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Sonic Team boss and Shadow the Hedgehog‘s creator, Takashi Iizuka, has revealed in an interview that he’s fed up with people comparing Shadow to Dragon Ball’s dark hero, Vegeta. Speaking to the site Iizuka informed them that Shadow the Hedgehog is his favourite Sonic character due to the “tragic backstory” behind him which makes the controversial character both “interesting and compelling.” The interview then asked Iizuka if Sonic fans have interpreted Shadow in a different way over the years than how he originally expected or intended? Here’s he had to say:
“So yes, there are some ways that people interpret Shadow that are not how the team is intending,” Iizuka begins. I think the biggest one, if you look online, everyone’s like, ‘Oh, this is Dragon Ball Vegeta.’”
“Vegeta really starts out as an enemy and then later becomes a friend and an ally and kind of, like, fights for justice and trying to save the world and whatnot. Shadow is not like that. I never want him to be like that. Shadow is doing his own thing, he’s not friends with Sonic, and he’s gonna go off and, you know, do whatever he feels is correct or right, or what he needs to do. And it’s not like, ‘Well, okay, we used to be enemies, but we’re friends now. Let’s save the world.’ He’s not that kind of character, and [I don’t] want him to be that kind of character.
“So when people are always online saying, ‘Oh, it’s Vegeta, it’s Vegeta,’ it’s like, it’s not Vegeta,” he laughs.