Shi-Long Lang

Shi-Long Lang is an elite investigator who has the highest successful arrest rate out of all Interpol agents. He is known for mass investigation tactics using a large team of 100 subordinates.

The fall of the House of Lang
Shi-Long Lang comes from an ancient and once revered family in Zheng Fa, descended directly from Lang Zi, whose philosophies shaped the country into what it is today. For a long time, the House of Lang held great amounts of power and influence over Zheng Fa's law enforcement. Lang family members were commonly seen in top positions in law enforcement institutions. The family also operated a training school for police officers. All this came crashing down, however, when a corrupt prosecutor tampered with evidence from a detective from the Lang household. The ensuing scandal had the detective blamed for the incident, and the Lang name was tarnished.

Travelling

 * Main article: Turnabout Reminiscence

Shi-Long Lang rose up from the ashes of his household's misfortune and became a police officer intent on restoring his family's ruined reputation. He studied the law enforcement of other countries to gain a deeper understanding of his job. At the age of 20, he met Tyrell Badd in a Los Angeles courthouse; he assisted Badd in searching for the Yatagarasu's Key, which had gone missing from prosecutor Byrne Faraday's evidence bag.

Personality
Lang is overwhelmingly charismatic and he shares a strong bond of mutual loyalty with all of his subordinates, seeming to know each of them on a somewhat personal, individual level. He is generally very loud, aggressive and determined to do things his own way. He has even defied other authority figures on occasion in his dedication to chasing down his target. On the other hand, he is very respectful to those who have earned his trust.

Lang has a vindictive hatred of prosecutors because of what a prosecutor did to his family. Ironically, he devoutly follows the teachings of Lang Zi, whose philosophies call for a "shoot first, ask questions later" style of detaining suspects. Lang arrests anyone he can, and he lets the courts sort out whether his detainees were guilty of their crimes. His justification for this is that no one is truly innocent, so even innocent suspects may be getting due punishment for an unrelated mishap. Nonetheless, his tactics have been called tyrannical by some.

Lang is also quite clever. While his logical, academic intelligence is little match for that of a prosecutor, he knows how to do his job effectively. He thinks quickly and then acts swiftly (and sometimes quietly) to get his way as soon as possible. These street smarts combine with his aggressive tactics to make Lang a formidable, fearsome foe for the criminal networks of Zheng Fa. Lang's subordinates have an unceasing dedication to their jobs to match Lang's own, and with their sheer numbers, they can thoroughly comb over large areas such as theme parks with frightening speed.

Shi-Long Lang frequently recalls metaphors and ancient quotes from Lang Zi, which grow increasingly vague as the game progresses. He also dons a pair of "X" shaped sunglasses, which he occasionally wears upon entering a crime scene or area, then dramatically removes. True to his last name, Lang has wolf-like mannerisms; he bares his teeth when upset, and he refers to the men working under his authority as his "pack." His hairstyle is also suggestive of wolf-like traits. Lang even howls occasionally whenever he is cornered into a bad situation or made an absolute fool in public.

Name

 * Lang's Japanese given name (Shiryuu) roughly means "dragon" and his Japanese family name (Rou) roughly means "wolf".


 * His English name is a Chinese reading of the Kanji that make up his name.


 * His subordinates call him "Shifu", which is the Chinese word for "master" or "teacher".

Not so fast!
Lang has a unique phrase, "Not so Fast!" The original phrase in the Japanese version is "Amai na!" (アマイな！), which translates to "Naive!" It is used similarly to "Objection!" used by other characters; it would be grossly out of character for Lang to say, "Objection!"

Development

 * In Tatsuro Iwamoto's early days at Capcom, he drew a character with two eyepatches, and he wanted to use him as Daryan Crescend, but Shu Takumi rejected the design. The eyepatches were later implemented onto Shi-Long Lang's design, though here they were X-shaped sunglasses instead of eyepatches.