I Hate Snatch Steal Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 As I understand it after just one game appearance his popularity with the fan base was enough to make the writing staff retconn him back from the dead instead of leaving him as a one shot character. I can think of a few reasons to dislike him but I'll avoid asking any other leading questions, so to speak, since I want to hear what others see in him without bias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 People like dark characters and anti-heros...kinda simple as that from what I know.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool Basically that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~~ Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 Well he's kinda edgy, so there's that. Shadow still plays second fiddle to Coldsteel in my book though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yui Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 Sonic fandom + Edgy things in the 2000s = Wallet mining operations. They may have also been really curious about his history with Maria and all that stuff, or it could just be that Sega was working on a non-Shadow game at first and at some point Sega was like "Actually, Shadow's really popular, let's make him the protagonist" or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruiota_Hiroshi Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 He's the edgy, "dark" rival of Sonic. Characters like that tend to naturally be more popular (like Vegeta from DBZ or Viral from TTGL). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizarus Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 It doesn't hurt that he has more development than the main character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rooster Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 Nobody likes Shadow: he's just a meme. He was probably popular when SA2 was released, but then Sega completely shat all over him by releasing Shadow The Hedgehog and turning him into a complete edgelord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 Nobody likes Shadow: he's just a meme. He was probably popular when SA2 was released, but then Sega completely shat all over him by releasing Shadow The Hedgehog and turning him into a complete edgelord.After looking some stuff up I can't find more recent but an official Sega Poll in 2006 marked him as the second favorite character after Sonic. And the year before that he was number one.Note that 2005 was when the game that "shat all over him" came out.Basically your personal opinion (even if I agree the game was dumb) doesn't mean he wasn't/isn't popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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