Post by Bishop on May 15, 2006 19:23:02 GMT -5
The Ever-Lovin Blue-Eyed Thing
Name: The Thing
Alias: Also Ben Grim
Gender: Male
Side: Pro-registration
Appearance:
Height 6 ft.
Weight 500 lbs
Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colour: None...unless you count the rocks.
Mutation/Powers:
The Thing possesses superhuman strength, endurance, and durability. The mutagenic, specific-frequency cosmic ray bombardment caused his musculature, bone structure, internal organ composition, soft tissue structure, and skin to greatly increase in toughness and density. The Thing can exert himself at high levels for about an hour before the build-up of fatigue poisons in his blood impairs his strength. His reflexes have remained at their above average human levels despite his greater mass. The Thing's lungs are of greater volume and efficiency than a normal man's, enabling him to hold his breath underwater for up to nine minutes, The Thing's five senses can withstand greater amounts of sensory stimuli than he could when he was a normal human being, with no reduced sensitivity.
The Thing's body is able to withstand extremes of temperature from -75° to 800° Fahrenheit for up to an hour before exposure or heat prostration occurs. He can withstand the explosive effects of armor-piercing bazooka shells (15 pounds of high explosives) against his skin with no injury. He is still susceptible to colds, disease, and emotional stress.
Unlike in the case of the Hulk, the Thing has suffered no loss of intelligence or change in personality in his transformation into his monstrous form.
History/Background: Born on Yancy Street in New York City's Lower East Side, Benjamin J. Grimm's early life was one of poverty and hardship, shaping young Grimm into a tough, streetwise scrapper. His older brother Daniel, who Ben idolized, was killed in a street gang fight when Ben was eight years old. Following the death of his parents, Ben was raised by his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Jake.
Excelling in football as a high school student, Ben received a full scholarship to Empire State University, where he first met his eventual life-long friend Reed Richards. Science student Richards described his dream to one day build a space rocket and Grimm jokingly agreed to fly that rocket.
Following college, Grimm joined the Air Force as a test pilot. (His exploits as a military aviator were chronicled to a limited extent in issue #7 of the "Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders" comic, in a story entitled "Objective: Ben Grimm!")
Some years later, Reed Richards once again made contact with Grimm. Richards had built his spaceship, and reminded Grimm of his promise to fly the ship. After the government denied him permission to fly the spaceship himself, Richards plotted a clandestine flight piloted by Grimm and accompanied by Richards' future wife Susan Storm and her brother Johnny Storm. During this unauthorized ride into the upper atmosphere of Earth, they were pelted by a cosmic ray storm and exposed to radiation against which the ship's shields were no protection. Upon crashing down to Earth each of the four learned that they had developed fantastic superpowers. Grimm had been transformed initially into a lumpy orange thing, and later evolved gradually into his more familiar massive orange humanoid form of slightly jagged earthy rock. Richards proposed the quartet band together to use their new abilities for the betterment of humanity, and Grimm, in a moment of understandable self-pity, adopted the superheroic sobriquet The Thing.
Trapped in his monstrous form, Grimm was an unhappy yet reliable member of the team. He trusted in his friend Reed Richards to one day develop a cure for his condition. However, when he encountered blind sculptress Alicia Masters, Grimm developed a subconscious resistance to being transformed back to his human form. Fearing that Masters preferred him to remain in the monstrous form of the Thing, Grimm's body rejected various attempts by Richards to restore his human form lest he lose the love of Masters. His subconscious fear kept him in his rocky form and Grimm remained a stalwart member of the Fantastic Four for years.
He left the team when he opted to remain on an alien planet where he could control his transformation to and from his rocky superpowered form. Upon returning to Earth he learned that Alicia had become romantically involved with his team mate Johnny Storm while he was absent. Grimm wallowed in self-pity for a time but eventually returned to his surrogate family. It should be noted that the relationship between Johnny and Alicia was an outrage amongst fans. It was later retconned and explained that the Alicia that Johnny fell in love with was actually Lyja, a member of the Skrull. The real Alicia, who was in a frozen state was soon rescued by the Fantastic Four and reunited with the Thing.
Ben became the leader of the Fantastic Four for a time when the Richards took a sabbatical.
Fantastic Four #310 (January, 1988). The Thing gets rockier.
After being further mutated into a more monstrous rocky form and briefly being changed back to his human form, Grimm has once more returned to his traditional orange rocky form. He remains a steadfast member of the Fantastic Four and one of the most easily recognizable characters of the Marvel Universe.
Sample Post:
"I don't get it? What's the big deal!" The rock sized man Ben Grimm says trying to wrap his fingers around the handle of a small coffee cup. "I mean they could have hands like this and not be able to even drink a little coffee to wake themselves up in the morning. People wonder why I'm always ready to clobber something."
He gets up from the kitchen table and grabs the pot of coffee-the steam filling his nose before he guzzles the coffee like a six-pack.
"Now the only problem is hearing Sues mouth about me dirnking all the coffee again,like it's my fault it takes alot to wake me up to begin with. Should probablytake a nice shower before she wakes up to."
