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70-510: Grant Morrison explained the background to his creation of the team, in a pitch that also contained the outline for the Super Young Team : I'm pleased with the introduction of the Great Ten who grew out Paul Levitz ' desire to see more international superheroes. After the first 52 story meeting I went home, dug out the reference material on Chinese history and culture I'd used to help create

140-414: A mortar and pestle ; being ground in a mill ; being crushed by boulders; being made to shed blood by climbing trees or mountains of knives; having sharp objects driven into their bodies; having hooks pierced into their bodies and being hung upside down; drowning in a pool of filthy blood; being left naked in the freezing cold; being set aflame or cast into infernos; being tied naked to a bronze cylinder with

210-399: A supercomputer he calls a "unified data field" which is only accessible when he meditated himself into a calm theta rhythm state. Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #1, the ghost of a being calling itself " Ultimon Alpha " recently appeared to him in a vision. By the end of the series, he revealed that he is indeed as rich as he claims when he actually buys Japan. Big Atomic Lantern Boy

280-788: A deadly crime fighter in Hong Kong, introducing an informant she uses to gather information about the Chinese triads in China. It also introduces links between the Old Chinese Gods, Taiwanese triads and the Taiwanese government ; resulting in escalation of conflict between the mainland and Taiwan , and an attack by Chu Jiang on the Hong Kong waterfront. Issue #7 details the Seven Deadly Brothers 's origin, as he and Accomplished Perfect Physician battle

350-470: A gang to support his family. He was not a good thief, however, and a botched robbery landed his fellow gang members in jail. When they were released, they sought his death. They chased him to an old temple below Mount Tai. While hiding behind a tree, Tao was swallowed up by the earth, and found himself in a cavern where he found the Celestial Bow of Yi . The magical bow begged Tao to take it as his own, as it

420-409: A hundred clockwork automatons to serve as tomb guards. The vain and jealous emperor ordered that Lao be entombed with him upon his death so that his genius would never serve another patron. Before dying of thirst, Lao reprogrammed one of the automatons with his own insights, values and priorities and gave it a semblance of free will. Thousands of years later, when the tomb was uncovered by archaeologists,

490-474: A monk named Tenzin Cering. Horrified at what he'd done, he deserted his unit and was shot by his commanding officer. He was saved by a local medicine man who told Yao that his son, Tenzin, was supposed to be the seventeenth man to hold the position of the "Accomplished Perfect Physician"; since Tenzin was now dead, Yao was forced to take his place by Tenzin's father. Tenzin tossed Yao through a magical portal, wherein he

560-594: A powerful white furred yeti -like monster plagued with an uncontrollable rage. While in his Yeti form, Hu Wei must wear a special electronic amulet around his neck that keeps him from going berserk. He was killed in 52 #50 by Black Adam. There is an evil counterpart to the Great Ten in the Anti-Matter Universe , known as "The Most Unworthy Ten". In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, August General in Iron

630-643: A powerful wrestler with self-healing abilities and the potential to resist mind control. The original Sumo had assisted the Forever People in their original series, but had been stranded in ancient Japan where he lived out a peaceful life; the Sunny Sumo who joined the Super Young Team was a refugee from Earth-51, escaping before it was destroyed. The Super Young Team has a vehicle called the Wonder Wagon, which

700-402: A sonic scream (always " Sumimasen " - "Excuse me") similar to that possessed by Black Canary except that it appears to be a strong modulated-mixture of multiple voices. Shiny Happy Aquazon is the daughter of Junior Waveman (Riki Kimura) - a founding member of Big Science Action - and the genius daughter of Senior Waveman Otomo. She has the ability to create hardwater constructs like Mera ,

770-583: A team of metahumans posing as Chinese deities. The Ghost Fox Killer or 鬼狐杀手 (Guǐ Hú Shā Shǒu) is a female emissary from the hidden colony of " Ghost Fox Women ". She is charged with killing evil men, and has power over the ghosts of those men. Apparently her home city is powered by the souls of evil men, and her touch causes instant death. She is typically accompanied by a rui shi (or Imperial guardian lion ) of living jade. If Ghost Fox Killer does not kill off evil men for her colony, her society will fall. She encounters August General in Iron early in her career, and

