Hello!
I'm trying to hunt down the old character profiles from the Sonic Channel and official Sonic the Hedgehog websites. In particular, I've been hunting for Shadow's, which do the whole, '50 years old' / 'immortal'/ 'ageless' thing before Sega just took the ages out.
It has been a struggle XD I'm wondering if you might be able to point me in the right direction? I have tried internet archive but since the old websites used flash, they don't work very well on the Wayback Machine anymore.
Here is a link to an old version of Sonic Channel that is still kept up. The character profiles on here still retain the characters' ages, but it never listed an age for Shadow in the first place. (Even Eggman has a listed age of "Unknown," Shadow's page completely eschews listing anything at all)
When it comes to official profiles for Shadow, you're going run into this a lot. It's common for them to either completely avoid listing an age or list it as something to the effect of "unknown."
I don't think Shadow has ever had his age officially listed as "50+" or "Immortal," although his immortality and backstory will obviously be mentioned on certain more fleshed out profiles. The "ageless" descriptor you see thrown around technically has some official use, but the main source for this, and what Sonic Wiki Zone cites, is a character guide published by Scholastic of all things.
The only thing to my knowledge that gives Shadow an exact age is a leaked script for Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), where his age is listed as 15. This is, however, an internal document so the listed age probably serves as more of a guideline to contextualize social status or dynamics with other characters and therefore is not a reflection of concrete lore.
Here's an imgur page that provides screenshots of profiles from several Japanese Sonic sites. A lot of these sites are still up and often just need a Flash plugin to be viewed, you can find them easily on the "Game Title" section of Sonic Channel. I don't think very many of these sites list ages in their character profiles, however. The only one I recall doing so is the Sonic Rush (2005) site.
Here are some links to English sites that appear to have been archived with little to no hitches: [X] [X] [X]
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remember that we're boycotting paramount and that keanu reeves is a zionist so dont go to theaters or subscribe to paramount+ to watch sonic movie 3
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