User blog comment:Jessica fan/Hi Shadow/@comment-4428283-20110913063352/@comment-17720060-20110913233711

Yeah, and I heard emos like to hurt themselves because they like the pain or something like that. I haven't seen any signs of Shadow hurting himself for fun. I think people started calling Shadow emo when they saw his negative attitude towards everything, and his red stripes found around his body. I was watching a fan-made cartoon called The Doomed Shadow Show on Newgrounds (a comedic retelling of the events of Shadow the Hedgehog (game)). At one part, Shadow said he should've just stayed there at the beginning of the movie and cut himself, and then the camera did a short close-up to his red stripes (implying they were actually scars). I think there's been many things about Shadow that make people think he's emo, but I don't see that many things, and I don't see him as an emo at all.