| “ | He calls himself Dragon King. He's spent his long life building weapons designed to kill tens of thousands. | „ |
| ~ Pat Dugan on Shiro Ito. |
| “ | I missed you, my greatest experiment, well until now. | „ |
| ~ Dragon King revealing to Cindy he's still alive. |
Dr. Shiro Ito, also known as Dragon King, is the secondary antagonist of the DC show Stargirl. He serves as a supporting antagonist in Season 1, one of the two unseen overarching antagonists (alongside The Ultra-Humanite) of Season 2 and one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Lily Mahkent) of Season 3.
He is a Japanese scientist that escaped execution for war crimes following World War II through experimenting on himself to soon become a reptillian humanoid, adopting the moniker of Dragon King. He would resurface as a supervillain that battled the Seven Soldiers of Victory and later joined the Injustice Society of America.
He was portrayed by Nelson Lee.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- His only motivation is satisfying his twisted scientific curiosity and advancing himself by any means necessary.
Background[]
- He created several bioweapons for the Axis Powers during World War II and unleashed them on China, massacring tens of thousands and spreading plagues across the country with the infamous bacilli bombs.
- He transplanted Ultra-Humanite's brain into several bodies including actress Delores Winters and his famous albino gorilla form.
- He brainwashed countless people into becoming his zombie-like drones.
- He attempted to annihilate the state of New York with a living weapon.
- After capturing Shining Knight, he tortured him to insanity, shattering his mind and forcing him to live as an amnesiac janitor of Blue Valley High for his own amusement.
- He experimented on his daughter ever since birth to turn her into a living weapon by elementary school, kidnapping both her and her mother when they briefly escaped from him.
- As a result of Cindy gaining unwanted powers, Dragon King is responsible for her losing control and accidentally killing her mother, something he demonstrated no remorse for and only dredged up such horrific trauma to guilt-trip her and play on her insecurities.
- His experimentation and awful parenting is what turned Cindy into the sadistic yet broken supervillain she became.
- He kidnapped Bobbie Burman and conditioned her to be Cindy's "stepmother".
Season 1[]
- After Icicle killed the Wizard, he asked if he could experiment on the Wizard's dead body, something that disturbed even Icicle despite reluctantly agreeing to it.
- When Cindy murdered one of his brainwashed drones, his only response was to complain that it would take him a while to condition another.
- After Cindy failed to kill Stargirl one too many times, he kidnapped her and locked her in a dungeon like cell in his lab, gassing her to sleep like he did when she was an infant.
- He developed the machine for Project New America, which would enhance Brainwave's powers to enable him to permanently reprogram 75 million Americans into mindless slaves while an additional 25 million would die due to being too strong-willed to resist the brainwashing.
- In the final battle against the JSA, he mocked Shining Knight over what he did to him and defeated him, nearly killing him before ironically being stabbed in the back by Cindy.
Season 2 & 3[]
- After managing to recover from his seemingly fatal injuries and the fall of the ISA, he teamed up with a surviving Icicle and Ultra-Humanite to dig up Starman's corpse (having deduced the cosmic energy from the staff he once wore would slowly heal and revive him) in order for Dragon King to revive him for their plan to transplant Ultra-Humanite's brain into his body to be Icicle's puppet while Dragon King would get Ultra-Humanite's body in his "continuing quest to become something greater".
- Not only did he saw out Starman's brain without anesthesia, but he put his brain & consciousness in a torture loop to relive his last moments just as Dragon King did it for at least the 9 months since they recovered his body to enact the procedure to the end of the final season.
- He brutally killed his former, reformed colleague the Gambler after he was onto the fact that the villainous trio had cameras set up all over Blue Valley. This also served to start inflaming tensions between the JSA and reformed ISA members as part of the trio's plan.
- He murdered a farmer in order to claim his barn as a hideout and after the Young-Allstars stumbled onto him, he tracked them down to try and kill them, promising to kill them all.
- In the final battle, he nearly ripped his own daughter apart before the Thunderbolt was able to stop him.
- Though his fate of getting turned into a gorilla plush toy is comedic, it is treated as karmic in-universe and essentially a fate worse than death for a person who made it nigh-impossible for himself to be killed.
- Due to the fact that it's never stated when the JSA recovered Starman's brain, only that they had done so by 2031, it is very likely that Starman's consciousness was being tortured for years.
Trivia[]
- He is the first and so far only Stargirl villain to be PE.
External Links[]
- Dragon King on the Villains Wiki
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