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The story begins with a surprise attack on Colony 9 by a horde of Mechon, led by a powerful new model who is immune to the Monado, who Shulk and company would later come to know as [[Metal Face]]. Dunban's inability to continue using the Monado forces Shulk to take it up, and to everyone's surprise, not only can he control it even better than Dunban ever did, but it spontaneously shows him [[vision]]s of the future, a power that nobody had previously known about. With Shulk's help, Colony 9 withstands the Mechon assault, but Fiora is killed by Metal Face. | The story begins with a surprise attack on Colony 9 by a horde of Mechon, led by a powerful new model who is immune to the Monado, who Shulk and company would later come to know as [[Metal Face]]. Dunban's inability to continue using the Monado forces Shulk to take it up, and to everyone's surprise, not only can he control it even better than Dunban ever did, but it spontaneously shows him [[vision]]s of the future, a power that nobody had previously known about. With Shulk's help, Colony 9 withstands the Mechon assault, but Fiora is killed by Metal Face. | ||
After the battle, Shulk and Reyn set out on a journey across Bionis to pursue Metal Face and get revenge for the loss of Fiora and the others. The two follow both Shulk's visions and rumors of Mechon movements. Along the way, they become involved in various struggles by the people of Bionis against both the Mechon and various forces native to Bionis itself, and are joined by new and old allies including Dunban and [[Riki]]. Shulk also slowly begins to discover new powers of the Monado, and | After the battle, Shulk and Reyn set out on a journey across Bionis to pursue Metal Face and get revenge for the loss of Fiora and the others. The two follow both Shulk's visions and rumors of Mechon movements. Along the way, they become involved in various struggles by the people of Bionis against both the Mechon and various forces native to Bionis itself, and are joined by new and old allies including Dunban and [[Riki]]. Shulk also slowly begins to discover new powers of the Monado, and is mentored by the enigmatic seer {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Alvis}}, both in person and in his dreams, on the nature of the sword and what both its power and similar powers in the world philosophically represent. | ||
Shulk and his party later travel to Mechonis as part of a unified push by all the peoples of Bionis to stop the Mechon once and for all, but soon begin to pursue a different path from the allied forces as they are introduced to the true nature of the ancient conflict between the Bionis and Mechonis. They come into conflict with {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Egil}}, a {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Machina}} who is the self-appointed leader of Mechonis and creator of the Mechon, and his desire for vengeance against the Bionis for what it did to his fellow Machina. Shulk becomes determined to break the cycle of vengeance between Bionis and Mechonis, and to ensure that all the peoples of the world can live self-determined lives free of the dictates of such higher powers. | |||
Shulk is clever and level-headed, but is also socially clumsy, sheltered, and lacking in life experience. He is easily absorbed in his work, especially his studies of the Monado, to the point of neglecting his own health and his surroundings. Coming from a scientific background, Shulk usually approaches situations rationally and methodically, sometimes to the point of a social faux pas: once, where the Monado accidentally went off in Reyn's hands, his knowledge that it was incapable of harming Bionis lifeforms like Fiora angered her when he seemed to care more about a lab machine it destroyed than the (in his mind, non-existent) possibility of it killing her. | Shulk is clever and level-headed, but is also socially clumsy, sheltered, and lacking in life experience. He is easily absorbed in his work, especially his studies of the Monado, to the point of neglecting his own health and his surroundings. Coming from a scientific background, Shulk usually approaches situations rationally and methodically, sometimes to the point of a social faux pas: once, where the Monado accidentally went off in Reyn's hands, his knowledge that it was incapable of harming Bionis lifeforms like Fiora angered her when he seemed to care more about a lab machine it destroyed than the (in his mind, non-existent) possibility of it killing her. | ||
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Shulk's main weakness is that his high damage output can easily draw attention and he does not have much health to survive being the target of enemies, making him a glass cannon. He also lacks ether attacks, which is problematic against enemies good at dodging his physical arts, and his complex character design renders the game's AI rather poor at controlling him when the player is playing as someone else. | Shulk's main weakness is that his high damage output can easily draw attention and he does not have much health to survive being the target of enemies, making him a glass cannon. He also lacks ether attacks, which is problematic against enemies good at dodging his physical arts, and his complex character design renders the game's AI rather poor at controlling him when the player is playing as someone else. | ||
Shulk also appears in ''{{iw|xenoserieswiki|Xenoblade Chronicles 2}}''. Despite being a {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Homs}}, he functions as a {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Blade|XC2}} who can be equipped to any of the game's playable Drivers. [[Rex]], [[Pyra]], and the rest of the party first meet him and Fiora in the Land of Challenge, where they team up and take on challenging battles given to them by the {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Nopon Archsage}}. After clearing them, Shulk and Fiora are given the Alrest Linkring, an item that enables them travel with Rex across {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Alrest}} in spirit form. When equipping Shulk, Drivers can wield the Monado as their own and use its various Arts, and also gain access to Shulk's {{iw|xenoserieswiki|vision|XC2}} ability from his own game. | |||
Although the Land of Challenge scenario is not explicitly canon, Shulk's voiced cameo during one of the climactic cutscenes of the final battle demonstrates that ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' and the original ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' take place simultaneously in parallel universes. It would be in ''{{iw|xenoserieswiki|Xenoblade Chronicles 3}}'' that confirms the aforementioned statement as it is explained in the last chapter; both universes were separated in a distant past before uniting as one after the events of both games. Furthermore, Shulk, along with his team, cameo in a flashback from {{iw|xenoserieswiki|Melia}}, which happens in her last Hero Quest. Shulk himself presumably died before the events of the game, the only traces of his existence being stories told by Melia, and a statue in the {{iw|xenoserieswiki|City}}, depicting an older form of himself. His fate was ultimately revealed in the ''{{iw|xenoserieswiki|Future Redeemed}}'' DLC story for ''Xenoblade Chronicles 3''. In ''Future Redeemed'', following the rise of Moebius that has trapped the fused worlds of Bionis and Alrest in the Endless Now, he and Rex lead the Liberators against them, only to end up with a ceasefire with them when Alpha, the manifestation of the Ontos Trinity Processor powering Origin, threatens to destroy Aionios entirely. The Liberators would then meet up with the future founders of the second City, including Nikol, a former Keves soldier who is implied to be Shulk's son trapped in Aionios's cycle of souls. | |||
==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''== | ==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''== | ||
===As a playable character=== | ===As a playable character=== | ||
