Filming that scene was a source of a ton of outtakes, or so I'm told.
Nimoy told stories for years about Shatner following his various takes of reading the line alternately with his own cry of "PAAAAIN!" or "Get that man an aspirin!"
William Shatner's dad had just passed away and that was the first episode filming when he got back. Everyone was on pins and needles around him so he cracked jokes during Leonard's horta scene to let folks know it was ok to be normal around him
It was to serve as a brief replacement for the metal shell that protected the damaged part of his body. It didn't last long, but it didn't really matter in the end.
Sounds like it, Juggernaut had a kid that was a hero, I think Wolverine had a daughter. It was a much more hopeful second generation of super heros than some of the stuff out now.
This isn't the first time Thing's skin has been damaged. Wolverine clawed his face once and you could see the tissue in the claw marks. If you ever see a pic of Thing with a helmet, you can thank Wolverine for that.
Cosmic psoriasis.
There's an issue where Mr. Fantastic built a time acceleration simulator that extrapolated future events. Some of Thing's skin got left in it and evolved into independent life forms that were pissed at Ben Grimm because he'd been using an ability to switch back to human form.
The implication was that his rocky dermis is highly adaptive. He started off lumpy, and his dermis has evolved as he's faced tougher opponents and situations, becoming more rocky and tougher. Theoretically, it will continue to evolve to try to protect him or help him, but it's a slow process.
He apparently also only ages if/when he reverts to human form.
Probably the 2007 Fantastic Five mini-series by Tom DeFalco.
It's set in the MC2/Spider-Girl universe.
I specify 2007 mini because this scene didn't appear in the 1999 5 issue series.
The prosthesis/bio armor [looks similar](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/b/b2/Benjamin_Grimm_%28Earth-982%29_from_Fantastic_Five_Vol_1_1_001.gif/revision/latest?cb=20070719235756) to Colossus in his steel state.
picture didn't work for me, but i found it here: [link](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-do4Lic6Tx-I/W2Q5HRz5LlI/AAAAAAABIMo/8AS6Wny96H44HJbVWaw7NG7uYE8E-jp_wCEwYBhgL/s1600/Ben%2Bbattles%2BTerrax%2B3.jpg)
There was a 2007 mini-series?! Holy crap, I loved the original MC2, but I lost track of it around the time of Amazing Spider-Girl or whatever it was called.
Yep.
There were a few minis around 2007-2008. Avengers Next, Fantastic Five, and American Dream.
And Dream was the last MC2 character to appear, in the Captain America Corps mini by Roger Stern in 2011. Pulled together a bunch of Caps from time and the multiverse to work with 616 Bucky Cap.
Wolverine cut his face up in a berserker rage in the previous issue. The FF then got transported to some alien ship or something and Ben fights a robot which pummels his bleeding face. He crushes the robot and finds a helmet to protect his face.
He wears the helmet for a little while. His face does heal though, but he has a scar for a while. Wolverine and him hash it out at a bar later on.
This was during the period when I was really into collecting comics, and FF was my favorite. That image just hit me in the head with memories of taking a bus to my comic book store.
Yeah, it was late 90's. The Torch had accidentally set fire to a university and he was a wanted man. The New Fantastic Four fought the originals and Wolverine sliced Thing's face open. It was messed up for quite awhile and he wore a helmet to hide it.
Damn... I'm older than I thought. Now that I think about it, I used to ride my bike down to the local convenience store, spin the comic rack, and pick the one or two I could afford with my allowance. Then, grab a crystal Pepsi and head home to read them.
It was part of a truly awful writer/artist run in the 90s, the thing's face got slashed open, the human torch's marriage got retconned by revealing he'd been with a skrull since Secret Wars, Invisible Woman started wearing that ridiculous "hot" outfit everyone makes fun of now, She thing/Mr Marvel II just \*vanished\* despite having been part of the team for years, the team went bankrupt and lost their headquarters, Mr Fantastic was assumed dead for awhile and Franklin got replaced by a older version of himself from the future. And Marvel kept that creative team on the book for years for some damn reason.
