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| Species | Hedgehog/Black Arms/Alien(technically) |
| Homeworld | Space Colony ARK |
| Series | Sonic the Hedgehog |
| Affiliation | Rouge the Bat E-123 Omega G.U.N. Shrek Maria |
| Gender | Male |
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Faker? I think YOU'RE the fake hedgehog around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha! You're not even good enough to be my fake. |
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—Shadow, talking to Sonic | ||
Shadow the Hedgehog is a highly requested newcomer for Super Smash Bros. 4, though he is once again an Assist Trophy.
Shadow is the ultimate life-form created by Dr. Eggman's grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik. This was meant to help find a cure for Gerald's granddaughter and Eggman's cousin, Maria Robotnik, who had a disease called NIDS (Neuro Immunodeficiency Syndrome), basically the Sonicverse's equivalent of AIDS, that prevented her from living on Earth.
Shadow is over 50 years old, but physically, he is 15 years old just like Sonic, and has the exact same height and weight as him. In addition to never aging, Shadow is also immune to disease, making him completely unable to die by natural causes, though he can still be killed. Or at least, he could be until Sega realized he was far too popular to keep dead.
He replaced Knuckles as Sonic's rival.
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Where's that DAMN fourth chaos emerald?! |
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—Shadow, looking for the fourth chaos emerald. Whichever colour that is. | ||
Quotes
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I'm the coolest! |
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—Shadow, edgy as ever | ||
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Is that so? Well, in that case... it will be a date to DIE for. |
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—This is apparently supposed to be witty, judging by Sonic's reaction. | ||
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Death to all who oppose me! |
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—I don't think you can get edgier than THAT. | ||
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With the power of these emeralds, I'm gonna destroy this damn planet! This is who I am! |
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Maria- this is what you wanted, right? This is my promise I made to you... |
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Damn! Not here! |
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—Expect to hear this a lot if you're a scrub. | ||
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I am Shadow the Hedgehog. A research experiment, gone deadly wrong. I've caused so much destruction, I should have never been created. This is who I am. |
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—Yes, it's seriously implied that Shadow kills himself in this ending. Can't get much edgier than that. | ||
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A super dimensional being... heh, this may actually be a fair fight! |
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—Come Sonic '06, he trades his angst for cockiness. Which is still generally agreed to be much better. | ||
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You're weak. And you know what makes you weak? Your loyalty to your pathetic friends. |
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—Don't worry, he only says this in Boom. For everything main Shadow is, he's still not a hypocrite. Consequently, to go against the split fanbase with main Shadow, pretty much no one likes Boom Shadow. | ||
Powers and Abilities
Some believe that Shadow uses Chaos powers using the Chaos Emeralds to fuel his attacks. But they are wrong.
Shadow's powers actually run on the force of his edge. The more edgy Shadow becomes,the more powerful he gets. In times of need, Shadow can transform into 5UP3R 3DGY SH4D0W, which increases his abilities exponentially. His ultimate attack in this form is to summon Linkin Park, who then proceed to do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCiFO7qV54E
This kills everyone.
Trivia
- Some theorize that he is the father of Silver the Hedgehog.
- But that's not true since Sonic 06 has a fucked up plot and if Elise cried so early in the timeline of the game, the world would be ruined before silver was born.. At least 100 years before, and the only way for silver to be born is that there has to be a female immortal being and there is none and blaze's ancestors probably survived since they have adapted to fire. Only possible way for him to have been born is that the team made a mistake and added an extra 0. But even then, Silver is PURE hedgehog, and Amy is the only cannon female hedgehog but Silver has Silver fur and hazel eyes, which neither of his parents posses so the only possible theory is that Blaze gathered DNA from random dead people, found an abandoned lab and made silver with them. And it could be highly likely that shadow was killed in the summoning of the apocalypse just to support said theory.
- If you played Sonic 06 you'd see that the Shadow is still alive in Silver's time... HOWEVER he is in some sort of stasis prison... so yeah, either way he's not the baby-daddy.
- But that's not true since Sonic 06 has a fucked up plot and if Elise cried so early in the timeline of the game, the world would be ruined before silver was born.. At least 100 years before, and the only way for silver to be born is that there has to be a female immortal being and there is none and blaze's ancestors probably survived since they have adapted to fire. Only possible way for him to have been born is that the team made a mistake and added an extra 0. But even then, Silver is PURE hedgehog, and Amy is the only cannon female hedgehog but Silver has Silver fur and hazel eyes, which neither of his parents posses so the only possible theory is that Blaze gathered DNA from random dead people, found an abandoned lab and made silver with them. And it could be highly likely that shadow was killed in the summoning of the apocalypse just to support said theory.
- Shadow got Amnesia in Sonic Heroes
- He was cloned while unconscious before the events of sonic heroes to create shadow androids
- His biological father is a gross looking alien thing called 'Black Doom'. And no, that's not the name of somebody's cock.
- He's the edgiest video game character ever.
- Sonic Boom Shadow is even edgier.
- He was British before the first voice actor change. Now he just speaks with a dark voice because he's all edgy and stuff.
- He's the only character even more universally agreed to never have a shot at being playable than Ridley (outside of the people who take more than two seconds to realize how ridiculous too big is), Toad (at this point, it's clear Sakurai's not letting him in), and the Chorus Men (self-explanatory).