Ming

Twilight Doctor

**Alex**:"*You are being used! All Dr Ming cares about is his research. He doesn't care whether you live or die!*"
**Dr Ming** :"*Hehe, such kind words.*"
— Ming's cruelty

**Dr Ming**, formerly the 41st-ranked adventurer, "Twilight Doctor", is an antagonist in the Golden Age Of Adventures series.

He is a cryptozoologist, who performs experiments on mythical creatures to enhance himself, with the ultimate goal of achieving immortality.

Along with The Void of The Ferocious Four, Ming is the last of the Blood Clan. He holds a mastery over the works of both sides of the House Of Dark Blood, the Iron Heart and Blood Clan.

As a mad doctor that cares only about his research, he is often seen working with villains, such as the Neo-Nazis, and Sigurd Bodon, bringing him into constant conflict with Alex and his allies.

## Design

Ming appears as a middle-aged Asian man with pink hair. His regular outfit seems to be a odd cross between a stereotypical doctor's and scientist's outfit, he is dressed fully in white clothes that cover all of his skin except for his face, and his gloves, which are black, not white. He also wears what appears to be a large "scrub cap", with a doctor's Head Mirror attached to it, and a lab coat.

When in battle however, he often ends up discarding his upper clothes, leaving him topless. His appearance takes on many different textures, but mostly he appears covered in dragon scales whenever he discards his shirt.

## Personality

Inhumanely vile, he only cares about his research and spares no thoughts about who he experiments on or his partners. He refers to his experiments as toys and sells out his partners. His cruelest side was shown in H35, when triggered a bomb implanted in the Glee-Fury monster, blowing it apart rather than allowing The Void to recapture it and attempt to save his brothers, remarking that he 'did not like to share his toys'.

## Plot

Spoiler Warning! The following plot summary contains Spoilers!

### Season 1

#### H06 The Order of the Monkey King

Ming participated in the joint expedition as part of the Ground Team. During the initial confrontation with the Snow Monkeys, Ming retrieved a tranquiliser for Master Niko to subdue a monkey, but it turned out to be unnecessary when the monkeys combined into an even bigger monkey.

#### H07 Domain of the Sacred Dragon

Ming helped Alex and Lulu pilot Fly High in order to escape the Odette, where they flew to China. During the fight between Akhator and the Qilin, he introduced himself as a cryptzoologist, and Lulu let him take a sample of her blood. During the expedition into the ruins, when Ben attempts to report their position, he uses a scalpel to slash Ben across the chest, destroying the radio and wounding him heavily.

Ming remarks that he "loves the taste of blood", and chases after Alex and Lulu, but they get separated. Later, Ming meets Marie in the ruins and attempts to trick her, only to be forced to flee after she sees through him. At the end of the book, he faces off against Alex and Lulu. He ends up on his last legs, and attempts to drink a vial of the Sacred Dragon's cells to empower him, but Marie catches up to him, cutting his arm off and he falls into the pit with the slumbering dragon.

#### H12 Defenders of the Earth

In Tibet, the news mentions that all of Akhator's forces were destroyed by one individual, revealed to be Ming, shown wearing a full-body cloak and covered in blood, carrying the head of a Tank Beetle as he leaves the scene.

### Season 2

#### H14 Menace of the Secret Cave

At the end of the book, Bobby, later known as Rafael, is shown onboard a submarine, where he hands Ming a few vials of Lulu's blood.

#### H15 Quest of the Monstrous Wolf

He is seen in a Nazi laboratory, conducting experiments on human transformation, in which he successfully turns a man into a wolf, and declares himself to be the first of the Blood Clan to discover Lars' secrets. Ming then agrees to work with the colonel to resurrect the Holy Leader, and create an army of monsters.

#### H16 Trap of the Tyrant

While Alex's IBYon cells were activated during the scene in which he pushed a pillar of stone to save the city above, Ming is shown working on a pile of flesh, and noticed one of the Star Seeds crack its containment chamber.

#### H19 Pursuit of the Daemon Hunters

When the Ferocious Four arrive at the Neo-Nazis' underwater base, Ming is there to greet them.

He compliments them on being able to capture "so many" of the Wee Folk, and presents them with a case full of gold bars as payment. He invites The Void to join the Neo-Nazis' new empire, but they refuse.