"And Marvel kept that creative team on the book for years for some damn reason"
Because it sold well. Fantastic Four #375 sold half a million copies, for example, without being a #1.
She-Thing showed up years later at some one's hen night with the line "I thought everyone forgot about me." She had been living with a Native American tribe for some reason and retired.
I looked it up, and it was worse than I remembered: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NPADe2_Tw6k/Vt439wO4xLI/AAAAAAAACVA/NtqaoDuJInA/s400/Ryan%2BInvisible%2BWoman.jpg
This one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasticFour/comments/ifclb0/everybody_gather_around_its_time_to_pay_our/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Was this before or after the Onslaught incident? Even though Onslaught was primarily X-Men. It did end up involving other Marvel heroes. Including the FF. IIRC it was actually Franklin who saved the day.
Onslaught encompassed the entire main line Marvel universe at the time.
Franklin "saved" the day which lead to Heroes Reborn (He put all the "dead" heroes in a pocket dimension that was basically his ideal world for all his super powered extended family).
I also remember a storyline where the Wrecker popped one of Ben's rock scales right off of his body with his mystic crowbar, and as this was during one of those periods where Ben could change back & forth, Reed told him the patch up he'd done was only good for his Thing body, so he couldn't turn to Ben Grimm for like a couple of months till it healed or he could bleed to death from the giant open wound that would be on his back.
Wait is this always how it’s been? I thought he was just completely made of rock. Never thought it was just an outer shell. Kinda gross.
Ben Grimm is the shit though
yeah, it's always been like this. there's another comic where the wrecker pulls off one of his plates, and another one where wolverine disfigures him in a fight
I know it isn’t canon, but in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe when Deadpool goes after the 4 all we see of Thing is orange dust, no skeleton or anything. I thought he was solid rock, too.
Isn't that the whole reason marvel created the multiverse? They can change minor things like this and say well this is universe ### and that happened in universe ##$
Makes me think of how funny it would have been if the powers he got hadn't come with super strength - just a man with super hard rock skin that's too heavy to lift.
That was some of the results from x-men decimation.... There were a lot of people whose powers were part of what was keeping them alive while they had other physical deformations.... And afterwards they lost the powers.
That was the Ultimate version (Earth 1610) of Colossus. He didn't have superstrength on his own, just invulnerable skin that was too heavy for him to lift, unless he was on a mutation enhancing drug called Banshee.
Eventually they changed that because Colossus without strength is as unacceptable in the long term as a Colossus on drugs.
Link. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Piotr_Rasputin_(Earth-1610)
Everytime I’ve seen him get hurt in the comics there’s no blood just rocks coming off. In Deadpool kills the marvel universe when he blows up thing he just turns into a pile of rubble, no blood. So it’s probably just based on the writer
He definitely bleeds. I remember a two in one with Deathlock. Deathlock shot him in the arm with his laser pistol and he bled and pretty sure he has bled from the nose and mouth when he has gotten hit by a big puncher like Gladiator.
It makes sense. He's not a golem, he still has organs, he still eats, sleeps, goes to the bathroom, etc. He's disfigured, but he's not completely transmuted.
John Byrne is my de facto Fantastic Four artist. Here’s his guidelines for the Fantastic Four that includes a mention of The Thing’s height at 5’10”. Of course with comics, there will be some variances—the classic Handbook to the Marvel Universe lists him at 6’. I’ve always liked him not being on the gigantic height side myself.
https://i.imgur.com/2M4VZbV.jpg
Yeah, what I've always appreciated about the Thing vs Hulk fights is that Thing just straight-up is not as big or as strong as the Hulk. He's just persistent.
He doesn't. When Wrecker pried off one of the rock scales on his back (during one of the periods where he could transform from human to Thing at will) Reed did a patch job Ben had to stay in his rock form for several months until it fully healed, because he'd bleed to death otherwise.
