Ebon Samurai
Ebon Samurai is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Kioshi Keishicho was a Japanese male born in Chiyoda City, Japan in the modern age. By adulthood, he joined the police where he was trained at the National Police Academy in Fuchu City in Tokyo. This saw him become a career officer where he came to be assigned to the Imperial Guard of Japan who were an elite branch of the National Police Agency where it was responsible for protecting the Emperor. Years ago, Captain Keishicho was present when an assassination attempt was made by the international terrorist organisation known as Hydra. The Emperor was saved but Kioshi was killed by blade of the Silver Samurai Kenuichio Harada who was affiliated by Hydra at the time. A funeral was held in his honour with Keishicho's soul descended into Yomi that was the Shinto nether realm. Once there, he was confronted by the primordial god of evil Amatsu-Mikaboshi. Within Kioshi, he sensed an unsated thirst for vengeance and offered to send him back to the mortal realm to exact his revenge against the one responsible for his death. Keishicho agreed but was unaware of the strings attached with this deal. He came to find that he was transformed into a revenant who was returned to the land of the living and permanently bonded to a suit of ebony samurai armour. (Big Hero 6 v1 #2)
At some point, the Silver Samurai left Big Hero Six and was replaced by the Ebon Samurai. The team was then placed under the control of an unknown party, who sent the team to Canada to battle Alpha Flight. Ebon Samurai, along with the rest of Big Hero Six, attacked Alpha Flight, with the Samurai matching swords against Nemesis. Sasquatch found the device used to control the Japanese heroes located on Baymax. Returning to their senses, the two teams were attempting to figure out who was responsible when Flashback arrived and begged Alpha Flight for their aid. (Alpha Flight v3 #9) After Alpha Flight went into the past on an adventure, they eventually ended back up where they started, finishing up their fight with Big Hero Six. (Alpha Flight v3 #12)
After the super-human Civil War, instead of forcing heroes to join the Japan Defense Agency, the Japanese government preferred to establish a voluntary public partnership with the Japanese super-heroes, including the Big Hero Six. To reaffirm this stand, senior officials from the Japanese Department of Supernatural Sciences (JDSS) held a press conference at the National Diet Building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, with the Big Hero Six Honey Lemon, Go-Go Tomago, Baymax, Hiro Takachiho, Sunpyre, and Ebon Samurai, along with the super-soldier Otomo and Red Ronin. (Civil War: Battle Damage Report v1 #1)
Ebon Samurai left the team to search for Silver Samurai again when he learned that he still lived. He found Silver Samurai employed as the Prime Minister's captain of personal security. Unable to betray Japan Ebon Samurai decided not to kill Silver Samurai until he disgraced himself in the Prime Minister's eyes. Ebon Samurai returned to BH6's HQ where he met, to his surprise, his former teammate Sunpyre, who had left the team even before he did. After talking about both their fates they went to get some sake and heard the villain Deadline entering the building by force. Sunpyre was shot by Deadline, but Ebon Samurai was close behind her to face Deadline himself. (Big Hero 6 v1 #3) Ebon Samurai rendered Deadline's heat blaster unusable and it exploded shortly after Deadline tossed it in Ebon Samurai's direction. Samurai escaped the blast and followed Deadline into the lab where Deadline used one of Kuro Gaki's adhesive blasters against him. Avoiding the black goop from the weapon Ebon Samurai resisted using his katana and instead drew his wakazashi blade, flinging it at Deadline. Sunpyre, overhearing Deadline wanted to save the world and thinking she could save Honey Lemon by aiding Deadline, melted the blade and then viciously attacked Ebon Samurai to buy Deadline enough time to activate his doomsday device. Forced to draw his demon-possessed katana Ebon Samurai lost control over himself and nearly killed Sunpyre burying her under the remnants of the hallway. Upon returning to the lab he destroyed Deadline's adhesive gun and cut off his hand before Deadline could activate his doomsday device. Deciding he had to kill Deadline to prevent him from ever trying to destroy Tokyo again Ebon Samurai readied him to be executed, but Sunpyre turned up alive and asked him to stop. Ebon Samurai came to his senses when Sunpyre didn't defend herself. Ebon Samurai used another adhesive gun to trap Deadline, told Sunpyre that she had to return home to deal with all the unresolved things there and then left with Sunpyre ready to leave for the Microverse. (Big Hero 6 v1 #4)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As a superhero, he came to be known as the Ebon Samurai. (Alpha Flight v3 #9)
Powers and abilities
Kioshi Keishicho was killed in the line of duty by the Silver Samurai where his soul departed to the Japanese underworld of Yomi. In Yomi, Keishicho was approached by the god of evil Amatsu-Mikaboshi, who offered to resurrect Keishicho so he could seek vengeance on the Silver Samurai. Keishicho agreed, and returned to Earth, outfitted with a suit of samurai armor and katana sword mystically bonded to an unnamed Shinma demon. In his new form as a vengeful yūrei departed spirit, the Shinma-bonded Keishicho became the Ebon Samurai. (Big Hero 6 v1 #2)
Upon being reborn as a revenant, he was given a katana sword mystically bonded to the essence of a shinma demon that subconsciously reminded Kioshi of his debt owed to Mikaboshi. (Big Hero 6 v1 #2) His weapon was imbued with the dark demonic energy by the dark god Aratsu-Mikaboshi. The sword's burning energy could be felt and it often whispered into the mind of Kioshi to embrace it. (Big Hero 6 v1 #4)
As an alternative, he had a non-demonic wakazashi sword that he could use without risk of further corrupting his essence. The Ebon Samurai also made use of shuriken blades that he could throw to provide him a ranged attack against an enemy. (Big Hero 6 v1 #4)
Originally, in life, Kioshi had been a member of Japan's National Police Force where he was assigned to the Imperial Guard. (Big Hero 6 v1 #2)
Notes
- The Ebon Samurai was created by Scott Lobdell and Clayton Henry where he made his first appearance in Alpha Flight v3 #9 (January, 2005).
Appearances
- Alpha Flight v3: (2005)
- Big Hero 6 v1:
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