Shadow the Hedgehog

### Goal(s)

Keep his promise to Maria and fulfill her wish by protecting the earth, and bringing hope to humanity (ongoing)
Prove that he is better than Sonic (ongoing)
Put aside her criminal life and become an honest person (succeeded)
Help Sonic Heroes and the G.U.N. to eliminate villains from conquering the world (succeeded)

### Crime(s)

Attempted omnicide
Assault
Mass murder
Destruction
Theft
Terrorism
Conspiracy
Sabotage
Arms dealing

## Alignment and Character Traits

### Affiliation(s)

* United Federation
	+ G.U.N.
		- Team Dark

### Previous Affiliation(s)

* Eggman Empire
	+ Team Eggman

### Employer(s)

* President
* Commander Abraham Tower

### Occupation

Sonic's arch-rival
[Agent of G.U.N.
Leader of Team Dark
Member of Sonic Heroes
Member of the Resistance

## Personal Statistics

### Existence Cause

Created by Prof. Robotnik through Black Doom's blood

### Relative(s)

* All Black Arms †
	+ Black Doom (genetic template/"father") †
	+ Eclipse ("brother")

### Friend(s)

* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic (arch-rival)
	+ "Tails" (sometimes)
	+ Knuckles (to a degree)
* Maria Robotnik †
* Gerald Robotnik †
* G.U.N.
	+ Commander Abraham Tower
	+ His team
		- Rouge (close friend)
		- Omega (close friend/friendly rival)
		- E-10000B (briefly)
* Team Rose
	+ Amy Rose
	+ Cream
		- Cheese
	+ Big
		- Froggy
* Team Chaotix
	+ Vector
	+ Espio
	+ Charmy
* Vanilla
* Chao
* Omochao
* Team Sol
	+ Silver
	+ Blaze
* Emerl
* Princess Elise
* Shade
* Wisps

### On-and-Off

* Babylon Rogues
	+ Jet
	+ Storm
	+ Wave

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman (sometimes ally)
		- Decoe
		- Bocoe
		- Bokkun
	+ Dr. Spicer (sometimes ally)
		- Orbot
		- Cubot
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Series
			* Metal Sonic (sometimes)
		- E-Series Robots
* Bio Lizard †
* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom (arch-nemesis)
* Solaris
	+ Mephiles (archenemy; evil counterpart)
	+ Iblis
* Ifrit
* Nocturnus Clan
	+ Imperator Ix
	+ Gizoids
* Eggman Nega
* Time Eater
* Infinite
* Zavok

### Rival(s)

* Sonic (arch-rival)
* Jet

## Items & Equipment

### Attire(s)

* White gloves with black cuffs
* Red-tongues
* Gold rings
* Red, white and black jet-propelled shoes with black cuffs

### Favorite Food

* Pizza
* Doritos
* Snickers
* Hot Pockets

## Powers and Abilities

### Power(s)

* Immortality
* Super speed
* Teleportation
* Telekinesis
* Harnessing chaos energy
	+ Chaos Boost transformation
	+ Chaos Powers
	+ Hero and Dark transformations
	+ Super transformation
	+ Chaos Shadow transformation
* Hyper-go-on usage

### Skill(s)

* Enhanced strength
* Enhanced durability
* Enhanced jump
* Enhanced stamina
* Enhanced agility
* Extreme acrobatic skills and reflexes
* Enhanced immune system
* Indomitable will
* Hand-to-hand combat skills
* Weapon and firearm combat skills
* Vehicle intuition
* Extreme Gear riding skills
* Grinding