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840-528: A truce. Later after Yao Fei prevents Count Vertigo (acting under secret orders from Amanda Waller ) from stealing Chinese state secrets, the August General decides that Checkmate has betrayed the truce and orders their deaths, only the timely intervention of Green Lantern Alan Scott and the Chinese Ambassador saves the lives of Sasha's ground team. In Checkmate #13-15 and Outsiders #47-49,

910-447: Is Most Excellent Superbat's second in command. He wears a green outfit which is outfitted with an x-rayed circular porthole on his chest. The porthole displays his skeleton, and allows him to fire green force beams of different types of radiation. He is attracted to Shiny Happy Aquazon. Crazy Shy Lolita Canary is a winged heroine in a Japanese schoolgirl uniform, and is physically small enough to fit in someone's hand. She possesses

980-460: Is Zou Kang, a history teacher at Beijing No. 8 Middle School who, on a tour of the Beijing Museum , accidentally recites aloud a sanskrit "trigger phrase" from an ancient Buddhist artifact. Afterwards, he transforms into Thundermind whenever he recites his trigger phrase and unlocks what he calls his full human potential, becoming a Bodhisattva with the power to access metahuman analogues of

1050-449: Is a purgatory that serves to punish and renew spirits in preparation for reincarnation . Many deities, whose names and purposes are the subject of conflicting accounts, are associated with Diyu. Some early Chinese societies speak of people going to Mount Tai , Jiuyuan, Jiuquan or Fengdu after death. At present, Fengdu and the temples on Mount Tai have been rebuilt into tourist attractions, incorporating artistic depictions of hell and

1120-564: Is a car capable of powered flight, similar to the Newsboy Legion 's Whiz Wagon. Diyu Diyu ( traditional Chinese : 地獄 ; simplified Chinese : 地狱 ; pinyin : dìyù ; lit. 'earth prison') is the realm of the dead or " hell " in Chinese mythology . It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka , traditional Chinese beliefs about

1190-511: Is a member of the H.I.V.E. council. He voted for innocent civilians to live in Western European between Aquaman and Wonder Woman before using nuclear weapons to end the war. Yao Fei appears in the TV series Arrow portrayed by Byron Mann . This version, named Yao Fei Gulong , is a Chinese Army deserter with unspecified medical training. Yao Fei is the father of Shado (and the reason Yao Fei

1260-591: Is a powerful shapeshifting aircraft. It can take the form of diffuse smoke and handle hurricane-force winds. Wu Mei-Xing, the Mother of Champions or 冠軍母亲 (Guàn Jūn Mǔ Qīn) was a theoretical physicist, working on a particle accelerator when she was briefly exposed to a theoretical " god particle ", which mutated her system by triggering her metagene . At first she was unable to bear children, but eventually discovered her super- fecundity powers by accident. She no longer needs to eat, and has to remind herself to breathe, and she

1330-454: Is divided into ten courts, each overseen by a Yanwang. Souls pass from stage to stage at the decision of a different judge. The "Ten Courts of Yanluo" is also known as the Ten Courts of Yanwang ( 十殿阎王 ), Ten Lords of Minggong ( 冥宫十王 ), Ten Courts of Yan-jun ( 十殿阎君 ), Ten-Lords of Difu ( 地府十王 ), and Ten-Lords of Mingfu ( 冥府十王 ). The concept of the eighteen hells started in

1400-529: Is highly radioactive, so he is forced to wear special armor reverse engineered from Durlan technology. He has since become bitter and disillusioned as China abandons Mao Zedong 's vision and embraces market economics. He lives like a hermit in an isolated stretch of the Gobi Desert due to the possible threat of a nuclear meltdown. Mother of Champions is immune to his radiation, and was the first person to touch him in over fifteen years. Thundermind or 雷念 (Léi Niàn)

