The original anime in Japan was such a failure nobody wanted it. The studio shopped it around, TWICE. And no one wanted it at all. Finally they said as long as you don't change character names, don't change the fundamental story, you can do whatever you want with the dialog. Basically whoever did their dialog for a scene first was accepted, and everyone else had to work around it, and so on. They filled it with all sorts of dialog that would send the wokesters to the grave. It was of course a huge success.
The IDW comics have done a lot of good for a lot of characters, but i HATE what's being done with Shadow. Ian Flynn has said that there's a reason for what their doing with him, but I still hate it
There are people who say Sonic has never been the heroic type who doesn't kill people. To which I argue name a single human or mobian enemy that he has tried to kill just because it would stop them later? I'm talking about game Sonic btw since IDW is basically a continuation of them. I'll wait.
3:31 It’s a blink and you’ll miss it moment but they expertly show off Emerl’s copy ability. the second Shadow does a spin attack on Emerl, he immediately copies it and starts attacking him back with it. Such a cool detail! We are a truly in a newer and better era of Sonic.
You know... in hindsight shadow not running from the zombots makes total sense when you consider what the ultimate lifeforms is supposed to be. He was created by Dr. Gerald to be the answer to any illness. So in shadows mind he doesn't even consider it possible to be infected because his body should naturally repel any sickness. Even his dialogue before and after getting infected shows this. He claims the virus can't infected him and when he's gets some on his hand he says it should be impossible for him to get infected.
Man shadow is from 50 years ago and eggman created a brand new virus which is adaptive unlike a regular disease. If he was smart he would cooperate with tails and try to make a cure using his dna or something. The whole scene makes him come off as an arrogant asshole… there’s no defending this in my eyes
And Ian Flynn wrote this, the only reason Shadow was dumb in the Metal Virus arc is not because of the writers but because of the Sega Mandates and restrictions so from this you can tell Ian Flynn can write a great Shadow the Hedgehog
I still hold both writers and Sega accountable for that metal virus stuff not saying that Ian Flynn is a bad writer but surely they could’ve came to a better conclusion than what happened in the comments 😭
@@vexyrose5858 with that one that’s not really on SEGA 😂 Ian admitted as much on his podcast the goal was always for Shadow to let his hubris and (fairly rightful) assumption of being immune to most illnesses get to him and get taken out early. Now he said he would definitely execute it better and kinda rein Shadow’s tone and that awful “cowards run I win” line in a bit more but he said he wouldn’t change him getting taken out early as that was always meant to happen, he’d just change how it was executed.
This was absolutely PEAK the freaking sibling moment between shadow and Maria touched my heart 🥹🖤🩵that had to be black doom fucking with shadows head and Kirk HE LOCKED THE FUCK IN
I agree with you about Eggman. Some people say he should always be threatening and black hearted, but that's leaning too far to the left. Without that hint of goofiness, he becomes the other kind of cartoon villain; basically Dr. Claw and not enough of the mad scientist.
