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To me he effectively time travelled. Like time didn’t pass for him during crostasis. Which I like because it leads to him thinking in starkly different was then his Pers and add depth to his asocial behavior. I would love to have him being born in the 1950s. Also if you headcanon him as queer just adds internalized homophobia as a treat.
According to the sonic heroes manual where it gives a description of the characters in team dark it states that shadow never ages at all. So he's pretty much the same all the time.
Well, but that doesnt change "age". He may be biologically the same age but he has still "lived" a certain time and has "existed" a certain time. So his chronological age is the total time of his existence and his physical age would be that minus stasis time
Only just... Since if you take into account the black arms and Doom (who helped finish Shadows creation) said they would be back in 50 years... and then shadow is in stasis for 50 years? There could then only be months?? Between shadows creation and then his being locked away? Because then he's awake for all of sonic adventure 2 and heros before the black arms come back... so either there's some serious rounding up going on or shadow was made and not long after locked away :/
Shadow is 50 years old because he's been alive for 50 years. His age, in terms of his youth, is 15, the same as Sonic. His physical age is how he was born as well, as he was only awake and alive for about 3 or so weeks before the whole incident. But he's definitely not a 50 year old infant. I can't tell you where I got that information. It's very obscure. Coulda been one of those written interview things I saw years ago, like mentioning Sonic's top speed has never been clocked. But idk.
It's like Avatar the last airbender The main character Aang was 12 years old when he got frozen for 100 years now you could say he is over 100 years old to us (the viewer and the other people in the show) but I believe he is still 12 years old its like time traveling though time when you go to the future you yourself is not 100 years old but you are just 100 years in the future I hope that makes sense
My problem is that people will say shadows an old man for various reasons but then forget that he litterally wasn’t awake at all during his time in the pod He’s not mentally well r physically 50
I think that Shadow is 50 years old but due to his amount of time in cyrostatus, he got developementally delayed and acts like a teenager because of the cyrostatus not letting his brian knowledge grow and get as strong as anyone's knowledge would be when they reach the age of 50.
True, because having Shadow be immortal was part of Gerald Robotnik's plan during his attempt to create the Ultimate Lifeform, and it has been explained that to make Shadow be immortal was why that professor needed to put some of Black Doom's DNA into that Chaos powered hedgehog.
Even less. He was both created 50 years prior to Adventure and put on stasis also for 50 years. He's technically only lived for a year or so. Possibly less.
The way I see it, Shadow falls under the Aang situation. Yes, he's chronologically 50, but mentally he hasn't aged a day due to being in stasis. He also doesn't age in a physical sense.
I feel like this becomes the question of whether or not to count Shadow's age by the amount of years his physical body exists (Which would be minimum 50+) versus the years he was active (Unknown, possibly 15, we don't truly know how long Shadow was alive for before the freeze, then woke up in the modern day, he may even be younger than Cream if we gauge that)
@@SpeedstersUnited That would be CRAZY to think about. Imagine Shadow hands Cream a gun, Amy reprimands him, and then he says "I've literally only been alive for 2 years without being cryogenically frozen. She's technically more adult than I am."
I always just thought that maybe he’s mentally a mature teen that acts like an adult but he is physically over 50. That was what I believed at first but I looked into it further months ago and now I just think that it’s the opposite. He’s mentally 50 but not physically.
