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You are a toy doll, you are a companion of a child who has outgrown you, keep that in mind.
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~ Shingen Yashida
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She's gone. That Viper bitch took her. It was my father's obsession... with mutation, with God's mistakes... like you and her, that ruined this house.
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~ Shingen Yashida to Wolverine
Lord Shingen Yashida is a major antagonist in the 2013 superhero film The Wolverine, the sixth installment of the X-Men film series.
He is the son of Yashida Corporation CEO Ichirō Yashida and the father of Mariko Yashida. Following his father's passing, Shingen hires the Yakuza to kill his daughter to prevent her from inheriting the corporation, which his father willed to her. He cares solely about inheriting the company by any means necessary and is not involved in his father's true plan to steal Wolverine's healing factor.
He is the son of Ichirō Yashida and the apparent heir to his business empire, Yashida Industries. However, it is later revealed that Ichirō intended to pass it down to his granddaughter Mariko instead. Enraged by this "insult", Shingen conspires with Mariko's fiance Noburo Mori to have his own daughter murdered at the hands of the Yakuza so he can seize control of the company.
Mariko comes under the protection of Logan/Wolverine (who Shingen despises for being both a Gaijin and a mutant). It later turns out that Shingen hated mutants due to the fact that his father was fascinated by mutants after being saved by Wolverine, as he thinks of his father's obsession with mutants as a disgrace to their family's name.
Shingen is later attacked and mutilated by Viper. Donning the Silver Samurai armor, he attempts to kill Wolverine and Yukio, only to be ultimately killed by Wolverine during the battle as Shingen realizes his healing power, knowing too late that he is no match against Logan.
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Shingen wearing the armor of the Silver Samurai
Shingen fighting Wolverine
Shingen fighting Yukio
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A possible reference to Shingen Yashida in Logan may be when Wolverine tells Professor X if maybe the mutants are God's mistakes after all, echoing back Shingen's opinion on Wolverine and his species. However, as Logan takes place after Wolverine time travels to prevent the bad future ravaged by the Sentinels and alters history in X-Men: Days of Future Past, it's unknown if the events of The Wolverine still happened like in the original timeline and how happened Shingen's encounter with Logan in such case.
