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An October 2001 installment [29] of the comic strip Get Your War On by David Rees featured one of the characters joking that George W. Bush would reveal himself to be Ming the Merciless at a press conference. In 2007, Ming the Merciless was ranked number 2 on the Forbes Fictional 15. [30]
He is especially well known for his characterization of Ming the Merciless, the evil adversary of the heroic outer-space adventurer Flash Gordon. He appears as Ming in three related serials: Flash Gordon (1936), Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940).
Morshead's men referred to him humorously as "Ming the Merciless", and later simply as "Ming", after the villain in Flash Gordon comics. [54] By July 1941, Morshead had become convinced that his troops were becoming tired. Their health was deteriorating and, in spite of his efforts, their morale and discipline were slipping.
Early film fan historians claimed that actor Lon Poff, playing the first of Ming's two high priests, died shortly after production began and was replaced by Theodore Lorch. [ citation needed ] In fact, however, only Poff's character died, or rather was killed by Ming in an act of fury and replaced by Lorch's High Priest, but the scene was cut ...
Max Von Sydow's archly evil Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon has been branded a 'discriminatory stereotype' by the British Board of Film Classification.
After Hans Zarkov abducted Flash Gordon and Dale Arden, they crash-landed Zarkov's rocket ship on Mongo near Mingo City, Ming's capital. [10] Mingo City is near the equator of the planet. [4] Mingo City is an enormous metropolis from where Ming's government rules most of the planet. Mongo's political structure is portrayed as exclusively ...
Princess Castra (voiced by Jennifer Darling) — Ming the Merciless' daughter; Octon (voiced by William Callaway) — an octopus-like artificial intelligence, equivalent to an 'evil version' of Dynac X, which advises Ming the Merciless of methods to conquer the Earth or defeat the Defenders. His name is derived from that of an opponent of ...
He played Ming, who transforms into a version of "Ming the Merciless", the arch-enemy of Flash Gordon, (during an hallucination that Sam J. Jones, the actor who plays Flash Gordon has) in Seth MacFarlane's film, Ted (2012). He has also worked with MacFarlane on episodes of Family Guy, providing voices for several characters on the show.