Doctor Sun
Doctor Sun is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Doctor Sun was a male human born Peking, the People’s Republic of China, and was working as a scientist during the Cultural Revolution. An important scientist working for the state, he was the mind behind Project Mind that aimed to separate a human brain from the rest of the body, and linking it to a computer. Sun devised a program whereby a human brain could be removed from its body and supported indefinitely in a life support system. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China in 1966, Sun became an enemy of a Chinese general who obtained power and support from the new government. The general became a political enemy to Sun who accused the doctor of stalling the project thus managing to get him arrested and even sentencing him to death. With irony, he decided that Sun would became a test subject for his own project. A group of doctors including the man's own son helped stop Sun's heart and took his brain out with surgery without anesthetics before it would suffer cell deterioration, placed it in a jar where it would receive oxygen and feeding, and then joined it to a computer network. (Tomb of Dracula v1 #21)
The initial operation succeeded better than expected. Sun's disembodied brain was placed within a robotic chassis. When Sun's mind was connected to a computer bank, he suddenly developed psionic powers. He attacked the doctors, then forced the survivors to serve him. He kept his survival and powers a secret from the Chinese government and eventually left China completely.
Dracula was defeated. Sun attempted to transfer the memories of Dracula to his vampire underling Brand. This would enable Brand to take control of the world’s vampires. Brand was however defeated by Dracula, who also defeated Dr. Sun. Nevertheless, the genius managed to escape his captors and remained at large. Unknown to Dracula, Dr. Sun had also slowly drained Dracula of his superhuman powers. Dracula later confronted Sun again, as Sun had captured the vampire hunters after him. But Dracula was so weakened to he was slain by Sun’s elite assassin, Juno. Dracula’s corpse was then cremated leaving nothing behind but ash. The hunters which included Drake and company were set free. As planned, they returned with soldiers to Sun’s headquarters to defeat him. But using mind control powers stolen from Dracula, Sun took over this army. The hunters stole Dracula’s ashes. They then brought a restored Dracula back to unlife, as only he could defeat Dr. Sun. The vampire lord clashed with Sun, who still had his own Dracula-derived powers. Both were consumed in an accidental fire.
Because of his dependence on human blood, Dr. Sun became involved with the study of real vampires. He decided that a vampiric army could serve him and conquer the world, but first he needed to conquer the vampires. He fought both Dracula and Blade a number of times, drained most of Dracula's powers, and even managed to kill him once, with the help of his minion Lucas Brand. (Tomb of Dracula v1 #39)
After Dracula revived and defeated his plans, Dr. Sun switched tactics. He discovered Nova's link to the supercomputers of Xandar. He captured Nova and intended to plug into the computers from Earth. When the Sphinx commandeered Nova's ship directly to Xandar, Sun abandoned his body and invaded the Xandarian computers directly. (Fantastic Four v1 #206) When the Fantastic Four later arrived with H.E.R.B.I.E., Sun downloaded his mind into the robot's body. (Fantastic Four v1 #208) Upon returning to Earth, he tried to destroy the FF by turning their headquarters against them. He took possession of the Baxter Building's computer system. This freed H.E.R.B.I.E., who flew into the computer bank where Sun was isolated. Dr. Sun was presumed destroyed in the resultant explosion. (Fantastic Four v1 #217)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Doctor Sun's disembodied brain has been placed within a robotic chassis. He gained psionic powers after his mind was connected to a computer bank. His robotic body provided him with super strength and nigh invulnerability.
Notes
- Doctor Sun was created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan where he made his first appearance in Tomb of Dracula v1 #16 (January, 1974).
Appearances
- Tomb of Dracula v1: (1974)
- Fantastic Four v1:
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