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Warning : The follow feature contains SPOILERS forStargirlseason 1 , episode 8 , " Shiv Part Two . "
The latest episode ofStargirlgave some much need definition to the villain known as Dragon King . Despite his condition as a figure of authority within the Injustice Society and his position as Cindy Burman ’s founder , the show has not give away much about the mysterious masked scientist , his top executive or his backcloth .
Dragon King occupy a unique position in DC Comics chronicle . Despite being introduced as a villain for the heroes making up the WWII eraJustice Society of America , Dragon King is a fair recent creation , first appearing in funnies in the yr 1981 . He also only appeared in a handful of stories before his apparent destruction inStars and STRIPE # 12 in July 2000 . Despite this , Dragon King was still a villain of enormous power , whose arresting intellect enabled him to enact schemes and build up weapon system that ask the whole of the All - Star Squadron to overcome .
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Ironically , this lack of a hold up legacy made Dragon King an ideal military recruit forStargirl ’s translation of the Injustice Society of America . With little laughable Quran canon to struggle against , the show ’s author were free to develop Dragon King into a more memorable villain who substantially conform to the classical villain team . Yet the show ’s take on Dragon King has remained honest to the original funnies , where he was the first supervillain to truly testa young Courtney Whitmore , as she take her doubtful first steps towards becoming Stargirl .
Dragon King’s Origin In The Comics
First appearing inAll - headliner Squadron # 4 , the Dragon King was created for two purpose ; introducing a Nipponese villain who was n’t a racist stereotype into the lineup of Earth 2 ’s scoundrel and excuse why theJustice Society of Americanever intervened on the side of the Allies during World War II . The Dragon King ’s premier story explain that he was responsible for for keeping America ’s greatest fighter from invade Japan after the bombardment of Pearl Harbor , having constitute a way to use the power of the Spear of Destiny and the Holy Grail in conjugation with his own necromancy and technology to work a magic spell that turned any superhuman who approached Japan with thoughts of fighting the Nipponese empire into a fiercely patriotic defender of the Axis Powers . After a struggle in which the All - Star Squadron nearly put down themselves as they turn on one - another , the squad was pressure to focus their efforts on defending the United States domestically , as the warfare dragged on .
The Dragon King was never turn over a mystic identity in the comic strip , nor was it ever explained how became a master of mechanics and magic . Little was known about his background , beyond his once having been affiliate with the Japanese nationalist group known as the Black Dragon Society . ( Reportedly he left them for not being utmost enough for his liking . ) At the tallness of World War II , he was the most powerful humanity in Japan after the Premier and the Emperor . Not content to rest on his laurels with having protected his homeland from invasion , Dragon King cover to contend the JSA and All - Star Squadron and was responsible for for killing Danette Reilly , the 2nd Firebrand , briefly before his apparent death on the blade of Danette ’s hubby , Sir Justin of Camelot , aka the scramble Knight .
The Dragon King survived his injuries , however , and retreat to the last place anyone would cerebrate to look for a Japanese Imperialist following World War II ; the American Heartland . It was in the town of Blue Valley , Nebraska that the Dragon King beseech his fourth dimension and began building an army , brainwashing the young people of the town andtraining his girl Cindyto follow in his step as the villain Shiv , as he prepare a plan that would allow him to enslave the head of every child in the United States . gratefully , his plan was thwarted by the raw Star - Spangled Kid , Courtney Whitmore , and her partner STRIPE and the Dragon King was apparently vote down once and for all .
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Dragon King’s Powers And Skills In The Comics
Much likeMarvel Comics ' Doctor Doom , Dragon King was a first-rate genius and a passkey of multiple disciplines , include various forms of science and black magic . He was credit with the excogitation of sarin gas , entail that he was an expert in chemistry and biota . What made Dragon King unambiguously dangerous , however , was how easily he was able to combine ostensibly unfitting arena of study in his work and his willingness to force beyond all ethical consideration in the pursuit of his goals . Beyond his corruptness of two holy artifacts , Dragon King was also an former innovator in the discipline of genetic science and he spend decades experimenting on himself to enhance his genetic potency and splice his desoxyribonucleic acid with that of a lounge lizard , giving him a truly flying dragon - comparable appearance underneath his bonnet .
It is unknown what big businessman Dragon King may have developed as a effect of his reptilian DNA experimentation . However , the Dragon King was able to keep himself in the peak of human condition , despite his ripe years , even before he became a half - animate being crossbreed . He was also an completed warriorlike artist , marksman and master of many weapons , though he preferred to reckon on his inventions and reason rather than face his foe physically .
Dragon King In Stargirl
Stargirl ’s take on Dragon King is unfeigned to theStars and STRIPEcomics where the eccentric was revived and apparently died . give that the show isa passion undertaking of producer Geoff Johns , who wrote theStars and STRIPEseries , that ’s no surprise . What is surprising is that the show has give Dragon King a much clearer set of motivations than a dewy-eyed desire for world domination . " Shiv Part Two " also gives him a secret identity , Dr. Shiro Ito , and a background knowledge as an infamous Japanese warfare criminal , who was responsible for creating chemical and biologic artillery that were used to spread plague throughout China in the former 1930s . As in the comics , Dr. Ito was presumed dead , though in the realism ofStargirlhe was reportedly carry out for state of war law-breaking in 1947 rather than killed by Shining Knight .
As in the comics , Dragon King is a true squad actor , though his trueness in the show are reserved for theInjustice Society of Americarather than reestablishing a Nipponese conglomerate . Such is his allegiance to the goals of the Injustice Society that he remains wholly loyal to the idea of it , despite his personal antipathy for many item-by-item members of the squad . It is absolved that he is considered a magnate to be respected and evenIcicle , the nominal loss leader of the squad , seems skittish and uneasy in dealing with the Dragon King directly . This suggests that Dragon King may ultimately show to be the chief baddie ofStargirlSeason 1 .
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