### Moves and Techniques

* ???
* Air Boost
* Air C. Burst
* Air C. Magic
* Air R. Chaos
* Air Ride
* Air Slide
* Atomic Strike (requires Sonic)
* Attack Support 3
* Black Tornado
* Boost
* Bounce Attack
* Cartwheel
* Chaos Attack
* Chaos Blast
* Chaos Boost
* Chaos Burst
* Chaos Control
* Chaos Inferno (requires Rouge and Omega)
* Chaos Lance
* Chaos Magic
* C. Nightmare
* Chaos Upper
* Chaos Punishment
* Chaos Rift
* Chaos Snap
* Chaos Spear
* Color Power
* Crouch
* Grind Crouching
* Dark Spin Dash
* Dash Boost
* Double Jump
* Edge Attack
* Fire Somersault
* Focus Field (requires Omega)
* Gravity Control
* Gravity Dive
* Grind Step
* Guard
* Homing Attack
* Homing Dash
* Item Box Transfer
* Jump Dash
* Kick
* Kick Dash
* Light Speed Attack
* Light Speed Dash
* Mid-Air Attack
* Overturn
* Pick
* Punch
* Quick Step
* Radial Burst
* Ring Toss
* Rival Takedown
* Roaming Chaos
* Rocket Accel
* S. Teleport
* Shadow B. Kick
* Shadow Chop
* Shadow Dash
* Shadow Eagle
* Shadow Guard
* Shadow Heal
* Shadow Jump
* Shadow Kick
* Shadow Rocket
* Shadow Run
* Shadow Slider
* Shadow Style
* Shadow's All-Star Move
* Skim Boost
* Skydiving
* Slide
* Slide Turn
* Slingshot
* Somersault
* Speed Up
* Speed Up Lv 2
* Spin Attack
* Spin Dash
* Spin Jump
* Spin Kick
	+ Tornado
* Stomp
* Strafe
* Strength Support 9
* Team Ultimate
* Triangle Jump
* Trick Action
* Wall Jump

### Transform(s)

* Super Shadow
* Hero Shadow
* Dark Shadow
* Chaos Shadow
* Color Powers

## Behind the Scenes

### Real-World Creator(s)

* Kazuyuki Hoshino
* Shiro Maekawa
* Takashi Iizuka
* Yuji Uekawa

## Portrayals

### Voiced By (Foreign)

* Reginaldo Primo (Brazilian Portuguese)
* Manuel Gimeno (Catalan)
* Marek L bert (Czech)
* Victor van Swaay (Dutch)
* Antti Jaakola (Finnish)
* Marie Lenoir (French)
* Marianne Graffam (German)
* Giorgos Mataragas (Greek)
* Eran Mor (Hebrew)
* Czető Roland (Hungarian)
* Daniele Raffaeli (Italian)
* Jae-heon Jeong (Korean)
* Fernando Márquez (Latin Spanish)
* Maciej Kosmala (Polish)
* Pedro Leitão (Portuguese)
* Florian Silaghi (Romanian)
* Anton Savenkov (Russian)
* Ana Vidal (Spanish)
* Sorawit Tongteng (Thai)
* Minh Triet (Vietnamese)

**Shadow the Hedgehog**, is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. He is an anthropomorphic black and red hedgehog/Black Arm hybrid.

He was created by Prof. Robotnik and is the end result of the mysterious top secret government experiment called Project: Shadow, an effort to create the "**Ultimate Life Form**", using the blood and DNA of Black Doom.

His purpose was to provide ways to develop a cure for rare and incurable deadly disease and illnesses, more specifically for the NIDS that was affecting Gerald's granddaughter Maria, whom Shadow had made friends with.

However, the project was forcibly closed and shut down, and Maria was killed during the raid onboard the ARK. Shadow was captured and put into stasis on Prison Island by the military when he was deemed as a threat to humanity.

50 years later, Shadow was released and awakened from hibernation by Gerald's great-grandson, Jack under the orders of Dr. Eggman in order to enlist Shadow in one of his world conquest plans and defeating Sonic finally.

Initially, Shadow worked with tham but secretly sought to destroy the planet in order to avenge Maria's death; but after realizing he had been led astray by false memories from Gerald's doomsday plans, he ultimately saved it.

In the process, he was saved by Jack with one of his own robots, from an incident which almost cost him his own life. However, Shadow had also lost his memories and as such, sought a way to uncover the truth of his past.

