Toyo Harada
Toyo Harada is a male comic character who features in Valiant Comics.
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Biography
Valiant Comics
Toyo Harada was a human Psiot born in Oakland in 1951 to Japanese immigrants as a child Toyo suffers from occasional flashes of weirdness like things that float over his crib and silent screams inside his parents’ minds when he needs something. Fearful of him, Toyo’s parents take him to doctors and specialists to find out what makes him different and, perhaps, put a stop to it. Eventually, they take him to Madame Rowena, a charlatan that poses as a psychic who, like Toyo, suffers from occasional flashes until she opens up. When Rowena messes with Toyo’s mind, she unlocks his power even further. When Toyo was 6 years old, he realizes that his parents’ fear has turned to hatred and they wish he had never been born, so he murders them. Though he considers himself a big boy, Toyo needs someone to care for him, so he asks Noriko Harada, his 11-year-old neighbor, to leave with him to be his wife. Whether she willingly goes with him remains unknown. Following his parents’ death, Toyo’s powers reach their full potential and he realizes that, despite his ability to learn quickly, there is no one who can teach him or for him to emulate, so he hastens his learning process by grasping the essential knowledge from the minds of college professors without the hassle of sitting in class. As his plan develops and it becomes clear that money is the quickest road to power, Toyo manipulates the stock market trading floor to his benefit, and, a year later, he buys his father’s company to develop new ideas to accompany his wealth. Within weeks, Toyo is powerful enough to discipline anyone that fails him. As Toyo grew older, he learns more about the world and becomes unhappy, so he decides to preserve the planet by clandestinely conquering it. While he is instrumental in solving the Cuban Missile Crisis, Apartheid, Tiananmen Square, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, along the way many manipulations, like the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, and the Middle East, go wrong and cost many lives.
As his Harbinger Foundation becomes a huge financial success and those around him follow him blindly, Toyo changes the focus of the organization to find others like him that can help him shape the world as he sees fit. To prepare for any opposition and protect his interest, Toyo creates a unit of combat-trained Harbingers he calls Eggbreakers after the old Chinese proverb. The closer Toyo Harada comes to achieving his goal of world domination, the more willing he is to destroy those that stand in his way. The irony is that, while Toyo believes he is a hero, in his haste to eliminate any opposition to his grand scheme, he lost his humanity. As the most powerful Harbinger on Earth and founder of the Harbinger Foundation, Toyo Harada drew forth the dormant abilities of other Harbingers that helped him promote his vision of world betterment. When he discovered the existence of teenager Pete Stanchek, the only Harbinger who could rival his own Godlike powers, Toyo sought to destroy him lest he destroyed the world. On September 1990, aboard a jet from the Harbinger Foundation, a non-profit organization that provided an environment where people with special abilities and talents could achieve their potential, Toyo Harada tried to kill Doctor Solar, an energy being that had erased his world and come close to killing his. As Toyo and Solar’s struggle set the jet ablaze, the flames reached the cockpit and the pilot lost control of the aircraft, which fell into a sharp decline toward the Rocky Mountains. Solar proved to be stronger than Toyo imagined and escaped his assault, and as he accused him of being a cold–blooded killer, the jet crashed.
Hours later, David “Dusty” Berman, a wizened old impotent hermit, stumbled across the wreck and wanted to radio it in, but then one of his dogs found Toyo. As Dusty checked Toyo for injuries, Toyo awoke and said that he had failed and passed out again. Before the storm worsened, Dusty tied Harada to one of the jet’s broken doors, and as he dragged him to his cabin, he said that he had never left a hurt man behind before and he was not about to start. Hours later in Dusty’s cabin, Toyo regained consciousness and asked Dusty if anyone had come for him, but Dusty told him that, with the mother of all storms brewing outside, God himself could not get up the mountain. When Dusty told Toyo that his leg was broken and that it was going to hurt when he set it in place, Toyo coldly told him to do what he had and that pain was something he knew how to deal with. Though he did not scream, Toyo passed out when Dusty set his leg. Though Dusty urged him to eat, Toyo turned his food away and said that there was no point. As Dusty walked away, Toyo exclaimed that he could not read his mind and Dusty expressed relief in a mocking tone. Upset, Toyo warned Dusty not to mock him, but then Dusty told him that he was just trying to cheer him up. When Toyo remarked that he did not cheer up, Dusty defiantly told him that, while he knew that he was hurt, he was acting as if he had never had to depend on anyone before and that it should not make him so uncomfortable. When Dusty asked about the symbol on the jet door, Toyo told him that it was the emblem of his Harbinger Foundation, which found special people and provided a place for them to fit in, then, when Dusty said that he could have used it when he was younger, Toyo added that they helped exceptional people achieve their full potential. Confused, Dusty asked Toyo what he did, and Toyo replied that, at times, he had done questionable and horrible things.
Acclaim Comics
Valiant Entertainment
In 1951, he was in South Mustang at the River Valley after the Chinese invasion of Northeast Tibet where he journeyed to the Flying Nest Hermitage that was marked on no map. Confronted by soldiers, the 18 year old Harada used his powers to cause them to kill each other where he journeyed into a cave to meet the Bleeding Monk. (Harbinger v2 #1)
He took an interest in Peter Stanchek and used his abilities to remotely view him. (Harbinger v2 #1)
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Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
He was the had of a corporation that was known as Harada Global Conglomerate where he used it to hide his activities until the revelation of his true nature. (Harbinger v2 #1)
Sub-merged deep inside of the company was the Harbinger Foundation that was a secret school designed to train Harbingers and Psiots. (Harbinger v2 #3)
Notes
- Toyo Harada was created by Jim Shooter and Don David Perlin where he made his first appearance in Solar, Man of the Atom v1 #3 (November, 1991).
Appearances
- Solar, Man of the Atom v1: (1991)
- Harbinger:
- Harbinger v2: (2012)
- Imperium v1:
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