G.U.N. Commander

The GUN Commander.

The G.U.N. Commander (as yet un-named in the games, though called Abraham Tower in the Archie comics is the leader of G.U.N., the prominent military organization in Sonic's world. The Commander has only appeared in one game; Shadow the Hedgehog, where he was in charge of the effort to repel the Black Arms invasion of the planet. He orchestrated the evacuation of Central City, ensuring that the United Federation President was conveyed safely to the GUN Fortress via Air Fleet.

In his youth, the Commander lived on the Space Colony ARK before the Project Shadow disaster, and was a childhood friend of Maria Robotnik.

Overview

The G.U.N. Commander is roughly sixty years old, and sports a short grey crew cut. The Commander's most striking feature is his heterochromia iridum - differently coloured eyes, one cyan and one orange. He is always seen wearing his grey general's uniform, and a similar pair of white gloves to Eggman or Sonic.

During most storylines in Shadow the Hedgehog, the Commander shown as being unrelentingly hostile to Shadow, ordering his soldiers to shoot the hedgehog on sight even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Shadow is on their side. It's later revealed in a flashback why the general persists in this attitude: he spied into Professor Gerald Robotnik's lab during Shadow's creation, witnessing Black Doom's unnerving participation in the hedgehog's genesis. On top of this, the young Commander blamed Shadow for Maria's death, as the whole reason that G.U.N. of 50 years ago assulted the space station was to shut down Gerald's research on the Ultimate Lifeform. The Commander even makes personal attempts on Shadow's life on some routes through the game; using his trademark pistol on the ruined ARK, and again inside the Diablon mech in some of the Stage 6 boss battles.

During the Last Story, however, the Commander seems to forgive Shadow, or at least accept that Maria's death wasn't his fault. In Extra Mode, he sheepishly makes efforts to excuse his behaviour by mentioning that he'd recently become a grandfather.

The Commander is voiced by Marc Thompson in the English version.