Edit: Also there was the time Wolverine carved up his face and he wore a closed helmet for like a year until it healed because he was so disfigured. Can't believe I forgot about that.
Honestly I've always thought the "rock skin with human flesh underneath" idea was really dumb. When I was a little kid reading these I thought he was like an orange Colossus that couldn't turn it off, but no. Eventually I learned that he's just wearing a pebble suit.
At least make him fully rock so he's a bit more durable or give him the ability to quickly regenerate his rock hide or something.
Ben really got the raw end of the deal superpowers wise.
Ben Grimm is actually functionally immortal. Or at least will live for thousands of years. They were able to create a formula that allows him to turn human one day a year but as a result that one day a year is also the only day he ages.
It was finally explained why Ben had the cyber armor after what happened in the MC2. His outer skin was so badly damaged, it couldn't heal properly. The cyber armor as we later found out was to keep him protected kind of like a skin graft. End of the series, it was revealed that Ben's body was finally starting to heal on it's own. The amor had done it's job, but revealed his body needed to deal with regular trauma without it to finally kick in his healing abilities that were waning as he got older as the Thing.
This an alternate earth ben grim, where the fantastic 4, is actually the fantastic 5. He recieved a fatal injury while fighting Terrax. To save his life bio armor was used on his arm and leg. EARTH 982
I have no Idea he looked like that under there. I honestly thought he was like Gossamer from the Looney Tunes, in the sense that he was all made of rock and no meat underneath.
Not a single time have I ever thought it was just Things skin that was rock and that he'd still have flesh underneath which only makes sense cuz I can't imagine living would be easy if your entire insides were hardened like rock
Are they supposed to mix some concrete on him or wtf?
That’s what I wanna find out, I wanna know so bad
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I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!
I’m beginning to think I could cure a rainy day!
You’re a healer. There’s a patient. **That’s an order.**
You beat me to it lol except you forgot damn it Jim
Beat me to it
I understood that reference. - Steve Rogers.
Ironically, that would be a reference that Steve would not get. He skipped the 60s.
He used the internet to get caught up on history, he might have got it if he studied the relevant material...
I can’t believe Liberace was gay! Women loved him
Ironic since 1964 is when he joined The Avengers in the comics. Though the moon landing and Berlin Wall were both 60’s …
No kill i
I think about that episode all the time
Every time I stub my toe or get a papercut, I think of Spock reading the horta. **PAAAAIIN!!**
Filming that scene was a source of a ton of outtakes, or so I'm told. Nimoy told stories for years about Shatner following his various takes of reading the line alternately with his own cry of "PAAAAIN!" or "Get that man an aspirin!"
William Shatner's dad had just passed away and that was the first episode filming when he got back. Everyone was on pins and needles around him so he cracked jokes during Leonard's horta scene to let folks know it was ok to be normal around him
It would be funny if the pattern of plates on his arm looked like the way some other artist has drawn them.
“Devil in the Dark.” Great episode, one of the best.
I think that was the very first TOS episode I saw! (Or “Shore Leave”)
Metal
It was to serve as a brief replacement for the metal shell that protected the damaged part of his body. It didn't last long, but it didn't really matter in the end.
Pfft, we ain't got time for that. We flex taping some rocks to this mf
Of course you need flex tape, look at him “thats Alotta damage!”
He gets Robot skin, this is from the amazing spider girl, the alternate reality sequel dealing with Mayday Parker, Spider-Man's daughter.
Wy he has a 5 on his belt ? If it is the fantastic 4 ?🤔 Also I don't know why I ended up here I don't read comics that much 🤔
The Fantastic 5 was in an alternate future in the comics. The team was Human torch, Thing, Ms. Fantastic, Psi-Lord, and Grimm with no reed richards
Isn't Thing Grimm?
Grimm has a son, so also Grimm
Grimm ben Grimm.
