White House

The White House is a building seen in Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic X anime. In both the game and anime, the White House is known as the official residence for President of United Federation.

In Shadow the Hedgehog, the White House is only featured during cutscenes of the game. It is known to being located near close of Central City and has several pools on the back garden.

Concept and Creation
The White House is based on and resembles the real life building in Washington, D.C.. The White House also has a large office room for president, similar to Oval Office.

History
In the beginning of Shadow the Hedgehog, the president is contacted by his Secretary, who reports on alien invaders getting pushing back from the Westopolis and reporting alien invasions in five other cities in the country. The president tells her to command the generals never to surrender to terrorists.

Depending on, if the player chooses to follow True Dark Story in the game, Shadow and Black Arms manage to take over the Space Colony ARK and take over Earth, beginning by defeating all leaders who resist their invasion. During this, Black Arms activate the Eclipse Cannon and fire directly to the White House, destroying Central City along with it. However the President has got time to escape from the White House before this to the GUN Fortress, where Commander tells him that the citizens of Central City have evacuated the day before to the safe zone.

If the player chooses Semi-Dark story, the White House does not get destroyed, but the President will get evacuated from the building by GUN Commander and G.U.N. Soldiers to the Air Fleetdue to Central City being lost to the Black Arms. At the outside back garden of White House, Black Doom despises their escape and commands Shadow to follow them to the Air Fleet and destroy the President's escape pod.

Sonic X
In Sonic X anime, the White House is also directly identical to the real life building. During the series, the president is seen hearing about numerous crisis reports from his secretary Christina Cooper in the main office room, which are related to assaults and threats made by Dr. Eggman.

In the episode "That's What Friends Are For", after Sonic destroys Eggman's fortress, the president wants to meet with Sonic and organize the celebration event in the White House. All of Sonic's friends get involved except for Sonic himself, who declines the party and instead helps Helen visit an island via boat. The President's aide, Jerome Wise, then tries to track down Sonic to force the hedgehog to come to the White House as soon as possible by sending an army after him. In the end, Sonic manages to pay visit on White House and the President with one of the army's helicopters.

In the episodes "Sunblock Solution" and "Eggman for President", Eggman creates numerous Sunshine Balls to provide the world with light for the next few months as he has created a metallic replacement for the damaged side of the Moon. This gets Eggman popularity and accolades from the President. However, Eggman's whole plan turns out to be only for his own good, as he kidnaps the president and takes over the White House for himself in order to create his Eggman Empire. Everyone who owns a Sunshine Ball is brainwashed into supporting Eggman as president. However, Sonic and Tails manage to break into the White House, save the President and others, and put an end to Eggman's political plan.

Trivia

 * In Shadow the Hedgehog, the President is seen to have photo on his workbench, showing Sonic and Shadow posing near of White House, while the President remembers their feat moments from Sonic Adventure 2. Though there has not been given any sign of when this photo has been taken, it stands to reason that it was taken sometime after Sonic Heroes, as it was after Sonic Heroes that Shadow reappeared after his supposed death from the feat that made him the hero the President acknowledged.
 * The cinematic cutscene showing the destruction of the White House from Shadow the Hedgehog has been directly influenced by 1996 science fiction filmIndependence Day. According to Takashi Iizuka, the game gains numerous film references.
 * Because the game identifies Shadow the Hedgehog's final story as part of the series' continuity, it is unclear if the building was destroyed or not, as it has made no appearances in later installments.
 * If one looks very closely at the flags in the White House picture, one can make out their design. This design is most likely the real flag of the United Federation, rather than Empire City's flag, unless this has been reteconed. Either way, this flag appears as the United Federation flag in the Archie Comics.