Post by Dawn on Feb 10, 2010 1:23:37 GMT -5
First Name:Benjamin
Last Name:Grimm
Alias or Nick-name:Ben, The Thing
Age:32
Height/Weight: 6' ft/400 pb
Eyes: Blue
Hair:N/A... unless you count Orange rocks as hair
Persuasion: Good
Powers/Weapons:As a result of exposure to cosmic rays, the Thing possesses high levels of superhuman strength, stamina, and resistance to physical injury. His strength has increased over the years due to a combination of further mutation and special exercise equipment designed for him by Reed Richards. He is capable of surviving impacts of great strength and force without sustaining injury. It has been stated that sustained fire from armor piercing rounds can penetrate his skin. The cyborg Deathlok was able to pierce his skin and injure him with a high powered MASER pistol. Deathlok's analysis was that The Thing's epidermis was 2.25 centimeters. The Thing's highly advanced musculature generates fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting him superhuman levels of stamina.
Aside from his physical attributes, The Thing's senses can withstand greater levels of sensory stimulation than an ordinary human, with the exception of his sense of touch. His lungs possess greater efficiency and volume than those of an ordinary human. As a result, the Thing is capable of holding his breath for much greater periods of time.
Despite his brutish, even monstrous form, the Thing suffers no change in his personality nor his level of intelligence. Despite his greatly increased size, the Thing's agility and reflexes remain at the same level they had been prior to his transformation.
The Thing is an exceptionally skilled pilot, due to his time spent as a test pilot in the United States Air Force and as a member of the Fantastic Four. He is also a formidable hand to hand combatant. His fighting style incorporates elements of boxing, wrestling, and streetfighting techniques, as well as hand-to-hand combat training from the military
History:Born on Yancy Street in New York City's Lower East Side, to a Jewish family, Benjamin Jacob Grimm had an early life that was one of poverty and hardship, shaping young Grimm into a tough, streetwise scrapper. His older brother Daniel, whom Ben idolized, was killed in a street gang fight when Ben was eight years old. This portion of his own life is modeled on that of Jack Kirby, who grew up on tough Delancey Street, whose brother died when he was young, whose father was named Benjamin, and who was named Jacob at birth. Following the death of his parents, Ben was raised by his Uncle Jake (who at some point married a much younger wife, Petunia).
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.
While in college, Ben became interested in a girl named Alynn Cambers. They briefly dated, but after telling Ben to remember she loved him, she disappeared. Ben found her a few weeks later, and after walking through the park and telling her how much he cared about her, he proposed marriage. Reluctantly, she turned him down, stating she had to focus on an acting career. A heartbroken Ben flung the engagement ring into a pond and tried to forget about her. As the years passed, Alynn became a movie star, and Ben fell in love with Alicia Masters. One day Ben received a letter from Alynn asking to meet with him. Ben was reluctant, due to his orange rocklike appearance, but did meet with her. To his surprise, she was permanently disfigured and barely able to walk due to a stroke she had suffered eighteen months earlier. She wanted to ask him how he had coped with such a drastic change in appearance. Ben helped her realize she would still have a good life even with what she had gone through.
Following college, Grimm joined the United States Army Air Force, where he was trained 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 superhuman abilities. Grimm's skin had been transformed into a thick, orange hide, which gradually evolved into his now-familiar covering of large rocky plates. Richards proposed the quartet band together to use their new abilities for the betterment of humanity, and Grimm, in a moment of 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 an unconscious 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 unconscious 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 as leader of the Fantastic Four when Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman left the team to raise their son Franklin. Ben would invite Crystal and Ms. Marvel II (Sharon Ventura) to fill their slots. Soon after Sharon and Ben were irradiated with cosmic rays, Sharon became a lumpy Thing much like Ben was in his first few appearances while Ben mutated into a new rocky form that has been often mocked by fans as resembling a pineapple.
After being further mutated into the 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.
