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Yandroth was the humanoid Scientist Supreme of the "otherdimensional" planet "Yann" and a would-be-conqueror who, with his robot Voltorg, has foughtDoctor Strange as a counterpart to the latter's title of Sorcerer Supreme. Doctor Strange defeats Yandroth, sending him to seemingly fall forever through an alternate dimension, the Dimension of Dreams.[1]
There, he gains great magical knowledge and learns that he could gain great power by destroying a world. He returns to Earth and constructs an "Omegatron", although he suffers injuries received when he was hit by a truck in New York City. His physical body dies, thus activating the Omegatron. As the Omegatron, he battles Doctor Strange,Namor, and theHulk, who come together as theDefenders for the first time. Yandroth is placed under a time displacement spell by Doctor Strange.[2]
The Omegatron is eventually released from the time displacement spell and battled Namor, the Hulk,Valkyrie, andNamorita and was destroyed.[3] Yandroth's spirit next possesses a young female chemist to telepathically attack the heroes; however, he is defeated by the Defenders again.[4]
Although Yandroth is dead, his spirit is still capable of taking possession of a living human's mind. Taking the form of a vagrant, he is discovered byPatsy Walker. Seemingly an innocent, she rescues him, allowing him to regain his strength and capture her. He becomes a nihilist and crafts a plan to end the world. He summons monsters from all over like Negative Zone Borers, Mindless Ones, Toad Men, Dark-Crawler,Quasimodo, Warlord Kaa and his Shadow Warriors, Living Erasers,Gorgilla, Vi-Locks, and the Lizard Men of Tok. This attack involved many superhero teams. Most of theNew York-based heroes are tied up confronting destructive, mindless monstrosities.Alpha Flight is attacked by Warlord Kaa and his Shadow Warriors. Yandroth causes a group of Living Erasers to appear in the Tokyo Headquarters ofBig Hero 6. Lizard Men from Tok attack the island nation ofGenosha. Gorgilla subdues theAvengers by dropping a building on them. It turns out he is utilizing the captured form of Gaea, the spirit of the Earth, to summon the monsters. Patsy, who had escaped and learned this, tells the Defenders, who were currently comprisingNamor,Hulk, Doctor Strange, andSilver Surfer. The superheroes battles Yandroth has caused has given him enough power to summon the Ravagers of Creation. Four elemental creatures confront the Defenders, who are unable to stop them individually. They attack the Stone creature, disabling the spell needed to destroy the world. This frees Gaea and kills Yandroth. In his dying breath as the Hulk and Namor fight, he realizes theDefenders hate each other. Yandroth uses his powers to curse the four original members so that they must come and work together in times of a severe crisis. This involves uncontrollable teleportation, affecting all four of the heroes.[5] Yandroth's curse caused the Defenders to work together against a plot byLorelei andPluto.[6] The curse that Yandroth placed on the four original members of the Defenders was also tied to Yann and adding into Yandroth's powers.[7]
When the four Defenders members becameThe Order for a short time, their curse started to cause Yandroth to slowly reform.[8] He started to slowly materialize in smoky form above a throne.[9] Yandroth then began to materialize in an all-powerful mist-like form. When he was denied of the final power he needed when the Order wouldn't attack him, Yandroth regressed to human form as Christopher Ganyrog took Yandroth back to Yann to stand trial for his crimes.[10]
Yandroth is featured in the limited series "The Last Defenders", disguised as a businessman after he escaped, killed the Ganyrogs, and took over Yann. Assisted by the floating head of the entity known as the "Recorder", he attempts to manipulate his way into gaining god-level powers.Nighthawk,Colossus,Blazing SkullShe-Hulk, andWarlord Krang battle the group theSons of the Serpent which culminates in a confrontation with Yandroth. Yandroth manipulates time and forces Nighthawk to battle a twisted version of his old team theSquadron Sinister before being rescued by a future incarnation of the Defenders, who with Yandroth disappear once the threat is over.[11]
This Yeti, anInhuman mutated by theTerrigen Mist,[12] was created byStan Lee andJack Kirby and first appeared inFantastic Four #99.