Regardless, she is loyal to her closest friends and has more than once helped Sonic and his allies save the world.

"*I am the ultimate life form, Shadow the Hedgehog. I will crush anyone who stands in my way!*"

—Shadow the Hedgehog, to Sonic.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Kirk Thornton (English), Kōji Yusa (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Bulgarian), Not Known (Cantonese), Manuel Gimeno (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Marek L bert (Czech), Victor van Swaay (Dutch), Not Known (Filipino), Antti Jaakola (Finnish), Marie Lenoir (French), Marianne Graffam (German), Giorgos Mataragas (Greek), Eran Mor (Hebrew), Czető Roland (Hungarian), Daniele Raffaeli (Italian), Jae-heon Jeong (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Maciej Kosmala (Polish), Pedro Leitão (Portuguese), Florian Silaghi (Romanian), Anton Savenkov (Russian), Mateja Vukašinović (Serbian), Ana Vidal (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Sorawit Tongteng (Thai), Not Known (Ukrainian), Minh Triet (Vietnamese), Reginaldo Primo (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Fernando Márquez (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish), Not Known (Taiwanese Mandarin)

### Biography

Shadow the Hedgehog is a black hedgehog who resembles Sonic. He was created by the renowned scientist and Dr. Eggman's grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik, to be the ultimate life-form at the height of his career. Not only does he look like Sonic, but he has equal abilities. He has great skill with the space-time warping technique called Chaos Control. To reach his goals, he'll use any means necessary.

Shadow is the dark incarnation of Sonic, created by the renowned scientist, Professor Gerald at the height of his career. This black hedgehog matches Sonic's great speed and skills and has the ability to distort time and space using "Chaos Control." Shadow was presumed dead after his fall at Colony Arc in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, but Rouge discovered him hidden away at Dr. Eggman's base. He has no memory of what happened to him but he's anxious to track down Dr. Eggman and find out.

### Physical Appearance

Shadow is an mobian black hedgehog with red stripes on his quills, around the edges of his eyes and on his arms and legs. 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.

For attire, Shadow wears white gloves with black cuffs and red tongues, and

* Hair Color: Black and Crimson
* Skin Color: Tan
* Eye Color: Red
* Age: Ageless
* Birthday: June 23
* Height: 100 cm (3' 3")
* Weight: 35 kg (77 lb.)

## Personality

Being Sonic's polar opposite personality-wise, Shadow is, bluntly put, a brooding loner. He usually acts with a cool and businesslike indifference, only occasionally showing his vulnerable side. He is rarely seen with others for an extended period of time and usually distances himself from essentially everyone. He is usually blunt and does not speak much, but he always knows exactly what to say in combat. However, Shadow never bluffs; if he makes a threat, he has every intention of carrying it out.

As the most violent and merciless character in the series at times, Shadow's ruthlessness and aggression leads to enemies never treating him lightly; he is one of the very few individuals Sonic takes seriously. Alongside his dark and violent demeanor, Shadow can be smug and stubborn. He usually treats others in a very callous manner, throwing in his opinion no matter how cold-hearted it is and not caring for whatever the response is.

Shadow is also shown to have a sharp wit; during the Space Colony ARK incident, after being called a faker by Sonic, he replied that the latter was not worth being considered his fake. Just like how Shadow's motivations are never simple to understand, he spends as much time grappling with his own inner demons as he does with his rival, Sonic.

In the past, Shadow has had a degree of mental instability, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder. This was demonstrated by his instances of post-traumatic flashbacks to Maria's face prior to and during the events of the Black Arms incident, though it could be argued that the instances of the latter game were simply an effect of his amnesia.

On one occasion, at the time of the Space Colony ARK incident, seeing police sirens flashing caused him to intensely flash back to the massacre aboard ARK and in particular Maria's death. Shadow was soon able to overcome this in the Black Arms and the Emerl incidents, during which he chose to move on from the past yet keep Maria in his heart. In fact, his personal journey since being awoken by Eggman has had him confront the shackles of his past, such as ties, fate, and memories.