1470-421: Is immune to radiation poisoning from ionizing radiation. She can now birth a litter of twenty-five genetically identical supersoldiers about every three days. These children are short-lived, however, only lasting one week, aging ten years every twenty four hours. She has at times used a metallic chair with insect-like legs to remain mobile during her pregnant state. She later pretended that the alias "Niang Guan Jun"

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1540-517: Is later allied with Edward Fyers and Billy Wintergreen ), and he acts as Oliver Queen 's mentor on the island he is shipwrecked on, Lian Yu . He also resembles the Celestial Archer as this version of Yao Fei is extremely proficient with a bow and arrow, but a skilled martial artist as well, proficient enough to combat Wintergreen. He is killed by Fyers in " Darkness on the Edge of Town ". His full name

1610-413: Is mentioned that the other members include China's versions of Super-Man, Bat-Man, Flash, and Wonder-Woman, Gloss , Dao, Guanxi, Night-Dragon, Ri, and Striker-Z. This team of "super-functionaries" (the communist Chinese ethos rejects the word 'heroes' for a humbler one) is based in China's Great Wall complex. This massive complex houses the team's command and support technicians as well as facilities for

1680-540: Is revealed only in the fifth-season episode " Second Chances " and he was also one of Talia al Ghul 's disciples when he became an archer. He appears as a hallucination to Oliver in " Missing ", during his captivity on the island by Konstantin Kovar , telling him that despite losing loved ones and all troubles what he encountered in five years, to not give up and that Oliver can rise up against all kinds of danger. He returns in season eight episode "Purgatory" when energy build-up on

1750-537: Is ruled by a judge (collectively known as the Ten Yama Kings); other Chinese legends speak of the "Eighteen Levels of Hell". Each court deals with a different aspect of atonement and different punishments; most legends claim that sinners are subjected to gruesome tortures until their "deaths", after which they are restored to their original state for the torture to be repeated. According to ideas from Taoism , Buddhism and traditional Chinese folk religion , Diyu

1820-483: Is stunned to discover that she can touch his body without killing him. She has demonstrated undefined feelings of loyalty towards him. Fifteen years ago, a Durlan ship crashed in China's Qinghai province. The Chinese reverse-engineered the craft and used the technology to build the Dragonwing, the most advanced fighter plane in the world. The pilot sits in a cockpit filled with a sort of amniotic fluid, bonding himself to

1890-414: Is the team leader. He wears a wildly stylized red and yellow uniform influenced by both Superman and Batman . According to him, his power is "being so rich he can do anything", but he appears to use an array of gadgets , one of which can generate an energy-based exoskeleton, he also appears to have some training in the martial arts. His secret island base is called the "Most Serene Sanctuary" and contains

1960-611: The Celestial Archer 's origin, has the Old Chinese Gods have returned for vengeance. With the citizens of Lhasa caught in the middle, the Old Gods battle against the Great Ten, but the super functionaries are no match for the angry, ancient gods, not when one member – the Celestial Archer – chooses to turn against his team and fight alongside the gods. Issue #3 details Thundermind 's origin, he appears in times of need to defend China against evil and injustice. But when Thundermind joins

2030-711: The Jade Emperor . The pantheon includes Yu Huang the Jade Emperor and King of the Gods, Lei Kung the God of Thunder, Feng Po the God of Winds, Kuan Ti the God of War, Lei Zi the Goddess of Lightning and wife of Lei Kung, Chu Jiang a minor God of the Dead who rules the second level of Diyu , Gong Gong the God of Floods, and Chu Jung the God of Fire and father of Gong Gong. Issue #2 details

2100-569: The Middle East . The Great Ten later battle Black Adam when he invades China as part of his vendetta after the death of Isis in World War III . This also involves confrontations with several American based superheroes, as the Chinese government was willing to go so far as to launch nuclear missiles if their territory was violated. This portion of the stand-off was ended when the Great Ten lost contact with Beijing, leaving August General in Iron with

