Real Name: Shang-Chi

Class: normal human

Occupation: fisherman ; former secret agent

Affiliations: associate of Freelance Restorations ; former agent of MI-6

Nationality: Chinese

Scale of Operations: east Asia ; worldwide

Powers: Shang-Chi has no superhuman powers, but is a world-class athlete, weapons specialist, and martial arts master. So accomplished is his mastery of the martial discipline Kung-Fu that Shang-Chi has proven able to catch thrown weapons such as knives aout of the air and throw them back to his opponents.

History: Shang-Chi, son of the internationally powerful criminal mastermind Fu Manchu, was raised and educated in Fu Manchu's retreat in Honan, China, with only limited contact with his parents. By nineteen, Shang-Chi had become master of the mental and martial arts in which he rigorously trained, both by his father and by his father's instructors.

When still in his teens, Shang-Chi's father sent him into the outside world for the first time, on a mission to assassinate Dr. Petrie, an old enemy of Fu Manchu's. Fu Manchu had raised his son to believe that his father was a great humanitarian. Believing, therefore, that Dr. Petrie was evil, Shang-Chi stole into Petrie's home in Mayfair, London, and struck him hard enough to kill him. Actually, however, the "Petrie" that Shang-Chi had killed was an android constructed by Fu Manchu himself. Fu Manchu had abducted the real Petrie (who was later rescued) and attempted through the stratagem of this "murder" to keep people from suspecting Petrie's true fate. Almost immediately after Shang-Chi committed the murder, Sir Denis Nayland Smith, the greatest of Fu Manchu's adversaries in the past, discovered him. Smith tried to kill the young man, but Shang-Chi's superlative kung fu skills made that impossible. Smith told Shang-Chi of his father's true nature and career. Shang-Chi then visited his mother, who confirmed what Smith had said. Visiting his father in his base of operations hidden within a New York City office building, Shang-Chi declared himself his father's mortal enemy.

For several years, Shang-Chi devoted his life to the overthrow of Fu Manchu's criminal empire, as well as to battling other menaces to Western society. Shang-Chi became a regular ally of Sir Denis Nayland Smith, and worked with him on missions for MI-6, a British intelligence agency, and later for Freelance Restorations, Smith's own independent agency.

Shang-Chi ultimately contributed to his father's apparent death in a confrontation at the Honan retreat. Fu Manchu's "elixir vitae," which had allowed him to live and remain in his physical prime for many decades, was no longer sufficient to maintain his youth. Rapidly aging, Fu Manchu needed his son's blood to restore his physical vitality. But Shang-Chi wrested away the blood-filled test tube and spilled it on the ground. A frantic Fu Manchu was licking it up when the retreat was demolished by an explosion set off by other aides of Smith. Shang-Chi escaped, but Fu Manchu was assumed to have been killed.

Torn by guilt over helping to cause his father's apparent death, Shang-Chi wandered for several weeks, contemplating his future and his purpose. He eventually came to believe he had atoned for the alleged murder of his father, and, rejecting what he called the "games of deceit and death" in which he had participated as an adventurer, he retired to a passive life in the village of Yang Yin, in the Chinese province of Kwang Tung, where he spent much of his time as a fisherman.

He returned from retirement at one point, when his friend Leiko was kidnapped by a group of terrorists. Shang-Chi helped rescue his friend before retiring again.