Since then, it appears as though he is reaching a point where he can "do as his heart desires" in his own way. During the many incidents that Shadow takes part in, he pursues his foes with a relentless, unwavering determination. He will usually go to any length to accomplish something he desires or feels should be a certain way, no matter what the cost.

Before the War to Take Back the Planet, it is heavily implied that Shadow ruthlessly massacred an entire mercenary band not only in an extremely dismissive, nonchalant manner (as he did not even remember the incident a few months later), but also seemed slightly proud, mocking the mercenary defense squad by saying they themselves needed a defense squad. He also demonstrated rather coarse language during the Black Arms incident.

**Sonic**: *If you have a heart, you would never use your power for the forces of evil! There's no way you could! Weapons aren't supposed to have "hearts." But, both you and Emerl do! You guys... You aren't just weapons!*"
**Shadow**: *Hmph! No, you are wrong. We were created as weapons. If the people of this world ever want peace, they must destroy us.*"

—Sonic and Shadow.
Shadow possesses a strong sense of identity; after falsely being told by Rouge that he was not the Ultimate Lifeform due to a lab report, he stated to her that, even if his memories were fake, he was still Shadow the Hedgehog. In Shadow's own words, he is not interested in peace, nor does he care about what happens to others. In truth, he simply does not like it when foolish people do whatever they please.

While this may make it seem like Shadow stands firmly in opposition to villainy, he is actually very indiscriminate about who he faces, as he chooses to stand against anyone who he condemns for being foolish, be they villains like Dr. Eggman or heroes like Sonic. He similarly does not want thanks for the help he provides when he does something heroic, believing that showing gratitude is a waste of time.

Despite his apathetic nature, however, Shadow does feel sympathy for others, and since reforming himself at the end of the Space Colony ARK incident, he has ultimately fought for the greater good, most noticeably to prevent letting other people experience past tragedies, especially the ones that he has been through. Seeing himself as a weapon since he was created as one, the hedgehog also believes that he and other weapons will eventually have to be destroyed to achieve world peace.

Despite that, due to being given a "soul" identical to Maria's, he is afraid of his power and has never used it recklessly or to cause suffering. Shadow is often depressed about the loss of Maria, which is why he keeps to himself, but his relationship with her is obvious as he goes to great lengths to protect the planet and keep her dream of peace and prosperity alive.

He also maintains a strong bond with his teammates, Rouge and Omega, proving that while his attitude makes him seem like a careless person, he does have some compassion, more than he otherwise lets on. Still, Shadow brushes off most kindness or sympathy that is sent his way; during the Neo Metal Sonic incident, when Rouge showed concern for Shadow when he saw a broken android of himself, suspecting Team Dark's Shadow might be an android too, Shadow curtly brushed her concern away.

During the Black Arms incident, after Sonic suggested some "friendly competition", Shadow bluntly rejected his offer. At times, however, Shadow is shown to appreciate genuine care; at the climax of the Space Colony ARK incident, after Amy made him remember his promise to Maria, Shadow openly decided to keep his promise to protect the planet both to Maria and her. Another instance is during the aborted Solaris incident, when Rouge told him that she would always be by his side, he acknowledged her.

Despite the fact that Shadow often fights for the greater good, he is considered an anti-hero for the most part due to his morality and means to his desired end goals. He does whatever is necessary to get what he wants or feels is right, though this enthusiasm causes him to take risks and jump into situations without fully thinking them through. While not necessarily evil, Shadow's cold-hearted, purposeless personality has sometimes entailed the dangerous purity of turning himself into an enemy of Sonic.

Compared to Rouge, he has own interests of winning in the second World Grand Prix, and he disregarded the opening and closing ceremonies for the event and, showing up late without a third teammate for the Grand Prix. Regardless, Shadow does have his moments of selflessness and heroism; he nearly sacrificed his life at the end of the Space Colony ARK to save the world, and helped Silver uncover the truth of the Solaris Project after saving Sonic from him in an aborted timeline.

