History Sandbox / EdensZeroPoseidonShura

* OneTrueLove: Ijuna insists that Shura is her predestined love bound to her by the RedStringOfFate, even though he's an utter monster who's never known love or how to love others in his entire life. [[spoiler:In a twist, this is played straight: Shura had developed LimaSyndrome over the days he spent torturing Ijuna, who had UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome for him, triggering her Ether Gear ability that brainwashed her into loving him in the first place. Ijuna's discovery of this causes her to embrace her feelings for him, and they spend their final moments TogetherInDeath.]]

* RestorationOfSanity: [[spoiler:Thanks to the changes in history brought about by the CosmicRetcon, Shura is replaced by a version of himself who never suffered from ParentalNeglect, becoming a more mentally and emotionally stable person as a result.]]

** {{Downplayed}} when Shura appears in [[spoiler:Universe Zero, where he's openly engaged to Ijuna, but gets angry when someone calls her his bride/wife, since they technically haven't wedded yet.]]

* BenevolentDictator: Shura behaves like one [[spoiler:in Universe Zero, where he succeeds Nero as TheEmperor. Rather than the depraved tyrant the ''Edens Zero'' crew expects him to be, he's a genuinely well-meaning ruler who's helped bring the Empire to prosperity, but nearly makes rash the same decisions he made in the old world in response to the [[EarthShatteringKaboom Foresta crisis]], which would permanently tarnish his reputation as a leader if not for Shiki's intervention.]]
* BigBadWannabe: Given his strength, connections to Ziggy, and personal animosity with Shiki, he certainly seems poised to become a major antagonist moving forward. [[spoiler:In the end, he's so OutGambitted by Nero that his plans to achieve power never would've amounted to anything to begin with, and he dies accomplishing almost nothing of significance besides [[EyeScream pulling out Shiki's eye]] and being Ziggy's UnwittingPawn in his own plans to kill Shiki.]]

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Because he UsedToBeASweetKid, it's heavily {{implied}} that Shura's monstrous and extravagant behavior is a result of his heart falling into [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]], likely as a result of being driven mad by a lifetime of emotional neglect.

* AdoptionAngst: He despises his adoptive father, who [[ParentalNeglect never showed him any love]], which motivates Shura to [[TheStarscream plot Nero's assassination]] to get him out of his hair for good. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self has no such qualms, seeing his world's Nero as a misguided but well-meaning ruler.]]

* BenevolentBoss: As shown in the final arcs, [[spoiler:Shura is a much more compassionate leader in Universe Zero than the BadBoss was before the CosmicRetcon, viewing the Oceans 6 and Ijuna as his trusted companions.]]

* DelinquentHair: He has messy green hair that's shaved on the sides of his head to show what an irresponsible deadbeat of a son he is.

The adopted human son and imperial heir of Poseidon Nero. Much like Shiki, Shura is a gravity user who prefers to manipulate the gravity of objects, turning anything around him into a weapon. Due to his lonely and unloving upbringing under his father, however, Shura is also a cruel, wild, and violently insane deadbeat, turning him into one of Shiki's most hated enemies.

The adopted human son and imperial heir of Poseidon Nero. Like Shiki, Shura is a gravity user who was mentored by Ziggy for a short time, but his lonely and unloving upbringing under his father has turned him into a cruel, wild, and violently insane deadbeat. When the Empire faces a robot uprising at Ziggy's hands, Shura spearheads a war against the Demon King that threatens all machines living in the Aoi Cosmos.

Shura is a self-proclaimed master of "Satan Gravity", the same Gravity Ether Gear that Shiki uses. Where they differ is in its application: whereas Shiki specializes in changing his personal gravity, Shura prefers to manipulate the gravity of objects, turning anything around him into a weapon.

%%* TheCaligula

* TheEmperor: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura succeeds Nero as ruler of the Empire, but unlike the EvilOverlord his original self would have become, this Shura is a BenevolentDictator. He ceases to be this when he abolishes the Empire and forms the [[TheRepublic Aoi Cosmos Republic]].
%%* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:Originally, Ijuna only came to have feelings for Shura because she used her Ether Gear to keep her mind from breaking after Shura's torture. However, Ijuna realizes that her feelings for him didn't go away after Laguna cut the string tying her to Shura, and embraces him knowing that he was UnknowinglyInLove with her. The feeling of being genuinely loved by someone, even though it was someone whom he messed up so badly that she ended up crazy enough to love someone like him, reduces Shura to tears.]]

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!!Poseidon Shura (Universe Zero)

The Shura of Universe Zero, where he has become Emperor of the Aoi Cosmos after his father stepped down from the throne.
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* BenevolentDictator: He's a SketchySuccessor to Emperor Nero who reacts impulsively to the [[EarthShatteringKaboom Foresta crisis]], and nearly takes drastic action that would see all robots in the Aoi Cosmos dead. That aside, he genuinely tries to do right by his subjects, and is said by his father to have helped the Empire prosper since taking up the throne.
* TheEmperor: In this Universe, Shura has taken over from his father as ruler of the Empire. Unlike the EvilOverlord he would've become in the previous world, however, this Shura turns out to be a BenevolentDictator. He ceases to be this when he abolishes the Empire and forms the Aoi Cosmos Republic.
* HeelFaceTurn: The CosmicRetcon flips Shura's personality on its head, turning him from one of Shiki's most hated enemies into a trustworthy ally.
* NeverMyFault: Once Müller--the head of the imperial science department in this Universe--is ousted as a traitor who framed Xenolith, Shura angrily demands to know who's responsible for hiring him in the first place. Ijuna gives him an earful for this, reminding Shura it's his own fault as Emperor for not paying more attention to his human resources.
* SlasherSmile: He flashes a maniacal smile when he invites Shiki into helping him kill Xenolith right when it seems they've struck up a friendship, making it appear for all his improvements, he's still an uncompromising, bloodthirsty killer at heart. However, it quickly turns out there's no malice behind his smile; he's simply eager to kill Xenolith personally so he won't have to resort to using the All-Link System and get all of the Aoi Cosmos's robots caught up in the crossfire.

* JustAMachine: He sees no value in the lives of androids, which he proudly and repeatedly demonstrates by sentencing all robots in his cosmos to death, programming a battalion of {{Robot Soldier}}s to perform a suicide attack on Shiki against their wills, and [[ItIsDehumanizing referring to Witch as an "it"]] while putting her through ColdBloodedTorture. [[spoiler:This is {{subverted}} in Universe Zero, where [[AndroidsArePeopleToo he views robots with the same respect as humans]].]]

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* AbsoluteXenophobe: He takes FantasticRacism against robots and androids to its furthest extreme by ordering the genocide of every living machine in the Aoi Cosmos, using the war against Ziggy as a front to exterminate what he considers to be an inferior race. [[spoiler:Not the case with his Universe Zero self, who views robots as [[AndroidsArePeopleToo people]].]]

* AxCrazy: Shura is a violently unstable fellow prone to acts of extreme violence and graphic homicide over seemingly trivial details. [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon does away with this trait, with Ijuna reigning him in when he considers doing something excessively violent.]]
* BadBoss: Shura is a horrendous leader who treats the Imperial army the same way he treats anybody else: by turning them into bloody paste when they rub him the wrong way or don't follow his orders. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} with regards to his reborn Universe Zero self, a more BenevolentBoss who's buddies with the Oceans 6.]]

