Sonic and friends are just a big ol’ family
To juxtapose the sad shit, we see Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles doing fun things with their human adult parents Tom and Maddie, like racing against one another in the forests of Green Hills, Montana. You see, anthropomorphic hedgehogs are social creatures and are shaped by their environment and connections to others. Shadow needs a loving hand to reach out and show him there’s another way so he, too, can race them in a forest instead of doing terrorism.
