Post by redsycorax on Jan 19, 2024 0:27:35 GMT
In the fourth vignette of North Korean and allied metahumans included within the retrospective Korean War era "Glorious People's Vanguard", the "Mile High Mightiest Mongol"/ Mailhai Choegang-Ui Mong is one of the more ambiguous figures within that country's metahuman heritage.
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PROLOGUE:
CASE MHCUMG02/53- CM: MAIL-HAI CHOEGONG-UI MONG/ LIEUTENANT JAE MONG
[Unlike the others of his loose designation, Mail Hai Choegong-Ui Mong seems to have had a wartime 'secret identity' as a North Korean soldier. This may seem surprising for a totalitarian society like North Korea, but it should be noted that the Kim regime's iron grip of surveillance and state repression was in its relative infancy and was disrupted by the see-sawing geographical transitions of territory. In 1952, Pyongyang itself had been threatened by the US and its United Nation allies until the fortuitous Chinese intervention occurred during that same year and facilitated a stalemate between the two Koreas and an eventual armistice in May 1953.
The origins of Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong are uncertain. When he passed away, years later, an autopsy revealed that his body had latent metagenetic receptor genes with his cells. Therefore, it is quite possible that his civilian self, Jae Mong, originally a dwarf, encountered an environmental trigger that irradiated his body and caused him to become capable of instantaneous enlargement. Perhaps it was a exometeor, an alien artefact that crashed near his North Korean village, or an as yet identified radiation bombardment.
In any case, Jae Mong found himself able to enlarge at will. He kept his abilities a secret and no-one connected the patriotic diminutive Jae Mong's short stature with the variable but prodigious height of the "Mile High Mighty Mong", mistranslated and misunderstood as the "Mile High Mightiest Mongol" in US Army intelligence and CIA records. No one is quite sure about the reason for this error. Perhaps Jae Mong was of Mongol ancestry, given the centuries-past Khanate incursions into Northeastern Asian territories. Perhaps it was an assumption by an analyst unfamiliar with the area and one not subjected to detailed analysis, verification or rebuttal.
What we do know is that unlike many of his less fortunate comrades, Jae Mong found love, in the form of Ri Choi, a North Korean army doctor who chanced upon his recovery, discovered his secret but as a patriotic North Korean, fell in love with this fearless champion of her country. And then, one day, came Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong's fateful encounter with the American action heroes within the "Marvel Family" in March 1953, only months before the end of the Korean War and the armistice that has now prevailed uneasily for decades.]
Captain Isabella Ramsey
April 12th, 1960
Central Intelligence Agency
Langley, Virginia
ADDENDUM: "MONSEUTO" MONG (DECEMBER 1952)
Due to a transliteration error in the CIA records, there was an earlier mistaken belief in the existence of a separate North Korean giant assailant, "Mongol Monster", dressed in thirteenth century Mongol battle armor. This now seems to have been the first recorded encounter of Jae Mong with any member of the Marvel Family in the Korean theatre. At that point, Jae Mong was using giant fireballs to attack US Army and allied forces in the Korean peninsula. In November 1952, Jae Mong was still establishing the characteristics of his metahuman identity and dressed in armour as an ancient warrior from past Korean peninsula kingdoms to strike fear and intimidation into his opponents with his height and accoutrement. Through tracing them back to their headquarters, Captain Marvel Junior discovered that the 'giant fireballs' were actually spherical vehicles, piloted by subordinates to Jae Mong. There was an initial battle between Captain Marvel Junior and "Monseuto" Mong, which ended when Mong sought to use his giant fireballs to bombard local allied positions. Due to an unforeseen aerial malfunction, one of them circled back and exploded back at its launch site, incapacitating "Monseuto". It is now known that while Jae Mong was stunned, he did not perish at the end of this battle. Captain Marvel Junior may not have recognised Jae Mong during their subsequent encounter, or assumed that "Monseuto" Mong had perished at the end of their earlier battle and that this could not be the same person and may not have been aware of Jae Mong's height transition capabilities during their initial conflict. What available intelligence there is about this incident seems to indicate that "Monseuto" Mong did not visibly use his abilities in December 1952. In any case, the armour seems to have shielded Jae Mong from the explosion recorded at the end of this encounter. He also seems to have undergone plastic surgery as a consequence of his injuries, so his physical appearance may have diverged from that of his subsequent encounter with Captain Marvel Jr and the rest of the Marvel Family. At this point, he may have met his future wife, Dr Ri Choi.
In 1976, the transliteration error was discovered and the Agency now accepts that "Monseuto" and Mailhai Choegang-Ui Mong are one and the same person. The advent of subsequent forensic technology such as close imaging technology, DNA analysis and particulate matter studies has confirmed this.
