History Characters / KenganAshuraWorm

* NeverMyFault: He doesn't see himself as the leader of the Worm or the Westward Wu, just their buddy, so he takes no accountability for all the terrorists act done in his name. He also states that he only kill in self-defense as people like Mukaku were the one that attacked him for going against the laws of nature, which Shen doesn't really understand, which to his credit is true but his display of strength show he could definitely just knock them out no matter how hard they try.

* EvilCounterpart: Like Ryuki, Shen is tactless and somewhat air-headed, while also being a remorseless killing machine. However, Ryuki only targeted Worm agents and his interactions with Koga led to him having second-thought about killing, Whereas Shen is in charge of the entire Worm organization and is willing to kill former allies if they step out of line.

* TwoBeingsOneBody: To his horror, Kazuo figures out in Chapter 253 that "Shen Wulong" is a congealed persona resulting from two rival martial arts masters using Huisheng on the same person who proceeded to use the technique more traditionally on his successors. This explains Wulong's tendency to be nigh-docile one moment, only to then grin ear-to-ear at the prospect of committing horrific violence. The affable and gentile person they've come to know over the last few chapters could easily fall away, revealing the unstoppable killing machine everyone fears Wulong to be, because that's partially who he really is. What's more, they've decided that they'd prefer to end their union for the sake of battling each other once again, which is why they want to use Huisheng on both Ohma and Ryuki.

* ExoticEyeDesigns: Interestingly, Shen's eyes are [[https://i.postimg.cc/T3n7DQnS/image.png double-pupiled]] (though it is only apparent when he doesn't have DrearyHalfLiddedEyes), a phenomenon referred to as ''Chong Tong'' (重瞳) in Chinese mythology and folklore, where it is associated with innate wisdom or charisma because of five people in Ancient China recorded with such eyes, with all having been great leaders or sages ranging from the Hegemon of Chu [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Yu Xiang Yu]], [[https://i.imgur.com/eraWsj9.png Cang Jie]] the Chinese inventor of writing, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Shun Shun the Great]], last of the Five Great Emperors, whose mother supposedly gave birth to him under the light of Dubhe, the alpha star of the Big Dipper, resulting in his heaven-sent distinction. It seems that this is at least part of what marks Shen for greatness, with even [[TheStarscream a megalomaniac like Xia Ji]] internally considering himself ''nothing'' compared to Shen.

* CultureEqualsCostume: He wears a similar Changshan as his brother, only adorned in a myriad of colored scarfs with Worm-themed symbolism all over it and a MysteriousVeil that almost makes him look like a male BellyDancer at first glance.

--> '''Gilbert:''' ''"Willem I’m giving up the epithet "The Demon of Death".''"

* LogicalWeakness: His capacity for martial arts is so good as to border on having genuine superpowers, but as Gensai notes, there is ''one'' limitation of the human body he cannot overcome no matter what martial techniques he puts into practice. He still needs to physically touch his opponent to put them down, so if somebody manages to maintain enough focus and speed to perceive his attacks coming, it's possible to counter-attack him and damage him in turn the second the blow lands. The trick comes from the fact he's so ridiculously fast and skilled that only Gensai has managed to pull this off, and counter-attacking was ''all'' he could do -- and even then, it's revealed afterwards that Shen was limiting himself to using only the left side of his body to attack with. Regardless, their fight was still the most damage Shen's ever depicted taking.
* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: Parodied. When Gensai barges into his hotel room to assassinate the Connector, Wulong suddenly remembers that his identity is technically supposed to be a secret, and he tries to pass off Xia Yan, and then Yan's bodyguard, as his boss despite how he had publicly revealed himself to the Kengan Association the night prior.

** Catches on rather quickly during their fight that Kuroki Gensai is focusing all his mental and physical energies into countering his blows rather than attacking. Instead of opting out of doing so or commanding his bodyguards to force the assassin into action through flanking maneuvers, Shen cheerfully continues assaulting Kuroki while exclusively using his right arm and leg to attack with as a handicap.

