![]() This song is scarily similar to “Recollection of the Ark”… Shadow’s sad song about his memories of the ARK… while Sonic is being lectured about still having faith in humanity. and Sonic says that life is worth the good bits, all that jazz. Oh and SPEAKING OF Sonic/Shadow similarities– there’s a scene in Season Three where Sonic is being lectured by the villain about how all life ends eventually so why bother etc. who can draw out the power of the Chaos Emeralds?” End ID.] And of course there’s probably the most damning similarity– they are the only two characters we see go Super and have the ability to control the Chaos Emeralds. Shadow’s right- their appearance isn’t where the resemblance stops. His superspeed, ability to survive so much shit… he’s powerful enough that he presents a rival for Shadow without chaos emeralds (though Shadow is nerfed a little by the Inhibitor Rings- more on that later). And in-universe, they look similar enough that in low lighting pretty much nobody can tell them apart.Īnd not just that- Sonic has a lot of power for a seemingly “normal” mobian. But let’s ignore that for now– they do have a very similar silhouette… in fact, Shadow’s silhouette is incredibly close to SuperSonic, which is Sonic at full power. Unless you’re very colorblind I think you’ve noticed that Shadow and Sonic are completely different colors. Now let me ask you something… wouldn’t it make sense for the Ultimate Prototypes to look similar, if they were similar lifeforms?Īnd who do we know who looks similar to Shadow? Part Two: Sonic is an Ultimate Lifeform So what was in the other two pods? Two other prototypes of the Ultimate Lifeform, clearly, but nothing like the Biolizard, they’re too small. Maria either freed Shadow first and then the other two, or she freed the first two, got shot, and then managed to survive long enough to send Shadow away. So what’s the conclusion? The conclusion is that these are two different events- one where Maria releases Shadow, and one where she releases another- or, possibly, the other s, the two pods that were logged as escaping. And two pods? Shadow was sent out alone, we saw no evidence of a second pod in either flashback. Shadow also has enough evidence he’s who he thinks he is- he has the right powerset, the GUN soldier says that they did, indeed, seal away an Ultimate Prototype, Gerald mentions Shadow enough in his monologues, and… honestly there’s really no evidence that he isn’t Shadow, other than the two pods. In neither of these do we see any evidence that anyone other than Shadow and Maria are in the room or even nearby. In the second flashback, she’s already on the floor, and the lever pad we see would cause her to be facing away from Shadow. In the sepia flashback, she’s not facing him, and pulling a lever attached to a wall. She’s around an elevated platform not attached to a wall, and either facing the pod she’s sending away or in a completely different room.īut, both of Shadow’s alternate memories of Maria sending him away– the first one more stylized, the second one we can assume more real– neither looks like this. Though we don’t see the full room, we get the sense that it’s small from the other shots that I don’t have the time to screenshot. ![]() Second- Maria is in a different position around the lever in both flashbacks. How do we know this? Shadow’s flashback of being sent away and the man who worked for GUN are completely different- first of all, the GUN soldier doesn’t remember her saying anything to Shadow, or Shadow even being there- it seems that she died to send away something or someone else. Shadow is who he thinks he is- because his capsule was sent out alone. It must have somehow not been logged. So two capsules were ejected and neither was found in the fifty years it’s been since the accident– except I think Rouge is wrong about one thing. Do you understand? I wonder who you really are. They couldn’t lock up in prison what they couldn’t find. Rouge: Two capsules were ejected when the ARK was shut down. I’m the Ultimate Lifeform they created afterwards. The body they created is still held there. Rouge: This is the progress report for Project Shadow, a plan to create the ultimate life form. [ID: screenshots from Sonic X of Rouge and Shadow talking, with the following dialogue: Let’s look at Rouge’s claim that Shadow isn’t who he thinks he is. Rouge makes the claim that neither of these escape pods was Shadow… so in X Canon, is Shadow even who he thinks he is? And just as importantly… who are the other prototypes? When Rouge hacks into the base, she informs Shadow of one thing- he wasn’t the only prototype from Project Shadow that escaped the ARK massacre. ![]() In Sonic X’s adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2, they make an interesting claim about the Ultimate Lifeform prototypes on the ARK. ![]()
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