"Oh, shut up! You may have something sharp, but I am something sharp."

Kyoko Shidara aka Shuriken is a blade for hire and former member of a criminal group known simply as 'The Organization'. She and her brother were trained since childhood by their father, a specialist in Chinese martial arts, until the day a bunch of ninjas working for a Yakuza leader with a grudge murdered him in front of them. Seeking a fresh start, she decided to move to the USA for an education, but wound up recruited by The Organization, where she chiefly worked as a bodyguard.

Shuriken would part ways with the group after encountering her brother - now a Yakuza assassin - and bounced between several other employers, ranging from mercenary groups to the mayor. Eventually she had her final showdown with The Organization and the Yakuza, where it was revealed that the reason she and her brother were spared on the night their father was killed was so they could be turned into killers in order to corrupt his legacy.

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Combat

Unarmed

Shuriken fights with a customised Wing Chun style learned from her father.

• Sends a man flying a considerable distance with a punch
• Intercepts a jump kick while bound
• Easily takes down Bō
• Smashes a vase stuck on someone's head
• Knocks out Night Hawk in a midair clash
• Balance claims her punch could have killed him if it had connected
• Rips Chopper's bladed pigtail off
• Snatches a jumping Eagle Claw out of the air and slams him into the ground
• Tosses a charging Hellbender through a window to his death
• Catches a punch from Night Hawk and flips him
• Flips a man overhead
• Kicks the shit out of a Yakuza boss
• Fends off demons alongside Balance
• Fends off an ambush from Eagle Claw
• Takes out a guy in power armour by dropping on him from above and ripping components out of his suit until it loses control and takes out the floor beneath itself
• Beats up several goons who ambush her
• Takes down an alley full of gangsters with backup from Team Nippon
• Easily beats a drug dealer
• Easily drops a punk who won't take a hint
• Knocks down some policemen and escapes
• Holds back a nurse from sedating her when severely injured

Nunchucks

Shuriken's preferred melee weapon in most situations. She keeps two of them with her as part of her standard kit.

• Takes down a group of Yakuza
• Blocks a strike from Supreme Death's scythe
• Blocks a strike from Chopper's hair blades
• Disarms a man with a staff
• Snares Slate-Megumo's arm for a followup kick
• Drops from the ceiling and blocks a shuriken
• Ambushes and KO's a man
• Takes down a hit squad invading her home

Sword

Shuriken added a sword to her kit later in her career. She generally only opens with it when fighting opponents she's willing to kill.

• Her current blade has a micro-thin edge that 'cuts between molecules'
• Carves up a robot
• Kills a snake mutant
• Knocks an opponent's gun from his hand in the dark
• Cuts her opponent's belt to drop his pants
• Executes Batallion

Shurikens

Shuriken's signature weapons. Obviously.

• Slits a gunmen's throat
• Hears someone cock a gun behind her and kills him with a fistful of shuriken before he can fire
• Embeds one in the hand of a man reaching for a gun
• Throws one into the hand of a woman reaching for a sword
• Splits a training target in half with a trio of shuriken
• Takes down several gunmen before they can shoot
• Takes down some more gunmen
• Blocks Slate-Megumo's shuriken with a nunchuck then throws it back
• Buries three shuriken in Eagle Claw's leg before he can react
• Cuts the lights
• Takes out some gun turrets
• Uses them as melee weapons in a pinch
• Can curve them like boomerangs
• She has 'tranquilizer stars' which immediately KO someone when embedded in their shoulder

Throwing Spikes

For when Shuriken needs to throw something other than her namesake. She has several concealed within her costume.

• Embeds a handful of spikes in Hellbender's shoulder

Improvised Weapons

In a pinch Shuriken is well practiced at using basically anything within reach in a fight.

