Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20160730084258/@comment-477304-20160801014223

If the Bio-Lizard was created with the ability to reproduce, why wouldn't Shadow? This is of course no evidence for that statement, but it certainly creates doubt on any logical reasoning that Shadow cannot reproduce.

Synthetic does not necessarily mean inorganic and we know for a fact that Shadow is at least some part organic due to him possessing Black Doom's DNA. You're certainly right in saying that we don't know what Shadow's genetic make-up consists of, which is precisely why there's no reason to assume he cannot reproduce.

If that's true, then that's all that's needed to rule Shadow out as Silver's ancestor and this debate would have never happened. Granted, it's irrelevant to Shadow's reproductive capabilities.