The relationship between Alicia and Johnny was vehemently disliked by many fans, and was later retconned and explained that the Alicia that Johnny fell in love with was actually Lyja, a member of the shape-changing Skrull. The real Alicia, who was in suspended animation was soon rescued by the Fantastic Four and reunited with the Thing.
In a Fantastic Four comic published in 2005, Ben learned he was entitled to a large sum of money, his share of the Fantastic Four fortune (which Reed Richards had never touched over the years to pay off various costs and debts of the group, unlike the shares of the other teammates, who were family members). The following year, spurred by the success of the Fantastic Four feature film (of which much of the press was centred on the portrayal of the Thing ) the Thing, under writer Dan Slott, began starring in his first solo title in more than 20 years. Slott's series, though a critical success, suffered from low sales, and was cancelled after the eighth issue.
The Thing used his newfound wealth to build a community center in his old neighborhood on Yancy Street, the "Grimm Youth Center". Thinking the center was named after the Thing himself, Yancy Street Gang planned to graffiti the building exterior, but when they discovered that the building was named after Daniel Grimm, the Thing's deceased older brother, who had been a leader of the Yancy Street Gang, the relationship between the Yancy Streeters and the Thing was effectively reconciled, at least to a more good-natured, playful (the comic ending with Yancy Streeters spray-painting the sleeping Thing).
Some personality traits of the cantankerously lovable, occasionally cigar-smoking, Jewish native of the Lower East Side are popularly recognized as having been inspired by those of co-creator Kirby, who in interviews has said he intended Grimm to be an alter ego of himself. However, as was usual for comic-book characters of that era, no religion was publicly mentioned. Grimm has since been revealed to be Jewish, like Kirby, in Fantastic Four v3, #56, published in August 2002, in a story titled "Remembrance of Things Past". In the final issue of his solo series, Ben even agrees to finally have his very own Bar Mitzvah, it being 13 years since he began his "second life" as the Thing. To celebrate the ceremony, Ben organized a poker tournament for every available superhero in the Marvel Universe.
Comic character is from:Marvel comics, mainly in the Fantastic Four series and his own.
Info gotten from:Wiki
Last Name:Grimm
Alias or Nick-name:Ben, The Thing
Age:32
Height/Weight: 6' ft/400 pb
Eyes: Blue
Hair:N/A... unless you count Orange rocks as hair
Persuasion: Good
Powers/Weapons:As a result of exposure to cosmic rays, the Thing possesses high levels of superhuman strength, stamina, and resistance to physical injury. His strength has increased over the years due to a combination of further mutation and special exercise equipment designed for him by Reed Richards. He is capable of surviving impacts of great strength and force without sustaining injury. It has been stated that sustained fire from armor piercing rounds can penetrate his skin. The cyborg Deathlok was able to pierce his skin and injure him with a high powered MASER pistol. Deathlok's analysis was that The Thing's epidermis was 2.25 centimeters. The Thing's highly advanced musculature generates fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting him superhuman levels of stamina.
Aside from his physical attributes, The Thing's senses can withstand greater levels of sensory stimulation than an ordinary human, with the exception of his sense of touch. His lungs possess greater efficiency and volume than those of an ordinary human. As a result, the Thing is capable of holding his breath for much greater periods of time.
Despite his brutish, even monstrous form, the Thing suffers no change in his personality nor his level of intelligence. Despite his greatly increased size, the Thing's agility and reflexes remain at the same level they had been prior to his transformation.
The Thing is an exceptionally skilled pilot, due to his time spent as a test pilot in the United States Air Force and as a member of the Fantastic Four. He is also a formidable hand to hand combatant. His fighting style incorporates elements of boxing, wrestling, and streetfighting techniques, as well as hand-to-hand combat training from the military
History:Born on Yancy Street in New York City's Lower East Side, to a Jewish family, Benjamin Jacob Grimm had an early life that was one of poverty and hardship, shaping young Grimm into a tough, streetwise scrapper. His older brother Daniel, whom Ben idolized, was killed in a street gang fight when Ben was eight years old. This portion of his own life is modeled on that of Jack Kirby, who grew up on tough Delancey Street, whose brother died when he was young, whose father was named Benjamin, and who was named Jacob at birth. Following the death of his parents, Ben was raised by his Uncle Jake (who at some point married a much younger wife, Petunia).