Afterward, when the Colonel says that Ming's project is beginning to become costly for their organization, leading Ming to explain why he needs the Wee Folk. According to Ming, the Wee Folk are the only ones able to create Lar's Metal, which he requires to transfer the Holy Leader's soul into the new Ibyon body he shows off to the Colonel, of which he says the cells has a "95.6% match to Akhator's"

#### H20 Realm of the Fairy Folk

He activated the Soul Transfer Machine that was based on Brighton's father's diary to transfer Adolf's soul into the IBYon body.

#### H23 Rise of the Dark Lord

Ming appeared when Steel Fang attempted to interrogate a grunt, laughing and taking it as a compliment when Robert told him he would face consequences for joining the Neo-Nazis. he used a device to activate the Ibyon cells remaining in Robert and Steel Fang's bodies, causing them to cough up blood, and then he lets Rafael fight the gathered adventurers.

When Fenrir confronts Ming about whether or not he is part of the Blood Clan, he explains that while his father was part of the Blood Clan, but that he has also mastered the Iron Heat's knowledge. He also reveals that The Void of the Ferocious Four is the only other surviving member.

#### H24 Light of the Star Guardian

After Rafael went berserk when Sally doused him with Iron Heart Rage Gas, causing Ming to retreat while declaring it was a "severe miscalculation", and that "that experiment was a failure". He solved a puzzle to open a portal to Shambhala, but Cammy, disguised as a Nazi soldier, locks Marie's explosive collar around his neck, forcing him to stay behind. On the way out, Ming steps on the tail of one of the prehistoric ferret's tails, luring Rafael over to the portal.

On arriving in the center of Shambhala, Ming remarks that he didn't recognize that place. When Goken mentions the Nazi soldiers transforming, Ming mentions that he made them "Berserker Pills", made from the beans of the giant trees. They give them immense strength, but they die when the effect wears off. At the end of the book, Ming emerges from the cooled lava in Shambhala's center, covered in dragon scales. He expresses disappointment that Adolf was destroyed, then moves on, before stopping and wondering how to leave.

### Season 3

#### H27 Flight of the Ferocious Four

When Glee and Fury are being carried off by their escape beasts, the beasts are suddenly shot down. Ming reveals himself to be the attacker, and later when Hank finds the escape beasts, Glee and Fury are gone.

#### H33 Encounter in the North

He arrived with Sigurd Bodon to battle the Children Of Gaia, using a machine he created with the elemental energies to absorb their powers, turning them into miniature forms of themselves. When escaping, he was shot by Benny, but his dragon scales blocked the bullet.

#### H35 Rift in the Blood Clan

When Ramson Spalding and Major Roger confront Ming to kill him, Ming commands his hybrid of Glee and Fury to stop them. As Roger is thrown through a wall, Ming notices Alex and Co., making him run away with Brighton chasing him, before he stops suddenly and commands his hybrid to kill him so Ming can study his suit. As Brighton and Ming face off in the hallway, a small whale shark bumps against the glass of the base. It attaches itself to the side, and Woe and The Void step out.

Woe, Brighton and The Void battle the hybrid, but Ming reveals that he combined the Steel Skin technique of the Iron Heart sect with the hybrid's body, giving it impenetrable armor. Woe wrestles with it, and Brighton exits his exobot to disassemble its armor, and The Void disables it with strength sapping mosquitos. Ming, upon seeing this, explodes the bomb he planted in his hybrid's heart, blowing it apart. In the resulting carnage, Ming grabs Brighton, and asks Brighton to join him.

The Void and Woe become enraged, attacking Ming, and The Void uses a creature born from the Sacred Dragon to destroy Ming's scales. Ming panics and sheds his skin, running away, only for Alex to slam him into a wall and capture him.

#### H36 The Sword of Gaia's Children

Ming is seen trapped, floating in a tank said to be designed by Brighton to imprison him.

## Experiments

### Adolf's resurrection

Transferring Adolf's soul into a new body (which was Akhator's sister's) through Lar's metal, with the help of the Wee Folk The ferocious Four captured.

### Berseker pills

Cause the user to transform, parts of their bodies enlarging to give them immense strength, but also killing them after the transformation ends.

### Attaching Rafael to Fenrir's wolf body

He attached Rafael, Fenrir's younger brother who is terribly jealous of him, to his previous wolf form. Fenrir's exprerimental body would cause him to transfrom into a powerful and destructive wolf during a full moon or when he use too much wolf strength. His body was taken by the enemy.

### Biological recreation of Fury and Glee

A giant monster wearing Glee and Fury's masks, made by himself after he adubted them, which first appeared in H33 Encounter in the North.