User blog comment:BlurayOriginals/Roleplay Status/@comment-32856285-20120224235550/@comment-32856285-20120225005932

If you think of it right. A flat hero is actually a weak hero hense why he fights only Eggman and not some other dictator. Shadow is a hardcore hero, he has a reason to fight, he has a reason to serve G.U.N., to avenge the deaths of loved ones. And it makes him a gun slinging badass hedgehog.