* BloodKnight: Shura is such a bloodthirsty maniac that he becomes ecstatic when Shiki shows he's good enough to keep up with him in a fight, asking to be his friend on the spot. Even after Shiki gets on his bad side, Shura would rather keep fighting him just to prolong Shiki's suffering, and is let down when Shiki pushes him into making their battle into "a boring old fight to the death" by going into Overdrive. [[spoiler:This is one of the few traits retained by his Universe Zero self, who loves to fight but only reserves killing those whom he believes pose a legitimate threat to the safety of his subjects.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: He's very well aware of what a black-hearted monster he is, and he relishes that fact at every opportunity with a mile-wide grin, something he throws in Shiki's face when getting lectured over the weight of people's lives. [[spoiler:He ceases to be this after the CosmicRetcon removes all his villainous traits.]]
* TheCasanova: Taken to horrifying extremes. He describes women as "a [[FictionalCurrency Glee]] a dozen", but once he grows tired of the two girls clinging to him, he doesn't simply ditch them, but ''murders'' them to set an example. Not that this stops other girls from clinging to him, either because they don't know how horrendous he is, don't think they'll suffer the same fate, or don't care either way. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} with Universe Zero's Shura, who has SingleTargetSexuality towards Ijuna.]]

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Because he UsedToBeASweetKid, it's heavily {{implied}} that Shura's monstrous and extravagant behavior is a result of his heart falling into [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]], likely as a result of being driven mad by a lifetime of emotional neglect. [[spoiler:Thanks to the CosmicRetcon, he never suffers this fate in Universe Zero and becomes a better person for it.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Serves as one to Shiki, his exact opposite in many regards besides being a fellow GravityMaster trained by Ziggy and an adopted child under a non-human (grand)father. Shiki is compassionate, uses his gravity to protect and spread joy to his friends, and values lives of everyone whether they're human, machine, good, or evil; on the other hand, Shura is cruel, enjoys figuratively and literally crushing anyone who stands in his way, and values nobody's lives outside his own, least of all the lives of "worthless" things like robots. [[spoiler:Shura ceases to be this after the CosmicRetcon dials back his negative qualities, turning him into a compassionate figure with whom Shiki can share common ground.]]

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Shura promotes himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist with his plans to wipe out all robots in the Aoi Cosmos with the All-Link System, which he publicly declares is the only way to stop Ziggy's conquest. In private, he admits he just [[JustAMachine hates robots]] and was looking for an excuse to destroy them all. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} with his Universe Zero self, who carries out the same plan from a genuine desire to stop the supposedly renegade Xenolith, and sees the plan itself as DirtyBusiness.]]

%%* RestorationOfSanity: [[spoiler:The CosmicRetcon
* RoyalBrat: Since he's the adopted son of TheEmperor Nero, Shura is absurdly strong and definitely shows some signs of entitlement, to the logical detriment of his underlings.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura is TheEmperor of the Aoi Cosmos, and he takes a direct approach to dealing with Foresta's destruction by personally leading a manhunt on Sandra for Xenolith, the apparent culprit, intending to take the fight straight to Oasis when they're believed to be sheltering him.]]

%%* SketchySuccessor:
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%%** {{Downplayed}} with regards to [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura, who actually becomes TheEmperor as a BenevolentDictator. He's still a reckless, irresponsible BloodKnight whom Nero predicts will become a tyrant without intervention, while his ascension prompts Oasis to rebel because they don't trust a "spoiled rich kid" to effectively run a government, but thanks to Shiki helping him keep his act together, Shura proves his doubters wrong by forming the [[TheRepublic Aoi Cosmos Republic]] to take responsibility for the Empire's transgressions.]]
%%* SlasherSmile: As an AxCrazy, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] dirtbag, Shura makes this expression when he's about to go off and murder somebody.

* TheStarscream: The whole reason Shura arranges the war against robot-kind is to make Nero take the fall and be killed by Ziggy, allowing Shura to take his adoptive father's place as emperor. [[spoiler:Too bad for Shura, Nero sees his treachery coming a mile away, and throws a wrench in his son's plans before Shura gets the chance to act on them.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Shura is so universally hated by the people of Aoi that public opinion for the Empire tanks to record lows once Nero puts him in charge of dealing with the robot uprising. This is to say nothing of his subordinates, who only follow him out of fear, and promptly abandon him when things take a hairy turn. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when Ijuna remains the one person in the universe to remain by his side after falling in love with him.]]
* AbsoluteXenophobe: He takes FantasticRacism against robots and androids to its furthest extreme by ordering the genocide of every living machine in the Aoi Cosmos, using the war against Ziggy as a front to exterminate what he considers to be an inferior race. [[spoiler:Not the case with his Universe Zero self, who actually views robots as [[AndroidsArePeopleToo people]].]]

* AdoptionAngst: He despises his adoptive father, who [[ParentalNeglect never showed him any love]], which motivates Shura to [[TheStarscream plot Nero's assassination]] to get him out of his hair for good. [[spoiler:His Universe Zero self has no such qualms.]]

* BloodKnight: Shura is such a bloodthirsty maniac that he becomes ecstatic when Shiki shows he's good enough to keep up with him in a fight, asking to be his friend on the spot. Even after Shiki gets on his bad side, Shura would rather keep fighting him just to prolong Shiki's suffering, and is let down when Shiki pushes him into making their battle into "a boring old fight to the death" by going into Overdrive. [[spoiler:This is one of the few traits retained by his Universe Zero self, who loves combat and destruction, but only reserves killing those whom he believes pose a legitimate threat to the safety of his subjects.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: He's very well aware of what a black-hearted monster he is, and he relishes that fact at every opportunity with a mile-wide grin, something he throws in Shiki's face when getting lectured over the weight of people's lives.

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Because he UsedToBeASweetKid, it's heavily {{implied}} that Shura's monstrous and extravagant behavior is a result of his heart falling into [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]], likely as a result of being driven mad by a lifetime of emotional neglect. [[spoiler:Thanks to the CosmicRetcon, he never suffers this fate in Universe Zero and becomes a more likeable person as a result.]]
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:Originally, Ijuna only came to have feelings for Shura because she used her Ether Gear to keep her mind from breaking after Shura's torture. However, Ijuna realizes that her feelings for him didn't go away after Laguna cut the string tying her to Shura, and embraces him knowing that he was UnknowinglyInLove with her. The feeling of being genuinely loved by someone, even though it was someone whom he messed up so badly that she ended up crazy enough to love someone like him, reduces Shura to tears.]]

* EvilIsPetty: He takes just about any excuse he can to squash lives and get what he wants, no matter how insignificant. This ranges from killing a general just for [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend calling Ijuna his "consort"]], to physically and emotionally tormenting Shiki for [[NotGoodWithRejection not wanting to be his friend]].

* LaughingMad: One of the many signs of his mental instability is his tendency to cackle like a maniac when killing or insulting others, usually while puffing his cheeks.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Shura is so universally hated by the people of Aoi that public opinion for the Empire tanks to record lows once Nero puts him in charge of dealing with the robot uprising. This is to say nothing of his subordinates, who only follow him out of fear, and promptly abandon him when things take a hairy turn. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when Ijuna genuinely develops feelings for him after getting freed from the self-brainwashing that caused her to fall for him, making her the one person in the Empire to think anything positive about him.]]
* AbsoluteXenophobe: He takes FantasticRacism against robots and androids to its furthest extreme by ordering the genocide of every living machine in the Aoi Cosmos. While he publicly claims it's to avert the RobotWar that Ziggy is trying to start, he makes it clear to Shiki that the only machines humans need in his mind are the non-sentient ones, proving that his war is just a front for exterminating what he considers to be an inferior race.

