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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 for his father's business empire. He held a strong dislike towards mutants, because 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.

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

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.

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 and charges at Logan, the latter kills him by stabbing him with his claws. 

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Enemies

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 are themselves made of adamantium, as Ichirō had amassed large quantities of the mineral in his factory in the north of Japan. He is also able to pierce Wolverine's body, made of adamantium.

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