User blog comment:YoungOtakuNerd/The Not-So-Ultimate Life Form/@comment-3190872-20120803154122

You've completely missed the meaning of "Ultimate Lifeform". Professor Gerald's creation of the Ultimate Life was immortality, the inability to die by natural causes. He wanted to create it so that Maria would be at no risk from her disease, and Shadow was the beta test, so to speak. Ultimate Lifeform has nothing to do with power or greatness. It refers to his immortality.