Tomoe

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## Magnificent Baddie

* Masked
* Matsu
* Unmasked

### Alias

The Fox
Matsu

### Allies

Khotun Khan
The Mongols (both formerly)
Jin Sakai
Sensei Ishikawa

### Powers/Skills

Archery
Manipulation
Leadership
High Intelligence
Strategy
Cunning

### Goals

Teach the Mongols the Way of the Bow to convince them into seeing her as useful and spare her. (succeeded)
Create training camps for the Mongols. (failed)
Betray the Mongols after she is able to gain their trust.
Save a village from the Mongols and put her differences with Sensei Ishikawa aside in order to do it.
Leave Tsushima with a boat and go to Kyoto. (all succeeded)

### Crimes

Mass murder
Treason
Arson
Endangerment
Incrimination
Conspiracy
Pseudocide
Terrorism

### Type of MB

Redeemed Traitor

**Tomoe** is a supporting antagonist in the 2020 video game *Ghost of Tsushima,* serving as the main antagonist of *The Tale of Sensei Ishikawa.* She was a former student of Sensei Ishikawa who joined the Mongol Empire and helped them in their goals to conquer Tsushima by teaching them the Way of the Bow, while secretly planning to betray them when she was able to.

She was voiced by Judy Alice Lee.

## What Makes Her Magnificent?

* Unlike most of the villains in the game, Tomoe lacks any arrogant and sadistic characteristics, as she never takes much joy in the things she does and never truly underestimates her enemies.
* From what we know of her backstory before becoming the student of Sensei Ishikawa, it seems like it was a very heartbreaking one, as she presumably lost her parents at a young age, came from an empoverish enviroment, and the closest thing she had to friends were thieves. It can even be presumed that the reason why she is so good in archery is because she was forced to hunt to survive, all of this actions explain why she wanted to become the apprentice of someone who was well-respected and powerful like Ishikawa.
* Tomoe was so good at archery that she succeeded in every test Ishikawa put her in, this is even made more incredible when Ishikawa wanted to make the tests difficult because he didn't want to train another individual due to how badly his last student ended up being. Ishikawa noted that she was so good that not only did he believe that he had to train her because if he didn't it would be a great waste of potential, but he also prefered her over Jin, who is also a great archer as well.
* Tomoe was able to manipulate the mongols and Khan into freeing her by teaching the mongols the Way of the Bow, which also caused the Khan to turn her into the leader of a group of mongol archers due to just how useful the Way of the Bow was for his plan to conquer Tsushima.
* The reason why she kills people is pretty understandable, as they were being tortured by mongols, and only wanted to make their deaths quick and painless. It's made more clear the ways are far quicker and pretty much mercy kills when we take into account that we see that the mongols sometimes torture people to death.
* Was able to trick Jin and Ishikawa into fighting against a group of mongols by endangering a village so she could destroy Ishikawa's temple while they were protecting it, with her escaping with ease right after doing the act, as she was already far away from them after Ishikawa's temple was destroyed.
* She was able to bring Ishikawa and Jin into a trap by holding a woman hostage so the mongols could kill them after they tried to save her, which she almost succeeded at doing.
* When Jin and Ishikawa started destroying the training camps she created for the mongols, Tomoe was able to bring Jin to a waterfall where she tried to manipulate Jin into believing that Ishikawa was selfish and was a horrible person to break their trust, which she does to an extent, and falls of said waterfall to fake her death so Jin could stop going after her.
* Betrays the mongols after they trusted her enough so she could make it look in Jin's eyes that she was just a normal peasant named Matsu so she could convince him into joining her in saving a village so she could get revenge on the Khan.
* She was able to convince Ishikawa and Jin into helping her save the village, and after it was saved, she took the opportunity to go to the village, which had a boat so she can go to Kyoto and live a better life there.
* She made a letter to Sensei Ishikawa that had Tomoe thank Ishikawa for his training her, and that she shouldn't have judged him harshly before leaving to Kyoto to live a new life as a changed person, finaly putting her differences with Ishikawa aside.

## What Makes Her a Baddie?

* While she did kill people as a way to put them out of their misery, she still blamed Ishikawa and Jin for their deaths so she could have an advantage against them since they would be feared by other civilians and would be easier targets as a result.
* She endangered an entire village so she could burn down Ishikawa's temple. While it's true that she was expecting Jin and Ishikawa to defeat the mongols, she played a major risk on making the mongols attack the village, as it could have very well killed people.

## Trivia

* Tomoe is the only character in *Ghost of Tsushima* to be a Magnificent Baddie.