
The Thing
CBUB Wins: 30
CBUB Losses: 22
CBUB Ties: 1
Win Percentage: 57.69%
Added by: Thunder Phoenix
Read more about The Thing at: Wikipedia
Official Site: Marvel Comics
The Thing (Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm) is a fictional character, a founding member of the superhero team known as the Fantastic Four in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). His trademark orange rocky appearance, sense of humor, blue eyes, and his famous battle cry, "It's clobberin' time!" makes him one of comics' most recognizable and popular characters. The Thing's speech patterns are loosely based on those of Jimmy Durante.
In addition to appearing in the Fantastic Four, the Thing has been the star of Marvel Two-in-One, Strange Tales (with his fellow Fantastic Four member the Human Torch), and two incarnations of his own eponymous series, not to mention many miniseries and one-shots. The Thing was named Empire ' s tenth (of fifty) greatest comic book characters.
The Thing joined his Fantastic Four partner and frequent rival the Human Torch in #124 (1964) of Strange Tales, which then featured solo adventures of the Human Torch and backup Doctor Strange stories. The change was intended to liven the comic through the always humorous chemistry between the Torch and the Thing. They were replaced with the "modern-day" version of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., who was then already appearing in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos in #135 (1965).
After a 1973 two issue try-out in issues 11 and 12 of Marvel Feature, the Thing appeared in the long-running series Marvel Two-in-One, which lasted 100 issues with seven annuals. In each issue Ben Grimm would be paired with another character from the Marvel Universe, frequently an obscure or colorful choice. The series was undoubtedly intended to introduce readers to new characters from Marvel's further reaches, by way of the more recognizable Thing's gruff, avuncular, and down-to-earth humor. In 1992, Marvel reprinted four Two-in-One stories (#50, 51, 77 and 80) as a miniseries under the title The Adventures of the Thing.
Images with a green border may be set as the character's main profile image (For images 200x200 or 300x300 pixels square).
CBUB Match Record:
Result | Opponent | My Score | Their Score | |
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Win | Doom 2099 | 46 | to | 44 |
Win | Predalien | 60 | to | 40 |
Loss | Sandman (Marvel) | 42 | to | 50 |
Loss | Eradicator | 48 | to | 62 |
Loss | Juggernaut | 32 | to | 40 |
Win | Mighty Mouse | 76 | to | 32 |
Loss | Doomsday | 27 | to | 52 |
Loss | Mary Marvel | 53 | to | 58 |
Loss | The Abomination | 39 | to | 65 |
Loss | The Flash (Wally West) | 54 | to | 97 |
Win | Yomiko Readman | 81 | to | 23 |
Win | Rockslide | 79 | to | 18 |
Win | The Blob | 350 | to | 72 |
Win | Battle Angel Alita | 53 | to | 17 |
Win | Rhino | 96 | to | 26 |
Loss | Wolverine | 51 | to | 64 |
Win | Luke Cage | 80 | to | 18 |
Tie | Kalibak | 54 | to | 54 |
Win | Venom (Mac Gargan) | 49 | to | 33 |
Win | Solomon Grundy | 73 | to | 29 |
Loss | Lobo | 46 | to | 79 |
Win | Lobo | 79 | to | 64 |
Loss | Godzilla | 30 | to | 58 |
Win | Human Torch | 69 | to | 39 |
Loss | Venom | 46 | to | 54 |
Win | Colossus | 93 | to | 59 |
Win | The Blob | 82 | to | 25 |
Win | The Thing (John Carpenter) | 92 | to | 25 |
Loss | Wolverine | 66 | to | 92 |
Loss | The Hulk | 12 | to | 77 |
Win | Captain America | 49 | to | 47 |
Win | Atom Smasher | 71 | to | 34 |
Loss | The Hulk | 7 | to | 32 |
Win | Herculoids | 20 | to | 7 |
Loss | Deadpool | 11 | to | 13 |
Win | Bane | 19 | to | 10 |
Loss | Colossus | 14 | to | 15 |
Win | Killer Croc | 14 | to | 7 |
Loss | Wolverine | 13 | to | 15 |
Loss | Lobo | 6 | to | 18 |
Loss | Skaar | 5 | to | 13 |
Loss | Etrigan the Demon | 7 | to | 14 |
Win | Hellboy | 15 | to | 14 |
Win | Metallo | 14 | to | 5 |
Win | Toxin | 15 | to | 13 |
Win | Kenpachi Zaraki | 14 | to | 12 |
Win | Fairchild | 14 | to | 11 |
Win | Bane | 22 | to | 7 |
Win | Hercules (Disney) | 5 | to | 4 |
Fantasy Teams Season 1 Record:
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Result | Opponent | My Score | Their Score | |
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Loss | Gin Ichimaru | 13 | to | 14 |
Fantasy Teams Season 2 Record:
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Result | Opponent | My Score | Their Score | |
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Win | The Iron Giant | 19 | to | 16 |