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They also have different roles, even now that Shadow is a good guy : Shadow is more something like a "defender of earth" (especially in the "Team Dark in Gun" vision by Ian Flynn, and in Sonic 2006), when Knuckles is more either a friend of Sonic that save the world with him (Heroes, the Riders, 2006, etc) or the lonely gardian of the Master Emerald (S3&K, Adventure) or a bit of both (SA2, Sonic X, Flynn's writing). Also, Knuckles is more naive, and I remember having seen more often Knux' having fun and being "lighthearted" than Shadow. He's a bit like a friendly rival. And I think that even if their personnalities are at they core similar (as they are both serious, duty-filled characters that fight/act for a greater cause), in another light they can be very different : Shadow act more seriously and "professionally" (Sonic 2006, Flynn's writing) than Knuckles that is way more "emotional". While in Sonic X and Flynn's writing (even a bit in Pontac's writing), I've seen more that kind of things between Knuckles and Sonic. But it's true that there is no competition anymore between Shadow and Sonic (maybe sometime Sonic will make a race with Shadow, but it's more "for fun"). Rivals don't have to have animosity. They are just in competition, they don't need to be Gary Oak with each other. Shadow only really deals with Sonic when he has to, but stays out of his way for the most part and is more concerned about his own self-interests and mostly only helps Sonic when its convenient, and will just as easily oppose him for the same reason. So this whole designation of the term "rival" to these two characters has pretty much lost all meaning honestly, I think people just cling to it to keep up with the Dragon Ball Z/Shonen trope parallels, even if they aren't really applicable anymore.īut to answer your second post: Knuckles is way more hot-headed and prone to impulsive fits than Shadow, and has warmed up to Sonic and co as friends, to the point where he constantly leaves his post to help him.
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Neither one of them can hardly even be considered "rivals" nowadays aside from fanon like let's be real, when was the last time there was any sort of real animosity between Sonic with either Knuckles or Shadow? Especially the former, its gotten to the point where Sonic is arguably closer to Knuckles than he is with Tails in Sonic Boom if you've seen most episodes starring the two. No Shadow did not replace Knuckles in anything, it is a stupid misconception that people just use to scapegoat Shadow about everything wrong with the series. I'll give the same reply I always every time this topic pops up (which is a lot mind you :V) Their solution? Focus on newest and least popular one and pretend that problem doesn't exists.
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So how would you solve problem of this two (three) rivals, what roles should they play and how they personalities should shape to differ from each other? The only franchise that have similar problem (that I can think of) is My Little Pony, with Trixie, Sunset and Starlight. Sadly it can't no longer work since Shadow became good guy too, and role of evil rival is being filled by Metal Sonic. I believe that the closest to solving this issue was Sonic X, by taking "Megaman/Protoman/Bass" style: Sonic is a hero, Knuckles is powerful ally, a cool dude with just enough silly moment to be different (but with enough badass moments so we would take him seriously), while Shadow is the enemy rival, with little to no comedy. Sega "solved" that problem by making Knuckles slowly transformed into dumb muscle and I never met single person that likes that (Boom Knuckles not included). We had a popular perfectly good working rival, but Sega wanted new cool character, so they left him out of the job.Īnd honestly, Knuckles and Shadow have very similar personalities of serious, tough "loner", possibly with big ego.
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Also, decided whenever "he's too similar to Sonic" or "How could anyone mistake him for Sonic", it's getting silly.īut fanboy rant aside, there is one valid complain that I don't know how to defend: he replaced Knuckles as a rival. He had one bad game in 2005 and some people just can't forget it. I'm big fan of Shadow, so I look with crooked eye on whole bad rep he's getting.