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Super Shadow, as seen in Shadow the Hedgehog.
Super Shadow is Shadow the Hedgehog's Super State which he first used in Sonic Adventure 2. When in this state, Shadow's black originally became a metallic champagne color, but in more recent appearances it becomes a bright lemon cream color. His red highlights remain the same.

While in his Super State, Shadow is able to use all of his normal abilities, including Chaos Control and Chaos Blast. His Chaos Spear ability is also more prominently used. He is able to fire multiple smaller shots at various speeds, and a single high powered shot as well. Super Shadow can also used the same charged dashes that Super Sonic uses. His defense is increased to the point where he merely loses fewer rings per hit.

Shadow becomes Super Shadow for the first time at the end of Sonic Adventure 2, as he and Sonic must team up to defeat the Final Hazard. Throughout the fight, the player hears comments from Sonic that indicate Shadow is losing his strength, and even Shadow himself admits he's having difficulty retaining such power. After the battle with Final Hazard, Super Shadow and Super Sonic use Chaos Control on the entire space colony ARK, saving the Earth from the collision. However, Shadow, in his already weakened state, uses the rest of his strength to do so and falls to Earth. It is at this point that Shadow is found by one of Eggman's robots and sealed in a capsule, thus allowing the events of Sonic Heroes to take place.

While he sat out Heroes, Super Shadow was next seen in his own game, Shadow the Hedgehog. In traditional post Sonic Adventure fashion, Shadow goes super in the final battle to battle a transformed Black Doom.

Super Shadow's most recent canon game appearance is in the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog game. Here Sonic is awakened from death as Super Sonic, and transfers Chaos Emerald energy to Shadow, and Silver (in a similar fashion to the final battle of Heroes) which enables them both to become super.

Super Shadow is seen in Shadow mode of the Sonic game in Sega Superstars after collecting the 7 Chaos Emeralds. He is also seen in the sequel: Sega Superstars Tennis as Shadow's Superstar State.

In other media, Super Shadow appears in Sonic X in both the Sonic Adventure 2 arc, and the Metarex arc. He also plays a role in the American Sonic the Hedgehog comic series.

Super Shadow has become the second most frequently used Super State.

Misconceptions

Super Shadow is often wrongly called "Hyper Shadow" because of various unofficial websites and strategy guides misprinting it as Hyper Shadow. Much to the outrage of many longtime Sonic veterans, younger and new fans or players of the series call him Hyper Shadow, and claim it is his real name because "it sounds better", or "it makes him different than Sonic". However, there are numerous facts that support the Super Shadow name, whilst "Hyper Shadow" has his name alone:

  • Sonic, Shadow, and the other characters plainly call Sonic and Shadow's transformations "super forms" during the FinalHazard fight. ("Shadow! You're almost out of rings! You'll lose your super form!" - Super Sonic; Sonic Adventure 2
  • Sonic and Shadow used the Chaos Emeralds to transform. In Sonic 3 & Knuckles (the only game to have Hyper forms) Chaos Emeralds are used to achieve a Super form.(Sonic becomes Super Sonic; Knuckles becomes Super Knuckles) Collecting all seven Chaos Emeralds by the start of Zone 7 allows the player to try for the Super Emeralds.(You lose your Chaos Emeralds when this happens, as they are left in the Hidden Palace) These emeralds enable Sonic to become Hyper Sonic, and Knuckles to become Hyper Knuckles.

The only exception to this rule is Tails, who is too young to harness the Chaos Emeralds correctly. He achieves nothing with all the Chaos Emeralds, and becomes Super Tails with the Super Emeralds.

  • The skin files of Shadow's Super form within the Sonic Adventure 2 game itself are named "SSHadow.jpg", which cannot stand for Hyper Shadow.
  • The character file for Shadow's Super form in Shadow the Hedgehog is named "supershadow.one", Which is clearly the correct name for Shadow's Super form.
  • SEGA Superstars specifically calls him Super Shadow.
  • In Shadow the Hedgehog, survive for about two minutes in the battle with Devil Doom. Sonic says "Shadow, you may be invincible in your SUPER form..."
  • One of the cards in Sonic Rivals has Super Shadow on it and refers to him as such.


Characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog game series
Recurring characters
Heroes Sonic (Super, Starfall, Hyper, Darkspine, the Werehog, Excalibur) | Tails (Super) | Knuckles (Super, Hyper) | Amy (Super, Hyper) | Mighty (Super) | Ray (Super) | Espio | Charmy | Vector | Cream | Big | Blaze (Burning) | Silver (Super) | Sticks
Anti-heroes/Neutrals Shadow (Super) | Rouge | E-102 Gamma | E-123 Omega | Jet | Wave | Storm
Villains Dr. Eggman | Metal Sonic (Rocket, Neo, 3.0) | Mecha Sonic (8-bit, Mk. II, Mk. III, Super) | Fang | Tails Doll | Metal Knuckles | Chaos (Perfect) | E-Series | ZERO | Biolizard (Finalhazard) | Black Doom (Devil Doom) | Eggman Nega | Orbot | Cubot | Deadly Six (Zavok, Zazz, Zomom, Master Zik, Zeena, Zor)
Teams Sonic/Heroes | Rose | Dark | Chaotix | Babylon
Other Animals (Flicky) | Froggy | Chao (Hero, Dark) | Tikal | Pachacamac | Omochao | Chaclon | Gerald & Maria Robotnik | President | King Boom Boo | Cheese | Chocola | Vanilla | G.U.N. Commander | Wisps | Mother Wisp
One-off characters
Heroes Emerl | Marine | Lumina Flowlight | Chip | Shahra | Knights of the Round Table | Caliburn | Yacker | Avatar | Barry | Trip (Super)
Anti-heroes/Neutrals Bean | Bark | Shade | Merlina | Sage
Villains Witchcart | Hocke-Wulf | Bearenger | Carrotia | Battle Kukku Army (15th, 16th, Dr. Fukurokov) | E-101 Beta | Void | Chaos Gamma | Gemerl | Shugo-hei | Iblis | Mephiles | Solaris | Erazor Djinn | Captain Whisker | Johnny | Master Core: ABIS | Ix (Super) | Dark Gaia | King Arthur | Hard Boiled Heavies | Infinite | The End | Mirage Express
Teams Vector | Eggman
Other Birdie | Illumina | Secretary | Elise | Duke of Soleanna | Sonic Man | Coconut Crew | Vikings | Professor Pickle | Wentos | Don Fachio | Dodon Pa | Koco | Ancients | Conductor | Conductor's wife | Ariem | Heavy | Bomb | Tiara Boobowski | Honey