An enormous powerhouse with a mastery in martial arts, Fat Cobra is one of the Immortal Weapons and a champion of the Heavenly Cities.
Banished and Exiled
About 111 years before the modern age, the man who would become known as Fat Cobra is born to a pig-farming couple in the mystical city Peng Lai Island, one of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven. His mother dies in childbirth, and his father cannot feed the ravenous infant, so he leaves the 3-month-old boy at an orphanage. The orphanage, too, cannot support the boy, so they banish him to Earth at age two.
He is taken in by a Peking opera school and becomes a promising young opera singer until he accidentally kills a man in a drunken brawl. He flees and eventually buys his way back into Peng Lai Island and trains in kung fu under Iron-Crutch Khan, hoping to become the city’s next champion, the Cobra Warrior. Dubbed “Fat Cobra” by Khan, he eventually challenges the giant serpent Xiang Yao, but fails and is exiled from Peng Lai once more.
Devastatingly Powerful
Fat Cobra has superhuman strength—able to lift 5 tons—speed, and durability. He can slowly regenerate from massive injuries, even regrowing lost limbs, and ages very slowly. He can harness his chi to project bolts of energy or teleport. He can consume enormous quantities of food and alcohol, and can smother explosions with his bulk.
A devastatingly powerful and skilled combatant, Fat Cobra is a master of Peng Lai kung fu and is also a skilled soldier, football player, and opera singer. Among his many assaults are the twenty-two harmony strike, long punch of enlightened Buddha, sumo thunder stomp, cudgel of misfortune, whirlwind of impending doom, the devil’s skullcrusher, exquisite speed release, stomping giant slap, Heaven’s haymaker, thunder devil stomp, ten-form lightning fist, white chi dragon palm, five fingers of pandemonium, elbow of a thousand agonies, giant squid spine squeeze and the backhand of the Buddha.
Formidable Foes
Fat Cobra faces many enemies, including monsters, the Nazi Party and Hydra, a subversive and evil organization. When Hydra threatens K’un-Lun, one of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven, the champion Fat Cobra comes to the mystical city’s aid.
Champion Connections
He hunts monsters with fellow monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone and allies with Montgomery Falsworth, AKA Union Jack, against Nazis and SS ninjas.
As an Immortal Weapon, Fat Cobra is connected and allied with others like him, such as Danny Rand, AKA Iron Fist, and the Bride of Nine Spiders.
Fat Cobra worked in an underground fighting circuit battling heavyweights like Heracles, AKA Hercules, and the Asgardian warrior Volstagg in places like Olympus and Atlantis. He even traveled to the moon with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Nick Fury to quell a pack of Russian werewolves who overran an American base.
A History of Kung Fu Fights
Fat Cobra battled monsters alongside Ulysses Bloodstone and fought the Nazi Herr Samurai and his SS ninjas with Union Jack, and the Kung Fu Commandos. He was subsequently invited to join the Kid Commandos but instead sat out the rest of the war in Switzerland.
After stints as an actor, football player, and underground fighter, Fat Cobra was again defeated by Xiang Yao and lost both legs, although they eventually grew back. Via hundreds of affairs, Fat Cobra had hundreds of illegitimate children who, over several years, attempted to kill him for his abandonment; Fat Cobra slew them all. After years of fighting tooth and nail against his own offspring, he was finally strong enough to defeat Xiang Yao, becoming the Cobra Warrior. To smother his shame at having slain his children, Fat Cobra consumed vast amounts of alcohol, damaging his memory.
When the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven became aligned in recent years, portions of all seven formed the Heart of Heaven, where a tournament was held between the cities’ champions, known collectively as the Immortal Weapons. He was the first to entertain in an exhibition match against 100 Shaolin Terror Priests, and the lone warrior proved to be more than a match. He went on to handily defeat K’un-Lun’s champion, Iron Fist (Rand). Before he could face his next opponent, however, he and the other Immortal Weapons were alerted to a Hydra plot to destroy K’un-Lun, which threatened to destroy the other six cities as well. The Weapons helped beat back Hydra; before killing himself, Hydra’s leader Xao revealed the existence of an eighth Capital City. Cobra and the other Weapons, save for Davos, AKA Steel Phoenix, resolved to stay on Earth until they could find it. The Weapons helped defend Rand from the demonic Ch’i-Lin, then, while searching the penthouse of the demon’s human host, they uncovered a map to the Eighth City (as well as an explosive booby trap, although Fat Cobra’s bulk absorbed most of the blast). Informed by Davos the Eighth City contained political prisoners, exiled by corrupt past rulers of K’un-Lun, the Weapons opened the city’s gate and journeyed there to free them. They found the city was a hellish wasteland populated by demons and ruled by embittered former Iron Fist Quan Yaozu. They were imprisoned and forced to fight monsters until they coordinated an escape; Cobra saved Danny from Quan, then fled with the other Weapons and the seeming prisoners, revealed to be Quan’s disguised demons upon the gate’s opening. Quan and a handful of demons made it to Earth, but Cobra and the Weapons defeated the demons while Rand convinced Quan to come to K’un-Lun to tell his story and plead his case.
Fat Cobra later hired a man to chronicle his life but was devastated upon recalling his past shames. He soon joined the Immortal Weapons to close a Hell gate in Beijing, though they were defeated by Carl Creel, AKA Absorbing Man, and Mary MacPharran, AKA Titania. Iron Fist was possessed by Agamotto, which prevented the Hell gate from closing, and he knocked out Fat Cobra and the other Weapons. The gate was ultimately closed only after their ally, James Rhodes, AKA War Machine, shot Iron Fist with a magically-infused weapon thanks to Sorcerer Supreme Steven Strange, AKA Doctor Strange’s remote intervention.
Fat Cobra next allied with James Howlett/Logan, AKA Wolverine, Kenneth Hale, AKA Gorilla-Man, Master Po and Yuen Yee to battle Suwan, AKA Jade Claw, and took down her subterranean empire.
Later, Fat Cobra became the new Black Dragon below the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco. But being an Immortal Weapon, he was soon called to save all dragons from the deadly Hierophant, the Eighth City and its army of undead ninjas. Fat Cobra and his allies, including Luke Cage, kept the ninjas at bay while their ally Okoye, empowered with the Iron Fist from Rand and chi, fought and defeated the Hierophant.
When the next Iron Fist was called, it was the young Lin Lie, AKA Sword Master. Fat Cobra and fellow Immortal Weapon, the Bride of Nine Spiders, tracked Lin down and tested the little champion of K’un-Lun. Fat Cobra attacked the tiny Iron Fist with his full might. Lin holds his own against Fat Cobra with some help from his friends.
