Shadow the Hedgehog

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Shadow is an anthropomorphic black and red hedgehog, who is the arch-rival and eventual ally to Sonic the Hedgehog. Shadow was created as the "Ultimate Life Form", by Professor Gerald Kintobor, by using the DNA of Black Doom, and is the end result of Project Shadow. His purpose was to provide ways to develop a cure for incurable deadly illnesses, more specifically for Gerald's granddaughter, Maria, who he had a great bond with. However, he was eventually captured following his birth and put into stasis by G.U.N. when he was deemed as a threat to humanity.
50 years later, Shadow was released by Gerald's grandson, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, in order to enlist him in his plan to destroy the evil doctor's most hated enemy. and to conquer Planet Earth.
==History==
===Shadow's early history===
50 years ago, Shadow was created on the Space Colony ARK by Professor Gerald Kintobor as part of Project Shadow. Once he was brought to life, Shadow immediately befriended Gerald's granddaughter, Maria, and they became closest friends, growing up together. Maria really wanted to visit Planet Earth, but because that she suffered from an illness, she could never do so. Shadow also wanted to go to Earth, to learn the meaning of what life is on that planet, as well as his existence. However, Gerald's progress with Shadow was ruined when it was leaked to G.U.N. of how he was able to create the successful prototype. Afraid of the implications, it was decided to launch an invasion of the ARK and put a stop to the work being done there.
After G.U.N. troops descended onto the ARK, they caused chaos and confusion as they went about apprehending anyone involved in Project Shadow. Knowing that the G.U.N. forces would be there at any moment, Maria convinced Shadow to enter an escape pod, her final wish to him being that he gave the people on the planet a chance to be happy. Wishing him goodbye, Shadow could do nothing as he watched a G.U.N., named Schmitz storm into the lab, firing a shot which would forever change the hedgehog's life as it ended Maria's life.
Learning of his granddaughter's death, Professor Gerald soon went mad with grief, swearing vengeance on the government for taking away the only thing that ever meant anything to him. Though just what exactly transpired is cloudy; what is known is that both Gerald and the escape pod that held Shadow were gathered by G.U.N., Shadow having to be put to sleep in a stasis capsule within Prison Island, and Gerald being incarcerated. While imprisoned, Gerald brainwashed Shadow, so that the hedgehog would ensure that his doomsday program onboard the ARK, which would wipe out all mankind as his revenge, would be activated once Shadow awoke.
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50 years later, Shadow was awakened by Gerald's grandson, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, when he attacked Prison Island. The black and red hedgehog demonstrated his abilities, destroying the Hot Shot. Shadow then manipulated Robotnik into following his plan for wiping out the Earth, which in fact was programmed into him by Professor Gerald. Shadow later stole a Chaos Emerald from an art gallery and destroyed a Gun Beetle group. He also incorporated Sonic into the crimes. Shadow later personally revealed himself to the blue hedgehog and showed him what he could do. After defeating Sonic, Shadow teleported away, and returned to Robotnik's base. There, the doctor personally congratulated him. Rouge the Bat soon after joined their alliance as well. Later, Shadow, Rouge and Robotnik attacked Prison Island. This time, their task was to steal three consecutive Chaos Emeralds. There, Robotnik distracted the military robots, while Shadow and Rouge had to get into the base, put an explosive charge and run away with Emeralds. However, the plan was interrupted by Amy Rose, who mistook Shadow for Sonic. Robotnik let his team go though, promising to take care of the girl. Shadow put up the bomb as planned and Robotnik told him to set it for ten minutes because of the delay that Amy caused. Shadow was then about to leave the island, only to learn that Rouge was in danger because she was locked up in a warehouse with Chaos Emeralds. Shadow intended to return to the base, but Sonic attacked him on the way. Both of them fought a balanced duel this time until Robotnik informed Shadow that the base would blow up in a moment. Shadow thus teleported to the base of Prison Island to save Rouge. However, Chris Thorndyke jumped in with him. There, Shadow saw Maria in Chris and decided to save both him and Rouge for now. Shadow thus took the Chaos Emeralds and teleported himself, Rouge and Chris to the Space Colony ARK, just before the Prison Island blew up.
