ThingBenjamin Grimm

Fighting: Incredible
Agility: Good
Strength: Monstrous
Endurance: Monstrous
Reason: Good
Intuition: Good
Psyche: Remarkable

Health: 200
Karma: 50
Resources: Good
Popularity: 0

Known Powers:
Body Resistance: Incredible protection vs physical and energy damage
Resistance to Fire: Incredible
Protected Senses: Remarkable protection vs. sonics

Talents:
Pilot, Martial Arts B, Wrestling

Contacts:
FF

History:
Ben Grimm, former war veteran, met Reed Richards in college, and when Reed began his work on an experimental rocket ship, Ben offered his services as a pilot. When Reed actually was ready to launch, however, Ben had second thoughts, and only decided to go ahead with it when Reed's fiancee, Sue Storm, convinced him. So Ben, Reed, Susan, and her brother Johnny, took the rocket into space, where the radiation shielding proved faulty. All four were hit by intense cosmic radiation, and the ship crashed back down to Earth, where the four discovered they had all gained superhuman powers. Ben was partially crushed, mentally, with his transformation into what he regarded as a monster, but he joined the others in vowing to protect mankind. He's joined them on innumerable adventures across the entire known Multiverse (and many unknown aspects of it as well), including the Negative Zone, the Skrull Galaxy, and the underwater city of Atlantis here on Earth. During this time, he developed a relationship with Alicia Masters.

He has left the Fantastic Four temporarily at times for a variety of reasons, and has always been searching for a way to become human again, even succeeding for short periods of time, such as after the battle known as the Secret Wars, which left Ben on the "Battleworld" for a time before returning to Earth. It was then Ben met Marvel Boy (now Justice) and the UCWF and the West Coast branch of Avengers. After returing to the FF, Ben eventually led the team when Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman left, and his relationship with Ms. Marvel began amid mutations to his rocky hide.

Eventually, he and the FF returned to "normal," but during Reed Richard's presumed death, Ben's vulnerability was shown when his face was slashed to pieces by Wolverine's adamantium claws, then battered by a number of supervillains. It only healed completely when the mad and apparently god-like villain Hyperstorm simply erased the damage as a show of power.

However, this soon became a moot point, as Ben, along with the other members of the Fantastic Four and others apparently sacrificed themselves fighting Onslaught and were shunted into a parallel dimension known as the FranklinVerse, created by Ben's "nephew", Franklin Richards, where a slightly altered Ben Grimm worked alongside the Fantastic Four of that reality.