Orson Randall
Orson Randall is a male comic character that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Orson Randall was a male human who was born in the early part of the 20th century to a couple where his father created wondrous inventions. Whilst aboard their transglobal airship, their craft managed to crash into the mystical city of K'un-Lun during that time it manifested on Earth one day in every ten years. The elder Randall had survived along with his eight-month pregnant wife where he demanded the people that came to check on the crash to help save her. Several weeks later, their son was born who they named Orson Randall with him being accepted as a native-born son of K'un-Lun. Whilst there, he was taught by the ruling Yu-Ti and trained by Lei Kung the Thunderer. On his sixteenth birthday, he undertook the trial to fight the Serpent King snake. A year later he fought against Shou-Lao the Undying where he defeated the beast and gained the power of the Iron Fist. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #4) He became the Iron Fist in the year 1915. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #1) Orson then departed the city and into the wider world which was where he learnt of death by the score. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #4) On June 23rd, 1916 who participated in World War I where he fought at Fort Souville in France against the Germans. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #2) He was then summoned to return back to K'un-Lun but this point he felt more of an outsider in his former home. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #4)
The experience traumatised him with Orson staying in Paris, France by 1926 where he had since taken up drugs and female companionship at brothels. He was approached by a writer who held him as a hero and wanted to write of his exploits but the angry Randall beat the man stating he did not want his life to used as a way of selling books. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #3)
He was last seen in the year 1933. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #1)
He was hiding in Bangkok in Thailand where he was using drugs in an apartment when he was tracked by two Crane Daughters that were dispatched by Steel Serpent. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #1) This led to Orson travelling to America where he passed through checkpoints but was taken by agents of Davos though he defeated them before he escaped into the city. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #2) He continued to hide from the agents from Wai-Go Industries that were working for Davos but traded his rag clothing for a suit that he bought from a person before going to the Rand Corporation. Randall then was present at the office of the company head Danny Rand where he sought to introduce himself but Rand attacked him thinking he was an enemy that had been stealing the power of the Iron Fist from him. The fight was only stopped when Orson revealed that he knew Danny's father Wendell and had had him everything he had known. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Randall was traumatised by the events of his past with him thinking back to World War I and all the death he had encountered. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #2)
Orson considered Lei Kung a friend who had taught him everything he knew in life. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #4)
He had taught Wendell Rand practically everything he knew that included how to make his first kick. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #3)
Powers and abilities
He was fluent in Chinese and perfectly able to understand the language. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #2)
One non-combat based skill that he had learnt was the Hypnotic Fist Technique. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #4) With hand movements, he could instil hypnotic suggestions in others allowing him to evade security checkpoints. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #2)
In America, he still had access to many old sites that once belonged to his own father and were marked for him. Among these included the Five Points Station that was the crown jewel of his fathers empire of hypothetical science. (Immortal Iron Fist v1 #4)
Notes
- Orson Randall was created by Ed Brubaker and David Aja where he made his first appearance in Immortal Iron Fist v1 #1 (January, 2007).
Appearances
- Immortal Iron Fist:
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