User blog comment:Xeno 117/Fan Character Bio: Angry Joe the Hedgehog/@comment-24145744-20140407202043/@comment-24111359-20140426013601

Shadow actually does kill him. Funnily enough Natla dies in a similear fashion. But yeah... Shadow actually killed him. By the way. If you do the entire Dark Path and do Hero on the last Mission Rouge helps you kill Black Doom and take over Earth. Now it's obvious she did that because in other Final Bosses you can be on your own, but Rouge is clearly there, helping EVIL Shadow. SEGA had no reason to put Rouge in the Fight since she is an Agent of Gun but she is there for some reason... I guess they were forshadowing her famous line in 06.