Madame Gao (Marvel)
Madame Gao is a female television villain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Madame Gao was a female human who came to reside on the planet Earth. Long ago, she had settled in K'un-Lun where she learnt to harness the power of Chi for healing. However, she along with four others came to pervert the teachings of their masters with her joining Alexandra Reid, Sowande, Murakami and Bakuto. For their crime of immortality, the five were banished from the city and out in the world they formed a subversive cult and criminal organisation known as the Hand which sought the bones of dragons in order to maintain their long lives. Gao had survived across the centuries where she claimed to had gone through interrogation in the 17th century.
She came to head the drug trade activity within Hell's Kitchen where she came to be one of a number of crime bosses that were allied with Wilson Fisk.
After her heroin production warehouse was destroyed, Gao came to withdraw from the area and vanished for parts unknown.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Madame Gao was seemingly an elderly Asian woman of small stature.
She claimed to had lived long enough to watch the world change in many ways.
Madame Gao believed that anger was a gift and was useful if one could control it. She was known to offer teaching others in the way of channelling their anger. She had said that no locks were strong enough to imprison the truth.
Gao had said that one cold not be both savior and oppressor with one having to be sacrificed for the other. Thus, she believed one had to choose or others would make the choice for them.
Powers and abilities
She was noted to had survived interrogation during the 17th century. In addition, she was shown to have had a resistance to certain drugs such as sodium pentathol with her having an immunity to it. She claimed this was similar to how normal people took small doses of poison until their bodies gained an eventual immunity to them.
It was shown that she was multilingual where she spoke Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and English fluently though had claimed to speak all languages.
From dragon bones, she and her compatriots had drank a regenerative elixir that had bestowed on them an immensely long physical life that made them live across the centuries.
Madame Gao tended to walk with a cane though inside of it was a blade that she could unsheath for combat.
As a member of the Hand, she was part of a global organisation where their leader had fostered relationships with everything from crime lords to corporate partners. Gao came to operate a drug trade with her territory being New York that saw her operatives distribute illegal heroin illegal. Her agents that distributed consisted of people who had blinded themselves out of faith.
Notes
- Madame Gao was created by Drew Goddard where she was an original creation for the Netflix Marvel series where she made her first appearance in the episode "Into the Ring" and was portrayed by actor Wai Ching Ho.
In other media
Video games
- In Marvel: Avengers Academy, Madame Gao appeared in the setting of the mobile video game. She took over the leadership of the Hand after they failed to defeat Avengers Academy.
Appearances
- Daredevil: "Into the Ring" (2015)
- Iron Fist:
- Defenders:
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