* AdoptionAngst: He absolutely ''despises'' his adoptive father, who [[ParentalNeglect never showed him any love]], which motivates him to [[TheStarscream plot his assassination]] to get him out of his hair for good. [[spoiler:When Nero sends all of the bombs Shura planned to kill him with straight to his son's location, Shura disregards the threat as a bluff because he refuses to accept being outsmarted by his father.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Shura is built up as someone more powerful than either Shiki or Ziggy, having a [[TheGift natural talent]] for gravity that he practically trained himself from scratch, and boasting a fine balance of [[StrongAndSkilled skill and strength]] that Shiki lacks. This becomes a non-factor by the time they actually meet, however, as Xenolith has put Shiki through roughly [[YearInsideHourOutside 35 days worth of training in one week]] to level the playing field. As for Ziggy, [[spoiler:it's {{subverted}} as Shiki has to undergo another three years of training just to get his Overdrive to match Ziggy's base level of power]].
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: The precise details of what transformed Shura from [[UsedToBeASweetKid a seemingly ordinary boy]] to a [[PsychopathicManchild wicked and insane manchild]] are not given. All that's made for sure is that he spent his entire life unloved by anyone--least of all [[ParentalNeglect his own father]]--until he snapped, with the implication that [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]] had something to do with it.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He fancies himself as the "king of gravity" due to his raw power and natural aptitude for Gravity Ether Gear, even though his only formal training in the [[FantasticFightingStyle Magimech Arts]] was from a single session as a child under Ziggy. Besides that, his fighting style mainly consists of simply lifting and crushing things, and he lacks the SemanticSuperpower that users of "true" gravity have. [[spoiler:He's ultimately bested by Shiki's Black Sky, the ultimate Magimech technique passed down by Xenolith, which Shura never knew about.]]
* AxCrazy: Shura is a violently unstable fellow prone to acts of extreme violence and graphic homocide over seemingly trivial details.

* BirdsOfAFeather: [[spoiler:Shura and Ijuna's twisted relationship blooms into true, mutual love when Ijuna realizes that she's just as much of a crazy piece of garbage as he is for falling for the man who killed her father and made her life hell.]]

* TheCasanova: Taken to horrifying extremes. He describes women as "a [[FictionalCurrency Glee]] a dozen", but once he grows tired of the two girls clinging to him, he doesn't simply ditch them, but ''murders'' them to set an example. Not that this stops other girls from clinging to him, either because they don't know how horrendous he is, don't think they'll suffer the same fate, or don't care either way.

* DelinquentHair: He's Nero's delinquent son, to put it mildly, and he has messy green hair that's shaved on the right side of his head.
* DragonInChief: Shura is left in charge of the Empire's entire military force for the Aoi War while Nero [[OrcusOnHisThrone sits on his throne]] in accordance to the Empire Dice's will to not interfere, and winds up being the most central and active threat the ''Edens Zero'' crew faces. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when Nero reveals that Shura was dancing in the palm of his hand the entire time, as the Emperor turns his son's assassination plot against him on its head right as Shura tries carrying it out.]]
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Because he UsedToBeASweetKid, it's heavily {{implied}} that Shura's monstrous and extravagant behavior is a result of his heart falling into [[TheDarkSide dark gravity]], likely as a result of being driven mad by a lifetime of emotional neglect.

* EvilCounterpart: Serves as one to Shiki, his exact opposite in many regards besides being a fellow GravityMaster trained by Ziggy and an adopted child under a non-human (grand)father. Shiki is compassionate, uses his gravity to protect and spread joy to his friends, and values lives of everyone whether they're human, machine, good, or evil; on the other hand, Shura is cruel, enjoys figuratively and literally crushing anyone who stands in his way, and values nobody's lives outside his own, least of all the lives of "worthless" things like robots.

* EvilGloating: He laces much of his dialog with this, especially when mocking Shiki for his belief that all lives hold weight by reminding him what a monstrous piece of crap he is:
-->''"I did a '''lot''' of damage to that android of yours. It was fun, too. She reacted just like a real human. If I'd had the time, I'd have loved to make her my pet and take her out for walkies. But...that's just not going to happen. The All-Link System will activate any minute now. And all the bots in Aoi are going to die."''

* TheEvilPrince: As Nero's only son and heir, Shura wants to inherit the throne as soon as possible so he can officially claim everything in the Aoi Cosmos as his own. To do this, he wages war on Ziggy by ordering the genocide of all robots in Aoi through the All-Link System, baiting the Demon King into fighting Nero over it to ensure that either Ziggy kills Nero or both kill each other.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Shura is built up as someone more powerful than either Shiki or Ziggy, having a [[TheGift natural talent]] for gravity that he practically trained himself from scratch, and boasting a fine balance of [[StrongAndSkilled skill and strength]] that Shiki lacks. This becomes a non-factor by the time they actually meet, however, as Xenolith has put Shiki through roughly [[YearInsideHourOutside 35 days worth of training in one week]] to level the playing field. As for Ziggy, [[spoiler:it's certainly {{subverted}} as Shiki has to undergo another three years of training just to get his Overdrive to match Ziggy's base level of power]].

* BadBoss: When Shura is put in command of the imperial army, he treats his own soldiers the same way he treats anybody else: by turning them into bloody paste when they rub him the wrong way or don't follow his orders. He's especially prejudiced against the army's mechanical soldiers, seen when he kills the Oceans' TokenRobot soon after being put in charge of the team, and sending an army of {{Robot Soldier}}s he'd planned to scrap on a SuicideAttack against their wills.
* BerserkButton: Shura gruesomely executes a hapless general on the spot for innocently referring to Ijuna as Shura's [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend "consort"]] instead of his secretary.
* BigBadWannabe: Given his strength, connections to Ziggy, and personal animosity with Shiki, he certainly seems poised to become a major antagonist moving forward. [[spoiler:In the end, however, he's so OutGambitted by Nero that his plans to achieve power never would've amounted to anything to begin with, and he dies accomplishing almost nothing of significance besides [[EyeScream pulling out Shiki's eye]] and being Ziggy's UnwittingPawn in his own plans to kill Shiki.]]

* BloodKnight: He looks down on Shiki at first for perceived inferiority towards himself, but when Shiki shows he's good enough to keep up in a fight, Shura becomes ecstatic and asks Shiki to be his friend on the spot. Later on, he becomes disappointed when Shiki pushes him into Overdrive, which Shura says now makes their battle into "a boring old fight to the death", showing he'd much rather keep toying with Shiki and making him suffer.

* TheCoatsAreOff: Shura loses his leather coat when in the final stage of his battle against Shiki on Nero 66 both during and after coming out of [[OneWingedAngel Overdrive]].

* HateSink: He is written to be so repulsively evil, being a psychotic and power-hungry prince who carries out grotesque acts of violence far beyond Mashima's usual standards, that it makes even an AllLovingHero like Shiki refuse to be his friend. [[spoiler:This gets {{downplayed}} in his death scene, which shows how pitifully lonely and starved for affection he really was all along.]]

