Shirow Ishihara

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Shirow Ishihara
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Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Gambit vol. 3 #4
In story information
Alter ego	Shirow Ishihara

Shirow Ishihara is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in Gambit vol. 3 #4.

[edit] Fictional character biography

When young Shirow Ishihara's mutant ability to secrete a will-sapping gas through pustules on his body first emerged, the Tokyo Thieves Guild, of which he and his elder sister Zoe Ishihara were members, placed Shirow in the care of a cadre of scientists. However, these scientists planned to use the young mutant like a cow, milking the gas to sell on the black market.

Shirow was rescued by Zoe but both were excommunicated from the Guild. The siblings then turned 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, were captured by the Pig's agents and taken to his fortress on the Balearic island of Mallorca.

Gambit and Zoe managed to escape and rescue Shirow, and the threat of the Pig was ended when, after being exposed to a vial of the gas, Gambit ordered him to walk off a cliff.

It is unknown if Shirow Ishihara lost his mutant powers after the M-Day.