I'm going to tell you what I think before I watch this... Shadow is in memory only like a week old, maybe... (Shadow 05 flashbacks show shadows creation with Maria being around the same age she died) but has physically shadow has existed (slightly over) 50 years. and biologically he is around Sonic's age... so like 15-17
I was gonna say that because alien is a separate franchise entirely, the laws of cryo stasis in that movie might not apply here, but considering how much the sonic franchise takes from other properties for its own world, i'm just gonna slowly put my point into the trash bin
I think if Shadow was 50 he'd have no problems beating Sonic because of his experience but since he's 16-17 that would mean there's room for growth if that makes sense 😂
to me he's chronologically over 50 but his physical age could be anywhere from 14-18 and I say that because silver, who is 14, and rouge, who is 18, physically look the same as shadow
Shadow's design is based on a 15 year old hedgehog as depicted in the Hyper Sonic mural on Angel Island. It has been stated that Shadow is the type of immortal that doesn't age. But using some maths, Shadow has only been truly alive for 3 years, though none of his characteristics match that age
I don't CARE how old he is, I like to think he just sounds 50 because it's just fucking cool, which is why Kirk Thornton when given good direction is my favorite! Middle-aged Shadow is FUN
I think shadow is 66 but with his body preserved he looks and feels 16, also your age is your bodys age but yeah, he is most certainly over 50 (in my opinion)
nah, the correct answer is hes around 3-5 years old in sa2 XD from the point he is made to when hes put in stasis, i wanna guess around 5 years, maybe less
Shadow has not aged.....& he WON'T age. It's all a part of his immortality. If he was 15 when GUN raided the ARK, he'd have been older than Maria when she died, but the G.U.N. Commander's flashback shows that she was already over 10 by the time Shadow breathed his 1st breath. Even without that, in the Archie Comics alternate 25 years later story, he says to Sonic (as he hilariously beats him down before his cape even hits the floor), "You are old past your prime. I am the Ultimate Lifeform. I never age. You were barely a challenge 25 years ago. Today you are NOTHING." This man will never see a single damn wrinkle on his face, no matter the age.
I'd say by now Shadow is technically 2. The stasis is no different than being in an egg and he was just hatched 50 yrs later. Another vid analyzed this game and concluded that Shadow never met Maria and all of his memories were implanted instead. Assuming that is all true and given the fact that his form is unstable without his inhibitors which can mean he wasn't finished so Shadow is technically pre-mature and since that whole raid happened Shadow has just been left incomplete. So if anything I'd say he is a pre-mature 2 yr old but like Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot he was designed to be a teenager.
If I’m honest, I just like to believe that Shadow is ageless. I feel like it’s basically been confirmed now that he has no true age. I mean, he was CREATED by Professor Gerald, not born. Plus there’s the fact that he’s immortal in case you needed a little more evidence.
He feels more like a traumatized young person that has been forced to mature too early because of his horrific personal experiences, identity crisis, and burden about being the protector of a species he doesnt neccesarily trust or appreciate. Shadow has suffered a LOT, its understandable that he doesnt behave like a teenager or a carefree youngster.
@@wm6578THANK YOU, finally someone says it. He's severely traumatised and he has been long before Maria's death. He was born in captivity first of all, as an experiment or a tool, they never asked him what he wanted... Well, excepting for Maria
Dude.... I know a kid like that, they basically raised their own siblings through tough times and had to grow up way faster then they should have, hell they act older then me an actual adult. Just cuz this kid has the skills, life experience and mentality of say a 30 year-old doesn't mean we wouldn't still call them the actual age of the years they've lived. They're still a kid who had to grow up beyond their years but you wouldn't use that as an excuse to buy them a beer underage now would you? You can't just change their Official age on their birth certificate. I feel like it's the same for shadow, he's only LIVED probably a few years even if he was created at the age of say 10 or 15 or 20 then held in stasis for 50 years he's still just a kid.
wait but before shadow was in stasis if we’re being generous shadow had about five years of existence witch means shadow only has about six years worth of knowledge when being released from Eggman which means he’s actually 50 years old. He’s physically 15years old and his brain is like six years old.😭
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So you got the 15 years from the fan base?
To me he effectively time travelled. Like time didn’t pass for him during crostasis. Which I like because it leads to him thinking in starkly different was then his Pers and add depth to his asocial behavior. I would love to have him being born in the 1950s. Also if you headcanon him as queer just adds internalized homophobia as a treat.
According to the sonic heroes manual where it gives a description of the characters in team dark it states that shadow never ages at all. So he's pretty much the same all the time.
Well, but that doesnt change "age".
He may be biologically the same age but he has still "lived" a certain time and has "existed" a certain time.
So his chronological age is the total time of his existence and his physical age would be that minus stasis time
Yeah
I mean to be fair Shadow is over 50 he just doesn't age at all.
Only just...
Since if you take into account the black arms and Doom (who helped finish Shadows creation) said they would be back in 50 years... and then shadow is in stasis for 50 years? There could then only be months?? Between shadows creation and then his being locked away? Because then he's awake for all of sonic adventure 2 and heros before the black arms come back... so either there's some serious rounding up going on or shadow was made and not long after locked away :/
Shadow is 50 years old because he's been alive for 50 years.
