User blog comment:Ryushusupercat/RAAAAAAANT about fanchars/@comment-3190872-20110903235656/@comment-3190872-20110904000659

Not exactly. The son of Eggman was manually constructed from Eggman's DNA; he's organic. The Shadow thing's a little different. Being partially made of Black Doom's DNA, his corpse was reconstructed to become a figurative son Black Doom.