* BigBadWannabe: He aspires to be the new head of Worm but being a lesser fighter makes it hard for him to gain respect from the likes of Wu and Lu Tian.
* BrilliantButLazy: He possesses [[spoiler:Superman Syndrome]] and has a natural talent for martial arts, which his twin brother Yan [[spoiler:(who is the current Head of the Worm, which strictly works on MightMakesRight, because he put in the work their gifts needed to truly shine)]] admits is greater than his own. However, this makes Ji lazy, and he prefers to boss people around and send henchmen to do his work than put in the effort to polish his skills.

* AlwaysSecondBest: He is the last remnant of Wu Hei's legacy, a being so powerful and vile he was seen as a demon, and with Worm and Edward's conditioning Gilbert is even more dangerous than his predecessors. But he is still subservient to The Connector, a pseudo-reincarnation of a martial arts sage who is seen as a god by the Worm and Gilbert's faction, to the point that the Westward Faction folded to Worm and gave him access to their genetic studies and Huisheng technique 1300 years ago. The Connector also thinks he was better as Edward which rattles Gilbert, who thinks that his body chemistry being the one of a teenager might have actually made him worse.

* HumblePie: Shen's condescending remark after Gilbert failed to kill Akoya or Kiryu, fighters so below his level he has no excuses, strike a nerve and makes him reconnect with his Wu Hei heritage instead of Edward.
--> ''"The God of the Underworld. I'm inheriting the epithet of our primogenitor, Wu Hei."''

* LastOfHisKind: With Howard's death, Gilbert is the only person still endowed with Wu Hei's memories and techniques, assuming these weren’t taken out of his "programming" for the sake of making more space for Edward's AwesomeEgo, and unlike his "father", Gilbert has said that he no longer needs spares.
--> ''"I'm the only ruler we need."''

A deeply underground secret society of Ancient Chinese origins, with connections to The Inside, Kengan Association members, and the Niko Style. They have been involved in wars and political plots in China for millennias, yet have remained far outside the public eye, and even in the deeper echelons of the criminal underworld they are a dangerous enigma occasionally thought of to be just a myth. While the full extent of their influence and power has only just begun to show, Worm has only been spoken of with a mix of fear and disgust and are the closest thing to a true villainous organization in the ''Kengan'' world. Worm is involved in the pasts of Ohma Tokita, Setsuna Kiryu, and Agito Kanoh among others, and have a vested interest in advancements within the field of neuroscience and martial arts. They are also outright confirmed to have both the resources and technology to produce biological clones.

** The people at the top of their internal food chain have set up hundreds of "rituals" in China where fifty of their members are enclosed in a vault sealed by massive stone doors and [[DestroyTheEvidence putting a landfill on top]] for three months, strapping a pulse-tracking bracelet around each man's wrist, providing them with enough food, air and water enough for a single person to just ''barely'' cling to life and they should kill all the others with the martial arts they've learned so far if they want to survive. Whoever is dragged out alive of such a vault after the three months are up is usually [[AxCrazy absolutely insane]], [[UndyingLoyalty unfailingly loyal and dependent]] and [[LightningBruiser one of the strongest martial artists in the world.]] [[spoiler: [[TheDreaded Agito Kanoh]], [[SuperiorSuccesor Lu Tian]] and [[WeakButSkilled Fei Wangfang]] are living examples of this horrific ritual actually ''working'', and disturbingly well at that.]]

* TrainingFromHell: As one might expect from a morally reprehensible ancient conspiracy, they love to put their combatants through this. The Other Niko was a particularly huge fan of the Gu Ritual process (which consist of killing the other fourty-nine people in there with you, or dying) in which Agito Kanoh, Lu Tian and Fei wangfang were subjected to before they became formal students of his. The batch that produced Fei started out with 4000 talented young Chinese men, and ended with ''fifty'' survivors, and '''one''' in ''Omega's'' present. Naidan was put through grueling traditional Bökh training that killed or broke his four fellow trainees either physically or mentally. Safe to say, this is basically a requirement to join, as much of it's contempt for Xia Ji comes from the fact that he dodged any such training in favor of pushing underlings around.

