Zheng Shang-Chi (Earth-79816)

Shang-Chi
Name	Zheng Shang-Chi
Current Alias	Master of Kung-Fu
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Former member of the Celestial Order of the Si-Fan, Five Weapons Society
Relatives	Fu Manchu (father)
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Black
Origin and Living Status
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-79816
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	Chinese
Base of Operations	London, England
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Doug Moench, Rick Hoberg
First	What If? #16 (May, 1979)
First	What If? #16 (May, 1979)

History

The past history of Shang-Chi of Earth-79816 mirrors that of his Earth-616 counterpart until the day his father Fu Manchu would send him to assassinate Dr. James Petrie. In this reality, Shang-Chi would complete his mission without being stopped by Sir Nayland Smith and as such remain loyal to his father.

Although uneasy with the idea of killing people to meet his fathers supposed goals of bringing about world peace through restoring traditional Chinese feudalism to the world, Shang-Chi would accompany a group of Si-Fan warriors to Highgate Cemetery in London to recover bodies of five Dacoits that were killed twenty years earlier by Smith and his followers. Shang-Chi would end up clashing with Smith's allies Blackjack Tarr, Clive Reston and Leiko Wu before succeeding in his mission. He would be horrified to learn that his father intended to use his Elixir Viate to resurrect the dead men into nearly unstoppable warriors for the purposes of slaughtering the British royal family in a bid to take over London.

Unwilling to see innocents be killed, Shang-Chi would disobey his fathers ordered sequestering to travel to Buckingham Palace to stop Fu Manchu and his Dacoits of Death from succeeding in their mission. There Shang-Chi would help Nayland Smith and his men stop the attack, however he would be horrified by Clive Reston's use of flame throwers to incinerate the Dacoits. Confronting his father, Shang-Chi would renounce his father and vow to stop him, however Fu Manchu would escape. After the British authorities finished gathering up the capture Si-Fan members, Smith would offer Shang-Chi a position in his task force to stop Fu Manchu. Shang-Chi would refuse to join, finding Smith's methods no different than his father and he would strike out on his own to stop his father.

Shang-Chi facing the Avengers

It is revealed that his father's real name is Zheng Zu and his organization's first name is Five Weapons Society.

Shang-Chi fought against several of his father's enemies, such as the Avengers.

Shang-Chi against his Earth-616 counterpart.

Shang-Chi met a version of himself from Earth-616, he rebelled against his father and subsequently assumed leadership of the Five Weapons Society, ceasing to be a criminal organization.

Shang-Chi's present activities are unknown.

Notes

• Marvel's Voices: Identity #1 shows the Shang-Chi of the main universe confronts this version through the Ruguo Coin, the story seems to indicate that Shang-Chi has returned to help his father, mastering the "The Way of the Deadly Hand" style and fighting the Avengers. He calls the main universe's Shang-Chi a traitor. Just as he did on Earth-616, writer Gene Luen Yang replaced Si-Fan with the Five Weapons Society.
  • In Earth 616, Ed Brubaker determined that Fu Manchu was actually called Zheng Zu, an ancient Chinese sorcerer, while Gene Luen Yang revealed that Zheng Zu's organization was actually the Five Weapons Society, created by Zu and his brother Zheng Yi to protect China.

See Also

• 2 appearance(s) of Zheng Shang-Chi (Earth-79816)
• 7 image(s) of Zheng Shang-Chi (Earth-79816)

Links and References

Earth-7816 at at Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe