The Collective Man is a fictional character, a Chinese superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. The Collective Man is actually an identity shared by the Tao-Yu brothers (Sun, Chang, Ho, Han and Lin), who are a set of quintuplets. They possess the mutant power to merge into one body, which variously posesses the collective strength of all five men or of all of the people of China. The brothers also share a psychic and spiritual link that allows them to teleport to one another. The Collective Man first appeared in Contest of Champions #1. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Superman and Batman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ... It has been suggested that Felicia (pseudonym) be merged into this article or section. ... Various characters of the Marvel Universe. ... Quintuplets was a sitcom that aired twenty-two episodes on the Fox network from June 16, 2004 through January 12, 2005. ... // Marvel Comics In Marvel comic books, particularly those of the X-Men franchise, a mutant is a human being who is born with genetic modifications that allow for abilities not possessed by regular humans. ... Contest of Champions is a 1982 mini-series by Marvel Comics. ...

The Collective Man was first seen in the Grandmaster's contest, in which various international superheroes fought one another the proxies of either the Grandmaster or his unknown opponent (actually Death). The Collective Man was teamed with Storm and Shamrock (all unknowingly proxies of Death in the conflict) in battle against the Grandmaster's proxies Captain America, Sasquatch and Blitzkrieg; their battle was ended when Shamrock claimed the prize. The Grandmaster is a fictional character published by Marvel Comics, he first appeared in Avengers #69. ... Death with Thanos and Captain Marvel in a scene from The Death of Captain Marvel. ... This article is about the X-Men character. ... Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Grant Rogers), is a Marvel Comics superhero. ... Sasquatch is a fictional character in Marvel Comics universe. ...

Some time after the contest, the Collective Man fought the Hulk. At some point, the brothers' power decreased so that they only possesed the strength of five men as the Collective Man. Later, when their superiors in the Chinese military prevented them from visiting their dying mother, Mary, the brothers rebelled and fought the god Ho-Ti, who was apparently working with the government. The Tao-Yu brother Ho died in the battle, but remained a part of the Collective Man, and Ho-Ti willingly departed. After the brothers discovered how China had mistreated their other mutant citizens, the Collective Man was later seen as a member of the Chinese revolutionary group 3-Peace alongside the Jade Dragon and Nuwa. They teamed with X-Force to fight the Mutant Liberation Front and the nationalistic China Force. The Incredible Hulk redirects here. ... X-Force was a Marvel Comics superhero team, featured in an eponymous monthly series from 1991 until 2002 and a miniseries running from late 2004 to 2005. ... The Mutant Liberation Front (or MLF) was a fictional terrorist group/supervillain team in the Marvel Universe. ...

Later, the Collective Man, now restored to full power, was mystically altered by the fallen god Marduk, who sought to use the Tao-Yu brothers' power to steal the life energy of every person in China in order to reclaim his divinity. The process of absorbing this life energy transformed the Collective Man into a dim-witted, raging, grotesque giant. Citizen V (John Watkins III) and his V-Battalion fought the Collective Man, with the Battalion agent Goldfire accidentally dying in the battle. Citizen V punctured the giant's skin, causing him to explode and apparently die. He survived, possibly thanks to the V Battalion's defeat of Marduk, and the brothers returned to their normal form, now gaining the ability to increase size when merged and to generate additional duplicate bodies. The Collective Man later fought the X-Men on behalf of the Chinese government when the mutant heroes attempted to free Kuan-Yin Xorn from Chinese custody. X-Men: The 198 Files revealed that the brothers retained their power after M-Day, and classified them collectively as a high-level threat. Marduk [märdook] (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian AMAR.UTU solar calf; Biblical Merodach) was the name of a late generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon permanently became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi... Citizen V (the V pronounced as Vee, not Five), is the codename of several fictional characters in the Marvel Universe. ... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... Xorn is the surname of two fictional mutants in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Decimation event logo, as shown on the covers of tie-in comics Decimation is the name of the late 2005 Marvel Comics crossover spinning out of the House of M miniseries, focusing on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witchs reality-warping abilities stripping nearly all of the mutant population...