* JustAMachine: He sees no value in the lives of androids, which he proudly and repeatedly demonstrates by sentencing all robots in his cosmos to death, programming a battalion of {{Robot Soldier}}s to perform a suicide attack on Shiki against their wills, and [[ItIsDehumanizing referring to Witch as an "it"]] while putting her through ColdBloodedTorture.

* LimaSyndrome: [[spoiler:Shura thought that he only took a liking to Ijuna--the woman he tortured and humiliated in every way possible--because her Ether Gear causes people to fall in love. However, in their final moments, Ijuna reveals that her Ether Gear shouldn't have worked on Shura because he'd never known love before, proving that whatever feelings he had for her were genuine.]]

* TheMostWanted: Although he's the adoptive son of one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who are this by default, Nero is so old that the Interstellar Union Army fears Shura's ascendion to the throne far more than anything the Emperor can do, and thereby prioritizes Shura's elimination above all else in the Aoi War.
%%* NeverMyFault: Shura tends to ignore
* NotGoodWithRejection: A platonic version happens when Shura requests Shiki to be his friend so they can [[WeCanRuleTogether team up against Ziggy]]. Shiki rejects him for being a genocidal, robot-hating bigot who refuses to change his ways, which Shura takes ''very'' personally.
* OneTrueLove: Ijuna insists that Shura is her predestined love bound to her by the RedStringOfFate, even though he's an utter monster who's never known love or how to love others in his entire life. [[spoiler:In a twist, this is completely played straight: Shura had developed LimaSyndrome over the days he spent torturing Ijuna, who had UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome for him, triggering her Ether Gear ability that brainwashed her into loving him in the first place. Ijuna's discovery of this causes her to embrace her feelings for him, and they spend their final moments TogetherInDeath.]]

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: He ''very'' explicitly refers to Ijuna as his "secretary", nothing more, which comes off as odd given his otherwise TheCasanova tendency. [[spoiler:This is because Shura knows Ijuna's feelings for him were only artificially induced by her Ether Gear, so he figures that whatever feelings he has for her must also be fake...until Ijuna reveals that her power worked because he'd fallen in love with her for real and didn't realize it.]]
* SlasherSmile: As an AxCrazy, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] dirtbag, Shura makes this expression when he's about to go off and murder somebody.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Shura is so convinced that he's the ultimate GravityMaster that he underestimates how much of a challenge people can give him. He's caught off guard when Shiki puts up a good fight against him, though he takes it very well, knowing he's found himself a WorthyOpponent. [[spoiler:This is especially the case with Nero, whom he pegs as an aging doddard who's weaker fighter than Ziggy, and doesn't expect it when Nero actually appears to kill the Demon King with his own hands.]]

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: [[spoiler:Universe Zero's Shura is propped up as

Shura's ascension to the throne is propped up as a TyrantTakesTheHelm situation when Nero calls him a tyrant and urges Shiki to stop him. Once he shows up, however, Shura turns out to be a well-meaning ruler who genuinely does what he thinks is best for his [[BenevolentBoss soldiers]] and subjects, even if he goes to extremes like [[HistoryRepeats considering the All-Link System plan]] as a way to deal with the rogue Xenolith, which would certainly get him ''labeled'' as a tyrant. To hammer it home, Shura abolishes the imperial system and forms a republic after Shiki helps him end the crisis without resorting to drastic action.
* BenevolentBoss: He shows how much more he cares for Ijuna and the Oceans 6--especially Cyca, whom he cruelly destroyed in the last world for being a robot--when he nearly goes ballistic on Shiki after the Four Shining Stars beat them all up due to a misunderstanding.

* BloodKnight: One of his few retained traits as a villain is his love for combat and destroying his enemies. When Shiki freezes Shura's starship in midair with just a wave of his hand, Shura immediately becomes giddy over finding a WorthyOpponent and jumps out to trade fists with him.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:{{Inverted}} with Shura in Universe Zero, who doesn't get killed in the Aoi War like the previous Shura. This being a MergedReality, it also [[BackFromTheDead undoes his previous deaths]].]]
* DirtyBusiness: Using the All-Link System to kill the Aoi Cosmos's robots is this for Shura in this world; whereas the old Shura was all too happy to get rid of all robots along with Ziggy, this Shura is distraught to even think of doing the same when it comes to Xenolith, treating it as a desperate trump card against an accused planetary terrorist. Thanks to Shiki's intervention allowing the real Xenolith to profess his innocence, Shura never resorts to this.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Most of the heroes apart from Shiki have a hard time imagining that Universe Zero's Shura isn't the same bloodthirsty monster he was in the previous world, despite other irredeemable villains like Drakken Joe and Madame Kurenai changing for the better; Laguna even goes as far as to kill him before he has the chance to do anything drastic. Once they find he really isn't anywhere as bad as he was, however, the crew begrudgingly eases up around him.

* InLoveWithTheMark: {{Inverted}}. He was originally targeted by Ijuna for espionage, but fell in love with her despite fully knowing her intentions. However, Ijuna eventually [[BecomingTheMask reciprocated his feelings]], and they became engaged.

* PimpedOutCape: His new status as Emperor comes with an extravagant, regal cape with a [[FurAndLoathing fur collar]], which he [[TheCoatsAreOff flings off]] when deciding to fight Shiki.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: As the new Emperor of the Aoi Cosmos, he takes a direct approach to dealing with Foresta's destruction by personally leading a manhunt on Sandra for Xenolith, the apparent culprit, intending to take the fight straight to Oasis when they're believed to be sheltering him.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: {{Downplayed}}. Shura is openly engaged to Ijuna, but gets angry when Nasseh calls her his bride, since they technically haven't wedded yet.
* SketchySuccessor: While this world's Shura is a well-meaning BenevolentDictator, he's still a reckless, irresponsible BloodKnight whom Nero predicts will become a tyrant without intervention, while his ascension prompts Laguna to form Oasis because they don't trust a "spoiled rich kid" to effectively run a government. Thanks to Shiki helping him keep his act together, he proves his doubters wrong by forming the [[TheRepublic Aoi Cosmos Republic]] to take responsibility for the Empire's transgressions.

* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: [[spoiler:Unlike his original self, Universe Zero's Shura is accepting of robots as people, so when Shiki reacts angrily at his willingness to use the All-Link System against Xenolith at the cost of Aoi's robot population, Shura defends himself by arguing that one of his valued subordinates, Cyca, is a robot.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:After the CosmicRetcon, Shura becomes far more powerful than he was before, capable of holding his own against Shiki after the latter regains his full power from three years in the future, where he became of the [[WorldsBestWarrior Oración Seis Galáctica]].]]
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:{{Exaggerated}}. Before the CosmicRetcon, Shura was a psychotic, hedonistic deadbeat who killed his own men for the slightest insult, and only found true love after torturing and humiliating Ijuna until he [[AMatchMadeInStockholm unwittingly drove her insane enough to love him back]]. Here, while still wild and impulsive, he's changed around to become a worthy ruler who wants what's best for his soldiers and subjects, and has a stable relationship with Ijuna, whom he'd never imagine putting through any sort of harm.]]
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Shura is made into one by the CosmicRetcon. At first, Universe Zero's Shura seems to be as evil as ever when he tries to attack Oasis, invites Shiki to help kill Xenolith without looking into his sudden FaceHeelTurn, and shows his willingness to use the All-Link System if they fail. However, Shiki's confrontation with him reveals that Shura genuinely wants to save his people from a genocidal madman, believing Oasis to be sheltering him, and is desperate to avoid having to risk the lives of the Aoi Cosmos's robots if he doesn't have to.]]

