Lin Lie
Lin Lie is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Lin Lie (Chinese: 林烈)
Sword Master
Agents of Atlas
After his training, Lie took on the name Sword Master and embarked on his quest to find his family and fight Chiyou's demons. Lie later joined the new Agents of Atlas during the War of the Realms. He stayed with the team while continuing to look for his family. (War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas v1 #1)
It was later revealed that Atlantis' dragon had been captured by the Big Nguyen Company, who had been harvesting her scales to power Pan's portals. Upon this discovery, an enraged Namor launched an invasion of Pan to reclaim his stolen dragon. (Agents of Atlas v3 #5)
Sword Master and the other New Agents of Atlas were summoned by Brawn during his confrontation with Namor, who warned the group to return Atlantis' dragon in a day or else face the wrath of Atlantis before retreating. Sword Master and the other New Agents were subsequently introduced to the original Agents of Atlas by Woo. When Woo sent Namora, Venus, Aero, and Wave to Atlantis for a diplomatic mission, Brawn discretely ordered Shang-Chi and Sword Master to spy on Namora, due to her familial ties with Namor. The dragon was eventually released from captivity, but upon arriving home she unexpectedly went berserk and attacked the underwater kingdom. Witnessing the destruction caused by the dragon, Shang-Chi and Sword Master relayed to Amadeus that Atlantis' scientists discovered an implant embedded in the dragon's scales to be the source of her behavior and that Namor believed Amadeus to be behind the sabotage, prompting the king to resume his attack on Pan. (Atlantis Attacks v1 #2) When Amadeus was forcibly transformed into the Hulk and put under Nguyen's control with Sirena tech in a last ditch effort to destroy Atlantis, Sword Master helped Shang-Chi remove the device from Amadeus, freeing him from Nguyen's control and reverting him back into Brawn. (Atlantis Attacks v1 #5)
During the invasion of the symbiote god Knull on Earth, Lin Lie learned that symbiote dragons were attacking Shanghai and travelled there assuming they were minions of Chiyou. Upon learning from his Atlas teammate Aero that the symbiote dragons were servants of a different dark god, Knull, Lie was disappointed and stubbornly refused to assist in repelling the invasion, arguing that the Sword of Fu Xi had a proud will of its own and was meant to be wielded against Chiyou alone. Angered by the boy's arrogance and hubris, the Sword of Fu Xi left him for Dane Whitman, the Black Knight, who had been stranded in Shanghai after a symbiote-dragon. Attacked by a symbiote dragon, the Black Knight lapsed into a berserk state - the Sword of Fu Xi belatedly realizing he wasn't a noble warrior and attempting to return to Lie. Lin and Dane's struggle over the blade was interrupted when the symbiote-dragon latched onto them with tendrils to mentally connect them to Knull; the Sword of Fu Xi setting Dane's hand ablaze with divine flames to force him to relinquish it before returning to Lie. With Knull desiring to claim both the Ebony Blade and the Sword of Fu Xi for himself, Lie wielded the divine sword alongside Aero and the Black Knight in order to vanquish Knull's avatar. (King in Black: Black Knight v1 #1)
When the death of Doctor Strange prompted legions of demons to invade parts of the world, Sword Master and Wave drove off an invasion in Cebu. Afterwards, Sword Master was sent to Seoul by Woo to assist his teammate White Fox with taking down a demonic Kumiho that had been terrorizing the South Korean countryside. While fighting the Kumiho, the Sword of Fu Xi was destroyed by a bite from the beast's jaws. When a shocked Lie wondered how that was possible, the demon claimed that the sword recognized how weak he was and proceeded to throw him into a ravine. Despite the best efforts of the Agents of Atlas and Tiger Division Lie was unable to be found, with only a shard of his sword recovered by White Fox. (Death of Doctor Strange: White Fox v1 #1)
Iron Fist
Overview
Personality and attributes
After taking the Sword of Fu Xi, he came to be known as the Sword Master. (Warriors of Three Sovereigns v1 #2) He would later assume the mantle of the new Iron Fist. (Iron Fist v6 #1)
Powers and abilities
After the sword was shattered, several of its shards became embedded within Lin Lie's hands, allowing him to use the sword's mystical energy through his fists. Lin Lie can still generate and project the mystic energy of the Sword of Fu Xi through his hands. Lin Lie's strikes from his hands are much stronger when encased in the sword's aura and are still effective against Chiyou's demons. Lin Lie can channel the energy of the shards in his hands into weapons such as swords, increasing their cutting power and destructibility. From the shards embedded in his forearms, Lin Lie can generate blades of the Sword of Fu Xi that protrude from his right hand. Using slashing motions, Lin Lie can project the Sword's mystic energy as projectiles, greatly increasing the Sword's range. (Iron Fist v6 #1)
Like every Iron Fist before him, Lin Lie is able to summon his chi and focus it into his hands, drawing upon the superhuman energy derived from the heart of Shou-Lao and make his fists inhumanly powerful. (Iron Fist v6 #1)
Due to the shards of the Sword of Fu Xi being embedded in his arms, Lin Lie suffers from constant pain and agony. (Iron Fist v6 #1)
Notes
- The Sword Master was created by Shuizhu and Gunji where he made his first appearance in Warriors of Three Sovereigns v1 #1 (May, 2018).
- The character made his debut in Earth-616 in War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas v1 #1 (May, 2019).
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Warriors of Three Sovereigns v1: (2018)
- War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas v1: (2019)
- Agents of Atlas v3:
- Sword Master v1:
- Iron Fist v6:
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