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Dragon Man is a fictional character, a former supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe. He is an artificial dragon-like humanoid android who was animated via alchemy. He was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in ''Fantastic Four'' #35 (February 1965). ==Fictional character biography== Dragon Man is an android built by Professor Gregson Gilbert of Empire State University as an experiment. Gregson hoped to find a way to bring it to life. He could not find a way to do this until the alchemist Diablo arrived and brought it to life under his partial control using his supernatural powers. However, Dragon Man broke his control and attempted to kill Diablo. Although Dragon Man is slow-minded to the point that he is incapable of speech, he understands orders given by Diablo and is a determined foe of the Fantastic Four (although the creature has always displayed a King Kong-like affection towards Sue Richards). Dragon Man is not especially malicious, although he is easily manipulated and provoked to violence. After his first activation, Dragon Man was later revived. He encountered Medusa and Gorgon, and fought the Thing and Human Torch.〔''Fantastic Four'' #44-47〕 Dragon Man was later studied by Hank Pym at his laboratory. He was restored to life again by Diablo and was defeated by Pym as Goliath and escaped.〔''Avengers'' #41〕 Dragon Man battled Hercules and the Avengers destroyed Diablo's army of Dragon Men.〔''Avengers'' #42〕 Dragon Man was once found by the original X-Men and was considered an unofficial mascot of sorts. After a period of time on the team where he developed a deep affection for Jean Grey, Dragon Man had to be released to the creature filled island known in the Marvel Universe as Monster Island. Dragon Man was reclaimed by Professor Gregson Gilbert and sent by Lemuel Dorcas to attack Namor.〔''Sub-Mariner'' #15〕 It was next used by Gregory Gideon to attack the Fantastic Four.〔''Fantastic Four'' #134-135〕 Dragon Man was then sent by Machinesmith to attack Captain America.〔''Captain America'' #248-249〕 He became the mount for the extra-dimensional dragon rider Ral Dorn.〔''Fantastic Four Annual'' #16〕 Dragon Man then fought Hulk and Kate Waynesboro when it was under the control of Ringmaster and the Circus of Crime.〔''Incredible Hulk'' #292〕 Dragon Man encountered the child superheroes called Power Pack. Gregson Gilbert later attempted to replicate the creation of the Dragon Man without the addition of alchemical interruptions, and this time succeeded. He created a number of androids based on other legendary creatures. These androids were defeated by Power Pack, and Gilbert and Dragon Man go to work at Disneyland.〔''Power Pack'' vol. 1 #7〕 Dragon Man was used as a servant of Aron the Rogue Watcher.〔''Avengers'' #321-323, 327-330, 332-333〕 He faced Spider-Man during the ''Acts of Vengeance'', when he was unleashed on him by Wizard.〔''Web of Spider-Man'' #61〕 In addition to his servitude to Diablo, Dragon Man has served Super-Adaptoid and was also a member of the New Enforcers. In ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #235-6, Roxxon Oil sprung him from a government containment facility in order to capture and dissect him to create robotic super-soldiers based on Dragon Man's powers. He was freed by Ben Reilly. Dragon Man showed up in Africa under the service of mad scientist Eric Pain.〔''Black Panther'' vol. 4 #8-9 and ''X-Men'' vol. 2 #175-176〕 Though the creature was under a full rage, he ended up defeated once more by both superheroes. Afterwards, he resurfaced in Beyond!, destroying an Avengers Quinjet the group was using to escape. During the ''Civil War'' storyline,〔''The Punisher War Journal'' vol. 2 #4〕 he was spotted at the funeral of Stilt-Man. After poisoning the guests, the Punisher blew up the bar in which the wake had been held. He was later seen being arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.〔''Irredeemable Ant-Man'' #9〕 Alyosha Kraven later began collecting a zoo of animal-themed superhumans,〔''Punisher War Journal'' vol. 2 #13〕 including Bushmaster, Gargoyle, Tiger Shark, Kangaroo, Aragorn, Vulture, Mongoose, Man-Bull, Swarm, Mandrill, Grizzly, Frog-Man, and Rhino. In the end, the Punisher managed to sabotage this zoo; though Kraven himself escaped to the Savage Land. In ''Avengers: The Initiative'' #8, Dragon Man had been captured by the trainee heroes, having been attracted to Komodo. In ''Nova'', Dragon Man was seen battling the newly revived ''Nova Corps'' consisting of Qubit, Fraktur, Tracel, Morrow, Irani, and Robbie Rider. He was subdued by the Corps using a gravimetric net. At one point, Dragon Man had been placed in the Negative Zone, and like most of the other prisoners, was conscripted into service when Blastaar attacked the prison. When the Shadow Initiative was sent in to liberate the prison, Blastaar sent Dragon Man against them. However, Komodo was able to use Dragon Man's attraction to her to convince him to switch sides.〔''Avengers: The Initiative'' #27〕 Following this, he seemingly reforms, as he, Artie and Leech were seen at Franklin Richards' birthday party.〔''Fantastic Four'' #574〕 He has since been upgraded by Valeria Richards and joined Reed Richards' Future Foundation. Valeria used her talents to upgrade Dragon Man to have super-intellect and have the power of human speech. Dragon Man would become an adopted member of the Future Foundation and guardian of the gifted children in that program.〔''Fantastic Four'' #579〕 As part of the ''Marvel NOW!'' event, Dragon Man created the Thing Rings for Darla Deering to wear which enables her to become Miss Thing upon some particles enabling her to transform into her Thing Exoskeleton (which was also modified by Dragon Man).〔''Marvel NOW! Point One'' #1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dragon Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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