[[Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica Oración Seis Galáctica]] ([[Characters/EdensZeroOracionSeisGalactica Associates]] [=[=]'''Poseidon Shura'''[=]=]) | [[Characters/EdensZeroInterstellarUnionArmy Interstellar Union Army]]\\

!!!'''Ether Gear:''' [[GravityMaster Satan Gravity]]

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[[folder:Tropes #-K]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After spending nearly all of his appearances being a psychotic, unpleasant, and irredeemably evil piece of garbage, he goes out with a humanizing death scene where Ijuna's choice to be TogetherInDeath with him [[VillainousBSOD drives him to tears]], realizing too late that a monster like him has the capacity to love and be loved by somebody, even if that somebody never would have loved him if he didn't drive her mad in the first place.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Shiki asserts that all lives carry weight and shouldn't be treated as lightly as Shura does, he suddenly chokes on his words when Shura--who'd just tortured Witch to within an inch of her life and is plotting to rid Aoi of all robots--replies with a simple question:
-->''"What about me? Does '''my''' life carry weight in your mind?"''

* BadBoss: When Shura is put in commande of the imperial army, he treats his own soldiers the same way he treats anybody else: by turning them into bloody paste when they rub him the wrong way or don't follow his orders. He's especially prejudiced against the army's mechanical soldiers, seen when he kills the Oceans' TokenRobot soon after being put in charge of the team, and sending an army of {{Robot Soldier}}s he'd planned to scrap on a SuicideAttack against their wills.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: {{Inverted}}. Shura, a villain, asks Shiki to be ''his'' friend--rather than the other way around, as per the norm with Shiki--after being impressed by him during their first battle. Shiki rejects him because Shura strictly refuses to stop his plans to destroy all robots, which was Shiki's one condition for accepting him as a friend. Shura [[NotGoodWithRejection doesn't take it well]].

* BondVillainStupidity: During their rematch in the Nero 66 arc, Shura impales Shiki with his Heavy Lance and leaves him writhing in pain. Rather than finish him off, Shura figures he's as good as dead and heads off to activate the All-Link System, which gives Shiki the chance to make his counterattack.
* BreakTheHaughty: He spends the majority of the Nero 66 arc completely self-assured in his superiority over Shiki, as well as his victory over Ziggy and Nero, but that all comes crashing down when [[spoiler:he gets OutGambitted by Nero and is soundly defeated by Shiki's ultimate Black Sky attack]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: His response to any minor slight against him is to senselessly kill and/or torture whoever it was that insulted him. Case in point, when Shiki refuses Shura's friendship, he goes straight for the Four Shining Stars, maiming Sister and Hermit while taking Witch hostage, just to see the look of anguish and fury on Shiki's face.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his first scene, he's seen in the company of two women while confronting a new call girl for failing to reply the other night. Instead of punishing her, he drops the other women straight to the ceiling when they tell him not to pick on her, killing them with a SickeningCrunch. As the new girl stares up at their [[GoryDiscretionShot off-screen remains]] in horror, Shura tells her he has plenty of women to spare because he owns everything in the cosmos, [[RainOfBlood letting the pair's blood pour down all over him]]. This all establishes him as a RoyalBrat, a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, and an AxCrazy maniac.

* EvilIsPetty: He takes just about any excuse he can to squash lives and get what he wants, no matter how insignificant. This ranges from killing a general just for [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend calling Ijuna his "consort"]], to physically and emotionally tormenting Shiki for not wanting to be his friend.

* EvilVsEvil: He sets himself up in a BigBadEnsemble position to try and upstage Ziggy, the incumbent BigBad, with Shura plotting to use Nero 66's All-Link System and destroy all the Aoi Cosmos's robots at once, and figuring that Ziggy plans to use the same system to take control of them and start a RobotWar.
* FalseFlagOperation: After the events of the Foresta arc, where Ziggy infects Foresta's robots with a computer virus to start an uprising, Shura makes a public statement that the virus has spread to other planets in the Aoi Cosmos, giving him cause to purge the Aoi Cosmos of all robots. As Hermit susses out, it's all lies: Ziggy hadn't made a move since Foresta, and the other "uprisings" that Shura has just suppressed were really massacres of innocent bots to use as a PretextForWar.

* GambitRoulette: Shura's goal of crushing Ziggy and taking over the Empire hinges entirely on the chance that Ziggy would launch a direct attack against Nero on the Temple in time for the All-Link System to be operational, rather than go straight for the ALS on Nero 66 to take control of the Aoi Cosmos's robots, so Shura can nuke them both. [[spoiler:The whole plan turns out to have been doomed from the start, however, as not only does Shura vastly underestimate his father's ability to fight Ziggy, but Nero uses an Ether Gear that Shura never knew he had to send all the bombs to his son's location.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:His LoveEpiphany towards Ijuna and subsequent VillainousBSOD wind up humanizing him far too late, as they happen right as Nero 66 is blown to kingdom come with him and Ijuna still on it.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He is killed by the 20,000 {{Antimatter}} bombs he'd planned to use to assassinate Nero, who sends them all straight to Shura's location before Ziggy triggers them himself.]]

* HypocrisyNod: He initially mocks Shiki for considering a robot like Ziggy his [[InterSpeciesAdoption grandfather]], but backtracks to point out that he has no room to talk since his own adoptive father is a [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} "monster"]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: He calls Shiki a hypocrite for hesitating to accept Shura's friendship over their clashing beliefs, but then tries to convince Shiki into abandoning his ideals that AndroidsArePeopleToo, wich ensures that Shiki turns him down.

* JavelinThrower: His Heavy Lance attack involves crunching a boulder into the shape of a spear with gravity and hurling it at his target, impaling them.
* {{Jerkass}}: Taking all of his homocidal tendencies out of the equation, Shura is still a grade-A douchebag who gets his kicks from making others suffer.

* KickTheDog: When an imperial general [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend mistakes Ijuna for his "consort"]], Shura cruelly crushes him into bloody paste while the general pleads for his life to be spared because [[IHaveAFamily his daughter's wedding his next week]].
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[[folder:Tropes L-Y]]

* LadykillerInLove: [[spoiler:Taken more literally than usual, since he actually kills the women he's tired of, but it counts towards Ijuna, who started out as just one of many women he'd take to his torture chamber to have his way with. At some point, Shura started to develop feelings for her, but brushed it off as an effect of Ijuna's Ether Gear, which causes people to fall in love. He finally realizes that his feelings are real when Ijuna reveals her power doesn't work on someone who's never loved or been loved by anyone before, proving that even a monster like him is capable of loving someone else.]]

* LetsYouAndHimFight: His best-case scenario for his GambitRoulette in the Aoi War is to coax Ziggy into a fight against Nero over at the Temple so he can nuke them both with his {{Antimatter}} bombs.

* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:After being long convinced that his feelings for Ijuna are just a product of her Ether Gear, Shura realizes with Ijuna's help that he fell in love with her all on his own, since it doesn't work on anybody who has never been loved by anyone.]]

