An example of Shen Gong Wu, the Thorn of Thunderbolt.
Shen Gong Wu (聖功武 Shèng gōng wǔ, lit. "Divine-made weapon") are objects that appear in the AngieYaz/RoseOfSharon reboot of the Sonic Underground television series, emigrated from the Xiaolin Showdown telelevision series and its subsequent spin-offs. They are powerful magical objects, each with a unique power, created by Grand Master Dashi.
Overview[]
The Shen Gong Wu are powerful magical artifacts created 1500 years ago by the Xiaolin Grand Master Dashi (from the Xiaolin Earth) as a means to combat the powerful dark magic of the evil Heylin witch, Wuya. After Wuya was defeated, reduced to a disembodied spectral form and imprisoned within a puzzle box, Dashi had the Shen Gong Wu hidden all over the world.
The Shen Gong Wu come in a vast variety of shapes and sizes, each one having a unique magical ability. These abilities can range from granting superhuman powers, like super strength, super speed and x-ray vision, to the generation and manipulation of natural elements, to the Wu itself coming to life to fight on the users behalf. Some Shen Gong Wu even function as vehicles. A Shen Gong Wu's power is activated by the user merely calling out the Wu's name.
Notably, some Shen Gong Wu are one of a pair, known as sister Shen Gong Wu. While these Wu can be used individually, they can be ineffective, or even dangerous to use without their counterpart.
After Jack Spicer inadvertently freed Wuya from her puzzle box prison, the Shen Gong Wu were unbalanced and began activating one by one over a long period, and both the Xiaolin and Heylin sought them out. Both sides had ways of detecting their activation and tracking them down. The Xiaolin Warriors had Dojo Kanojo Cho, the mystical dragon that once served Dashi himself, and the Heylin villains had Wuya. Wuya grew more powerful with more Shen Gong Wu, so the Xiaolin Dragons-in-training had to collect as many as they could to stop her.
In the event that two warriors reached a stalemate over who would claim a Shen Gong Wu, then the Wu would go to the winner of a Xiaolin Showdown.
The Shen Gong Wu also appeared to have the capacity to grow and shrink. When Cyclops had the Wings of Tinabi, they grew for him so he could use them and shrunk for Omi when he was incredibly small, but the Jetbootsu did not grow for Cyclops when he tried to put them on, additionally the Shroud of Shadows was able to grow often (like when Omi hid Dojo's giant wooden cage) but it did not grow for Kimiko when she became a sumo wrestler, showing that they do not grow when wagered.
Although incredibly powerful, the Shen Gong Wu had limits, and sometimes even ran out of power or just broke altogether. The Silk Spitter once ran out of silk (but only for about 10 seconds), the Golden Finger could only pause objects temporarily, and the Shard of Lightning only let the user move as fast as the speed of light for as long as the flash of lightning (on Sonic's case, however, he remains fast). The Shen Gong Wu were very durable and difficult to break but they had been broken on occasion. The first Wu to get broken was the Reversing Mirror which was destroyed by Wuya's powerful magic (however it was also fixed after she was defeated), then the Mosaic Scale dropped by Kimiko, the Hodoku Mouse fell into lava, the Silver Manta Ray crashed in the Yin-Yang World and the Sands of Time were vaporized by Hannibal Roy Bean. Wuya also commented on Jack's cousin Megan breaking the Ju-Ju Fly Trap.
Trivia[]
- The irony is that the main purpose of the creation of the Shen Gong Wu, by Grand Master Dashi, was to defeat Wuya, but she was immune to their effects.
- In Xiaolin Chronicles, Chase Young possesses Shen Gong Wu-like talismans that are used the same way as Dashi's Shen Gong Wu.
- Grand Master Dashi is not the only creator of Shen Gong Wu. For example, Barkey LeBois created the Morphing Chopsticks.
- There are no Shen Gng Wu on Mobius, Kinoko, Corneria or any planet in the Videogame Solat System. However, the peoples of those planet find the Wu to be very intriguing.
- One of King Sonic's favorite Wu is the Shard of Lightning. One of Amy Rose's is the Tangle Web Comb. Manic's is the Fist of Tebigong.