## Relationships

### Friends/allies

* United Federation
	+ The President
	+ The Secretary
	+ G.U.N.
		- Commander Tower
		- Team Dark
			* **Shadow**
			* Omega
* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic
	+ "Tails"
	+ Knuckles
* Team Rose
	+ Amy
	+ Cream
		- Cheese
	+ Big
* Team Chaotix
	+ Espio
	+ Charmy
	+ Vector
* E-10000B (formerly)
* Avatar
* Dodon Pa
* Omochao
* Princess Elise
* Shade
* Silver

### Rivals

* Amy Rose
* Knuckles (primary rival)
* Wave

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Egg Army
		- Infinite
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Series
			* Metal Sonic
		- E-Series Robots
* Bio Lizard
* Black Arms
	+ Black Doom
	+ Doom's Eye
* Solaris
	+ Iblis
	+ Mephiles
* Nocturnus Clan
	+ Imperator Ix
* Ifrit
* Dr. Eggman Nega
* Time Eater
* Zavok

## Powers and abilities

Said to be Sonic's equal in almost every ability, Shadow can easily rival Sonic's various physical skills. His abilities and skills in combat are an extremely powerful force to be reckoned with, and he is a match for even the most powerful foes in the series.

He similarly never willingly holds back his immense strength, making him a brutal fighter. On his own, Shadow has been able to take down GUN's various combat mechs, Dr. Eggman's battle robots, Black Doom and his empowered state, and even deities.

To best put his skills into perspective, Shadow was capable of defeating even Sonic while he had Diablon for support, as seen in some of the scenarios during the Black Arms incident. He even managed to best Emerl in combat after the latter had acquired all seven Chaos Emeralds as a power source (although Emerl quickly surpassed him afterward).

Like many of his associates, Shadow is able to move at super speed. Said to possess "ultimate speed," Shadow is able to match the speeds reached by Sonic, who is able to reach supersonic speeds. Although Shadow's Hover Shoes have been credited for speed on non-solid surfaces, his powerful body allows him to easily rival Sonic's world class speed as well. Due to such speed, he can scale vertical surfaces and ceilings, out-speed bullets, and attack faster than the eye can see.

Even then, Shadow can take his speed further; by enveloping himself in an orange energy field, he can accelerate beyond the sound barrier on both the ground and in midair for a short time, allowing him to not only smash straight through enemies and obstacles like a living projectile, but also fly immense distances through midair. Using certain techniques, he can even achieve light-speed momentarily.

While there are some inconsistencies about how fast Shadow is compared to Sonic, it is usually stated that they are complete equals. Shadow has demonstrated complete mastery of his speed in any environment. Not only can he run at maximum tilt in straight lines, but also in full tight circles and through sharp turns with full control over his momentum. As far as stamina goes, Shadow's is seemingly limitless as he is never winded from running.

His speed also allows him to perform several impressive feats, like spinning in circles or rotating his extremities at super speed to create winds strong enough to attack or blow away/suck in opponents, similar to aerokinesis.

An experienced athlete that shares Sonic's agility, Shadow has outstanding acrobatic skills and nimbleness, along with incredible reflexes that let him avoid any incoming obstacles with precise and delicate movements within split-seconds, grind expertly on Grind Rails, dodge bullets, and perform various strafe movements. When launched into the air, he can also pull off several tricks before landing.

Shadow also has superhuman strength, enough to match Sonic in power; with effort, he can overturn objects many times his weight and size such as trucks, buses and large slabs of concrete with one hand. In addition, Shadow possesses astounding kineticism, precision and has reaction time to match his speed. Shadow also has an incredible resilience to damage as he can take lots of major punishment before he goes down for the count.

Notably, he is completely bulletproof and even withstood atmospheric entry at the end of the Space Colony ARK incident (the latter which only left him with amnesia). Even when he takes damage though, he is able to recover rather fast.

