History
Ralph Hutchins worked with Doc on an experimental serum. They tricked She-Hulk into their lab to get her blood and perform experiments on her. Doc added her blood into serum, but when She-Hulk managed to get out of constraints, he injected the serum into Ralph and escaped. Ralph's body mutated and he transformed into Brute. After a short fight with She-Hulk his body was torn apart and he seemingly died.[1] In truth, however, he survived, and his body continued to mutate and Doc continued to send him over and over again under different guises to fight with She-Hulk to test out his powers.[3] He fought with her as Seeker,[5] Radius,[4] and Torque[6], but all of them were defeated. His mutation then turned him into Earth-Lord, capable to fuse itself with the ground and control it. He seemingly became strong enough to finally defeat She-Hulk, but another of Doc's experiments, Kyr, attacked and overwhelmed Earth-Lord to the point that he regressively mutated back through every form and eventually returned back to his original body.[3]
Regression helped him to get rid of Doc's control. Ralph allied with She-Hulk to defeat Doc. During the battle he realized that only physical evolution wasn't a solution, so his final mutation transformed Ralph into a being of pure undiluted thought and he left the planet for the higher plane of existence.[2]Attributes
Powers
Ralph was injected with and experimental serum that among other ingredients contained She-Hulk's blood. In result his body was continuously mutating over the time and he was gaining and losing various powers:
- Brute:
- Superhuman Strength: He was able to physically fight against SHe-Hulk and even overpower her for a moment.[1]
- Superhuman Durability: He was able to withstand She-Hulk's punches.[1]
- Seeker:
- Energy Absorption and Manipulation: He was able to absorb various types of energies and magnify them a thousandfold.[5]
- Sound Manipulation: He was able to magnify the sound of dripping water enough to deafen She-Hulk.[5]
- Light Manipulation: He was able to magnify the light of normal lamp enough to blind She-Hulk.[5]
- Kinetic Energy Absorption and Manipulation: He was able to sense kinetic energy of rock hurled at him by She-Hulk and absorb its energy to stop it. He was able to enhance the energy produced by the air that She-Hulk pushed in front of her while running to cause excruciating pain.[5]
- Electricity Absorption: He was able to absorb electricity directly from high voltage cable.[5]
- Electricity Manipulation: He was able to control electrical systems of vehicle and through them control vehicle.[5]
- Energy Projection: He was also able to directly project absorbed energy as powerful blasts, capable to harm She-Hulk.[5]
- Energy Absorption and Manipulation: He was able to absorb various types of energies and magnify them a thousandfold.[5]
- Radius:
- Vibration Generation and Manipulation: He could generate vibrations resonate them with vibrations of other objects and people around him to, for example, melt guns, destroy rocks, disorient and even kill people. His control was very precise, while affecting two peoples standing together he was able to kill one and intentionally only injure the other.[4]
- Force Field: He was able to vibrate every molecule of his body and the air around it to form a force field, strong enough to withstand bullets and She-Hulk's punches.[4]
- Flight: He was also able to use vibrations to lift himself into air and fly.[4]
- Vibration Generation and Manipulation: He could generate vibrations resonate them with vibrations of other objects and people around him to, for example, melt guns, destroy rocks, disorient and even kill people. His control was very precise, while affecting two peoples standing together he was able to kill one and intentionally only injure the other.[4]
- Torque:
- His body was constantly growing in mass and weight, but they were restricted by special armor and the energy for growth was instead harnessed and converted into powerful energy blasts.[6]
- Earth-Lord:
- Final mutation:
- Psionic Entity: He became a psionic entity, a being of pure undiluted thought. Before leaving Earth, he managed to affect emotions of multiple people to remove their pain, instill into them self-confidence and courage.[2]