His age, in terms of his youth, is 15, the same as Sonic.
His physical age is how he was born as well, as he was only awake and alive for about 3 or so weeks before the whole incident. But he's definitely not a 50 year old infant.
I can't tell you where I got that information. It's very obscure. Coulda been one of those written interview things I saw years ago, like mentioning Sonic's top speed has never been clocked. But idk.
Since we are in 2024. You might want to add a few more years to it. About 70 to 80 years old, perhaps?
@@juliemesser2053what does real life years have to do with Shadow?
It's like Avatar the last airbender The main character Aang was 12 years old when he got frozen for 100 years now you could say he is over 100 years old to us (the viewer and the other people in the show) but I believe he is still 12 years old its like time traveling though time when you go to the future you yourself is not 100 years old but you are just 100 years in the future I hope that makes sense
Maturity wise he's 12 but physically and spiritually he's 112
My problem is that people will say shadows an old man for various reasons but then forget that he litterally wasn’t awake at all during his time in the pod
He’s not mentally well r physically 50
Age is just a number for him…
I think that Shadow is 50 years old but due to his amount of time in cyrostatus, he got developementally delayed and acts like a teenager because of the cyrostatus not letting his brian knowledge grow and get as strong as anyone's knowledge would be when they reach the age of 50.
Time in stasis doesn’t count in age calculations.
Shadow's Brian knowledge
Since he's immortal anyway his brain age is the only age that counts right?
Shadow is Immortal.
True, because having Shadow be immortal was part of Gerald Robotnik's plan during his attempt to create the Ultimate Lifeform, and it has been explained that to make Shadow be immortal was why that professor needed to put some of Black Doom's DNA into that Chaos powered hedgehog.
People really think shadow is around 40? He was literally frozen and preserved he's way younger.
Probably still 4 years old
Even less. He was both created 50 years prior to Adventure and put on stasis also for 50 years. He's technically only lived for a year or so. Possibly less.
The way I see it, Shadow falls under the Aang situation. Yes, he's chronologically 50, but mentally he hasn't aged a day due to being in stasis. He also doesn't age in a physical sense.
Shadow is only about 2 years old because time in stasis doesn’t count.
It’s like being in your mothers stomach when your born you are not 9 months old you are like 5 second olds
Like Inuyasha being pinned to that tree if you've seen the anime
50 years old in calendar
15 years in body
Live ~3 years
Yea, he is old baby teenager
I feel like this becomes the question of whether or not to count Shadow's age by the amount of years his physical body exists (Which would be minimum 50+) versus the years he was active (Unknown, possibly 15, we don't truly know how long Shadow was alive for before the freeze, then woke up in the modern day, he may even be younger than Cream if we gauge that)
Imagine if he was really just 2 years old 😂
@@SpeedstersUnited That would be CRAZY to think about. Imagine Shadow hands Cream a gun, Amy reprimands him, and then he says "I've literally only been alive for 2 years without being cryogenically frozen. She's technically more adult than I am."
@@SpeedstersUnitedMaria looks younger than 15, and Shadow is younger than Maria
I always just thought that maybe he’s mentally a mature teen that acts like an adult but he is physically over 50. That was what I believed at first but I looked into it further months ago and now I just think that it’s the opposite. He’s mentally 50 but not physically.
I'm going to tell you what I think before I watch this...
Shadow is in memory only like a week old, maybe... (Shadow 05 flashbacks show shadows creation with Maria being around the same age she died)
but has physically shadow has existed (slightly over) 50 years.
and biologically he is around Sonic's age... so like 15-17
I think he is mentally young, so is his body.