The Far-East Branch Chief and one of the three ringleaders of ''Worm'' who were trying to acquire Ohma Tokita in ''Ashura'', and the one orchestrating the group's infiltration of the Kengan Association in ''Omega''.

One of three ringleaders attempting to acquire Ohma Tokita for the ''Worm''. Edward is the leader of the Westward Branch of the Wu clan that splintered off from the main line at the same time as the Kure 1300 years ago, heading west instead of east. While not formally a member of ''Worm'' himself, he and his branch has worked with them for many years, selling the clan's secret techniques, Huisheng and Guihun[[note]]respectively, a brainwashing technique that in theory lets the user pass on his "soul" to a descendant of his and the Wu clan’s name for the [[SuperMode Removal]].[[/note]] to Worm and the Other Niko. Edward is himself the current dominant host of Wu Hei, the progenitor of the Wu and Kure, along with four other "spare" Wu Hei's. He requests one of the 13 spots on the Purgatory team against the Kengan Association in ''Omega'', sending Alan Wu into the fray.

An enigmatic tiger-like man who appeared before Ohma and Kiryu thirteen years before ''Ashura'', endowing the former with the Advance and the latter with the Niko Style, as well as teaching Agito Kanoh and Lu Tian said Style and the Formless Stance years before then. His true identity is completely shrouded in mystery, but he is the penultimate surviving student of Mukaku Gaoh who stands on equal footing within Worm as the Head of the organization.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Seems to invent these almost willy-nilly in search of greater power. Among other things, he's mentioned to be the creator of the Advance and the Fallen Demon, both of which have drastic side effects in return for overclocking the user's heart and brain respectively. He also taught Formless and Guihun to some of his students even though he personally would never use the latter because of the risk of death. [[spoiler: During his fight with Setsuna he only uses the Advance after mentally declaring that he'll have to kill Setsuna no matter the cost]].

** [[spoiler: He has several big ones after encountering Kureshi and Joji. He is seen running away from the ensuing fight between Edward, Erioh and Xing Wu crapping himself before encountering Kureshi, who dislocates his arm. He then gets kicked by Joji and his pressure points hit, immobilising him in agony, before having his arm broken. He has his final massive one when he realises that all his men have been taken out by Sen and Rei, and that no one is going to come and save him from being tortured by Kureshi and Joji, and is left as a sobbing, terrified mess.]]

One of three ringleaders attempting to acquire Ohma Tokita for the ''Worm''. Edward is the leader of the Westward Branch of the Wu clan that splintered off from the main line at the same time as the Kure 1300 years ago, heading west instead of east. While not formally a member of ''Worm'' himself, he and his branch has worked with them for many years, selling the clan's secret techniques, Huisheng and Guihun[[note]]respectively, a brainwashing technique that in theory lets the user pass on his "soul" to a descendant of his and the Wu clan’s name for the [[SuperMode Removal]].[[/note]] to Worm and the Other Niko. Edward is himself the current dominant host of Hei Wu, the progenitor of the Wu and Kure, along with four other "spare" Hei Wu's. He requests one of the 13 spots on the Purgatory team against the Kengan Association in ''Omega'', sending Alan Wu into the fray.

* AnimalMotif: Compared to Tokita Niko representing the tiger, a solitary predator, Edward is an [[KingOfBeasts alpha male lion]], a pack hunter. [[spoiler: As the patriarch and "primary" Wu Hei, he needs to cultivate suitable spare Wu Heis for the future of his clan, as the herd needs a Wu Hei to lead it somehow and if he dies without a "spare", Huisheng would end there. He will lazily let his relatives Fabio and Solomon do the work and still expect the lion's share, but will rouse to show how he became KingOfBeasts when provoked, as Xing Wu and Erioh learn the hard way.]]
* BadassBoast: When he's walking down Xing Wu after [[spoiler:elbowing Erioh in the chest]].

