Matsu'o Tsurayaba (Earth-616)

A Japanese Crimelord of the Yakuza and leader of The Hand, Matsuo has been associated with many crime & terrorist organizations throughout his criminal career.

Matsuo Tsurayaba

Nothing is known about the life of Matsu'o Tsurayaba prior to his joining the Yakuza, the Japanese organized crime family. In that capacity, he became leader of a faction of a ninja clan called The Hand, finding himself at odds with his lover Kwannon, an assassin for a rival crime lord, Nyoirin. After almost killing Kwannon in battle, Tsurayaba attempted to use technology from the extradimentional being Spiral to save her; however, Spiral instead switched Kwannon's consciousness with that of female mutant Psylocke, a member of the mutant super-team X-Men. Believing Kwannon's consciousness lost, Tsurayaba attempted to remake Psylocke, now in Kwannon's body, into an assassin in the service of the would-be conqueror Mandarin, but Psylocke broke free of her conditioning and, together with Wolverine and the young mutant Jubilee, defeated The Hand and Mandarin.