Owning to his "ultimate life form" physiology, Shadow possesses an immortal body, meaning he does not age and cannot be killed. Furthermore, as seen during the Black Arms incident, due to being partly Black Arms, Shadow has a connection to the Black Arms' hive-mind, allowing him to sense his kind's presence and be immune to the Black Arms' body-paralyzing nerve gas.

Shadow also possesses an indomitable will and determination. His absolute refusal to give up in any situation and resolve to see his goals through to the end allows him to keep on persevering even in seemingly impossible situations. His enormous will even let him psychologically resist mind control powers; notably, Shadow was able to regain control of his body from Black Doom despite him being part Black Arms and therefore susceptible to Black Doom's mind control.

Shadow is naturally able to tap into the arcane powers of nearby Chaos Emeralds, either through physical contact or from a distance, to empower himself and access different chaos powers. According to Shadow himself, he is the only one who knows how to use the Chaos Emeralds' true power. His trademark ability in the field of chaos powers is Chaos Control, a technique achieved with the Chaos Emeralds that lets him warp time and space for various effects.

With this technique giving him control over time and space, Shadow is able to warp himself and those close by across space instantaneously over a range further than an island-annihilating explosion or between dimensions, slow down or freeze time entirely, and create areas of distorted space. Shadow is noticeably adept in using Chaos Control for anything between large-scale usages to small-scaled and delicate chaos powers inside and outside of combat.

He can for example use it to either freeze or slow down opponents in time to give himself the speed advantage, launch surprise attacks by suddenly warping up in front or behind opponents, distort space around his fists for strikes that can blow opponents away, hide himself away in distorted space, attack foes with spots of distorted space, and even power his own healing abilities and guarding skills.

Typically, however, Shadow cannot perform Chaos Control if he does not have any Chaos Emeralds to draw power from. Beside Chaos Control, Shadow is able to use a number of additional chaos powers. One of these chaos powers include his Chaos Spear technique, in which he throws up to several bolts of Chaos energy at his opponent that can either paralyze or injure an opponent, depending on its power level.

Shadow's most powerful technique, however, is the Chaos Blast, a chaos power where he releases a discharge of Chaos Emerald energy in a massive explosion that eliminates everything within a range of 10-20 yards. One of Shadow's main offensive maneuvers is the Spin Attack, a technique where he curls into a concussive ball or cutting disk and directs himself at his targets. With it, Shadow can shred or burrow through just about any substance given enough speed.

Highly adept in its usage, Shadow can utilize several variants of the Spin Attack for both grounded and aerial maneuvers, including the Spin Dash, Spin Jump, Homing Attack, and the Light Speed Attack, which attacks at the speed of light.

Even without his Spin Attack, Shadow is a powerful hand-to-hand combatant. In line with his nature and potent abilities, Shadow uses a fighting style where he utilizes strong blows, such as powerful chops, high spin kicks, reverse spin kicks, downward kicks, or just barrages of punches and kicks.

In addition, many of Shadow's stronger hand-to-hand combat moves revolves heavily around his usage of Chaos Control for distortion effects to knock opponents away and his Air Shoes' exhaust for burning opponents.

As shown during the second EX Grand Prix, Shadow is talented with an Extreme Gear. During the tournament, he was able to put up quite a fight and even defeat some of the world's best Extreme Gear riders. When riding on an Extreme Gear, Shadow is skillful enough to ride on Grind Rails, execute complex tricks while in midair, and perform chaos powers and combat moves with ease.

Shadow also has extraordinary skill when it comes to driving or piloting all forms of vehicles. Not only is he one of the best racecar drivers in the universe with the Dark Reaper, but he is also able to perfectly operate weaponized buggies, armed motorcycles, modified gliders, hover crafts with machine guns, bipedal mechs and alien devices.

Shadow is as well an expert gunner, capable of using weaponry like the G.U.N. lifts and G.U.N. turrets with perfect accuracy. Also, whereas Sonic dismisses firearms, Shadow is not above using such weaponry, and has demonstrates proficient skills in a very wide range of weapons during the Black Arms incident, such as close combat weapons, guns, cannons, lock-on weapons and lasers.

