Great Ten
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The Great Ten are a team of fictional DC Comics superheroes sponsored by the government of China. Created by Grant Morrison and introduced in 52 issue #6 from June 2006. Several of the characters have a basis in Chinese mythology.
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[edit] Background
This team of superheroes is based in China's Great Wall complex. This massive complex houses the team's command and support technicians as well as facilities for the creation of more Chinese superhumans. Every action the Great Ten take during combat must be approved by the bureaucracy.
[edit] 52
First appearing in 52 #6, the Great Ten's actions are hampered by bureaucracy. Three of the team's members were forced to sit out a battle with Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart because they had not completed the required paperwork. Following the events in the Infinite Crisis story arc, China has entered into a Coalition with Khandaq, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan, leading the Great Ten to join forces with Black Adam on the battlefield.
[edit] One Year Later
On the final page of Checkmate #3, the Checkmate ground team, on an infiltration mission in China, is discovered and cornered by The Immortal Man in Darkness.
[edit] Membership
- Accomplished Perfect Physician - Apparently the diplomat of the team, the Physician appears to be a collected individual with well-developed people skills. Has the ability to use the sound of his own voice for a variety of superhuman effects. Such as physical paralysis, mental paralysis, force fields, healing, and he was able to disrupt Count Vertigo's powers with just his voice.[1] (Checkmate #4). He and the Socialist Red Guardsman have a highly adversarial relationship. [2]
- August General in Iron - Gained a reputation when he prevented an attempt by the Shaolin Robots to overthrow the ruling Socialist Party and return China to Imperial rule. Reshaped by Durlan DNA technology, his own skin is biometal hide (as discovered by Sasha Bordeaux in Checkmate #4). He commands the Great Ten, but must run all command decisions in the field by them, and by extension the Central Committee. The General carries a special energy staff that can apparently cut through metal.
- Celestial Archer - An archer with ties to Chinese mythology, and who can fire arrows charged with a mysterious energy. An irreverent character, disrespectful of August General's authority who attempted to become friends with Sasha Bordeaux.[3] (Checkmate #4)
- Ghost Fox Killer - Female emissary from the hidden colony of 'The Ghost Fox Women', tasked with killing evil men, and who apparently can control the ghosts of men she's killed.
- Immortal Man in Darkness - The most recent in a line of Chinese pilots bonded to a living Durlan fighter craft. Apparently his or her bond with the craft allows him to alter its shape, and even diffuse it into a smoke like substance. According to Sasha this type of bond eventually breaks down a human's molecular structure. (Checkmate #4)
- Mother of Champions - A woman who can birth a litter of 25 super-soldiers about every three days. Each member of her brood only lives to age 25. She uses a metallic chair with six insect-like legs to remain mobile during her pregnant state. One of her superstrong and tough children named Number Four appeared in The OMAC Project - Infinite Crisis Special. Number Four was sent into Saudi Arabia to retrieve the fallen OMAC satellite.
- Seven Deadly Brothers - Martial arts expert who can divide into seven separate bodies.
- Shaolin Robot - A shaolin robot.
- Socialist Red Guardsman - Gu Lao is one of the oldest Chinese heroes. He used his solar powers to carry out the Cultural Revolution. His body is highly radioactive so he is forced to wear a special suit of containment armor.
- Thundermind - A Bodhisattva with the power to access metahuman analogues of the powers listed in the Buddhist siddhis.
