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  • Complete Monster: Ming the Merciless is the depraved ruler of the planet Mongo who enacts the right of first night to rape any woman he desires. If the husbands resist, Ming is only too happy to murder them and wed the woman to their corpse before taking her. Ming attempts to break Dale Arden's mind to become his submissive woman, leaving Flash to melt in a death trap. Growing furious with Flash's resistance, Ming orders another ally to murder his own son and, when the man can't, Ming murders the boy himself to prove no wish of Ming's goes unfulfilled. Ming obliterates the entire city as a message, regularly starving, torturing and murdering his people and being willing to allow the destruction of another city and killing millions to preserve his rule. Fully willing to kill his own daughter if it benefits him, Ming is a sadistic tyrant who cares for nothing but his own power and pleasure.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: One part of the plan of attack against Ming is ramming a high-speed elevated train into his capitol city's central tower. The setup and even the tower's design are remarkably similar to what would be featured in Batman Begins .

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