Shado (Prime Earth)

Shado
Mainstream Universe‎‎, 2011‎-present
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Real Name	Shado
Relatives	Kazumi Adachi (grandmother, deceased) Emiko Queen (daughter)
Affiliation	Black Mountain, Ninth Circle, Outsiders · formerly Team Arrow
Base Of Operations	Prague
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Public Identity
Citizenship	Japanese
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Assassin, Criminal
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5' 3"
Weight	121 lbs (55 kg)
Hair	Black
Origin
Universe	Prime Earth
Creators	Mike Grell
First Appearance	Green Arrow Vol 5 #22 (September, 2013)

The way Robert spoke of you--you sounded like such a wayward kid. He would be so proud to see what you've become.

— Shado

History

The Death and Life of Oliver Queen

When Oliver was driving home on his motorbike, Shado, on orders of Cyrus Broderick attacked. She shot him with multiple arrows, but he managed to get home. There, Oliver beat Shado in a fight when suddenly Emiko Queen appeared, shooting an arrow into Oliver's back telling Shado that she had been waiting a long time for her to show up.

Together they got onto a boat, took Oliver's body with them, and drove out from the bay of Seattle onto the ocean. When in the middle of nowhere, they threw Oliver's body over the rail down into the ocean. They then traveled to the base of the Ninth Circle, the Inferno, where Shado introduced Emi to their masters.

A few weeks later, Oliver turned out to still be alive, and Shado engaged him in a duel inside the Queen Industries building where Oliver managed to escape through a window. The chase continued through the streets where she once again beat him and left him to the police.

Later at the Inferno, Shado and Emi were supposed to kill Dinah Drake-Lance but instead Emi turned on Shado, helping free Dinah, and revealing that she had been working against her mother the entire time. After Emi, Dinah and Oliver had teamed up to escape, Shado took Emi as hostage, holding an arrow to her daughters throat. She knocked Emi unconscious and brought her to a helicopter, leaving the base while it exploded.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Archery: Has extreme skill with archery, able to kill many targets not long after recovering from Count Vertigo's treatments.
• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)
• Acrobatics
  

Paraphernalia

Weapons

• Bow and Arrow

Notes

• Shado was created by Mike Grell, first appearing in Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Shado first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Green Arrow (Volume 5) #22 by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino.
  

Trivia

• A woman matching Shado's description appears in Secret Origins (Volume 3) #3 participating in the training of Kate Kane (specifically, by firing arrows at her), but whether it is actually her is unknown.
• According to Emiko, when she kills someone, she gets a manicure.

Related

• 48 Appearances of Shado (Prime Earth)
• 18 Images featuring Shado (Prime Earth)
• 5 Quotations by or about Shado (Prime Earth)
• Character Gallery: Shado (Prime Earth)

Footnotes

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