The character joins the superhero team First Line,[13] but leaves after losing control during a fight, and lives in a temple in the Himalayas for a period.[14][15] While looking forCrystal, theHuman Torch encounters Yeti and, startled by his appearance, attacks him. Yeti runs from the Torch's attack and tells the other Inhumans that they are under attack.[12]
Yeti has inhuman strength and razor-sharp claws and teeth. He is easily angered and suffers from bouts of insanity. His savage, animal nature during these bouts makes him almost unbeatable.
This Yeti is a member of the covert Canadian superhuman groupWeapon P.R.I.M.E., and has foughtX-Force and theAlpha Flight memberNorthstar. He has superhuman strength, claws, and an enhanced healing factor.[volume & issue needed]
In theAge of Apocalypse reality, Yeti appears as a member of theBrotherhood of Chaos.[volume & issue needed]
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963) |
| Created by | Stan Lee (writer) Larry Lieber (scripter) Don Heck (artist) |
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| Supporting character of | Iron Man |
| Abilities | Genius-levelintelligence |
Professor Ho Yinsen is a supporting character ofIron Man in theMarvel Comicsuniverse. The character, created byStan Lee,Larry Lieber andDon Heck, first appeared inTales of Suspense #39 (March 1963).
Professor Yinsen was aphysicist,engineer andpacifist from the fictional nation of Timbetpal;[16] while Tony Stark was incollege, Stark had greatly admired the older man's work. In his old age, Yinsen was captured inVietnam by theCommunistwarlordWong-Chu beforeAmericanarms manufacturer and engineerTony Stark was also captured. Stark's US military convoy had tripped aland mine and he was injured withshrapnel that was slowly moving toward hisheart. Yinsen builds amagnetic chest plate and affixes it to Stark's chest, thus preventing the shrapnel from reaching his heart, thereby saving Stark's life and keeping him alive. Wong-Chu then orders Yinsen and Stark to buildweapons for him. Instead, Yinsen helps Stark secretly build the firstIron Man armor, which includes a device for Stark's heart to keep him alive. Yinsen sacrifices his life distracting Wong-Chu to buy time for Stark to power up his armor. Stark dons the armor, becomingIron Man, and defeats Wong-Chu, apparently killing him in the explosion of munitions shed, before freeing all other prisoners.[17]
Twelve of Wong-Chu's former prisoners were disciples of Yinsen; one of these disciples (Sun-Tao) leads them to establish a quasi-religiouscult called the Sons of Yinsen. The Sons of Yinsen develop very advanced technology from notes in Yinsen's journal that he had written before his death; they use this technology to create the apparentutopia of New Timbetpal, a floating, ambulatory, usually-cloaked city in the sky. It is revealed that Wong-Chu survived the munitions shed explosion and that Yinsen'sbrain was preserved alive, salvaged by an interdimensional merchant called Doctor Midas. Midas sold Yinsen's brain in anauction to Wong-Chu. Iron Man, driven by his own guilt that he never looked for Yinsen himself, simply assuming that his friend had been killed while focusing on his own escape, helps the Sons of Yinsen defeat Wong-Chu, who isbeheaded by one of the Sons of Yinsen, and recover Yinsen's brain.[18]
The Sons of Yinsen attempt toresurrect Professor Yinsen by placing his brain inside asentient Iron Man armor, which is actually underUltron's control. Falsely believing Ultron to be Yinsen resurrected, the Sons of Yinsen follow directives toward planning for a war; only Sun-Tao refuses to obey, for which he is displaced as leader of the Sons of Yinsen by a man named Tyger Minn. Ultron leads the Sons of Yinsen to reveal themselves to the public and establish the Church of Yinsen. Sun-Tao recovers Yinsen's brain, and then Iron Man, Sun-Tao, andJocasta work together to defeat Ultron and the Sons of Yinsen and free Ultron's prisoner Antigone. Ultron attempts to blow up the floating city of the Sons of Yinsen to kill all of them as well as Iron Man; however, the sentient armor has apparently absorbed enough of the thoughts of Yinsen that part of it acts to save Iron Man and Sun-Tao from the destruction of the city.[19]
