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Emperor Ming The Merciless
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  “Flash! Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!” Flash Gordon: Quarterback, New York Jets. Armed only with a strong arm, good looks, and leadership skills honed on the field, he saved every one of us. You may remember a series of earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters occurring around 1980. What you thought was the work of the Supreme Being or an angry Mother Earth was actually the fiendish plot of Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo. Using his advanced technology to wreak havoc, Ming was merely toying with our planet before ultimately destroying it. Thankfully for us, Doctor Hans Zarkov constructs a spacecraft with which he launches himself, Flash and lovely reporter Dale Arden into the far reaches of space. The three are drawn to the surface of Mongo, where they're taken captive by Ming and learn of his plot. Ming sends our platinum blonde hero (Flash—Dale was a brunette) into the gas chamber, but the Emperor’s seductive daughter, Princess Aura, revives Flash and takes him to the forest home of Prince Barin. Overcoming the distrust of the Mongonians (Mongoids? Mongans? Mongols?), Flash assembles a coalition of men, hawkmen and other angry locals to revolt against Ming’s tyrannical rule, setting the stage for a spectacular revolution in the capital city. |
