Ben Grimm

Ben Grimm or The Thing is the final member of the FF and the muscle of the team. He is voiced Brian Dobson

History

Not much is known about Ben's backstory apart from when Reed and Ben were soon was the best of friends and was one of the heroes today to go into space with the rest of the team.

Appearance

Ben has a hard, rocky, orange body with the Fantastic Four logo on his chest. He also has a pair of leggings with the rest of the teams design and he also has blue eyes.

Personality

Even though Ben may be a monster to some people in New York, he is loving, caring and a team player. He may get angry at some points in the series where Johnny plays pranks on him but he still has a big heart and will ever be "The ever loving blue-eyed Thing".

Powers & Abilities

Super Strength, Endurance, stamina, rock like skin gives him protection, hold his breath for more time than regular humans, each hand has three fingers and a thumb

Powers

• Geokinetic Mortal / Monster Physiology: The Thing received his powers when cosmic rays bombarded his body. He is extremely strong and durable. Nick Fury's intel classified him as power level 8.
  • Stone Mimicry: The Thing possesses a smooth, orange, rock-like hide as a result of exposure to cosmic rays. The mutagenic process caused his musculature, bone structure, internal organ composition, soft tissue structure, and skin to greatly increase in toughness and density. After being subjected to a serum, he now reverts to human form once a year, which is now the only time he ages.
    • Thick Rock-like Skin
      • Cold Resistance: Thing can withstand extreme cold with his rock-like skin.
      • Dermal Armor
        • Hide Generation
      • External Invulnerability
    • Stone Heart
    • Protected Senses
    • Moving Solid Defiance
  • 1-Trick Wonder
    • Unbreakable Physical Powerhouse Physiology
      • Superhuman Strength: The Thing's primary superhuman power is his great physical strength. Initially, he was only strong enough to rate as a class 5. Over the years, through rigorous training and further mutation, his strength dramatically increased to the point where he rated as a class 85 (the rating system is only for comparing characters with each other and should not remotely be taken literally). His latest rating put him as class 100. His feats include successfully holding back a giant alien spacecraft from jettisoning from Earth, lifting an oil rig and stopping a multiple story building (weighing roughly 30,000 tons) from falling over and lifting it back into place. Another feats include holding bridges main cables together for an extended period of time (which support about 10,000 tons). The Thing was also able to overpower a pile driver mechanism stated to be powerful enough to push through a planet. Underwater, the Thing proved a match for Namor's incredible raw strength, even gaining the upper hand. The Silver Surfer recognized Ben's vast strength, and needed to empower himself further, physically, to match him. Indeed, even being less powerful, the Thing proved strong enough to send a reasonably angry Savage Hulk flying with a mighty blow. He could also draw blood from the Green Scar, who was suppressing his full physical powers, but was stronger than the Savage Hulk, could replicate this feat while facing a relatively angry Hulk, and could knock out the Immortal Hulk, who was not consenting with the Puppet Master's control, but was also one of the most powerful incarnations of the Green Goliath. In fact, the Thing has consistently been portrayed as a rival to the Hulk, though usually being less powerful and normally confronting a restrained Hulk.
        • Strength Combat
        • Durability-based Strength
        • Power Fists
          • Megaton Punch
          • Thunderclap
            • Shockwave Generation
        • Supernatural Punch
        • Supernatural Lifting
      • Enhanced Stamina: The Thing's advanced musculature produces considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a normal human. At his peak, he can exert himself for about 24 hours before the buildup of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to affect him. Incidentally, 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 9 minutes, despite the fact that he used to smoke.
      • Superhuman Durability: The rock-like composition of the Thing's body renders him highly resistant to physical injury. The Thing's body can resist extremely powerful impact forces, such as the force of the Hulk's punches (the Hulk is far above class 100, which makes his punches devastatingly strong). He can also withstand exposure to high levels of explosives, such as being struck with bazooka shells or being shot point-blank with a high-caliber firearm without sustaining injury. His body can also withstand extreme temperatures. However, he couldn't withstand being slashed by Wolverine's Adamantium claws, and sustained facial injury, making adamantium one of the few things that can pierce the Thing's nearly impenetrable body.
        • Bulletproof Durability
        • Extreme Temperature Resistance
        • Invulnerability
      • Superhuman Sensory Adaptation: Though his senses aren't superhumanly acute, his 5 senses can withstand greater amounts of sensory stimuli than he could when he was a normal human being, with no reduced sensitivity. This was demonstrated during the Fantastic Four's first fight with the Hulk. While the sonic boom caused by Hulk's thunderclap knocked out the rest of the group, Ben was barely phased, only sent slightly back due to the accompanying shockwaves.
      • Superhuman Speed: Ben can run faster than 30 mph.
        • Above-Average Reflexes
      • Superhuman Dexterity
      • Enhanced Lung Capacity
        • Enhanced/Super Roar
      • Power-Skill Combo
  • Semi-Immortality: The Thing cannot age. The only way for him to age is by being in his human form. If he's not turned back to human or decides not to turn back to human one day a year as he's able to, The Thing would theoretically never die.
  • Unnaturally Large Size
  • Power-Skill Combo

Former Powers

• Power Cosmic: When Galactus' Antithesis from the Negative Zone depowered the devourer of worlds and began spreading his influence over the universe, Galactus imbued the Fantastic Four with the power cosmic in order to defeat his antithesis.
  • Energy Absorption: While imbued with the Power Cosmic, Thing was able to absorb Antithesis' energy from the possessed victims of the cosmic being.
  • Telekinesis: While imbued with the Power Cosmic, when Thing threw a punch, the hit would echo through his enemies.