In the "Execute Program"story arc ofThe Invincible Iron Man (vol. 4), aretcon establishes that Tony Stark and Ho Yinsen had been captured not by Communists in Vietnam, but rather by theTaliban inAfghanistan, and that Yinsen was murdered under orders from fiveterrorists (Dennis Kellard, Ara Tanzerian, Zakim Karzai, Aftaab Lemar, and Kareem Mahwash Najeeb). Before he died, Yinsen had been coerced into implanting a "bio-magnetic receiving unit" inside Stark's brain. In a failed attempt to recover the control device for the implant, the terrorists sendhitman Andrei Gorlovich to murder Yinsen's wife.[20] Years later, some of the five terrorists are nowdiplomats. Yinsen's grieving teenage son (whose name is never revealed) blamed Stark for his parents' deaths and takes control of the device in Stark's brain tomind-control intoassassinating all five of the former terrorists. Stark confronts Yinsen's son to try to prove innocence, but the latter issniped and killed by aS.H.I.E.L.D. agent acting onNick Fury's orders.[20]
As part of theAll-New, All-Different Marvel, Yinsen is revealed to have a daughter:Toni Ho.[21]
Ho Yinsen appears in the 2008Iron Man film tie-in game, voiced by Shaun Toub. Unlike in the film, this version sacrifices himself to prevent the Ten Rings from acquiring Tony Stark's notes on the Iron Man armor and the ammunition that was stored with them.
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Kagenobu Yoshioka is a character inMarvel Comics. The character, created by Akira Yoshida, first appeared inElektra: The Hand #1 (November 2004). He is a ninja and founder ofThe Hand. Yoshioka was the son of a samurai who lived with his single mother. When coming home from fishing, Yoshioka sees his mother about to be raped by a foreigner. Angered, he kills the foreigner, but his mother takes the blame. His mother is taken away, leaving behind a bloodied hand print on his shirt which would become his emblem. Saburo Ishiyama takes him in and becomes his sensei, training him in the ways of bushido. After training for ten years, Yoshioka leaves the school to start his adult life.[22] After three years of training, Yoshioka is asked to return to his sensei's school because of his mentor's death. He makes amends with his old rival Daisuke Sasaki and together decide to rebel against the government by forming with other Japanese school leaders.[23] The Hand is visited by a foreigner and his daughter Eliza Martinez who come to the school hoping to be trained. After turning the two down several times, Kagenobu finally accepts which angers Sasaki. Kagenobu personally trains Eliza and has Eliza kill another foreigner simply for not being Japanese. He informs Eliza of being full of anger and that is why Eliza chose to train with him, afterwards the two fall in love. Sasaki sends a member of the Hand to kill Eliza but fails. Kagenobu learns that the Hand has become a mercenaries for hire organization; realizing that his school is slowly getting out of his control, Kagenobu fights and kills Sasaki.[24] Kagenobu and Eliza fight the Hand's members but Kagenobu is slain by his once loyal students, and the grief-stricken Eliza kills herself as well.[25]
Kagenobu Yoshioka, renamedNobu Yoshioka, appears inDaredevil, portrayed byPeter Shinkoda.[26][27] This version is a member of the Hand and associate ofWilson Fisk.[28] Throughout thefirst season, Nobu assists the Hand in smuggling a child called "Black Sky", only to be foiled byMatt Murdock andStick.[29] Angered by this, Nobu attacks Murdock, but is defeated and killed.[30] As of thesecond season, the Hand resurrected Nobu, who battles Murdock once more[31] before helping the Hand kidnap Stick. Despite facing opposition from Murdock andElektra, Nobu reveals she is the new "Black Sky".[32] After Elektra sacrifices herself to save Murdock, the latter throws Nobu off of a building and he is beheaded by Stick so that the Hand can't revive him again.[33]
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Yukon Jack (Yukotujakzurjimozoata) is a character in theMarvel Universe, a member of the superhero teamAlpha Flight. The character, created byScott Lobdell andClayton Henry, first appeared inAlpha Flight (vol. 3) #1 (May 2004). He views himself as a demi-god, making references to not being a normal human. When he was electrocuted byHiro Takachiho, his skeleton showed few similarities to a normal human's.[volume & issue needed] After the series' conclusion, he marriedSnowbird.[34]