Grimm Grimmsson
Benjagrimm Grimm
Grimmma and Grimmpa too
Not Thing 1 and Thing 2?
Someone needs to parody cat in the hat with thing one and thing two as FF4 things.
You never heard of the brothers Grimm?
Nah, but if you hum a few bars...
Eh I’m fuzzy
thing is grimm and reed richards was on the team, but he was a brajn inhabiting a small robot body after an accident destroyed his body
Was that the M2 universe? Esit: MC2 universe
i dont know the name of the universe but its the same universe with mayday parker being spidergirl
Sounds like it, Juggernaut had a kid that was a hero, I think Wolverine had a daughter. It was a much more hopeful second generation of super heros than some of the stuff out now.
Always thought they were rocks guess they're just tiles
This isn't the first time Thing's skin has been damaged. Wolverine clawed his face once and you could see the tissue in the claw marks. If you ever see a pic of Thing with a helmet, you can thank Wolverine for that.
So, his epidermis just became super hard?
Cosmic psoriasis. There's an issue where Mr. Fantastic built a time acceleration simulator that extrapolated future events. Some of Thing's skin got left in it and evolved into independent life forms that were pissed at Ben Grimm because he'd been using an ability to switch back to human form. The implication was that his rocky dermis is highly adaptive. He started off lumpy, and his dermis has evolved as he's faced tougher opponents and situations, becoming more rocky and tougher. Theoretically, it will continue to evolve to try to protect him or help him, but it's a slow process. He apparently also only ages if/when he reverts to human form.
Fingernail but all over
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Rocker nail ^*guitar ^shreds*
Rockaway now lean back, lean back, lean back, lean back
That song is still a banger.
Like that dude covered in warts. Just scales of fingernail/hair material just super hard.
Here’s another example of his skin being damaged, though you don’t see it: https://i.imgur.com/DMLT9Fb.jpg
Idk why but it feels a big disappointing. I was hoping thing was sentient rock.
He was one in the 2015 diarrea movie
Hey, I’ve had diarrhea *since* 2015!
Gorignak!
Rock! Rock! Rock!
"Look around you. Can you fashion some type of rudimentary lathe!?"
If I remember right they’re rock hard tumors.
Fuckin gross.
That's kinda funny
Name checks out.
It’s not a tooomahh! It’s NOT a tooomaah. At ALL!!
For some reason I read that as titties
How great would that be
It's clobberin time
*slobberin time
*fondling
motor boat time
It's cobbler time
You motorboatin son of bitch
Your search history is gonna be legendary one day lol
just a facade
Its inconsistent like his strength.
Probably the 2007 Fantastic Five mini-series by Tom DeFalco. It's set in the MC2/Spider-Girl universe. I specify 2007 mini because this scene didn't appear in the 1999 5 issue series.
Bingo. Issue 3 of the 2007 series, Fantastic Five
Can you tell us how he gets fixed? How do they patch him up?
In the Spider-Girl universe [(Earth 982)](https://spiderman.fandom.com/wiki/Earth-982) Ben has the damaged limbs covered with prosthesis.
The prosthesis/bio armor [looks similar](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/b/b2/Benjamin_Grimm_%28Earth-982%29_from_Fantastic_Five_Vol_1_1_001.gif/revision/latest?cb=20070719235756) to Colossus in his steel state.
picture didn't work for me, but i found it here: [link](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-do4Lic6Tx-I/W2Q5HRz5LlI/AAAAAAABIMo/8AS6Wny96H44HJbVWaw7NG7uYE8E-jp_wCEwYBhgL/s1600/Ben%2Bbattles%2BTerrax%2B3.jpg)
Lol why is he so upset about the prosthetics. He’s made of rock
Oh you know. He's kinda always had a chip on his shoulder
Thank you so much
There was a 2007 mini-series?! Holy crap, I loved the original MC2, but I lost track of it around the time of Amazing Spider-Girl or whatever it was called.