YONGPYOR SALIENT, 38TH PARALLEL, MARCH 1953
It was recorded by a North Korean Army scrutineer and subsequent archivist and redactor that on March 15, 1953, at the Yongpyor Salient, near the 38th Parallel that would soon become the demilitarised zone that bisected the Korean Peninsula, that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea asset known as Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong to his comrades in arms and miltary superiors made a most excellent tactical move. In the melee, he took captive an American military officer, Captain Inchnumeon Wade, who had stubbornly defended 'his' side of the Yongpyor salient for several months and was due for a US Army Silver Star reward for not yielding territory. Apparently, what happened then was that somehow, the Marvel Family became informed of the plight of Captain Wade and decided to promptly provide assistance, perhaps from a radio or television broadcast, such as that of WHIZ-TV in Fawcett City, selected here as a random media sample in this context.
In any case, the triad of action heroes were soon visible in their heroic finery over the Yongpyor Salient and alighted on the contested terrain. Soon, they ascertained that Mail Hai Mon-Gol (as he had ignorantly been labelled) had apparently tripled in size from eight to twenty four feet and had been leading inroads into the salient during the whole of the ensuing period after he had taken Captain Wade captive. Laying waste to the US army personnel around him, Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong was assailed by the Marvel Family, who provided a hefty punch to his midriff. It may have been the case that the precipitating factor that had given Mong his startling height gain capabilities had resulted in partial invulnerability. For whatever reason, he angrily threw off his costumed assailants and stomped back toward his nation's occupied territory. To their bewilderment, the Marvel Family only found diminutive Jae Mong behind enemy lines, who protested that he had not seen Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong. Puzzled, the Marvel Family returned to South Korean territory, where, moments later, they saw Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong back in charge of a resurgent detachment of North Korean military personnel. Once again, the Marvel Family halted his ruthless advance, leading him once more to elude capture in an adjacent forest.
What must have happened then is surmise. The Marvel Family are widely suspected to have civilian identities and it is perhaps the case that they reverted to them, witnessing Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong revert to his diminutive self, Jag-Eun Mong ("Smaller Mong") after taking what were later alleged to be height reduction pharmaceuticals that had enabled his fluctuating battlefield scale. For whatever reason, as Captain Wade subsequently noted in his debriefing session, and had forcefed three adolescents the responsible medication involuntarily. In instants, the three adolescents enlarged scale and would have squashed Wade beneath them, had it not fortuitously been for the fact that the morphogenic field that affected their body and clothing did not extend to reported gags and rope encumbrances. As a consequence, the three youths metamorphosed into the Marvel Family and flew away, taking Captain Wade with them. Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong made a final assault on the Yongpyor Salient position of his adversaries, but the Marvel Family threw a mountain at the now mile-high North Korean adversary. He fell backward, crushing his military detachment beneath his falling form and the Marvel Family took the opportunity to feed the alleged dwindling pills to him, causing him to revert to his Jae Mong identity. Swiftly, they took him captive. Unfortunately, they reckoned without the absence of appropriately scaled detention facilities for the diminutive Jae Mong, who expeditiously escaped back into North Korean territory. He was embraced by his beloved Ri Choi, but the artifice of the 'enlargement' and 'reduction' pills had now been revealed, and Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong was 'retired' as a North Korean strategic asset.
EPILOGUE:
Tragically for the future happiness of Jae Mong and Ri Choi, there was a grim consequence that resulted from his prodigious use of instantaneous height in military combat situations. As often happens with individuals who experience giantism, the strain that Jae Mong put on his pituitary gland during his combat scalar exploits led to hypertension, and in quick succession, stroke, coronary arterial disease, blindness, kidney failure and ultimately, a devastating heart attack that the former Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong did not survive. By then, he was deeply into dementia, watched by his heartbroken wife Ri, who never left his side during the agonising months that he gradually succumbed to the onset of ultimately fatal cardiovascular sequelae. He died in June 1958 and was given a state funeral. She gave birth in early 1959. Given the cessation of hostilities several years beforehand, it is uncertain whether the Marvel Family was advised about the event across the Pacific.
Dr Ri Choi-Mong was pregnant when her husband died. She gave birth in early 1959. It is unknown whether their daughter inherited her father's instantaneous height capabilities if they were epigenetic in origin. Perhaps there will be a new Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong if hostilities ever resume on the troubled Korean Peninsula.
