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Real Name: Unrevealed
Alias: Gene Kahn, Zhang Tong
Occupation: Conqueror
Legal Status: Enemy of China, wanted by legal authorities in other countries.
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Mainland China
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: “Palace of Star Dragons” somewhere in China, Hong Kong
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of the Sandman. Employer of the Swords man, Power Man, Living Laser, Enchantress, Executioner and Unicorn. Leader of the Hand.
Known Powers:
Force Field: Mandarin can protect himself with a shroud of Monstrous Intensity. He cannot use his rings while the force field is on. He can attack physically while the force field is on, adding a +2cs to his damage rank.
Rings: All of the powers of Mandarin’s rings are at Remarkable intensity, unless otherwise noted. Their specific powers are:
- An Ice Blast with a 2 area range which requires an Endurance FEAT to avoid being stunned.
- A Mento-Intensifier which al lows Mandarin to employ Mind Control with a 1 area range.
- An Electro-Blast which has a 3 area range.
- A Flame-Blast which has a 2 area range.
- A powerful, variable white light which can be used to create blinding flashes or Energy Blasts. In addition, it can be used to Control Gravity and has a 5 area range.
- A Matter-Rearranger which gives Mandarin Matter Control powers. This ring cannot work on or through force fields.
- An Impact Beam which can unleash an Incredible force beam, a Remarkable Intensity Sonic Energy bolt, or be used for Magnetic Control. It has a 2 area range.
- A Vortex Beam which gives Mandarin the power of Air Control,
including Excellent Flight and
other power stunts. - A Disintegration beam of Monstrous Intensity with a 1 area range which has no effect on living beings. It works only once every 20 minutes.
- A Black Light which can release the Darkforce and has a 2 area range.
Hand: The Mandarin now employs members of a group, called the Hand, who are loyal to him. Each member is allowed to wear and use one of the Mandarin’s rings. If the Hand member is captured or knocked-out, the ring will immediately teleport back to the Mandarin. Use Mercenary statistics for members of the Hand.
Talents:
The Mandarin knows Martial Arts A, D and E. He is skilled in Biochemistry, Electronics, Engineering, Repair/Tinkering, and Business/Finance.
Contacts:
High level contacts in the government and business community of Hong Kong. The Mandarin is the leader of a group that follows him, called the Hand.
Role-Playing Notes:
The Mandarin is your typical arrogant world conqueror, constantly trying to dominate the world using the advanced science he has at his command. He likes to use complicated plots, but he does not mind engaging in combat if he feels his foe is worthy. He holds a special hatred for Iron Man and the Communist government of China.
History:
The Mandarin was born in prerevolutionary China, the son of a wealthy Chinese man and an English noble woman. His parents died while he was very young, and he was raised by a bitter aunt.
At an early age he showed promise in various fields of science. He used his inherited wealth to study in China and abroad. After coming back to China, he became a high government official, a Mandarin.
When the Communist Revolution took place, the Mandarin found him self without any power or wealth to his name. Desperate to gain power once again, he entered a supposedly haunted “Valley of the Spirits” that no one had explored in centuries. There he found a crashed spaceship and the skeleton of its pilot. The pilot had been a dragon-like alien from the planet Maklu-4, that had died on Earth centuries ago.
The Mandarin spent several years in the valley, learning the Makluan technology. He was able to figure out how to use the rings he found in the ship, which had apparently served as the ship’s energy source. He then used the rings to help build himself a castle in the Valley, and to take over all the villages in the area. With his alien science, the Chinese Army could do nothing to oppose him.
The Mandarin then embarked on a long series of attempts to take over the world. His usual techniques involved causing a nation’s weapons and missiles to turn against its owners. At first, the Mandarin sabotaged and stole a number of missiles and spy planes built by Tony Stark. Stark, as Iron Man, decided to check out the disappearances himself. He flew to China and encountered the Mandarin for the first time, and defeated him.
Over the years, Iron Man became the Mandarin’s constant enemy. Each time, Iron man was able to defeat the Mandarin, but he was never able to bring him to justice. In his fifth encounter with the Mandarin, Iron Man was able to defeat him in hand-to-hand combat for the first time. Iron Man then re-programmed some missiles the Mandarin had launched, aiming them back at the Mandarin’s castle. The Mandarin teleported to an orbiting satellite before his castle was destroyed.
The Mandarin then returned to China, hoping to increase his ring’s powers. He learned of a powerful magical artifact, the Eye of Yin, and tried to get it. He tricked the Royal Family of the Inhumans into finding the Eye for him, but he was beaten by Black Bolt before he could drain the Eye’s power into his rings. Black Bolt then took his rings and hid them from him.
Unable to find his rings, he returned to the Valley of the Spirits. There he found a headband of Makluan origin, that helped him regain his rings and rebuild his castle. Later, the Mandarin and the dying Unicorn went to America to destroy Iron Man. During the battle, the headband somehow caused the Mandarin and the Unicorn to trade bodies. The Mandarin immediately returned to his castle, fearful of dying in the Unicorn’s diseased body. He returned to find his castle already taken over by the villain, Yellow Claw.
Forced to flee, the Mandarin set up another base and eventually returned his mind to his original body, with the reluctant help of Sunfire, Japan’s mutant hero. He was also forced into battle with Iron Man again and had to flee again. He then attacked Yellow Claw, in an attempt to regain his castle. The Mandarin was critically wounded in a battle with a robot double of Yellow Claw, which exploded.
More recently, while Stark was trying to set up a branch of Stark Enterprises in Hong Kong, Iron Man and the Mandarin came into conflict. The Mandarin had taken the name of Zhang Tong, and had become a financial leader in Hong Kong. As Tong, he controlled a number of government officials and industry leaders of Hong Kong.
The Mandarin thwarted all of Stark’s attempts to set up a business branch, even resorting to murder. The Mandarin now employed a group of followers, called the Hand, to do his dirty work. When on a mission, a Hand member was allowed to take one of the Mandarin’s rings and use its powers. If the Hand member was captured, he would fanatically try to kill himself. If the Hand member was killed or knocked out, the ring would automatically teleport back to the Mandarin.