Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27330121-20170307004027/@comment-679780-20170307013106

It's not that he was misunderstood. When Sonic and his friends got to know his backstory they did felt sorry for him but in Sonic Adventure 2 where Amy reasoned with him that it was no point blowing up the world over it for it would not be what Maria wanted.

GUN was ordered by the United Federation to shut down ARK and kill everyone on board. This is comparable to government conspiracies where government agents will destroy evidence and kill witnesses and assosiates to cover up something to be kept from the public. The reason why UF did this was because they began to fear the very thing they commisioned on ARK. Why the Commander wasn't killed on the ARK as well I dunno, Maybe he was the one who alerted UF to begin with.

Shadow saved the world for GUN more than twice and his best friend is a GUN agent so it's understandable Shadow doesn't hate GUN, just what they did in the past. GUN now grants Team Dark privileged ranks in their organisation. Either for appreciation of service, apology for the past or maybe to keep the Ultimate Lifeform on the governments leash, given Shadow could of make or break GUN in his game.