in the snapcube shadow 2005 dub, shadow yells that he costs 69 cents. funny as the joke is on its own, this also implies that gerald spent all the government given funds making the biolizard, realized it was a failure, scrapped it, and used his last 69 cents to build a 3'3" hedgehog (who's only 3'3" with his heels on)
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So context for anyone who isn't aware: in the Shadow the Hedgehog game, every stage has 3 missions which determine your progression to the next stage. The Neutral mission in every stage involves ignoring all other objectives and just grabbing the Chaos emerald
Well...in one of these stages, the hero mission is to beat Sonic to the Chaos emerald.
So if you're going for the neutral mission...once you make it to the Chaos emerald, you stand and wait on the timer to run out, then grab it. Meaning effectively, Sonic made it to the emerald first.
So in that case...how did Shadow get it?
My headcanon: Sonic stood there gloating over his win, and Shadow just took the emerald from his hand and bolted
One thing that surprises me today, after 18 years (22 if we count SA2) is that people think that Gerald didn't love Shadow as much as a son Or that he doesn't even want it at all, When he call him son in canon, I love the fanfics where Maria was the only one who saw him as a living, thinking being and maybe that's true to a point, but Gerald still loved him.
That makes Gerald and Shadow's relationship and all the tragedy they went through even more horrible than it already was, Gerald initially thought that Shadow was just another experiment But it was thanks to Maria that he change his mentality towards him
even calling him son and trusting everything in him.
But everything we already know happened and both Shadow and Gerald lost everything, one suffering from PTSD and the other becoming completely insane
Gerald no longer cared about anything, only Maeia, not his biological family or Shadow, becoming the weapon and another experiment in Gerlad's eyes.
And i assume that this is the Gerald that everyone notices, as if they ignored shth just for being shth and that it has nothing good (today I woke up in a bad mood and I'm going to complain)