Monkey Prince
Monkey Prince is a male comic superhero who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Marcus Sun
The family returned to Gotham for Marcus' sophomore year as his parents took a job with The Penguin. Marcus attended Gotham City High School where he quickly ran afoul of a trio of bullies led by Rizalino Mayled, who saw him as an easy target due to his phobias. The school janitor Mr. Zhu encouraged him to face his fears by leaping into the school swimming pool, and after a particularly bad incident where the bullies beat him up and stole his prized sneakers, he jumped in. He had a vision of the Monkey King's home on Flower Fruit Mountain, where Mr. Zhu told Marcus that Monkey King was his birth father and revealed his true identity as the Monkey King's old comrade Shifu Pigsy. He placed a circlet on Marcus' head and unlocked his powers, telling him a great evil was coming and his training had begun. Marcus returned to Earth in monkey form and attacked the bullies who picked on him. Damian Wayne saw him and called his father to tell him there was a metahuman loose in the school. They tried to stop him as Batman and Robin, which resulted in Marcus getting his head cut off with a batarang. (Monkey Prince v1 #1) Marcus survived thanks to his powers, but in his fear he began to revert to human form, and would have died if Pigsy hadn't saved him and reattached his head at the last moment. Marcus told Pigsy he wanted nothing to do with him and even removed the circlet, but the next morning he woke up to find it back on his body. At school, Damian and a girl named Kaya, who Marcus had a crush on, confronted him and asked him what he knew about the Monkey Prince. Kaya had seen Marcus jump into the pool and the Monkey Prince fly out, but fortunately they did not suspect that he was the Monkey Prince as Pigsy had also climbed out of the pool disguised as Marcus to protect his identity. Marcus went to the janitor's office and asked Pigsy to remove the circlet, but Pigsy told him that the circlet could not be removed and taught him how to transform at will by saying the magic spell 'Biàn'. Pigsy made the circlet constrict around Marcus' head and began his training, telling him that he would loosen the circlet if Marcus could snatch an envelope from his hand. (Monkey Prince v1 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Monkey Prince was able to create magical clones of himself from his own hairs, although initially his clones were tiny and misshapen. (Monkey Prince v1 #9)
Notes
- The Monkey Prince was created by Gene Luen Yang, Bernard Chang, and Jessica Chen where he made his first appearance in DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration v1 #1 (May, 2021).
In other media
Video games
- In DC Legends, the Monkey Prince appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game. Marcus Sun was a clone of Sun Wukong left behind when the Monkey King retreated into the Phantom Zone. He was adopted by the Shugel-Shen family. When he discovered the truth about his origins, he took the moniker of Monkey Prince and became a demon hunter.
Appearances
- DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration v1: (021)
- Monkey Prince v1:
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