Shiva reappeared as the first boss in Streets of Rage 3, apparently being cast down from Mr.
His fighting style is very aggressive and throwing him will just have Shiva catch himself from the fall. He has a fighting style that is far more advanced than any other standard enemy faced beforehand. X himself and some bosses) that the player will ever face. Shiva proves to be one of - if not the most difficult enemy (aside from Mr. It was from that point that was born his rivalry towards Axel Stone. X's personal bodyguard, seen near him as the penultimate boss of the game, where he must be defeated before the player is allowed to face Mr. Altogether, Shiva is a calm, cultured and loyal man who strikes hard and mercilessly at anyone who dares to betray his trust. He follows a philosophy that weapons are for the weak because of that he always fights barehanded. Shiva is very fearless, and will not flee if anyone threatens or attacks him. He was once a Kempo teacher, informing that he cares about people and can be quite friendly (at times), but sadly all of his former disciples left to fight on the streets, and joined a criminal organization that involves unethical animal abuse at worst. With evidence from the extras menu in Streets of Rage 4, Shiva loves animals and will frontally oppose any forms of animal abuse. He is very calm, collected, and only fights for the right reason.
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Shiva is a stoic man of few words, who praises solitude and meditation in his free time. His Streets of Rage 4 attire is a throwback to his original design from the second game, except that his gi now has a yellow trim, with its right side completely loose and hanging down (showing that side of his bare chest, shoulder and arm), he dons red armbands instead of fingerless gloves, and the sash belt was replaced with a thick white shimenawa (praying rice rope commonly seen attached to bells in Shinto/Buddhist temples, alluding to his newfound faith in Buddha's teachings). The navy-blue palette exists only in Streets of Rage 3, as for the Bare Knuckle III version the forest-green one is his "standard" palette. In the American port, his "standard" palette for hair and attire is navy-blue as Round 1 boss, and has a forest-green palette if the player faces him again as the Stage 7 boss in the bad ending route. In Streets of Rage 3, his attire and hair share the same color, the shirt/ gi is entirely open and shows all of his pectoral and abdominal areas, and the fingerless gloves are replaced by simple sweatbands of the same color of the attire. In his debut in Streets of Rage 2, he dresses in a traditional black Koppou-ken attire, showing part of his thoracic muscles, pants and training shoes, along with a thin red headband (similar to Axel's), sash belt, and fingerless kickboxing gloves. He has shoulder-length black (or dark-bluish) hair, and a somewhat menacing yet disciplined facial expression.
Shiva is a muscular Asian-American (or purely Asian) man, around the same age of his rival-turned-friend Axel Stone.