Bouncey said:
And Shadow is my favourite charater allways the end don't try to change me.
Hell, that sounds like something Shadow himself might say.
But seriously, let me recall something Zeshiro told me the other day about the moral of Sonic Adventure 2:
Don't be an emo-baby.
Think about it.
Since the first few Sonic games, whenever Sonic falls to the earth, or just falls in general, who catches him? Tails.
When Shadow falls, what happens? He dies. End of story. Why? He has no friends. Why is -that-? Because he's really too emo to have any.
Moral of the story: Don't be Shadow. Don't be a whiney contemplative emo-baby.
What's more, I'm pretty sure that if Shadow hadn't survived, he would've just fallen into a bottomless pit, just because A: His luck is just that bad (I mean, what are the odds of not only falling forever to the earth, but into a bottomless pit as well?) and B: Sonic Team would've wanted to milk the idea that you shouldn't be like Shadow.
But no, the money was more appealing.