His heel turn at the end of Sonic Adventure 2 to go against the revenge scheme is one of the first times Shadow decided anything for himself. For a 50-year-old character, he’s spent most of his life being told he exists for purposes beyond his own autonomy. Eggman even uses his likeness in a new line of androids to do his bidding, leaving the game on a surprisingly dark note for a mascot platform of the time: the Shadow we’ve been playing might not even be the real deal.įrom Sonic Heroes onward, Shadow’s story became a tale of a character who had been created for a scientific breakthrough, repurposed as a weapon, and then used as a blueprint for a new wave of robots to do Dr. With the help of Rouge and their new robot friend E-123 Omega, Shadow seeks answers from Eggman about his memory and finds nothing but dead ends and more questions. He couldn’t remember his relationship with Maria or the characters he came to know in Sonic Adventure 2, like jewel thief Rouge the Bat. Eggman’s labs, with his connection to his previous life being told to him, rather than something he felt. Undoing his own plan and saving the world nearly cost Shadow his life, but he reappeared in Sonic Heroes as an amnesiac in one of Dr. With modified memories courtesy of his creator and vengeance in his heart, he hoodwinked both his allies and rivals into nearly destroying the entire world, before realizing this isn’t what Maria would have wanted. The hedgehog was awoken 50 years later by Dr. After government officials deemed the project too dangerous, the space station research facility where Shadow and Maria resided was raided, resulting in Maria’s death, while Shadow was sent down to Earth. Gerald Robotnik, the grandfather of series antagonist Dr. It was all to find a cure for Maria Robotnik, the terminally ill granddaughter of Shadow’s creator Dr. Shadow was created as part of an experiment researching immortality fifty years before Sonic’s time. Shadow wasn’t an edgelord - he was just an enigmatic character with a tragic backstory and an ambiguous motive. For at least a few games, it actually struck a meaningful balance between the two. The contrasts between the two took clear inspiration from dynamics like Goku and Vegeta’s rivalry in Dragon Ball Z. When Shadow first appeared as the “Dark” counterpart to Sonic, the black hedgehog was the introverted, brooding, loner foil to Sonic’s happy-go-lucky, impulsive nature. But in the years since he received his much-maligned solo game in 2005, it seems like both companies are willing to let him be the insufferable edgelord people always thought he was. Folks, I want Sega and Sonic Team to love my precious anti-hero son again. I think the only figure that was never on a non foil card was the wave 1 cobra officer.It’s Sonic the Hedgehog’s 30th anniversary today, and what better way to pay tribute to the Blue Blur himself on his big day than by ignoring him entirely to talk about the real star of the show? Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic’s rival who debuts in Sonic Adventure 2, has a birthday to celebrate too, because it’s also Sonic Adventure 2’s 20th anniversary week. Note the white edging and yellow behind TorchYeah what he said. Note the silver edge and behind Roadblock. Most if not all of the earlier foil carded figures were re-released on the non-foil cards though there are some notable exceptions. The non-foil cards are dubbed 'modren era' though I've never been sure if that's an official name or not. The change happened because the 25th anniversery was now becoming the 26th anniversery, and Hasbro wanted to change the style. Those were produced in fairly limited quantities, and are more valuable MOC.Īfter wave 7 was released all cards (except Major Bludd who was originally intended to be in wave 7) were released on cards that replaced the foil underlay with white borders and yellow behind the blister. The first 7 waves of figures were released with the 25th anniversary symbol in the top corner of the card, and a silver foil underlay that appears at the edge of the card, and behind the blister bubble.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |