Super Shadow

"A super-dimensional being… Heh. This might even be a fair fight!"

- Shadow

Super Shadow (スーパーシャドウ) is the Super State of Shadow the Hedgehog when he harnesses the power of the 7 Chaos Emeralds. While transformed, all his powers and abilities are enhanced up to their full limit. Super Shadow made his first appearance in Sonic Adventure 2, and just like Super Sonic, he requires rings in order to stay transformed, otherwise he will be forced to power down and return to normal.

Super Shadow can run faster than before, fly, and is invincible. Super Shadow does not need to use a Chaos Emerald to perform Chaos Control, because the power of the Emeralds appears to have been transferred into him, much as with Super Sonic. Super Shadow's fur is lemon-cream but his white chest fur retains its color, as do his red body marks.

Super Shadow is the second most frequently used Super State, next to Super Sonic.

Title
Since Super Shadow's arrival in Sonic Adventure 2, found in the last story, fans of Sonic and Shadow started using the name Hyper Shadow instead of the accurate name, Super Shadow. Fans also sometimes get the body color of Super Shadow mixed up, calling it 'silver'. However, Super Shadow's skin appears that way because of the engine used to render the graphics of Sonic Adventure 2.

Appearances of Super Shadow

 * Sonic Adventure 2: When Super Shadow first appeared in Sonic Adventure 2, he was almost the same as Shadow but he was champagne/silver excluding his red streaking.
 * Shadow the Hedgehog: After Shadow transformed, he had a yellow golden glow around him, and like Super Sonic, his quills were pointed upwards instead of them being in their normal stance.
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (2006): After transforming along with Sonic and Silver, his colors changed to that of his usual super form. Only now his spikes remain as they were in his normal form.
 * SEGA Superstars Tennis: Super Shadow is Shadow's Superstar move. His quills stay in the normal stance, and his color is similar to that of Sonic Adventure 2.

Quotes
"I will release you from the chains of your past!"

"Sonic, leave it to me, I'll destroy him!"

"A Super-Dimensional being… Heh. This might even be a fair fight!"

"Here I come, you creep!"

"I must destroy the evil the Professor has created."

"This is the end of you, and to my cursed past!"

"No, it's not over yet!"

"Time to unleash the Ultimate Power!"

Trivia

 * During the Final Battle in SA2, it is implied with in-battle quotes that Shadow struggles more than Sonic in maintaining his Super form. This could be due to a lack of experience with the transformation (whereas Sonic has used it many times), or that he was exerting himself more in the battle, which can be validated by the loss of his Inhibitor Rings.
 * Many people mistakenly call this form Hyper Shadow.
 * Although Super Shadow doesn't change physically, the in-game model for Super Shadow in Shadow The Hedgehog has upright quills. This is due to the fact that Sonic Heroes and Shadow the hedgehog have an animation set that makes all of the Super State quills float (Knuckles was affected by this in Sonic Heroes)
 * The artwork from the Sonic Art Assets DVD is a recolor of an artwork used for promoting Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Its purpose at the time was box art for the upcoming Action Figure 3 pack featuring Super Sonic, Super Shadow, and Super Silver.

Screenshots
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Artwork
 File:Super_shadow_final.png|Sonic Art Assets DVD File:420px-AssetSupShadKey.jpg|A color key of Super Shadow 