List of Marvel Comics Characters: I - Shirow Ishihara

Shirow Ishihara

Shirow Ishihara is a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Fabian Nicieza and Steve Skroce, the character first appeared in Gambit vol. 3, #4 (May 1999).

Within the context of the stories, when young Shirow Ishihara's mutant ability to secrete a will-sapping gas through pustules on his body first emerges, the Tokyo Thieves Guild, of which he and his elder sister Zoe are members, places Shirow in the care of a cadre of scientists. These scientists plan to use the young mutant like a cow, milking the gas to sell on the black market. Shirow is rescued by Zoe but both are excommunicated from the Guild. The siblings turn to the New Orleans Thieves Guild for help, for the international slave trader known as the Pig sought to capture Shirow and use the gas he secreted to take over the world. Taken in by the New Orleans Guild, Zoe and Shirow, along with Gambit, are captured by the Pig's agents and taken to his fortress on the Balearic island of Mallorca. Gambit and Zoe escape and rescue Shirow, and the Pig dies.