Kuragari Bushido

### Personality

Ruthless, evil, wrathful, dark, devilish, destructive, cold-blooded, explosive, cunning, power-hungry, aspiring, violent, rough, short-tempered, serious, traitorous, cruel, murderous, vile, haughty, sneaky dark-hearted, nightmarish, scary, tragic, sinister, nasty, truly evil, completely evil, overconfident, powerful, merciless, barbaric, mean, fearless, egotistic, psychopathic, remorseless, rude, vengeful

### Appearance

Tall, slender with long black hair, small beard and eyebrows, red eyes, a scar on his face and lip, dark grey sleeves with silver armour, dark grey shoulder pad, black cape and belt, dark violet pants, silver boots. A dark grey mask.

### Occupation

Leader of the Shadow League
Warlord
Leader of the Shadow Demons
Tyrant

### Affiliations

Shadow League
Disney Villains
Pixar Villains

### Goal

To kill Kai and the Itsuki Family (failed).Destroy The Heroes of Japan and conquer Ainokura (failed).

### Enemies

Kai, Hosato, Yoshi, Raiden, Master Yu, Misaki, Tashi

### Likes

Conquering Japan, enslaving Samurais, power, destruction, killing anyone who would dare to oppose him

### Dislikes

Losing, samurais, being defeated, being second, his family's death

### Powers and abilities

Great and powerful strength
Highly skilled with Electro-Axe
Swordmanship
High intelligence
Skilled combatant
Supernatural strength
Supernatural speed
Intimidation
Leadership

### Fate

Turns into black dust and wiped out of existence, after Kai uses his powerful mystic wave.

### Quote

"When we strike Ainokura, all of Japan shall be mine." (famous quotes)

> "When we strike Ainokura, all of Japan shall be mine."
>
> ~ Lord Shadow to Tashi

**Kuragari Bushido** or referred as **Lord Shadow** or even **Shadow** for short is the main antagonist of Disney/Pixar's 2022 animated feature film, *Kai: The Legend of the Heroes*.

He is a sadistic and dangerous Warlord, Tashi’s former Boss, and Kai's arch-nemesis, who wants to conquer Japan.

He was voiced by Gary Oldman, who also played and Lord Shen in *Kung Fu Panda 2*, Ruber in *Quest for Camelot*, Daniel Clarke in *Call of Duty: Black Ops*, General Grawl in *Planet 51*, Dreyfus in *Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and* Apocalypse King in *Mr. Peabody and Sherman Sequels.*

## Appearance

Lord Shadow is a Tall, slender Man with Black hair, small beard and eyebrows, red eyes, a scar on his face and lip, dark grey sleeves with silver armour, dark grey shoulder pad, black cape and belt, dark violet pants, silver boots. He also wears a dark grey mask.

## Personality

Lord Shadow is a very villainous, ruthless and bloodthirsty warlord. He and Tashi both first appeared in the Desert invading the Kingdom. The soldiers have turned him and Tashi away from the Kingdom due to his cruelty and hatred. Lord Shadow makes it the hard way by slaying. He also appears to be very merciless, cruel and violent who killed and enslaved the samurai soldiers.

He's shown to be much more abusive to Tashi when he hears that he hasn’t stopped The Heroes of Japan, by choking him, even coldly strikes his axe at Tashi for failing him to kill Kai.

## History

### Early Life

In Shadow’s early life for 41 years when he was a young boy, before he was a Warlord, he once lived in fear watching his family killed after his kingdom burned into ruins and he ended up getting a scar on his eye. Shadow felt lost with nothing, misery and anger after his family’s death, but the gods gave him the Axe, they named him Lord Shadow the Warlord. So he gathered an army of Shadow Demons under his control, and hired his Henchmen Tashi to work alongside him. And so they went on a violent rampage by slaughtering all the Saumaris overtime.

### Invading the Kingdom of the Deserts

When Lord Shadow and Tashi traveled to the Kingdom, he confronted the Samurai Soldiers, giving them a choice by making it the easy way or the difficult way for them. And when they demand Shadow to get out of their sight, he declares to defeat and slaughter the Soldiers of the Kingdom of Tottori Sand Dunes.

After slaughtering an entire army of Samurais, Lord Shadow was prideful saying “I have seen ruins and chaos in every kingdom”. Lord Shadow tells Tashi that they must prepare for the invasion of Ainokura now.

### Preparing for Battle

At The Shadow Lands, after invading so many countries in Japan by killing all the samurais, Lord Shadow was triumphant about conquering every last part of japan so he can get his victory. However, after hearing Tashi telling him that he hasn’t destroyed The Heroes of Japan yet, Lord Shadow becomes enraged by violently choking Tashi. And threatens him to give Tashi the blood of pain, and tosses him onto the ground. He soon ordered his Shadow demons to sharpen their blades and prepare for war on Mount Hotaka to find and kill The Heroes of Japan.

### Final Showdown and Death

After having his axe obliterated by Miaski’s arrow and being punched by Kai, Shadow soon flies into a rage and draws out a wakizashi and prepares to kill Kai. The final confrontation lasted until he knocked Kai onto the ground and just as he was about to finish him off, Kai used his magic shamisen to stop Shadow several times. This only serves to drive Shadow into a blind fury and prepares his final fatal blow to destroy Kai for the last time, until Kai uses a powerful mystic wave from the shamisen to destroy Lord Shadow. At the end of the climax, Shadow is finally stopped and taken out by Kai. As he has turned into dust for good.

## Trivia

* Though he is never referred by his real name, Lord Shadow is based on Kuragari Bushido.
* Lord Shadow is similar to Bori Khan from *Mulan (2020).*
* Kuragari 暗がり means darkness in Japanese.
* The cape Lord Shadow wears is very similar to Mandrake's one in *Epic (2013).*
* Since Shadow strikes his henchmen Tashi with his electro axe for disobeying him, he is considered one of the darkest Pixar villains to date, alongside Hopper, Sydrome, Professor Z, Mor'du, Ernesto de la Cruz, Evelyn Deavor and Zurg from *Lightyear*.
* Shadow seemingly has the highest kill count in Pixar.
* Kuragari is definitely one of the darkest and cruellest Pixar villains in the Pixar Animated Universe.
* Lord Shadow is the seventh Pixar villain to die after Hopper from *A Bug's Life*, Syndrome from *The Incredibles*, Charles F. Muntz from *Up*, Mor'du from *Brave*, Ernesto de la Cruz from *Coco* (although the latter's death technically occurred before the events of the film) and Curse Dragon from *Onward.*
* During his death scene, after Kai used the last magic string to take him out, Shadow was turned to dust and he got erased from existence Referencing the inspiration from the scene from Avengers: Endgame where Thanos is wiped out from existence which are both similar.
* Kuragari shares other similarities with Zurg to *Lightyear,* both evil, dangerous and violent antagonists and they tried to kill the protagonist at all costs.
* He is the only Pixar main antagonist to be a warlord.