2170-508: The Shield , it speaks [REDACTED] , Hexagram 18 which is '蠱' (correction), [REDACTED] , Hexagram 39 which is '蹇' (obstruction), [REDACTED] , Hexagram 25 which is '無妄' (pestilence), and finally [REDACTED] , Hexagram 1 , which is '乾' (force). Real name Gu Lao, is one of the oldest Chinese heroes. He used his solar powers to carry out the Cultural Revolution . His body

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2240-646: The Tang dynasty . The Buddhist text Sutra on Questions about Hell ( 問地獄經 ) mentioned 134 worlds of hell, but was simplified to the Eighteen Levels of Hell in the Sutra on the Eighteen Hells ( 十八泥犁經 ) for convenience. Some literature refers to eighteen types of hells or to eighteen hells for each type of punishment. Some religious or literature books say that wrongdoers who were not punished when they were alive are punished in

2310-657: The afterlife , and a variety of popular expansions and reinterpretations of these two traditions. The concept parallels purgatory in certain Christian denomininations. Diyu is typically depicted as a subterranean maze with various levels and chambers, to which souls are taken after death to atone for the sins they committed when they were alive. The exact number of levels in Diyu and their associated deities differ between Buddhist and Taoist interpretations. Some speak of three to four "courts"; others mention "Ten Courts of Hell", each of which

2380-751: The Bold ' s musical episode, "Mayhem of the Music Meister". A version of the Great Ten appears in issue #8 of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold comics. They help Batman fight an army of Yetis . Super Young Team The Super Young Team is a Japanese superhero team in the DC Comics Universe . The team first appears in Final Crisis Sketchbook #1 (May 2008), and was created by Grant Morrison and J. G. Jones . The concept for

2450-730: The Checkmate team and the Outsiders are on an infiltration mission to Oolong Island. In Outsiders #48, they are attacked by The Immortal Man in Darkness and Chang Tzu has re-appeared, ready to experiment on the captured Sasha Bordeaux of Checkmate and Captain Boomerang , in the presence of August General in Iron. Issue #1 details the Accomplished Perfect Physician 's origin, and introduces eight deities from Chinese mythology led by

2520-524: The Great Ten in their battle against the Old Chinese Gods, he learns the startling secret that the Old Chinese Gods have been hiding – a secret so massive it could destroy all of China. Issue #4 details the Immortal Man-in-Darkness ' origin, while he battles Feng Po in Shanghai . Immortal Man-in-Darkness finally defeats Feng Po, and the Great Ten discover Feng Po is using Durlan technology and that

2590-413: The Great Ten that provide, among other things, the funds to operate the organization and the technology they use. Number Four was one of Mother of Champions' superstrong and tough children. Number Four was sent into Saudi Arabia to retrieve the fallen OMAC satellite, he demonstrated superhuman strength, invulnerability and heightened reflexes, Number Four is a reference to the 14th Century Chinese myth of

2660-490: The Great Ten to join forces with Black Adam on the battlefield. Later, in week #32, the Accomplished Perfect Physician saves Ralph Dibny from his rampaging teammate Yeti, and gains his help subduing and restoring him to his human self. The Accomplished Perfect Physician then shares with Dibny details about his life and powers, his role as a "super-functionary", and some cryptic advice about a coming crisis in

2730-525: The Great Ten's actions are hampered by bureaucracy. Three of the team's members were forced to sit out a battle with Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart because they had not completed the required paperwork. Following the events in the Infinite Crisis story arc, as a signatory of the Freedom of Power Treaty China has entered into a Coalition with Khandaq, Iran , Uzbekistan , and Pakistan , leading

2800-587: The Jade Emperor's beheading by Shaolin Robot, Great Ten Directorate. The issue concludes with the telepathic interrogation of Taiwanese government leading to the discovery of the robot factory in the Gobi desert . Issue #9 details the Mother of Champions ' origin, and wraps up the series from the viewpoint of one of her latest children, sired by Socialist Red Guardsman. Socialist Red Guardsman 's origins are only hinted at throughout

