Who Is Shado? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Shado is a DC Comics comic book character, with over 144 comic issue appearances. Shado is a trained Bushido and kyudo master and lethal with a bow. She is the mother to Green Arrow's half-sister, Emiko Queen.

Who is Shado?

Shado's Bio Shado Shado's father, a man named Tomonaga, was Yakuza and knew where a Yakuza fortune was hidden. Former OSS agents attempted to discover that fortune after the war, and killed his wife to make him talk; Tomonaga executed seppuku thereafter. The Yakuza took his orphaned child to be raised as their instrument of vengeance, and gave her to a master kyudoka, Yoshitomo, so he would raise her. They had the child tattooed with a dragon to mark her allegiances and giri. Yoshitomo himself owned obedience to the Yakuza due to ancestral giri, and taught her in the way of Bushido and kyudo, until she became a master of both, becoming shado. She then was ordered to kill all the men responsible for the death of her parents, and left Japan for several years. Her path crossed Green Arrow 's twice, on two of her targets. Green Arrow first opposed her, but collaborated with her on killing one of her targets.

Key facts

Shado is of human origin and first appeared in "The Hunters". The character is published by DC Comics. With 144 recorded issue appearances, Shado ranks among the most featured characters in comics.