Mandarin

Powers:

Mandarin possesses no superhuman powers, but relies on rings of alien technology. He wears ten rings total, one for each finger, and has acquired a strong mental link with them, so that only those he allows can use the rings' powers. The Mandarin is also a genius, a master of various oriental martial arts, highly skilled in various sciences and a master tactician and strategist

Rings: The Mandarin’s rings produce 10 effects: Ice Blast, Mind Control, Electrical Blast, Flame Blast, White Light, Matter Rearanger, Impact Beam, Vortex beam, Disintegration Beam and Black Light.

Origins:

The man later known as Mandarin was born in pre-Revolutionary China, the son of a wealthy Chinese man and an English noblewoman. 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 himself 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, who 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.

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