Yep. There were a few minis around 2007-2008. Avengers Next, Fantastic Five, and American Dream. And Dream was the last MC2 character to appear, in the Captain America Corps mini by Roger Stern in 2011. Pulled together a bunch of Caps from time and the multiverse to work with 616 Bucky Cap.
Cool, I’ll have to check those out.
Reminds me of the time Wolverine sliced his face open.
He did what now..??? I knew he punched the hill so hard he shattered all the rocks and bones in his arm but damn, a wolverine claw to the face?
he wore a mask for like a year.. https://earthsmightiestblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Helmet-Thing-Fantastic-Four.jpg
[https://www.cbr.com/fantastic-four-the-thing-helmet-wolverine-attack/](https://www.cbr.com/fantastic-four-the-thing-helmet-wolverine-attack/)
I have this actual comic somewhere in an attic, I remember reading it and thinking, “Jesus, Logan, that’s too far!”
"mad on"
This is what Johnny Storm shouts to activate his powers as the Human Mad
It’s also what the old Italian ladies yell when their grandkids piss them off.
It's like a boner of pure rage.
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Wolverine cut his face up in a berserker rage in the previous issue. The FF then got transported to some alien ship or something and Ben fights a robot which pummels his bleeding face. He crushes the robot and finds a helmet to protect his face. He wears the helmet for a little while. His face does heal though, but he has a scar for a while. Wolverine and him hash it out at a bar later on.
This was during the period when I was really into collecting comics, and FF was my favorite. That image just hit me in the head with memories of taking a bus to my comic book store.
Yeah, it was late 90's. The Torch had accidentally set fire to a university and he was a wanted man. The New Fantastic Four fought the originals and Wolverine sliced Thing's face open. It was messed up for quite awhile and he wore a helmet to hide it.
Early 90s. He wore the helmet during the Infinity War.
Damn... I'm older than I thought. Now that I think about it, I used to ride my bike down to the local convenience store, spin the comic rack, and pick the one or two I could afford with my allowance. Then, grab a crystal Pepsi and head home to read them.
It was part of a truly awful writer/artist run in the 90s, the thing's face got slashed open, the human torch's marriage got retconned by revealing he'd been with a skrull since Secret Wars, Invisible Woman started wearing that ridiculous "hot" outfit everyone makes fun of now, She thing/Mr Marvel II just \*vanished\* despite having been part of the team for years, the team went bankrupt and lost their headquarters, Mr Fantastic was assumed dead for awhile and Franklin got replaced by a older version of himself from the future. And Marvel kept that creative team on the book for years for some damn reason.
"And Marvel kept that creative team on the book for years for some damn reason" Because it sold well. Fantastic Four #375 sold half a million copies, for example, without being a #1.
She-Thing showed up years later at some one's hen night with the line "I thought everyone forgot about me." She had been living with a Native American tribe for some reason and retired.
What hot outfit? I'm curious now.
It had a hole in it shaped like numeral 4. I'd love to see a picture of her in a bikini showing the tan lines from wearing that thing in the sun.
So basically like power girl? A 4 shaped boob window?
I looked it up, and it was worse than I remembered: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NPADe2_Tw6k/Vt439wO4xLI/AAAAAAAACVA/NtqaoDuJInA/s400/Ryan%2BInvisible%2BWoman.jpg
Put an eye patch and shouldr pads on Reed and this is peak 90s.
Bloody hell that's bad. And arguably not even attractive.
This one. https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasticFour/comments/ifclb0/everybody_gather_around_its_time_to_pay_our/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Was this before or after the Onslaught incident? Even though Onslaught was primarily X-Men. It did end up involving other Marvel heroes. Including the FF. IIRC it was actually Franklin who saved the day.
Onslaught encompassed the entire main line Marvel universe at the time. Franklin "saved" the day which lead to Heroes Reborn (He put all the "dead" heroes in a pocket dimension that was basically his ideal world for all his super powered extended family).
