Shades is extremely skilled at hand-to-hand combat thanks to his early years' of street warfare alongside the Rivals. He also possesses a visor—optic-blasting shades—that Ward Meachum provided for him to use in battle against Luke Cage.

Are Shades and Comanche lovers?

It's revealed that Shades and Comanche had an affair while in prison, and that love still exists between the two men. The unexpected revelation becomes all the more tragic only one episode later, when Shades executes Comanche, who has been secretly working with the NYPD against Mariah Stokes' crime syndicate.

Who kills Shades in Luke Cage?

We found Zip's, though, and two other thugs in an old building. Shot up. Right after they picked up your other boy." The Attack on Shades was a failed execution planned by Diamondback and executed by Zip in order to assassinate Shades.