White House

White House is a building, that is seen in Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic X anime. In both the game and anime, White House is known as the official residence for President of United Federation.

In Shadow the Hedgehog, White House is only featured during cutscenes of the game. It is known to being located near close of Central City and has several pools on the back garden. ´

Concept and Creation
The White House is based off and identically resembles the real-life's building in Washington, D.C., which commonly also has large office room for president, similar to Oval Office.

History
In the beginning of Shadow the Hedgehog, the president gets contract by his Secretary, who's giving report about alien invaders getting pushing back from the Westopolis and reporting alien invasions in five other cities in the country. The president tells her to give command about never surrendering to terrorists.

Depending on, if the player chooses to follow True Dark Story in the game, Shadow and Black Arms manages to take over Space Colony ARK and prepare on to their ritual, which involves to defeat all leaders who try resist their invasion. During this, Black Arms activate Eclipse Cannon and fire directly to the White House, destroying Central City along with it. However the President has got time to escape from White House before this to the GUN Fortress, where GUN Commander also tells that, citizens of Central City have evacuated day before to the safe zone.

If the player chooses Semi-Dark story, the White House does not get destroyed, but the President will get evacuated from the building by GUN Commander and G.U.N. Soldiers to the Air Fleet due Central City getting lost to Black Arms. At the outside back garden of White House, Black Doom despise their escape and commands then Shadow to follow them to the Air Fleet and destroy the President's escape pod.

Sonic X
In Sonic X anime, White House is also directly identical to real life's building. During the series, the president is seen hearing about numerous crisis reports from his secretary Christina Cooper in the main office room, which are involved to assaults and threats made by Dr. Eggman.

In the episode "That's What Friends Are For", after Sonic destroys Eggman's fortress, the president wants to meet with Sonic and organize the celebration event in White House. Everyone from Sonic's friends get involved, with the excepetion of Sonic himself, who declines the party and instead helping Helen to visit an island via a boat. The President's aide, Jerome Wise, then tries to track down Sonic to force the hedgehog to come to the White House as soon as possible by sending an army after him. In the end, Sonic manages to pay visit on White House and the President with one of the army's helicopters.

In episodes "Sunblock Solution" and "Eggman for President", Eggman creates numerous Sunshine Balls to provide the world with light for the next few months as he has created a metallic replacement for the damaged side of the Moon. This gets the popularity of accolades from the President. However as Eggman's whole plan turns out to be only for his own good, he kidnapped the president and takes over the White House for himself in order to create his Eggman Empire, as everyone who owns Sunshine Balls gets affected and converted to support Eggman for the president. However Sonic and Tails manages to break through the White House, save the President and others, while putting end to the Eggman's political plan.

Trivia

 * In Shadow the Hedgehog, the President is seen to have photo on his workbench, showing Sonic and Shadow posing near of White House, while the President remembers their feat moments from Sonic Adventure 2. Though there has not been given any sign of when this photo has been taken, it stand to reason that it was taken sometime after Sonic Heroes, as it was after Sonic Heroes that Shadow reappeared after his supposed death from the feat that made him the hero the President acknowledged.
 * The cinematic cutscene showing the destruction of the White House from Shadow the Hedgehog has been directly influenced by 1996 science fiction film Independence Day. According to Takashi Iizuka, the game gains numerous film references.
 * Because the game identifies the final story as part of the series' continuity, it is mostly unclear, if the building has ever got destroyed or not, while also not making appearances in later installments.
 * If one would look very closely at the flags in the White House picture, you can make out what is on the flags. This is most likely the real flag of the United Federation, not Empire City's flag, unless this has been reteconed. Nevertheless, the flag appears as the U.F. flag in the Archie Comics.