Line #94 JustForFun/ShadowFox


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2	[[caption-width-right:240:Yet another Batman expy.[[note]]Created using a combination of the Heromachine 3 engine and some editing in Microsoft Paint. A larger version may be seen [[http://kyuushinartist.deviantart.com/art/Shadow-Fox-Comic-Cover-656876204 here]].[[/note]]]]
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4	'''NOTE:''' All given names on this page are written in Japanese style, with the family name first.
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6	''Shadow Fox'' is a comic book series created by famous comic writer Kinjo Naizen and distributed by Stampede Comics. It is also a booming franchise, having led to a successful movie trilogy and an ongoing live-action television series. Shadow Fox herself is one of the many, ''many'' [[{{Expy}} expies]] of established superhero Franchise/{{Batman}}.
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8	The series revolves around Koga Michiko, [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent a normal college student]] living in Sogai City...or at least, she ''was'' until the fateful day her younger brother Soichiro was cut down during a drive-by shooting, the result of an ongoing feud between the two gangs whose members were part of the crossfire. After efforts to see the criminals punished through legal means failed, and the one police officer willing to work the case was murdered by one of the gang leaders involved in the shooting, Michiko was approached by Ashida Akihiro, an officer who was responsible for manning the police armory and who happened to have owed the murdered cop a favor; Akihiro offered her a chance to get justice for herself by using police gear to take the fight to criminals. Not long after, Michiko got inspiration after watching a black fox escape being caught one night...and from there, Shadow Fox was born.
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10	Since her debut in Sogai City, Shadow Fox has spent much time battling the city's criminal element, in particular her chief nemesis Ghost Wolf, real name Sakamoto Ryumaru, the gang leader whose crew killed Soichiro on that fateful day. He's not the only super-villain in Sogai City, though, as Shadow Fox must also contend with a fairly large RoguesGallery that seeks to take the city apart for various reasons ranging from revenge, to financial profit, to [[ForTheEvulz just because]].
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12	According to the creator, Mr. Kinjo, he came up with the idea for Shadow Fox after he and his daughter were rescued from a group of home-invaders by a mysterious figure who [[CurbStompBattle put the criminals down with relative ease]] and then, after freeing the family, [[StealthHiBye quietly disappeared]] while Mr. Kinjo was calling the police on the intruders. Mr. Kinjo subsequently came up with the Shadow Fox concept for a comic book title, with the titular character based on his mysterious rescuer, though he changed certain details--the most immediately evident change being that Shadow Fox is an adult female, while the mystery rescuer was a teenage boy. After coming up with the comic concept, Mr. Kinjo pitched his idea to Stampede Comics, and the title subsequently became a national best-seller across a wide age demographic, producing new issues bi-weekly in the years since then.
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14	Approximately two years after the first ''Shadow Fox'' comic was released, a major motion-picture based on the super-hero was released, starring noted actress Fujikaze Yukie. The film received critical praise and much fan approval, though some aspects of the original comic were altered with guidance from Mr. Kinjo, now the chief editor of Stampede Comics. Two sequels were later released and received similar acclaim, and these were eventually followed by a TV series, starring Sakata Emi as Shadow Fox and Morishita Atsui as Ghost Wolf; the series, which premiered some seven years after the first film was released, is currently in its third season. There is also a cartoon web-series based on the Shadow Fox character, set to be released at a date to be announced.
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16	Additionally, noted actress Uchiha Mikoto has expressed some interest in portraying the Shadow Fox character should she be given the opportunity to do so.
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18	Has no connection to [[Franchise/{{Zoids}} the Zoid]] of the same name.
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20	'''SECOND NOTE:''' In case you haven't realized it yet, the ''Shadow Fox'' franchise doesn't really exist; it is in fact a [[ShowWithinAShow comic franchise within a fictional universe]], that universe in question being the ''FanFic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'' fan-fiction. The ''Batman'' franchise which inspired Shadow Fox, of course, DOES exist (like you really needed to be told that). As a result, any references to the main story where ''Shadow Fox'' is mentioned will be noted in the trope list below.
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22	!!The ''Shadow Fox'' franchise contains examples of:
23	* ActionGirl: Shadow Fox herself, of course. Wildfire, Steel Fist and Panthera are all of the DarkActionGirl variety.