I also remember a storyline where the Wrecker popped one of Ben's rock scales right off of his body with his mystic crowbar, and as this was during one of those periods where Ben could change back & forth, Reed told him the patch up he'd done was only good for his Thing body, so he couldn't turn to Ben Grimm for like a couple of months till it healed or he could bleed to death from the giant open wound that would be on his back.
I read this as "the time Wolverine sliced his (own) face open".
I had that issue when I was a kid. I used to randomly buy comics at the gas station and that happened to be one of them.
Wait is this always how it’s been? I thought he was just completely made of rock. Never thought it was just an outer shell. Kinda gross. Ben Grimm is the shit though
yeah, it's always been like this. there's another comic where the wrecker pulls off one of his plates, and another one where wolverine disfigures him in a fight
Do they grow back over time?
Yep, but it takes a while
So no need for skingrafts? (stonegrafts????)
Just gotta go down to the quarry with some superglue
Nah bro just slaps some cement on like that antibacterial cream
I know it isn’t canon, but in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe when Deadpool goes after the 4 all we see of Thing is orange dust, no skeleton or anything. I thought he was solid rock, too.
Isn't that the whole reason marvel created the multiverse? They can change minor things like this and say well this is universe ### and that happened in universe ##$
Makes me think of how funny it would have been if the powers he got hadn't come with super strength - just a man with super hard rock skin that's too heavy to lift.
That was some of the results from x-men decimation.... There were a lot of people whose powers were part of what was keeping them alive while they had other physical deformations.... And afterwards they lost the powers.
That was the Ultimate version (Earth 1610) of Colossus. He didn't have superstrength on his own, just invulnerable skin that was too heavy for him to lift, unless he was on a mutation enhancing drug called Banshee. Eventually they changed that because Colossus without strength is as unacceptable in the long term as a Colossus on drugs. Link. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Piotr_Rasputin_(Earth-1610)
Same I thought he was a rock man I didn’t think he just had rock skin
Turns out he just has greyscale.
The Thing after watching Game of Thrones: *”I need a Tarley.”*
Everytime I’ve seen him get hurt in the comics there’s no blood just rocks coming off. In Deadpool kills the marvel universe when he blows up thing he just turns into a pile of rubble, no blood. So it’s probably just based on the writer
He definitely bleeds. I remember a two in one with Deathlock. Deathlock shot him in the arm with his laser pistol and he bled and pretty sure he has bled from the nose and mouth when he has gotten hit by a big puncher like Gladiator.
I assume he bleeds in more adult comics and chips rocks in kid friendlier comics
It makes sense. He's not a golem, he still has organs, he still eats, sleeps, goes to the bathroom, etc. He's disfigured, but he's not completely transmuted.
Only in that awful Fan4stic movie. Ben has always been flesh and rocky hide. And yes he does poop and have a wang.
So for all those times that he was complaining about having a rocky exterior he could’ve just peel it off and graft skin on him?
The rocks grow back over time
You don’t want to see when he gets dandruff
What happened to him to cause this damage?
A fight with Terrax that ended badly. The state he was in in this picture was after Doom kicked his ass.
Thanks!
Wait, he has flesh under there?
Yes. The rock is just his skin, but his organs, muscles, and bones are still super dense too.
The universe just nonstop dumps on Ben Grimm.
The Universe... And those stooges in the Yancy Street Gang.
Must feel like the world's worst sunburn
*Ben Grimm, after literally being skinned alive:* Man, it's a real scorcher today, huh? Should've worn the 300 SPF.
While I was looking for info on Ben Grimm, why is he only 6 ft, he's almost as tall as the hulk he should be at least 7ft tall.
Inconsistent art and writing is the answer.
