User blog comment:SilverthehedgehogMan/The Characters that people hate/@comment-5123212-20110726124452/@comment-17720060-20110812170946

I think people just say he's emo because in a bunch of fan made animated cartoons say he's emo, so it's been believed by many that he is. Another reason people think he's emo is because in the same fan stuff, they say the red marks on Shadow were marks of him cutting himself and he talks to himself because he's emo. Shadow is definitely not emo, and if he was emo because he talks to himself, then that means much of the Sonic characters are the same thing, since most talk to themselves. If people hate Shadow because of this, they better get a new reason.