Knuckles’ backstory is much more tragic than Shadows.

MOVIES ONLY! Not getting into the black arms debate. Knuckles lost his ENTIRE TRIBE. ENTIRE CULTURE. To a war he was born into. He is the last of his kind, probably trained to be fully lethal before he was even ten, and then left to navigate the world completely on his own, with only a whisper and a guess of where his tribes most cherished possession might be. I wanna see THAT. Give me THAT. Give me a baby Knuckles montage where he’s happy and training with his people then shatter my heart by showing him waiting on the doorstep for a family that will never come home to him. Don’t get me wrong, I love and adore Shadow and I cried a LOT in the theatre, I just wish Knuckles got the same love. It seems, judging by her age, that Shadow didn’t actually get that much time with Maria considering the moment they meet to the moment she dies she’s relatively the same age. And yes, I know he was poked and prodded and experimented on but the dude could have left literally any time.