Vault mentally controlled the dragon, targeting it the Living Colossus. Shortly after, though the villainous madman Dr. With nowhere else to contain the beast, the adventurers exiled the dragon to Monster Isle.Īt some point, with no real security measures to hold him, Foom returned to his old Chinese tomb and once more fell asleep. While many monsters rampaged through New York City after this debacle (please see my notes on Groot, Rommbu and other), Fin Fang Foom headed elswhere, but was still felled by the-new Fantastic Four. When our old annoyance Harvey Rupert Elder, now the Mole Man, invaded the Collector's lair, Fin Fang Foom was set loose again alongside many other giant monsters. A bizarre man named the Collector found the sleeping creature and captured it for his collection of giant monsters. Humanity probably hoped it had seen the last of this intelligent, speaking leviathan, but alas, it was not to be. With his plan accomplished, Liuchow lured Fin Fang Foom back into his tomb, using the herb to place the creature to sleep once again. Finding the slumbering giant, Liuchow awakened him and, taunting him, led the behemoth straight into the communist camps, decimating them. At that time, Liuchow's homeland was being terrorized by the communist Chinese, and wishing to find his own unique way to stop the invaders, Chan investigated to see if the legends were true.
The Sleeping Dragon rested for centuries until sometime in 1961, when teenager Chan Liuchow found some manuscripts describing the legend of Fin Fang Foom. A cult like group of humans began to guard the entrance to his lair, with their descendants taking up the mission as time went by. Again, the details are murky, and much of it is just the stuff of local Chinese legend, now, but somehow, the herb was used to place the now grown dragon back to sleep. Wishing to keep a sort of "back-up" in hiding in case the rest of the crew failed or were killed (as at least two more were over time), Foom was placed in a well-hidden tomb and given a potent herb that placed him into a long slumber.Īs his other would be conquerors slipped into domestic lives, Foom slept for most of the next few centuries, but awoke at least once during the 8th century. The rest, not ready to start their conquest (please keep in mind that these Kakaranatharians were apparently young for their race and not yet fully grown to the roughly 32-foot length we associate with Fin Fang Foom), used their natural shape-shifting powers to mimic human forms and blended into this new world, biding their time. Arriving at some point in what we now consider ancient China, Foom and his cohorts were confronted by a group of natives, and a member of the dragon's crew was slain. Theirs was a race of peace, but the alien we know as Fin Fang Foom - meaning "He whose limbs shatter mountains and whose back scrapes the sun" - and a group of dissidents escaped, setting out to conquer other worlds.
Chen Liuchow (the gentleman who first unleashed the ancient dragon upon the modern world), the very reliable Reed Richards, and the Avenger known as Iron Man, here is what I have pieced together for Elsa's project.Īccording to Iron Man, the creature once thought to be native of China's Valley of the Sleeping Dragon was actually the navigator of a starship from a planet called Kakaranathara (though Iron Man notes this world is sometimes referred to as Maklu IV).
Ulysses mentioned an encounter with the beast once, but refused to go into details, simply stating that the story would be told when it was finished between the two. Piecing together this monstrosity's history is patchwork at best, and often somewhat contradictory. Perhaps the most enduring member of that long-gone Age of Monsters, Fin Fang Foom is also the most complex and intriguing.
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