Ben Grimm is a founding member of the Fantastic Four.
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In keeping with an early taboo in the comic superhero world against revealing a character's religion, the fact that Ben Grimm is Jewish was not explicitly revealed until four decades after his creation, in the story "Remembrance of Things Past" in Fantastic Four vol.
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Ben Grimm recites the Shema, an important Jewish prayer often recited, over the dying Sheckerberg, who eventually recovers.
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Ben Grimm's skin is transformed into a thick, lumpy orange hide, which gradually evolves into his-familiar craggy covering of large rocky plates.
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However, when he encounters blind sculptress Alicia Masters, Ben Grimm develops an unconscious resistance to being transformed back to his human form.
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Subconsciously fearing that Masters prefers him to remain in the monstrous form of the Thing, Ben Grimm's body rejects various attempts by Richards to restore his human form, lest he lose Masters' love.
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Ben Grimm has remained a stalwart member of the Fantastic Four for years.
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Years later, after Ben Grimm chose to remain on Battleworld in the aftermath of the "Secret Wars" due to his apparent control over his transformation between his human and mutated states, he asked the She-Hulk to fill in for him.
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Ben Grimm served as one of the pallbearers at the memorial service for Captain America, along with Tony Stark, Ms.
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Ben Grimm tries to take on the Hulk within the events of the 2007 storyline "World War Hulk" in order to buy Reed Richards the time he needs to complete his plans for the Hulk.
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Ben Grimm gives his best shots, but the Hulk takes his punches without slowing down.
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Ben Grimm is later seen captive in Madison Square Garden, which the Hulk has turned into a gladiatorial arena, with an obedience disk fitted on him.
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Not long after their arrival, Ben Grimm has to protect Franklin and Valeria from an impending onslaught of giant insects.
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Ben Grimm is best friends with Reed Richards, whom he addresses with the nickname "Stretch", due to Richards' natural height and his ability to stretch his body.
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However, Ben Grimm holds Reed responsible for his condition, since Richards had dismissed the potential danger of the cosmic rays that gave them their powers, although Ben Grimm had taken them very seriously.
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Ben Grimm is capable of surviving impacts of great force without sustaining injury, as his body is covered with an orange, flexible, rock-like hide.
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Ben Grimm is able to withstand gunfire from high-caliber weapons as well as armor-piercing rounds.
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Ben Grimm's lungs are possessed of greater efficiency and volume than those of an ordinary human.
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Ben Grimm's fighting style incorporates elements of boxing, wrestling, judo, jujitsu, and street-fighting techniques, as well as hand-to-hand combat training from the military.
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On occasion, when Ben Grimm regained his human form and lost his Thing powers, he used a suit of powered battle armor designed by Reed Richards that simulated the strength and durability of his mutated body, albeit to a weaker degree.
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Ben Grimm is almost immortal when in his Thing form, as he only ages when he is human.
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In Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602, Benjamin Grimm is the captain of the ship The Fantastick, before gaining his abilities from the Anomaly.
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Ben Grimm's power is associated with the classical element of earth.
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Ben Grimm is soon forced to reveal himself when Otto von Doom's vulture soldiers kidnap Shakespeare.
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Ben Grimm is called "Mr Fantastic" and has stretching and flame powers instead.
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Ben Grimm is described as an astronaut who went into outer space and came back with a multicolored rock-skinned body.
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Ben Grimm is capable of shifting between his human form and 'Thing' form at will.
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Ben Grimm is transformed into a rock-skinned creature with superhuman strength and a diminished intellect.
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Ben Grimm appears alongside the F5 whenever they appear in the Spider-Girl series and related mini-series.
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Ben returns to that reality, where Ben Grimm is a bartender and the leader of the remaining humans in a post-apocalyptic city.
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In Warren Ellis' 1995 Ruins miniseries, Ben Grimm refuses to fly Reed's ship the Astraea, feeling it inadequately engineered.
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Ben Grimm avoids becoming the Thing, but is left to live with the guilt of thinking he could have prevented the tragedy.
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Noticeably out of all the Fantastic Four members in this reality, Ben Grimm is the only one who is an adult, as Johnny and Sue are child television stars and Reed is a kid genius.
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When Ben Grimm is invited to watch Reed's teleportation experiment, he is caught in it with Reed and the others.
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Ben Grimm's counterpart is shown to be unaffected by the cosmic radiation and is currently assisting Richards by gathering data held by the High Evolutionary.
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Ben Grimm saves Reed from the bomb's radiation, but is transformed into a Hulk-like creature.
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