Fin Fang Foom
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Fin Fang Foom is a fictional dragon in the Marvel Comics universe, who has served as an ally to various other monsters and an antagonist who has opposed a number of superheroes. He first appeared in Strange Tales volume 1 #89 (1961).
Fin Fang Foom is a fifteen-story humanoid dragon of the Eastern variety. He is an alien, hailing from the planet Kakaratharia. His starship crash-landed on Earth, and he tried to take over the Earth twice, being defeated by humans each time. He entered hibernation; during this time, his ship's technology was ransacked by the man who would become the supervillain called the Mandarin. He awoke briefly to assist the golem-like creature called It, the Living Colossus in a battle against a human would-be world conqueror, then returned to his slumber. Years later, the Mandarin found and awoke him, and the two partnered to battle the superhero Iron Man. Fin Fang Foom has since fought Iron Man on a number of subsequent occasions. He was once seen to battle Thor, though this was revealed to be a disguised Jormungand.
In the Iron Man animated series, it was Fin Fang Foom, not the Mandarin, who served as Iron Man's primary antagonist.