Ho Yinsen

Shaun Toub
Shaun Toub
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Cinematic and Comics

Secret Wars, Comics: Kidnapped from Timbetpal by Natalia Romanoff for the warlord Wong-Chu.

Cinematic

An Afghan scientist and surgeon, Cambridge-educated, who briefly met Tony Stark in Bern on the last night of 1999. Captured by the Ten Rings, he treated the wounded Stark in 2008, helped him build the first armor, and died drawing the terrorists' fire so Stark could escape.

Comics

A brilliant physicist from Timbetpal who was kidnapped by the warlord Wong-Chu and held in Siancong. There he helped the wounded Tony Stark build the first Iron Man armor and gave his life distracting Wong-Chu. His pupil Sun-Tao later founded the Sons of Yinsen, and Doctor Midas kept his brain.

Timeline 11 events

  1. Silver · Comics: Worked with Tony Stark to build the first iron armor, then died confronting Wong-Chu so Stark could finish charging it.
  2. Modern · Comics: Doctor Midas funded his early research on the condition that Yinsen's brain go to Midas after death.
  3. Modern · Comics: Held as a slave with his pupil Sun-Tao in Wong-Chu's camp in Siancong.
  4. Modern · Comics: Gave his journal to Sun-Tao, who founded the Sons of Yinsen and built New Timbetpal.
  5. Modern · Comics: Midas auctioned Yinsen's preserved brain; Iron Man helped the Sons of Yinsen defeat Wong-Chu and recover it.
  6. Secret Wars · Comics: Kidnapped from Timbetpal by Natalia Romanoff for the warlord Wong-Chu.
  7. Secret Wars · Comics: Moved to Seattle in the late 1980s, married and had a daughter, Toni, before returning to Timbetpal.
  8. 1999 · Cinematic: Met a drunk Tony Stark at the Bern 2000 gathering in Switzerland and was brushed off.
  9. 2008 · Cinematic: Held captive by the Ten Rings in the Afghan mountains and made to treat Stark's shrapnel wounds.
  10. 2008 · Cinematic: Kept Stark alive with a chest electromagnet and helped him secretly build the Mark I armor.
  11. 2008 · Cinematic: Died drawing the terrorists' fire so Stark could power up the suit and escape.

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Last checked 21 Oct 2026