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- "If this fellow had been drawn to Sunnydale by the Hellmouth, we had better be very careful. A creature this old is extremely deadly."
- ―Rupert Giles
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| San Sui | |
| Aliases: | Iron Fist |
| Continuity: | Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Vampire |
| Location: | China Sunnydale, California |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Died: | 1998 |
| First: | Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 |
San Sui is a fictional vampire featured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer mythos. He first appeared in the first issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book series by Dark Horse Comics.
Biography[]
San Sui was an ancient Chinese vampire who hailed from Changsha, near the Xian River. He was a traveling vampire who fed on the blood of his vanquished foes, which he believed afforded him additional strength. It was rumored that San Sui rang a huge bell a thousand times a night at a temple in Hunan province to commemorate his victories. This earned him the nickname "Iron Fist".
In 1998, San Sui came to the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, California hoping to find a worthy opponent. He witnessed Buffy Summers fighting off a horde of lesser vampires and decided to keep a close eye on her. He later popped up at a local martial arts dojo where he attacked the school's sensei. Buffy appeared and fought with the vampire, but it was actually her non-powered friend Xander Harris who dealt the killing blow, running San Sui through with a broken, wooden pole. [1]
Abilities[]
- Vampirism: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters.
- Enhanced senses: Vampires have improved several times higher than those of any human being of course these skills can vary depending on each person they will have some other stronger senses of his companions always given the dedication and training that each set to improve ways. Among the main ways that vampires have improved we find the following:
- Immortality: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
- Invulnerability: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
- Regeneration: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
- Superhuman strength: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
- Superhuman stamina: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
- Psychokinesis: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
- Hypnosis: Vampires possess the ability to hypnotize or mesmerize human targets. This may become difficult against opponents with an extremely high will power. It often doesn't work against other supernatural creatures. In some cases, vampire mesmerism may be referred to as "glamouring".
- Transformation: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly.
- Metamorphosis: Only vampires with a more advanced powers Control demonstrate the ability of altering either its appearance to imitate other people or in such cases selective transformation for creating claws to increase the lethal capability of its attacks in extreme cases and only vampires with a capacity of very advanced monitoring capabilities such change would show how elements, elasticity and other capabilities which vary depending on their ability, imagination and control, because as you know some vampires are stronger than others.
- Claws: Vampires can often turn their fingernails into sharpened claws, which are extremely durable and sharp. They are ideal for rending and tearing through flesh, though they are not as effective as the claws possessed by a werewolf.
- Fangs: A vampire's most often-used weapon are her fangs. They are enlarged sharpened canine teeth, which are often retractable so as to allow a vampire the ability to pose as a normal human. The primary purpose of fangs is for feeding, which they use to puncture the jugular vein of a victim in order to get to their blood.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of San Sui was created by writer Andi Watson and artist Joe Bennett based on concepts developed by Joss Whedon.
- San Sui is likely considered a "non-canon" character since he was never referenced in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series or in the canonical Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic book series.
- Final fate: Staked by Xander Harris.
- Iron Fist is also the name of a Marvel Comics character who is an American martial artist named Danny Rand. He has the ability to channel his chi into his fist making it "like unto a thing of iron".
- Giles hypothezied that San Sui may have been the inspiration for Lu Zhishen, the fraudulent monk character in the classical Chinese novel, The Water Margin.
- Xander Harris referred to San Sui as "The Mickey Rourke of ancient China". Mickey Rourke is a film actor who has appeared in movies such as Sin City and Iron Man 2.
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