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Can someone explain to me why Shadow the Hedgehog [the character] is so popular?


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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.

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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.

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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.

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