* CombatPragmatist: Justified. [[spoiler: Wu Hei's personality and skills are shared among a select few in the Westward Wu, meaning they are literally three of the same person and about the closest you can get to a real HiveMind because him and the spare Wu Hei's share the same Ego. This means that a single fighter, even one of [[TheBerserker Raian]]'s caliber using [[SuperMode Removal]], stands not even a smidgeon of a chance against three gigantic well-trained fighters sharing the same [[IdEgoAndSuperego ego and instincts]], making Edward, Fabio and Solomon coordinate in eerily perfectly sync to effortlessly beat down even monsters like Raian by themself(es).]]

* TheGiant: At ''212cm and 171 kilos'', Edward is a walking mountain of muscle, to the point where most of the cast, who are on average well-built to ''massive'', look normal-sized next to him. Idemitsu is a 2-meter tall brick wall and is dwarfed by Edward in person. The Westward Wu went north-west from China in part to take advantage of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann%27s_rule Bergmann's Rule]] for their eugenics program, resulting in them being far taller and heavier than average. Solomon, Alan, and Fabio Wu, the other Hei Wu's, are of a similar large size, but Edward is a different beast entirely.
* HateSink: Is this for the Kure and the mainline Wu clans, [[spoiler:due to betraying them to the Worm and killing both the man next in line to be head of the Kure Clan and Xing Wu's lover. Erioh and the rest of the Kure are perfectly fine with breaking their contract with the Kengan Association for a win during the Purgatory faceoff just for a chance to sink their teeth into Edward's neck.]]

* InSeriesNickname: His friends call him Eddie. [[spoiler: Erioh calls him a maggot.]]

* LightningBruiser: Is simultaneously a hulking behemoth of a man who can [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom send Raian flying]] or kill a normal human with a single punch ''and'' is agile like a cat, practically walking through Erioh, Raian and Xing's attacks without even getting his leopard-print shirt dirty, before removing it to kick their collective asses with such confidence and ease that he lights up a cigar halfway through, as he was getting bored with them.

* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler:As good as he is even he can't keep track of multiple assailants trying to ambush him, eventually Xing stabs him in the neck leaving it to Raian to finish him off and drag the fight out to the point where Edward starts suffering from both the blood-loss and poison. In blink-and-you'll-miss-it parts of Edward and Raian's fight, you can see the tension in Edward's artery slowly relaxing as he starts wailing on Raian, steadily weakening him until Raian can get an opportunity to gouge the neck wound.]]

* RedBaron: "Mei-Ō" is the title of the King of the Underworld in Japanese Mythology (and also the translation of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]]' epithet). Incredibly fitting for [[spoiler:the vessel of Hei Wu, who has transcended death by turning his descendants into [[SoulJar new Wu Heis]].]]

* ShirtlessScene: Provides this in the most intimidating manner possible by sinking his fingers into his leopard-print shirt and tearing it like it was tissue paper when he gets annoyed with Erioh and Xing Wu.
* SignatureMove: The Wu Clan Ultimate Technique: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mount Tai North Star Eightfold Demolition Fist]], an endless barrage of horrifically powerful Removal punches that can only be countered by [[MadeOfIron punching through them]].

* SoulJar: [[spoiler: He has been subjected to Huisheng, by which he carries the personality of Hei Wu, the progenitor of all three clans. His son Gilbert is a Worm-produced clone of Edward himself to be a SoulJar of his own.]]

* SpeedBlitz: Using Guihun, he can send [[spoiler: Erioh, Raian and Xing]] flying with brutally powerful punches before they can even blink. Despite having to cross the entire wide room to hit [[spoiler: Xing]], he hits all three of them so fast that they hit the floor or wall simultaneously.

