Blob (Marvel Comics)

**Frederick "Fred" J. Dukes**, also known as the **Blob**, is a mutant whose latenet superhuman powers manifested when he reached puberty. His major weaknesses were his short temper, lack of foresight, his lack of intelligence, and his easily-manipulated self-esteem. Thinking onf himself as no more than, in his own words, "an extra-strong freak", the Blob used his superhuman mutant powers as a performer in a carnival.

## Powers

The Blob's mutant powers relate to the mass, strength, resilience, and indestructibility of his obese body.

**Superhuman Durability and Strength:** The Blob's body possesses a high degree of resistance to injury. The fat tissues that comprise the Blob's epidermis are able to absorb the impact of rifle bullets, cannonballs, bazooka blasts, and even torpedoes. The fat tissue of his epidermis is resilient enough to revert to its normal shape within seconds after deformation caused by impact. It is virtually impervious to physical injury. The Blob's skin cannot be punctured or lacerated by most known materials, frostbitten, or ravaged by any dermatological disease due, in part, to the skin's great elasticity and toughness, as well as 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 the Blob's ability to absorb impact. He can easily survive a head-on collision with a bus traveling at a hundred miles per hour, even a highly ferrous meteorite fifty feet in diameter on top of him at terminal velocity.

* ***Pain Immunity:*** The 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.
* ***Trapping:*** The Blob is able to capture anything that attacks him within his flesh, including limbs and projectiles. He is able to control how long he holds the object and releasing it with or without the recoil pressure. However, it takes the Blob's full concentration on trapping an object or individual, and if he were to focus on something else or get distracted by an attack from another person, he would lose control of his muscles and release who or whatever he was holding with his body.
	+ ***Projectile Redirection:*** After Blob's body absorbs the kinetic energy of a projectile's impact, he can expel the object back. Fired projectiles would be embedded within the Blob's body and, by flexing the muscles where the projectile hits, he can cause the projectile to recoil with half the force of impact and reflecting it back at half speed. The Blob can also recoil a punch thrown at him and throw the opponent back a good distance.
* ***Mass Shifting:*** Through training with Onslaught and Sledge, Blob is able to manipulate his mass to mimic shapeshifting, using it to enhance the size and extension of his limbs. He can make his fists the size of a human.
* ***Stretching:*** After undergoing the Mothervine enhancement process, the Blob developed a secondary mutation that allows him to stretch his limbs to an undetermined extent. When he first manifested this ability, he quickly lost control and liquified into a puddle.

**Gravitational Mass Allocation (*formerly*):** The Blob's main superhuman ability was to become virtually immovable at will as long as he was in contact with the ground. He did this by bonding himself to the earth beneath him by force of will, which in effect created a mono-directional increase in gravity beneath him. This gravity field extended 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, the Blob was able to extend the gravity field beneath him further than five feet.

## Abilities

**Hand-to-Hand Combat:**The Blob is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant. Although he possesses no formal training, his great size coupled with his strength and durability render him a highly effective and efficient street fighter.

**Enhanced Speed, Agility, and Stamina:**While not superhuman, the Blob has higher speed, agility, and stamina than his size would indicate, which he often uses to surprise his opponents.

## Weaknesses

**Weak Points:** His eyes and the interior of his ears, mouth, and nose are vulnerable to injury.

**Concussions:** The Blob is vulnerable to concussions, such as during his run-in with Daredevil during his days with the Freedom Force.

**Drug Dependence:** The Blob relies on mutant growth hormone to maintain his powers.