Benjamin Grimm (Earth-7642)

The Thing

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Real Name

Benjamin J. "Ben" Grimm

Current Alias

The Thing

Aliases

Carrot Man,^[1] Mr. Thing,^[1] Uncle Benjy^[1]

Affiliation

Fantastic Four

Base Of Operations

Baxter Building, 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York

Status

Identity

Public Identity

Citizenship

American

Occupation

Adventurer

Characteristics

Unusual Features

The Thing's body is covered with an orange, flexible, rock-like hide. The Thing has no apparent neck. He has only four fingers (including the thumb) on each hand and four toes on each foot. The Thing has no outer ear structure.

Origin

Human Mutate

Universe

Earth-7642

Creators

Dan Jurgens, Kevin Maguire

First Appearance
Spider-Man/Badrock #1 (March, 1997) (Mentioned) Gen¹³/Fantastic Four #1 (January, 2001) (Full first appearance)

History

Time? I know what time it is. I'll tell ya what time it is!

-- The Thing ^src

Ben Grimm seemingly had a similar history as his Earth-616 counterpart. After gaining powers, Ben became The Thing as a member of the Fantastic Four.

Queelocke's Really Big New York Adventure!

Human Torch returned to the Baxter Building with a captured alien and bragging about a conversation with an attractive woman.

Fantastic Four (Earth-7642) and Gen¹³ (Earth-7642) from Gen¹³ Fantastic Four Vol 1 1 001

She showed up at the building and Johnny realized she was looking for Qeelocke, with her breaking into the Baxter Building when he mentioned her pet was growing exponentially. He tried to calm her down, but Burnout misinterpreted his gesture as an attack and started a fight between Gen¹³ and the Fantastic Four. Their fight escalated until Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic returned.

Qeelocke outgrew has cage and escaped while the creature in the atlantic rampaged throughout New York City. Mister Fantastic theorized that Qeelocke and the creature was drawn to one another and getting ready to fight each other. The two teams agreed to work together, but were unable to stop the beasts. Instead, they drew them to Central Park to avoid civilian casualties. The two creatures engaged, subverting expectations by mating rather than fighting. Once Qeelocke returned to normal, the two teams went their separate ways.^[1]