2870-616: The Old Chinese Gods are false. Issue #5 details the August General in Iron 's origin, explaining the classified Qinghai incident, fifteen years ago. In the Kunlun Mountains , the Old Chinese Gods plan to invade Hong Kong . Celestial Archer realizes that the Old Chinese Gods are not the actual gods and sends a message to the Great Ten from their headquarters. Issue #6 details the Ghost Fox Killer 's origin and early history as

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2940-638: The Ten Brothers, the fourth having super strength. Shen Li Po was formerly the Black King's Bishop in Checkmate. Shen Li Po later returned to the Great Wall Complex on a leave of absence and was replaced by the August General In Iron. Real name Hu Wei. The Yeti is a scientist who unlocked an atavistic trigger gene that transforms men into monsters. This discovery enabled him to transform into

3010-582: The afterlife. Some Chinese folk religion planchette writings , such as the Taiwanese novel Journeys to the Under-World , say that new hells with new punishments are created as the world changes and that there is a City of Innocent Deaths ( 枉死城 ) designed to house those who died with grievances that have yet to be redressed. Other terminology related to Diyu includes: The concept of the "Ten Courts of Yanluo " ( 十 殿 閻 羅 ) began after Chinese folk religion

3080-488: The authority to allow international help - against his own wishes. On the final page of Checkmate #3, the Checkmate ground team, on an infiltration mission in China, is discovered and cornered by The Immortal Man in Darkness. In Checkmate #4 the August General in Iron, Celestial Archer and Yao Fei the Accomplished Perfect Physician show up to support the Immortal Man in Darkness, after a brief skirmish both sides declare

3150-548: The automatons went on a rampage in an attempt to topple the Communist government and restore imperial rule. These automatons were defeated by the Super Functionaries. Only Lao's reprogrammed automaton remained inactive back at the tomb. The Chinese government reactivated it and upgraded it with Durlan technology. Shaolin Robot speaks in simple I Ching hexagrams , but can express more complex thoughts using written pinyin . It

3220-608: The backstory for the ' Xorn ' character in New X-Men and hammered out a huge document complete with detailed origin stories and backgrounds for every member of the Great Ten, as well as some details of the Chinese Government's 'super-functionary' program. The Great Ten returned in their own title, in 10-issue monthly mini-series, beginning in early November 2009 and produced by writer Tony Bedard and artist Scott McDaniel , with covers by Stanley Lau. First appearing in 52 #6,

3290-607: The children of fellow Great Ten members. She has had children with Seven Deadly Brothers, Accomplished Perfect Physician, at least one Immortal Man-in-Darkness, and most recently with Socialist Red Guardsman. Yang Kei-Ying, known as the Seven Deadly Brothers or 致命七兄弟 (Zhì Mìng Qī Xiōng Dì), was born in poverty in Fujian province over 300 years ago. He was a soldier in service to the Yongzheng Emperor in 1723, and took part in

3360-497: The craft. This type of bond gradually breaks down a human's molecular structure; each flight takes a year off the pilot's life. The Dragonwing has been flown by a succession of PLAAF pilots, all of whom knowingly sacrificed themselves to serve China as the Immortal Man-In-Darkness or 黑暗中的不朽者 (Hēi Àn Zhōng De Bù Xiǔ Zhě). The current pilot is Chen Nuo. He operates from [1] but makes his home in Shanghai . The Dragonwing

3430-521: The creation of more Chinese superhumans. The bureaucracy must approve every action the Great Ten take during combat. Accomplished Perfect Physician or 達医者完 (Dá Yī Zhĕ Wán), Yao Fei was born a peasant in the Anhui Province . Yao had dreams of becoming a doctor but lacked the money for medical school. He enlisted in the army instead. When his unit was sent to suppress an uprising in Gyantse , Tibet, Yao killed

3500-625: The destruction of the Shaolin Temple . One of the temple's kung fu grandmasters, Bak Mei , defected to the Emperor and helped destroy the second temple. Yang was impressed with Bak Mei's skill and wanted to learn kung fu himself, but Bak Mei laughed at him and thought him unpromising. He deserted the army and headed to the school of the Seven Scribes of the Cloudy Satchel, seven taoist sorcerers in

