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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Han, Chang, Lin, Sun and Ho Tao-Yu
| aliases = Collective Men
| identity = Public
| occupation = Government operatives; former freedom fighters
| citizenship = China
| place_of_birth = Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
| relatives = Mary Tao-Yu (mother, deceased)
| groups = Formerly [[198]], [[3-Peace]]
| education = Government training
| height = (Individually) 6'2"; (merged) up to 80'
| weight = (Individually) 186 lbs.; (merged) up to 200 tons
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Brown
| powers = The Tao-Yu brothers can mentally alter the synchronization of their bodies’ atoms, enabling them to merge into a single being. In their collective state, the brothers possess their combined strength, speed, endurance and intellect. Originally, the brothers could further enhance their knowledge and power by tapping into the psychic energy of any number of individuals; since their enhancement by Marduk, they can physically transform numerous individuals into Collective Men such as themselves, which they can then merge into a giant form with significantly enhanced abilities.
| abilities =
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = None
| debut = (Cameo) Incredible Hulk #250 (1980); (fully) Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #1 (1982)
| origin = Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #2 (1983)
| significant_issues = Encountered Silver Surfer (Incredible Hulk #250, 1980); participated in "contest of champions" (Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions #1-3, 1982); vs Ho Ti, mother died (Marvel Comics Presents #55, 1990); with 3-Peace, fought China Force & MLF (X-Force Annual #3, 1994); captured by Marduk, powers enhanced, destroyed by Citizen V, powers reverse-engineered by V-Battalion (Citizen V & The V-Battalion: The Everlasting #2-3, 2001); reformed, fought X-Men (X-Men #159-160, 2004)
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{{bio|
bio_text= Identical quintuplets from a Chinese farming family, the brothers Tao-Yu were taken into government custody for study after their [[Glossary:M#mutant|mutant]] nature manifested. The brothers were trained to control their power and became government agents as the Collective Man. The brothers were among the [[Glossary:S#super-hero|heroes]] of [[Earth]] gathered to partake in a [[Contest of Champions|“contest of champions”]] between the [[Grandmaster]] and [[Death (embodiment)|Death]] itself. As an unwitting agent of Death, the Collective Man exhausted himself defeating [[Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski)|Sasquatch]], and they were returned to Earth after the encounter.

The brothers later learned that their mother was dying. Determined to visit her, they took a helicopter, forcing the government to send Ho Ti, the Chinese God of Happiness, to reclaim them. The brothers opposed Ho Ti, who relented after sensing the happiness that the brothers’ mother felt on seeing her sons for the first time in twenty years before she died.

The brothers subsequently returned to government service; however, their growing disdain over the government’s mistreatment of other mutants led them to join the [[Jade Dragon]] and [[Nuwa]] in forming [[3-Peace]]. Allying themselves with [[Reignfire]]’s [[Mutant Liberation Front]] to free captive Chinese mutants, 3-Peace was ultimately betrayed by Reignfire to the government-sponsored [[China Force]] team, although they were able to escape.

The brothers were then unwittingly drawn into a plot by the fallen [[Glossary:G#god|god]] [[Marduk]], who boosted their power to enable them to permanently absorb their countrymen’s collective life force and transfer it into the [[Genesis Well]], thus allowing Marduk to re-empower himself. Opposed by [[Citizen V (John Watkins III)|Citizen V]] and the [[V-Battalion]], the brothers combined and grew to giant size, liquefying the V-Battalion's council member [[Goldfire]] with a simple turn of their head. The brothers were seemingly killed when Citizen V used his [[Glossary:A#Adamantium|Adamantium]]-coated sword to burst their engorged form, after which the V-Battalion gathered their remains in order to reverse-engineer their powers, allowing them to put the entire population of Rumekistan into a slumber so as to oppose Marduk’s plan.

As a byproduct of their enhanced power, the brothers were eventually able to reform and returned to serving the Chinese government. When the [[X-Men]] traveled to China to investigate the mutant [[Xorn|Shen Xorn]], they were confronted by the brothers, who used their increased power to create a veritable army of Collective Men to oppose them.

After the events of [[House of M|M-Day]], many mutants all over the world lost their powers, but the Collective Man brothers, however, were one of the few mutants who retained theirs. The Collective Man was last seen on the Xavier Compound with [[198|other mutants]].
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