24	* AnIcePerson: The villain Nitro-Frost uses liquid nitrogen, stored in a tank attached to his back, and expelled by way of a gun-nozzle attached to the tank.
25	* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Shadow Fox, Ghost Wolf and Panthera are all Type 2, being patterned after a fox, wolf and panther, respectively. As explained above, Michiko was inspired to make a fox-themed costume after seeing one make an escape in the middle of the night.
26	* AnimalWrongsGroup: Panthera claims to be all about animal rights, [[{{Hypocrite}} even though she'll willingly use animals to do her bidding]].
27	* ArchEnemy:
28	** Ghost Wolf. The feud between him and Shadow Fox is [[ItsPersonal personal]] due to him having been involved in the death of her younger brother during a drive-by shooting.
29	** Dr. Glass may also be a contender for this spot, as he was Shadow Fox's most frequently-appearing foe during the comic's first 50 issues.
30	* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Kung Fu Girl]]: Steel Fist.
31	* AscendedFanboy: In the TV series, Ghost Wolf is played by actor Morishita Atsui, whose favorite villain from the comics is Ghost Wolf.
32	* AttackAnimal: Panthera uses these for combat.
33	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Minister Sorrow ''weaponizes'' his psychiatric training for villainous purposes.
34	* BadBoss: One thing Mischief definitely has in common with the Joker is that he doesn't care about the welfare of his own henchmen. See also LackOfEmpathy below.
35	* BadassBiker: Bonebreaker is the leader of Sogai City's toughest motorcycle gang.
36	* BarrierWarrior: Reflector's suit is capable of creating plasma-energy shields.
37	* BatterUp: The villain Roundarm uses baseball bats (and baseballs) as weapons.
38	%%* BigBad: Ghost Wolf.
39	* BadassBookworm: Minister Sorrow was trained as a psychiatrist, and he uses a double-edged sword for personal combat.
40	* BadassInANiceSuit: Ghost Wolf typically wears a white business suit. Also, Mischief wears a custom-tailored business suit that's designed so as to invoke the appearance of a jester, blue on one side and white on the other, with swirling divides of each color crossing into each other.
41	* BadassLongcoat: Shadow Fox wears a black one as part of her outfit, as the page image shows. Ghost Wolf wears a white one, and Minister Sorrow sports a black one.
42	* BadassNormal: Neither Shadow Fox nor any of her rogues have powers, just a lot of gadgets, weapons and training.
43	* BashBrothers: Eagle Eye and Ricochet. The two of them did a stint together in the same military unit, and nowadays they'll occasionally do a VillainTeamUp.
44	* TheBeastmaster: Panthera can train animals to attack her enemies.
45	* BlackAndWhiteMorality: This is Michiko's overall philosophy concerning crime.
46	--> '''Michiko:''' If you're a criminal, you're a criminal. End of story.
47	* {{Blackmail}}: Datajack specializes in this. He once threatened to empty out the bank accounts of several Ministers of National Security across the world unless they met his demands; and on another occasion, he blackmailed several upper-class ladies into paying him not to unleash on the Internet several risque pictures he'd snatched from their phones.
48	* BloodKnight: Bonebreaker will NEVER back down from a fight. Likewise, Steel Fist is obsessed with fighting and defeating Shadow Fox.
49	* BornLucky: Shadow Fox complains that with how lucky Johnny Gamble often is, he could've [[CutLexLuthorACheck used his skills to win at legitimate gambling]] instead of being a criminal.
50	* BreakThemByTalking: Minister Sorrow is skilled enough with words to do this to people. He ''is'' a trained psychiatrist, after all.
51	* TheBully: Bonebreaker and his gang behave this way.
52	* ByTheBookCop: Sogai City's current police lieutenant, while sincere about upholding law and order, lumps Shadow Fox together in the same boat with the criminals she fights. Although, technically, she ''is'' a vigilante operating outside the law, so there's that.
53	* CallingCard: The Ghost Wolves gang had a specific style of executing their enemies--two bullets to the chest, one to the midsection, one to the stomach, and one to the head. This was how they killed the cop who'd been investigating Soichiro's murder, before dumping his body in the river afterward.
54	* CareerEndingInjury: Before he got put in charge of the police armory, Akihiro had been a regular street cop up until a bullet to the shoulder led to him being reassigned.