3570-470: The gangster fight in Hong Kong while trying to apprehend Taiwanese government official, Ma Saihung. This issue also introduces a fight between the remaining Old Gods and Great Ten members August General, Ghost Fox Killer, and Shaolin Robot following the death of Chu Jiang. Issue #8 details the Shaolin Robot 's origin, continues the fight that was introduced at the end of the previous issue, concluding with

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3640-423: The group noting that he was selected because he represents "the world's most populous nation". His comments about the superiority of Chinese engineering quickly draw the ire of Rocket Red . The Celestial Archer or 天体射手 (Tiān Tĭ Shè Shŏu) is a figure with ties to Chinese mythology . As a teenager, Xu Tao sold souvenirs at the foot of Mount Tai . After his father's business was shut down by corrupt police, he joined

3710-502: The hells after death. Sinners feel pain and agony just like living humans when they are subjected to the tortures listed below. They cannot "die" from the torture because when the ordeal is over, their bodies will be restored to their original states for the torture to be repeated. The eighteen hells vary from narrative to narrative but some commonly mentioned tortures include: being steamed; being fried in oil cauldrons; being sawed into half; being run over by vehicles; being pounded in

3780-421: The island restored him, along with Fyers and his group. He helps Oliver and his team to fight against Fyers. After Lyla Michaels activates the weapon that is tied to her DNA, the energies are absorbed causing Yao Fei, Fyers and others who died earlier to disappear. The Great Ten are among the many superhero and supervillain teams whose names can be read on the wall during a musical number in Batman: The Brave and

3850-476: The mountains near Song Shan . Yang begged to become a pupil and fed the sorcerers all manner of excuses and lies, but the sorcerers saw through him and placed a curse on him as punishment for his evil actions. They placed in his mind complete knowledge of all seven schools of kung-fu and a lust for violence, and sent him back to slaughter Bak Mei and the soldiers who had destroyed the Shaolin temples. Centuries later, he

3920-426: The old gods, whose worship was suppressed by the Communist government. The Celestial Archer has unerring aim capable of shooting arrows charged with a mysterious energy, or that can turn day into night. Xu is an irreverent character, disrespectful of August General's authority. He considers his role in the Great Ten as secondary to his divine mission, something which landed him in trouble when he foolishly defected to

3990-407: The powers listed in the Buddhist siddhis . He saves a fellow teacher named Miss Wu, who happens to be in love with his alter ego Thundermind. He also has super-senses akin to telepathy, and fancies himself the team's conscience. He is the most loved of the Great Ten, especially in his hometown of Beijing . As revealed to Alan Scott by Thundermind, Chang Tzu and his Science Squad are members of

4060-735: The series, but it is established that he was the first Super-functionary and he felt betrayed by his country. The Great Ten unite at the end, and team with the remaining "false gods" to destroy the robot army created by a rogue Taiwanese general . In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock , China takes advantage of "The Superman Theory" by having the Great Ten expanded into the Great Twenty. Besides Accomplished Perfect Physician, August General-in-Iron, Celestial Archer, Ghost Fox Killer, Immortal Man-in-Darkness, Mother of Champions, Seven Deadly Brothers, Shoalin Robot, Socialist Red Guardsman, and Thundermind, it

4130-897: The team emerged from the same pitch Grant Morrison made that contained the idea for the Great Ten , and they were first mentioned in 52 #6. They are influenced by American superheroes and Japanese pop culture . The characters first appeared in Morrison's Final Crisis where they were revealed to be the Fifth World incarnations of the Forever People . They are featured in Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance , written by Joe Casey with art by ChrisCross . In that six-part series, their fame overwhelms them, causing judgement errors and loss of self-control. Most Excellent Superbat (Heino)

4200-413: The team, the Physician appears to be a collected individual with well-developed people skills. He does not get along well with his team leader, August General in Iron, who sees Yao only as an irreverent deserter. The August General in Iron or 钢铁圣将 (Gāng Tiě Shèng Jiāng) is Fang Zhifu formerly a member of a "Xeno-Team", an elite Chinese spec ops unit trained for encounters with aliens. 15 years ago, his unit

