Shadow Fight (Verse)

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==Introduction==
Shadow Fight is a series of classical role-playing fighting games developed by Nekki and Banzai.Games in the tradition of glorious arcade classics such as Mortal Kombat or Tekken. The series features both armed and unarmed combat along with a sprinkling of magic and esoteric abilities. The fights normally have a story element associated, and winning progresses the storyline. The games reward skill and precision over brute force and button mashing and have been widely praised for their fighting mechanics, strictly corresponding to the motto “A minute to learn, a lifetime to master”.
The series' story is initially centered around the protagonist Shadow, a mighty warrior who is searching for an adventure and a worthy adversary. In pursuit of his ambitious and self-centered goal the main hero opens the Gates of Shadows, which causes some terrible consequences that would haunt him and his world for all of their days. The latter part of the series' story portrays how Shadow's mistake had impacted the lives of those who came after him, and how these people choose to interact with the foreign Shadow Energy that was brought into their world from the opened Gates of Shadows, with some using it as a weapon of war, while others choosing to live in harmony with it.
The series contains the following games:
* Shadows Fight (2001, PC), or Shadow Fight 0 as developer Nekki had once officially described it as, is the earliest ever indexed trace of the Shadow Fight series. The game was created as a passion project by Evgeniy Dyabin, who was inspired by the first Matrix movie and who at the time was passionate about the Xiao Xiao Internet Flash cartoon series. Due to the sheer obscurity surrounding this title, there is no playable version of this game as of present day, and it is believed to have likely been a browser game. The player controlled silhouettes much like the games of the series that followed and allowed players to fight bare-handed.
* Shadow Fight 1 (2011; PC) - The direct successor of the Shadows Fight game that brought the title out of obscurity through its exclusive release on Facebook's website as a live-service game, and which was discontinued in 2017. In spite of it being a purely competitive multiplayer experience without any form of story or plot involved outside of the short descriptions of the raid bosses, some of its elements such as locations, items and raid bosses would later on be reused in the next Shadow Fight game to compose the very beginning of the canon Shadow Fight series storyline.
* Shadow Fight 2 (2013; Android, iOS, Windows 8/8.1, Mac OS) - The original canon game. It follows Shadow, a mighty warrior who is searching for an adventure and a worthy adversary. In pursuit of his ambitious and self-centred goal the main hero opens the Gates of Shadows, which causes some terrible consequences and Shadow Energy to leak into his world. An ominous ruler from a parallel world, named Titan, uses the Gates to send his demon minions, whose goal is to possess the most skilled warriors of this realm and prepare the land for Titan’s arrival. Shadow pays dearly for his mistake. He loses his body and becomes a real shadow. Now his mission is to gather all the magical seals, which are owned by Titan’s minions, to close the Gates of Shadows and save the world from the shadow menace.
** Underworld (2015) - The spin-off story act of Shadow Fight 2 and simultaneously its multiplayer game mode. It was released as an update to the game soon after the main storyline of Shadow Fight 2 ended. There are two instances in which this plot is introduced: the first takes place very early on during the main story, when not long after opening the Gates, Shadow is approached by Volcano, one of the many Eternals who act as the Guardians of Earth, who has awakened from his slumber along with his siblings to cleanse the world of its shadow contagion. Shadow is needed along with other great warriors to defeat these mighty forces of nature in order to prevent utter cataclysm from happening and thus ending all of humanity. The second time this plot gets introduced is right after Shadow defeats Titan and returns to Earth, being reminded by Sensei that the world still needs his help in defeating the Eternals. The Underworld story arc also features various kinds of enemies directly inspired by and related to various real life cultural holidays, special events and pop-culture media, all of which are canon to the spin-off Underworld continuity.
* Shadow Fight 2: Special Edition (2017; Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch) - The paid version of Shadow Fight 2. It contains an unique storyline titled Old Wounds, exclusive to this version of the game, in which Sensei narrates to Shadow and his companions about how he met the Prince of the Ivory City, fought the young, human shadow demons before they became possessed by Titan's minions, and ultimately how he saved the world from a magical Sphere that threatened to destroy the world with its imminent power. This recalled memory is the first series of events in the chronological order of the franchise.
* Shadow Fight 3 (2017; Android, iOS) - Years have passed since the events of Shadow Fight 2. People have gotten used to the Shadow Energy's presence in their lives, and have learned to use it to their advantage, as in war, so in the household. Unfortunately, the positive attitude is not shared by everyone. Powerful Legion is preparing for the attack of the Dynasty's lands in order to put an end to the "Shadow Threat". On the other hand, the people of the Dynasty believe that with the correct use, this power will help the humanity solve a lot of problems. Third faction has emerged from the shadows in the background of these events, the mysterious Heralds. These warriors in black clothes know about the nature of the Shadow Energy a lot more than others, which frightens both the Dynasty and the Legion. A new hero will appear soon, destined to discover the mysteries of the factions, bring the war to an end and save the world.
* Shadow Fight 4: Arena (2020; Android, iOS) - Originally just named Shadow Fight Arena, this fourth installment of the franchise was initially released as a strictly real-time PvP multiplayer based experience that takes place during the time period of Shadow Fight 3 and in the same game's setting, but with a short premise that seemingly gives off the idea that the game's story is supposed to be a spin-off, "What If" continuity. In this timeline, Shadow Mind appears to have become an unstoppable force of nature who seeks to have the greatest of warriors fight one another in its Arena tournament, so that it can find the strongest fighter for it to possess. Some fighters have joined this tournament due to their own, personal agendas, while others to claim Shadow Mind's power, promised by it to the winner of the competition. Two years after the game's release, it received an update in 2022 that introduced a strictly PvE based game mode called "Stories", which are chapters and acts dedicated to shedding some light on the personal adventures of the playable characters. Nearing the end of the same year, the game had also been officially renamed to Shadow Fight 4: Arena after the main storyline of Shadow Fight 3 had finally come to an end, instigating the fact that this game is supposed to continue to reveal the untold stories of the characters that appear in Shadow Fight 3 through its "Stories" game mode.