Source:
"Captain Marvel Junior Battles the Mad Mongol Monster" Captain Marvel Junior 115 (December 1952)
"The Marvel Family Fights the Mightiest Mongol" Marvel Family 81 (March 1953)
THE END [2.55 PM JANUARY 19, 2024]
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PROLOGUE:
CASE MHCUMG02/53- CM: MAIL-HAI CHOEGONG-UI MONG/ LIEUTENANT JAE MONG
[Unlike the others of his loose designation, Mail Hai Choegong-Ui Mong seems to have had a wartime 'secret identity' as a North Korean soldier. This may seem surprising for a totalitarian society like North Korea, but it should be noted that the Kim regime's iron grip of surveillance and state repression was in its relative infancy and was disrupted by the see-sawing geographical transitions of territory. In 1952, Pyongyang itself had been threatened by the US and its United Nation allies until the fortuitous Chinese intervention occurred during that same year and facilitated a stalemate between the two Koreas and an eventual armistice in May 1953.
The origins of Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong are uncertain. When he passed away, years later, an autopsy revealed that his body had latent metagenetic receptor genes with his cells. Therefore, it is quite possible that his civilian self, Jae Mong, originally a dwarf, encountered an environmental trigger that irradiated his body and caused him to become capable of instantaneous enlargement. Perhaps it was a exometeor, an alien artefact that crashed near his North Korean village, or an as yet identified radiation bombardment.
In any case, Jae Mong found himself able to enlarge at will. He kept his abilities a secret and no-one connected the patriotic diminutive Jae Mong's short stature with the variable but prodigious height of the "Mile High Mighty Mong", mistranslated and misunderstood as the "Mile High Mightiest Mongol" in US Army intelligence and CIA records. No one is quite sure about the reason for this error. Perhaps Jae Mong was of Mongol ancestry, given the centuries-past Khanate incursions into Northeastern Asian territories. Perhaps it was an assumption by an analyst unfamiliar with the area and one not subjected to detailed analysis, verification or rebuttal.
What we do know is that unlike many of his less fortunate comrades, Jae Mong found love, in the form of Ri Choi, a North Korean army doctor who chanced upon his recovery, discovered his secret but as a patriotic North Korean, fell in love with this fearless champion of her country. And then, one day, came Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong's fateful encounter with the American action heroes within the "Marvel Family" in March 1953, only months before the end of the Korean War and the armistice that has now prevailed uneasily for decades.]
Captain Isabella Ramsey
April 12th, 1960
Central Intelligence Agency
Langley, Virginia
ADDENDUM: "MONSEUTO" MONG (DECEMBER 1952)
Due to a transliteration error in the CIA records, there was an earlier mistaken belief in the existence of a separate North Korean giant assailant, "Mongol Monster", dressed in thirteenth century Mongol battle armor. This now seems to have been the first recorded encounter of Jae Mong with any member of the Marvel Family in the Korean theatre. At that point, Jae Mong was using giant fireballs to attack US Army and allied forces in the Korean peninsula. In November 1952, Jae Mong was still establishing the characteristics of his metahuman identity and dressed in armour as an ancient warrior from past Korean peninsula kingdoms to strike fear and intimidation into his opponents with his height and accoutrement. Through tracing them back to their headquarters, Captain Marvel Junior discovered that the 'giant fireballs' were actually spherical vehicles, piloted by subordinates to Jae Mong. There was an initial battle between Captain Marvel Junior and "Monseuto" Mong, which ended when Mong sought to use his giant fireballs to bombard local allied positions. Due to an unforeseen aerial malfunction, one of them circled back and exploded back at its launch site, incapacitating "Monseuto". It is now known that while Jae Mong was stunned, he did not perish at the end of this battle. Captain Marvel Junior may not have recognised Jae Mong during their subsequent encounter, or assumed that "Monseuto" Mong had perished at the end of their earlier battle and that this could not be the same person and may not have been aware of Jae Mong's height transition capabilities during their initial conflict. What available intelligence there is about this incident seems to indicate that "Monseuto" Mong did not visibly use his abilities in December 1952. In any case, the armour seems to have shielded Jae Mong from the explosion recorded at the end of this encounter. He also seems to have undergone plastic surgery as a consequence of his injuries, so his physical appearance may have diverged from that of his subsequent encounter with Captain Marvel Jr and the rest of the Marvel Family. At this point, he may have met his future wife, Dr Ri Choi.
In 1976, the transliteration error was discovered and the Agency now accepts that "Monseuto" and Mailhai Choegang-Ui Mong are one and the same person. The advent of subsequent forensic technology such as close imaging technology, DNA analysis and particulate matter studies has confirmed this.
