History Headscratchers / ShadowTheHedgehog

** It's entirely possible that Tower (the G.U.N. Commander's actual name in the comics) simply wasn't the commander during the events of Sonic Adventure 2, that he was still rising up in the ranks. There's a theory on the Sonic Adventure 2 page that hypothesizes G.U.N. mistaking Sonic for Shadow was intentional. The higher-ups knew from the get-go it was Shadow committing crimes, but they didn't want the public to know about Project SHADOW, so they used Sonic as a scapegoat, manipulating the media accordingly. That pretty much solidifies the possibility that Tower wasn't in command at the time of Sonic Adventure 2. If he was, then he wouldn't have even ''considered'' using Sonic as a suspect - he would have just straight up ordered the military police to kill Shadow on the spot.

** He saw Black Doom. He knew that Shadow's creation would only bring trouble. So maybe to him, GUN were the heroes who did what they had to do to save the world. It may sound like a jump in logic, but he was a kid when it all happened, ans GUN's internal records may skew the picture too.

* Why does it cost "ammo" to put out fire? Also, how does he refill its "ammo"?

* If the commander of Gun has such a vendetta against Shadow, ''how the hell did the military mistake Sonic for Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2?'' Sure, that plot contrivance was unbelievable as hell to begin with, but this just makes it more absurd.
** It's entirely possible that Tower (the G.U.N. Commander's actual name, at least according to the comics) simply wasn't the commander during the events of Sonic Adventure 2, that he was still rising up in the ranks. There's a theory on the Sonic Adventure 2 page that hypothesizes G.U.N. mistaking Sonic for Shadow was intentional. The higher-ups knew from the get-go it was Shadow committing crimes, but they didn't want the public to know about Project SHADOW, so they used Sonic as a scapegoat, manipulating the media accordingly. That pretty much solidifies the possibility that Tower wasn't in command at the time of Sonic Adventure 2. If he was, then he wouldn't have even ''considered'' using Sonic as a suspect - he would have just straight up ordered the military police to kill Shadow on the spot.

* Why is the G.U.N. Commander... the G.U.N. commander? He was on the ARK when it was attacked and seized by G.U.N., and about the only character motivation he has is that he loved Maria and hates whoever killed her. When he confronts Shadow, it's clear from his dialogue that he blames Shadow for the incident because he's the reason it was attacked. So... instead of blaming the army who infiltrated the ARK and killed the researchers, he's blaming the guy they went to the ARK to kill? And not only that, went on and joined up with said army and became their commander? Even if we go at it from the direction of "it's the fault of whoever caused the invasion to be necessary", shouldn't he be blaming Gerald Robotnik and Black Doom, since it was them that created Shadow?
** [[RevengeBeforeReason Revenge Before Reason]]. Honestly, he may not have known. You have to remember, the Commander was a young, young boy at the time of G.U.N.'s raid (read: massacre) aboard the ARK. Too young to fully consider everything, and too angry about losing one of his best friends. He was probably being hauled into an escape pod and hurriedly shot off back down to Earth while Shadow was trying to escape with Maria. After that, he was likely fed some fabricated story that "Shadow was the one who killed Maria" and that nobody else was to blame for the incident. Either that, or he just jumped to conclusions. Kids are prone to mistakes.
** Let's look at it from his perspective: He knew that sinister aliens were helping to create experimental creatures, including Shadow; he probably knew that experimental creatures had escaped and endangered people even before the final incident (after all, Lost Impact is a flashback to one such incident), and GUN troops had had to kill them; he knew that there was an emergency where Shadow escaped, many people were killed, and Maria was found shot to death near the last known location of Shadow, an escaped experiment who clearly knew how to use firearms. The massacre may even have been an extreme overreaction to an actual life-threatening emergency involving escaped experiments; AFAIK, we are never ''actually'' told otherwise, and many war crimes and crimes against humanity sadly are colossal overreactions to relatively minor incidents (not to say that the perpetrators should be treated leniently: In fact, this is arguably exactly why the laws of war need to be strictly enforced). Ergo, it was logical for him to blame the creatures for all of the casualties and Shadow himself for Maria's death. As to why he didn't look up the truth of the incident? He was there. He thought he knew what happened. Why look into something that (he assumes) will just tell him what he already knows is true?

** There ''is'' the possibility that Tower ''was'' the commander during [=SA2=], but he was having trouble remembering what Shadow looked like and that the rest of G.U.N. had mistaken Shadow for Sonic since they could've forgotten about Project Shadow. So if that's the case, then that's why Sonic was chased after, or maybe someone else ''was'' in command but was absurdly and comically incompetent, though this is also heading into FanWank and/or WildMassGuessing territory.

** There ''is'' the possibility that Tower ''was'' the commander during [=SA2=], but he was having trouble remembering what Shadow looked like and that the rest of G.U.N. had mistaken Shadow for Sonic since they could've forgotten about Project Shadow. So if that's the case, then that's why Sonic was chased after, though this is also heading into FanWank and/or WildMassGuessing territory.