* Shades (2023; Android, iOS) - The fifth installment of the series. It brings back the iconic 2D artstyle that initially skyrocketed the franchise's popularity after a decade of its absence. And what better way to portray this comeback than to have the game's story take place right after the events of Shadow Fight 2, placing it chronologically in-between Shadow Fight 2 and Shadow Fight 3. After defeating Titan, the legendary hero Shadow has retired in peace and harmony together with May at Sensei's dojo to tend the wounds the crazy conqueror had inflicted. But the nightmares that haunted Shadow every night informed him he couldn't escape his past so easily, and so, after his former enemies come back knocking at his door for revenge, he finds himself having to put an end to their madness and in the process becomes part of an imminent war that threatens the lives of those close to him.
The series also contains a three-chapter Comic Book Miniseries written by Alex Xatchett, known from Bubble Comics for his work on Demonslayer, that takes place during the events of Shadow Fight 2, and a dynamic card tabletop game called Shadow Fight: Demon Fight which consists of the 12 remaining Shadow Demons fighting each other to claim Titan's empy throne after the conqueror was defeated by Shadow.
==Power of the Verse==
===Canon Portion===
Shadow Fight is a fairly powerful verse amongst its mobile and fighting game peers. Its roots as an old school browser and mobile game series, along with its initially simplistic and straightforward setting and narrative would likely let many to believe at a first glace that the franchise's power level boils down to just a bunch of superhuman martial artists with some basic supernatural powers and entities here and there. While this is true for the first few games of the series, starting from Shadow Fight 3 and onward releases the power of the verse sometimes skyrockets to some unexpected levels of power due to the writers taking a more sophisticated approach to the series' story and characters. Still, overall the verse treats its human characters for what they are - humans - and avoids granting them access to cataclysmic tiers that far surpass their classification. The rare occasions on which humans ever reach these world-devastating tiers is via special equipment and/or hax, meaning they still do not physically scale off of them. These powerful tiers are more reserved for the truly exceptional of humans and most often deities and other mighty entities.
Aside from a few characters that reach into Wall level (9-B) territory via feats of their special abilities easily piercing the thick steel armor of their opponents, the majority of the character cast falls into the Building level+ (8-C) tier physically, scaling off of the Asteroid Magic from Shadow Fight 2, with very few characters tapping into the Universe level+ (Low 2-C) tier with the help of hax and equipment. Although most of the characters are stuck inside the mentioned Building level+ tier, the story does notify often enough which characters in question are supposed to be on top of the food chain and which characters are not.
When it comes to speed, the same Wall level characters reach the at least Subsonic+ level, as they can dodge arrows and bullets, and can aim-dodge laser beams. Some Building level+ characters such as Sensei and those scaling to him are Hypersonic due to him being able to dodge the Asteroid Magic, which travels at 10800 km/h, while the majority of the Building level+ class are Massively Hypersonic due to them scaling off of Shadow, who was capable of dodging Hermit's cloud-to-ground lightning attacks. Some characters gain access to Speed of Light attacks or even speed tiering, such as Ursus in Shadow Fight 3, who utilizes the Light to smite his foes with beams made out of it, or the cast of Shadow Fight 4: Arena all scaling off of Fire Guard's ability to dodge Helga's instant smite of Light with one of its Shadow Abilities, with the rest of the cast being able to dodge said Shadow Ability without much effort.
===Underworld Portion===
Due to the freedom given to them by the relatively unorthodox direction of the Underworld 's story, atmosphere and non-canonicity, the writers have lowered their power restrictions on their characters and thus have brought forth godlike characters such as the Eternals, who most can reach the Multi-Continent level (High 6-A) tier scaling off of the second weakest of them all, Megalith, who was able to move continents on his own in the past and was going to end humanity again using cataclysmic earthquakes, while their creator, Tenebris, taps into the Solar System level (4-B) territory due to stating to have forged both the light and darkness of worlds. 
Where the verse truly shines is with regards to the multitude of hax abilities present in the later titles. The list of hax used offensively includes Durability Negation, Poison Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Possession, Essence Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Time Travel, Law Manipulation, Combat Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Power Nullification, Fate Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, Reality Warping, Corruption, Disease Manipulation, Pocket Reality Manipulation, Duplication, Conceptual Manipulation, Void Manipulation, BFR, Sealing, Supernatural Luck, Summoning, Radiation Manipulation, Plot Manipulation, Power Absorption, Existence Erasure etc.
==Supporters/Opponents/Neutral==
===Supporters===
*Dashio Tessai
*Elizhaa
*TacticalNuke002
*TheDivineHost
*Jeeeeepil123
*Richard5128pm
===Opponents===
===Neutral===
==Characters==
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==Heroes==
Shadow human (3).jpg|Shadow|link=Shadow (Shadow Fight)
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==Order of Assassins==
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Cleric Background (2).png|Cleric
Ghost Background (2).png|Ghost
Needle Background (2).png|Needle
==Titan's General==
Corsair Background (2).png|Corsair|link=Corsair (Shadow Fight)
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