55	* ChainPain: Bonebreaker is known for using chains to fight with.
56	* CheatersNeverProsper: In his back-story, Blitz was a champion athlete who fell into disgrace when he was found to have used steroids to win his races.
57	* TheChessmaster: Ghost Wolf. [[spoiler:Most evident in his plan to release Shadow Fox's enemies from jail in order to wear her down for him to defeat more easily.]]
58	* CivvieSpandex: Not every member of Shadow Fox's RoguesGallery wears an outlandish costume; Ghost Wolf and Second Sight, for example, both wear business suits with ties, Minister Sorrow wears a black outfit that wouldn't look out of place on a pallbearer, Bonebreaker wears a leather biker outfit, and so on.
59	* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Blitz uses an experimental body-suit and leg-bracers that increase his running speed. In the same vein, Reflector's ability to create plasma force-fields and give off electric shocks come entirely from his PoweredArmor.
60	* ColdBloodedTorture: Ghost Wolf does this to Akihiro at one point. He ties Akihiro to a chair and then beats up the cop as a way of easing his boredom while waiting for Shadow Fox to show up. By the time the Fox gets there, Akihiro is barely able to mutter two words, due to how badly he's been beaten.
61	* ColdSniper: Ricochet's specialty as an assassin. In one issue, Shadow Fox has to stop him from sniping an important law enforcement figure.
62	* CombatPragmatist: Roundarm will fight ''dirty'' in order to win.
63	* CompositeCharacter: Happens to a number of Shadow Fox's villains in the TV series. Its version of Eagle Eye is basically himself combined with Ricochet; Brutality has his original name and back-story but is also a biker gang leader like Bonebreaker; and Johnny Gamble, in addition to his own gear, also utilizes razor-edged playing cards like Decker Card does.
64	* ConfusionFu: Silly Billy's fighting style, due to his ability to bend his body parts at unnatural angles.
65	* {{Contortionist}}: Silly Billy used to work in a circus as this.
66	* CoolSword: Minister Sorrow has a dual-edged sword for when he has to engage in personal fighting.
67	* CopKiller: Ryumaru and his gang murdered the cop investigating Koga Soichiro's death, as a warning to Michiko to stop trying to get them prosecuted. Unfortunately, that act further bolstered her drive to become Shadow Fox.
68	* TheCracker: Datajack's whole shtick.
69	* CreateYourOwnHero: Ryumaru, already a vicious criminal even before he became Ghost Wolf, unwittingly created Shadow Fox when he took part in the drive-by shooting that killed Soichiro, and when he later killed the cop who kept supporting Michiko's efforts to get justice for that previous shooting through legal efforts.
70	* DanceBattler: Shadow Fox is one, owing to her past experience as a gymnast during her high school days. [[spoiler:Ghost Wolf specifically mentions that his spies who he'd sent to observe the Fox's movements reported that her combat tactics employed gymnastic movements; this helped him in his search to narrow down her secret identity.]]
71	* DarkIsNotEvil: Take a guess.
72	* {{Determinator}}: Even after having spent 72 hours running the gauntlet against a number of her enemies, Shadow Fox will not back down from fighting to stop crime in [[CityOfAdventure Sogai City]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Ghost Wolf exploits that trait of the Fox's in order to wear her down while he patiently waits for her to come back to her lair where he can fight her while having fresh energy himself.]]
73	* DeadpanSnarker: Officer Ashida Akihiro.
74	--> '''Michiko:''' Anything interesting happen at the precinct tonight, Officer Ashida?
75	--> '''Akihiro:''' Yeah--the paint on the ceiling in the police armory dried faster than expected.
76	* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Ghost Wolf at the end of the first film. Then subverted in the two sequels, where he's revealed to have been alive all along and is the ManBehindTheMan for those films' villains.]]
77	* DeathDealer: Decker Card utilizes metallic razor-edged playing cards. In the TV series, this trait is given to Johnny Gamble.
78	* DiabolicalMastermind: Minister Sorrow, at times.
79	* DistressedDude: Akihiro unfortunately becomes one in one issue of the comic where he is caught and beaten by Ghost Wolf [[spoiler:who moments before had tailed him to Shadow Fox's lair]].
