Sam Chung
Sam Chung is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Samuel Chung was a male human born on Earth in China to his mother Lu Wei who was a rural farmer. When Sam was still young, he and his mother moved to the city. Sam was enrolled in an acrobatic school, and became an excellent gymnast. A few years later, Lu sought help from a people-smuggler to illegally enter the United States of America. Later on, Lu had another child named Hannah, who was a legal citizen unlike Sam. (Daredevil v5 #27) Since he was 12 years old, he came upon the idea of creating a suit that could bend light and make the user invisible. Upon arriving in the United States, he along with his family came to settle in the area of Chinatown. (All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One v1 #1) Having grown into adulthood, Sam worked fourteen hours as a janitor at Columbia University to pay rent and sustain him and his sister after their mother left them behind to join the Church of the Sheltering Hands. (Daredevil v5 #26) As an illegal immigrant, he had to work low jobs in order to afford rent at the small apartment used by himself and his sister. Among these jobs was janitorial duties at Columbia University where he used some of his time to read up on material there and gain access to equipment. By auditing classes for professors, he came to use the equipment in the labs to fashion a costume that could bend light and become invisible. Due to limited resources, he could only power it with batteries that burnt out after a while which meant he could not use the suit for extended periods. Once crafted, he wanted to become a vigilante and help people but lacked the experience in operating as a hero. Thus, he sought a mentor and staked out for one during the nights where he came upon Daredevil fighting some ninjas. Despite being invisible, Daredevil sensed him causing Sam to lose stagger and nearly fall off the rooftop but the Man Without Fear came to save him. (All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One v1 #1)
The life of Sam and his mother, Liu Wei, changed drastically with the appearance of crimelord Tenfingers, who lured Liu to become a member of his Church of the Sheltering Hands. Lu Wei vouched for Sam to become a member as well, and the Church extended him an invitation. Sam accepted, and began to work for the temple solely in order to investigate their nefarious secret activities, with the intention of helping Daredevil take them down. After discovering the connection between Tenfingers and the dangerous cult of ninja known as the Hand. (Daredevil v5 #2) Sam confronted his mother to convince her to leave the Church for her safety, revealing his secret identity to her in the process. (Daredevil v5 #4) The Hand then deployed an undead warrior known as the Fist who attacked the Temple of the Sheltering Hands. In response, Tenfingers ordered his lieutenants, including Lu Wei, to kill any witnesses. Blindspot confronted Tenfinger's men and his own mother to protect the innocent followers of the temple. Wei ultimately decided to turn on her teammates and kill them to let Sam and the innocents escape. However, she warned Sam that he should consider her dead to him. (Daredevil v5 #5)
Sam's right arm was broken when a meeting between Daredevil and Elektra went awry, as she had been brainwashed to believe her non-existent daughter had gone missing. (Daredevil v5 #6) Because he had to take days off from work due to his injury, Daredevil offered Sam to work as an assistant for his civilian identity of lawyer Matt Murdock. (Daredevil v5 #7) Even after his arm was healed, Sam continued working for Murdock. Once he got back in the game as Blindspot, Sam was lured to a warehouse where he discovered a mural made of human blood. (Daredevil v5 #10) The turned out to be first of many works of 'art' created by the twisted serial killer known as the Muse. (Daredevil v5 #11) As Blindspot, Sam pursued Muse when he attacked a courthouse and kidnapped a judge and took him to the sewers together with a councilwoman and two police officers. (Daredevil v5 #13) Even though he managed to get Muse's victims to safety, Sam was kidnapped and taken to Muse's garret. Daredevil managed to track both of them with his senses. Unfortunately, as soon as he arrived to rescue Sam, Muse gouged his eyes out and then escaped. (Daredevil v5 #14) Following Muse's capture, Sam was taken to St. Luke's Presbyterian Hospital, where he remained sedated. (Daredevil v5 #15)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He had a younger sister named Hannah. (All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One v1 #1)
Chung felt he could help people as a vigilante similar to how Spider-Man or Luke Cage but that he initially did not know how to do so. He felt that he needed a hero to mentor him and from whom he could learn otherwise he had the real risk of being arrested and sent to jail. (All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
Sam was noted for being smart and intelligent with him using this to craft an invisibility suit. However, he struggled in maintaining it due to limited money and resources. Thus, he had to use cheap batteries in order to operate it with it only capable of making him invisible for short periods. (All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One v1 #1)
Notes
- Sam Chung was created by Charles Soule and Ron Garney where he made his first appearance in All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One v1 #1 (December, 2015).
In other media
Television
- In Iron Fist, Sam Chung appeared in the setting of the Netflix live-action television series where he was portrayed by actor James Chen.
Appearances
- All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One v1: (2015)
- Daredevil v5:
- Daredevil v1:
- Daredevil v7:
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