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Message: [QUOTE="Yousef, post: 161115, member: 963"] [HEADING=2]Bass and Shadow, a misunderstood connection [/HEADING] [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]53077[/ATTACH][URL='https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/terusada/shadow-and-forte']Art source[/URL][/CENTER] Character comparisons are unavoidable evil. They can be healthy and harmless fun, and it would be naive to assume they’re all bad or they all should be stopped. However this is one example where they can be taken to a silly extreme, and be given completely based on visual bias (they both have a black colour scheme). It’s more harmful when it’s two popular series with a similarly large cast. Sonic has an ungodly amount of characters, so this was bound to happen. But the problem here stems from two fandoms that don’t really interact much. What’s worse, sonic fans misunderstand their own material alone, so they have no right interpreting other franchises. [HEADING=2]But who’s Shadow and why was he created?[/HEADING] [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]53080[/ATTACH] [B][SIZE=1]Ignore the extreme ugly character right next to him. [/SIZE][/B][/CENTER] So Shadow was made so he’d help cure Maria’s seemingly fatal disease, and eventually rebelled against humans once Gerald (his creator) was being arrested and Maria got caught in the crossfire and died like a bitch. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]53082[/ATTACH] [B][SIZE=1]Sonic X discussing child murder. Yes, really. [/SIZE][/B] [/CENTER] [SIZE=4]so anyways, Shadow became means to an end. “Waaahh, humans killed my only family, I’m gonna become so broody and edgy now…” Except the dumbass forgot that wasn’t what Maria’s dying words was. She wanted him to forgive and protect. So he was like “oh ok I guess humans are cool now”. then he fell to the earth and died like a bitch. The end. [/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=4][ATTACH type="full"]53090[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]53091[/ATTACH][/SIZE][/CENTER] No, sadly that’s not where it ends. He survives… unfortunately. Then uhh, he gets amnesia and becomes broody again [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]53102[/ATTACH] [/CENTER] Can you already tell that’s zero similarities between him and bass? I don’t even need to explain anything on Bass’s side, the differences here are that self-evident But anyways… Then some alien guy comes and says [ATTACH type="full"]53097[/ATTACH] [CENTER][/CENTER] “So, you’re an alien too, huh?” [ATTACH type="full"]53123[/ATTACH] Don’t ask where the clip is from. I’m too embarrassed to say where. Then Shadow goes on this gigantic quest in a game to unlock 10 endings that all led to one ending… somehow (inFamous did this better) and he has ten personalities because sonic loves bloating its cast so much, it created a million versions of one character. LITERALLY. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]53128[/ATTACH] [/CENTER] After this, shadow starts working for the president (I’m not kidding) and becomes a cop for the government that killed his family (damn I guess he got amnesia again). The end. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]53130[/ATTACH] [B][SIZE=1]Yeah, the President has a framed portrait of sonic and shadow, because…[/SIZE][/B][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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