80	* DumbMuscle: According to Akihiro, Bonebreaker doesn't have enough brain to match his brawn.
81	* EdibleBludgeon: Mischief once used sausage-nunchakus in a fight against Shadow Fox. Yes, you read that correctly--''sausage-nunchakus''.
82	--> '''Michiko:''' I'd rather not have to remember that embarrassing time, thank you.
83	* EgomaniacHunter: Eagle Eye has this attitude.
84	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Bonebreaker will break people's limbs for mouthing off about his mother.
85	* EvilCounterpart: Ghost Wolf is essentially this plus the SpearCounterpart to Shadow Fox. They both wear masks inspired by canine creatures, and both of them are connected by the same tragic event (the death of the Fox's brother in a drive-by shooting in which the Wolf was a participant), but whereas Shadow Fox strives to defend justice and employs DarkIsNotEvil, Ghost Wolf delves deeper into crime while being a walking example of LightIsNotGood.
86	* EvilGenius: Dr. Glass and Minister Sorrow both qualify.
87	* EvilMentor: Minister Sorrow, to his followers.
88	* {{Expy}}:
89	** Shadow Fox is one for Franchise/{{Batman}}, of course, right down to being inspired to become a vigilante after losing a family member to violence (in her case, her brother) and being inspired to model herself after a fox after seeing one's night-time antics, similar to how Bruce Wayne would model himself after a bat after seeing one crash through the window of his study.
90	** Based on his portrayal in the comics, specifically in [[spoiler:his masterminding of the plan to wear down Shadow Fox enough to defeat her]], Ghost Wolf is essentially an expy of Bane from the ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' story arc, in terms of intelligence.
91	** Mischief is one for the Joker, of course. Unlike the Clown Prince of Crime, however, Mischief isn't Shadow Fox's main enemy (that would be Ghost Wolf), plus he's got a concrete back-story and his identity is presumably known to Shadow Fox, seeing as she's unmasked him many times.
92	* ExtendoBoxingGlove: Mischief has used these as part of his arsenal.
93	* FireBreathingWeapon: Wildfire's keynote weapon is a flamethrower with a tank strapped to her back and a hose-and-nozzle equipped on one arm.
94	* ForTheEvulz: Why Mischief does what he does, according to Akihiro.
95	--> '''Akihiro:''' For him, your fights are just one big source of entertainment.
96	* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Wildfire's father, a firefighter, molested her when she was younger. It got to the point that Wildfire would set fires across their town just so her father would be too busy to come home; she would later come to see fire as a source of comfort.]]
97	* FriendOnTheForce: Akihiro is actually the second one for Michiko, after his detective friend was murdered while pursuing Soichiro's killers on Michiko's behalf.
98	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Mischief used to work as a TV special-effects consultant. Nowadays he's a bomb-throwing super-criminal.
99	* GadgeteerGenius: Wildfire made her equipment herself.
100	* TheGambler: Johnny Gamble, obviously. Whether it's coin-tosses, dice-rolling, or anything he can bet on, he's up for it.
101	* GanglandDriveBy: In the back-story, Ryumaru was involved in the one that would claim the life of Michiko's brother Soichiro.
102	* GlassCannon: Implied to be a somewhat literal case with Dr. Glass, who's rather fixated on glass-made equipment. [[note]]In the main plot of the fan-fiction where ''Shadow Fox'' exists as a [[ShowWithinAShow franchise within a fan-fiction]], Fugaku is seen in one scene playing with an action-figure of Dr. Glass, depicted as wearing a suit of armor made to look like glass; however, in another scene, Kushina argues that Dr. Glass's weaponry is "fragile enough to break with a simple touch," though in fairness she's rather disdainful of the character to begin with.[[/note]]
103	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Listening to too many traumatizing stories from his clients made Minister Sorrow go off the deep end himself.
104	* GolfClubbing: Roundarm uses golf clubs as melee weapons.
105	* GrapplingHookPistol: Appropriate for a Batman-esque hero, Shadow Fox has one of these as part of her arsenal.
106	* GunsAkimbo: Brutality loves his guns. And he loves them [[MoreDakka in bulk]].
107	* TheGunslinger: Buckaroo, in the typical cowboy style.
108	* HackerCave: Datajack has one.
109	* HairTriggerTemper: Bonebreaker tends to fly off the handle for any wrong done to him, real or imagined.
