What's your favorite saga of the Project Shadow lore? Do you enjoy the added story from Sonic Battle and Shadow 05? Or do you think it actually hurts the overarching narrative? Also, huge thank you to 1v1.LOL for making this video possible! Download 1v1.LOL, the hyper battle royale for FREE! onevone.onelink.me/B5hL/5t0x8urp

project shadow to me is proof that humans can work in the sonic universe, they just have to be used properly

Shadow: I lost my family, even my "father" turned out to be an alien overlord hive-mind that I had to destroy. Knuckles: that's rough buddy.

Just know that Shadow's iconic symbol is also the Black Arms' military thingie meaning he straight up wiped out a whole species while also taking their symbol for himself he most likely did this to show any other threat to humanity what will happen if they even dare try to harm earth in any way

Project Shadow is one of my all time favorite Sonic stories.

I just realized lately that Shadow was on Prison Island with his creator Gerald. Which explains how he was able to tamper with Shadow’s mind.

Sonic lore: Eclipse cannon Snapcube lore: The piss enhancer

I wish they would do another long-spanning arc like this again...

I love in the thumbnail how Maria is draw, it's look like the DBZ style for me

WTF this thumbnail is just painfully gorgeous

The Dark Beginnings anime is gonna be so good holy shit, they’re finally piecing everything together the way hardcore fans deserve.

I'm currently finishing sonic adventure 2 now. It's also good to see this as it's the year of shadow. WAIT! GERALD DIDN'T JUST MAKE LIFE! BUT MADE A SOUL!!! HOW FUCKING SMART IS WAS THIS MAN!!!

I haven't seen the video yet, but Shadow has such deep and dark lore. I think Keanu will do justice to Shadow in Sonic 3.

Shadow’s backstory reminds me a lot of Zero’s from Megaman, both of their Creators made them with the intent of being bad but both would somehow end up becoming good in the end. Shadow working with Sonic on saving the Earth from the Collision of the Ark and Zero defeating a Dr. Weil fused with the Ragnarok Space Staion also preventing a collision with the Earth, both would end up dying too in the end.

Everything in this video will be confirmed and adapted in Shadow Generations. Well done, Chaomix!

Not only does Project Shadow tie into the Black Arms, it also ties into Sonic Battle and Dark Chronicles. This is probably the best and only arc that spans across many games

However, Emerl's story doesn't really stop there. Sonic Advance 3 is pretty much the epilogue for the entire Project Shadow Saga, tying up any loose ends left behind by Sonic Battle, such as Emerl's ultimate fate (it was later discovered by Eggman and actually rescued by him, the same way the scientist had saved Shadow from his own demise). This in turn, allowed Dr. Eggman to honor his grandfather's legacy by completely pacifying the upgraded Emerl, now known as Gemerl with the aid of Super Sonic. The FIRST Sonic Advance is actually a prologue to the events of the entire saga, since Big the Cat is nowhere to be seen. Cream's debut appearance is Sonic Advance 2, setting up the events of Sonic Heroes nicely. In a way, when you look at the Project Shadow saga this way, it paints a more complete picture.

Earth using the Eclipse Cannon to destroy the Black Comet was probably part of Gerald's plan, actually. GUN presumably would have known of its existence and its purpose, so when the emeralds were collected and installed in the cannon instead of charging the canon to destroy the comet it just causes The ARK to crash and obliterate everything. the final hope turning into the ultimate destruction.

Chaomix, this is the third video! How much Shadow lore will you make!? But i still watch *EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.*

this kind of lore is exactly why I love this series so much still, even when it hasn’t really appealed to me for quite some time.

Who else is here from the Dark Beginnings animation teaser?

22:00. - 20:15. This rampage will be seen in Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings.

Just wanna tell you Chaomix, thanks for talking about Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 so much. I decided they must be really good if you liked them so much, so I got them both for the first time a month or two ago and I am addicted! Love both of the games and Shadows character development and backstory makes him one of my favorites. I even made a drawing for SA2 on my channel! I’m currently going for all 180 emblems so wish me luck!

It’s a shame that… due to *specific* reasons after Sonic Chronicles release, the lore of the Nocturnus Clan relating to the Gizoid was booted from the overall canon. So all that we know about Emerl’s origin is that it was created by the “Fourth Great Civilization”, until the group was destroyed by Emerl.

Pretty sure Emerl causing that incident on the ARK is what caused G.U.N. to investigate closely and launch their raid. If Gemerl has any of Emerl's memories, I'd love to see him talk with Shadow about the events and come to an understanding over them.