* TheMostWanted: Although he's the adoptive son of one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who are this by default, Nero is so old that the Interstellar Union Army fears Shura's ascendion to the throne far more than anything the Emperor can do, and thereby prioritizes Shura's elimination above all else in the Aoi War.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:He gets blasted to atoms by the {{Antimatter}} bombs together with Ijuna in the Nero 66 arc.]]
* NotBad: His first reaction to getting thrown into the air by Shiki and getting punched straight back down into the ground, the first signifier of Shura seeing him as a WorthyOpponent.
* NotGoodWithRejection: A platonic version happens when Shiki rejects Shura's request to be his friend, which Shura takes ''very'' personally, leading him to do everything in his power to make Shiki suffer.
* OhCrap: He practically pisses himself in fear when [[spoiler:Nero reveals he's seen through Shura's plan to betray him, seemingly killed Ziggy against all odds, and sent all of the bombs Shura was planning on using straight back to him, leaving Shura completely OutGambitted.]]

* OrcusOnHisThrone: After his first bout with Shiki on Nero 66, he spends much of the arc waiting for Shiki to catch up to him while torturing Witch to keep himself entertained.
* OutGambitted: His plan for the Aoi War is to lure Ziggy to the Temple for a deathmatch against Nero in time for the All-Link, and then using the ALS to detonate all 20,000 {{Antimatter}} bombs on the planet with neither of them the wiser. [[spoiler:This scheme goes completely down the drain when Nero transports all of the bombs straight to Shura with his [[ThinkingUpPortals Wormhole]], daring his son to trigger them and see if he's bluffing. To rub salt in the wound, Ziggy takes the chance to trigger the bombs himself to kill Shiki, quite literally blowing Shura's plan up in his face.]]

* PetTheDog: His decision to give Ijuna a secretarial position implies this, showing that for all his talk about women being expendible, she is the one exception. [[spoiler:This is proven true when it's confirmed he spared her from the horrific torture he put her through because he'd fallen UnknowinglyInLove with her.]]

* ShutUpKirk: Shura responds to Shiki's declaration that all lives carry weight with an ArmorPiercingQuestion, asking if that includes the life of a black-hearted, genocidal scumbag like himself.

* TheSociopath: Shura is selfish, entitled, unstable, violent, and remorseless. He also views people as his possessions, and when he tries to reach out to people like Shiki on a personal level, it's mostly just as a means to an end.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:By the end of the Nero 66 arc, Shura and Ijuna die embracing each other in the planet's explosion, realizing and accepting that their twisted love for each other is genuine.]]
* TortureTechnician: He makes something of a sick hobby out of torturing captured soldiers of LaResistance, and brings Witch into the mix to get even with Shiki. [[spoiler:Ijuna, formerly the "princess" of Oasis, was one of his favorite victims, as he came up with some sickening methods of torture and humiliation, which included taking her on "walkies" as his naked HumanPet with [[AssShove a bomb shoved up her rectum]].]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:By trying to eradicate Ziggy and all robots in the Aoi Cosmos, he winds up triggering the StableTimeLoop that leads to Ziggy's very creation, while also allowing his uprising to succeed in nearly every timeline.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Shura picks apart Shiki's ideology that [[AllLovingHero all life carries weight]], simply by asking if that includes his own life, since he tortured Witch half to death and is out to exterminate all of the Aoi Cosmos's robots--whom Shiki views as [[AndroidsArePeopleToo no less alive than humans]]--purely ForTheEvulz. Shiki doesn't come up with any retort to this.
* TheVillainMustBePunished: After bearing witness to the countless lives lost in a war Shura started out of [[JustAMachine contempt for robots]], Shiki declares that people will continue to die as long as Shura's around, which comes across as an ImpliedDeathThreat. [[spoiler:In the end, Shiki doesn't go through with killing him and [[SaveTheVillain even wants to get him off Nero 66 before it explodes]], but with the implication of bringing him to proper justice rather than forgiving him had Shura not slinked off to die alone.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:He experiences one right before his death when Ijuna permanently embraces her love for him and leads him to a LoveEpiphany, which reduces him to tears over the realization that the heartless monster he's always believed himself to be is capable of loving somebody at all, and that his evil has ironically created the first person in his life to truly love and care for him.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Shura loses all the smug confidence he'd built up over the course of the Aoi Cosmos saga when he learns how thoroughly OutGambitted he was by the father he was trying to kill, refusing to accept defeat and nearly getting himself killed in the process. This leaves him blindsided to an attack by Shiki, whom he'd left for dead without bothering to check if he survived, leaving him ranting and raging for the rest of their fight before he's finally defeated.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: After Shiki proves himself to be a WorthyOpponent, Shura tries striking up a [[FriendlyEnemy friendship]] with him so they can team up against the BigBad. Shiki hesitates right off the bat, since Shura's method of beating Ziggy is to destroy all robots in the cosmos, but it's only when Shura tries swinging Shiki to his own anti-robot mindset [[{{Hypocrite}} right after promising to "consider" sparing the robots if Shiki accepts]] that Shiki [[ShutUpHannibal firmly shuts him down]].
* WorthyOpponent: He comes to view Shiki as this after Shiki takes him by surprise several times in their fight--first by managing to throw him into the air under the weight of Shura's gravity, and later by showing he's strong enough to overcome his Ether Gear's WeaksauceWeakness to bondage--which gives Shura the idea to [[WeCanRuleTogether make Shiki his friend]]. This sentiment is lost when Shiki rejects him, however.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:In Shura's final moments, Ijuna reveals to him that the reason her Ether Gear bonded her to him was because he'd fallen in love with her [[UnknowinglyInLove completely despite himself]]. This realization drives Shura to tears, which Ijuna assures is a sign that he has a human heart, and isn't as much of a monster as he thinks he is.]]

* AttackHello: His first meeting with Shiki in Universe Zero plays out this way, with Shura being so excited to meet another gravity user on his level that he hops out of his starship for a fight.
* BackFromTheDead: All Universes are [[MergedReality merged together]] by the CosmicRetcon triggered by the ''Edens Zero'' crew when they travel to Universe Zero's past, undoing Shura's deaths in those Universes before they happen.
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Shura's ascension to the throne is propped up as a TyrantTakesTheHelm situation when Nero calls him a tyrant and urges Shiki to stop him. Once he shows up, however, Shura turns out to be a well-meaning ruler who genuinely does what he thinks is best for his [[BenevolentBoss soldiers]] and subjects, even if he goes to extremes like [[HistoryRepeats considering the All-Link System plan]] as a way to deal with the rogue Xenolith, which would certainly get him ''labeled'' as a tyrant. To hammer it home, Shura abolishes the imperial system and forms a republic after Shiki helps him end the crisis without resorting to drastic action.
* BaitTheDog: {{Subverted}}. Despite the set-up of Shura becoming Shiki's enemy again, he appears to at least be an AffablyEvil sort who's good to his soldiers and eagerly agrees to a friendly fight with Shiki. Right when Shiki thinks he and Shura can be friends, however, Shura makes a SlasherSmile offers to let Shiki help him kill a seemingly evil Xenolith in cold blood, and spells out his plan to risk the lives of Aoi's robots with the All-Link System to destroy him if they fail...except Shura is ''not'' eager to do this, showing he really is a good person in a difficult position who doesn't want to kill any more than necessary.

* TheCoatsAreOff: He throws off his PimpedOutCape the moment he decides to give Shiki his first AttackHello.
* ClothingDamage: His regal uniform is tattered when he and Shiki are caught in an explosion set by Müller at the Temple, exposing his tattooed upper body.
* CoolStarship: His Imperial flagship is modeled after a sperm whale, giving it a size befitting TheEmperor of the Aoi Cosmos.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: {{Inverted}}. The Shuras who've appeared are killed in the Aoi War, but this Shura is still alive at a time before the war happens. This being a MergedReality, it also [[BackFromTheDead undoes his previous deaths]].

