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Shades were giant bat-like creatures that hunted Group B in The Scorch Trials Official Graphic Novel Prelude. They were Group B's Equivalent of Grievers. Group B was previously able to kill one and they hung it up in their meeting room. On a mapping run in the Maze, a shade attacked the group and killed Ximena.

Aris later studied it to find the Maze's pattern in written on its wings. Aris also cut into it and discovered a transmitter that called the other Shades to it, and brings in WCKD soldiers to save the Group. The Shades killed the remaining Icers, the equivalent of Gladers in Group A, except for Aris, Sonya, Harriet, and Rachel, who were saved by soldiers. The Shades are canon to the Film-Universe, but not the Books.

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