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Real Name: Shinobi Shaw
Occupation: Dilettante, industrialist, mastermind
Legal Status: American citizen, no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Sebastian Shaw (legal father), Harold Leland (Uncle, possibly real father)
Base of Operations: New York penthouse
Past Group Affiliations: Upstarts
Known Powers:
Density Manipulation—Self: Shinobi’s mutant ability is the Amazing rank power to alter his own density, increasing or decreasing it as desired. His Power Stunts include:
- Gain body armor equal to his current Density power rank.
- Use the power rank instead of his Strength when attacking.
- At Shift 0 density, Shinobi is immune to physical attacks, but not energy or force attacks.
- Shinobi can disrupt living and nonliving material by touching the target or victim and solidifying inside that object or person. Damage equals Shinobi’s chosen density rank. Body armor is ignored, but force fields are not.
Equipment:
As his father’s heir, Shinobi commands Hellfire Club mercenaries and has access to high-technology equipment from Shaw Industries, such as advanced weapons, computers, power neutralizers and Sentinels (Mark VI designs, plus newer models just coming into service). Shinobi does not use personal weapons or armor, relying on his mutant power.
Talents:
Shinobi has the Business/Finance, Leadership and Politics talents.
Contacts:
As the head of Shaw Industries and a member of the Upstarts, Shinobi has contacts throughout the business and financial world, the Hellfire Club, and the United States government. Through Shaw Industries access to the Hellfire Club’s computers, he doubtless has information on the club’s main adversaries, such as the X-Men.
Role-Playing Notes:
Shinobi is a young man consumed with ambition. At present, his main goal is taking his father’s place as Black King of the Hellfire Club and humiliating or defeating the former Hellfire members and his rival Upstarts. Although he is a good strategist, his youthful overconfidence, short temper, and preference for a decadent lifestyle sometimes interfere with his own plans.
Shinobi’s stated belief is to not let personal feelings cloud his wisdom, but his pride in his own abilities often prevents him from living up to his words. He enjoys dramatic gestures and showing off, and likes to be on hand personally to gloat over his enemies before finishing them off. Shinobi is deliberately careless about what he says, and his speech is often peppered with youthful slang.
History:
The (supposed) son of Sebastian Shaw, Shinobi grew tired of waiting to inherit his father’s wealth and wearied of the elder Shaw’s contempt for his decadent lifestyle. When his own mutant powers manifested after puberty, he discovered they closely resembled those of his “uncle,” Harry Leland. Believing himself to be Leland’s son rather than Shaw’s, the last vestiges of Shinobi’s loyalty to Sebastian Shaw vanished. He soon became involved with the mysterious group of power-seekers known as the Upstarts.
Using his own business acumen, Shinobi amassed a private fortune of his own and bought out Shaw Industries from under his father’s feet. Confronting Sebastian Shaw with this coup, Shinobi drove him into a rage and then used his own mutant abilities to slay Sebastian. Taking Shaw’s ring as the symbol of his victory, he announced his triumph and claimed the rulership of the Hellfire Club.
Shinobi quickly took control of Shaw’s resources, and began assembling a personal guard of Sentinels and mercenaries. But Shinobi soon found himself in a deadly game with another rival for control of the club, fellow Upstart and mutant, Trevor Fitzroy. With his superior Sentinels, Fitzroy separately defeated Donald Pierce, Emma Frost, and finally Shinobi himself. Shinobi suffered the humiliation of having Fitzroy cut Shaw’s ring from his finger, and was left to bleed to death.
But Fitzroy’s victory was sloppy. Shinobi’s personal Sentinels reached him more swiftly than Fitzroy had expected, and they acted quickly to reattach the finger. The operation was successful, though Shinobi still feels a little stiffness. Martialling his organization’s power, Shinobi prepared for vengeance against Fitzroy.
The reverses that Fitzroy suffered at the hands of the X-Men and the timetravelling Bishop gave Shinobi a chance to regain his place and his pride. Shinobi’s retaliation was swift and gaudy. He sent his men to Fitzroy’s iceberg lair. They secretly mined the base with powerful explosive charges, then placed Fitzroy under surveillance.
Soon, the X-Men and Bishop attacked Fitzroy’s lair. The X-Men were trying to retrieve Jean Gray, whom Fitzroy had captured while Bishop was in pursuit of mutant criminals entering our reality through Fitzroy’s time-portal. Fitzroy tried to escape when he realized he was outmatched, but Shinobi’s minions were waiting and they took Fitzroy captive.
Shinobi retrieved his father’s ring, then ordered the explosives detonated to kill the X-Men and destroy Fitzroy’s base. Although the X-Men and Bishop escaped the blast, Shinobi believed he had killed them. In any case, he had thoroughly humiliated his enemy, making up for his earlier defeat, and the chance to gloat over the captive Trevor Fitzroy made the victory even sweeter.