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What happens when you make an image a shadow host? More than likely, the answer is: The actual appearance of the image is some native DOM element that is part of the HTMLImageElement's shadow DOM subtree. Adding a new shadow root works according to standard rules of adding an additional shadow DOM subtree.
This is a special case of bug 15300. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15300 ***