History
The Lowest Caste was a group of people who were shunned by the people of K'un Lun due to being considered too weak to learn martial arts and were forced to live on the lowest rungs of society.[1] One day, they witnessed a fight between Shang-Chi, the exiled son of K'un Lun's ruler Emperor Zheng Zu, and members of the Emperor's royal guard. The outcasts decide to enter the fight and helped Shang slip away into a secret network of underground tunnels.[2]
Shang-Chi agreed to train the Lowest Caste in martial arts, but he was always drinking and slapping his students around. They complained that he was not giving them proper training, just as everyone else refused to train them. Kitten offered some encouragement to Shang-Chi by telling him about the pasts and special skills of the group. However, Shang-Chi, a master of nine of the ten techniques from the Ten Rings School, was a shell of his former self and turned to alcohol to dull his pain. He told the outcasts of what it would mean for him to teach them as his father would have, and informed them of all the ways that his father would torture them for being so weak. He then he went to find a place to pass out.
Later, Callisto betrayed her friends by going to Zheng Zu and telling him where he could find his son in exchange for getting into the Ten Rings school. Wanting his son dead for disobedience, Zheng Zu sent assassins to kill him. When Shang-Chi finally woke up from his drunk stupor, he witnessed the outcasts face down on the floor and about to be executed by the assassins. Shang-Chi managed to save them and cover their escape, but Cy ended up being killed.
Saddened over the loss of Cy, Shang-Chi revealed that he used to be his father's top assassin and was responsible for assassinating his father's main rival, the well-known martial artist Lord Tuan.[1] His father then wanted Shang-Chi dead to cover up his role in the crime.[4] Ever since then, Shang-Chi swore to never use his martial arts training again, but he now realized how much of a threat his father had become. Thus, he decided to become the Lowest Caste's master and form a school in order to qualify for entrance in the Thirteen Chambers tournament and earn the right to defeat Zheng Zu.[1]
Shang-Chi later entered the tournament and defeated every foe he encountered. All the while, he redeemed himself for killing Lord Tuan. His final opponent was his father Zheng Zu. He ultimately managed to defeat his father and became the new emperor of K'un Lun.[5]See Also
- 4 appearance(s) of Lowest Caste (Earth-13116)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Lowest Caste (Earth-13116)
- 1 image(s) of Lowest Caste (Earth-13116)
- 8 member(s) of Lowest Caste (Earth-13116)