The phone then rings-It's Tony Stark.
Name: The Thing
Alias: Also Ben Grim
Gender: Male
Side: Pro-registration
Appearance:
Height 6 ft.
Weight 500 lbs
Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colour: None...unless you count the rocks.
Mutation/Powers:
The Thing possesses superhuman strength, endurance, and durability. The mutagenic, specific-frequency cosmic ray bombardment caused his musculature, bone structure, internal organ composition, soft tissue structure, and skin to greatly increase in toughness and density. The Thing can exert himself at high levels for about an hour before the build-up of fatigue poisons in his blood impairs his strength. His reflexes have remained at their above average human levels despite his greater mass. The Thing's lungs are of greater volume and efficiency than a normal man's, enabling him to hold his breath underwater for up to nine minutes, The Thing's five senses can withstand greater amounts of sensory stimuli than he could when he was a normal human being, with no reduced sensitivity.
The Thing's body is able to withstand extremes of temperature from -75° to 800° Fahrenheit for up to an hour before exposure or heat prostration occurs. He can withstand the explosive effects of armor-piercing bazooka shells (15 pounds of high explosives) against his skin with no injury. He is still susceptible to colds, disease, and emotional stress.
Unlike in the case of the Hulk, the Thing has suffered no loss of intelligence or change in personality in his transformation into his monstrous form.
History/Background: Born on Yancy Street in New York City's Lower East Side, Benjamin J. Grimm's early life was one of poverty and hardship, shaping young Grimm into a tough, streetwise scrapper. His older brother Daniel, who Ben idolized, was killed in a street gang fight when Ben was eight years old. Following the death of his parents, Ben was raised by his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Jake.
Excelling in football as a high school student, Ben received a full scholarship to Empire State University, where he first met his eventual life-long friend Reed Richards. Science student Richards described his dream to one day build a space rocket and Grimm jokingly agreed to fly that rocket.
Following college, Grimm joined the Air Force as a test pilot. (His exploits as a military aviator were chronicled to a limited extent in issue #7 of the "Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders" comic, in a story entitled "Objective: Ben Grimm!")
Some years later, Reed Richards once again made contact with Grimm. Richards had built his spaceship, and reminded Grimm of his promise to fly the ship. After the government denied him permission to fly the spaceship himself, Richards plotted a clandestine flight piloted by Grimm and accompanied by Richards' future wife Susan Storm and her brother Johnny Storm. During this unauthorized ride into the upper atmosphere of Earth, they were pelted by a cosmic ray storm and exposed to radiation against which the ship's shields were no protection. Upon crashing down to Earth each of the four learned that they had developed fantastic superpowers. Grimm had been transformed initially into a lumpy orange thing, and later evolved gradually into his more familiar massive orange humanoid form of slightly jagged earthy rock. Richards proposed the quartet band together to use their new abilities for the betterment of humanity, and Grimm, in a moment of understandable self-pity, adopted the superheroic sobriquet The Thing.
Trapped in his monstrous form, Grimm was an unhappy yet reliable member of the team. He trusted in his friend Reed Richards to one day develop a cure for his condition. However, when he encountered blind sculptress Alicia Masters, Grimm developed a subconscious resistance to being transformed back to his human form. Fearing that Masters preferred him to remain in the monstrous form of the Thing, Grimm's body rejected various attempts by Richards to restore his human form lest he lose the love of Masters. His subconscious fear kept him in his rocky form and Grimm remained a stalwart member of the Fantastic Four for years.
He left the team when he opted to remain on an alien planet where he could control his transformation to and from his rocky superpowered form. Upon returning to Earth he learned that Alicia had become romantically involved with his team mate Johnny Storm while he was absent. Grimm wallowed in self-pity for a time but eventually returned to his surrogate family. It should be noted that the relationship between Johnny and Alicia was an outrage amongst fans. It was later retconned and explained that the Alicia that Johnny fell in love with was actually Lyja, a member of the Skrull. The real Alicia, who was in a frozen state was soon rescued by the Fantastic Four and reunited with the Thing.
Ben became the leader of the Fantastic Four for a time when the Richards took a sabbatical.
Fantastic Four #310 (January, 1988). The Thing gets rockier.
After being further mutated into a more monstrous rocky form and briefly being changed back to his human form, Grimm has once more returned to his traditional orange rocky form. He remains a steadfast member of the Fantastic Four and one of the most easily recognizable characters of the Marvel Universe.
Sample Post:
"I don't get it? What's the big deal!" The rock sized man Ben Grimm says trying to wrap his fingers around the handle of a small coffee cup. "I mean they could have hands like this and not be able to even drink a little coffee to wake themselves up in the morning. People wonder why I'm always ready to clobber something."
He gets up from the kitchen table and grabs the pot of coffee-the steam filling his nose before he guzzles the coffee like a six-pack.
"Now the only problem is hearing Sues mouth about me dirnking all the coffee again,like it's my fault it takes alot to wake me up to begin with. Should probablytake a nice shower before she wakes up to."
The phone then rings-It's Tony Stark.
