Sega might've declared 2024 the Year of Shadow ... Iizuka's Vegeta denial, and they had evidence to prove it. In 2017, Sega paired with publisher Cook & Becker to release the official Sonic the ...

Shadow the Hedgehog's creator, Takashi Iizuka, has shut down the comparisons of his dark hero and Dragon Ball's Vegeta, noting that he's "not that kind of character," and he doesn't want him to be.