* SuperStrength: Is able to effortlessly lift Xia a meter off the ground by his Changshan's collar with a loose-one handed grip and OffhandBackhand Xing Wu's sword into bits and pieces. As the patriarch of the Wu Clan he can also use Guihun[=/=]Removal, and [[spoiler: taught the technique to the Other Niko Tokita]].

* AttackAttackAttack: Compared to the Niko style taught to Ohma, the Other Niko favors extreme offense. He teaches a lot of dangerous techniques like Removal and Fallen Demon knowing the drawbacks are severe but it will finish the fight fast. Notably while his students push themselves to the point of death or madness he doesn't practice what he teaches, as he'll rather observe than rush his opponent.

* BadSamaritan: While he gives martial arts lessons for free, there's always a massive price to pay, and he's usually the one who profits the most. In the case of Kiryu, Agito and Lu Tian, he might not even teach his student everything the Niko Style has to offer because he wants to see how far they can take a facet of his techniques (such as Fallen Demon used with the Koei Style by sending Kiryu to Genzan as a student, or the Formless stance), effectively turning them into crazed martial arts [[MisfitLabRat Misfit Lab Rats]] which he can then take notes from to improve his own martial arts. He claims in a flashback with Edward Wu that he abandoned the original Niko Style, as it couldn't progress further, and decided to add ridiculously dangerous techniques like Possessing Spirit, Fallen Demon and Removal to his training regimens to stress-test his best students. The [[VillainousBSOD consequences of these techniques]] on his students come [[AxCrazy on vivid display]] during the Purgatory vs Kengan tournament.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Seems to invent these almost willy-nilly in search of greater power. Among other things, he's mentioned to be the creator of the Advance and the Fallen Demon, both of which have drastic side effects in return for overclocking the user's heart and brain respectively. He also taught Formless and Removal to some of his students even though he personally would never use the latter because of the risk of death. [[spoiler: During his fight with Setsuna he only uses the Advance after mentally declaring that he'll have to kill Setsuna no matter the cost]].

* EvilCounterpart: Like Ohma's Niko, he teaches advanced martial arts that can turn anyone talented into a top-end martial artist. However he turns his students into AxCrazy brutes and will teach them techniques even he wouldn't personally use because of the drawbacks, like Removal, all for the sake of advancing his own techniques and ideas before he puts them into practice himself. In contrast, Ohma's Niko still treated Ohma as a kid, tried to teach him things other than martial arts and, even during the most hellish part of Ohma’s training, the one that allows Ohma to use Demonsbane, he went through the same conditions as a show of solidarity towards his student.

* ExplosiveOverclocking: He is the creator of both the Advance and Fallen Demon, which functions as said trope for the heart and brain respectively. While originally created to stand a chance against the Kure and Wu's Removal, he eventually just learned the proper Removal from Edward Wu instead of using his own version, though he claims he would never use it himself.

* GeniusBruiser: Flashbacks show him to be erudite and singlemindedly obsessed with advancing martial arts as a whole, somehow finding ways to manually overclock his heart and induce tachypsychia in his brain to further the Niko Style, and how to induce the former in others just by punching them in the chest. He is also the first non-Wu or Kure to learn how to use Removal. He was also a fierce enough opponent that Ohma's Niko nearly lost his life fighting him only to be subsequently killed by Genzan Taira.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Physically he is born with the same capabilities as Ryuki, but he has over a millennia of training all condensed into one body making him supernaturally strong, agile, durable and even resistant to DeadlyGas thanks to a mastery of yogic breathing techniques.

* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: Parodied. When Gensai barges into his hotel room to assassinate the Connector, Wulong suddenly remembers that his identity is technically supposed to be a secret, and he tries to pass off Xia Ji as his boss despite how he had publicly revealed himself to the Kengan Association the night prior.

* TheGift: Calling [[ItIsDehumanizing whatever Shen has]] an exceptional talent for martial arts is [[UnderStatement like calling a diamond-cutter an exceptional kitchen knife]]; He is so insanely skilled and powerful that his KillingIntent [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm becomes imperceptible to his opponents, implying his full power is too much for]] [[OldMaster Mukaku to even process]]. Rino Kurayoshi also calls him "plantlike" due to her speculating that he's shed his sex drive.

