Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-34570990-20180323184522/@comment-679780-20180325212840

Yeah. It's like... people only know him for his edginess. You see, Sonic has personality. We know what he likes, what he dislikes, what upsets him, what triggers him etc. He's not a generic hero nor a generic teen sort of character but he has traits that are a bit of both.

Shadow on the other hand, he's always the brooding anti-hero. Whenever the story involves Shadow it's usually him being broody or trying to be bad@$$. He is capable of working with others but usually at arms length that we don't see much other sides of him.

Takes Sonic '06 for example.
 * Sonic rescues Princess Elise and the two form a friendship as Sonic helps her out. Sonic shows her theres more to life than being stuck in her gilded cage all the time and basically be a friend to her.
 * Silver is suppose to be the cold-hearted killer but it so overcome with the beauty of the past and with new friends made that this severely turns his moral compass around as he begins to questions more things. We see that for such a powerful individual he is sensetive, close to Blaze and a really nice guy once you get to know him.
 * Shadow's story is mostly him being told to get the thing, gets out-brooded by Mephiles, helps others outin a broody way and thats it. The only time we see him faced with a moral crisis and he still does the moody-broody thing.

We only get to see Shadow being annoyed, angered and whenever Maria is mentioned gets upset about it for the umpteenth time. The only time he has ever laughed was in the bad ending of Shadow's game when he became power-mad like any emo-villain would do. Classic Sonic has more dimension of character than Shadow and Classic Sonic is from 2D games.