Ho Yinsen

Doctor Ho Yinsen (Dari: هو یینسن) was a renowned scientist and surgeon, hailing from the village of Gulmira. With his family being killed during a surge in local terrorist activity, Yinsen was captured by the Ten Rings and held captive in the Afghan mountains. When Tony Stark was also kidnapped, Yinsen was charged with attending to Stark's medical needs after he was brought in injured from an explosive. After several months in captivity, Yinsen helped Stark escape the cave by developing a suit of armor, but willingly sacrificed himself in the process to the terrorists, telling Stark not to waste his life before he died of his injuries.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
====Meeting Tony Stark====
Ho Yinsen was an Afghan man from the small village of Gulmira. Eventually, he became a scientist after graduating from University of Cambridge and started to work in Europe. Yinsen met Tony Stark on New Year's Eve in 1999 at Bern 2000 in Bern, Switzerland, after Stark delivered a lecture, while very drunk, on integrated circuits. Yinsen tried to introduce him and Maya Hansen to Wu, but Stark drunkenly brushed him off to focus his attention on Hansen, joking that he had finally met a man named Ho. Though somewhat disappointed, Yinsen resigned himself to hopefully meeting Stark properly at another time.
===Ten Rings' Hostage===
====Saving Tony Stark's Life====
Nine years later, Yinsen was captured by the Ten Rings, a terrorist group in Afghanistan. When the Ten Rings brought in Tony Stark, injured from a missile used in their ambush, they charged Yinsen with keeping him alive. A skilled and resourceful field surgeon, Yinsen removed much of the shrapnel from Stark's body and helped keep him alive long enough to build an electromagnet piece in his chest to keep the remaining shrapnel from entering his heart.
====Partners in Captivity====
Under captivity, Tony Stark and Yinsen were ordered by the Ten Rings to build a Jericho missile, or they would be killed. However, Stark refused and was tortured. Yinsen managed to motivate him and both men acknowledged that they would be murdered either way and instead focused on an escape plan. Stark revealed to Yinsen that he would use the parts that the Ten Rings gave them and build a weaponized suit of armor, which he would use to take out the terrorists and return Yinsen to his family.
====Escape and Death====
Yinsen helped Tony Stark keep the Mark I Armor he was making a secret from Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar and assisted in its creation. When Stark asked about Yinsen's family, Yinsen merely noted that he would see them when he left the Ten Rings Base. Yinsen also pointed out that Stark's legacy was his weapons being used by the Ten Rings and suggests that he should rectify this.
During the escape the terrorists were alerted to their plan, seeing there was no way they could power up the suit while defending themselves simultaneously, Yinsen sacrificed himself by taking a gun and attacking the terrorists, thereby giving Stark time to power up the suit. He was mortally wounded when he ran around a corner only to be shot by dozens of terrorists. When Stark found Yinsen, bleeding out from his wounds, he reassured Stark that his demise had always been the plan as his family was dead and that he wished to be reunited with them. Stark thanked Yinsen for saving him. With his dying breath, Yinsen asked Stark not to waste the rest of his life. Stark was quietly enraged by Yinsen's death, and dispatched the remaining Ten Rings members with emphatic fury.
===Legacy===
====Remembered by Tony Stark====
Thanks to Yinsen's sacrifice, Tony Stark was able to escape and once back in the United States, he discontinued Stark Industries' mass weapon production line despite this causing his company's stock market value to plummet, much to Obadiah Stane's chagrin. After discovering that Stane was the one responsible for his kidnapping and defeating Stane, Stark dedicated himself to becoming a crimefighter, taking on the identity of Iron Man, for which he designed similar armors to the one he and Yinsen designed on Afghanistan.
Despite meeting Yinsen for a short time, Stark never forgot his advice and dedicated the rest of his life to become less egotistical and become more selfless and heroic. As the years passed by, Stark came to start a family of his own just like Yinsen once did. This eventually culminated in Stark sacrificing himself to stop Thanos from destroying the universe in 2023, finally giving up his life like Yinsen did for him in the past.Avengers: Endgame
==Personality==
Ho Yinsen was a humble family man who was in many ways the polar opposite to Tony Stark. Quiet, unassuming and willing to sacrifice himself to save Stark. Before passing away, Yinsen acknowledged that he was at peace by knowing that he would see his family again and told Stark to no longer waste his life nor the chance he had been given to redeem himself.
==Abilities==
*Genius-Level Intellect: Yinsen was a very smart and helpful man. When he first met Tony Stark, they were both at a New Year's Party with many other geniuses. He tried to approach Stark, but was shot down. He also graduated from University of Cambridge. He was also a very logical man, he taught Stark the lesson of how his own decisions have consequences on people. He told Stark not to waste his life. This is what ultimately led to Iron Man and his quest until his death.
*Master Engineer: While saving Tony Stark, Yinsen managed to connect wires to a car battery and then make an electromagnet within Stark's chest so that the shrapnel was kept from entering his heart and killing him. His engineering gave Stark the idea to create the first Arc Reactor, which Yinsen helped with. He also helped Stark create the prototype Iron Man Armor.
*Expert Scientist: Yinsen was a renowned scientist before being captured by the Ten Rings. He even graduated from University of Cambridge with a degree.
*Master Physician: Yinsen was considered a world-renowned surgeon and was able to keep Tony Stark alive when he had shrapnel from a missile digging into his heart, by improvising an electromagnet with the few resources he had in captivity, and keep the shrapnel of his heart.
*Multilingualism: Yinsen was fluent in his native Dari, as well as English, Russian, Urdu, French, and a little Hungarian.
==Equipment==
===Weapons===
*: Yinsen grabbed one of these rifles from one of the members of the Ten Rings during their escape attempt and started to shoot wildly in order to divert the attention from Tony Stark while he finished preparing his armor for the escape.
===Other Equipment===
*Iron Man Armor: Mark I: In an attempt to escape captivity, Yinsen and Tony Stark worked together to building an armor which Stark could wear by tricking the Ten Rings into thinking they were recreating the Jericho missile. Stark donned the armor and used it to attempt to help Yinsen escape, but Yinsen died in the process.
*Arc Reactor: To save Stark from getting shrapnel near his heart, Yinsen implanted a device into Stark's chest using an electromagnet and a car battery, a feat that that saved his life. Later, Stark used the model for the Arc Reactor to replace the car battery with a stronger one.
==Facilities==
*Ten Rings Base: Yinsen was held captive in the Ten Rings' base in Afghanistan, where his skills were used to help Tony Stark build a Jericho missile for Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar, and translate Abu Bakaar's words for Stark. Yinsen aided Stark in building the Mark I Armor, and escaping from the base despite his death.
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Wife †
*Child †
===Allies===
*Wu - Associate
*Jan Georgoh
*Stark Industries
**Tony Stark † - Friend and Patient
*Maya Hansen †
===Enemies===
*Ten Rings - Killers
**Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar †
**Abu Bakaar
**Omar †
**Ahmed †
==Appearances==
In chronological order:
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==Trivia==
*In the comics, Ho Yinsen was a physicist and engineer from Timbetpal, greatly admired by Tony Stark.
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