Mandarin (Earth-61615)

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 * Image                  = Mandarin_61615.jpg
 * ImageSize              = 250px
 * RealName               = Unknown
 * CurrentAlias           = Mandarin
 * Aliases                = Adviser to the King, Tem Borjigin, Gene Kahn, Master Khan, Zhang Tong, Mandy, Temugin, Temujin
 * Identity               = Secret
 * AlienRace              = Humans
 * Alignment              = Bad
 * Affiliation            = Ten Rings (founder and leader)


 * Relatives              = Unnamed man (father; deceased), Unnamed woman (mother; deceased), Alex Su (adoptive son; deceased)


 * Universe               = Earth-61615
 * BaseOfOperations       = Mobile throughout the Middle East and several certain parts in Asia and the Russian Far East; formerly Habuquan, Inner Mongolia, China


 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 6'2"
 * Weight                 = 220 lbs
 * Eyes                   = Green
 * Hair                   = Black
 * UnusualFeatures        =
 * Citizenship            = American
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = International terrorist, con artist, war criminal, warrior, would-be conqueror throughout Asia and the Russian Far East
 * Education              = No formal education
 * Origin                 = Human


 * PlaceOfBirth           = Habuquan, Inner Mongolia, China
 * Creators               =
 * First                  = Modern Comics: Iron Man Vol 1 15
 * Quote                  = Reckless, American... Your torture has not even begun, and you seem to want more of it... Are you not aware of that, Mister Stark? Or are you just being arrogant and stubborn, like you were back in your precious days as the playboy billionaire? Before you were playing hero... When I was already at power to make an empire kneel before me...
 * Speaker                = The Mandarin
 * HistoryText            =

Early Years
The mysterious man that would become the Mandarin was born within the small, crowded village of Habuquan in Inner Mongolia, China, where he spent his entire childhood doing forced labor until he was a young adult. Following both his parents' death due to being involved in a crossfire between the forces of the Communist Party of China and the anti-communist armed forces of the Kuomintang, the Mandarin killed several powerful members of the communist party in retaliation, who were partly responsible for the deaths of his parents, and delved into a life of crime during the Chinese Civil War. The rise of the communist revolution saw the Mandarin becoming a dangerous fugitive.

As a result to his rebellious status, the Mandarin was captured and had been taken in a Chinese prison for some time as an act of punishment for his committed war crimes. He has also been living without food or water for years, where he gradually and progressively learned to harness his own chi to augment his physical and mental capabilities, only through the basic use of an ancient mystical book he accidentally found inside his cell. And even despite his weakening condition he was still able to kill all of his cellmates, who tried to murder him in his sleep, and several armed guards with his extraordinary martial arts prowess, which gave him the ultimate chance and opportunity to escape the prison.

In an attempt to commit a serious act of revenge upon the civilization that had taxed him, imprisoned him, tortured him, and rendered him homeless, he traveled to the the sacred Valley of Spirits and found the remains of a Makluan spacecraft. The Mandarin had only spent several months learning and mastering the nature behind the extraterrestrial Makluan technology and the Ten Power Rings he had unexpectedly found within the wreck of the alien spaceship.

The Ten Rings
With his newly-possessed hidden power within his grasps, the Mandarin slowly grew into infamy within the criminal underworld of the Middle Eastern community, where he eventually gained followers from time to time, becoming the founder and leader of the Ten Rings, a powerful organization with religious beliefs going back thousands of years. Over the next few years, the Mandarin became a myth to his most of his followers throughout Asia and the Russian Far East, with only his most trusted men being aware that he really exists. The legend of the Mandarin would eventually reach the Western world during the present day, to the point where some impostors and saboteurs from different nations who tried on using his own title, only to fail miserably trying to challenge the real, deserving warrior to hold the title, only the Mandarin himself. By the beginning of the 21st century, the Ten Rings had become a rising international terrorist network.

At some point during the early 1990's, when an infant that would become Alex Su someday was born and abandoned by his own unknown parents at the deserted regions of Xinjiang, that newborn was taken into Afghanistan by the Mandarin and raised & trained him to be a highly-skilled war criminal with an unceasing hate towards the United States of America and the rest of modern Western civilization, where he later gained the rank of a lieutenant within the Ten Rings. His armor was based on similar technology to Tony Stark's Iron-Tech, his motivation on building his own suits began right after Stark fearlessly escaped his hostage situation in Afghanistan at the hands of the terrorists.

The Kidnapping of Tony Stark
In an attempt to unlock the true potential of the alien technological wonders he secretly wore as rings, the Mandarin assigned one of his lieutenants Raza meet with the secretly-diabolical Obadiah Stane in exchange for a deal with them to attack and massacre a military convoy, containing Tony Stark. Targeting the supply lines of the American weapon-manufacturing company Stark Industries to the American military forces stationed in Afghanistan, the Mandarin lured the company's CEO, genius inventor Tony Stark to the country through a discreet arms dealing they secretly made with Stane. The Mandarin intended to force Stark and his fellow prisoner, Ho Yinsen, in hopes of unlocking the secrets of his rings, once his men were able to successfully kidnap the former back to their base.

In the meantime, Raza had ordered Yinsen and Stark to build weapons for him. The technology they were given access to was instead put to use in the creation of an armored suit with which Stark escaped captivity after Yinsen sacrificed himself to buy him time to charge up the suit. The development of these events gave the impression the armored Stark was actually a bodyguard who had previously rescued Stark before taking on Raza and his whole camp. From a distance and remaining unnoticed, the Mandarin witnessed Stark's escape as Iron Man, but decided not to intervene, for he had finally found his true nemesis.