• Blocks Hellbender's springloaded blade with a chair then breaks it over his head
• Catches a man around the throat with a phone cord from across the room
• Takes out some bar thugs with a pool cue
• Beans a cop with an ashtray
• Drops smoke bombs and covers the floor with thumbtacks during a fight, then shoves her opponent onto them when he's distracted

Misc

• Shuriken's costume comes equipped with shuriken, throwing spikes, smoke pellets and nunchucks
• Her gloves have retractable claws
• Headshots Slate with a policeman's revolver
• Sweeps the baseball toss at a carnival

Durability

• Her costume is armoured. Apparently, it's 'light as wool and can absorb a slug from a .357 Magnum'.
• Takes a round from a sniper rifle to the shoulder that launches her across the room and promptly gets up, jumps through a glass window, and chases after the shooter although the blood loss knocks her out before she can catch him
• Jumped on by Eagle Claw
• Tackled by Supreme Death and just launches him off again
• Takes a kick from Slate, a shapeshifter who had perfectly copied her body and mind
• No trouble dropping some goons after getting taking some hits to the face and gut
• Gets stabbed by several shuriken and powers through the pain to defeat Eagle Claw
• No trouble falling several stories after being nicked by two bullets
• Shrugs off electrocution from a shock glove
• Shrugs off electrocution from a trapped handrail

Agility

• Jumps in front of a sniper's bullet to save the mayor
• Dodges gunfire
• Dodges bullets and a missile
• Avoids a turret-mounted laser cannon
• Avoids laser turrets until she can destroy them with shuriken
• Dodges one of Hellbender's projectile blades, then catches a second
• Avoids an RPG
• Avoids bullets
• Avoids a handful of shuriken
• Avoids some throwing spikes
• Dodges a blast from a miniature flamethrower
• Avoids a kick from Megumo
• Dodges a surprise attack from Slate taking Megumo's form
• Ducks a swing from a bo staff
• Lands on her feet and escapes after falling several stories
• Jumps a wall with a sniper's bullet in her arm
• Avoids a spike trap in a wall and catches a railing after falling from the electrified handrail

Fights

• vs. Eagle Claw - Her brother, a professional assassin. Has trouble at first but takes him down pretty quickly once she gets mad enough to stop holding back. Win
• vs. Max - A newly recruited Organization assassin. Shuriken encounters him out of costume and defeats him easily. Win
• vs. Megumo the She-Spider - Her predecessor at the Organization. Challenges Shuriken early in her career out of jealousy and proves the better fighter. Loss
• vs. Sai and Butterfly - A pair of Organization assassins sent to assassinate a target she was bodyguarding at the time. Takes them both on easily. Win
• vs. Supreme Death - A Yakuza assassin with hypnotic powers. Might be undead. Holds her own for a while but is ultimately overwhelmed by his powers of illusion when he convinces her she's burning alive. Loss
• vs. Chopper - A hired mercenary that made his name in the Nicaraguan Revolution. Fights with a pair of blades braided into his hair. Handily defeated Shuriken in their first bout. Loss
• vs. Chopper - She kicked his ass in the rematch, though. Win
• vs. Hellbender - An insane serial killer with spring-loaded Wolverine claws. Wanted to be a slasher villain but didn't do so well when presented with someone who could actually fight back. Win
• vs. Night Hawk - A so-called 'righteous mercenary' who was abandoned when captured because a rescue operation would give away who he was working for. Came into conflict with Shuriken while trying to kill his former (and her current) employer. Didn't take her seriously and paid for it. Win
• vs. Slate - A shapeshifter that was able to perfectly recreate the body, mind and abilities of anyone it got a blood sample from. Copied Shuriken and attempted to kill her and take her place. Shuriken won with an assist. Win

Misc

• Has a motorcycle
• Recognises a man is Japanese because of his accent
• Throws her opponent off his game by psychoanalysing him during their fight
• Switches fighting styles mid-fight to counter her opponent
• Her instincts prove more accurate than a state-of-the-art security system
• Her house is full of traps, hidden weapons and secret passages
• Sneaks past a gang boss's security
• Successfully sneaks into an on-alert rogue military base only to give herself away by talking to herself
• Seriously, you'd think she'd learn to keep her mouth shut on infiltration jobs
• She digs Astro Boy