only just

[Ben2k9]

i STILL think sonic best rival was metal sonic.

[Mighty Fan]

I liked shadow, but is it just me or was there somethin missin in sonic heros about his character?

Also why did sonic tails n Knuckles not ask shadow anythin about his past when they saw him again after defeatin metal sonic, it don't make any sence

[Omega Wants Cake]

What was missing was that he wasn't the bad guy anymore

I wish we could have seen Super Sonic versus Super Shadow.

Its a funny thing in Sonic games when the characters don't react to anything like a character they mourned over possibly dissapearing, Suddenly returning as if nothing happened. I mean when Team Sonic and Dark first met it was like "Oh hi!"

[Ellie]

plus, shadow hardly spoke. I think rouge took over a bit

[Omega Wants Cake]

Ellie said:

plus, shadow hardly spoke. I think rouge took over a bit

She's that sort of Women ¬_¬

[Ellie]

yeah, I guess she does stand out a bit. but her voice annoys me, i'd have played it so much more if it wasn't dubbed. still on my quest to get an import copy.

[Wolfio]

I like him, but...

He should have stayed the way he went in SA2. Bring him back into Heros bugged me. And the amount of people at one point that were all going 'OMG! HOW CAN YOU THINK SONIC IS BETTER THEN SHADOW! SONIC *****! I MEAN, SHADOW IS SO MUCH BETTER!' annoyed me to no end. (no offence to shadow lovers, its only the fans who have no reasons to surport their claims that annoy me)

For the most part he's cool. Just shouldn't be considered the 'main' character in the game, because alot of people are starting to think he is.

[Omega Wants Cake]

Guest-Wolfio said:

I like him, but...

He should have stayed the way he went in SA2. Bring him back into Heros bugged me. And the amount of people at one point that were all going 'OMG! HOW CAN YOU THINK SONIC IS BETTER THEN SHADOW! SONIC *****! I MEAN, SHADOW IS SO MUCH BETTER!' annoyed me to no end. (no offence to shadow lovers, its only the fans who have no reasons to surport their claims that annoy me)

For the most part he's cool. Just shouldn't be considered the 'main' character in the game, because alot of people are starting to think he is.

I for one could see a reserection comming a mile of >.<

[Retro]

Could be well longer, the second I saw him "Die" in SA2 I knew what would happen, they really cant keep him coming back, hes just too similar to Sonic, at least Metallix is a robot and orginal and has blaster and stuff, Shadow only has a differant personallity.

*Is hunted down and beaten by many people for again, no apparent reason*

[Spydaman]

Ok seriously now.

Shadow really doesn't look that much like Sonic to be called "too similar". I mean, different colour, different shaped spikes, the stripes, the fur, the boots, the gloves. Even his eyes are shaped differently. Sonic's have a more curvy look where as Shadow's are more pointy. He looks different enough not to be mistaken for Sonic at all and anyone who does is just dumb really. In my opinion it's more than just his personality that seperates them. I mean duh, stick them both together with no personality, you're still gonna know which is which.

[madhair60]

Spydaman said:

Ok seriously now.

Shadow really doesn't look that much like Sonic to be called "too similar". I mean, different colour, different shaped spikes, the stripes, the fur, the boots, the gloves. Even his eyes are shaped differently. Sonic's have a more curvy look where as Shadow's are more pointy. He looks different enough not to be mistaken for Sonic at all and anyone who does is just dumb really. In my opinion it's more than just his personality that seperates them. I mean duh, stick them both together with no personality, you're still gonna know which is which.

Yeah, but it's Amy and G.U.N who makes the mistakes, not the posters.

[Retro]

Yeah I hear what you are saying Spydaman, but in general, he may have those important differances, I didnt mean it in mistaken identity, its just the general idea, i.e. very fast hedgehog that has the same normal physical ideas.
He is VERY cool but I dont thinmk he should come in it as a constant character.

*Is battered into remembering those shoes Shadow has*

[Rich Morgan]

Shadow. Right.

He's too bland for my liking. Seeing him in SA2 for the first time didn't really excite me, nor did I think that he had much substance to him. I personally find a character like this very boring and I had to wonder why it was necessary to include a character that had more than a slight resemblance to Sonic - because he does, in the same way as Mighty - another figure in the franchise I dislike for similar reasons.

My prime dislike, I think, has to be the awful and uneccessary exclaimation of "Chaos Control!" whenever it is necessary (and it always seems to be). Ugh.

But do you know what? Instead of flaming people online, or beating them up in the street for their stance on the matter, or ritually burning plushies of the character - I think the best thing to do is ignore them if you find them irritating, or boring, or have some other criticism about them.



-Rich