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Zheng Bao Yu (Earth-616)

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History

Origin[]

Born the daughter of the criminal mastermind Zheng Zu, Zheng Bao Yu[1] was then known as "Fah Lo Suee", daughter of "Dr. Fu Manchu".[5]

Criminal[]

She originally followed in her father's footsteps. Initially, she sought to subvert Dr. Fu Manchu's control of the dreaded Si-Fan's assassins but, eventually, she led her own criminal organization, the Oriental Expeditors, who were a front for the Golden Daggers.[5]

MI6 agent[]

After collaborating with British intelligence, Fah Lo Suee was eventually placed as a director of MI6.[6] Her endeavors perpetually placed her at odds with her estranged younger half-brother, Shang-Chi, and his fellow MI6 agents.[citation needed]

Return to Crime[]

Over a decade later, she was once again involved in the criminal underworld, during this period she used the name the Cursed Lotus.[7] The Lotus led a narcotics empire supplying the highly addictive drug Wild Tiger. Representing her in Hong Kong was the Wild Tiger Mob, one of the factions of her father's criminal empire led by Deng Ling-Xiao.[8] It was brought down by Shang-Chi, who never learned that she was behind it all.[9]

Later, she joined Caroline LeFay's Doom Maidens, being promised protection and allies in her activities. Now going by the name Zheng Bao Yu, she led the Celestial Order of the Hai-Dai and set up a laboratory under Chinatown in New York City, where they continued a long-forgotten experiment of Zheng Zu by bio-engineering Brood (or rather "genetic mutations spawned from tainted Brood DNA") which they used for assassinations, until the Defenders, the Valkyrie and Misty Knight recruited Elsa Bloodstone in their inquiry about monsters in Chinatown and tracked down the lab. During the fight against the Brood, the Hai-Dai, and Zheng Bao Yu, the Defenders were joined by No-Name of the Brood.[1]

Attributes

Powers

Like many associated with Dr. Fu Manchu, the Cursed Lotus is a beneficiary of the Elixir of Life and, as such, possesses the youth and vitality of a woman half her age.

Abilities

The Cursed Lotus is every bit as devious and cunning as her father. Driven by high ambition, Fah Lo Suee is never reluctant to shift alliances, as long as it aids in achieving her goals. She is also a fair hand-to-hand combatant.

Fah Lo Suee is hypnotically seductive. Her voice and movements command attention, and her eyes can entrance a man in moments. She has easily manipulated a variety of men into falling in love with her, devoted to fulfilling her wishes. She occasionally uses scented perfume (mostly mimosa) or hypnotic rubies to further enhance her skills of seduction.

Trivia

  • After her return to crime, Bao Yu never saw her brother Shang-Chi again, even when she took control of the Hai-Dai after the Shadow Council failed to resurrect her father.[10]
  • Although the miniseries Shang-Chi, written by Gene Luen Yang, says that the Celestial Order of the Hai-Dai was one of the names of the Five Weapons Society, Zheng Bao Yu is not mentioned. Zheng Shi-Hua seems to fill the space that was left by Bao Yu, as she also took over the Society after her father's death. It is possible that Yang wanted to remove more links with Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu novels, as Bao Yu was adapted from Fah Lo Suee.

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