* AttackAttackAttack: Compared to the Niko style taught to Ohma, the Other Niko favors extreme offense. He teaches a lot of dangerous techniques like Removal and Fallen Demon knowing the drawbacks are severe but it will finish the fight fast. Notably while his students push themselves to the point of death or madness he doesn't practice what he teaches as he'll rather observe than rush his opponent.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: He has a great sense of observation, finding creative way to use the Niko Style and coming up with new techniques. It also plays a huge part on why he teaches dangerous techniques to his students as he gets to see the drawbacks without experiencing them.
* BadSamaritan: While he gives martial arts lessons for free, there's always a massive price to pay, and he's usually the one who profits the most. In the case of Kiryu, Agito and Lu Tian, he might not even teach his student everything the Niko Style has to offer because he wants to see how far they can take a facet of his techniques (such as Fallen Demon used with the Koei Style by sending Kiryu to Genzan as a student, or the Formless stance), effectively turning them into crazed martial arts [[MisfitLabRat Misfit Lab Rats]] which he can then take notes from to improve his own martial arts. He claims in a flashback with Edward Wu that he abandoned the original Niko Style, as it couldn't progress further and decided to add ridiculously dangerous techniques like Possessing Spirit, Fallen Demon and Removal to his training regiments to stress-test his best students. The [[VillainousBSOD consequences of these techniques]] on his students come [[AxCrazy on vivid display]] during the Purgatory vs Kengan tournament.
* BigBad: ''Possibly'', or at the very least part of a BigBadDuumvirate. While it's not really clear, he was at very minimum the man who orchestrated the death of Ohma's teacher, and is a major player within Worm with his own faction. He is, or [[UnreliableNarrator was]], also one of the last remaining students of Mukaku Gaoh.

* EvilCounterpart: Like Ohma's Niko, he teaches advanced martial arts that can turn anyone talented into a top-end martial artist. However he turns his students into AxCrazy brutes and will teach them techniques even he wouldn't personally use because of the drawbacks like Removal, all for the sake of advancing his own techniques and ideas before he puts them into practice himself. In contrast, Ohma's Niko still treated Ohma as a kid, tried to teach him things other than martial arts and even during the most hellish part of Ohma’s training, the one that allows Ohma to use Demonsbane, he went through the same conditions as a show of solidarity towards his student.

* GeniusBruiser: Flashbacks show him to be erudite and singlemindedly obsessed with advancing martial arts as a whole, somehow finding ways to manually overclock his heart and induce tachypsychia in his brain to further the Niko Style and how to induce the former in others by just punching them in the chest. He is also the first non-Wu or Kure to learn how to use Removal. He was also a fierce enough opponent that Ohma's Niko nearly lost his life fighting him only to be subsequently killed by Genzan Taira.

* TheLastDJ: The singular survivor of Gaoh Mukaku's attempt at TrainingFromHell onto The Inside's {{Evil Orphan}}s to produce "Tokita Niko", a LivingLegend that was supposed to bring order to The Inside, which is invoked by his epithet. Subverted in that Niko has ''none'' of the integrity usually associated with the trope, even as it gives him a lot of clout among Worm.

** He was the one who took advantage of Kiryu's demented state of mind and belief that Ohma is his so-called "god of destruction" to orchestrate the death of Ohma's Niko and grant the latter the Advance. [[spoiler: Lu Tian and Fei Wangfang]] both desperately clinging to the hope of being Niko's ultimate successor implies that he pulls his kind of psychological trickery on everyone he teaches.

