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| - Ho Yinsen was a prisoner of the Tong Triad terrorist group leader, Mnadarin in Afghanistan. During this time, American inventor Anthony Stark was sent to Afghanistan to supervise a field test of one of the Jericho missile. Stark was soon captured, shot and with the bullet shrapnel piercing through his chest. The gravely injured Stark was taken captive by Mandarin as well, and informed that the shrapnel would penetrate his heart within a week, killing him. Mandarin offered Stark at deal: if he would build the missile , he would allow his surgeons to save Stark's life. Stark agreed, hoping to gain time and access to tools.
Stark was given access to a small laboratory in the caves where the Tong were stationed along with fellow captive, Professor Ho Yinsen. A master of technology, Yinsen removed much of the shrapnel from Stark's body, and helped keep him alive long enough to build an electromagnet in his chest to keep the remaining shrapnel from entering his heart. Both men knew that they would be murdered either way if the Tong had the missile in their possession and planned an escape instead.
He then helped Stark keep the suit of armor he was making a secret from their captor and assisted him in its creation. When Tony asked about Yinsen's family, Yinsen merely noted, "I will see them when I leave this place." Yinsen also pointed out the damage wreaked upon the region by the terrorists, using Stark's own weapons, and asked if this is what he wished "the legacy of the great Tony Stark" to be.
During the escape he was killed while attempting to stall the guards long enough to buy Stark enough time to charge the suit. In his dying breath, Yinsen revealed that he had always been planning to die this way due to his family's deaths, his last words being to tell Stark "Don't waste your life." Inspired by Yinsen's example, Stark not only destroyed the camp where they were being held prisoner and dismantled his company's weapons program, but his first use of the 'official' Iron Man armor was to protect Yinsen's home village from an attack by the Tong.
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