110	* HardLight: Second Sight can create constructs with this, thanks to his special helmet. Dr. Glass is likewise capable of creating holograms, in one issue developing a hologram-generator for which he's had to steal parts.
111	* HellBentForLeather: Bonebreaker wears a black leather jacket with yellow shoulder-pads. Brutality wears a red leather jacket and red leather arm-guards and shin-guards.
112	* HeroKiller: Ghost Wolf and Blitz are the only two members of the RoguesGallery who have come the closest to killing Shadow Fox.
113	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Shadow Fox herself has this role, seeing as the local ByTheBookCop treats her no differently from the criminals she fights.
114	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Eagle Eye treats his encounters with Shadow Fox this way.
115	* IKnowMaddenKombat: Roundarm used to be a star athlete who got kicked off his high school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct. These days, he puts his former sports-skills to use as a criminal.
116	* IcyBlueEyes: Mischief's eyes, the only part of his face visible underneath his creepy clown-mask.
117	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Ricochet has this going for him, thanks to his skill as a marksman.
118	--> '''Shadow Fox:''' ''(about Ricochet)'' Any gun in his hands is dangerous.
119	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Mischief wields a marker that's rigged to shoot acid. Quite appropriate for a Joker expy.
120	* InHarmsWay: Johnny Gamble is described as "the type who lives on the edge," even being willing to risk his own life at Russian roulette.
121	* InTheHood: The Terror King wears a long coat that comes with a hood.
122	* ItsAllAboutMe: Everything Ryumaru does, as himself or as Ghost Wolf, is solely for his own advancement; [[LackOfEmpathy the impact his actions will have on others doesn't matter to him]].
123	* JerkJock: Roundarm used to be one during his high school days, and he leads a gang of thugs who also used to be this.
124	* TheJuggernaut: Bonebreaker is good at taking hits and good at dishing them out, according to Shadow Fox.
125	* KillItWithFire: As a serial arsonist and arsonist-for-hire, Wildfire naturally does this. [[spoiler:Her very first victim was [[SelfMadeOrphan her father]], when she was younger, in retaliation for his molesting her.]]
126	* KillerYoyo: Razor-edged yoyos have been part and parcel of Mischief's arsenal.
127	* LackOfEmpathy: Don't expect Ghost Wolf to care about your feelings no matter what he does to you or others you know, as the ItsAllAboutMe trope above notes. The same applies to Mischief, as this exchange between him and Shadow Fox testifies.
128	--> '''Shadow Fox:''' Everyone you brought with you tonight is dead, because of your own actions.
129	--> '''Mischief:''' Yeah. So?
130	* LaughingMad: Mischief tends to do this. Again, he ''is'' an expy of the Clown Prince of Crime.
131	* LawmanGoneBad: Brutality was previously a member of Sogai City's police department.
132	* LeParkour: Blitz.
133	* MadBomber: Mischief uses a white plastic explosive that's shaped in the form of an innocent-looking cream pie, and he's also known to use bombs shaped like apples. He also uses more conventional explosives.
134	* MadDoctor: Considering Minister Sorrow was driven around the bend by the stories he heard his clients tell...
135	* MadeOfIron: Silly Billy is very good at taking hits.
136	* MagicalComputer: Datajack has used his skills to develop some nasty viruses over his career.
137	* ManBehindTheMan: In the second film, Mischief and Silly Billy are being manipulated by Minister Sorrow. [[spoiler:And Ghost Wolf is the man behind all of them.]]
138	* ManipulativeBastard: Minister Sorrow can get this way with the people he leads.
139	* MasterOfDisguise: Mask Master is an infiltrator who specializes in impersonating people.
140	* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Ghost Wolf in the comics, film series and TV series is a sociopath villain. He's played by Morishita Atsui, who's pretty chummy.
141	* MindManipulation: Second Sight has a device that can hypnotize people by messing with their visual perceptions, combined with hypnotic music played in select locations. However, his gimmicks require advance planning.
142	* MindRape: What Minister Sorrow's serums allow him to do to people.
143	* MonsterClown: Mischief dresses the part, despite not actually being one.
144	* MoreThanMindControl: Minister Sorrow can get people to work for him simply because of how well he can twist their perceptions.
