“ | You think you can just go out and claim a person?! I don't think so! | „ |
~ Ken Kurosawa |
“ | Who…Who am I?! (…) What the hell kind of mask is this? And this get-up…What kind of crazy costume——?! More importantly, why am I in it?! | „ |
~ Ken’s first words as a Hellspawn. |
Ken Kurosawa, also known as Spawn, is the titular main protagonist of the Spawn Manga Spin-Off Shadows of Spawn.
He is a Japanese-American young man who became a yakuza thug to support Mariko; his ill younger sister, after their parents passed away, which forced him to work several hours every day and keep her safe but in turn, made Mariko lonely and resulted in her asking him to attend her birthdays. Ken eventually gets killed by his former gang members by getting burned alive and gets sent to hell since he’s part of the Yakuza before he had made a deal with Malebolgia to become a hellspawn and get back on Earth, at the cost of having little to no memories about his past life.
Like Al Simmons before him; a Spawn residing in Rat City, Manhattan of New York, Ken meets the Violator and slowly regains his past memories while under the tutelage of his supposed younger sister Beelzebub before eventually learning of Malebolgia’s plan to make Armageddon happen, resulting in Ken vowing to protect his loved ones.
History[]
Ken Kurosawa was a half japanese half american young man who became a yakuza thug to support his ill Little sister Mariko Kurosawa after their parents passed away. Ken had to work hours every day to keep his sister safe but it made Mariko lonely and asked her brother to attend to her birthdays from now on. Unfortunately, some gangsters that Ken worked with betrayed him and burned him alive where he was sent to hell due to him being apart of the mafia now Ken meets up with malebolgia who makes a deal with him to become a hellspawn and get back to earth and years later came back to earth with no memories of his previous life. He, like Al Simmons before him meets the Violator who would become his mentor and he slowly regains his memories he realize that his sister Mariko was no longer ill and grew up to be a heatly young woman becoming a teen actress raised by Ken's aunt and uncle and also meets up with Beelzebub who is supposedly malebolgia's little sister. Ken Later learns of malebolgia's plan of armageddon so he vows to protect his loved ones. He also befriend another hellspawn named Cheyo who becomes his mentor similar to cogliostro and mangler a dog who had become a hellspawn then Caleb a female hellspawn pirate who was intially an enemy but became an ally. Ken would also fought the angel hunter Mikalea,Tremor,Ells,and other mosnters inluding Violator. He would also meet Toshio who was the bodyguard and lover of his little sister who ken told to protect his sister with the two not knowing who this spawn was.
Powers and Abilities[]
Just as skilled and powerful as he was when alive, Ken is an expert prodigy martial artist who was feared and respected on the streets of LA as Double K, the one person muscleman who could win street fights and gang battles singlehandedly to those who payed him top dollar and earned his cred. According to his uncle Fusai Yamamoto, if Ken didn't go down the path he took in life before his untimely death, Ken could had been properly acknowledged as one of the world's greatest martial artists.
Having earned the devil's gaze with his might and talent upon being sent to Hell, Ken was among those lucky to be chosen to become a Hellspawn. Not even upon being returned to the living world, Ken showed incredible adaptability and synchronization with his Hellspawn symbiote, able to control its chains and being able to manifest an armor exoskeleton to protect him and augment his strength.
For all such strength however, Ken's weakness is his naivety and ignorance by innocence. In life, Ken was stupid to not look behind his back and realize the course of his actions, leading to his gruesome assassination. As a newly born Hellspawn, many of his early confrontations exceed in their difficulty as they come down Ken's way, and luck is just as fickle when it comes to him. Ken nearly dies (again) in many of these situations, being only saved by his humanity shining through acts of kindness even onto dubious beings he'd reluctantly call his allies. Nevertheless, his trials as a Hellspawn teaches him the hard way like any shonen manga, with the relief that as he learns in unlife, he will grow to survive Malebolgia's inhumane trials and avoid losing himself.