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"It was my father's obsession... with mutation, with God's mistakes... like you and her, that ruined this house."
―Shingen Yashida[src]

Shingen Yashida was a Japanese martial artist who disgraced his family name by attempting to kill his own daughter, Mariko Yashida, for his father's business empire. He held a strong dislike towards mutants, because ever since the day his father was saved by Wolverine, he became fascinated with their kind and unravelling their secrets, and felt that his family's name was ruined by his father's obsession.

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Shingen Yashida sought to kill his daughter, Mariko Yashida, to inherit his father's business empire. His contempt for mutants, triggered when Wolverine saved his father, convinced him that his family's honor was compromised. He collaborated with the Yakuza and Noburo Mori to abduct Mariko at Ichirō Yashida's funeral, planning to murder her prior to the reading of his father's will.
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Shingen Yashida, a renowned Japanese martial artist, developed a strong aversion towards mutants. This stemmed from his father's fascination with mutants, particularly Wolverine, who saved his father's life. Shingen perceived this obsession as a disgrace to his family name. Moreover, he held a fear that the more evolved and powerful mutants would eventually eradicate those without such abilities.
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Shingen Yashida, also known as Lord Shingen, was profoundly impacted by his father's fascination with mutants, which began when Wolverine saved his life. This obsession led Shingen to perceive that his family's honor was tarnished. Consequently, he developed a strong aversion to mutants and even plotted to murder his daughter, Mariko Yashida, to secure his father's business empire.
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Shingen Yashida, known as a Japanese martial artist, harbored a deep resentment towards mutants. This sentiment was primarily due to his father's intense interest in mutants, especially Wolverine, which led him to investigate genetic science to decode and duplicate mutations. Shingen believed this obsession with mutants sullied the family name.
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In the Wolverine narrative, Shingen Yashida, or Lord Shingen, is a pivotal character. A former Japanese Imperial Army soldier and business magnate, his life was spared by Wolverine during the 1945 Nagasaki bombing. Despite this, he later became Wolverine's adversary, making numerous attempts on his life to acquire his regenerative abilities. Ultimately, Wolverine ended his life.
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Biography[]

Background[]

During his youth, Shingen studied biology in college, learning about mutation and the role of recessive genes in passing on characteristics to offspring. From this understanding, he felt that his father, Ichirō, saw little of his traits in his son, instead favoring Shingen's daughter, Mariko, as the rightful heir to the Yashida Corporation.

But due to his father's ailing health and Mariko's youth, Shingen was put in charge of the corporate side of affairs, to serve as a test of his competence as the CEO of the family's business. Shingen tried to please his father by preventing the company from descending into bankruptcy, even going as far as disguising the cost of Ichirō's determination to escape death in amassing large quantities of adamantium, from the board and the stockholders. Shingen thought he would be rewarded for his actions, but Ichirō nonetheless cut him out of the loop and wrote Mariko as the successor to his title in his will.

The Wolverine[]

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Yashida continues his own work.

After his father died, Shingen planned to kill his daughter because he feared that she would take over his father's business once Ichirō's will was opened, which named her as the successor to the Yashida corporate empire. So Shingen conspired with the corrupt Japanese Minister of Justice Noburo Mori to put out a hit on Mariko's life, contracting the Yakuza to eliminate her. After Logan escapes the funeral with Mariko, Shingen orders the Yakuza to track them down by searching near the village where Mariko grew up in.

Shingen eventually captures his daughter with the Yakuza's help and has her brought back to the Yashida mansion. He lectures her on how Ichirō saw little of himself in his son, but favoured her as his true offspring and the more worthy heir. Shingen attempts to kill her, until the Black Clan reveal their presence and he is forced to flee. Viper appears on the scene and infects Shingen with a toxin to prevent him from pursuing Mariko.

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Yashida is brutally killed by the Wolverine.

When Wolverine is about to remove the parasite that prevented his healing factor from functioning, Shingen attacks him, but Yukio fights back and defends Wolverine just long enough for him to remove the parasite and recover. Wolverine then fights Shingen, but initially allows him to live with the truth that he ordered his own daughter to die.  As Shingen regains his senses, he charges at Logan, and impales the latter in the chest with his sword. When Wolverine takes the full force of Shingen's sword and shows no signs of wavering, Shingen asks "What kind of monster are you?". Logan replies "The Wolverine", then kills Shingen by unsheathing his claws in the samurai's neck.

X-Men: Days of Future Past[]

Due to Wolverine traveling back in time to January 1973, and preventing Bolivar Trask from being assassinated by Mystique, it changed many significant events after that point, including Wolverine's mercy killing of Jean Grey. With Wolverine never falling into a misery and self-imposed exile from losing Jean, it is unknown if he ever went to Japan, hence it is unclear what became of Shingan.

Personality[]

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Abilities[]

  • Peak Human Condition: Despite his age, he has shown an exceptional physical conditioning ranging from strength, speed, agility and endurance, likely due to regular rigorous swordsmanship training. He is very resilient as despite Viper stabbing him in the neck, which was laced with her potent venom, Shingen survived the assault. Shortly afterwards, he recovered enough to effectively fight both Yukio and Wolverine consecutively.
  • Master Swordsman: Shingen is a highly skilled warrior. His swordsmanship skills are honed to the point where he has bested nearly every opponent who has faced him. He is also equally proficient in wielding two blades simultaneously between both hands. Despite his injured state by Viper, he was able to best Yukio in combat without much effort. Against Wolverine, Shingen was able to land many decisive blows, ultimately unable to actually kill or even defeat the much more experienced foe due to the latter's healing powers and immortality.
  • Expert Businessman: He has run Yashida Corporation as the CEO. Shingen efforts prevented the company from landing up in bankruptcy and even disguised his father's large purchases of Adamantium from the stakeholders. 

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Family[]

Original Timeline[]

  • Mariko Yashida - Enemy and Attempted Victim
  • Viper † - Ally turned Enemy
  • Wolverine - Enemy and Killer
  • Kenuichio Harada † - Enemy
  • Yukio - Enemy

  • Trivia[]

    • When Shingen is fighting Logan in the Yashida household, his swords do not get cut apart instantly, despite the fact that Logan's claws are made of the indestructible alloy adamantium. This implies that the swords themselves are made of adamantium, as Ichirō had amassed large quantities of the mineral in his factory in the north of Japan.
    • Shingen's statement of mutants being "God's mistake" is echoed in Logan, as when Logan is talking with Xavier early in the film, he states, "Maybe we really are God's mistake."

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