Shadowgeist


 * Not to be confused with the character Shadow.

Shadowgeist (シャドウガイスト) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing in Street Fighter EX2 as a hidden fighter. He is a merciless, cyber-enhanced vigilante seeking to bring down his country's totalitarian government.

Story
Shadowgeist was once a normal man. Living under a harsh dictatorship, his wife was murdered by the government and his daughter subsequently went missing. Burning with contempt, he enhances his body with cybernetic parts, becoming a violent vigilante and taking the name Shadowgeist. He fights against the dictatorship of his country in order to protect the people from becoming victims like his family had.

He encounters Skullomania, who he believes to be a super villain.

When he finds out his daughter is alive and well, Shadowgeist continues his life of crime fighting by joining the governed Secret Service in United States, in exchange to keep his daughter safe.

Fighting EX Layer
Shadowgeist appears as one of the playable characters in Fighting EX Layer.

Trivia

 * Shadowgeist is one of the five playable characters to have their name shortened under their lifebar (appearing as "Shadow"). The others are Cycloid Beta, Cycloid Gamma, Cracker Jack and Skullomania.


 * While keeping Skullomania's homage to the Kamen Rider series, Shadowgeist seems to be based on a villain from Kamen Rider Black, Shadow Moon, who is the brother of the titular hero and possesses identical powers. He can also be based on the secondary Kamen Riders, whom most of them started out as an anti-hero, before becoming a full-fledge hero (except Masato Kusaka, while two Kaitos Daiki Kaito and Kaito Kumon) were temporarily villains prior their redemption im the end).


 * According to his Shadaloo Combat Research Institute profile, Shadowgeist's body is equipped with a self-destruct mechanism.

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