I want to talk about perhaps my biggest gripe with the broader story of Sonic 06, and that is Shadow’s sealing.
Keep in mind, I do like Shadow’s story in 06. I think it’s a great strength of character story and it really shows how committed Shadow is to protecting the earth on his own accord without needing ties to Maria or any other promises.
However we never get an explanation for why he was scapegoated. Shadow has always had religious themes and you can see a lot of comparisons with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Shadow’s story in 06. However we really do not know why.
Like reasonably speaking there’s straight up a news article stating the Egg Carrier crashed, with Elise’s death releasing the flames of disaster. Sonic also saw the Egg Carrier crash and he 100% would defend Shadow if humanity tried to hunt him down.
The only way this can be explained to me personally is if somehow everyone died when Iblis was released and Shadow is the lone survivor.
Humans often do find conspiracies or scapegoats to cope with tragedies, and if the rest of the case, especially Sonic, died and lost to Iblis, they wouldn’t be able to cope with the fact that Iblis was the reason, and with Shadow surviving people collectively hunt him down to blame him.
The other way is perhaps Mephiles had taken Shadow’s form and humans witnessed it blaming Shadow.
But also, I don’t like filling holes with fan theories to rationalize bad writing. I just thought this was the dumbest part of the story outside of the time travel elements.
Keep in mind, I do like Shadow’s story in 06. I think it’s a great strength of character story and it really shows how committed Shadow is to protecting the earth on his own accord without needing ties to Maria or any other promises.
However we never get an explanation for why he was scapegoated. Shadow has always had religious themes and you can see a lot of comparisons with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Shadow’s story in 06. However we really do not know why.
Like reasonably speaking there’s straight up a news article stating the Egg Carrier crashed, with Elise’s death releasing the flames of disaster. Sonic also saw the Egg Carrier crash and he 100% would defend Shadow if humanity tried to hunt him down.
The only way this can be explained to me personally is if somehow everyone died when Iblis was released and Shadow is the lone survivor.
Humans often do find conspiracies or scapegoats to cope with tragedies, and if the rest of the case, especially Sonic, died and lost to Iblis, they wouldn’t be able to cope with the fact that Iblis was the reason, and with Shadow surviving people collectively hunt him down to blame him.
The other way is perhaps Mephiles had taken Shadow’s form and humans witnessed it blaming Shadow.
But also, I don’t like filling holes with fan theories to rationalize bad writing. I just thought this was the dumbest part of the story outside of the time travel elements.