what is inside of the thing?
does he have fleshy guts or is he a pure rock organism?
>>77442506
Everything is rock except for his blood.
>>77442506
The rocks are just his outermost skin. For a brief period in the 90s, he suffered an injury that tore off part of his face, and walked around with exposed spots of raw pink flesh. Super-dense comic book hero flesh, I'm sure, but still kinda vulnerable and gross.
Chiklis Thing had rocky organs.
I don't think it's literal rock so much as rock-like tissue.
Cadbury creme
Don't think of it as rock. Think of it as really thick, durable calluses.
A heart of gold.
>>77442506
i think it becomes less rocky the further you get in
>>77442763
but he's a cosmic rock elemental, just like johnny is cosmic fire, sue is cosmic air, and reed is cosmic water.
>>77442506
Yeah, it's a layer of rocky substance but underneath he's flesh and blood.
>>77443456
Ew.
It makes sense that he's fleshy underneath. After all its not like his eyes are made of rocks, right?
>>77443329
All jews put gold inside their bodies, there's nothing weird about that
>>77443541
Eye rocks. Rocks in the form and function of eyes.
>>77442506
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTpxeNQfDo4
>>77443541
So if he got a cataract would that be made of rock like his skin?
>>77443456
That's painful to look at.
>>77443456
its from the old Fantastic Five comic where Ben went around looking like a Cable knockoff
Has it ever been explained in canon why Ben only has four fingers in Thing mode?
It's kind of baffling when you think about, such a small but specific change.
>>77442616
Wolverine sliced his face. Initially it was just three narrow strips cut through the rocky hide with a little flesh revealed. Over time the wound apparently deteriorated and Ben took to wearing a metal mask to cover up that half his face was raw de-skinned flesh.
>>77443716
I can't think of any time his fingers were mentioned in-story, might have missed it though.
Design-wise, Stan wanted one of the members to be like the monster books that were the rage at the time.
So if he's not a giant rock and just has really tough, rocky skin, why the fuck is he moaning all the time?
He still has a dick don't he?
>>77443668
>Fantastic 5
>There's 7 of them
>>77442506
Sadness and misery.
Seriously, being Ben Grimm is suffering.
i dont like what a thin layer of rock he apparently has.
he looks like a giant rock dude, but it turns out he's a giant flesh dude with rocky skin.
Inside of him are feels.
>>77443767
No idea.
I'd assume if he rocky skin is sufficiently flexible to allow for finger movement, and supposedly fine motor control at that (don't think its ever been hinted that Ben's manual dexterity suffered, would think that might be a problem with his piloting skills at least) that a rocky penis isn't out of the question.
It wouldn't exactly be, you know, usable with a human female. The skin might not actually be rock but for all effective purposes its rough and course, would be like taking a belt sander to ladyparts. Maybe some metahuman females would be able to handle that action without damage.
Still, I can't help but imagine that he has something like a bird's cloaca down under those blue shorts - a single orifice for all excretory functions. No penis, just a rocky gash similar to his mouth structure.
I dunno, it seems to fit the monstrous nature better and the idea of having a functional yet unusable penis is depressing.
>>77443767
Because he's ugly and his dick is covered in rocks.
>>77443986
He has to have oneHow else would he get his rocks off?
>>77443986
Plus, even if he had a dick I'm pretty sure his rock skin can't feel.
>>77443742
>Design-wise, Stan wanted one of the members to be like the monster books that were the rage at the time.
Not quite, it's just what Marvel was selling at the time so it's what Kirby drew. F4 on the whole is pretty much just Kirby doing a typical Marvel monster comic of the era, shoving his previous Challengers of the Unknown comic in and Stan giving them soap opera relationships.
>>77443767
there's more to happiness than getting laid. He's hideous, attention grabbing, often can't fit through doorways or into chairs. He can't just put on sunglasses and a coat to go incognito like the other three. The few relationships he has had since the accident have tended to just be the woman using him for his strength or to study his condition and didn't care for him.
>>77443717
Is there anyone more based than Doom?
>>77444082
I shouldent have laughed
>>77444150
Doom
>>77443434
Grant Morrison is the ONLY writer to say that shit, in an out of continuity story. Get off his fucking dick.
>>77444050
That gets back to the manual dexterity bit, if his sense of touch was completely borked I would think that would make his darn near handicapped as far as manipulating objects with his hands. But to my knowledge thats never even been hinted at, he seems to have all or at least the vast majority of his accustomed manual control.
As weird as it sounds, his rocky hide appears to have a functional sense of touch. I can think of multiple cases where this *was* shown, like... FF #250 where a Skrull disguised as Cyclops blasted him in the back and he immediately youch'd, commented on being on the receiving end of Cyke's blasts before and they were never hot. He was able to feel, and immediately feel, a heat blast to his rocky hide. If he lacked any sense of feeling on his skin, he might have felt the heat as it radiated down to the actual flesh but it wouldn't have been as instantaneous or sharp.
Its possible his thing-thing is fully functional. Again, depressing.
>>77444199
Go to sleep Alan
>>77444228
No, it's fucking stupid that people cite that like it's key to the Fantastic Four. No other writer has ever said that.
>>77444252
Does it not make any sense? Is it a bad idea, can you not understand it? Put your hate boner away
>>77444273
It's an idea that reaches and doesn't really make much sense. This has nothing to do with Morrison. I don't hate Morrison. I just hate people who act like his word is gospel. Especially on one fucking out of continuity story. The Fantastic Four do not represent elements. I'm sorry, but they just don't.
>>77444305
But that anon was not acting like his word was gospel. He regurgitated an idea that he heard, liked, and understood. It's easy to see how someone would think that the FF represent elements, it was mentioned in the tv show and the 1602 comic, the fucking Ironman show and probably a bunch of other media. Literally everyone makes that connection. You jumped on that anon for what?
>>77444152
I can't force myself not to laugh at that crop of Reed
>>77444082
That image is a true rollercoaster of emotions
>>77444371
It was also explicitly part of their origins in Ultimate FF.
>>77446391
Ultimate FF also had Ben 'shed' his rock body like a cocoon and emerge handsome, human-looking, and able to use all his The Thing strength by glowing
What are the essential Thing stories? I know >>77444082 is one of them.
>>77446524
"This man...This Monster!" is probably the most iconic one.
>>77444082
>being a man in general
>>77443789
More like six and a half.
>>77443456
so does his dick come out of a rock shell/shaft? Like a dog or horse penis?
>>77446524
Him taking on the Champion of the Universe, but I don't know what title that story was published in.
>>77444082
I always see this crop. What's the whole thing from?
>>77443617
That sounds very disgusting.
