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and then eventually regressed back into that role again in the 2010s along with every other character that got Flanderized and boiled down to their base character elements
>muh English scripts
the localization might've made it worse, but the signs are still there in the Japanese scripts too if you actually go back and watch cutscenes from those games
also reminder that Sonic Team has to okay every single localization script, meaning that Iizuka was perfectly fine with the English version of Shadow's dialogues
