Manga Khan
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Manga Khan is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. Manga Khan is an intergalactic trader. A gaseous being, he relies on a metallic suit to give him form. He had a robot companion named L-Ron (before trading him to the Justice League), and was a foe of the Justice League in the early 1990s.
Manga Khan has been an odd thorn in the side of the League for some time. Though he originally tried to trade Mister Miracle to the forces of Darkseid, he later helped the League. He took Despero off their hands after the Martian Manhunter devolved him. In Justice League Europe #28, he took the defeated villain Starro. Despero, unfortunately, escaped (possible because of Khan's trading in JLE #30), but in JLA #57, Khan had hired Lobo to retrieve him. Lobo came to believe Khan's way of speech and thought had started to affect him.
He suffers from a condition which causes him to give soliloquies at random intervals, in a parody of comics from the sixties. In the same vein, he founded the Manga Khan School of Melodrama to teach similar speech patterns to other characters. One of his alumni is the Scarlet Skier.
Originally known simply as Lord Manga, Manga Khan's name is a direct reference to manga. Many of his "male" robotic assistants are named after science fiction writers: L-Ron after L. Ron Hubbard, Hein-9 after Robert A. Heinlein, K-Dikk after Philip K. Dick, for instance. In the 2003 miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League, a "female" robotic assistant, J-Lo, was introduced, whose monicker is, of course, derived from a popular nickname for Jennifer Lopez.
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In his natural gaseous state Manga Khan could communicate telepathically, but couldn't physically interact with anyone or anything. He normally wore an armored suit that made him impervious to damage and granted him superhuman strength. Manga was a very poor fighter and would rather talk his way out of combat. Manga was a master negotiator and barterer, thoroughly lacking ethics in his wheeling and dealings.
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