Wind Dragon

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Wind Dragon is a fictional Asian American character featured in the animated series, Justice League Unlimited, and is the leader of a government-sponsored superhero team called the Ultimen. His voice actor is James Sie.

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Wind Dragon

As leader of the Ultimen, Wind Dragon serves as both their field commander and their spokesman to the public. While he appears very clean-cut and moralistic, he is actually quite an egotist, and doesn't object at all to "selling out" his team's image for money. His power is the manipulation of wind to allow flight (for himself and multiple people) as well as creating gusts of wind to knock back opponents or lift heavy objects. He 'remembers' idolizing Superman when he was growing up, and was eventually inspired by him to become a superhero.

In the Ultimen's first appearance (during the episode "Ultimatum"), Wind Dragon got his chance to fight alongside his lifelong hero while saving an oil platform. Even though he made a crack about Superman being old, he still retained much respect for him. However, his obligation to his benefactors disallowed him from joining the Justice League, despite pleas from his teammate Long Shadow. During the fight, Wind Dragon was able to create a cyclone of arctic wind that froze the lava creatures attacking the platform, a power he had never exhibited before. Concerned, but not willing to dwell on it, he turned his attention back to the media, giving them a speech that even made Superman himself groan.

Maxwell Lord, concerned over Wind Dragon's newfound ability, gathered him and the rest of the Ultimen for testing. During this test, Long Shadow overheard Lord talking about certain experiments and decided to investigate. The team then realized that they were actually clones created by Project Cadmus with imprinted memories, and, even worse, their lives were about to end due to a fault in the cloning procedure. Disillusioned, Wind Dragon ordered the Ultimen to find the person responsible, Amanda Waller, but when the Justice League intervened, he got a new idea: if he managed to kill them, it wouldn't matter if he died, he would be forever remembered as the one who finally put an end to the previously unbeatable team of superheroes. He then set his sights on Superman, almost killing him by creating a powerful whirlwind to cut off his breathing, but was stopped at the last minute by Long Shadow, who told him that killing his idol would go against everything he once stood for. Afterwards, he and the rest of the Ultimen were taken into Cadmus' custody to await their eventual death.

An army of Ultimen clones were later created by Cadmus in an attempt to finish off the Justice League once and for all. They were eventually defeated. The Wind Dragon clones were no match for Red Tornado.