Shadow may also have some knowledge about machinery, having once been able to fiddle with a deactivated Omega and deduce he was in standby mode. A miscellaneous ability Shadow has demonstrated as well is telekinesis, which is potent enough to let him move an Extreme Gear around with his mind with ease, or lift Omega into the air or swing Knuckles into the enemies with the movements of his arms.

As powerful as he is, Shadow is able to make himself stronger up tapping into an even greater power within himself. This power is so potent that should he remove his Inhibitor Rings, he becomes a walking dynamo of raw power. When unleashing this power, he releases such tremendous amounts of energy that it forms an impenetrable barrier around himself. While in this state, Shadow gains increased strength and speed, enough to overpower hundreds of clones of Mephiles the Dark at once. However, using his full power tires him out more quickly.

### Transformations

#### Super Shadow

*Main article:* *Super Shadow*
By harnessing all the power of the Chaos Emeralds, Shadow can transform into **Super Shadow**. In this form, Shadow is capable of flight, invulnerability, and nearly limitless Chaos power.

#### Hero Shadow

*Main article:* *Hero Shadow*
When his mind is fueled by thoughts of justice, Shadow is able to attain an enhanced state known as **Hero Shadow**. In this state, Shadow is temporarily invincible and can perform a large-scale use of Chaos Control. However, this state only lasts for a short period of time.

#### Dark Shadow

*Main article:* *Dark Shadow*
When his mind is fueled by thoughts of evil, Shadow is able to attain an enhanced state known as **Dark Shadow**. In this state, Shadow is temporarily invincible and can perform a large scale-use of Chaos Blast. However, this state only lasts for a short period of time.

#### Chaos Shadow

*Main article:* *Chaos Shadow*

If he removes his Inhibitor Rings, Shadow can transform into **Chaos Shadow**. In this form, Shadow becomes a dynamo of raw power with all of his abilities greatly enhanced and energy pouring out of him.

### Weaknesses

While not having any physical weaknesses, Shadow was initially a somewhat easy target for manipulation during the time he had amnesia due to his confusion about who he was and his eagerness to learn anything more about his past. Dr. Eggman could deceive him with lies about his past and Black Doom could subtly manipulate him using visions. However, after learning of his true purpose, Shadow is no longer as easily deceived.

Being part of the Black Arms, Shadow is partially an extension of Black Doom, making him vulnerable to mind control exerted by Black Doom himself. However, Shadow can fight this influence through sheer resolve and willpower.

### Equipment

Shadow wears a pair of specialized shoes called Hover Shoes. These footwears are the primary source of running along non-solid surfaces, producing small jet streams that lets him hover-skate at speeds nearing Sonic's on those said surfaces while running on solid surfaces without their needs. Alternatively, Shadow can use his hover shoes to produce fire to attack opponents with, assist his jumps or achieve hover to flight.

Shadow wears four Inhibitor Rings, one on each of his wrists and ankles, that limit the amount of power he uses during combat and other situations. By removing them, Shadow is able to utilize his full power, turning him into a nigh-unstoppable force.

### Weapons

During the Black Arms incident, Shadow made use of a vast selection of weaponry. This included anything from close combat weapons like Survival Knives and Black Swords; guns like Pistols and Sub-Machine Guns; cannons like Bazookas and Grenade Launchers; lock-ons like 8-Shot RPGs and Worm Shooters; to lasers like Laser Rifles and Refractors.

## External links

* Shadow the Hedgehog *Wikipedia*
* Shadow the Hedgehog *Heroes Wiki*
* Shadow the Hedgehog *IDW Sonic Hub*
* Shadow the Hedgehog *Mobius Encyclopaedia*
* Shadow the Hedgehog *Nintendo Wiki*
* Shadow the Hedgehog *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*
* Shadow the Hedgehog *‎‎‎Villains Wiki*