Marvel Comics/Blob

**Blob** (Frederick J. "Fred" Dukes) is a mutant who worked in a carnival due to his physical mutation until being recruited in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. His major weaknesses are his short temper, lack of foresight and intelligence, and his easily-manipulated self-esteem.

## Powers and Abilities

**Gravitational Mass Allocation:** Blob's main superhuman ability enables him to become virtually immovable at will as long as he is in contact with the ground. He does this by bonding himself to the earth beneath him by force of will, which in effect creates a mono-directional increase of gravity beneath him. This gravity field extends about five feet in radius from his center of balance. Thus, if there were sufficient power to uproot him, it would take the ground beneath his feet in an area corresponding to the radius of the field. Through intense concentration, Blob is able to extend this gravity field beneath him further than five feet.

* **Superhuman Durability:** Blob's body possesses a high degree of resistance to injury. The fat tissues that comprise his epidermis are able to absorb the impacts of rifle bullets, cannonballs, bazookas, and even torpedoes. When struck, his bodily tissues can revert to their normal shape within seconds after deformation caused by the impact, making him virtually impervious to physical injuries. His skin cannot be punctured or lacerated by most known materials, frostbitten, or ravaged by any skin disease due in part to his skin's great elasticity and toughness and in part to the highly accelerated rate at which his skin cells grow and replace themselves. It is not yet known if there is an upper limit to Blob's ability to absorb impacts. He easily survived a head-on collision with a bus traveling at 100 miles per hour and a highly ferrous meteorite 50 feet in diameter on top of him at terminal velocity.
* **Implosion Inducement:** Through a few weeks of focus and concentration, Blob is now able to manipulate his gravitational aura outwards in order to trigger a localized collapse of solid matter by dragging it into himself. This is a skill that Mystique showed him while imprisoned at the U.S. Maximum Security Penitentiary.
* **Pain Immunity:** Blob's nerve endings do not relay any tactile perception to his brain, which is near the threshold of pain, making it so that he is unable to feel pain.
* **Muscle Manipulation:** Blob is able to capture anything that attacks him within his flesh, including others' limbs and projectiles. He can control how long the object is held and release it with or without recoil pressure. However, this requires Blob's full concentration on trapping an object or individual, and if he were to focus on something else or get distracted, he loses control of his muscles and inadvertently releases who or whatever he was holding with his body. He can also use his muscles to absorb the kinetic energy of a projectile's impact to expel the object back. Fired projectiles become embedded within his obese body and, by flexing certain muscles near the projectile, he can cause said projectile to recoil with half the impact force and at half speed. He can also do this when punched to throw an opponent back a good distance.
* **Fat Manipulation:** Through training with Onslaught and Sledge, Blob is able to manipulate his mass to mimic a shapeshifting ability. He can enhance the size and extension of his limbs. He has demonstrated this by making his fists the size of a human.
	+ **Elasticity:** He can elasticize his limbs in order to stretch and embiggen them to an undetermined extent.

**Liquid Form:** After undergoing the Mothervine enhancement process, Blob developed a secondary mutation that allows him to deliquesce his body to an undetermined extent. When he first manifested this ability, he quickly lost control and liquified into a puddle.