Such a complex and sad story for a video game about hedgehogs fighting a dude that looks like an egg ! Shadow's backstory is my favorite and you explain it so well. Thank you ! 😄 It would be AMAZING to have the whole lore from the start to the latest game covered too ! Some kind of documentary on the universe of Sonic the Hedgehog ! 😁

new lore drop with the Pre order bonuses of sonic x shadow generation and it looking good

I need humans in Sonic because they can do those "humans are the actual evil" storylines and they can for sure make it work.

This video is definitely a masterpiece when it comes to in depth lore. Tying the project into Sonic Adventure 1 and Mystic Ruins as well as knowledge of the official names of the Chaos replicas are top tier lore gold nuggets. Great work my friend Also as a final note. I love the duality of Shadows personality and true purpose through Maria. Him being dark themed and named Shadow, its implied hes supposed to be a embodiment of evil. But actually hes the exact opposite through his love for Maria, a beacon of light and hope for all the people of Earth. A embodiment of prosperity and happiness, he just had to find his memories again and remember who he was down to the core of his soul. He ultimately did this fulfilling his promise to Maria, giving his life to save the people of Earth, harnessing the power of the Chaos Emeralds to become Super Shadow, and give it all in a heroic epic finale, showing the ultimate act of love as spoken in the Bible, laying down his life for his friends and family.

The interesting part is that in the movieverse Gerald wouldn't have had any way to access the Master Emerald or the Chaos Emeralds with in it. To create the Chaos Drives and embed Shadow and the Biolizard with their Chaos Powers. Meaning he would need to get them from Black Doom's blood. So the contact with the Black Comet would have to have happen quite earlier in the timeline of Project Shadow.

Bro they got emerl in the shadows gens prologue!!!!!

"Shadow... it's me... the DEVIL!!! I'm here to convince you to do sin! Steal candy from babies and small businesses! I'm not talkin' about Walmart."

you absolutely COOKED with this thumbnail

Bro, this was great. The one thing I was missing was the true ending of shadow the hedgehog. I’ve just assumed that every shadow we’ve seen since sa2 was an android. Wow

That thumbnail makes me wish something like that was able to be shown in games like sa2

This game is just a little older than me, but man, this story has me almost crying every time. Just imagine if Shadow and Maria got to experience earth together. There really is so much more to Sonic than goofy memes or whatever.

It’s so depressin n crazy just how dark of a lore the sonic franchise has..but I love it n it’s just beautifully executed.. Shadow is just an amazin..

Gerard Robotnik when encountering a powerful humanoid being : I’m gonna download Maria’s soul within it !!

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You got everything down to perfection. I'm impressed and glad to see someone who pays close attention to lore within this franchise. Excellent work.

Amazing video covering this story!!! I really loove that thumbnail too, gorgeous art man

12:35 god damn it why am I tearing up over a story about a hedgehog?!?! 😭🦔 SA2s story was SOOOOO GOOD!! I WANT MORE STORIES LIKE THAT IN SONIC AGAIN!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Woah the day has finally come for project shadow

That thumbnail goes insanely hard.

Can't wait for episode 4 once Sonic × Shadow Generations releases and inevitably gives us more info about Project Shadow.

"the truth of 50 years ago" love let's gooooo

If Sonic Frontiers indirectly fleshed Chaos out, I'd like to see the rumored sequel do the same for Shadow (maybe reveal other ultimate lifeform prototypes, for example)

😮If you really think about it and add it all up. Maria, overall, is the most powerful character in the Sonic universe. Maybe not in terms of physical power or anything, but her golden soul gave her the ability to turn absolute weapons of mass destruction good and make them defenders of hope and justice; modeled after her good nature and soul. No matter how far evil actors go into reprogramming or corrupting these characters, the pure power of her golden soul always seems to break through in the end and show cause for the greater good. Were it not her beautiful inner nature, none of these ultimate beings would have found greater good and hope/light for all the innocent people of Earth.

Damn, this video slaps hard

new video, didnt watch it yet but it has to be good

This turned out great! I loved the original videos, and love seeing them combined for a cohesive story. Wouldn't even know they were separate videos had I not seen them before. I didn't get a chance to say hi to you at the CLE Sonic Symphony, so hi 👋

this is the earliest ive ever gotten to you videos, also LOVE SHADOWS STORY!

Shadow just a brave little boy we must protect him at all cost

PROJECT SHADOW

This video is a godsend, thank you so much for making it!

