Temugin

Temujin
Temujin with the Ten Rings
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Iron Man (volume 3) #53 (2002)
Created by	Ryan Odagawa Mike Grell
In-story information
Alter ego	Temujin
Team affiliations	Agents of Atlas
Notable aliases	Son of the Ugudei, Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan
Abilities	Superhuman strength, speed and reflexes Enhanced resistance to injury

Temugin is a fictional character from Marvel Comics. He is the estranged son of Iron Man's archenemy, the Mandarin. He first appeared in Iron Man (volume 3) #53 (2002). Temugin is named after his ancestor Genghis Khan, whose real name was Temujin (also spelled Temuchin and Temudjin; u also variates to ü).

As an infant, Temugin was delivered to a monastery in the Himalayas by his father, the Chinese warlord known as the Mandarin. Confident the monks would educate the boy, in the ways of the body and spirit, the Mandarin cut off almost all communication with his son. Temugin took to his studies with vigor and passion, seeking to bury his anger at his father for abandoning him. As a result of the martial-arts training and spiritual guidance provided by the monks, Temugin came to realize that the mightiest weapon of iron is nothing compared to the hand that wields it.

The mini-series, Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin, reveals that after the Mandarin's first encounter with his great enemy Iron Man, he came back to the monastery to forcefully enlist Temugin via his mind control ring to shoot Tony Stark. Temugin enters the United States and becomes a low-level employee at Stark Enterprises. After witnessing Anton Vanko sacrifice himself for Iron Man against the new Crimson Dynamo, Temugin approached Tony Stark that night and shot him in the chest, finding his Iron Man chestplate underneath had protected him and deciphering who Iron Man really was. Stark saved himself by running into an elevator shaft and detonating the armor in his briefcase at his assailant. Temugin survived and escaped the building for the monastery. His father then called him a disappointment as Temugin renounced his father's ways. As the Mandarin proceeded to wipe Temugin's mind of the incident, the son took solace in the fact that the warlord would be erasing his only opportunity (at the time) to know his two great enemies, Tony Stark and Iron Man, were one and the same.

Many years later, Temugin's destiny arrived in a box at the monastery following the Mandarin's death in a battle against Iron Man. Inside were the severed hands of Temugin's father, still bearing the ten rings of power once wielded by the criminal. It was then that Temugin learned of Mandarin's last wishes. While Temugin harbored no animosity in his heart toward Iron Man, honor demanded he take Mandarin's place and succeed where the warlord had failed. Temugin must kill Iron Man, otherwise his father's spirit would never find peace.