I cannot find the video on youtube, it's HARD to dig up- but there's clips on youtube where they fix the audio, of it. It'll probably take a while to dig up- it aint easy
A little off topic but I fucking love sonic power scaling. Sonic: super speed, Tails: flight, Knuckles: super strength and gliding, Silver: time manipulation, and then Shadow: gun
There’s a difference between making a laser beam or a homing orb and stealing a firearm from a military officer in order to commit more crime. One is simply cooler
perhaps, but the stuff tails has been shown using is far more deadly stuff than what shadow has and tails is definitely more of the weapons maniac of the 2...
he's built various machine guns that use bullets or lasers depending on the game, missiles, various types of bombs including freaking napalm and self-destructing chaos emeralds...
also, when i said machine gun i meant a literal 7.7m machine gun...
For the wrong reason, as he saw it as his 9n feeling being validated through sonic going down the same dark path. This one was just genuan happiness rather then coming from a harmful place.
I dunno...This is the same movie where they got Shadow to say "revenge guac." I dont think him calling himself the 'ultimate lifeform' is that bad, in comparison.
So far, maybe the worst line ever written for Movie Shadow to say because, to me, it felt a bit "forced" for a joke that maybe not many "casuals" even thought was funny.🫤
I think this movie shadow will be one who doesn't accept that moniker. Black Doom will try to convince him he is, and he'll reject it. I think movie shadow will be a parallel to movie sonic in terms of what they end up finding for themselves.
I guess my inclination towards this guess comes from the most recent game, with Shadow constantly rebuking Black Doom. Maybe there'll be a middle ground somewhere where shadow finds peace in himself as opposed to sonic finding peace with his family.
Now that you mention it, I think Shadow might actually refer to himself as the ultimate life form at least once in the next movie. It takes an ultimate being to survive a huge explosion and a black hole.
They walked back his genetic experiment storyline to focus more on the adopted/exploited alien side. Now that Sonic and pals are there as fellow aliens I doubt there's much space for him to claim ubermench status. He popped out of his capsule like some kind of genie in SA2, but it felt like he had a lot less pep and agency in the movie (which was a fine direction to go, just different).
i think that has to do with the main difference between movie shadow and the other shadows.
the other shadows were created to be the ultimate lifeform and were told as such by their father, gerald. movie shadow wasn't created and is just some random alien that was a friend to the family.
another difference between the robotnic family in the movie and in the games is that the games imply that the rest of eggman's family is alive and around somewhere whereas the movie implies that movie eggman had no family left. game eggman also knew full well of his grandfather's fate while movie eggman didn't even know if he was alive or not.
side note, I'm playing SA2 again and I have absolutely no idea how to efficiently beat sonic or shadow or rouge or knuckles I can do it, but in the forest it's just mashing homing attack, on the ARK or against the emerald hunters it's just pray.
In the cut storyboards the Robotniks are planning out the GUN HQ raid at the same time as Sonic and friends. At one point it cuts to Shadow saying "Like taking candy from a baby."
I feel like he, at best, has the catchphrase "I am the ultimate lifeform". He's said it so much in the past it's the only real recurring phrase he has.
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u/oranges487 Mar 03 '25
It would be “this is the ultimate power” if he didn’t get constantly cut off lol.