Dong Suhon

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Dong Suhon (東 須紅（ドン スホン）, Don Suhon, Chinese pinyin: Dōng Xūhóng) is a fictional character in the Shaman King manga sequel series. He is the head of the Dong Family^[1] and a member of Daremoine.^[2] He is a member of Team YVS for the Flower of Maize.^[3]

Appearance

Suhon is a tall old man with long, light-colored hair that is pulled back into a ponytail.

Personality

Abilities and Powers

Suhon is a genius inventor and mechanic, having constructed the Karakuri Doji (機巧童子（カラクリドウジ）, Karakuri Dōji, lit. "Mechanical Boys"), a set of robotic children capable of synchronizing with Kami-class spirits and creating artificial New Trances.^[4][5]

Dimensional Arts

Even though he lacks natural shamanic abilities,^[5] Suhon is extremely knowledgeable and skilled with dimensional arts, having comprehended and reached the 5th dimension. He can summon copies of his grandchildren and attack multiple possible futures,^[6] as well as remotely control his grandchildren and their New Trances on multiple battlefields simultaneously.^[5]

• Multiverse Fist: Four Immortal Palms (多重宇宙拳 四仙掌, Tajū Uchū Ken: Shisenjō): Suhon summons three copies of a Super Child Prodigy and has all four punch a target.^[6]
• Multiverse Fist: Heavy Death Sentence (多重宇宙拳 重刑死, Tajū Uchū Ken: Jūkeishi): Suhon launches attacks into every possible future of his opponent, who takes damage from each future they perceived.^[6]

Spirit

See More: Chi-Lin

Suhon's Guardian Ghost is Chi-Lin, a qilin spirit at the center of the Four Holy Beasts.^[7] He controls Chi-Lin through a pair of small bells that have carvings of qilin. Chi-Lin can synchronize with the other Holy Beasts and enable Suhon to remotely control them and their New Trances.^[6][5]

History

Red Crimson

Suhon called his grandchildren, the Four Holy Beasts, to inform them that the Tao Family had unsealed the Four Perils.^[8]

Marcos

Suhon attended a meeting of Daremoine in an underground facility of the Lasso Family. He reported that he had completed all of his preparations for the Flower of Maize, and then offered the services of his Four Holy Beasts to Kamogawa Yohsuke, but Yohsuke refused the offer.^[9]

Suhon later lent the Four Holy Beasts to Spimea Lasso, who sent them to assassinate the reincarnated Marco Lasso.^[10] However, Luchist Lasso foiled the plot and detonated explosives in facilities, bases, and homes belonging to the Dong and Lasso Families,^[11] temporarily crippling the families' operations.

Suhon and Spimea met up for a chat, but their discussion was interrupted by a furious call from Phillip M. Wyden, who criticized her mishandling of Luchist. After the call, Spimea apologized to Suhon for risking the lives of his grandchildren, but he blamed them for not being observant enough and reported that they had safely escaped the blast.^[12]

Flowers

When the four Dong siblings started fighting Team Marcos in Kyoto, Japan, Suhon had Chi-Lin synchronize with them and then took control over Dehon's body in his artificial New Trance, as well as forcing the other siblings into their artificial New Trances. With his expertise in dimensional arts, Suhon in Dehon's body easily overwhelmed Marco Lasso, and then in Marco's mind, Suhon appeared and lectured the boy on the 5th dimension.^[13]

Anime/Manga Difference

Trivia

• Suhon's design is based on Roger Dunstan from the ULTIMO series, a collaboration between Hiroyuki Takei and Stan Lee, the latter of whom is the design basis for both Suhon and Roger.

References

External Links

[v · e · ?] Dong Family Main Family: Dong Suhon  •  Dong Shue  •  Dong Dehon  •  Dong Keihon  •  Dong Yonhon  •  Dong Shahon  •  Dong Honhon Branch Families: Director Ten  •  Enki Abilities Spirits: Chi-Lin  •  Ju-Che  •  Shen Woo  •  Pai-Fu  •  Chinron  •  Keiten  •  Jiang Shi Related Articles Groups: Four Holy Beasts  •  Team YVS  •  Daremoine