A threat from space soon came when Robotnik and his robots flew to the Space Colony ARK. There, they reactivated the Eclipse Cannon and fed it with the six Chaos Emeralds they had gathered. Shadow then saw Robotnik blow up half of the moon with his new weapon. The doctor subsequently gave the world 24 hours to announce their surrender to the Robotnik Empire.
Sonic and his friends soon after appeared on the Space Colony ARK. From there, Shadow and Chris watched Robotnik shoot Sonic out into space in a capsule that exploded, convincing Shadow and Chris that the blue hedgehog had died. Shadow then went to the ARK's main computer and caught Rouge in data theft. In response, Rouge showed him the printout from Project Shadow. According to this information, two capsules containing the ultimate creature were fired from the ARK, but none of them were found, meaning Shadow might not be who he considered himself to be. However, the hedgehog did not care about it, because he knew that he had to fulfill the promise made to Maria. Shadow then went to the Eclipse Cannon, because Robotnik had informed him that someone wanted to destroy the cannon. It turned out Sonic was the culprit, who had survived his earlier ordeal because he was able to use Chaos Control with a false Chaos Emerald to teleport out of the capsule. Shadow then engaged Sonic in a fight that seriously damaged the Eclipse Cannon. In the end, Sonic defeated Shadow using a Ring, and the Eclipse cannon was neutralized. By then however, Gerald's doomsday program had been activated, making the ARK head towards Earth to destroy it. Knowing everything had gone as planned, Shadow simply awaited the ARK's inevitable collision with Earth. However, Chris tried to convince him to help stop the ARK, prompting Shadow to beat up Chris for asking this of him after what the world did to Maria. However, Chris soon reminded Shadow of the real words of Maria, who wanted people to live their happily in peace. Coming to his senses, Shadow went to stop the ARK. Shadow subsequently turned his attention to the Bio Lizard when it tried to stop Sonic and Knuckles from stopping the ARK's collision course by deactivating the Chaos Emeralds with the Master Emerald. Although, Shadow seriously damaged the Bio Lizard, and the emeralds were stopped, the Bio Lizard used Chaos Control to merge with ARK and becoming the Final Lizard.
Thanks to the Final Hazard, the colony was still directed to collide with Earth. Shadow and Sonic thus used the Chaos Emeralds to transform into Super Shadow and Super Sonic. Together, they destroyed the Final Lizard, but the ARK had already begun entering the atmosphere. To stop the ARK, the heroes performed a join Chaos Control and teleported the Space Colony back into space. Following that, Shadow lost his consciousness in space, and was presumed dead by everyone.
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==Characteristics==
===Appearances===
====Physical====
Shadow is a black-furred anthropomorphic hedgehog. He has red eyes, a patch of white fur on his chest, a black nose, a tan muzzle, and small, triangular ears with tan canals. He also has six quills on his head, four of which curve upwards while the other two curve downwards, two spines on his back, and a short, pointy tail. He has red stripes on each of his head quills, around the edges of his eyes, and on his arms and legs. And lastly, he has human-like hands and feet with three toes, and peach soles on each foot.
====Attire====
For his attire, Shadow wears white gloves with black cuffs and red tongues, and his iconic Air Kicks which, like his gloves, have black cuffs and red tongues. He also wears gold inhibitor rings, one on each of his wrists and ankles.
===Personality===
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==Skills==
===Transformations===
====Super form====
Shadow is able to use all seven Chaos Emeralds' power to transform into his super form, Super Shadow. In his own super form, Shadow possesses theoretically infinite speed and strength, along with flight and virtual invulnerability. All of his chaos abilities are also increased to an incalculable level. He even once uses Chaos Control to stop the Planet Egg's explosion, which according to Dr. Robotnik, would have wiped out the entire universe.
