Dr. Yinsen
From Marvel Movies
| Dr. Yinsen | |
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| Appeared in | Iron Man |
| Actor | Shaun Toub |
Yinsen is one of Tony Stark's fellow captives in Afghanistan in the 2008 Iron Man movie. A medical doctor, he removes much of the shrapnel from Stark's body, and helps keep him alive long enough to build a shield around his heart for the remaining shrapnel. He then helps Stark keep the Iron Man Mark 1 suit he is making a secret from their captor, Raza.
Shaun Toub describes his character's importance to Tony Stark thusly: [1]
| He’s the man who really starts Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man, on his journey. He’s responsible for the beginnings of how the suit came about, what happened to his heart. He really basically starts him off on that journey.
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History
Yinsen is a Muslim doctor and engineer from a small fictional village in Afghanistan called Gulmira and is captured by the local branch of an international terrorist group called "The Ten Rings" sometime before the film. Yinsen meets Tony Stark when he too is kidnapped by the group. Yinsen constructs a makeshift electromagnet, powered by a car battery, which he implants into Stark's chest as a way to prevent shrapnel, lodged into Tony's chest during his kidnapping, from entering his heart and killing him. Under captivity, Stark and Yinsen are ordered by the terrorists to build a missile similar to the kind Stark was demonstrating to the US military or they will be killed. However, both men know that they will be murdered either way and plan an escape instead.
Yinsen assists Stark in secretly creating his prototype Iron Man armor as a means of escape and also helps Stark to build a prototype power source for the electromagnet that is more powerful and compact. While working together the two men bond. Yinsen notes that Tony and him actually met briefly at a conference in Bern, though he understands that Stark doesn't remember as he was so drunk. When Tony asks about Yinsen's family, Yinsen merely notes, "I will see them when I leave this place". Yinsen also points out the damage wreaked upon the region by the terrorists, using Stark's own weapons, and ask if this is what he wishes "the legacy of the great Tony Stark" to be.
When the armor is finally completed, Yinsen helps Tony into the suit and preps it for activation. However, when the terrorists get wind of their plan, Yinsen realizes that they need more time for the suit's software to fully load. In order to buy Stark extra time, Yinsen grabs an assault rifle and chases the terrorists away from their workshop but quickly finds himself surrounded and out-gunned. When the suit is fully powered up, Stark easily fights his way through the cave, but finds a gravely wounded Yinsen lying near the entrance. With his dying breath Yinsen explains to Stark that his family had already died and that he is now going to meet them. When Tony thanks him for saving his life, Yinsen tells Stark "Don't waste your life." He dies immediately after, and an enraged Stark destroys the terrorist camp and their stockpile of Stark Industry weapons before escaping.
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