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7/12/2025, 1:05:58 AM
>>530871303
That's a nice paragraph and I agree, but one thing:
I have never argued that Shadow should NEVER make that face. No one has to my knowledge. That has never been my argument and it's frustrating to see it reduced to that.
There's a huge difference between having him do it 10% of the time and 90% of the time. I'm not asking for 0% but for 10% (being generous since it's more like 5% in older games). Fanworks make it 90%.
I'm saying 1. have him do it infrequently and 2. it has been slowly happening more often now that IDW's team is working on other official media, because they get all their understanding of the characters from the fandom/fanart. I am not saying it should never ever happen, Shadow does make expressions, but he usually has a pretty good poker face and the viewer can't tell what he's thinking/feeling. I'm fairly sure this is done intentionally to make him more mysterious, which is a big part of Shadow's appeal.
I don't like it when fan media influences the characters. I don't like it when social media memes are made official in some capacity. That's true "meta era" shit right there, adding in vague references to flavor of the month memes and changing the characters' entire body language to better match the mental illnessu fanart 15 year olds on your feed draw.
There's something chilling about an extremely powerful character like Shadow just silently and calmly walking towards you with the intent to kill, his gaze staring straight through you. That should be replicated. He's that missing link between a murder machine like Metal and a real 'hero' like Sonic.
That's a nice paragraph and I agree, but one thing:
I have never argued that Shadow should NEVER make that face. No one has to my knowledge. That has never been my argument and it's frustrating to see it reduced to that.
There's a huge difference between having him do it 10% of the time and 90% of the time. I'm not asking for 0% but for 10% (being generous since it's more like 5% in older games). Fanworks make it 90%.
I'm saying 1. have him do it infrequently and 2. it has been slowly happening more often now that IDW's team is working on other official media, because they get all their understanding of the characters from the fandom/fanart. I am not saying it should never ever happen, Shadow does make expressions, but he usually has a pretty good poker face and the viewer can't tell what he's thinking/feeling. I'm fairly sure this is done intentionally to make him more mysterious, which is a big part of Shadow's appeal.
I don't like it when fan media influences the characters. I don't like it when social media memes are made official in some capacity. That's true "meta era" shit right there, adding in vague references to flavor of the month memes and changing the characters' entire body language to better match the mental illnessu fanart 15 year olds on your feed draw.
There's something chilling about an extremely powerful character like Shadow just silently and calmly walking towards you with the intent to kill, his gaze staring straight through you. That should be replicated. He's that missing link between a murder machine like Metal and a real 'hero' like Sonic.
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