Benjamin Grimm (Earth-1111)

{{Character Template|Title = The Thing|CurrentAlias = Thing|RealName = Benjamin Jacob Grimm|Image = Thing_(Earth-1111).png|Aliases = Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing, Grimm Ripper, Benjy, Rocky, Rock Hulk|Identity = Public|Alignment = Good|Affiliation = Fantastic Four|Relatives = Daniel Grimm (father), Elsie Grimm (mother), Jake Grimm (brother)|Universe = Earth-1111|BaseOfOperations = Baxter Building, New York|Gender = Male|Height = 7'5|Weight = 1650 lbs|Eyes = Blue|Hair = Brown (as Grimm) None (as the Thing)|UnusualFeatures = Rock skin|Citizenship = American|MaritalStatus = Dating|Origin = Enhanced human via dark matter and extra dimensional energies|PlaceOfBirth = San Francisco|Creators = Awesomekid120|First = Astonishing Fantastic Four #1|Quote = Been waitin' to say this! It's Clobberin' Time!|Speaker = Ben Grimm, The Thing|HistoryText = ===Early Life=== Ben had a rough childhood suffering constant abuse at the hands of his older brother, who said "It's Clobberin' Time!" at one point, before slapping him repeatedly. In middle school, Ben met and befriended a young Reed Richards, the two became best friends and had a mutually beneficial relationship, Reed would tutor Ben and math and science while Ben would beat off the bullies. Due to being a child prodigy, Reed graduated middle school and left Ben at regular middle school, Ben never saw him again until 14 years later.

Ben, now graduated from high school and eighteen years old worked for his dad as a mechanic for a couple of years. At twenty years old, Ben went into the U.S. Air Force and became a highly skilled fighter pilot, as well as a test pilot and an astronaut.

Favor for a friend
In 2012, his childhood friend Reed who he hadn't seen in years gave him a call asking for his help in building a state of the art space shuttle, with the two going way back, Ben agreed to help. Ben was also introduced to Johnny Storm who would be helping him build the space shuttle and Reed's fiancee and Johnny's sister Sue.

Becoming the Fantastic Four
After it was built, the four went to investigate the wormhole but were sucked inside of it being basked in the dark matter and extra-dimensional energies.

The four crash landed back to Earth in the desert of New Mexico, Reed was elongated and stretched out across the ground, Sue was nowhere to be seen until she reappeared out of thin air, Johnny was unconscious and on fire, and Ben covered in rock, they were later discovered by the U.S. Army and taken to a military base. The four awoke and discovered their powers and were later told that they had been gone a year.

The army then made Ben and the others stay at the military base where they can run tests on their newfound powers, in the meantime Reed created suits for the four that could contain their powers while also discovering the dark matter and extra-dimensional energies they were bathed in had granted them their powers. Ben feeling angry over feeling like a monster, Reed promised him he'd find a cure. In the meantime, Johnny and Ben developed a friendly rivalry, with Johnny constantly pranking Ben and Ben always retaliating.

In the months of Ben, Reed, Sue, and Johnny testing the limits and learning how to control their powers; an ex-Military supervisor code named Mole Man had created an army called the Mole Men and began his attempt in taking over Manhattan with his new army. Seeing as the military had attempted to fight off his army and failed, the four volunteered to use their powers to fight off the Mole Men. In their very public battle and almost wiping Manhattan off the map, they succeeded in defeating Mole Man and his army. A few weeks after their battle the Daily Bugle and other news outlets dubbed them as the Fantastic Four.|Powers = The Thing received his powers when dark matter and extra-dimensional energies bombarded his body. He is extremely strong and durable. Nick Fury's intel classified him as power level 8.

Rock-like Skin: The Thing possesses a smooth, 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.

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 (which support about 10,000 tons). The most impressive feat was to overpower a pile driver mechanism stated to be powerful enough to push through a planet.

Superhuman 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 build up 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 full with bazooka shells, 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. Superhuman Sensory Adaptation: Though his senses aren't superhumanly acute, his five 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.

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.|Abilities = Expert Pilot: Ben is an exceptionally skilled and experienced pilot, proficient with many varieties of both conventional and exotic aircraft.

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.

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.

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.|Strength = Class 100|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.|Trivia = * Ben was born in 1987}}