After the death of Raza's small faction caused by the traitorous decision of Stane himself, the other inferior leaders felt betrayed and anguished, with the exception of the Mandarin who already knew it was coming, and was even considerate over his actions, believing that Stane's actions would somehow help Tony Stark to progress and develop his emerging heroic persona by facing Stane, eventually leading to him on becoming Iron Man, proving the Mandarin's hypothesis and prediction.

Identity Thefts
After the Battle of New York, Aldrich Killian, the founder of Advanced Idea Mechanics, needed to masquerade his failed experiments with the Extremis virus as terrorist attacks. His think tank co-opted the iconography of the Ten Rings for their deception. Killian employed the failed actor Trevor Slattery to pose as the Mandarin and publicly take responsibility for those "terrorist attacks". The real leaders of Ten Rings, especially the mighty Mandarin himself, were not so happy with this impostor.

After the Battle on the Norco, the conclusion event of Aldrich Killian's War, he destroyed all of his first generation armors with the Clean Slate Protocol. He later faced the real Mandarin and once again the Ten Rings, who indirectly had Aldrich killed for stealing his name as the Mandarin, who apparently perished under the hands of an Extremis-enhanced Pepper Potts. In reality, Killian's whereabouts were cleared later on behind the scenes, revealing that he barely survived his apparent death against Potts, and somehow was abducted by a group of agents sent by the Mandarin, in order to deliver the former to the leaders for his painful punishment.

A Deadly Punishment
After he was handed over to the leaders, Aldrich Killian was brutally tortured for ten straight months all because he stole their master's sacred name, and by the end of the tenth month, the Mandarin himself came to visit his impostor face-to-face, only to remind him not to mess with his title and diabolical reputation and tell him that Killian's imitation of him was nothing more than a pale and humiliating attempt of his character. After the Mandarin had told Killian everything that he wanted to say to his impostor, the former killed him painfully and mercilessly using his powerful rings, killing Killian slowly but surely with his own hands, dissolving him headfirst as he melted to death.

The First, True Encounter
Some time later after the Battle of Norco, the Mandarin ordered his loyal agent Jackson Norriss to break Slattery out of the Seagate Prison. Disguised as a documentary maker, Norriss successfully infiltrated the prison and captured Slattery. Proving that the Mandarin and his loyal followers were an unstoppable force to be reckon with, Slattery's disappearance was only detected by the entire crew of Seagate Prison, several days later after the events of Ultron Offensive, which was almost two years since Killian's War, instantly attracting Stark's attention after finding out about Slattery's abduction. Following this discovery, the Iron Man decided to track down the current in order to rescue Slattery and find out who was the mastermind behind his disappearance.

Iron Man then infiltrated one of the Ten Rings' bases in Mongolia and subsequently rescued Slattery from the deathly hands of the Mandarin. The Iron Avenger and the Mandarin briefly fought into a brutal clash but the former was still defeated during his first, true encounter with the leader, due to the Mandarin's power of possessing the mysterious power and nature given by the Ten Rings, although he manages to escape with Slattery, and death itself, one more time, and manages to stay alive after almost getting tormentingly tortured by the holder of the Ten Rings.

The Mandarin would eventually become one of Stark's most recognizable and most ruthless foes, even more powerful than Tony himself and several of his allies for that matter, in some occasions. Stark was shocked and surprised, after thinking all this time, the Mandarin was just an alias made up by Killian and Slater, but upon learning Trevor Slattery's kidnapping from his prison by Norriss. Tony was proven wrong, as the truth of the Mandarin's existence has become all too well known to everyone involved in his schemes.

A Son's Rebellion
Forced to choose his allegiance between the Ten Rings and the Liberators at the last second, the Mandarin's adoptive son, Alex Su, unhesitatingly chose the Liberators for the sake of achieving his personal ambitions of overpowering and killing Tony Stark, which led to him and his newfound teammates brutally slaughtering his own crew and former teammates with his own bulky armor, and destroying the Afghan base in the process. Despite having no energy source at all to power up its suit's repulsor-based weapons, its superhuman strength and durability were still proven to be powerful enough to take on a fleet of army by hand. Due to his unexpected betrayal, the terrorists' base in Afghanistan was close to being destroyed and dismantled for the next few years.

These horrific actions of betrayal perpetuated by Su and the Liberators solely disappointed and saddened the founder and mastermind of the Ten Rings, the Mandarin himself, who was also revealed to be his adoptive father. Hearing about his son and former prodigy's betrayal, Mandarin bitterly but surely pointed out Su's fate, and was certain that Su's ignorance, impatience and thirst for revenge towards Stark would be the death of him, instead of satisfying him, at some point, later on during the final days of Ultimate War.

Chi Manipulation: The Mandarin possesses superhuman physical powers. The Mandarin can survive for years without food and water by living on stored Chi.
 * Powers                 =
 * Nervous System Control
 * Enhanced Speed & Reflexes
 * Energy Generation
 * Heightened Awareness
 * Enhanced Senses
 * Environmental Adaptation
 * Enhanced Healing

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 * Abilities              =
 * Martial Arts
 * Super-Genius Intelligence
 * Master Prescient
 * Master Manipulator
 * Historian
 * Multilingual
 * Strength               =
 * Class 15+
 * Weaknesses             =
 * Equipment              =
 * Various Makluan-powered technology
 * Dragon of Heaven
 * Interceptor Ray
 * Makluan-powered suits
 * Killer Satellite
 * Replicated Stark technology
 * Modified Iron Man Armors
 * Transportation         =
 * Teleportation
 * Jet-powered Vehicles
 * Weapons                =
 * Makluan Power Rings
 * Various Makluan-based weapons
 * Ten Rings Arsenal
 * Military grade armaments
 * Various classified firearms
 * Stark Industries Fragmentation Shell
 * Jericho Missile
 * Stark Technology armament
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