Gerald was a blessing to the planet

I never had the chance to play Sonic Adavance or finish The Dark Brotherhood and I didn't know there was so much lore I was missing Thank you for this!

Amazing Video.

This was incredibly well thought out and researched. Well done, chaomix! I interested to see how Sonic Movie 3 adapts Shadow's lore into their film narraitive.

This is so weird. I randomly got curious about the lore for this and the first result is one from seven hours ago. I really did not expect that.

Keep up the great work and videos chaomix love the video

What G.U.N. Did disgusts me. They just used Gerald Robotnik and his team and then literally discarded them when they where finished with them….

I find it so funny that SA2 was my fav game growing up and now I study neuroscience and aging in a lab in grad school. My friends joke I could make project shadow 😂😂😂😂

Shadow doesnt protect the world because of maria's promise in sonic 06, he's moved on from that by then

Watched this while drawing, and I didn't even know some of that info in this video related to shadow's backstory, hearing it for the first time (the Sonic battle side plot) so its good to know great video 👍

Wow the actual complete version. I remember last time you covered this you were missing info from the other games.

the whole shadow lore is the most entertaining saga to EXIST.

With the final scene of how Shadow the Hedgehog ends, ive always thought that shadow never fully recovered his memories, making it feel like a life that wasnt his own, which is why the game fades out with him choosing to move on and saying "goodbye forever" to that past.

I was confused about Shadow's whole character for a while, but this video cleared things up for me! Thanks!

Something that you got incorrectly is that Shadow does need his two inhibitor rings to function properly to use his Chaos powers and not destroy his body

When it gets down to it, everything in Sonic seems to be two degrees of separation from aliens

Well I thoroughly enjoyed this video

I can't believe that this lore has been made through a video game (sa2) and after that it had an anime adaptation (sonic X) and this year we are getting a live-action one (sonic movie 3) this lore has done everything 😅

This video practically reminded me that, if a lot of these elements are in Sonic 3, the movie is gonna go hard!!

Nice thumbnail! Your art never fails to impress

I love the story of for in the beginning in 1966 🙏

the scene in shadow the hedgehog where they shot mario still makes me tear up to this day

Chaomix's thumbnail art just gets better and better istg 🙏

YAAAY MORE LORE

Thumbnail is fire, so is the video

Instant like at 8:27 for acknowledging the possibility that Gerald saw this mural, I thought I was the only one with this theory!

Good video. Better overall than the last one. You still got a feeeew details mixed up (probably due to the format spliting it up between games instead of chonologically) but its much better.

Love the thumbnail art :)

cant wait to see what loose ends get tied up in the Generations expansion

This would be perfectly wrapped if the 06 arc was in this, establishing that humanity still feared Project Shadow, and sealed him up after Iblis' release

When The black arms were initially introduced, it felt way too sudden to just drop aliens into the sonic universe. But with space being a larger part of sonic lore now, this feels better as a whole than the individual piece in Shadow 05. Like sonic X having alien races that know about the chaos emeralds since the emeralds aren't from earth.

If the rumors are true and Sonic gets some kind of life beyond the upcoming 3, theres potential to see Shadow's story portrayed through spinoffs. Both his past, and some kind of adaptation of Shadow the Hedgehog (2005).

All of this only for him to get his ass handed to him by Sonic like all the time 🙏🙏

Ngl the in video mobile game ad looks pretty 🔥 for a phone/multi-platform game. Also the Egg Carrier theme is to this day one of the most fire theme songs ever created.... The while SA1 soundtrack is absolutely legendary

One could say that Sonic 06 is like the epilogue to this saga as we see the results of all this.

I recently started playing Sonic Rivals 2 and now I have the question When did Gerald discover and investigate Ifrit? I think it was while I was investigating the Echidnas and their clans

I never understood the argument that humans don’t work in sonic

Watching this after the Shadow Dark Beginnings animation

I really hope Sonic Rivals is mentioned in this. Gerald did discover an ifrit from a separate dimension, But it's unrelated so I wouldn't blame him for excluding it.

I’m really interested about what details they’ll give us in Shadow Generations

*Good Lord! Our boy Gerald had his hands in the cookie jar of everything* 😂.

Banger.

I love the lore dump for this video

Sonic fans in the sonic 3 movie when they don't see an innocent little girl gets shot by a cold blooded soldier in a space colony to save her only friend: 😠😠😠 (btw, thanks for posting more sonic lore videos, i really love it)

U forgot to add the "moving on from the past" part when he tossed the picture behind him