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.
While in college, Ben became interested in a girl named Alynn Cambers. They briefly dated, but after telling Ben to remember she loved him, she disappeared. Ben found her a few weeks later, and after walking through the park and telling her how much he cared about her, he proposed marriage. Reluctantly, she turned him down, stating she had to focus on an acting career. A heartbroken Ben flung the engagement ring into a pond and tried to forget about her. As the years passed, Alynn became a movie star, and Ben fell in love with Alicia Masters. One day Ben received a letter from Alynn asking to meet with him. Ben was reluctant, due to his orange rocklike appearance, but did meet with her. To his surprise, she was permanently disfigured and barely able to walk due to a stroke she had suffered eighteen months earlier. She wanted to ask him how he had coped with such a drastic change in appearance. Ben helped her realize she would still have a good life even with what she had gone through.
Following college, Grimm joined the United States Army Air Force, where he was trained 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 superhuman abilities. Grimm's skin had been transformed into a thick, orange hide, which gradually evolved into his now-familiar covering of large rocky plates. Richards proposed the quartet band together to use their new abilities for the betterment of humanity, and Grimm, in a moment of 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 an unconscious 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 unconscious 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 as leader of the Fantastic Four when Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman left the team to raise their son Franklin. Ben would invite Crystal and Ms. Marvel II (Sharon Ventura) to fill their slots. Soon after Sharon and Ben were irradiated with cosmic rays, Sharon became a lumpy Thing much like Ben was in his first few appearances while Ben mutated into a new rocky form that has been often mocked by fans as resembling a pineapple.
After being further mutated into the 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.
The relationship between Alicia and Johnny was vehemently disliked by many fans, and was later retconned and explained that the Alicia that Johnny fell in love with was actually Lyja, a member of the shape-changing Skrull. The real Alicia, who was in suspended animation was soon rescued by the Fantastic Four and reunited with the Thing.
In a Fantastic Four comic published in 2005, Ben learned he was entitled to a large sum of money, his share of the Fantastic Four fortune (which Reed Richards had never touched over the years to pay off various costs and debts of the group, unlike the shares of the other teammates, who were family members). The following year, spurred by the success of the Fantastic Four feature film (of which much of the press was centred on the portrayal of the Thing ) the Thing, under writer Dan Slott, began starring in his first solo title in more than 20 years. Slott's series, though a critical success, suffered from low sales, and was cancelled after the eighth issue.
The Thing used his newfound wealth to build a community center in his old neighborhood on Yancy Street, the "Grimm Youth Center". Thinking the center was named after the Thing himself, Yancy Street Gang planned to graffiti the building exterior, but when they discovered that the building was named after Daniel Grimm, the Thing's deceased older brother, who had been a leader of the Yancy Street Gang, the relationship between the Yancy Streeters and the Thing was effectively reconciled, at least to a more good-natured, playful (the comic ending with Yancy Streeters spray-painting the sleeping Thing).
Some personality traits of the cantankerously lovable, occasionally cigar-smoking, Jewish native of the Lower East Side are popularly recognized as having been inspired by those of co-creator Kirby, who in interviews has said he intended Grimm to be an alter ego of himself. However, as was usual for comic-book characters of that era, no religion was publicly mentioned. Grimm has since been revealed to be Jewish, like Kirby, in Fantastic Four v3, #56, published in August 2002, in a story titled "Remembrance of Things Past". In the final issue of his solo series, Ben even agrees to finally have his very own Bar Mitzvah, it being 13 years since he began his "second life" as the Thing. To celebrate the ceremony, Ben organized a poker tournament for every available superhero in the Marvel Universe.
Comic character is from:Marvel comics, mainly in the Fantastic Four series and his own.
Info gotten from:Wiki