4270-426: The wife of Aquaman . She also is attracted to Sonic Lightning Flash. In Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #4, her father who is now Senior Waveman Kimura invites her to become a member of Big Science Action . Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash is a young speedster whose real name is Keigo, with a round helmet and giant athletic shoes . He is capable of running up to 500 mph. The group recruits Sunny Sumo,

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4340-418: Was dying after four thousand years of disuse. When Tao picked it up, he was transformed into the Celestial Archer and granted Yi the Archer 's godlike archery skills. After chasing away his former gang, he instinctively fired an arrow at the moon, creating a magical bridge that took him to the home of the Chinese gods. The gods tasked him to serve as their agent on Earth, to inspire the Chinese and remind them of

4410-466: Was filled with the memories and powers of the past Physicians. As the new Accomplished Perfect Physician, Yao was branded an outlaw and an enemy of the state for many years before he willingly joined the Great Ten. With simple vocal sounds, the Accomplished Perfect Physician can produce a variety of magical effects, such as physical or mental paralysis, force fields, the redirection of energies, healing, destruction of matter, and earthquakes. The diplomat of

4480-508: Was her real name. One of her superstrong children named Number Four appeared in The OMAC Project: Infinite Crisis Special #1. In Nightwing #144, Mother of Champions is kidnapped from the Great Wall Complex by operatives of Talia al Ghul ; in this same issue it is revealed that she has had thousands of children, and that each batch of superhuman children are conceived by suitors whom she hand picks. Her children appear to demonstrate fairly standard superhuman abilities, save for when she has

4550-434: Was immune to her deathly touch, and the two became lovers instead. As a fanatical soldier, he despises the Accomplished Perfect Physician for his irreverent attitude and for deserting the army. Fang Zhifu habitually quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War . In The New 52 (a reboot in DC Comics), August General in Iron is invited to join the new Justice League International , with the United Nations council that assembled

4620-402: Was incorporated into the Great Ten and fabricated his origin, claiming that he received his powers from an old mystic whom he saved from a beating. When entering battle, Yang splits into seven identical clones, each a grandmaster of one of the seven schools of kung-fu. When the First Emperor of China commissioned the construction of his tomb, a brilliant engineer by the name of Lao Yuqi built

4690-453: Was influenced by Buddhism. In this variation of Chinese mythology, there are 12,800 hells located under the earth – eight dark hells, eight cold hells and 84,000 miscellaneous hells located at the edge of the universe. All will go to Diyu after death but the period of time one spends in Diyu is not forever – it depends on the severity of the sins one committed. After receiving due punishment, one will eventually be sent for reincarnation . Diyu

4760-570: Was seen using hexagrams from I Ching to speak. In 52 #50, Shaolin Robot 'speaks' three times. Springing forward to attack Black Adam , it speaks [REDACTED] , Hexagram 38 , which is 睽 (kui2), and represents opposition or contradiction. In the next frame, while actively attacking Black Adam, it speaks [REDACTED] , Hexagram 6 , 訟 (song4), which represents contention or arguing. Finally, as Black Adam destroys Shaolin Robot, it speaks [REDACTED] , Hexagram 23 , 剝 (bol), which represents deterioration or 'splitting apart'. Later while battling

4830-407: Was sent to investigate a Durlan ship that crashed in Qinghai province. The Durlans wiped out his unit with a flesh-melting pathogen weapon. Fang barely survived by injecting himself with a counter-agent that slowed the degeneration. Chinese scientists subjected him to special treatments which saved his life, but also endowed him with superhuman strength and caused his skin to grow iron-like plates. He

4900-408: Was then recruited into China's new metahuman division. He wields a staff that can easily slice through metal. August General in Iron is the field leader of the Great Ten and while he commands the Great Ten, he must still run all command decisions in the field by the Central Committee . He also serves as the Black King's Bishop in Checkmate . He met Ghost Fox Killer in Hong Kong. For some reason, he

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