* MenacingStroll: Niko's has him with his hands in his pockets, his shoulders pushed out while taking narrow steps with no gap between his legs, closely resembling the way Yujiro walks in ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler''. The Tiger Vessel doubles this manner of walking when he's wearing his hooded cloak.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: His fight with Ohma's Niko blew Kiryu's mind. He also summarily craters Muteba in a nearby wall off-screen during Fei Wangfang and Wakatsuki's fight, but doesn't finish him off presumably due to noticing Muteba trying to lure him in to get shot by his [[HiddenWeapons derringer]].
* PosthumousCharacter: He's initially presented as such due to Kiryu serving as an extremely insane UnreliableNarrator as to the events of Ohma's past, but it is ultimately subverted by the reveal that he survived his battle with Ohma's Niko when he reappears in the Purgatory stadium's monitor room to oversee the Tiger Vessel's battle.

* WickedCultured: Seems to enjoy eating at fancy restaurants and drink California cult wines after a lifetime of poverty in The Inside. When he meets up with Fei Wangfang in a flashback, it's in a fancy Chinese restaurant where Niko is shown ordering more or less the entire menu and partaking in their finest rice-wines while having a laugh over his student Fei having a psychotic moment before his eyes. The wine he gets to partake in Chapter 241 of ''Omega'' is a ShoutOut to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Eagle_Winery_and_Vineyards Screaming Eagle brand]]. When Kiryu used the bottle as a [[ImprovisedWeapon kusarifundo by wrapping it in a tablecloth]], he was more pissed about the fact that he only got to take a single sip of the 1.6 million yen wine,[[note]]roughly 11000 USD[[/note]] than on the attempt on his life.

* TheGift: Calling [[ItIsDehumanizing whatever Shen has]] an exceptional talent for martial arts is [[UnderStatement like calling a diamond-cutter an exceptional kitchen knife]]; He is so insanely skilled and powerful that his KillingIntent [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm becomes imperceptible to his opponents, implying his full power is too much for]] [[OldMaster Mukaku to even process]].

[[!!! ''The God of the Underworld'']]

[[spoiler:-->""The God of the Underworld. I'm inheriting the epithet of our primogenitor, Wu Hei.""]]

[[!!! ''The God of the Underworld'')]]

[[""The God of the Underworld. I'm inheriting the epithet of our primogenitor, Wu Hei.""]]

Edward Wu's cloned "son" and the final masterpiece of the Westward Wu, gene-edited with Worm technology to take [[TheGiant Edward's]] [[LightningBruiser superhuman physique]] [[OneManArmy to the next level]]. Shortly after Edward's death backstage at the Purgatory stadium at Mt. Godslayer, Gilbert and his faction of trustees kills his uncle-brother Howard Wu and unifies the entire Westward Wu under his and Worm's heel.

* AlwaysSecondBest: He is the last remnant of Wu Hei's legacy, a being so powerful and vile he was seen as a demon, and with Worm and Edward's conditioning Gilbert is even more dangerous than his predecessors. But he is still subservient to The Connector, a pseudo-reincarnation of a martial arts sage who is seen as a god by the Worm and Gilbert's faction, to the point that the Westward Faction folded to Worm and gave him access to their genetic studies and Huisheng technique 1300 years ago. The Connector also thinks he was better as Edward which rattles Gilbert, thinking his body chemistry being the one of a teenager might have made him worst.

* HumblePie: Shen's condescending remark after Gilbert failed to kill Akoya or Kiryu, fighters so below his level he has no excuses, strike a nerve and makes him reconnect with his Wu Hei's heritage instead of Edward.

* UltimateLifeform: Or at least damned near close to it; After his nonlethal rampage at a Kengan venue as part of Worm's intimidation tactics, Takayama and Misasa describe him as "fundamentally different from the rest of humanity". [[LightningBruiser Highly trained elite fighters and bodyguards who live and breathe martial arts]] are left throwing their hands in the air and can't explain what Shen does better than "Kung Fu Nonsense", ''[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm in a series that's already packed with Kung Fu Nonsense]]''. Rino Kurayoshi also speculates that since he has no need to procreate and sustain a bloodline he's also shed any sex drive he had.