Thing

The Thing is a human from Marvel.

He wasn't the fourth member at the time, but he wanted to expand his crossover curriculum beyond Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble.

The Thing says it's clobberin' time. First on the list is his Fantastic Four teammate Reed Richards for not designing him his own mech but rather reusing that of his long time rival, the Hulk.

Fiction

Combat Colin

The Thing attended Colin and Steve's Christmas party in the Combat Shed, where he was seen wearing a paper hat and hanging around the buffet with a Dalek. Christmas with Combat Colin

Toys

Crossovers

It's cancelin' time!

• Thing (Marvel, 2010)

The Crossovers Thing was to have been a retool of the second Hulk mold with a new head, transforming from an orange and blue robot into a bulldozer. This toy was presented by Hasbro during San Diego Comic-Con 2009, but failed to materialize at retail.

It's feasible that the Thing was the intended character for this mold rather than the Hulk; the robot mode of the Hulk is riddled with crack details which are a physical feature of the Thing. Additionally, molded details on the figure's waist that seem to be for a Fantastic Four logo are left flat and empty on Hulk.

The head is just a straight reuse of the first Hulk mold which was likely as a cost-cutting measure due to changing the mold from Thing to Hulk late in the design process. As Hulk is a more popular character than the Thing, Hasbro probably figured another version of Hulk would sell better than one of the Thing.

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Notes

• Thing was featured on the cover of Transformers #22, celebrating Marvel Comics' 25th anniversary.
• The bios of the Space Mini-Con Team from Armada were based on three members of the Fantastic Four, with Payload taking inspiration from the Thing.{{#ifeq: ||}}
• Aaron Archer apparently envisioned Smokescreen as being like the Thing.<ref>{{#if: hes not all bad but i made some weird choices. I originally wanted himto be like "the thing" from fantastic four but that was difficult to translate to the takara Japanese teammate's. |"hes not all bad but i made some weird choices. I originally wanted himto be like "the thing" from fantastic four but that was difficult to translate to the takara Japanese teammate's."—|}}{{#if: https://www.instagram.com/p/BuraGrjn4Qk/c/18015775858142589/r/18024180211114598/ |Aaron Archer|Aaron Archer}}{{#if: instagram |, instagram|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: 2019 |, 2019{{#if: 03 |/{{#switch:{{#len:03}}|1=003|03}}{{#if: 06|/{{#switch:{{#len:06}}|1=006|06}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://www.instagram.com/p/BuraGrjn4Qk/c/18015775858142589/r/18024180211114598/ ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/BuraGrjn4Qk/c/18015775858142589/r/18024180211114598/%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/BuraGrjn4Qk/c/18015775858142589/r/18024180211114598/%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/BuraGrjn4Qk/c/18015775858142589/r/18024180211114598/%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/BuraGrjn4Qk/c/18015775858142589/r/18024180211114598/%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref>
• Similarly, creators of Transformers Animated likened Bulkhead to the Thing.
• Thing was voiced by a number of Transformers actors over the years, including Gregg Berger, Dave Boat, Joey Camen, Sean Chiplock, Scott McNeil, Brian Dobson, Fred Tatasciore and Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza.

References

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External links

• Thing at Marvel Database
• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ben Grimm|{{#if:Thing|Thing|Ben Grimm}}]] at Wikipedia