Hi
I've been meaning to do a post on the similarities between the two of them for literally ages, but, officially, nothing is now spoilers, so, there's that advantage
Anyway
We all know who Shad is
But...
Who is Shadow Mario???
Shadow Mario (aka "the Darkness") is a character from Youtube user Richalvarez's series Stupid Mario Brothers, which I've mentioned at least a million times because I love the series a lot, I watched it all the time when I was like 12-ish
Anyway
Shadow Mario, is, basically, the prime inspiration for Shad.
((If you love Shad at all you should check out Stupid Mario Bros just for Shadow Mario, trust me, you won't regret it))
ANYWAY THE REST OF THE ANALYSIS WHATEVER GOES UNDER THE CUT
If, you care at all about spoilers for Stupid Mario Bros then don't continue because there are a lot of them and they are all major
if you aren't up to date with All that Remains aka past chapter 32 then DEFINITELY don't continue this is mega spoilers for FtPverse as well
~Fancy Header~
Okay, so, admittedly, I did not consciously draw from Shadow Mario to create Shad, which I've probably said before, all I consciously did was "like Vanitas, and perhaps a little like Sephiroth??" and then I ran with him
But over the course of the series I noticed there were a lot of similarities between Shadow Mario and Shad
Like, a lot of them
And the funny thing is the ones that show up after the movie are like?? Completely accidental. I'd already lined out what I wanted to do with Shad (for the most part) before Season 5 had even started posting, but, still, the most surprising similarities ended up there!! It's weird, really.
Anyway
Shadow Mario is introduced and he's overall cocky and conceited and enjoys conflicting pain on people and well who the frikity frack does that sound like, hmm
hmm
As the Movie progresses, though, we also see that he's easily angered (hmm) and also goes against his "intended purpose" (hmm) along with wanting to be separated from Mario, being his own person, but like, that's something Shad only cared about at the beginning of Dead Inside, if he cared about it much at all???
Oh wait yeah he did he wanted to be separate from Sora and not have to do his job so that he could have his own life (w... with Kairi) but that lasted until Sora was taken from him and he was like "AH YES I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT SORA............. RIGHT"
THE,,, THE BIG SIMILARITIES
The Movie ends with Shadow Mario's death, except.... he doesn't really die. He comes back at the end of Season 4, so, there's that similarity he and Shad have in common
Not dying, anyway
((Though for different reasons each also Shadow Mario comes back like five times lmao and each for a different reason but, whatever, I love him, I don't care))
And like all the reasons for it are kind of, not at all relevant entirely to Shad not dying, the details and reasons why aren't at all the same but I thought it was funny that he couldn't die, and Shad also couldn't die, and he came back when Shad was eventually scheduled to die and come back....
The last reason why he survives is because his spirit is connected to Mario's and so he can't die as long as Mario's alive, (which also works in vice versa, which is kind of cool)
And, yanno, Shad and Sora are connected, so that's another similarity
The most major one which is really?? That really got me, especially since this was a definite "I'd planned this thing for Shad before Season 5 came out, what the heck, how did this end up the same??"
In Season 5, Shadow Mario swapped sides, and joined Mario
Because he's connected to Mario, Mario's "heart" for lack of a better term changed him from the inside out and gave him the capacity for empathy and compassion (and also turned his hair red cough) and that
That's similar to how Shad was initially slotted to change because Sora changed him, because Sora's heart changed him as well
And I mean that sort of happened in the end, I guess, though the definite 100% canon thing was Shad fell head over heels for Sora
but still before I'd started with the SoShad thing
Shad was just slotted to change because of his connection to Sora and so seeing that come up in Stupid Mario Bros was really a surprise
and even though I did in the end go with SoShad and that's not at all relevant to Shad changing because of Sora (or, at least, not in that metaphysical ~Sora's heart having a magic effect on him~ sense)
the fact that Shadow Mario changed because of Mario and Shad changing because of Sora
is still
a similarity
also: a minor thing, but Ganon calls Shadow Mario "shadow scum" at one point and mmmmm bye
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