Game Devs- read your instruction manuals.
2000s kids- our manuals are getting smaller!
2010s kids- our manuals are literally 2 pages!
kids now- You guys got manuals?

Where's that REDACTED fourth chaos emerald!?

For his side special, Shadow wields a gun.

I remember my Mom came in once while I was playing Shadow. I died a few times in a row and Shadow let out a few of his classic "DAMN, NOT HERE!'s and she gave me a look of disgust.

"Does he have to say that word?"


"Only when I die, mom."

The stop sign was my favorite weapon

My favorite part is how he chambers the first bullet of his pump action submachine gun. Apparently the overstuffed sausages he's somehow using as fingers can't work the action of a normal modern firearm.

Shadow is an icon for accessibility.

36:55 there’s actually an answer for this.... in Sonic Battle for the GBA.

One of the entries in Gerald Robotnik’s diary mentions he based most of his creations off of stuff found in Angel Island and its shrine. In Sonic 3 and Knuckles there’s an altar foretelling the final battle of the game showing Super Sonic squaring against Robotnik. It’s likely Gerald based Shadow’s design off this mural

On that bit in the opening about the Sonic series being about different animals, I really wish they had made Shadow a Tenrec. Having black fur with yellow highlights would’ve not only LOOKED cooler, it would be a nice inside joke, since another name for the Tenrec is “Fake Hedgehog”.

Edit: Take the fake hedgehog bit with a grain of salt btw, haven’t really found a source for it outside of a bunch of internet threads of people saying sometimes they’re called that. Also, yeah, him being one wouldn’t necessitate he have yellow or orange stripes, idk what I was thinking when I wrote that. I still think he’d rock them well though. Would probably need, say, a brown snout, since he started out with a pretty orange one.

Guys I figured out why Shadow has amnesia and what happened to his backstory!










Sega forgot!

Fourteen years on, and the Walk of Game induction is still bafflingly hilarious. That's the equivalent of winning the Nobel Prize, coming out on stage, and professing your love for the Emoji Movie.

Shadow the hedgehog: every 2000s kid's guilty pleasure

"I'm not 4 kids. IM NOT FOR KIDS, HEAR ME YOUTUBE!!!!!"

Well now everyone in the olive garden is staring at the 18 year old who burst out laughing

Both Sonic and Shadow's ethics are friend focused. Shadow only had one friend for most of his life: Maria. When she died his world died. And so Shadow wanted to destroy the world. Remember Sonic originally went after Eggman because he was using Sonic's friends to power his robots. He cares about the world at large because of his many personal connections. But Shadow slowly but surely learned how to care about and befriend other people. Then he remembered what Maria said, that everyone deserves a chance at happiness. Also a major theme in Sonic's theme song. That everyone should be free to pursue their dreams. That's now their shared moral conviction.

The main differences between them is circumstance.

16:02 "Death to all who oppose me, the ultimate Stretch Armstrong." XD best line ever.

Sonic: "First I learned to Spin Dash, then I invented the Homing Attack!"
Shadow: "I got a gun."
Sonic: ... learns to boost
Shadow: "Shit, shit, shit -" Quickly learns it too

Does anyone remember the eggman boss when he would just keep saying "You know what they say the more the merrier" almost each time he'd attack?

"I like Spiderman more than...." "Venom?" "more than Batman"

"Cloud in FF7 vs Cloud since" I laughed out loud harder than I should.

"I put hot sauce on EVERYTHING!  From cereal, to miiilllk........ITS WHAT I DOOO!!!....As the Ultimate Lifeform" -Shadow the Hedgehog

So long story short: Shadow The Hedgehog is everything that COULD have gone wrong with Starfox 64.