Origin

Apache Chief's main power is the ability to become larger; he can only do this by saying the words "Inyuk-chuk" which in his language means "Big Man". It is said that his powers have no limit. The Native American hero obtained his powers one day walking with the chief of his tribe. Both the chief and the young brave were confronted by a bear. While the young brave became fearful, the chief remained calm, suspecting that this was just the occasion for the brave's dormant powers to be revealed. The chief presented the brave with some magical dust, telling him that if the brave was quiet and strong his thoughts would come to be. The brave calmed him self and said the word "inyuk-chuk." He grew to be enormous and and dispatched the bear without violence. This Brave became Apache Chief and went on to defend the Indian people as well as the entire plant as part of the Super Friends.

One of his most famous triumphs was when battling the space colossus. A great bearded giant, who appeared to be cosmic in origin, managed to bottle not only all of Earth's heroes, but the planet itself. Apache Chief chanted his magic word and grew to the same size as the colossus. They grappled through the milky way and eventualy Apache chief emerged the victor, releasing the heroes and saving the planet.

Super Friends

Apache Chief is a Native American Superhero. It is commonly said that the only reason they added him and created him is because all the characters before him where white. They also added Black Vulcan, El Dorado, Rima the Jungle Girl, and Samurai. They all represent different races, which are the following:

Black Vulcan- African American

Apache Chief- Native American (Apache)

Samurai- Asian (Japanese)

El Dorado- Hispanic (Vaguely Mexican or South American, as the plot required).

Rima-- who knows? She looked white but was raised in some geographically-indeterminate jungle.

Apache Chief was featured in Robot Chicken, Family Guy and Harvey Birdman, where he spilled hot coffe in his lap and could not "grow larger", fnarr fnarr. Played for exactly the kind of laughs you'd expect from that show. In Apache Chief's recurring appearances on Harvey Birdman, this became a running gag of him either being afraid of getting, or actually getting, injured in the crotch by various means.

There is also a more serious character in Justice League Unlimited that is a parody/homage of him called Long Shadow. Long Shadow was one of the Ultimen, who allied with the Justice League and had a crush on Wonder Woman. In addition to growth, he later mutated to gain super-hearing. Presumably, like the other Ultiman, he eventually died of genetic instability.