Abilities

• Expert Pilot: Ben is an exceptionally skilled and experienced pilot, proficient with many varieties of both conventional and exotic aircraft.
  • Aviation Mastery
• Experienced Astronaut: Ben has also trained as an astronaut and was piloting Reed Richard's spacecraft during the team's fateful bombardment with cosmic rays. Reed and the Inhumans entrusted the difficult navigation and safe flight of Attilan to the Blue Area of the Moon to him.
  • Spacecraft Mastery
• Melee Fighter
  • Intellectual Combat
  • Master Combatant: He is uniquely gifted in the art of hand-to-hand combat (a skill Ben honed long before he became the Thing), though his fighting style tends to be a rather loose brawling technique all his own. This style often incorporates collegiate wrestling techniques, Boxing (as he has been stated to have spent hours upon hours honing his boxing skills in the gym during college), and on at least one occasion even Jujutsu. In his youth, Ben was a talented football player.
    • Counter
  • Brawling Mastery
• Peak Human Agility: Despite his abnormal size and weight, Ben is able to move as fast and as freely as he did when he was human.
• Indomitable Will: One of Ben's remarkable qualities is his extreme willpower. Whatever obstacles may come, he would try until he overcomes them or dies. In fact, during his fight with the Champion of the universe, despite suffering severe injuries, he kept coming back, making the Champion remark that while he could break every bone in Ben's body, he could never defeat him, as he could never break Ben's spirit, and forfeited the fight so that he wouldn't be forced to hurt Ben anymore. This implacable determination was also demonstrated in the battle against the Immortal Hulk. During this battle, Ben had to overcome a superior foe, who was been controlled by the Puppet Master, in order to save himself and Alicia.
  • Enhanced Willpower
• Subconscious Restraint: Ben is portrayed as someone who holds back; it has eventually been indicated that the Thing normally exercises subconscious control over his strength, not allowing it to exceed a certain limit and accidentally harm others.
• Musical Skill: The Thing can play the saxophone.
• Team Strong
  • Genius Bruiser

Weaknesses

• Handicap: Ben is limited in his capacity to use normal, everyday appliances due to his sheer size, weight and strength or interact with normal objects. His powers are also implied to have robbed him of his sense of touch.
  • Compromised Dexerity: Ben's large fingers make it hard to grasp small objects, such as pins or rings. His large fingers and lack of skin friction also make it hard for him to pick up flat objects, like paper and index cards or press small buttons such as cell phones or touch screens.
  • Physical Judgment: His strength also makes it difficult for him to grab fragile objects without breaking them, as he has less feedback to determine if the object is under stress. Even normal objects like phones, shot glasses, etc. could break under his grasp.
  • Self-File: At times, Ben is extremely sensitive about his appearance, and if pushed too far, will either become enraged or depressed.
  • Power-based Disability
• Fantastic Four Power Synergism: The original members of the Fantastic Four are tethered to each other, and act as their own conduits of power. They can be apart within their own universe and retain a connection, but prolonged periods cut off from each other in other universes result in a gradual decline in power levels. If they spend too much time separated this way, they would eventually become powerless.
• Since Ben's skin is made entirely rock solid, his only weakness is things that burn like acid.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Fantastic Four uniform: The Thing's costume, and the rest of his wardrobe, is constructed of unstable molecules. The Thing's costume has a complete data processing and telemetry system woven into its fabric on a molecular level, making it like a wearable computer. The costume forms a network with the rest of the Fantastic Four, providing a constant, real time uplink of everyone’s physical condition as well as their location and current situation. The costume is capable of displaying data and has touch-pad controls on the gauntlets. Its sensors can track all of the team's uniforms and provide a picture of their immediate vicinity. The costume has an intricate scanner system which can detect things around the wearer, from how many people are in the next room to what dimension or planet they are on.
• Fantasti-Flare: The Thing normally carries a miniature flare pistol capable of creating a fiery “4" signal in the sky. Used as a weapon, the incendiary charge will ignite flammable materials.
• Universal translator: Ben has a universal translator that can decipher and interpret languages, both alien and terrestrial, into the native language of the user.

Weapons

• Hammer of Angrir

Transportation

• Fantasti-Car MK II, Pogo Plane MK I.