145	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Bonebreaker, Brutality, Terror King, Steel Fist, Wildfire...
146	* NoSenseOfHumor: Shadow Fox, to the point that Mischief is actually surprised when, in one of their confrontations, she makes a quip that he interprets as a joke.
147	* NonIdleRich: Johnny Gamble is a villainous version.
148	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Decker Card is treated this way. While reviewing the RoguesGallery at one point, Akihiro is dismissive of Decker Card due to his admittedly corny theme, but Shadow Fox knows better than that.
149	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Steel Fist has this mindset toward Shadow Fox, as she wants to defeat the heroine to reclaim her "lost honor" following her first defeat at the Fox's hands (which was done to stop her killing an assassination target).
150	* PacifistDojo: Steel Fist used to be a member of an ancient fighting clan that essentially acted as this. When she betrayed their ideals by offering herself up as a mercenary and assassin-for-hire, they responded by [[PersonaNonGrata excommunicating her]].
151	* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: [[spoiler:Shadow Fox uses her dead brother Soichiro's name as the password for the computer database in her hidden lair.]]
152	* PipePain: Bonebreaker uses a pipe in melee combat.
153	* PlayingCardMotifs: Decker Card is obsessed with playing cards, to the point that he models his costume and weapons after them.
154	* PlayingWithSyringes: Minister Sorrow backs up his ability to verbally twist others with the use of drugs and serums.
155	* PoliceAreUseless: Michiko has a rather cynical view of the Sogai City police.
156	--> '''Akihiro:''' The Sogai City cops can handle the line at least every now and then.
157	--> '''Michiko:''' I guess so. Too bad that can't be true 100 percent of the time, so there'd be no need for the likes of me.
158	* PoliceBrutality: Back when he was a cop, Brutality had a bad reputation for mistreating criminals he collared.
159	* PracticallyJoker: Just like how Shadow Fox is a Batman expy, Mischief is her Joker. Clown motif? Check. Chaotic anarchist? Check. Commits his crimes for thrills and giggles? Check. Uses gag weaponry? Check. The only thing he ''doesn't'' have in common with the Clown Prince of Crime is the MultipleChoicePast, or lack of it in his case (he used to be a television special-effects consultant).
160	* ProfessionalKiller: Eagle Eye, Ricochet and Steel Fist are all employed as this. In Steel Fist's case, her becoming this was the reason her clan excommunicated her.
161	* PromotionToParent: Before becoming Shadow Fox, Michiko was acting as a surrogate parent for her younger brother Soichiro, due to [[ParentalAbandonment their parents' mysterious disappearance years before]].
162	* PsychoKnifeNut: The Terror King's primary weapon is a knife with a spiky handle, as seen [[http://kyuushinartist.deviantart.com/art/Shadow-Fox-Terror-King-variant-cover-657171417 here]]. Bonebreaker also wields knives on occasion.
163	* PsychoElectro: Reflector's suit can generate electric shocks.
164	* PsychoPsychologist: Minister Sorrow.
165	* PunnyName: Guess what the pun is in Decker Card's name. We'll wait.
166	* PurpleIsPowerful: Wildfire uses a special chemical formula that makes her flames purple. Incidentally, purple is her favorite color.
167	* PyroManiac: Wildfire.
168	* QuickDraw: Buckaroo is skilled at this.
169	* {{Revenge}}: This motivated Buckaroo's very first crime--he was a rodeo champion who got cheated out of a first-place trophy by some jealous rivals, and in retaliation he murdered them. This is also Roundarm's motivation, as he wants to get back at his former school for kicking him off their football team ([[NeverMyFault for unsportsmanlike conduct on his part]]).
170	* RoguesGallery: The list of Shadow Fox's rogues includes Ghost Wolf, Mischief, Brutality, Decker Card, Nitro-Frost, Mask Master, Ricochet, Reflector, Dr. Glass, Panthera, Bonebreaker, Steel Fist, Blitz, Second Sight, Terror King, Johnny Gamble, Datajack, Wildfire, Eagle Eye, Roundarm, Silly Billy, Minister Sorrow, and Buckaroo.
171	* TheRustler: Buckaroo commits his heists in this manner.
172	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Eagle Eye's specialty is tracking prey.