I was gonna say that because alien is a separate franchise entirely, the laws of cryo stasis in that movie might not apply here, but considering how much the sonic franchise takes from other properties for its own world, i'm just gonna slowly put my point into the trash bin
shadow's age is test tube baby
I think if Shadow was 50 he'd have no problems beating Sonic because of his experience but since he's 16-17 that would mean there's room for growth if that makes sense 😂
Wow that render on the thumbnail is so cool ! Did you made it ?
yuhhh
Funny that you released this after the leaks from today.
to me he's chronologically over 50
but his physical age could be anywhere from 14-18 and I say that because silver, who is 14, and rouge, who is 18, physically look the same as shadow
Shadow's design is based on a 15 year old hedgehog as depicted in the Hyper Sonic mural on Angel Island. It has been stated that Shadow is the type of immortal that doesn't age. But using some maths, Shadow has only been truly alive for 3 years, though none of his characteristics match that age
I don't CARE how old he is, I like to think he just sounds 50 because it's just fucking cool, which is why Kirk Thornton when given good direction is my favorite! Middle-aged Shadow is FUN
I think shadow is 66 but with his body preserved he looks and feels 16, also your age is your bodys age but yeah, he is most certainly over 50 (in my opinion)
nah, the correct answer is hes around 3-5 years old in sa2 XD from the point he is made to when hes put in stasis, i wanna guess around 5 years, maybe less
I personally think he’s ageless.
Immortality and Eternal Youth is messy but you're basically both young and old but mainly old.
You do realize Shadow is immortal right?
Shadow has not aged.....& he WON'T age. It's all a part of his immortality. If he was 15 when GUN raided the ARK, he'd have been older than Maria when she died, but the G.U.N. Commander's flashback shows that she was already over 10 by the time Shadow breathed his 1st breath. Even without that, in the Archie Comics alternate 25 years later story, he says to Sonic (as he hilariously beats him down before his cape even hits the floor), "You are old past your prime. I am the Ultimate Lifeform. I never age. You were barely a challenge 25 years ago. Today you are NOTHING." This man will never see a single damn wrinkle on his face, no matter the age.
I'd say by now Shadow is technically 2. The stasis is no different than being in an egg and he was just hatched 50 yrs later. Another vid analyzed this game and concluded that Shadow never met Maria and all of his memories were implanted instead. Assuming that is all true and given the fact that his form is unstable without his inhibitors which can mean he wasn't finished so Shadow is technically pre-mature and since that whole raid happened Shadow has just been left incomplete.
So if anything I'd say he is a pre-mature 2 yr old but like Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot he was designed to be a teenager.
hes still 50 tho because hes been around for more than 50 years
If I’m honest, I just like to believe that Shadow is ageless. I feel like it’s basically been confirmed now that he has no true age. I mean, he was CREATED by Professor Gerald, not born. Plus there’s the fact that he’s immortal in case you needed a little more evidence.
In the WIKI is says that shadow Is ageless
Imo Shadow is physically and mentally 15 or 16 but he is actually 50. Plus he's immortal so he can't age anyway
He doesn't feel like a teen. He feels like a mature aged character.
He feels more like a traumatized young person that has been forced to mature too early because of his horrific personal experiences, identity crisis, and burden about being the protector of a species he doesnt neccesarily trust or appreciate. Shadow has suffered a LOT, its understandable that he doesnt behave like a teenager or a carefree youngster.
@@wm6578THANK YOU, finally someone says it. He's severely traumatised and he has been long before Maria's death. He was born in captivity first of all, as an experiment or a tool, they never asked him what he wanted... Well, excepting for Maria
I see you didn't experience trauma that severe that you are forced to have too much responsibility.
Let Shadow be a teen
Just say he feels like an adult.
Dude....
I know a kid like that, they basically raised their own siblings through tough times and had to grow up way faster then they should have, hell they act older then me an actual adult.
Just cuz this kid has the skills, life experience and mentality of say a 30 year-old doesn't mean we wouldn't still call them the actual age of the years they've lived. They're still a kid who had to grow up beyond their years but you wouldn't use that as an excuse to buy them a beer underage now would you? You can't just change their Official age on their birth certificate.
I feel like it's the same for shadow, he's only LIVED probably a few years even if he was created at the age of say 10 or 15 or 20 then held in stasis for 50 years he's still just a kid.
Shadow the boomer
wait but before shadow was in stasis if we’re being generous shadow had about five years of existence witch means shadow only has about six years worth of knowledge when being released from Eggman which means he’s actually 50 years old. He’s physically 15years old and his brain is like six years old.😭