* EnemyMine: Despite changing for the better in Universe Zero, he's still enemies with this world's version of Oasis, who rebelled because they couldn't trust a spoiled rich kid like Shura to run a government. However, they form a truce once they realize they have a common enemy in Müller, who played both sides against each other.
* HandshakeRefusal: As part of their SwappedRoles, Shura swats Shiki's hand away when the latter offers to be friends with him, deciding they both have enough friends to worry about. {{Subverted}} later on when he finally returns the handshake while thanking the ''Edens Zero'' crew for saving the Empire.

* HistoryRepeats: {{Defied}}. Shura is committed to using the All-Link System against the Aoi Cosmos's robots just as he was in the previous world (this time as a desparate last resort to stop the [[FaceHeelTurn rogue]] Xenolith, not as an egregious hate crime against robots), but he doesn't go through with it thanks to Shiki's interference and the discovery that Xenolith is innocent.

* ItAmusedMe: Before his relationship with Ijuna began, Shura knew that she only started working for him so she could act as TheMole for Oasis, but kept her around because he thought it was amusing.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: During a party celebrating Müller's defeat, Shura leads the partygoers in giving the ''Edens Zero'' crew an Aoi salute (i.e., genuflecting) out of gratitude for their part in saving the Aoi Cosmos.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Shura gets duped into attacking Oasis after Müller frames Xenolith for destroying Foresta and reports that he's being sheltered by the rebels, something they're unaware of since Xenolith secretly {{Body Surf}}ed into Miimi, a robot under Oasis's protection. Shiki's intervention allows both sides to come to an armstice.
* NeverMyFault: Once Müller--the head of the imperial science department in this Universe--is ousted as a traitor who framed Xenolith, Shura angrily demands to know who's responsible for hiring him in the first place. Ijuna gives him an earful for this, reminding Shura it's his own fault as Emperor for not paying more attention to his human resources.

* PointOfDivergence: Thanks to Nero [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicating the throne]], Shura was allowed to succeed him as Emperor. On top of that, his life beforehand was improved so much that he turned out far more morally decent than he was before the CosmicRetcon. He also won over Ijuna through his own charms and merits [[InLoveWithTheMark when she was trying to spy on him]], instead of capturing and torturing her until she broke and fell for him.

* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: When Shiki reacts angrily to Shura's decision to use the All-Link System against Xenolith at the cost of Aoi's robot population, Shura punches Shiki for assuming it's something he ''wants'' to do, arguing that one of his valued subordinates, Cyca, is a robot. His sincerity both moves Cyca and convinces Shiki that this version of Shura really isn't the genocidal, robot-hating bigot he knew in the previous world.
* TookALevelInBadass: Shiki notes how this Shura is far more powerful than he was before the CosmicRetcon when Shura holds his own in a match against him, with Shura's men noticing that both sides holding back. Considering that Shiki at this point has regained his full power from three years in the future, where he became of the [[WorldsBestWarrior Oración Seis Galáctica]], that says a lot.
* TookALevelInKindness: {{Exaggerated}}. Before the CosmicRetcon, Shura was a psychotic, hedonistic deadbeat who killed his own men for the slightest insult, and only found true love after torturing and humiliating Ijuna until he [[AMatchMadeInStockholm unwittingly drove her insane enough to love him back]]. Here, while still wild and impulsive, he's been changed around to become a worthy ruler who wants what's best for his soldiers and subjects, and has a stable relationship with Ijuna, whom he'd never imagine putting through any sort of harm.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: At first, Shura seems to be as evil as ever when he tries to attack Oasis, invites Shiki to help kill Xenolith without looking into his sudden FaceHeelTurn, and shows his willingness to use the All-Link System if they fail. However, Shiki's confrontation with him reveals that Shura genuinely wants to save his people from a genocidal madman, believing Oasis to be sheltering him, and is desperate to avoid having to risk the lives of the Aoi Cosmos's robots if he doesn't have to.

%%* SlasherSmile:

%%* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness:

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Most of the heroes apart from Shiki have a hard time imagining that Universe Zero's Shura isn't the same bloodthirsty monster he was in the previous world, despite other irredeemable villains like Drakken Joe and Madame Kurenai changing for the better. Laguna even goes as far as to kill him before he has the chance to do anything drastic. Once they find he really isn't anywhere as bad as he was, however, the crew begrudgingly eases up around him.

* ForWantOfANail: Thanks to Nero [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicating the throne]], Shura was allowed to succeed him as Emperor. On top of that, his life beforehand was improved so much that he turned out far more morally decent than he was before the CosmicRetcon. He also won over Ijuna through his own charms and merits [[InLoveWithTheMark when she was trying to spy on him]], instead of capturing and torturing her until she broke and fell for him.

* PoorCommunicationKills:
* SketchySuccessor:

* TookALevelInBadass: Shiki notes how Shura is far more powerful than he was before the CosmicRetcon when Shura holds his own in a match against him with both sides holding back. Considering that Shiki at this point has regained his full power from three years in the future, where he became of the [[WorldsBestWarrior Oración Seis Galáctica]], that says a lot.

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Shura's ascension to the throne is propped up as a TyrantTakesTheHelm situation when Nero calls him a tyrant and urges Shiki to stop him. Once he shows up, however, Shura turns out to be a well-meaning ruler who genuinely does what he thinks is best for his [[BenevolentBoss soldiers]] and subjects, even if he goes to extremes like [[HistoryRepeats considering the All-Link System plan]] as a way to deal with the rogue Xenolith, which would certainly get him ''labeled'' as a tyrant. [[spoiler:To hammer it home, Shura abolishes the imperial system and forms a republic after Shiki helps him end the crisis without resorting to drastic action.]]

* TheEmperor: In this Universe, Shura has taken over from his father as ruler of the Empire. Unlike the EvilOverlord he would've become in the previous world, however, this Shura turns out to be a BenevolentDictator. [[spoiler:He ceases to be this when he abolishes the Empire and forms the Aoi Cosmos Republic.]]

* HandshakeRefusal: As part of their SwappedRoles, Shura swats Shiki's hand away when the latter offers to be friends with him, deciding they both have enough friends to worry about. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} later on when he finally returns the handshake while thanking the ''Edens Zero'' crew for saving the Empire.]]
* HistoryRepeats: {{Defied}}. Shura is committed to using the All-Link System against the Aoi Cosmos's robots just as he was in the previous world (this time as a desparate last resort to stop the [[FaceHeelTurn rogue]] Xenolith, not as an egregious hate crime against robots), but he doesn't go through with it thanks to Shiki's interference and [[spoiler:the discovery that Xenolith is innocent]].
* KneelBeforeFrodo: [[spoiler:During a party celebrating Müller's defeat, Shura leads the partygoers in giving the ''Edens Zero'' crew an Aoi salute (i.e., genuflecting) out of gratitude for their part in saving the Aoi Cosmos.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Ironically, his plans to kill Ziggy only wind up working in Ziggy's favor, as Shura and Nero's wrestling over the anti-matter bombs gives Ziggy the weapons he needs to [[StableTimeLoop cause the spacetime distortion that would lead to Shiki's death and his own birth]].]]