YONGPYOR SALIENT, 38TH PARALLEL, MARCH 1953
It was recorded by a North Korean Army scrutineer and subsequent archivist and redactor that on March 15, 1953, at the Yongpyor Salient, near the 38th Parallel that would soon become the demilitarised zone that bisected the Korean Peninsula, that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea asset known as Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong to his comrades in arms and miltary superiors made a most excellent tactical move. In the melee, he took captive an American military officer, Captain Inchnumeon Wade, who had stubbornly defended 'his' side of the Yongpyor salient for several months and was due for a US Army Silver Star reward for not yielding territory. Apparently, what happened then was that somehow, the Marvel Family became informed of the plight of Captain Wade and decided to promptly provide assistance, perhaps from a radio or television broadcast, such as that of WHIZ-TV in Fawcett City, selected here as a random media sample in this context.
In any case, the triad of action heroes were soon visible in their heroic finery over the Yongpyor Salient and alighted on the contested terrain. Soon, they ascertained that Mail Hai Mon-Gol (as he had ignorantly been labelled) had apparently tripled in size from eight to twenty four feet and had been leading inroads into the salient during the whole of the ensuing period after he had taken Captain Wade captive. Laying waste to the US army personnel around him, Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong was assailed by the Marvel Family, who provided a hefty punch to his midriff. It may have been the case that the precipitating factor that had given Mong his startling height gain capabilities had resulted in partial invulnerability. For whatever reason, he angrily threw off his costumed assailants and stomped back toward his nation's occupied territory. To their bewilderment, the Marvel Family only found diminutive Jae Mong behind enemy lines, who protested that he had not seen Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong. Puzzled, the Marvel Family returned to South Korean territory, where, moments later, they saw Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong back in charge of a resurgent detachment of North Korean military personnel. Once again, the Marvel Family halted his ruthless advance, leading him once more to elude capture in an adjacent forest.
What must have happened then is surmise. The Marvel Family are widely suspected to have civilian identities and it is perhaps the case that they reverted to them, witnessing Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong revert to his diminutive self, Jag-Eun Mong ("Smaller Mong") after taking what were later alleged to be height reduction pharmaceuticals that had enabled his fluctuating battlefield scale. For whatever reason, as Captain Wade subsequently noted in his debriefing session, and had forcefed three adolescents the responsible medication involuntarily. In instants, the three adolescents enlarged scale and would have squashed Wade beneath them, had it not fortuitously been for the fact that the morphogenic field that affected their body and clothing did not extend to reported gags and rope encumbrances. As a consequence, the three youths metamorphosed into the Marvel Family and flew away, taking Captain Wade with them. Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong made a final assault on the Yongpyor Salient position of his adversaries, but the Marvel Family threw a mountain at the now mile-high North Korean adversary. He fell backward, crushing his military detachment beneath his falling form and the Marvel Family took the opportunity to feed the alleged dwindling pills to him, causing him to revert to his Jae Mong identity. Swiftly, they took him captive. Unfortunately, they reckoned without the absence of appropriately scaled detention facilities for the diminutive Jae Mong, who expeditiously escaped back into North Korean territory. He was embraced by his beloved Ri Choi, but the artifice of the 'enlargement' and 'reduction' pills had now been revealed, and Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong was 'retired' as a North Korean strategic asset.
EPILOGUE:
Tragically for the future happiness of Jae Mong and Ri Choi, there was a grim consequence that resulted from his prodigious use of instantaneous height in military combat situations. As often happens with individuals who experience giantism, the strain that Jae Mong put on his pituitary gland during his combat scalar exploits led to hypertension, and in quick succession, stroke, coronary arterial disease, blindness, kidney failure and ultimately, a devastating heart attack that the former Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong did not survive. By then, he was deeply into dementia, watched by his heartbroken wife Ri, who never left his side during the agonising months that he gradually succumbed to the onset of ultimately fatal cardiovascular sequelae. He died in June 1958 and was given a state funeral. She gave birth in early 1959. Given the cessation of hostilities several years beforehand, it is uncertain whether the Marvel Family was advised about the event across the Pacific.
Dr Ri Choi-Mong was pregnant when her husband died. She gave birth in early 1959. It is unknown whether their daughter inherited her father's instantaneous height capabilities if they were epigenetic in origin. Perhaps there will be a new Mail Hai Choegang-Ui Mong if hostilities ever resume on the troubled Korean Peninsula.
Source:
"Captain Marvel Junior Battles the Mad Mongol Monster" Captain Marvel Junior 115 (December 1952)
"The Marvel Family Fights the Mightiest Mongol" Marvel Family 81 (March 1953)
THE END [2.55 PM JANUARY 19, 2024]