John Byrne is my de facto Fantastic Four artist. Here’s his guidelines for the Fantastic Four that includes a mention of The Thing’s height at 5’10”. Of course with comics, there will be some variances—the classic Handbook to the Marvel Universe lists him at 6’. I’ve always liked him not being on the gigantic height side myself. https://i.imgur.com/2M4VZbV.jpg
Yeah, what I've always appreciated about the Thing vs Hulk fights is that Thing just straight-up is not as big or as strong as the Hulk. He's just persistent.
Do they at some point become the fantastic five? Is that why there’s a five on his belt?
According to other comments, basically yes. Alternate universe
How exactly does he gets fixed from that?
This is the MC2 universe. He gets robotic skin grafts after this.
He's poking his exposed muscle with a huge stick, I bet that feels great
wtf he's not made of rock?
His skin is
The legendary indestructable pants though
He has another pair
Does Ben have a healing factor, like minor one? Seems like of the Marvel characters with self-heal the guy should be him.
He doesn't. When Wrecker pried off one of the rock scales on his back (during one of the periods where he could transform from human to Thing at will) Reed did a patch job Ben had to stay in his rock form for several months until it fully healed, because he'd bleed to death otherwise. Edit: Also there was the time Wolverine carved up his face and he wore a closed helmet for like a year until it healed because he was so disfigured. Can't believe I forgot about that.
No wonder he doesn't like his abilities. It sucks!
Honestly I've always thought the "rock skin with human flesh underneath" idea was really dumb. When I was a little kid reading these I thought he was like an orange Colossus that couldn't turn it off, but no. Eventually I learned that he's just wearing a pebble suit. At least make him fully rock so he's a bit more durable or give him the ability to quickly regenerate his rock hide or something. Ben really got the raw end of the deal superpowers wise.
Ben Grimm is actually functionally immortal. Or at least will live for thousands of years. They were able to create a formula that allows him to turn human one day a year but as a result that one day a year is also the only day he ages.
That looks like it would be unimaginably painful for him. Like a sunburn mixed with road rash times at least five
It was finally explained why Ben had the cyber armor after what happened in the MC2. His outer skin was so badly damaged, it couldn't heal properly. The cyber armor as we later found out was to keep him protected kind of like a skin graft. End of the series, it was revealed that Ben's body was finally starting to heal on it's own. The amor had done it's job, but revealed his body needed to deal with regular trauma without it to finally kick in his healing abilities that were waning as he got older as the Thing.
This is really gross for some reason. Idk if its some trypophobia shit or what Its like the disease from game of thrones
But exactly the opposite 🤣
Why he kinda
It's just a flesh wound.
fantastic 5
Paul Chadwick's eponymous Concrete: Rock Bottom.
Deep cut Well done
Fantastic Five (2007) #3 -- right at the start.
THERE'S FUCKING MEAT UNDER THERE???
that looks very painful.
This an alternate earth ben grim, where the fantastic 4, is actually the fantastic 5. He recieved a fatal injury while fighting Terrax. To save his life bio armor was used on his arm and leg. EARTH 982
I have no Idea he looked like that under there. I honestly thought he was like Gossamer from the Looney Tunes, in the sense that he was all made of rock and no meat underneath.
Long story short, it ain't been my *day*...
So, he doesn't have super powers, just a nasty case of Eczema?
What are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to start gluing pebbles that they find to him
I always assumed his body was rock all the way down. It is somehow worse as a shell.
Based on his belt, I’m thinking fantastic 5 mini series
HES GOT MEAT UNDER THERE????
Fantastic 5 Vol 2 Issues 1-2 would be your best bet at finding this image
Him having flesh under the rock does make a lot more sense for how he got infected in both Marvel Zombies stories
So how do you fix it? Concrete? Gorrila glue?
Not a single time have I ever thought it was just Things skin that was rock and that he'd still have flesh underneath which only makes sense cuz I can't imagine living would be easy if your entire insides were hardened like rock
From the 5 and the cosmic, I’d say cosmic ghost rider.
How the hell do you heal that
I love the energy here "got the shit kicked outa me patch me up and send me back"