* TheVillainMustBePunished: After bearing witness to the countless lives lost in a war Shura started out of [[JustAMachine contempt for robots]], Shiki declares that people will continue to die as long as Shura's around, which comes across as an ImpliedDeathThreat. [[spoiler:In the end, Shiki doesn't go through with killing him and [[SaveTheVillain even wants to get him off Nero 66 before it explodes]], but with the implication of bringing him to proper justice rather than forgiveness had Shura not slinked off to die on his own.]]

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Shura's ascension to the throne is propped up as a TyrantTakesTheHelm situation when Nero calls him a tyrant and urges Shiki to stop him, but he turns out to be a well-meaning ruler who genuinely does what he thinks is best for his [[BenevolentBoss soldiers]] and subjects, even if he goes to extremes like [[HistoryRepeats considering the All-Link System plan]] as a way to deal with the rogue Xenolith, which would certainly get him ''labeled'' as a tyrant. [[spoiler:To hammer it home, Shura abolishes the imperial system and forms a republic after Shiki helps him end the crisis without resorting to drastic action.]]

* TheCoatsAreOff:
* CoolStarship:

* HandshakeRefusal:

* KneelBeforeFrodo:

* LadykillerInLove: [[spoiler:Taken more literally than usual since he actually kills the women he's tired of, but it counts towards Ijuna, who started out as just one of many women he'd take to his torture chamber to have his way with. At some point, Shura started to develop feelings for her, but brushed it off as an effect of Ijuna's Ether Gear, which causes people to fall in love. He finally realizes that his feelings are real when Ijuna reveals her power doesn't work on someone who's never loved or been loved by anyone before, proving that even a monster like him is capable of loving someone else.]]

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Shura's ascension to the throne is propped up as a TyrantTakesTheHelm situation when Nero calls him a tyrant and urges Shiki to stop him, but he turns out to be a well-meaning (if uncouth and impulsive) ruler who's genuinely doing what he thinks is best for his [[BenevolentBoss soldiers]] and subjects. This implies that Nero's warning was to stop Shura from doing anything that would get him ''labeled'' as a tyrant, namely his [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme]] methods of dealing with the seemingly rogue Xenolith with [[HistoryRepeats his All-Link System plan]]. [[spoiler:To hammer it home, Shura abolishes the imperial system and forms a republic after Shiki helps him end the crisis without resorting to drastic action.]]

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Most of the heroes apart from Shiki have a hard time imagining that Universe Zero's Shura isn't the same bloodthirsty monster he was in the previous world, despite other irredeemable villains like Drakken Joe and Madame Kurenai changing for the better. Laguna even goes as far as to kill him before he has the chance to do anything drastic. Once they find he really isn't anywhere as bad, however, the crew begrudgingly eases up around him.

* AFatherToHisMen: He shows how much more he cares for Ijuna and the Oceans 6--especially Cyca, whom he cruelly destroyed in the last world for being a robot--when he nearly goes ballistic on Shiki after the Four Shining Stars beat them all up due to a misunderstanding.
* ForWantOfANail: Thanks to Nero [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicating his throne]], Shura was allowed to succeed him as Emperor.

* PimpedOutCape: His new status as Emperor comes with an extravagant, regal cape with a [[FurAndLoathing fur collar]].

* TheEmperor: In this Universe, Shura has taken over from his father as head of the Empire.

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* AbsoluteXenophobe: He takes FantasticRacism against robots and androids to its furthest extreme by ordering the genocide of every living machine in the Aoi Cosmos. While he publicly claims it's to avert the RobotWar that Ziggy is trying to start, he plainly spells out in private to Shiki that the only machines humans need are the non-sentient ones, making it clear that his war is just a front for exterminating what he considers to be an inferior race.

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!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 118 (Manga)

->''"Women are a Glee a dozen. And everything in this cosmos belongs to me."''

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After spending nearly all of his appearances being a psychotic, unpleasant, and irredeemably evil piece of garbage, he goes out with a humanizing death scene where Ijuna's choice to be TogetherInDeath with him [[VillainousBSOD drives him to tears]], realizing too late that a monster like has the capacity to love and be loved by somebody, even if that somebody never would have loved him if he didn't drive her mad in the first place.]]

* IJustWantToBeLoved: He dealt with soul-crushing loneliness since he was a child, unloved by his own father and having nobody else to love, which eventually drove him to madness. It's all but stated that he still craves some form of affection from somebody, but realizes his chances of that happening are impossible because of his lust for power and penchant for senseless carnage. [[spoiler:When Ijuna falls in love with him despite it all, he's [[VillainousBSOD reduced to tears]] over getting what he thought a man like himself could never have.]]

* LimaSyndrome: [[spoiler:Shura thought that he only took a liking to Ijuna--the woman he tortured and humiliated in every way possible--because her Ether Gear causes people to fall in love. However, in their final moments, Ijuna reveals that her Ether Gear shouldn't have worked on Shura because he'd never known love before, proving that whatever feelings he had for her weren't created by her Ether Gear.]]

* TheMostWanted: Although he's the adoptive son of one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who are this by default, Nero is so old that the Interstellar Union Army fears Shura's ascendion to the throne far more than anything the Emperor can do, and thereby prioritizes his elimination above all else in the Aoi War.

* OutGambitted: His plan for the Aoi War is to lure Ziggy to the Temple for a deathmatch against Nero in time for the All-Link, and then using the ALS to detonate all 20,000 {{Antimatter}} bombs on the planet with neither of them the wiser. [[spoiler:This scheme goes completely down the drain when Nero not only defeats Ziggy (or so they think), but transports all of the bombs straight to Shura with his [[ThinkingUpPortals Wormhole]], daring his son to trigger them and see if he's bluffing. To rub salt in the wound, Ziggy takes the chance to trigger the bombs himself to kill Shiki, quite literally blowing Shura's plan up in his face.]]

* PracticallyJoker: He has a lot in common with ComicBook/TheJoker: he has green hair, he's AxCrazy, he murders people ForTheEvulz, he [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter laughs at death and mayhem]], and he becomes fixated on making [[TheHero Shiki]] suffer for [[NotGoodWithRejection refusing his friendship]]. Some parts of his design look like they come straight from Creator/JaredLeto's [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 portrayal]], namely the [[DelinquentHair punk hairstyle]], [[CreepyShadowedUndereyes makeup]], and [[TattooedCrook body tattoos]]. [[spoiler:He also has a victim-turned-sidekick who's fallen madly in love with him akin to ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, except Shura's affections for her turn out to be real and not a way to wrap her around his finger.]]

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: A twofer. The name Shura itself is the Japanese name for Asura, a power-hungry demigod of war found in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, which perfectly suits his nature. Meanwhile, his adoptive family name from the Greek god of the sea, reflecting how his father is Emperor of a cosmos filled with oceans.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Ironically, his plans to kill Ziggy and wipe out all robots in the Aoi Cosmos only wind up working in Ziggy's favor, as Shura and Nero's wrestling over the anti-matter bombs gives Ziggy the weapons he needs to [[StableTimeLoop cause the spacetime distortion that would lead to Shiki's death and his own birth]].]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Shura picks apart Shiki's ideology that [[AllLovingHero all life carries weight]], simply by asking if that includes his own life, since he tortured Witch half to death and is out to exterminate all of the Aoi Cosmos's robots--whom Shiki views as [[AndroidsArePeopleToo no less alive than humans]]--purely ForTheEvulz. Shiki doesn't up with any retort to this.

->''"Don't get it twisted. Women are a Glee a dozen. And everything in this cosmos belongs to me."''