Reasons Why Sonic is Better Than Shadow
You do realize that people only like Shadow because they think he's cool, not because of what he did for the company, right? So how can you use this argument? This is like trying to compare God to humans. God is obviously better than humans because of what He did for the world. But this isn't fair because God is the only one who can do something since He's the leader of all and has powers.
This is the same for Sonic and Shadow. Sonic is the leader of the whole franchise. How can you say otherwise?
Everyone deals with things in different ways. Shadow JUST lost Maria, and she was the only true friend he had. I don't like how depressing he is either, but that's what makes his character. That's who he is. Sonic may have lost his parents or whatever, but at least he had friends and siblings to look back on for comfort. Shadow had no one because Eggman doesn't care for Shadow, and that's his creator!
Sonic willingly saved Station Square from Perfect Chaos, stopped the Eclipse Cannon from firing at the planet, saved the world from Dark Gaia, and saved Amy on various occasions, like in Sonic CD when he saved her from Metal Sonic. He also saved Little Planet in Sonic CD, helped Knuckles get the Master Emerald back, saved his friends from the Time Eater, saved Cream and Vanilla from Metal Sonic, and saved his friends from Cyberspace, etc.
Well, you can't really argue because Shadow uses his jet boots to be faster than Sonic. But since Sonic uses natural speed, you cannot really say that Shadow is faster than Sonic because Shadow would use his jet boots to win a race.
Yes, well, you can't argue with that fact because Shadow does use jet boots to go fast.
Yeah, making Shadow the real faker! (Sorry to all Shadow fans! I like Shadow and all, but I believe he's the real faker. I'm sorry!)
Sonic is a kind, compassionate, selfless, and powerful hero who always goes out of his way to uphold justice and freedom, protect the innocent, and save his friends, and he never asks for anything in return.
Shadow was the reason why Sonic '06 sucked!
If Sonic didn't care about his friends, then he would have let Amy be killed on Little Planet by Eggman or let Tails be bullied for having an extra tail. But instead, he saved them both and returned the Master Emerald to Knuckles after Eggman stole it.
Sonic saves people out of the kindness of his heart and cares for his friends. And if you don't appreciate him, then why don't you try fighting Eggman, gods, or demons and see how bad it would be without him?
Sonic stated that Tails saved Station Square from Eggman in Twitter Takeover 4 and Sonic Frontiers. He also has loads of skills such as Spin Dash, Homing Attack, Boost, Light Speed Dash, and his skill tree in Sonic Frontiers.
He defended Tails from bullies, saved Amy on Little Planet, got the Master Emerald back for Knuckles, destroyed Eggman's Death Eggs, saved the world from Perfect Chaos, and stopped the Eclipse Cannon from firing. He also teleported the ARK back in place, sealed away Dark Gaia, saved the Wisps from Eggman's theme park, saved his friends from the Time Eater, and saved his friends from the Starfall Islands, etc.
He took Tails under his wing and protected and encouraged him for decades. He helped Knuckles get the Master Emerald back and protected the bunker from Tower Guardians to help Knuckles out. And whenever Amy is in life-threatening danger, he always goes out of his way to save her.
It involves gun violence, swearing, branching paths that aren't canon, Shadow killing people, wonky controls, bad camera angles, etc.