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KEANU REEVES as SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG

This whole mess is my fault. I’ve been so blinded by rage, I thought…I had no choice.

You always have a choice.

one one hand, we have game maria. she was always going to die young, due to her NIDS. she never saw earth and her only family she was in direct contact with was her grandpa, but then one day she gets a baby brother. a baby brother made specially for her. a baby brother she loves more than anything.

on the other hand, we have movie maria. she was always going to have her whole life ahead of her. she lived on earth and got to see the stars from below and play like a kid. then one day, the day she moves into the military base, she meets an alien. she messes around with him. he becomes her new baby brother. they play together, sit under the stars, watch movies.

then the gun raid happens.

game maria sacrifices herself. she sacrifices herself for her baby brother to save him. she lets him lead her to the pods before she seals him in the only one. she knows that only one of them can make it out and that even if she makes it to earth she won't last, so she saves her baby brother because she loves him so much. her death was slower and gave her time to say goodbye. her dying words are a goodbye to him.

movie maria didn't even know what was happening. shes watching movies with her brother and her grandfather suddenly comes in and tells them they have to run. she asks what's going on, and her grandfather says that people are trying to take her baby brother, so she holds his hand tight and runs with him. then, when the exit is in sight, someone yells to not shoot, a gunshot, then an explosion. she dies almost instantly. she doesn't get a chance to say goodbye, to comfort her baby brother.

I don’t think movie shadow even knew what death was. Or what it means. That It is the end of the line. Without Maria in this universe having NIDs, time wasn’t a issue. He had all the time with her, so he never worried about a “end” because there wasn’t in his mind. He always had her there. She was his light who created him, her shadow.

What he feared was that she would see him as he sees himself one day. A monster, a experimentation, a weapon. Someone who is feared. When the explosion happened, I think he just thought she was hurt, almost sleeping. A deep sleep he probably had in his pod.

So when he looks up a Gerald…. I think he finally understood that she wasn’t there anymore. And he couldn’t do anything. Maria was right there, she was holding his hand so tightly ……and then she was just gone. She was torn away from his life…..like it was nothing.

That her existence meant so much to him, but it didn’t matter to anyone else.

Do you guys know why it's interesting that Shadow didn't do homework...or pay attention in class..

Because this is one of things that was taught in class to them:

To me it looks a little like a lesson about the escape pods.

Meaning that Shadow didn't pay attention to how the escape pods on the ARK worked and Gerald never preprogrammed that into him.

Which is why Maria had to set up the escape pod and trapped Shadow, because he didn't know how they worked.