173	* ScrewTheRulesIhaveMoney: During the initial investigation into Soichiro's death, Ryumaru proved to have enough money to bribe both the judge and the then-lieutenant of police into getting the charges tossed and the investigation quashed.
174	* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: after his fellow cop, the one investigating Soichiro's death, was murdered by Sakamoto Ryumaru's gang, Akihiro basically gave the middle finger to the then-lieutenant's order to leave the Ghost Wolves gang alone, and subsequently sought out Michiko and made his arrangement to supply her with equipment and training to take the fight to the gang.
175	--> Well, screw authorization, Akihiro had decided. Authorization was what got his friend killed.
176	* SecretKeeper: Akihiro is this for Shadow Fox, natch. [[spoiler:Ghost Wolf becomes an unwitting one, too, after Shadow Fox points out that revealing her secret identity would only inform the rest of the criminal underworld that ''he'' basically created her when he killed her brother.]]
177	* SemperFi: Eagle Eye and Ricochet both have this as part of their back-story. Eagle Eye did two tours of duty; it's not known how long Ricochet served for, but the two of them served in the same unit together at one point.
178	* SerialKiller: The Terror King.
179	* SinisterMinister: Akihiro recounts a time when Minister Sorrow ran an underground movement whose followers committed crimes for him. Michiko notes that a few of Sorrow's followers ''still'' do, because they see him as the only one who understands them--that's taken to emphasize how dangerous his words can be.
180	* SinisterSurveillance: Datajack has been hired in the past to sniff out the secrets of his clients' rival companies in order to give the clients an edge.
181	* SlasherSmile:
182	** On one occasion, Mischief wears a plastic clown-mask that sports a mouthful of sharp, grinning teeth. Shadow Fox notes that it's significantly different from his usual masks, which sport friendlier (if still creepy) smiles.
183	** The Terror King has [[http://kyuushinartist.deviantart.com/art/Shadow-Fox-Terror-King-variant-cover-657171417 a rather creepy smile with sharp teeth]].
184	* SharpDressedMan: Johnny Gamble often wears a brown sleeveless vest with a black dress-shirt underneath.
185	* SmokeOut: Shadow Fox utilizes smoke-grenades for when she needs to make her escape.
186	* SmugSnake: Ghost Wolf is ''extremely'' self-confident whenever he confronts Shadow Fox, and it's usually justified, as in one episode of the TV show he's made sure to bring backup for the inevitable confrontation, while in the comic [[spoiler:he's learned her secret identity and is ready to use it against her]].
187	* SuperSpeed: Blitz's suit increases his running speed significantly. Not as fast as Franchise/TheFlash, but fast enough to do what needs to be done.
188	* ThrillSeeker: Johnny Gamble won't shy away from anything he can bet on, even something as dangerous as Russian roulette. This is also the case with Silly Billy, as he turned to crime because he felt he wasn't getting enough thrills in his job as a circus contortionist.
189	* TrackingDevice: Shadow Fox has several of these in her arsenal. Naturally, they're shaped like miniature fox-heads.
190	* TrapMaster: Johnny Gamble makes death-traps that allow victims to have a small chance for escape. Michiko explicitly compares him to [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Jigsaw]].
191	* TheTrickster: Mischief.
192	* UtilityBelt: Shadow Fox is a Batman expy. Of ''course'' she has one of these.
193	* VillainInAWhiteSuit: The villainous Decker Card, as the only part of his suit that's not completely white is the face-mask, which sports the AceOfSpades on it.
194	* VillainTeamUp: Some of the villains have done this from time to time in the comics, with Eagle Eye and Ricochet doing the most frequent team-ups (justified, as they served in the military together). During one notable story arc, Reflector and Dr. Glass teamed up to steal technology in order to enhance their respective equipment. Then there's the film series, where Mischief, Silly Billy and Minister Sorrow work together in the second movie while Datajack and Dr. Glass team up in the third. And in one episode of the TV series, Ghost Wolf brought together Brutality, Minister Sorrow, Mischief and Wildfire to help him battle Shadow Fox, dubbing their group the "Hand of Crime."
195	* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Shadow Fox's weaponry is supplied by Akihiro, who works in the police armory, as a favor to her after one of his friends, the only detective willing to keep pursuing the case of Michiko's murdered brother in the backstory, was himself murdered as a warning for the investigations to cease or else.

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