The elite military unit from Sonic Adventure 2 not only captured the iconic hedgehog, but ruined series regular Shadow’s life, shooting down his best friend (who happened to be a child) in cold blood, and forcing him into a cryogenic prison for decades.
It doesn’t help that they presumably mowed down the other inhabitants of the space station this all took place on, even driving head scientist Gerald Robotnik to mentally snap and engineer a backup plan to crash the space station into Earth as revenge against mankind before they executed him.
These events are what set the whole story of Sonic Adventure 2 into motion decades later. After Dr. Eggman, who happens to be Robotnik’s grandson, frees Shadow from his prison, the two make use of the derelict station’s weaponry to pull off terrorist acts.
[zergpaid]While Eggman’s motives are the same world domination plans he’s wanted throughout the series, Shadow initiates the plan with only revenge in mind, under the assumption that his fallen friend wanted retribution on all of civilization due to G.U.N.’s savage acts.
Ultimately, Shadow ends up changing his mind when he realizes the friend actually wanted him to protect mankind, and G.U.N. isn’t mentioned again. Funny enough, Shadow ends up apparently putting past grudges behind him and becoming a G.U.N. agent in the 2006 Sonic title – but we all remember how that game turned out, so it’s probably best to forget it either way.
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