==Relationships==
===Maria Kintobor===
Maria Kintobor is shown to be like a big sister to Shadow. They were both born and raised on the Space Colony ARK, and shared the dream of going to visit the planet Earth, shown best in a flashback Shadow has where he's talking to Maria. He states: "What's it like to see the sky above your head? I... I just want to know." However, when Project Shadow was shut down, Maria decided that she had to set Shadow free, and released him to Earth. Apparently, the last thing Shadow saw in that space station was Maria being shot and killed by a soldier. Shadow then spent his time after being awakened planning to avenge her by destroying the humans, which is why he showed Eggman the Eclipse Cannon. He often has hallucinations of Maria, such as seeing her reflection standing next to his on any glass surface, or hearing her plead to him when Chris was asking for help. Chris reminds Shadow of Maria with his kind-hearted ways.
===Sonic (the) Hedgehog===
Sonic is Shadow's arch-rival-turned ally, who also happens to be a fellow hedgehog. When they first met, Shadow showed interest in meeting Sonic, noting their similarities and mocked him as a weak opponent as he was able to defeat Sonic in combat. However, he later changed this view about Sonic after seeing Sonic using Chaos Control. Shadow got impressed by Sonic and had come to respect him as a rival, ever since. After remembering Maria's true wish, Shadow helped Sonic and his friends and fought with Super Sonic to stop the Space Colony Ark from destroying the earth.
When he appeared in the Metarex Saga, Shadow did not know Sonic and his friends because of his amnesia. Because of this, he fought against Sonic and his friends with Eggman. After Molly's death, Shadow realized that Sonic was right about Eggman's evil plans and therefore left Eggman to defeat the Metarexhimself. After knowing about Cosmo's secret about being a spy for the Metarex, Shadow defeated him only to kill Cosmo to prevent her from sending information to the Metarex. In the battle with Final Mova, Shadow showed some respect to Sonic and they worked together to defeat Final Mova and he charged himself with Sonic in the Sonic Power Cannon, despite the damage that the power could do to him only to help Sonic to defeat the Metarex once and for all. He also knocked out Sonic to prevent him from risking his life to save the galaxy. Overall, there is always tension between Shadow and Sonic, but they have as well some respect for each other and Shadow will puts his differences with Sonic aside to help Sonic against any powerful enemy that come in their way.
===Chris Thorndyke===
Christopher Thorndyke seems to remind Shadow of his late friend, Maria. He saved Chris, along with Rouge, just before Prison Island explodes. After he takes them to the ARK, Shadow keeps a close eye on Chris. When Chris begged Shadow to help Sonic save the world, Shadow repetitively beat him up to make him stop talking and after some time, explained his hatred for the humans after they killed Maria. However, Chris was determined to remind Shadow of what Maria truly wanted: For him to protect the people of Earth and always watch over them. In the end, he succeeded which lead to Shadow showing remorse for his actions and later sacrificing himself.
===G.U.N===
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==Quotes ==
For a whole list of Shadow's famous one-liners and quotes, click here.
==Gallery==
===Miscellaneous===
File:Shadow, relaxing in his barefeet.jpg|Shadow, relaxing in his paws.
==Development ==
 - Word from Noah B. Will
===Re-imagining Shadow's tragic backstory===
Shadow has a very tragic backstory, much similar to that from the Sonic game series, that I just wanted to re-imagine it, so badly. Like his counterpart from the games, Shadow had a friend named Maria. 
The grief-stricken Shadow was told from Professor Gerald that he will be given the opportunity to one day avenge the one person he cared about the most, by having revenge on G.U.N., for killing her, before being put to a 50-year hyper-sleep. (Though, he would unknowingly be used as a weapon of violence, by a bitter-hearted somebody with sworn vengeance towards humanity, on that future day.) This is a parallel reference to James Robinson and Nicola Scott's own incarnation of the DC Comics character, Alan Scott,...
==Trivia==
*Like Sonic, Shadow’s redesigned appearance resembles that of his counterpart from the live-action film universe.
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